MacDonald football player John Leonard is the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week for Sept. 15-20.

In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Leonard finished with 45% of the votes. Branham football player Michael Murphy took second.

Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition.

Leonard scored a 26-yard pick-six and had two sacks in MacDonald’s 51-14 win over Gunn.

To nominate an athlete for next week’s poll, email highschools@bayareanewsgroup.com by Monday at 11 a.m. Please include stats and team results.

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Votes by email do not count. Only votes submitted through the online poll on the Mercury News and East Bay Times websites will count.

Winners are announced each Friday on the Mercury News and East Bay Times website

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