Northwood’s Hayden Phipps tops Week 35 Shreveport Times Athlete of the Week voting
Northwood’s Hayden Phipps garnered enough votes this week to win the Times online poll for Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers and the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission.
A standout baseball player for the Falcons, Phipps becomes the third Northwood baseball winner in the non-football poll for the 2021-22 school year. Phipps joins previous winners that include Captain Shreve’s Elexa Beaudoin, Parkway's Trenton Lape and Calvary’s KJ Kennon.
Phipps and his supporters racked up 13,745 votes, a solid 45% of the 30,447 votes cast in the weekly online recognition. Those numbers allowed Phipps to top a field of 15 additional candidates, including Mansfield track standout Dequinton Robertson, who made a strong run for the recognition with 5,600 votes (18%).
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Phipps will receive a backpack, a boxed lunch combo and some additional swag courtesy of Raising Cane’s. Winners also receive two tickets to the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League Tuesday contest in the Brookshire Grocery Arena this summer featuring the USA volleyball team playing on U.S. soil for the first time since winning the gold medal in Tokyo. The U.S. will play the Dominican Republic on May 31, Canada on June 3, Brazil on June 4 and Japan on June 5.
"Hayden is a great kid and a hard worker," Northwood coach Austin Alexander said. "Offensively, he had a great season for us."
The sophomore outfielder hit .325 with 13 doubles, a triple and two home runs while compiling 28 RBIs and scoring 31 runs.
Others on the 35th ballot the school year were Aubrey Hermes, Calvary baseball; Brooks Brossette, Byrd baseball; Dalton Hill, North DeSoto baseball; Trent Wells, Byrd track; Jackson Burney, Calvary track; Mikaylah Williams, Parkway track; Demetria Harris, Huntington track; Oshamar Hall, BTW track; Taylor Ramsey, Cedar Creek track; Dillon Pikes, Lakeview track; Jada Williams, Ruston track Abigail Carney, Airline cheer; Jenna Bryant, Captain Shreve cheer and Ashlee Lewis, Haughton cheer.
They were chosen because of their performance the previous week or because their names were submitted by their coach. The Times poll is posted each Monday at shreveporttimes.com with a new slate of student-athletes in high school sports other than football.
The Times online only poll runs through Thursday midnight. The poll includes northwest Louisiana athletes competing in volleyball, cross country, swimming, cheerleading, basketball, soccer, wrestling, powerlifting, indoor and outdoor track, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, bowling, gymnastics and fishing while those sports are in season.
Jimmy Watson covers Shreveport-Bossier area sports. Email him at jwatson@shreveporttimes.com and follow him on Twitter @JimmyWatson6.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Week 1: Taylor McCabe, Northwood volleyball
Week 2: Daly Nagot, Benton volleyball
Week 3: Mariah Hintze, Ruston volleyball
Week 4: Averi Phillips, Haughton volleyball
Week 5: Hannah Wilson, Northwood volleyball
Week 6: Aiden Heard, Loyola cross country
Week 7: Catherine Jurkovich, Airline volleyball
Week 8: Lorelei Freling, Ruston volleyball
Week 9: Alex Adcock, Captain Shreve cross country
Week 10: Abby Schroeder, Benton volleyball
Week 11: Taylor Nash, Loyola volleyball
Week 12: Logan Olsen, Airline wrestling
Week 13: Andrew Stuart, Byrd soccer
Week 14: Mar’Quarius Johnson, Southwood basketball
Week 15: Chloe Phillips, North DeSoto soccer
Week 16: Ernie Perry III, Airline wrestling
Week 17: Dalyn Davis, Nat. Central basketball
Week 18: Nick Bailey, Mansfield basketball
Week 19: Jakyran Pierson, Caddo Magnet soccer
Week 20: Bowman Lovell, Providence basketball
Week 21: Dayne Reed, Benton soccer
Week 22: Mackenzie Soul, Byrd soccer
Week 23: Katie Smith, Byrd soccer
Week 24: Marquis Harris, Bossier basketball
Week 25: Tahj Roots, Bossier basketball
Week 26: KJ Kennon, Calvary basketball
Week 27: Elexa Beaudoin, Captain Shreve softball
Week 28: Tucker McCabe, Northwood baseball
Week 29: Mikel-Ann Ricardo, Captain Shreve softball
Week 30: Thuy Chau, Caddo Magnet tennis
Week 31: Luke Bloxom, Northwood baseball
Week 32: Christina Gegg, Benton softball
Week 33: Trent Lape, Parkway baseball
Week 34: Ciara Orgeron, North DeSoto softball
Week 35: Hayden Phipps, Northwood baseball
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