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Welcome to the Bay Area News Group (Mercury News & East Bay Times) girls Athlete of the Week poll.
For the entire academic year, we will provide a list of candidates who stood out over the previous week and allow you, the reader, to vote for the winner.
This week, we consider performances from Nov. 27 to Dec. 2.
Polls close at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Vote as many times as you’d like until then without using bots or any other artificial methods of voting.
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Winners are announced each Friday online and in the print edition of the Mercury News and East Bay Times sports sections.
Candidates for future Athlete of the Week polls can be nominated at highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com.
We accept nominations until 11 a.m. each Monday.
We also review stats submitted to MaxPreps by coaches/team statisticians.
On to the nominees:
Arthi Abhyanker, Menlo School basketball: Abhyanker, a senior, scored 33 points and grabbed 26 rebounds as the Knights went 2-1 in the Kelly Shea Gallo Tournament at Mills High School.
Ugreat Daniels, Priory basketball: Daniels, a sophomore scored 23 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in a victory over Windsor. In the next game, Daniels scored 24 points and hauled in 19 rebounds while making six 3-pointers.
Sarah Gilbert, Washington-Fremont soccer: Gilbert, a senior, scored her first goal of the season in a 2-2 draw with Milpitas. Gilbert also starred on the water polo team earlier this autumn.
Sheyla Ixtabalan, Skyline soccer: Ixtabalan, a sophomore, scored a goal in Skyline’s game against El Cerrito. She also has an assist this season.
Nat Javier, Christopher basketball: Javier, a senior, helped the Cougars win the Watsonville tournament by scoring 70 points over three games. The senior is also a 4.0 student and is a member of the ASB Student Leadership team at the school.
Isha Mani, Lynbrook soccer: Mani, a junior, scored the winning goal in Lynbrook’s 1-0 victory over San Mateo. That gave Mani three goals in three games this season.
Taliyah McCarthy, El Cerrito soccer: McCarthy, a junior forward, scored two goals in El Cerrito’s victory over Skyline. That gave McCarthy three goals on the season.
Grace Morton, Valley Christian soccer: Morton, a junior midfielder, scored the game’s only goal against Hollister to give Valey Christian the road victory. That gave her two goals and four assists on the season.
Sydney Scott, Newark Memorial basketball: Scott, the team’s junior captain, scored 20 points against Castro Valley, and then poured in 18 points, grabbed seven boards, handed out three assists and made four 3-pointers in a 56-22 victory over Hill.
Mia Toscan, Moreau Catholic soccer: Toscan, a senior goalkeeper, saved four shots in Moreau Catholic’s 4-0 victory over St. Joseph’s-Notre Dame. It gave the Mariners their first victory of the season.
Originally published at Joseph Dycus