Benton’s Sam Ivins garnered sufficient votes to win the seventh annual Shreveport Instances on-line ballot for Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Elevating Cane’s Hen Fingers, the Shreveport-Bossier Sports activities Fee and Silmon and Cosse Orthodontics.
A cross nation standout for the Tigers, Irvins made a powerful run in profitable the non-football ballot for the 2024-25 faculty yr. He joins previous winners that embody Benton’s Claire Allen and Brody Hutchison, together with Caddo Magnet’s Elena Pizarro and Calvary’s Jackson Burney.
Irvins obtained 21,129 votes (47.4%) of the 45,743 votes solid within the on-line ballot to high second-place finisher Jaliyah Brown of North DeSoto cheer, who completed with 17,916 votes (40.2%).
Irvins will obtain a backpack, a boxed lunch combo and a few further swag courtesy of Elevating Cane’s and Cosse and Silmon.
"Sam is a pushed younger man who is continually searching for methods to enhance his working recreation," Benton coach Bryson Matthews mentioned. "He works arduous day in and day trip to succeed in his targets and is a beneficial asset to the Benton Excessive cross nation group."
Irvins was chosen due to his efficiency the earlier week or as a result of his title was submitted by his coach. The Instances ballot is posted every week at shreveporttimes.com with a brand new slate of student-athletes in highschool sports activities apart from soccer.
The Instances on-line solely ballot runs by means of midnight Thursday. The ballot contains northwest Louisiana athletes competing in volleyball, cross nation, swimming, cheerleading, basketball, soccer, wrestling, powerlifting, indoor and out of doors monitor, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, bowling, gymnastics and fishing whereas these sports activities are in season.
Jimmy Watson covers Louisiana sports activities for the USA TODAY Community. E-mail him at jwatson@shreveporttimes.com and observe him on Twitter @JimmyWatson6.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Week 1: Sam Irvins, Benton cross nation
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