51吃瓜网’s East Peoria, IL campus is proud to be an official sponsor of NBC News 25’s聽.
As a show of support for our local community high school sports, MTI will sponsor the Defensive Player of the Week, featured on News 25’s WEEK-TV. The show airs every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. starting August 23, 2018 and continuing (with some holiday breaks) through March 14, 2019. The show highlights the latest Central Illinois high school sports news and interviews with the athletes. To celebrate and honor the best in high school sports, MTI will sponsor the Defensive Player of the Week.
MTI East Peoria will feature the winner of Defensive Player of the Week here in this post so be sure to check back each week. You can also checkout our聽聽for all of our interviews with the winners.
Congratulations to the winners!
- Week of August 27:聽Justin Janssen, Princeville High School ()
- Week of September 3:聽Keegan Robbins, Fieldcrest High School ()
- Week of September 10: Caiden Buster, Tremont High School ()
- Week of September 17:聽Donovan Thorn, East Peoria Community High School ()
- Week of September 24: John Gatton, Metamora Township High School ()
- Week of October 1:聽Leo Mushinsky, Peoria Notre Dame High School ()
- Week of October 8: Washington Community High School Defense
- Week of October 15: Gabe Robison, Washington Community High School ()
- Week of October 22:聽Normal Community High School Defense
- Week of October 29:聽Eli Wieland, Princeville High School ()
- Week of November 5:聽Washington Community High School Defense
- Week of November 12: Brady Klein, Washington High School ()
- Week of November 26: Camryn Taylor, Richwoods High School ()
- Week of December 3: JT Welch, Bloomington Central Catholic High School ()
- Week of December 31: Courtney Jones, Morton High School ()
- Week of January 7: Ryan Wagenbach, Tremont High School ()
- Week of January 14:聽Josh McElrath, Peoria Richwoods High School ()
- Week of January 21: Chris Payton, Bloomington High School
- Week of January 28: Lindsey Dullard, Morton High School ()
- Week of February 4:聽Jonathan Blumeyer, Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School ()
- Week of February 11:聽Courtney Heffren, Eureka High School ()
- Week of February 18:聽Brett Novak, Brimfield High School ()
- Week of February 25:聽Will Pepper, Peoria Christian High School
- Week of March 4:聽Rolando “Pee Wee” Brown, Manual Academy ()
- Week of March 11:聽DJ Starr, University High School ()
