Vote: CSM Winter Athletes of the Week, Jan. 12-18, 2026

The latest batch of Clutch Sports Media Winter Athletes of the Week nominees powered through whatever laid in their paths on multiple occasions and kept their teams winning heading into the home stretch of the regular season.

This week’s nominees include several basketball standouts who scored 20-plus points in, multiple games, including three who recently scored their 1,000th career point, and four wrestling champions from over the weekend.

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UPDATE: Normal Community's Jackson Soney and Canton's Annalee Haschemeyer won CSM Winter Athletes of the Week after receiving the most votes in their respective polls. Voting closed at 11:59 PM Thursday.

CSM Boys Athlete of the Week nominees

Cameron Johnson, Normal U-High boys basketball

Johnson flourished while helping Normal U-High extend its win streak in a trio of games, starting with a 22-point, 16-rebound, six-assist double-double in a 60-51 win over Decatur Eisenhower on Jan. 13. Johnson led his team in picking up two key victories over the weekend, scoring 17 in a 56-37 victory over Lincoln on Jan. 16 and putting up 24 points and 10 rebounds in a 67-57 win over Class 2A No. 5 Warrensburg-Latham on Jan. 17. In that game, Johnson scored his 1,000th career point.

Jackson Soney, Normal Community boys wrestling

Soney added another trophy to his collection at Mahomet-Seymour’s Marty Williams Invite on Jan. 17, going 4-0 to give the Ironmen 40 points. Soney dominated throughout the 106-pound bracket with three pins in the first period to reach the championship match, where he beat Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley’s Bentley Fields in a 16-0 tech fall. 

Josh Humbles, Manual boys basketball

Humbles scored 20 or more points in each of Manual’s wins last week, helping the state-ranked Rams cap off a stretch of four wins in its last five contests. The senior scored a team-high 22 points in a 70-53 win over Peoria Notre Dame on Jan. 13 that kept Manual undefeated in Big 12 play. He added 20 points in a 53-40 win over Thornton Fractional North at ICC’s Hotshots MLK Shootout on Jan. 17 and was selected as the player of the game. 

Kaiden Capranica, Limestone boys wrestling

Capranica had one of the best weeks of his junior season and capped it off by winning the 113-pound title at the Urbana Invitational on Jan. 17. The Rockets’ standout pinned his first two opponents in 48 seconds or less before powering through in the final minute to pin Effingham’s Brendan Stewart in the title. Capranica won a pair of bouts during the week by pinning Pekin’s Braxton Shemansky and Canton’s Dean Bruketta during a Mid-Illini tri-meet on Jan. 15.

Jerry Hahn, Dee-Mack boys basketball

Hahn was hard for Heart of Illinois Conference opponents to stop as the Dee-Mack forward combined for 46 points in a pair of conference wins. Hahn finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds in a 71-40 win over Fisher on Jan. 13 and tacked on a team-high 26 points in a 59-50 win over Fieldcrest on Jan. 16, bringing the Chiefs to 13-3 on the year.

CSM Girls Athlete of the Week nominees

Rianna Foster, IVC girls basketball

Foster averaged 20.7 points and 9.7 rebounds per game in a series of big games last week and scored her 1,000th career point in a 63-38 win over Rantoul on Jan. 13. She finished with 14 points and 15 rebounds in that win and followed it up with 25 points and six rebounds in a 50-46 loss to Pontiac on Jan. 16. However, she helped the Grey Ghosts rebound with a key 61-59 win over Manual on Jan. 17 where she tallied 23 points and eight rebounds. 

Annalee Haschemeyer, Canton girls wrestling

Haschemeyer was part of a strong Canton contingent that helped the Little Giants win the Canton Girls Invite on Jan. 17. Haschemeyer went 3-0 in the 115-pound bracket with a pin, an 8-1 decision over Bloomington’s Autumn Starr and a 9-5 decision over Erie Prophetstown’s Rozlyn Mosher. She also picked up a pin in Canton’s 36-6 dual win over Limestone on Jan. 15.

Paige Selke, Morton girls basketball

Few weeks could have meant more than Selke’s as her performances led to Morton defeating then-top ranked Washington and her scoring 1,000th career point. The Potters’ junior scored 12, which tied for a team-high, in a 41-37 win over the Panthers on Jan. 13 and she added 15 in a 54-26 victory over Canton on Jan. 16. Selke scored her 1,000th career point in that game. 

Grace Aeschliman, Metamora girls wrestling

Aeschliman went on a revenge tour to win the 105-pound bracket at Mahomet-Seymour’s Mary Kelly Invitational on Jan. 16. After winning her first match via pin, Aeschliman was pinned by Reaghan Jones from Fort Zumwalt North (MO). The Redbirds’ star came back with pins over opponents from Rantoul and Burbank St. Laurence before pinning Jones in the title match. Her efforts helped lead Metamora to a 15th place showing out of 34 teams. 

Michaela Pilgrim, Limestone girls basketball

Pilgrim averaged over 20 points per game across three games, two of which were victories for Limestone. Her best performance of the week came in a 60-39 conference win over East Peoria on Jan. 17 as she finished with 32 points and 10 rebounds, two days after helping Limestone to a 38-33 win over Ottawa with 10 points. Pilgrim added 20 points in a 49-33 loss to Canton on Jan. 13.