Tulare County athlete of the week: Woodlake's Ismael Pena

Woodlake High School's Ismael Pena was voted by readers as the Visalia Times-Delta Tulare County prep athlete of the week.

In an online poll that closed on June 2, Pena received 1,642 votes, or a 50.9% majority, of the 3,243 responses.

Pena tossed five strikeouts in six shutout innings to lead the Tigers to the 2023 Central Section Division VI title.

Here's a look at past winners from the 2022-23 school year:

Editor's note: This wraps up the Tulare County athlete of the week award for the 2022-23 academic school year. The poll will return in August.

Original story: Visalia Times-Delta/Tulare Advance-Register readers can now vote for their favorite high school athletes at the newspaper's website, visaliatimesdelta.com. The poll closes on Friday.

Please do not email your votes.

Here are the choices for the week of May 30 to June 2:

Nominations are based on information available to the Times-Delta.

All high school varsity players from Tulare County can be on the ballot. Nominations must be received for consideration by Monday morning following that week's games.

Anyone can nominate an athlete of the week for every sport. Nominate next week's ballot through email. Readers can email nominations to sports reporter Vongni Yang at [email protected]. Please include a player's statistics and a photo if possible.