Muhlenkamp gets Player of the Week

The votes are in and the people have spoken.

Levi Muhlenkamp is Indiana’s High School Athlete of the Week.

Muhlenkamp, a senior on the Jay County High School boys soccer team earned Maxpreps’ Indiana High School Athlete of the Week award for week 7 Tuesday morning due to his performances at Blackford and Liberty Christian. He shares the award with Samir Del Rio, a football player at Western Boone in Valparaiso.

During the stretch, the JCHS senior scored six goals on 12 shots in an 8-0 victory over Blackford on Oct. 1 and put seven balls into the net and had an assist in the 10-1 win at Liberty Christian Oct. 3. During the game against the Lions, Muhlenkamp broke former coach Brad Horn’s record of 80 career goals at Jay County.

Since the strong week, Muhlenkamp has played a vital role in bringing the IHSAA Class 2A Sectional 23 title back to Portland. In the semifinal game against Delta, Muhlenkamp assisted Dylan Marentes on a momentum-shifting goal at the end of the first half and scored one of his own on a give-and-go with Marentes to push the record to 82 goals.

While Muhlenkamp didn’t score in the sectional championship game against host Eastbrook, he started off the penalty kicks with a shot to the right side to get JCHS jump started.