Winter All Stars 2

No Leigh and or Coffey

The following are the girls basketball All Stars for the Northern Kentucky Cincinnati Enquirer, printed in the May 15 issue, and the Community Recorder newspapers, printed April 28. Look for the other sports in separate online files.

[h=1]Cincinnati Enquirer[/h][h=2]Player of the year[/h]Ally Niece, Simon Kenton:

The guard averaged 21 points per game for the Pioneers, who were 32nd District champs and Eighth Region runner-up. She was Eighth Region player of the year. She scored her 2,000th career point late in the season and was NKAC Division I player of the year.

[h=2]Coach of the year[/h]Tony Perkins, Holmes: Led the Bulldogs to the state quarterfinals, a 29-5 record and championships of the 35th District and Ninth Region.

[h=2]First team[/h]Ansley Davenport, senior, Newport Central Catholic: The senior guard averaged 18 points for the ’Breds, who reached the All “A” state semifinals. NKAC player of the year in Division II, a finalist for Miss Basketball by the KABC, and first-team all-Ninth Region by regional coaches.

Ally Johnson, Beechwood: The junior averaged 18 points per game and was first-team all-conference and Ninth Region.

Jenna Martin, Notre Dame: The junior guard averaged 15 points and hit 73 3-pointers for the Pandas, who went 19-9. Was first-team all-conference and first- team all-Ninth Region.

Mallory Schwartz, Ryle: Senior led a balanced, veteran Raiders team that went 24-7 and was Ninth Region runner-up and 33rd District champion. Led the team with 11.6 points per game and was the KABC Ninth Region co-player of the year. First-team all-conference and all-Ninth Region. Will play for Bellarmine next year.

Anna Clephane, Scott: Averaged 19 points and helped the Eagles to the 10th Region runner-up. First-team all-conference and all-10th Region selection.

Taylor Jolly, Campbell County: Senior averaged 14 points per game and hit 75 3-pointers for the Camels, who were 25-10, 37th District and 10th Region champions, and quarterfinalists in the state Sweet 16. First-team all-conference and second team all-10th Region.

Carly Lange, Ryle: Senior averaged 11.4 points for the Ninth Region runner-up Raiders and was one of the top defenders in the region. First-team all-conference and second team all-Ninth Region.

Jynea Harris, Holmes: Senior guard led the Bulldogs to a 29-5 record, 35th District championship, Ninth Region championship and a berth in the state quarterfinals. Averaged 15 points per game and was first-team all-conference and third-team all-Ninth Region. All-tournament pick in the Sweet 16.

Ally Niece, Simon Kenton: Player of the year.

Hailey Ison, Walton-Verona: Senior averaged 23 points per game for the Bearcats. First team all-Eighth Region. and all-North Central Kentucky Conference.

Congrats to all selected. Pretty awesome honor.

No Leigh and or Coffey

 

Congratulations to those on this list, I love for HS athletes to get recognition. Leaving these two out is kind of a head scratcher though.....are they really checking in at around # 65 in NKY and outside the top 15 in their District, probably not

Let me give a shout out to both as having a great season and stellar career.... Definitely worthy of mention.

44 Honorable Mention? Welcome to the day where everyone needs a trophy.

 

To make it worse how do you leave Leigh and Coffey out of those 44 names?

 

Aggravating to see deserving kids not make this list, but we have to make sure every school has someone on here.

So several times in this article the number of "3point makes" is referenced as a significant stat. This is the second time I've heard this as someone was defending Curry as the best shooter ever by saying he made 400 threes this year. But when I looked up nba stats, Curry took 230 more 3pt attempts than the next highest. And in addition Curry was third in 3pt percentage.

 

So my question as it relates to this article (maybe should be its own thread?)...since when did "made 3pt shots" become relevant? (I could make 70 threes if I shot it 1000 times). This article is the second time I've seen this stat referenced now, maybe I don't read enough about basketball. So could someone address for me the relevance of that stat and why it's being used the way it is? To me the only relevant 3pt stat should be percentage with a minimum number of shots taken.

Agree Hydraman, at one time the KHSAA went by % of who lead the state for minimum attempts shot as a preference. Now it is how many they make per game, example 3.2 I think lead the state. Seems as if we worry about how many makes instead of making a high percentage.

Agree Hydraman, at one time the KHSAA went by % of who lead the state for minimum attempts shot as a preference. Now it is how many they make per game, example 3.2 I think lead the state. Seems as if we worry about how many makes instead of making a high percentage.

 

I find that really amazing actually, I can't believe the state of ky records the stats that way? What is the reasoning behind that?

 

I can't imagine that helping encourage good shooting? Kids will just take more bad shots and more shots than they should