Archbishop Mitty badminton player Cynthia Wang is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week and Santa Clara baseball player Drew Diffenderfer is the boys athlete of the week for May 12-17.

In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Wang had 50.24% of the vote. Independence softball player Ava Sanchez was second at 42.87% and Los Altos gymnast Libby Lyon was third.

In the boys poll, Diffenderfer finished with 46.72% of the vote. Bellarmine baseball player Christian Duarte took second at 26.35% and Leigh volleyball player Cooper Smith was third at 15.08%.

Wang qualified for NorCals this weekend at Independence High. In her high school debut season, she has a 19-2 record, including 10-0 in the regular season. She and her sister, Laila, were seeded No. 1 at their league tournament in doubles and finished fifth at CCS this past weekend.

Diffenderfer struck out six and gave up no runs in Santa Clara’s 7-0 win over Cupertino. The Bruins finished the regular season 24-3 and won the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League El Camino Division title.

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.