Here's the Rockford Register Star high school sports Athlete of the Week for Jan. 22-27
Jefferson wrestler Kylie Eilken won the Rockford Register Star's high school sports Athlete of the Week honor for the week of Jan. 22-27.
Eilken climbed to 15-4 on the season and used two pins and an injury default to soar to the Minooka Regional championship at 190 pounds. She advanced to girls sectionals for the first time in her career. She then earned just under 30 percent of the votes in the AOW poll to win the honor. Byron's Jack Hively came in a close second.
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The rest of the nominees were: Aquin's Paityn London; Boylan's Netavia Wickson; Freeport's Cadence Diduch; Hononegah's Charlie Hunt and Angelina Cassioppi; and East's Donald Cannon.
Each week we nominate a group of stars and you get to go and vote in our poll. The voting at rrstar.com ends at noon each Friday. You can email Jay Taft at jtaft@rrstar.com by 9 a.m. each Monday to submit a potential nominee who can be placed on the ballot.
Jay Taft is a Rockford Register Star sports reporter. Email him at jtaft@rrstar.com and follow him on Twitter at @JayTaft. Sign up for the Rockford High School newsletter at rrstar.com. Jay has covered a wide variety of sports, from the Chicago Bears to youth sports, since the turn of the century at the Register Star, and for over 30 years all together.
This article originally appeared on Rockford Register Star: The votes are in, and here is the Athlete of the Week for Jan. 22-27
