{"id":232580,"date":"2026-05-15T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232580\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:00:13","slug":"brooklyn-shoen-connery-varsa-voted-the-tribunes-athletes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232580\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Shoen, Connery Varsa voted the Tribune&#8217;s Athletes of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Randleman, Ames Tribune<\/p>\n<p>Fri, May 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Ballard girls track and field athlete Brooklyn Shoen and Nevada boys tennis player Connery Varsa were voted the Ames Tribune&#8217;s female and male Athlete of the Week winners for the week of May 3-9.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Ames Tribune Athlete of the Week\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/d12dc3501204ffeab2cf7d7540be0de1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ames Tribune Athlete of the Week<\/p>\n<p>Shoen won female athlete of the week with 63% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>She anchored Ballard to a school-record time in the 4x400relay at the Raccoon River Conference track and field meet on May 6.<\/p>\n<p>Shoen helped the Bombers break the school mark in the 4&#215;400 by winning a conference title in the event with a 4:06.54 showing. She also placed fifth in the 400 hurdles individually with a 4:05.64 time.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Nevada boys tennis player Connery Varsa was voted the Ames Tribune's male Athlete of the Week for the week of May 3-9.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/c742499b2c8c600b93d17e12ecd51889.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nevada boys tennis player Connery Varsa was voted the Ames Tribune&#8217;s male Athlete of the Week for the week of May 3-9.<\/p>\n<p>Varsa earned male Athlete of the Week honors with 43% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>He helped the Nevada tennis team roll to its third consecutive North Central Conference title on May 5 at Webster City.<\/p>\n<p>Varsa placed first in the No. 1 singles competition. He defeated Webster City&#8217;s Nathan Wardell and Iowa Falls-Alden&#8217;s Carter Zollar in straight sets, scoring a pair of 6-0 shutouts in each match.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Randleman covers high school sports for the Ames Tribune. Contact him at <a data-ylk=\"slk:jrandleman@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/mailto:JRandleman@gannett.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jrandleman@gannett.com<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a data-ylk=\"slk:@JoeRandleman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeRandleman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@JoeRandleman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Ames Tribune: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Shoen, Connery Varsa named the Tribune&#039;s Athletes of the Week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amestrib.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/2026\/05\/15\/ames-tribune-athlete-of-the-week-winners-broolyn-shoen-connery-varsa\/90036181007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Shoen, Connery Varsa named the Tribune&#8217;s Athletes of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Randleman, Ames Tribune Fri, May 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM UTC Ballard girls track and field athlete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[91246,98,100,99,91245,1625,9,24,63,91248,91247],"class_list":["post-232580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-ames-tribune","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-connery-varsa","tag-nevada","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-raccoon-river-conference","tag-webster-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}