Liam Von Oesen earns male athlete of the week

November 4, 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 351 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had five Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations. Liam Von Oesen accounted for six touchdowns leading Waterville to a win in a semifinal game. Von Oesen joins Pilar Elias (10-20-13), Dan Pooler (11-10-13), and Maddy Martin (12-9-19) as student/athletes from Waterville high school that have earned athlete of the week.


Male athlete of the week October 25th-October 30th

  • Liam Von Oesen- Waterville- football- rushed for 288 yards and five touchdowns plus threw for one touchdown in 50-40 win over MDI in 8 man large conference semifinal game.

Runner up

  • Andrew Poulin- Winslow- soccer. Scored four goals in a 9-0 win over Belfast and two goals over Ellsworth in a 3-0 win. Giving him 6 hat tricks on the season and 33 goals on the season breaking the schools single season record.

Other nominations

  • Austin Seavey- Foxcroft- football- threw for 226 yards and four touchdowns on 13-19 passing in 55-15 win over Bucksport.
  • Parker Higgins- Lawrence – football- rushed for 225 yards and four touchdowns in 42-7 class B quarterfinal game.
  • Evan Bourget – Winslow- football- rushed for 219 yards and four touchdowns in 30-6 class C quarterfinal win over Old Town.