The King’s Academy flag football player Sofia Poonen is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week, and Liberty football player Sage Robertson is the boys athlete of the week for Oct. 14-19.

In online voting that ended at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Poonen finished with 36.2% of the votes. Alhambra flag football player Jessica Blake took second at 28.26%.

In the boys poll, Robertson had 41.33% to finish ahead of Alameda water polo player Zach Dortch, who was second at 34.5%.

Poonen, a senior, had 134 yards receiving and five TDs, picked off two passes and pulled five flags in games against St. Francis and Notre Dame-Belmont. Poonen is nearing 1,000 receiving yards for the season.

Robertson, a senior, tossed six touchdown passes in Liberty’s 42-7 win over Deer Valley.

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.