Bee’s Best: Caruthers’ Nailea Fields is The Bee’s Athlete of the Week winner for Aug. 22-27

Nailea Fields of Caruthers volleyball is The Fresno Bee’s Athlete of the Week winner for Aug. 22-27 after picking up 10,747 votes for 55%.

She had nine kills in the Blue Raiders’ win over Washington Union.

Coming in second and third was Elaine Skierka of Sierra girls water polo (6,370, 33%) and Kennedy Cutler of Redwood volleyball (1,134, 6%).

Fourteen Fresno-area high school players were nominated drawing from cross country, water polo and girls volleyball.

Voting ended at 11:59 p.m. Sunday.

Jazzy Vargas of Madera South volleyball was the winner for the week of Aug. 15-20.

Coaches may nominate an athlete for next week’s prep poll by email to agalaviz@fresnobee.com.

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This story was originally published August 29, 2022 at 10:16 AM.

Anthony Galaviz

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Anthony Galaviz writes about sports for The Fresno Bee. He covers the Las Vegas Raiders, high schools, boxing, MMA and junior colleges. He’s been with The Bee since 1997 and attended Fresno City College before graduating from Fresno State with a major in journalism and a minor in criminology. Support my work with a digital subscription