Poll: Vote for the Miami Herald High School Athlete of the Week (20)

This week, we continue a feature where we ask you to vote for the best high school varsity performer of the week (in Broward and Miami-Dade counties).

This week includes nominees from high school basketball, cheerleading, soccer and wrestling.

Take our poll below to cast your vote. The poll will be open until Thursday, Feb. 5 at around 10 p.m. You may vote as often as you like until then.

Here are the candidates:

NOTE: You should see a Miami Herald box underneath this note for you to type Yes and click Submit. That will ignite the actual poll to vote.

Journey Bey, Western cheerleading: the senior captain led the Wildcats to their third consecutive FHSAA state title, after winning regionals.

Stella Colombo, Ransom Everglades soccer: the senior scored all 4 goals in a 4-0 district semifinal win over Carrollton.

Nylah Harper, West Broward cheerleading: the senior led the Bobcats to their 7th FHSAA state title, after winning regionals.

J’adore Hayes, North Miami basketball: the senior scored 35 points with 25 rebounds and 7 blocks in a 58-50 overtime win over rival North Miami Beach. She’s been averaging more than 30 points, 20 rebounds and 5 blocks in the second half of the season.

Ivan Kyryianenko, South Broward wrestling: the senior won the 144-pound title, while improving to 19-0 on the season at the fourth annual Boca Raton Joe Bonnie Invitational.

Megan Martin, St. Brendan cheerleading: the senior led the Sabres to their 10th FHSAA state title, after winning regionals.

Tyler Metellus, Monarch wrestling: the junior won the 113-pound title, while improving to 37-0 on the season at the fourth annual Boca Raton Joe Bonnie Invitational.

Jim Varsallone

Miami Herald

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription