The Coloradoan is proud to present our weekly Athlete of the Week series, partnering with Blue Federal Credit Union to honor the best Fort Collins-area high school athletes.
There are five nominees every week, and fans can vote every Monday through Wednesday at coloradoan.com/sports.
This is the 28th edition of the 2024-25 school year, as March wraps up and spring sports get into a groove with April arriving.
You can find the ballot below. Voting each week is open until midnight Wednesday, with the winner announced on Thursday at coloradoan.com.
Fans can nominate their favorite athletes (deadline: 11:59 p.m. every Sunday) and the Coloradoan Sports staff will ultimately select the nominees each week.
If you have nominations for a future Athlete of the Week, please send them via email to ChrisAbshire@coloradoan.com for consideration.
Blue FCU Athlete of the Week nominees
The following Fort Collins-area athletes are nominated for their performances from March 24-29:
- Mason Griffin, Fossil Ridge baseball: The senior slugger crushed the Lambkins' pitching in Fossil's two-game city rivalry sweep over Fort Collins last week. Griffin went a combined 6-for-7, compiling 9 RBIs with a homer, two triples and a double as the SaberCats won by 10 runs in each game.
- Riley Honick, Rocky Mountain baseball: It was a similar story for the Lobos junior, who provided the biggest offensive punch in Rocky's two-game sweep over new league foe Greeley West. Honick went a combined 6-for-8 with 8 RBIs, a home run, two triples and a double as Rocky won each game by 17 runs.
- Charlie Nosler, Fort Collins boys track & field: The Lambkins senior showed out at the local showcase in the Jack Christiansen Invite that also served as the district meet. Nosler set a new personal-record time to win the 110-meter hurdles and took second in the 300 hurdles. He also ran on Fort Collins' winning 4x100 relay unit as the FCHS boys won the team title in the weather-shortened event.
- Kate Wind, PSD girls lacrosse: The Stars finished a strong 2-1 week on the lacrosse pitch, and the junior attacker had plenty to do with it. Wind scored 15 goals with three assists across the three matches, including the walk-off game-winner in a 10-9 win vs. Chatfield and six goals in 15-8 win over Horizon.
- Nevaeh Winfrey, Rocky Mountain girls track & field: The Lobos sophomore swept 100-meter dash and high jump titles at the Jack Christiansen, setting new PRs in each. Winfrey's 100 time of 12.24 seconds and her jump of 5 feet, 6 inches also qualified as MileSplit elite performances, meeting the US Second Team national standard.
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