Poll results: Here’s the high school girls basketball player of the week in southwest Illinois
Norah Gum of Waterloo High School is the winner of this week’s Belleville News-Democrat Girls Player of the Week high school basketball poll, as selected by readers of bnd.com.
In recent high school basketball games, Gum, a junior forward, scored 37 points in a regional win against Mascoutah and 18 points in a loss against Triad in the regional championship game. Gum finished the season averaging 18.2 points and 8.9 rebounds per game.
Gum tallied 58% of the votes to finish ahead of Sophie Loden of Mascoutah High School, who secured 39% of the votes. Other BND nominees included Shannon Dowell of O’Fallon High School, Octavia Heidelberg of Dupo High School, Kailynn Kruep of Mater Dei High School, Shakara McCline of East St. Louis High School and Maliah Sparks of Belleville West High School. The poll ended at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
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.
Anyone can nominate a varsity boys or girls high school basketball player for an upcoming poll by emailing gvartanian@bnd.com. The next poll will appear on the BND’s website — www.bnd.com — at 5 a.m. Tuesday.
Past poll winners: Tyler Lunning of O’Fallon High School (Week 1), Dylan Murphy of Columbia High School (Week 2), Brady Moore of Breese Central High School (Week 3), Collinsville Prairie Farms Holiday Classic (Week 4), Kaden Augustine of Gibault Catholic High School (Week 5), Natalie Peterson of Freeburg High School (Week 6), Sydney Harris of Edwardsville High School (Week 7), Kaylyn Wylie of Granite City High School and Lunning (Week 8); Kylie Kisgen of Freeburg High School and Lane Otten of Freeburg High School (Week 9); Caleb Burton of O’Fallon High School and Jaliah Pelly of O’Fallon High School (Week 10); and Gannon Birkner of New Athens High School and Reagan Chigas of Triad High School (Week 11).
