As the 2026 spring high school sports season ramps up, the Abilene Reporter-News will continue accepting nominations for City National Bank Athlete of the Week throughout the year.
Plenty outstanding performances and incredible achievements highlighted the past week of the spring high school sports season, as local track meets, golf and tennis tournaments heat up, baseball and softball teams gear up for district play and soccer squads compete for UIL state championships.
The Abilene Reporter-News will release a list of finalists for the High School Athlete of the Week each Monday, and several standouts were nominated for the most recent City National Bank Athlete of the Week award.
Our weekly Athlete of the Week polls will start Monday and close at 5 p.m. Friday. The winners will be announced afterward.
After nearly a week of voting, Eula girls track and field’s Reagan Barr was voted the ARN’s City National Bank Athlete of the Week for April 27-May 2 after garnering 3,501 votes, or 69.98% of the total votes cast.
Barr was nominated after she earned first-place finishes in both the long jump (16-9) and triple jump (36-10.25) at the Region II-1A UIL Regional Track and Field Meet in Abilene.
She also punched her ticket to the UIL State Meet in the 4×200-meter relay after earning a third-place finish for the Lady Pirates at the regional meet.
Here’s a closer look at the top five athletes who received the most votes in the ARN’s City National Bank Athlete of the Week poll for April 27-May 2:
Top five finishers
How to nominate for the ARN’s next Athlete of the Week award
Nominations for next week’s award are due by 7 p.m. Saturday and can be submitted through email at sports@reporternews.com or Andrew.McCulloch@reporternews.com.
Students participating in all varsity sports are eligible for nomination. Please include an athlete’s statistics/times from a single game/event in an email to the Abilene Reporter-News.
Athletes who win Athlete of the Week cannot win the award twice for the same sport. An athlete can be nominated in a different sport but can’t win the award more than three times in a school year.
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This article originally appeared on Abilene Reporter-News: See who fans voted as the ARN’s City National Bank Athlete of the Week (April 27-May 2)
Reporting by Andrew McCulloch, Abilene Reporter-News / Abilene Reporter-News
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