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Vote for the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week

After an 11-week break, the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week poll is back. We need your help to determine a winner.

Voting ends at noon on Thursday.

The most recent winner was Marysville girls track & field's Janae Hudson, who won the Division 2 state title for shot put with a throw of 42.7 feet on June 3. That distance was also a personal record.

Want to nominate an athlete for a future poll? Email Times Herald sports reporter Brenden Welper (bwelper@gannett.com) and let him know who had a stellar week. Please submit entries by 10 p.m. on Sunday.

Listed below are this week’s candidates in alphabetical order:

Emma Keeping — Imlay City volleyball: Keeping amassed 25 assists, 22 kills, 18 digs, two aces and two blocks in four matches at the Motor City Madness Power Series on Aug. 19.

Olivia Kotelnicki — Almont girls golf: Kotelnicki shot a 92 and was the medalist at the Richmond Invitational on Aug. 14. She also helped the Raiders win the tournament.

Addy Lyons — Port Huron Northern girls golf: Lyons shot a team-low 45 in the Huskies' 195-206 win over Macomb Dakota on Aug. 14. Two days later, she posted a team-low 43 in Northern's 182-209 victory over Utica Eisenhower.

Jerry Schurig — Almont boys tennis: Schurig medaled as the runner-up at No. 2 singles in a quad against DeWitt, Ludington and Portland on Aug. 16.

Annalise Weeder — Croswell-Lexington volleyball: Weeder recorded the 2,459th assist of her career during a match against Troy Athens on Aug. 19. In doing so, she became the school's all-time leader in assists.

Iliana Williams — Port Huron volleyball: Williams totaled 65 kills, 24 blocks and 14 service aces in nine matches last week. She also led the Red Hawks to a second-place finish in the Chelsea Varsity Invitational on Aug. 19.

Contact Brenden Welper at bwelper@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrendenWelper.

This article originally appeared on Port Huron Times Herald: Vote for the Blue Water Area Athlete of the Week