STARKVILLE, Miss. – Junior Haley Hutton of Valley High School in Gilcrest, Co., has been named the MaxPreps High School Player of the Week by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association for games played through October 1, 2011. 

Hutton went 8 for 10 at the plate with three triples, a home run, 10 runs scored and 8 RBI. Her efforts at the plate this past week helped the Vikings improve to 5-1 in league and 16-1 overall. So far this season the junior shortstop leads her team with a .604 batting average and 1.245 slugging percentage with 31 RBI and 36 runs scored.

MaxPreps.com, the official high school statistical provider of the NFCA, provides all statistics for the NFCA High School Player of the Week award. 

To nominate a player for the award, the coach must enter his or her athlete's game stats into MaxPreps.com by Sunday evening to be eligible for that week’s award. The NFCA High School Players of the Week, one for each high school region, will be announced by the Association on www.nfca.org every Monday during the spring season. 

MaxPreps is a free stat tool that is available to high school coaches across the country and is one of the most recognized and respected high school athletics web sites on the internet. Coaches that enter their team’s stats on Max Preps will not only be nominating their players for this award, but they will be getting their team’s information out to thousands of high school sports fans, as well as college coaches across the country. 

To obtain a coach’s login, please contact: coachsupport@maxpreps.com or call (800) 329-7324 x1. To enter a team’s stats on the MaxPreps website, please click here.