Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region.
Each athlete is then entered into the overall Southern California Athlete of the Week vote.
Click on the newspaper links below the athlete’s name to read about their performance from last week, and then vote for who you think deserves the top honor.
Readers are allowed to vote multiple times. Voting ends at Thursday at midnight, but final totals aren’t always immediately reflected due to processing.
BOYS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK VOTING
The overall winner will be announced on Friday, May 26.
Voting poll at bottom of the page.
Lela Divinity, Redondo: Divinity ran a personal-best time of 42.86 seconds to win the 300-meter hurdles race at the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet. At the CIF-SS Division 1 finals, Divinity posted a 43.61 to finish in sixth place.
Madi McDonnell, Capistrano Valley: McDonnell tossed a six-hitter and went 2 for 4 with a solo home run to lead the Cougars to their first CIF-SS softball championship with a 6-1 victory against Santiago of Corona in the Division 3 final.