Each week during the high school sports season, Eastern Maine Sports will announce a female and male athlete of the week. You can send your nominations during the week to Marc at easternmainesports@gmail.com. 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 296 past athlete of the week winners.
This week, we had three Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nominations. Cayden Spencer-Thompson broke three state records in winning state titles in the long jump, high jump, and triple jump. Spencer-Thompson joins Chase Vicaire (1-1-12), Trysten Pelkey (2) (10-13-13), Courtney McIntyre (3) (5-23-15 ), Tia Tardy (3-8-14), Garrett Sutherland (11-2-14), Emily Page (5-22-17), Dominic Libbey (10-1-17), and Alex Brown (10-14-18) as student/athletes from Mattanawcook that have earned athlete of the week honors:
Roadrunner Taxi male athlete of the week
- Cayden Spencer-Thompson- Mattanawcook – Track and Field- – Broke three state records in winning state titles in the Long Jump, High Jump, and Triple Jump. In the Long Jump he jumped 23-feet 2.75 inches, in the high jump he jumped 6-feet 11-inches. In the triple jump he jumped 48-03.75.
Runner up
- Cody Hanscom- Mattanawcook- Baseball- pitched a two hitter with 11 strikeouts plus had two hits including a double in 11-1 win over Searsport.
Other nominations
- Matt Burnett- Ellsworth- Baseball– pitched a two hit complete game shutout with 11 strikeouts in 5-0 win over Old Town.
