Readers voted El Diamante girls soccer player Poppy Cheney as the Visalia Times-Delta Tulare County high school athlete of the week.
In an online poll that closed on March 6, Cheney received 489,085 votes, or a 32.33% majority, of the 1,512,653 responses.
Cheney bagged a hat trick, scoring three goals, to pilot the Miners to the Central Section Division II crown.
Here’s a look at this school year’s past winners:
Original: Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register readers can now vote for their favorite high school athletes.
The poll closes at noon on Friday, March 6. There are no restrictions, so vote now and vote often. Please do not email your votes.
Here are the choices for the week of March 2-6:
Vote here
How to nominate an Athlete of the Week
Nominations are based on information available to the Times-Delta.
All high school varsity players from Tulare County can be on the ballot. Nominations must be received by Monday morning following that week’s games for consideration.
Anyone can nominate an athlete of the week for every sport. Nominate next week’s ballot through email. Readers can email nominations to sports reporter Vongni Yang at vyang2@visaliatimesdelta.com. Please include a player’s statistics and a photo if possible.
This article originally appeared on Visalia Times-Delta: After hat trick, Poppy Cheney wins Tulare County athlete of the week
Reporting by Vongni Yang, Visalia Times-Delta / Visalia Times-Delta
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