Vote now in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest for Jan. 19-25, 2025

Published 4:00 am Monday, January 27, 2025

Voting is open in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest.

This week’s nominees are basketball players Marley Bufkin (Porter’s Chapel), Carson Gleese (St. Aloysius) and Javeion Perkins (Vicksburg); and VSA swimmer Addison Billings.

Voting is open until midnight Tuesday, and you can vote as many times as you want until the deadline.

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Marley Bufkin, a senior with Porter’s Chapel Academy’s girls’ basketball team, scored 12 of her game-high 23 points in the fourth quarter and overtime in a 35-30 victory over Prairie View on Jan. 23.

Carson Gleese, a junior, led St. Aloysius’ boys’ basketball team to two wins. Gleese scored 18 points in a 56-43 win over Cathedral on Jan. 23, and then had 30 points and seven rebounds in a 63-50 victory vs. ACCS on Jan. 24.

Addison Billings, a member of the Vicksburg Swim Association’s Killer Whales club team, scored 140 points, won three events and finished second in four others at the DAC Charlene Craddock Invitational Jan. 17-18. Billings won the girls 12U 50 yard breaststroke, 100 yard backstroke and 100 yard individual medley.

Javeion Perkins, a senior with Vicksburg High’s boys’ basketball team, made six 3-pointers and finished with a season-high 30 points in a 73-54 victory over McLaurin on Jan. 20. Perkins averaged 16 points per game over a three-game stretch.

Voting is open until midnight Tuesday, and you can vote as many times as you want until the deadline. The winner will be announced Wednesday on vicksburgpost.com and then be featured in our Friday print edition.

Good luck to all of the nominees!

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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