Kenwood duo captures male, female athlete of week awards

For the first time this season, Kenwood sits atop the athlete of the week polls as a pair of basketball standouts captured the majority votes for this week's boys and girls athletes of the week in Clarksville for Jan. 21-26.

On the boys' side, J'Quan Ewing was named the boys' top athlete after receiving 51 percent of the vote. He tallied 660 total votes, beating out Northwest's Quin Cross, who finished with 490 votes.

Ewing had 19 points in a loss to Northeast on Friday night.

Mobile users can click on this link to see the boys' athlete of the week poll results.

On the girls' side, it was Kenwood's Jalea Blackman who won convincingly with 91.1 percent of the vote. Blackman had 256 total votes. No other candidate had more than seven votes. She had 14 points in a win against West Creek last week.

Mobile users can use this link to see the girls athlete of the week results.

Here is the poll results for the boys' athlete of the week in Clarksville. If the poll does not show refresh the page.

Here is the poll results of the girls' athlete of the week in Clarksville.

Reach George Robinson at georgerobinson@theleafchronicle.com or 931-245-0747 and on Twitter @Cville_Sports.