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.
ST. HENRY BOYS GOLF
And then there was one…the Crusaders are the last golf team standing in northern Kentucky.
After last week’s first round of state tournament play, St. Henry was the lone team, boys or girls, to advance to the final rounds in Bowling Green this week. The Crusaders competed with eight teams from Regions 5-8 with another 40 individuals also qualifying as they trekked down to Shelbyville Country Club.
When it was all said and done on Sept. 30, St. Henry finished third out of the eight teams, earning the last auto qualifying bid for the final two rounds of the state tournament.
St. Henry shot 19-over as a team, good for a 307 and in third place behind Trinity at nine-over (297) and Christian Academy-Louisville at 14-over (302).
Ben Carter paced the Crusaders once again, fresh off a Region 7 title and shot even par, good for a tie for sixth in the 80-player field. Ben’s brother Will shot three-over, Parker Isaacs was five-over and Will Hammond at 11-over to round out the Crusaders scoring that counted. Jake Montgomery was the No. 5 man at 15-over.
St. Henry will tee it up in Bowling Green on Tuesday in the 36-hole tournament.
CONNER BOYS SOCCER
The Cougars (10-4-3) are 5-0-1 in their last six games, with four shutouts as they closed out the regular season strong.
They haven’t allowed a goal to their last three opponents, Dixie Heights (0-0), St. Henry (2-0), and Grant County (8-0), giving up just four goals in their last eight matches.
Pacing the team offensively is Grady Noble and Mason Ginn, combining for 17 goals and eight assists, Dallas Marshall leads with six assists. Golikia Masoluka isn’t far behind with six goals. Of all 16 players that have played in the field this season for the Cougars, all of them have scored at least one goal.
Trey Wagner (17 games) has 83 saves and five shutouts on the season, sporting a 0.6 goals against average per game.
Up next is the 33rd District tournament, in which they face Cooper in the semifinals on Tuesday at Cooper at 6 p.m.
BELLEVUE GIRLS SOCCER
The Tigers put together a string of three consecutive wins, that improved them to 6-6-0.
It’s their most in a season since at least 2002, which is as far back as the KHSAA website goes. They defeated Covington Latin (3-1), Holmes (1-0), and Dayton (5-0).
Myleigh Wight has 13 goals to lead the team, Jaylah Dowell has nine and Hayleigh Wight seven.
Dowell has the most assists with seven, Hayleigh Wight has six.
Paulina Long made her way inside the top 30 in the state with 163 saves, also two shutouts along the way.
They take on Newport Central Catholic in the semifinal round of the 36th District next on Monday evening at NKU.
NOTRE DAME VOLLEYBALL
For the first time in program history and the first northern Kentucky team ever to do it, Notre Dame brought home an ASICS Challenge championship.
The Pandas went up to Chicago over the weekend from Oct. 3-5 and came back with five wins. In going 5-0, they defeated Marist (IL) twice, Montini Catholic (IL), Skutt Catholic (NE) and Assumption. They dropped just one set in doing so.
Notre Dame is now 23-2 on the season with a big 9th Region matchup looming against Ryle on Wednesday.
BISHOP BROSSART FOOTBALL
The Mustangs are off to a 5-1 start and just knocked off state-ranked Paris on Friday.
Bishop Brossart won in dramatic fashion, Brady Boruske recovering a fumble late and then Tyler Holtz hit Nicholas Cozzi for a 25-yard touchdown pass to break the 14-14 tie.
Shane Willike then sealed the deal with an interception. Paris defeated Brossart last year, 41-3.
Holtz has thrown for 14 touchdowns, Cameron Mandel the leading rusher with 527 yards rushing and six touchdowns. How about Mandel’s stat line on Friday? Defensively he had 17 tackles, five tackles for loss, and two sacks. Offensively he ran for 110 yards and a touchdown and also caught a pass for 12 yards.
Isaac Amin leads the receiving corps with 404 yards receiving and four touchdowns, Cozzi hauling in five touchdown grabs.
Willike leads the defense with 39 tackles, Keegan Gulley highlighting the secondary with four interceptions.
Coach Adam Kozerski and the Mustangs are playing well as they head into district play this week in a matchup with Holy Cross on Friday at Thomas More at 7 p.m.
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