MaxPreps Pennsylvania High School Athlete of the Week Award: Vote Now

By Eric Frantz Sep 19, 2023, 6:30am

Who turned in Pennsylvania's top prep performances? You vote, you decide.

Who had Pennsylvania's best individual performances? You vote, you decide. MaxPreps is proud to sponsor the Pennsylvania Athlete of the Week awards during the 2023-24 school year.

Each week during the season (regular and post), there will be a fan-generated contest to tab weekly winners. Each winner receives a digital award patch for their MaxPreps player page. 

How does it work?

Nominees are selected from statistics submitted on MaxPreps. Coaches who do not have current access may request their free account here. Weekly finalists are released on MaxPreps every Tuesday and voting is conducted in a special poll. Voting ceases at noon on Mondays. The winners are announced the next day along with the next week's nominees.

Participants may vote as many times as they want. It's a competition. Last week over 500,000 votes were cast! So far this school year over 765,000 votes have been cast.

Week 3 Pennsylvania High School Athletes of the Week

* Ava Shappell, Pine Grove Girls Soccer
Junior had seven goals in a 13-0 win over Weatherly. Has 17 goals in four games this year.
 
* Matt Zollers, Spring-Ford (Royersford) Football
Junior completed 14-of-21 passes for 311 yards and six TDs and carried the ball six times for 110 yards and a TD in a 63-17 win over Cumberland Valley. Leads the state with 1,059 total yards, including 840 passing  (and 14 TDs).

Here is the school year's next round of nominees...


Week 4 Pennsylvania High School Athlete of the Week Nominees

* Hayden Johnson, Manheim Township (Lancaster) Football
Senior completed 24-of-31 passes for 349 yards and six TDs and carried the ball seven times for 78 yards and a TD in a 63-28 win over Spring-Ford. Has completed 67-of-92 passes for 1,082 yards and 17 TDs this season.
 
* Mikaely Freire Mendes, Abraham Lincoln (Philadelphia) Girls Soccer
Junior had five goals and an assist in an 8-4 win over MAST Charter II and three goals and two assists in a 5-0 win over Philadelphia High School for Girls.
 
* Stone Saunders, Bishop McDevitt (Harrisburg) Football
Junior completed 10-of-11 passes for 301 yards and six TDs in a 68-7 win over Palmyra. Has completed 66-of-101 passes for 1,132 yards and 15 TDs this season.
 
* Reese Hazelton, Philipsburg-Osceola (Philipsburg) Volleyball
Senior had 38 and 18 kills in wins over Forest Hills and Tyrone, respectively. Ranks No. 4 in the state with 163 kills.
 
* Lou Swartz, West Shamokin (Rural Valley) Football
Senior carried the ball 10 times for 309 yards and five TDs in a 52-20 win over Conemaugh Township. Also returned an interception for a TD and had four tackles and a TFL on defense. Has rushed for 859 yards and 13 TDs on 59 carries (14.6 yards per carry) this season.
 
* Collin Bailer, Forest City Boys Soccer
Senior had eight goals in a 9-1 win over Montrose.
 
* Jeremiah Knowles, Ephrata Football
Senior had 28 tackles (18 solo) and caused a fumble in a 55-29 win over Solanco.
 
* Maggy Hallihan, Jim Thorpe Volleyball
Senior had 37, 35 and 27 assists in three-set wins over Williams Valley, Blue Mountain and Pine Grove, respectively. Has 315 assists this season.



Previous Winners

Week 1 Pennsylvania High School Athletes of the Week

* Matthew Machalik, Palmerton Football
Senior carried the ball 11 times for 209 yards and five TDs, completed 14-of-17 passes for 184 yards and a TD, made three tackles and returned an interception 33 yards for a TD in a 54-30 win over Lehighton.
 
* Jacob Benton, Central (Martinsburg) Football
Senior caught six passes for 234 yards and two TDs in a 49-0 win over Bellefonte.

Week 2 Pennsylvania High School Athletes of the Week

* Alexa Mork, East (West Chester) Volleyball
Senior had 28, 15 and 11 kills in wins over Perkiomen Valley, Penncrest and Harriton.
 
* Jilly Deivert, Shikellamy (Sunbury) Girls Soccer
Sophomore opened the season with four goals and an assist, four goals and three goals and an assist in wins over Altoona, East Juanita and Mifflinburg.