Rita Sippy of Oak Creek softball was the winner of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Piggly Wiggly high school athlete of the week poll from April 27 to May 2.
The senior broke the program’s all-time stolen base record held by Julia Lampe since 2004. Sippy upped her steal total to 59 career stolen bases, surpassing Lampe’s previous record of 57 in a 5-0 week for the Knights, extending the program’s win streak to 10 games.
Sippy received 17,060 of 22,156 total votes cast.
Ethan Hoffman of Hartford boys tennis was the runner-up of last week’s poll. The senior and future UW-Whitewater Warhawk became the first Oriole in the history of Hartford’s boys and girls tennis programs to win 100 career matches with a 6-0, 6-0 victory over West Bend East’s Sam Loiacono.
Other nominees included Tavin Ness of Franklin baseball, Payton Eicher of Arrowhead girls track and field, and Cal Schneider of New Berlin Eisenhower baseball.
You can make a nomination for a future player of the week by sending an email with statistics and context on an athlete’s performance to mwhitlow@gannett.com and zbellman@gannett.com. Do not send votes to these addresses.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Rita Sippy wins Piggly Wiggly high school athlete of the week
