Welcome to the Bay Area News Group (Mercury News & East Bay Times) boys Athlete of the Week poll.
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For the entire academic year, we will provide a list of candidates who stood out over the previous week and allow you, the reader, to vote for the winner.
This week, we consider performances from May 25-30.
Polls close at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Vote as many times as you’d like until then without using bots or any other artificial methods of voting.
Votes by email and after 5 p.m. Wednesday are not counted.
Scroll to the bottom for the poll.
Winners are announced each Friday online and in the print edition of the Mercury News and East Bay Times sports sections.
Candidates for future Athlete of the Week polls can be nominated at [email protected].
We accept nominations until 11 a.m. each Monday.
We also review stats submitted to MaxPreps by coaches/team statisticians.
Please note: This is the final Athlete of the Week poll of the 2025-26 school year. The poll will return when the fall sports season begins.
On to the nominees:
Cooper Barnes, De La Salle baseball: Barnes threw a two-hitter with six strikeouts to lead De La Salle to a 6-0 win over Granada in the NCS Division I championship game.
Felix Chang, Archbishop Mitty baseball: Chang went 3-for-3, hitting a triple and a homer in Mitty’s 5-2 win over Palma in the CCS Division II title game.
Case Jacobson, St. Francis track and field: Jacobsen took first place in the shot put at the CIF state championships with a throw that went 60-11 1/4.
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Will Jahnke, Northgate baseball: The sophomore struck out five and allowed four hits in four shutout innings in Northgate’s 4-0 win over Alameda in the NCs Division II title game.
Kai Kung, Half Moon Bay baseball: Kung struck out seven and allowed three hits in a 1-0 complete-game shutout against San Mateo in the CCS Division Division V final.
Liev Melamed, College Prep baseball: Melamed scored three runs for the Cougars as College Prep defeated Urban-San Francisco 8-2 to capture the NCS Division VI title.
Lester Miranda, James Logan baseball: Miranda knocked in two runs to lead Logan to a 7-2 win over Pittsburg in the NCS Division III championship game.
Reid Plamondon, Menlo baseball: Plamondon pitched six scoreless innings, striking out nine and allowing two hits to lead Menlo to a 2-0 win over Wilcox in the CCS Division III title game.
Nico Rodriguez, Livermore baseball: Rodriguez went 4-for-4, drove in four runs and blasted what turned out to be the winning homer in the top of the seventh to lead Livermore to an 8-7 win over Newark Memorial in the NCS Division IV title game.
Brady Tse, Harker track and field: Tse won the 300-meter hurdles at the state championship meet, crossing the finish line in 36.23.
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