Providence’s Blake Guin tops Week 14 Shreveport Times Athlete of the Week voting
Providence Classical Academy’s Blake Guin garnered enough votes this week to win the fifth annual Shreveport Times online poll for Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission and Silmon and Cosse Orthodontics.
A standout basketball player for Providence, Guin becomes the first Providence winner in the non-football poll for the 2023-24 school year. He joins previous winners that include Benton’s Claire Allen and Brody Hutchison, along with Caddo Magnet’s Elena Pizarro and Calvary’s Jackson Burney.
Guin and his supporters racked up 31,433 votes, a solid 43.7% of the 71,909 votes cast in the weekly online recognition. Those numbers allowed Guin to top a field of 11 additional candidates, including North DeSoto soccer standout Melanie Windham, who made a solid run for the recognition with 28,294 votes (39.4%).
Guin will receive a duffle bag, a boxed lunch combo and some additional swag courtesy of Raising Cane’s.
Others on the 14th ballot of the school year were Xan Walker, Caddo Magnet soccer; Cohl Smith, Northwood soccer; Ke'Zyriah "Zy" Sykes, Airline basketball; Maurice Carson III, Southwood basketball; Chelsie Davis, Mansfield basketball; Jaliyah McWain, Ruston basketball; Andrew Sowell, Lakeview basketball; Jyrin Sowell, Captain Shreve basketball; Breydon Lobrano, Parkway wrestling and Amos Gray, Haughton wrestling.
They were chosen because of their performance the previous week or because their names were submitted by their coach. The Times poll is posted each Monday at shreveporttimes.com with a new slate of student-athletes in high school sports other than football.
The Times online only poll runs through Thursday midnight. The poll includes northwest Louisiana athletes competing in volleyball, cross country, swimming, cheerleading, basketball, soccer, wrestling, powerlifting, indoor and outdoor track, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, bowling, gymnastics and fishing while those sports are in season.
Jimmy Watson covers Louisiana sports for the USA TODAY Network. Email him at jwatson@shreveporttimes.com and follow him on Twitter @JimmyWatson6.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Week 1: Elena Pizarro, Caddo Magnet swimming
Week 2: Claire Allen, Benton cross country
Week 3: Brody Hutchison, Benton cross country
Week 4: Josiah Dang, Parkway swimming
Week 5: Sidney Hicks, Natchitoches Central volleyball
Week 6: Raylon Bailey, Airline volleyball
Week 7: Jackson Burney, Calvary cross country
Week 8: Alexandra Campanella, Calvary volleyball
Week 9: Ava Frith, Airline volleyball
Week 10: Zachary Seaton, Caddo Magnet cross country
Week 11: Analyse Fuqua, Northwood cheerleading
Week 12: Audrey Jordan, Caddo Magnet soccer
Week 13: Logan Olsen, Airline wrestling
Preseason Fan’s Choice POY: Sicily Fontaine, Airline volleyball
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