Captain Shreve\u2019s Mikel-Ann Ricardo secured enough votes this week to win the Times online poll for Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Raising Cane\u2019s Chicken Fingers and the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission.<\/p>\n
A standout softball player for the Lady Gators, Ricardo becomes the third Captain Shreve athlete to win the poll this school year, joining cheerleader Alexis Haley<\/a> and soccer player Kiley Rourke<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ricardo and her supporters racked up 31,335 votes, 32% of the 96,566 votes cast in the weekly online recognition. Those numbers allowed Welch to top a field of nine additional candidates, including Parkway baseball standout Brady Norcross, who had\u00a025,604 votes (26%) and Evangel trickster Aaronyana Wilson, who finished with 17,309 (18%) votes.<\/p>\n Ricardo, who won for a second time in two years, will receive a backpack, a boxed lunch combo and some additional swag courtesy of Raising Cane\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cMikel-Ann was one of my players who I knew was going to give 100% effort on the field,\u201d Shreve coach Mitch Fant said. \u201cShe drove in the winning run against Northwood at the end of our season for a \u2018walk off\u2019 win that helped propel us toward a playoff appearance this season.\u201d<\/p>\n Ricardo is hitting .366 with one home run, six doubles and 22 RBIs on the season. On the mound, she has\u00a0185 strikeouts in 161 innings with a 9-20 record.<\/p>\n