{
  "id": 10820939,
  "title": "Baldwyn's Griffin, Tupelo's Brown voted Athletes of the Week",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/baldwyns-griffin-tupelos-brown-voted-athletes-of-the-week",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-30T01:01:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/baldwyns-griffin-tupelos-brown-voted-010100252.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Yahoo Sports reports that Baldwyn's Emerson Griffin and Tupelo's Andrew Brown have been named Athletes of the Week for the week of September 21-26. Griffin, a sophomore setter for the volleyball team, was recognized for her impressive performance, contributing 57 assists, 15 digs, and four kills in two matches. She earned 72% of the vote in the Female Athlete of the Week Twitter poll, with East Union's Lyla Brock and Lafayette's Carson Ball as her other nominees. Meanwhile, Brown, a senior cross country runner, made history as the second Mississippi high school athlete to break the 15-minute mark in a 5K race, finishing the ON Twilight at PR’ville race in Huntsville, Alabama, in 14:49.40. He secured 45.8% of the vote in the Male Athlete of the Week poll, surpassing Pontotoc's Markavion Jones and Itawamba AHS' Xavier Waters.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}