To be the winning team, fan votes play a heavy role, along with consideration from our sports team here at LINK.
Nominations are reader-submitted or recommended by our sports team. Our Team of the Week program honors all local sports at all levels, whether it’s youth or adult-oriented recreation, high school or college, professional or amateur.
The new school year has added to the awards program. OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and LINK nky are excited to expand in addition to the weekly winners, the program will be including three winners for Team of the Season and one overall winner for Team of the Year for the 2024-25 sports seasons.
New this year for the program is the addition of the Team of the Season (TOTS) and Team of the Year (TOTY) awards. Sports seasons are considered fall, winter and spring for the purpose of this awards program. At the conclusion of each sports season, an overall TOTS winner will be chosen from all previous TOTW winners for that season. Their school will also receive a $500 scholarship to be presented to the athlete of their choice at the end of the school year.
Finally, the program culminates by selecting one TOTY from the three TOTS award winners. Online and print articles will again be published, a large commemorative plaque will be presented and the school will receive an additional $500 scholarship to be presented to the athlete of their choice at the end of the school year.
The call for nominations, voting and winning announcement for each will follow the same format as the TOTW.
This week’s nominated teams are listed below with some information provided by the submitter or LINK nky staff. The poll where you can vote follows at the end of the article.
Voting is open until Friday at 11:59 a.m.
DIXIE HEIGHTS BOYS SOCCER
The Colonels are on quite the run, now up to six wins in a row.
They defeated Campbell County (2-1) and St. Henry (4-1) last week, putting them at a record of 6-4. Trevor Bolte leads the team with five goals while Donovan Lameier and Ezequiel Bautista have four apiece. Lameier leads the team with five assists, Bolte with three. Bautista and Cole Proffitt have two assists apiece.
Aiden Susner and Cole Grimes have split goalkeeping duties, both have 26 saves. Neither are allowing more than one goal a game.
Dixie has a pair of road matchups this week at Cooper and Covington Catholic on Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, before they return home on Saturday to face Elder (Ohio).
VILLA MADONNA GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY
Villa Madonna was the girls winner at the Diocese of Covington meet on Saturday in Hebron, beating a talented field that included St. Henry, Notre Dame and Bishop Brossart.
They were led by eighth grader Ryan Bennett in a time of 20:47. Following Bennett in the top three spots were Lena Schroeder (21:07) in second and Alyssa Martin (21:10) in third.
Abigail Ford (21:39) and Norie Barker (22:14) followed in seventh and 13th place for the Vikings.
HIGHLANDS GIRLS SOCCER
Highlands has yet to allow a goal in any of their wins this season.
The Bluebirds have outscored their opponents 24-5 and have won their last two, to sit at 5-2-2.
On Tuesday, they shutout Dixie Heights 5-0 and went on defeat Bellevue 8-0, on Thursday. Eight different players had a goal between the two matches. Maren Orme led with two against Bellevue. Reese Wilkens, Kendall Graves, and Macy Hargis each had one apiece in both games. Franny Smith, Kaylee Mills, Gabby Simons had two assists as well.
SIMON KENTON VOLLEYBALL
Perfection continues for the Lady Pioneers.
Simon Kenton remains unbeaten after winning the Heroes Tournament at Henry County over the weekend.
They picked up wins during the week against North Oldham 3-1 (17-25, 25-20, 28-26, 25-19) and Williamstown 3-0 (25-10, 25-16, 25-12). The victory over the Lady Demons is the seventh of the season in which they haven’t given up a set.
COOPER FOOTBALL
The Jaguars got a win over Ryle, their rival from five miles down the road for the first time since 2015 on Friday, 21-14.
The defense came up big with five forced turnovers and Cam O’Hara hit Isaiah Johnson on an 11-yard touchdown pass with 38 seconds remaining to get the victory. O’Hara threw for 356 yards and accounted for all three touchdowns, two throwing and one rushing.
Johnson and Jaidan Combs both went over 100 yards receiving, Johnson with 123 yards and a score, Combs with 121 and a tackle breaking score before the half. Ryker Campbell had two interceptions for the Jags defense, Isaac Brown and Dax Bolen also picking off a pass while Corey Freihofer collected a muffed punt for a fumble recovery to help set up the game-winning score.
Cooper is off to a 3-0 start to the season as they play at Campbell County on Friday.
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