Avery Gagnon earns male athlete of the week

October 6, 2021

Each week during the high school sports season, Eastern Maine Sports will announce a female and male athlete of the week. If you want to sponsor the female or male athlete of the week email Marc at easternmainesports@gmail.com. Use that same email to send your nominations in during the week. When you send your nominations include the athlete, name of the school, stats for the week of the nomination. Here is a full list of the 346 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had seven Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations. Avery Gagnon did it on both sides of the ball to help the Dexter football team to a win over Orono. Gagnon joins Jordyn Bell (9-22-11), David McKusick (2-11-12), Peyton Watson (3) (9-21-14), Trevor Fogarty (2) (10-20-13), Libby Kain  (2) (4-21-13), Katie Batron (10-5-14), Brayden Miller (2) (6-11-17), Megan Peach (3) (2-27-17), Hannah Dorman (9-3-16), Zachary White (10-15-16), Tyler Beem (11-6-16), Nathan Richards (6-4-17), Hayley Rossman (2) (10-1-17), Matt Richards (9-10-17), Peyton Grant (10)(2-16-21), Jacob Bickford (5-20-18), and Avery Herrick (5) (6-10-21)as student/athletes from Dexter high school that have been named athlete of the week.


Male athlete of the week September 27th-October 2nd

  • Avery Gagnon- Dexter – football- had 158 yards and 4 rushing touchdowns on offense, and on defense had 4 deflections and 4 interceptions in 48-22 win over Orono.

Runner up

  • Caleb Solomon – Houlton- football- rushed for 104 yards on 6 carries with two touchdowns, and added 81 yards on two catches and a touchdown in a 44-20 Houlton win over Stearns.

Other nominations

  • Andrew Poulin- Winslow- soccer. Scored three goals with four assists in a 10-0 win over Lawrence.  Scored  two goals with one assist in 6-0 win over MCI.
  • Hayden Staples- Medomak Valley- football- rushed 20 times for 110 yards and 1 TD in the 18-7 win at Hermon.
  • Levi Ward- Medomak Valley- football- rushed 23 times for 132 yards and two TD in the 18-7 win at Hermon
  • Christian Homchuck- PCHS- soccer- had five goals and two assists in 13-2 win over Deer Isle-Stonington.
  • Austin Seavey- Foxcroft- football- threw for 232 yards and three touchdowns on 10-16 passing jn 48-21 win over Madison.