Laquey's Alexis Shelton voted SBLive’s Missouri High School Athlete of the Week (12/27/2023)

Shelton received more than 61 percent of the total votes

Congratulations to Laquey girls basketball player Alexis Shelton, who was voted the SBLive Missouri High School Athlete of the Week for December 11-17.

She received more than 61 percent of the total votes cast for the week. 

Shelton reached the 1,000-point mark in a game against Crane at the Queen City Showcase in Springfield.

Cape Notre Dame girls basketball player Nevaeh Lucious finished second in the voting after receiving more than 20 percent of the votes.


• Check out our Missouri Athlete of the Week page

PREVIOUS WINNERS: Pembroke Hill's Holly Woods (Dec. 4-10), Raytown South's Jayla McClinton (Nov. 27-Dec. 3), Kearney's Casey Rooney (Nov. 20-26), Hillsboro's Payton Brown (Nov. 13-19), 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).


Click on the story below for another look at the nominees:

Vote: Who should be SBLive's Missouri High School Athlete of the Week (12/18/2023)?

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- Nate Latsch | latsch@scorebooklive.com | @SBLiveMiz


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Nate Latsch, SBLive Sports
NATE LATSCH, SBLIVE SPORTS

Nate Latsch is a Regional Editor at SBLive Sports overseeing high school coverage for Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. A veteran sportswriter and multimedia content creator, Latsch has covered high school sports in the St. Louis area and Missouri for 20 years, with a focus on high school football, basketball, baseball and football and basketball recruiting.  He has worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, STLhighschoolsports.com, the Associated Press, FOX Sports Midwest, MLB.com and Scout.com.  In addition to covering high school sports, Latsch has covered youth, college and professional sports, including covering the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues and St. Louis Rams, the University of Missouri and Saint Louis University.