Even with the high school sports season wrapped up before June, there were plenty of other athletes on display in Allen County last month.
Here are the six nominees for the Athlete of the Month in June. Voting runs from Wednesday until Monday, July 10. Click here to vote!
— Boys —
Brandon McKarnin
McKarnin has picked up where he finished during the high school baseball season and has been clobbering the ball at a monster pace for the Iola AA Indians this summer. Over the weekend at the MOKAN Showdown, he went 6-for-10 with five hits and drove in four runs.
The Iola High School graduate was one of the top hitters in the state last season and has only shown why this summer. In the season opening tournament in Topeka, McKarnin totaled five hits and drove in three runs across three games.
He also had the game-sealing hit at home against Chanute when he knocked a two-run single.
Griffin Westervelt
Westervelt has impressed in the swimming lanes so far this summer, especially in last week’s home meet when he won first place in the 200- and 100-yard freestyle and the 50-yard butterfly. He also took first in the 50-yard freestyle at the Chanute meet.
He also did well at the season opening meet in Chanute when he grabbed first place in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 27.78 seconds.
Jagger Jacobs
Jacobs was a part of the Southern Coffey County High trapshooting team which competed at the KSHSAA Championships, hitting 95 of 100 targets, to place 24th overall in the varsity division.
Not only did Jacobs shoot well at the state championships but he went on a run of hitting 50 straight broken targets at the meet. He also executed a perfect score of breaking 25 out of 25 targets at the state championship. 
— Girls —
Helaina Chryssikos
