Jordan Child and Emilee Skinner have been named this week’s Cache Valley Media Group Prep Players of the Week, presented by McDonalds. Child, a forward for the Logan boys basketball team, is the boys player of the week with Emilee Skinner, a guard on Ridgeline’s girls basketball team, being named the girls player of the week.
Child scored a career-high 31 points in the Grizzlies’ 73-53 win over Spanish Fork, also grabbing 12 rebounds for his second double-double of the season. He followed that up with 24 points in Logan’s thrilling 55-53 win over Woods Cross.
Skinner also posted back-to-back games with at least 20 points. She scored 26 points alongside six rebounds, five assists, two steals and four blocks in Ridgeline’s 76-63 win over Grantsville. Then, in a low-scoring 46-42 win over Lone Peak, Skinner still put up 22 points to go with nine rebounds and five assists.
Other nominations for this week’s awards included Tanner Davis (Sky View), Bridger Barfus (Bear River), Jared Anderson (Green Canyon), Jagger Francom (Ridgeline), Kaden Hess (Mountain Crest), Karlee Allen (Sky View), Brooklyn Pond (Bear River), Marissa Best (Green Canyon), Julia Held (Logan), and Kali Jones (Mountain Crest).
Tune in to the Full Court Press on 106.9 FM and 1390 AM each Tuesday at 4:25 to hear the announcement of the Players of the Week throughout the 2023-24 high school sports year.
Candidates for the Player of the Week award were nominated by Cache Valley Media Group staff and voted on by all CVMG high school broadcast staff and crew, including “Hurricane” John Newbold, Rex Davis, Jason Walker, Adam Loertscher, Trent Carter, Josh Theurer, Dave Simmons, “The Patriot” Nick Zollinger, Jake Ellis, “The Coach” John Olsen, Stockton Jewkes, Terrell Baldwin and Eric Frandsen. Some stats may be unofficial. Thanks to the Cache and Box Elder McDonalds locations for sponsoring the Player of the Week award and supporting local high school sports!
