Grafton Watah of Klamath Union voted High School on SI Oregon Boys Basketball Player of the Week (3/3/2025)

Watah received 44.06% of the vote, beating out Gladstone's Jase Schmidt, who finished second with 37.73%

Congratulations to Klamath Union’s Grafton Watah for being voted SBLive/SI Oregon High School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week for the week of Feb. 17-23.

Watah, a senior on the Klamath Union team, tallied a game-high 30 points with six rebounds and three assists for the Pelicans in a 76-57 loss to Phoenix in a Skyline Conference game at Klamath Union High School.

Watah received 44.06% of the vote, beating out Jase Schmidt, a senior on the Gladstone team, who finished second with 37.73%. Shea McKenzie, a senior on the Franklin team, was third with 17.53%, and Jaxson Spafford, a senior on the Putnam team, was fourth with 0.51%. There were more than 8,000 votes tallied last week.

We are accepting Oregon Athlete of the Week nominations. If you would like to nominate an athlete, email danbrood91@gmail.com. 

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DAN BROOD

Dan Brood, who might be the very last of the straight-on place-kickers, has been covering high school sports in Oregon for more than 30 years, winning multiple awards for writing and photography. He started working with SBLive Sports in 2021.