Hillsboro's Payton Brown voted SBLive’s Missouri High School Athlete of the Week (11/27/2023)
Congratulations to Hillsboro football player Payton Brown, who was voted the SBLive Missouri High School Athlete of the Week for Nov. 13-19.
Brown, a senior running back and linebacker committed to Southeast Missouri State, ran for 247 yards and four touchdowns — 33, 11, 13 and 34 yards — on 20 carries and also returned a kickoff 86 yards for a TD in a 48-35 win over Pacific.
He received 13,128 votes, which were more than 37 percent of the total votes cast for the week.
Riverview Gardens girls basketball player Breayra Lampley finished second in the voting after receiving more than 31 percent of the votes.
Check out our Missouri Athlete of the Week page
PREVIOUS WINNERS: Logan-Rogersville's Stewart McDonald (Nov. 6-12), Marquette's Robert Williams (Oct. 30-Nov. 5), St. Pius X's Justin Lehn (Oct. 23-29), Portageville's Jamarion Smith (Oct. 16-22), Lutheran North's James Bryant (Oct. 9-Oct. 15), Incarnate Word Academy's Sammi Bergjans (Oct. 2-Oct. 8), St. Joseph’s Academy's Paige Jackson (Sept. 25-Oct. 1), Oakville's Nina Cillo (Sept. 18-24), Grain Valley's Ty Williams (Sept. 11-17), Oakville's Amelia Wiesler (Sept. 4-10), Christian Brothers' Cole McKey (August 28-Sept. 3), St. Pius X's Elena Ruble (August 21-27).
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Vote: Who should be SBLive's Missouri High School Athlete of the Week (11/20/2023)?
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- Nate Latsch | latsch@scorebooklive.com | @SBLiveMiz