Vote for Nick Lehnerer great kid and awesome ball player!

Vote for Kevin Kozan he is an unbelievable athlete and a an awesome kid!!!

Vote for Kevin Kozan. Great athlete with tons of heart and dedication!

Vote for Alyssa, she is a great athlete, a great friend and an awesome kid.

Vote for Alyssa...SuperStar :)

Vote for Alyssa....AWESOME

Nicholas is awesome!

VoTe 4 alYssa!!!!!! She's da bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

keV is SOOO hawt!! Vote for him

Who do y'all Think reAlly deserves this

Everyone vote For Alyssa.............. Not anyone else...................... Mother Mac pride........

Alyssa has so much love for the game

Vote for alyssa!!! She's better than the rest!!!

Lehnerer is a great athlete!

Would be hard to find a better athlete than Nicholas Lehnerer and a terrific kid.

go Alyssa

Vote for Alyssa, superstar athlete with dedication beyond belief.

Alyssa is gifted with unbelieveable natural talent that she has fine tuned into an offesive machine and defensive nightmare. Vote Alyssa and then come on down to her floor for some good old fashioned schooling! Lets let them know who's representing Chitown on the courts round these here parts! Reffro

Thanks Everyone for voting for Alyssa are #1 Basket Ball PLLLLLLLLAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYEEEEERRRRRRRRRR. Keep up the great work..
voting ends tomorrow at 9 pm, so let the votes keep rolling in, we appreciate it very much....

Go Alyssa!! Totally talented!!

Vote Alyssa!!!!! She is a awesome player, and a wonderful teammate to her team!!!

Very Talented...Keep it up!

I'm voting for Alyssa!! As the mom of two bright athletic girls...we need more positive role models like Alyssa!! Thanks for being an inspiration! !

.........yo boiz..... if you dont vote for da queen alyssa................................... she finna pop that bball in yo head

- joshua

im serious.

naw for real

i aint playin ( bball ) i leave that to dA QUEEN

Vote for Amena!!! She deserves it!!

Amena you are my athlete of the year. One month can't really sum up your tenacious explosiveness on and off the court. Keep on trucking baby!!!!

My vote goes to Amena!

My vote is for Amena Brent!

vote for our girl ALYSSA SIWEK....known by all as SWIC........................

This has been a neck to neck race for the past 2 days... Good luck to the Amena and Alyssa..

The other nominees are stellar athletes as well. Please don't forget that. That's why they were nominated in the first place.

Thank you all that voted and big props to all the athletes they are all really great. We know Amena from basketball and she is a phenomenal athlete!!! And a big Thank you to the patch they always do a great job covering the highschool athletes and we all appreciate the great job they do!!!

I'm extremely concerned, I watched this race and at 8:46pm Alyssa dumped over 1500 votes. This is unnatural and scientifically impossible. I truly believe there was a counting program in place which means the credibility of the system is questionable. In addition, I have watched and researched previous polls and the mere fact that every time the Catholic school nonomiee comes up against a public school athlete, the catholic school student wins by an unreachable sum in the last minutes. Should this raise several eyebrows? I think the last competition should be refreshed and that all parties need to play fair. Finally, I think Patch must monitor their voting system and red flag votes that don’t make sense. Why not stand behind your paper if you want your audience to just believe?

Well if that's the only way she could get the W well done. I hope you feel good about it .

Sorry "Crystal Clear" but it's easy to get votes through the internet via social networking and simply sharing the link and asking friends and family to support Alyssa. She has a huge family and alot of friends and supporters. Maybe you should just accept that it's because of her skills and great support system that she made it and not just chalk it up to fraud.

I don't need to accept anything. I'm stating facts. It you promote Fraud then you will never live up to anything. Plus if one starts out playing unfair then the worst is yet to be seen. And any idiot knows the power of social networking when it is done right.

There is no fraud here. Every athlete nominted here is in effect an Athlete of the Week for his or her school. Our poll serves as a means for their fans to rally and show their support in the voting. We have seen huge runups in the vote totals. One can sit in front of his/her computer and vote early/often. Our tech team is working on adding safeguards to our poll functions that will limit repeat voting. Since there is no "material" benefit here, we're OK with the system as it is now. It's just for bragging rights and just for fun. At the end of each month, we pick a Patch Athlete of the Month to feature and base that selection on sound judgment, not repeating voting.

At the end of the day all of the students are great and deserve to be recognized. Congrats to all of you guys for making the list And the neck and neck race was outstanding to watch.

All of these kids are no. 1 it doesn't take this pool to make you realize this. Good job Athletes!!!!!!!!!!

i gotta say even thought theyre all great athletes, obviously is alyssa is number one so everyone can shutup and stop trying to take that away from her. thanks.

oh and dont hate on catholic schools.

Hate is such a strong word, who said that? Maybe a self evalation is required when one thinks cheating is a truly winning. It may have worked in Florida but it does not fit in Illinois. “Truth” while you choose a great name maybe you should follow your own advice…SHUT UP! Pretending to win by cheating is NOT WINNING AT ALL. THIS IS A LESSON THAT YOU CAN LEARN ONCE YOU FOLLOW YOUR OWN ADVICE.

GO ALYSSA!!!!!!