Notre Dame-San Jose basketball player Arabella Valbuena is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for Dec. 8-13.
In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Valbuena finished with 56.4% of the votes. Cupertino basketball player Jessica Shaffer took second at 40.3%.
Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.
Valbuena scored 20 points with five 3-pointers as Notre Dame beat Mountain View 45-42. She added 15 points and three 3s in a 46-43 win over Milpitas and 27 points with three more 3s, three assists, three steals and three rebounds as NDSJ beat Soledad 54-44.
To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.
Votes by email do not count. Only votes submitted through the online poll on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites will count.
Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.
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