The LINK nky Team of the Week presented by OrthoCincy is down to its last week for winter sports!
We’ll take a week break after this with Team of the Season voting to begin in March!
LINK nky is once again excited to partner with OrthoCincy Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and announce the highly popular Team of the Week, Team of the Season and Team of the Year awards!
Nominations and Voting
Each week, a call for Team of the Week nominations will be announced via LINK nky’s online and printed editions with links shared on all of LINK nky social media platforms. The inclusive nomination and selection process will highlight the team’s achievements from the prior week with a supported photo of the team to represent them.
Voting instructions along with each nominated team’s accomplishment(s) will be published online every Monday and posted in that week’s print edition. A link will be shared via social media as well. The voting process is open to the public through Friday at noon each week, and the newest TOTW will be announced with a featured article on Friday and featured in the following week’s print edition.
Participants can vote multiple times a day and can vote every day leading up to the close of voting. All are encouraged to share voting links to help promote the team of their choice.
Team of the Season and Team of the Year
Again this year, the program will include 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.
OrthoCincy Orthopeadics and Sports Medicine and LINK nky are again proud to partner and celebrate the remarkable achievements of our local high school athletes and teams!Â
Here are the nominees…(voting poll at the bottom)
BOONE COUNTY GIRLS BASKETBALL
The Lady Rebels got to double-digit wins on the season with wins over Augusta, Williamstown and Dayton last week.
The three wins got them to 10-18, a nine-win increase from a season ago. On Monday, they had three named to the honorable mention for the All-9th Region team as Avery Jones, Sarah Henson and Avery Scott made the list. They open the postseason with Cooper on Tuesday in the 33rd District tournament.
NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC BOYS BASKETBALL
The Thoroughbreds are playing their best ball down the stretch, going 4-2 in their last six and 2-1 in the last week of the regular season. The two losses were tight ones to Beechwood and Holy Cross, both by three points each.
They’ve been led by John Luhn’s 14.5 points per game while five others average between 4.5 to 9.0 points per game. After a 5-11 start to the season, they finished the regular season 12-17 with an elimination game coming on Wednesday against Newport in the 36th District tournament.
COOPER ARCHERY
The undefeated season continues for the Cooper archery team. They won the NKAC tournament over the weekend, winning all eight tournaments they’ve been in this season.
The team scored a 3,317, 38 points clear of runner-up Scott. Robert Scroggin, Kyle Kirkpatrick and Kaysen Stone took three of the top four spots in the boys division with scores of 284, 283 and 283, respectively. Brayden Nevels was right behind them with a 282. Kylie Purdy was the top Cooper girls finisher with a 275 and a top 10 finish.
CONNER WRESTLING
The Cougars won their first region wrestling title since 1985, capturing the Region 5 title with 251 points, a whopping 58.5 points better than Simon Kenton.
They took home three firsts, four seconds, two third and two fourths on the day. Region champions were Clayton Badida (126 pounds), Cordion Abernathy (132 pounds) and Nathan Seth (152 pounds). Runner-up finishers were Zaq Abdi (113 pounds), Keaton Dicken (120 pounds), Luke Peace (144 pounds) and Landon Wuellner (215 pounds).
They’ll head to the state tournament later this week.
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