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.
NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC BOYS BASKETBALL
The Thoroughbreds picked up a pair of victories last week over Bellevue and St. Henry to improve to 6-8.
The two wins snapped a six-game losing streak as they look to get back on the right path here at the second half of the season.
In the 36th District victory over Bellevue, NewCath was paced by John Luhn’s 13 points as four players hit double figures and 11 entered the scoring column. Gabe Waggoner put up 11 points while Jack Gearding and Landon Kraft added 10.
In the win over St. Henry, Louie Collopy put up 28 points, Ian Mann with 17 and Gearding with 15. Collopy hit 11-of-18 shots and Mann hit all eight of his free throw attempts.
The ‘Breds added another victory on Monday in the opening round of the 9th Region All “A” Classic tournament to advance to Wednesday’s quarterfinals against Heritage Academy.
SCOTT GIRLS BASKETBALL
Scott picked up a state-ranked win over Highlands last week, taking down the Bluebirds 66-57 in Fort Mitchell.
It snapped a two-game losing streak as they improved to 8-5 on the season.
Nakiah Mejia had a monster game in the victory with 30 points hitting 10-of-17 shots from the field and 6-of-9 from 3-point land. Kaia Peterson put up 11 points, Noelle Price with nine points and Kourtney Peterson adding eight points with eight rebounds.
They look to take down another state-ranked team on Tuesday as they face Cooper and follow with Bracken County on Friday.
COVINGTON CATHOLIC SWIM AND DIVE
The Colonels swim and dive team won the Scott Eagle Winter Classic with 476 points, edging out Highlands with 458 points.
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