{"id":216829,"date":"2026-03-23T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216829\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:42:20","slug":"vote-fort-worth-area-schools-softball-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/216829\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Fort Worth-area schools softball player of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aledo<\/p>\n

Aledo pitcher Kayleigh Smith throws against Barbers Hill in the UIL Class 5A softball state final at McCombs Field in Austin Saturday June 5, 2021 (Matt Smith\/Special to the Star-Telegram)<\/p>\n

There have been plenty of standout performances in the Texas high school softball season. Plenty of Fort Worth-area athletes have had great ones.<\/p>\n

Which athlete had the best game this week? You decide. Vote for the Fort Worth-area High School Softball Player of the Week.<\/p>\n

Voting will end at 11 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

See a strong performance from March 24 through March 28 that stands out? Send a nomination for next week\u2019s player of the week poll with a stat line to high school sports editor Charles Baggarly (cbaggarly@star-telegram.com).<\/p>\n

Past Winners<\/p>\n

Feb 23: Gia Contreras, FW Arlington Heights<\/a><\/p>\n

March 2: Bella Garcia, Southlake Carroll<\/a><\/p>\n

March 9: Kyleigh Pawlak, Aledo<\/a><\/p>\n

March 16: Alexis Ramirez, FW Diamond Hill-Jarvis<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published March 23, 2026 at 10:18 AM.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

Charles Baggarly<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Charles Baggarly is a high school sports editor and reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He graduated from TCU in 2023 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism and served as TCU 360\u2019s sports editor. Connect with Charles on Twitter or via email.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aledo pitcher Kayleigh Smith throws against Barbers Hill in the UIL Class 5A softball state final at McCombs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,71548,20016,71547,71540],"class_list":["post-216829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-fort-worth-softball","tag-high-school-softball","tag-softball-player-of-the-week","tag-vote-player-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}