Jordan Polk piled up goals during Warren Central’s run to the MHSAA Class 6A soccer semifinals, and just enough votes to secure The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week award.

Polk received 2,502 of the 6,673 votes cast in an online poll of The Post’s readers to take this week’s award. That narrowly edged Vicksburg High powerlifter Karter Thomas by about 200 votes.

Thomas received 2,303 votes to finish second. St. Aloysius basketball player Carson Henderson was third, with 1,620 votes, and Tallulah Academy baseball player Luke Moberley was fourth with 527.

Polk, a junior forward, scored five goals and assisted on two more during Warren Central’s run through the Class 6A girls’ soccer playoffs. She scored in all three of the Lady Vikes’ games.

Polk had three goals in a 6-1 win over South Panola in the first round; a goal and an assist in a 6-0 win over Neshoba Central in the second round; and a goal and an assist in a 3-2 loss to Saltillo in the North State championship game.

Congratulations to Jordan and the other nominees, and thank you to our readers for voting.

The nominees for the Athlete of the Week award are announced each Sunday, and voting is open until midnight Tuesday. Links to the poll will be posted on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X pages, as well as vicksburgpost.com.