BND poll: Vote for prep athlete of the week in southwest IL girls and boys basketball

Vote for the Belleville News-Democrat’s Prep of the Week. Poll closes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 16. To vote again, hit refresh.

Want to nominate an athlete? The BND Athlete of the Week highlights high school varsity boys and girls basketball players who put in outstanding performances from the week prior to the opening of the poll. If you want to suggest someone to be included, send an email to Garen Vartanian at gvartanian@bnd.com.

Please include the athlete’s name, school, class and applicable game performance statistics. Coaches must be willing to verify information. To be clear, this poll is not scientific. In fact, we invite you to vote as many times as you want. It’s all for fun, BND readers. You also may submit the same athlete from week to week.

Nearly 16,400 votes were tallied in our first poll last week, so please send us your nominations so we can highlight the metro-east’s top prep varsity boys and girls basketball players.

We are planning to post the results later this week after the poll closes.

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This story was originally published December 14, 2021 at 5:00 AM.