St. Patrick-St. Vincent’s water polo player Rayne Caragan is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for Aug. 22-27 after he received 13,636 (32.54%) by the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday.
Caragan finished ahead of James Logan volleyball player McKenzie Anderson, who finished second with 9,583 votes (22.87%).
Monta Vista volleyball player Miranda Shakouri took third.
Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.
Caragan enjoyed an excellent start to her senior year. The St. Patrick-St. Vincent goal-machine tallied seven goals and one assist, and also had six steals in competition tracked during the week.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday, Sept. 5, at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
We also review stats submitted to MaxPreps.com by coaches/team statisticians for consideration.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News & East Bay Times websites.
Past winners:
May 23-29: Sophia Asar, Los Altos softball
May 16-22: Paige McLeod, San Ramon Valley softball
May 9-15: Layla Michelson, St. Mary’s-Berkeley softball
May 2-8: Madeline Le, Milpitas softball
Source: www.mercurynews.com