Poll: Vote for the Southwestern Illinois Athlete of the Week

Prep fall season in the metro-east continues.

Now’s your chance to vote for the Belleville News-Democrat’s High School Athlete of the Week. The poll closes at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 15.

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Want to nominate an athlete? The BND Athlete of the Week highlights high school varsity 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 Ahmad Lathan at alathan@bnd.com

Please include the athlete’s name, school, class, position, 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. People also may submit the same athlete from week to week.

We’ll post the results later this week after the poll closes.

Thanks for your responses!

Here are this week’s nominees:

Jacob Mathenia, Belleville West, Junior, Goal Keeper

Mathenia had a total of 3 shutouts in victories over Alton, Fox and Gibault last week to lift the Maroons in a 4-2 record.

Braden Missey, Belleville West, Sophomore, Midfielder

Missey scored a combined 2 goals along with 3 total assists in wins against Alton and Fox. He also capped of the week with 1 assist in the victory over Gibault.

Ciara Cunningham, Edwardsville, Sophomore, Middle Blocker

Cunningham notched 67 attempts, 36 kills, 10 erros for an attack percent of 0.388, 2.76 per set in 6 matches. She also had 12 assist blocks as the Tiger went 5-1 on the week and placed fifth out of 24 teams in the Crossroads Classic in Effingham.

Kaeden Radcliffe, O’Fallon High School, Senior, Midfielder

Radcliffe scored 3 goals for the Panthers in their victories over Collinsville, Granite City and Quincy during the week.

This story was originally published September 13, 2023 at 7:00 AM.