Bleeding Bruin Blue Athlete of the Week: Preview

As we get into the fall sports seasons (school's out for the day, first matches in 90 minutes +/-), I'm going to institute a new feature:

Bleeding Bruin Blue Athlete of the Week

The rules:

• The BBB Athlete of the Week is the student-athlete who, throughout the previous week, demonstrated the most superior athletic performance (including objectives such as sportsmanship and fair play).
• The week shall run from Monday to Saturday: IHSAA rules prohibit school athletic events on Sunday.
• All Bruin athletic personnel eligible for high school letters (or middle schoolers in similar capacities) are eligible.
• Performances will be evaluated based on the level at which they occurred (i.e. a middle school performance will be better than a statistically identical high school JV performance, in turn better than an identical varsity performance).
• All performances, in all sports, in the week in question will be considered when giving the award. Participation on non-school teams shall not be taken into consideration.
• Upon receiving the award, a player shall be ineligible for the next four (4) weeks.
• Eligibility shall reset when the player’s team enters state tournament series play. Multi-sport athletes will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

• Selection: Anyone may nominate an athlete by sending an e-mail to senorloco1908@gmail.com and putting “AOW nomination: [name]” in the subject line, replacing [name] with the nominee’s name. The body of the message may be used for whatever you want: making a case for selection, correcting my factual errors, stupid jokes, etc. The nomination period for a given week ends at varying times Sunday after the week ends. For example, nominations for the week of Mon., August 18 to Sat., August 23 will end on Sunday, August 24. (CLICK HERE to see times by week.) From these nominations and his own, Señor Loco will choose the athlete of the week. THIS WILL NOT BE DECIDED SOLELY ON NUMBER OF NOMINATIONS RECEIVED.

Selections: (italics = trivia contest winner)

• August 17-23: Ben Mast
• August 24-30: Kelly Snyder
• August 31-September 6: Matt Greenlee
• September 7-13: Jordan Weaver
• September 14-20: Hannah Grieser
• September 21-27: Daniel Buschert
• September 28-October 4: Mikey Kelly
• October 5-11: Jesse Bontreger
• October 12-18: Desiree Porter
• October 19-25: Ali Hochstetler
• October 26-November 1: Ali Hochstetler

• November 9-15: Sol Brenneman
• November 16-22: Marla zumFelde
• November 23-29: Seth Kauffman
• November 30-December 6: Jenae Rupp
• December 7-13: Trent Yoder
• December 14-20: Jordan Weaver
• December 21-27: Twila Albrecht
• December 28-January 3: Denise Risser (trivia)
• January 4-10: Andy Slagel
• January 11-17: Jenae Rupp
• January 18-24: Ben Bontreger
  
• January 25-31: Natalie Thorne
  
• February 1-7: Seth Kauffman
  
• February 8-14: Jenae Rupp
  
• February 15-21: Mark DeLeeuw
  
• February 22-28: Mikey Kelly
  
• March 1-7: Seth Kauffman
  
• March 8-14: Mark DeLeeuw
  
• March 15-21: Christina Juroff
  
• March 22-28: Chelsea Noble
  
• March 29-April 4: Emma Gerig
  
• April 5-11: Barb Slagel (trivia)
  
• April 12-18: Ali Hochstetler
  
• April 19-25: Ryan Snyder
• April 26-May 2: Mikey Kelly
  
• May 3-9: Luke Slagel
  
• May 10-16: Johnny Kauffman
• May 17-23: Emma Caskey
• May 24-30: Johnny Kauffman
• May 31-June 7: Seth Kauffman