Bay Area News Group girls athlete of the week: Adhuna Devineni, MSJ

Mission San Jose basketball player Adhuna Devineni is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for Dec. 22-27.

In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Devineni finished with 44% of the vote. Harker basketball player Jillian Chen took second at 28.1% and Leland’s Venice Lu was third at 26%.

Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.

Devineni averaged 17.3 points in victories during the week over Granada (63-60), Lowell (55-52) and Edison (55-41). She scored a season-high 24 points against Lowell.

To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.

Votes by email do not count. Only votes submitted through the online poll on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites will count.

Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.