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.
HIGHLANDS BASEBALL
The Bluebirds won their first regional baseball championship since 2018 with a 5-2 victory over Beechwood on May 29.
They took down Covington Catholic (7-2), Dixie Heights (9-0) and then Beechwood along the way to the title that puts them in the state tournament on June 6 at Kentucky Proud Park in Lexington against South Warren at 1:30 p.m.
Brooks Hendrix was named Tournament MVP while Garrett Wiggins, Adam Forton and Jacob Robinson also made the All-Tournament team. Hendrix and Forton were a menace at the plate, the two combining for 11 hits and six RBI in the three games. Iain Carner also put up a solid three games with five hits and five RBI.
Forton, Wiggins and Robinson pitched three complete games in the tournament. They gave up a combined 10 hits and one earned run in 21 innings of work, striking out 17 and walking six.
HOLY CROSS SOFTBALL
Talk about a way of earning their first ever regional title in fast pitch softball. Holy Cross defeated Dixie Heights, Ryle and Highlands on their way to glory, all three district champs in their respective district.
Evie Thomas, Kayla Fledderman and Jordyn Rieselman made the All-Tournament team. Thomas’ pitching helped get them there, pitching three complete games and allowing 13 hits, six earned runs, walking four and striking out 24 in the process. She also collected four hits and three RBI at the plate in the three games.
Fledderman’s seventh inning grand slam made her the hero against Highlands. Trailing 3-1, Fledderman’s ball carried over the centerfield fence for the go-ahead runs. It was her lone hit of the tournament, but the most important one.
Riseleman had a hit in all three games and drove in four runs, three of them against Dixie Heights in the quarterfinals.
The Indians now head to Lexington to play at John Cropp Stadium at the University of Kentucky, where they’ll face Harrison County on Friday at 10 a.m.
COVINGTON CATHOLIC TRACK AND FIELD
The Colonels won back-to-back Class AA track and field titles, taking home the crown on May 30 at University of Kentucky’s Outdoor Track and Field Facility.
CovCath scored 85 points in the meet, besting second place Bourbon County by 32 points. Since moving to AA in 2023, the Colonels have won six titles in track and field and cross country, two in each indoor and outdoor track and field and two in cross country.
In the May 30 meet, state champions included Will Sheets in the 800 meters, sophomore Paul Klosinski won the pole vault and the 4×200 relay team of Jack Fleck, Rhett Blettner, Charlie Ink and Garrett Gallagher took home the gold.
Others earning podium finishes include Sheets in second in the 1,600 and 3,200, the 4×400 relay team of Gallagher, Blettner, Jackson Schmid, and Fleck second, Joe Mayer third in the 1,600 and 3,200, Blettner third in 400, the 4×800 relay team of Joel Barczak, Jack Salyers, Jackson Germann and Jack Dwyer fifth, the 4×100 relay team of Gallagher, Luke Lampe, Jace Thornton and Schmid sixth and Schmid sixth in the 400.
BISHOP BROSSART GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
Another solid showing from the Bishop Brossart girls track and field team earned them a second place finish at the KHSAA Class A track and field state meet on May 29.
The Lady ‘Stangs tallied 97 points, good for runner-up behind Lexington Christian with 117 points.
They had three first-place medals, Ava Walters doubling in the throws with wins in both the shot put and discus and the 4×800 relay team of Larah Callahan, Alia Thomas, Peyton Trauth and Tessa Hafer also taking home gold. Brossart’s girls team had 16 podium places on the day.
The others were Anna Curtsinger in second place in the pole vault, Trauth second in the long jump, the 4×400 relay of Lexi Braun, Callahan, Mackinley Scott and Trauth in second, 4×200 relay of Callahan, Braun, Hadley Eviston and Scott in second, Callahan fourth in the 800, Braun fourth in the 400, Zoey Woosley fourth in the 100-meter hurdles, Maria Everett fourth in the pole vault, 4×100 relay team of Woosley, Eviston, Kaitlyn Kramer and Trauth in fourth, Kramer sixth in the 300-meter hurdles, Woosley sixth in the long jump, Hafer seventh in the 1,600 and Josie Golden seventh in the high jump.
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