2026 Performer of the Week: Week 12

Its time to vote for your weekly performers of the week! Something a little new this year will be a giveaway to our top weekly vote getter from a single week. We will be giving away a Illinois Running News Bucket Hat to the top weekly voter getter from the season. Voting runs from Monday to Sunday so make sure to get your votes in! Any athletes that use bots in order to get votes will be disqualified.

Boys

Week 1: Ben Blank (Naperville Central) [293 votes]

Week 2: Logan Abrams (Cary-Grove) [313 votes]

Week 3: Braylen Anderson (DeKalb) [1039 votes]

Week 4: Nathan Murray (Lemont) [1908 votes]

Week 5: Will Bundy (Homewood-Flossmoor) [513 votes]

Week 6: Joseph Michelini (Roselle [Lake Park]) [284 votes]

Week 7: Arman Lepuzanovic (Rolling Meadows) [391 votes]

Week 9: TJ Cason (Belleville West) [390 votes]

Week 10: Jamie Chandler (Deerfield) [306 votes]

Week 11: Patrick Peterson (Dunlap) [104 votes]

Girls

Week 1: Jordan Hamb (Chicago [South Shore]) [954 votes]

Week 2: Lennox Szymonik (Algonquin [Jacobs]) [251 votes]

Week 3: Reagan Bishop (Eureka) [376 votes]

Week 4: Jamia Esther (Danville) [600 votes]

Week 5: Homewood-Flossmoor 4x200m [365 votes]

Week 6: Mia Sirois (Barrington) [356 votes]

Week 7: Mia Forsytek (New Lenox [Lincoln-Way Central]) [245 votes]

Week 9: Karlin Janowski (Elmhurst [York]) [431 votes]

Week 10: Sunny Weber (Sandwich) [300 votes]

Week 11: Sophia Shapiro (Edwardsville) [166 votes]