Cooper Flagg earns second male athlete of the week

February 4, 2022

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 363 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had six Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations. Cooper Flagg averaged 30 points per game in leading Nokomis to a pair of wins. It is the second athlete of the week honor for Flagg, who was also named AOW on January 11th


Male athlete of the week January 24th- January 29th

  • Cooper Flagg- Nokomis- basketball- scored 35 points in 67-47 win over Gardiner. Had 26 points and 17 rebounds in 78-50 win over Cony.

Runner up

  • Evans Sterling- Mt. Blue- basketball- scored 32 points (27 in second half) in 70-63 loss to Skowhegan.

Other nominations 

  • Simon Allen – Central- basketball- had 32 points and eight rebounds in 76-61 win over Stearns.
  • Bryce Burns – Central- basketball- had 28 points, six rebounds, and shot 14-18 from the foul line (6-6 fourth quarter) in a 76-61 win over Stearns
  • Jason Reynolds- Winslow- basketball -had 32 points in 62-59 loss to Lawrence.
  • Kyle LePage- Skowhegan- basketball- had 27 points in 70-63 win over Mt. Blue.