Who was the best high school athlete in Greater Columbus last week? Your votes decide
Dispatch.com readers can now vote for their favorite high school athletes of the week on their desktop, the Dispatch.com mobile web or Dispatch app once per hour by scrolling down to ballots listed below.
Deadline is 4 p.m. Friday.
Last week's winner: Hilliard Davidson's Mitchell Davis named Athlete of the Week
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High school Athlete of the Week
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center high school Athlete of the Week voting occurs each week during high school sports competition and recognizes athletes across all sports.
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Athletes were nominated over the past few weeks for the vote starting Monday, May 6.
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Athletes are on this week's ballot based on information made available to The Dispatch, and nominations made over the past week.
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Once athletes win during the regular season, they're not eligible to be back on the ballot until the postseason. If athletes haven't won in the regular season, they can be nominated more than once.
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The Dispatch staff reserves the right to remove ballots or athletes from the ballot where voting irregularities have occurred.
Have any questions? Email sports editor Brian White at bwhite1@dispatch.com.
Please do not email your votes; they will not count. Nominations and votes are not the same things.
Here are this week's Athlete of the Week candidates:
Morgan Cantrell, Teays Valley softball: Is hitting .438 with a .906 slugging percentage, .532 on-base percentage, 1.439 OPS and 58.44 quality at-bat percentage and his hitting .520 with runners in scoring position. She has 25 hits, nine singles, nine doubles, three triples, five home runs and 19 RBIs. Against Circleville she had a double and three total bases. Against Fairfield Union she had eight total bases and a double and home runs in back to innings. Homered against Hamilton Township and Amanda-Clearcreek. Defensively she has 28 put outs and a 964% fielding percentage.
Panashe Chavi, Pickerington North track and field: Set a school record (15-8) in the pole vault.
Mia Eberhardt, Pickerington North track and field: Set a school record (11:21.45) in the 3,200.
Kylie Feeney, Dublin Coffman: Ran 57.15 to break Abby Steiner’s program record (57.21) in the 400 meters.
Bella Nelson, Hilliard Darby softball: In six games last week, batted .500 (11 for 22) with six singles, four doubles, a home run and seven RBIs. Had an .818 slugging percentage and a .522 on-base percentage.
Katie Niven, Thomas Worthington softball: Threw a no-hitter and for the week had a 0.00 ERA and 0.42 WHIP. As a hitter, she had an on-base-percentage of .700 and slugging percentage of 1.00, scored 7 runs and stole 3 bases.
Faith Osborn, Pickerington Central lacrosse: Had 12 goals, six assists, six draw controls, one caused turnover and four ground balls in wins over Westerville Central and Dublin Scioto.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Vote: Ohio State Wexner Medical Center high school Athlete of Week
