Here's the Rockford Register Star high school sports Athlete of the Week for Jan. 15-20
Orangeville's Whitney Sullivan earned the Rockford Register Star high school sports Athlete of the Week for Jan. 15-20 after another big week for Orangeville athletes in our poll.
The 6-3 Tulsa recruit, Sullivan, had 30 points, 17 rebounds, four assists, two blocked shots and three 3-pointers to lead No. 2-ranked Orangeville to a 58-54 win over No. 8 Freeport Aquin. Then she earned 1,280 votes, which was 43 percent of the total votes.
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Orangeville's Laney Cahoon earned the Rockford Register Star high school sports Athlete of the Week for Jan. 8-13, and she earned 1,936 votes.
The rest of the nominees were: Scales Mound's Thomas Hereau; Byron's Kyle Jones; Boylan's Lily Esparza; Rochelle's Cammyla Macias; Byron's Macy Groharing; Hononegah's Brody Sendele; Pecatonica's Mason Peterson; and Harlem's Devin Titus.
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.
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