Here is the Rockford Register Star's Athlete of the Week winner for April 29-May 4
After breaking away late in the week, Hononegah's star softball player Dani Franz claimed this week's Rockford Register Star's High School Athlete of the Week poll victory.
Franz was 3-for-4 with a pair of homers and a double, five RBIs and two runs scored as Hononegah steamrolled Jefferson 15-0 last Wednesday. The senior catcher was hitting .431 with 28 RBIs entering this week. Franz then hauled in over 46 percent of the votes to pull away for the win in the poll for the week of April 29-May 4.
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Other nominees were: Belvidere North's Cortlyn Hefty; Guilford's Jordan Hanserd; Auburn's Essence Horton-Graves; Milledgeville's Kendra Kingsby; Freeport doubles team of Caden De Jong and JC Herrera; Byron's Braylon Kilduff; Hononegah's Braden Monson; Lutheran's Gabriella Davis; and Oregon's Deborah Schmid.
Jay Taft is a Rockford Register Star sports reporter. Email him at jtaft@rrstar.com and follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at @JayTaft. Sign up for the Rockford High School Sports Newsletter here at rrstar.com. Jay has covered a variety of sports, from the Chicago Bears and Blackhawks to local youth sports, since the turn of the century at the Register Star.
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