Fan input sought for Players of the Week

The Daily Iberian is asking fans of local high school football to take part in its weekly Player of the Week program by nominating players they feel deserve recognition for their efforts in the previous week's games, then voting in a weekly Internet poll on The Daily Iberian’s Web site, www.iberianet.com.

Because of the disruption to the prep season caused by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the program will begin with games of Friday night, Sept. 19.

Fans will be asked to nominate players by posting their nomination, and the reasons (and/or statistics) why the player was nominated, as a comment at the end of the weekly Web story asking for nominees.

The Daily Iberian sports staff will then select offensive players and defensive players from those nominees to be listed in the poll, which will be posted on the sports page of the Iberian Web site, www.iberianet.com/sports. Fans may vote for their choices until Thursday at 2 p.m., when that week’s polls close and are tallied.

The offensive player and the defensive player who receive the most votes in the poll will be chosen as Fan Vote Players of the Week.

The Daily Iberian also awards separate Player of the Week honors for an offensive and defensive player as chosen by the newspaper’s sports staff. Player of the Week award winners receive a T-shirt sponsored by The Daily Iberian and Streva Distributing.

Nominate players by submitting a comment, below.