College Park water polo player Nic Austen is the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week for Sept. 19-24 after he collected 17,794 votes (38.39%) by the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday.
Del Mar football player Andre Latimore (15,441 votes, 33.31%) finished second and Fremont-Sunnyvale water polo player Alex Szewczyk (7,430, 16.03%) placed third.
Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.
Austen, a freshman, scored six goals and had two steals to help lead College Park to a 16-10 victory over Alhambra.
In his team’s 16-11 loss to Tamalpais two days earlier, he had three goals and a steal.
Austen began this week with 44 goals, 28 steals and 12 assists for a team that is 8-6.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday, Oct. 3, at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
We also review stats submitted to MaxPreps.com by coaches/team statisticians for consideration.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News & East Bay Times websites.
Past winners
Sept. 12-17: John Ben Pau Mendoza, San Ramon Valley football
Sept. 5-10: Luke Baker, San Ramon Valley football
Aug. 28-Sept. 3: Luke Llabres, Willow Glen water polo
Aug. 22-27: Mikhail Popov, College Park water polo
