Tulare County Athlete of the Week: Tulare Western's Avery Starr

Tulare Western volleyball player Avery Starr was voted by readers as the Visalia Times-Delta Tulare County high school athlete of the week.

In an online poll that closed on Aug. 25, Starr received 2,522 votes, or a 33.5% majority, of the 7,547 responses.

Starr tallied 13 digs, 12 kills, and three blocks to direct the Mustangs to a 25-12, 25-22, 21-25, 25-19 non-league victory against Strathmore.

Original story: Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register readers can now vote for their favorite high school athletes at the newspaper's website, visaliatimesdelta.com. The poll closes on Friday.

Please do not email your votes.

Here are the choices for the week of Aug. 21-25:

• Andrew Camarillo, football, Orosi: Camarillo rushed for 227 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Cardinals to a 56-33 win against Madera South.

• Jordan Crisp, football, Tulare Union: Crisp threw four touchdowns as the Tribe defeated Mt. Whitney 54-13.

• Chris Garcia, football, Golden West: Garcia had four catches for 164 yards receiving and a pair of touchdowns in a 44-33 defeat at Arroyo Grande.

• Micah Paden, football, Central Valley Christian: Paden registered 295 kick return yards and scored three touchdowns in the Cavaliers' non-league 63-41 win over Ripon Christian.

• Jonathan Perez, football, Farmersville: Perez racked up 10 tackles and two sacks to help the Aztecs beat Parlier 32-22.

• Haven Rich, volleyball, Exeter: Rich generated 11 kills, five aces and nine digs as the Monarchs downed Madera South 25-13, 25-6, 25-13 in a non-league match.

• Aurora Sotelo, volleyball, Mission Oak: Sotelo had eight kills, eight digs and two aces to lead the Hawks to a 25-16, 25-18, 25-14 win over Summit Charter Collegiate Academy.

• Avery Starr, volleyball, Tulare Western: Starr tallied 13 digs, 12 kills, and three blocks to direct the Mustangs to a 25-12, 25-22, 21-25, 25-19 non-league victory against Strathmore.

Readers can vote more than once.

Nominations are based on information available to the Times-Delta.

More: See Tulare County's top high school sports performers for Week 1 of the fall season

All high school varsity players from Tulare County can be on the ballot. Nominations must be received for consideration by Monday morning following that week's games.

Anyone can nominate an athlete of the week for every sport. Nominate next week’s ballot through email. Readers can email nominations to sports reporter Vongni Yang at vyang2@visaliatimesdelta.com. Please include a player’s statistics and a photo if possible.

This article originally appeared on Visalia Times-Delta: Vote for the Tulare County prep athlete of the week, Aug. 21