Reese Brownlee, Braedin Zondervan voted the Register's Iowa Ortho Athletes of the Week

Clear Lake girls track and field athlete Reese Brownlee and Carlisle boys track and field athlete Braedin Zondervan were voted the Des Moines Register's Iowa Ortho female and male Athlete of the Week winners for the week of April 8-14.

Clear Lake girls track and field athlete Reese Brownlee was voted the Des Moines Register's female Athlete of the Week for the week of April 8-14.
Clear Lake girls track and field athlete Reese Brownlee was voted the Des Moines Register's female Athlete of the Week for the week of April 8-14.

Brownlee dominated the female Athlete of the Week voting with 85% of the vote. Gilbert girls golfer Eden Lohrbach took second.

Brownlee ran the fastest 400-meter hurdle time in Iowa for high school girls track during the Hannover Relays in Algona April 9.

Brownlee clocked in at 1:01.95 to win the 400 hurdles by over 11 seconds.

Carlisle boys track and field athlete Braedin Zondervan was voted the Des Moines Register's Iowa Ortho male Athlete of the Week for the week of April 8-14.
Carlisle boys track and field athlete Braedin Zondervan was voted the Des Moines Register's Iowa Ortho male Athlete of the Week for the week of April 8-14.

Zondervan easily won the male Athlete of the Week after receiving 76% of the vote. Dowling Catholic boys track and field thrower Nathan Rotherham took second.

Zondervan turned in an impressive performance in the 400-meter dash for the Carlisle boys track and field team Saturday at the Jim Duncan Invitational in Des Moines.

Zondervan won the boys open 400 in 47.75 seconds. His time was nearly two seconds faster than the runner-up effort by Dowling Catholic's Travis Lembechwa.

The Des Moines Register's Athlete of the Week is underwritten by Iowa Ortho, which is not involved in the writing or editing of this story.

Joe Randleman covers high school sports for the Ames Tribune. Contact him at jrandleman@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JoeRandleman

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