Los Gatos basketball player Nicole Steiner is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week and Washington-Fremont basketball player Gianni Clark is the boys athlete of the week for Dec. 30-Jan. 4.

In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Steiner finished with 43.82% of the vote. Oakland Tech basketball player Terri’A Russell took second with 37.45%.

In the boys poll, Clark finished with 40.54% of the vote. Amador Valley basketball player Jaylen Smith took second and Branham basketball player Cole Taylor was third.

Steiner, a senior, recorded the first triple-double in Los Gatos girls basketball program history, scoring 16 points, grabbing 15 rebounds and dishing 10 assists as the Wildcats beat Milpitas 61-29 to open league play.

Clark made 11 of his 19 field-goal attempts and totaled 25 points to lead Washington to a 64-45 win over American.

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.

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 websites and in the print edition of the Mercury News and EB Times sports sections.