*Note: This is the first poll for Team of the Week for the Winter Sports season.
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.
BISHOP BROSSART GIRLS BASKETBALL
A strong start to the season has the Lady ‘Stangs off to a 3-0 start with wins over Badin, Ohio (55-51), Beechwood (65-32) and Bellevue (75-41).
Standouts in the three games came from the quartet of Rachel Shewmaker, Kylie Smith, Greylee Kramer and Zoee Meyers. Shewmaker averaged 15 points per game in the three contests to go with 15-of-23 shooting from the field and 6.3 rebounds per game. Smith averaged 15 points per game as well, averaging nearly six rebounds per game and hit 12-of-14 free throw attempts. Meyers averaged nearly 13 points per game, Kramer at nine points per game.
Brossart looks to make it 4-0 when they host Mercy McAuley (Ohio) on Monday.
DAYTON GIRLS BASKETBALL
A strong start for Laura Hall and her girls at Dayton has them 2-0 to kick off the 2024-25 season.
Hall, in her first season coaching the team got her first win at the varsity level in a Dec. 3 victory over Villa Madonna and another win on Dec. 6 over Ludlow. Both margins were by 20 points.
In the 56-36 victory over Villa, the team was led by Tayah Smith’s 19-point performance, hitting 50% from the field, all four free throw attempts and pulling down eight rebounds. Lanaya Torres added 13 points to go with nine rebounds, Aleiyah Hull posting 11 points with six rebounds. Torres and Hull both hit 5-of-8 shots from the floor.
The 53-33 win over Ludlow was met by three double-digit scoring efforts, Hull leading the way with 19 points. Axie Jimenez and Smith had 13 points apiece.
The Lady Devils will try to make it 3-0 when they host Bellevue on Monday night.
LUDLOW BOYS BASKETBALL
The Panthers have opened the season with a 2-0 start, defeating Trimble County (97-49) and Eminence (74-55).
Joseph Scott, Byron Conley, Spencer Brandenburg, Gage Grider, Andrew Stevens and Matt Brock had standout games in the two contests.
Brandenburg had 41 points in two games, 29 of them coming in the win over Eminence, including his 1,000th career point. Scott led the team with 25 points in the win against Trimble, hitting 9-of-13 shots and pulling down seven rebounds. Conley had 13 points against Trimble, Grider posted 12 points and seven rebounds against Eminence while Stevens had seven points and nine rebounds against Trimble, Brock with a 10-point effort against Trimble.
Ludlow looks to move to 3-0 when they host Williamstown on Monday.
COOPER ARCHERY
The Jaguars won the Grant County Qualifier over the weekend by a point over Walton-Verona. They scored 3,225 to the Bearcats 3,224.
Kayson Stone led the Jaguars with a 285, Brayden Nevels right behind him with a 284. Kyle Kirkpatrick followed with a 275 and Anya Maynard the top girls finisher with a 274. Stone and Nevels finished third and fourth overall. Maynard was fourth in the girls division.
SIMON KENTON ARCHERY
Simon Kenton won the Notre Dame Academy Panda Tournament over the weekend, defeating the eight-team field by 29 points.
The Pioneers were led by Kilee Spegal with a score of 281 and hitting 17 tens. Grayson Runion added a 279 with 14 tens and Anna Beth McCarty with a 278 and 13 tens.
Simon Kenton scored 3,235 as a team, Scott in second with 3,206.
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