Weiss' Takyla Brown selected the Austin Sports Journal’s Volleyball Player of the Week

From staff reports

Weiss setter Takyla Brown, an LSU pledge, was voted the Austin Sports Journal Austin-area Volleyball Player of the Week for Aug. 19-24.

With 45.5% of the vote, Brown narrowly edged out Buda Johnson’s Brooklyn Myers (42%) for the honor. It was a close races as a total 36 votes made the difference. Other candidates included Liberty Hill’s Taylor Gaines (1.2%), Dripping Springs’ Henley Anderson (6.3%) and Austin High’s Riley Malloy (5.1%) .

Helped the Wolves win the bronze bracket of the Pflugerville ISD VolleyPfest and was named to the all-tournament team. She recorded her 3,000^th career assist on Tuesday in Weiss’ loss to Austin High.

The Austin Sports Journal will hold votes each week for the football and volleyball players of the week throughout the season.

Voting for the Football Player of the Week will open every Monday and close at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, starting September 2. The winner will be announced on Thursdays. Readers that sign up for our bi-weekly newsletter, which is delivered Thursdays and Saturdays, will find out first. You can sign up here.

Voting for the Volleyball Player of the Week will open every Thursday and close at 12 p.m. on Friday during the regular season. The winner will be announced first in our Thursday newsletter and the e-paper, which is published every Saturday and available exclusively to subscribers. Subscribe here. The inaugural issue on Aug. 31 will be free to everyone.

Coaches are urged to nominate players and include stats each week by emailing nominations to madams@austinsportsjournal.com.