Cooper Flagg earns male athlete of the week

January 11, 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 361 past athlete of the week winners.

This week, we had four Rowell’s Garage male athlete of the week nomination. Cooper Flagg exploded for 20 points in the third quarter in a come from behind Nokomis win over Cony. Flagg joins Leah Edmondson (10-6-11), Noah Kershner (10-11-14), Chelsea Crockett (12-17-16), Alexys Dow (9-1-18), and Donovan Kurt (10-25-2020)as student/athletes from Nokomis high school to earn athlete of the week honors.


Male athlete of the week January 2nd- January 8th

  • Cooper Flagg- Nokomis- basketball- had 32 points (20 in 3rd quarter) and 13 rebounds in 80-53 come from behind win over Cony.

Runner up

  • Luke Briggs- Cony-  basketball- had 31 points (4 three pointers) in 77-62 win over Camden Hills. Had 19 points in 66-63 win over Maranacook. Had 11 points in 80-53 loss to Nokomis.

Other nominations

  • Bryce Burns- Central- basketball- record a triple double –  22 points,  11 rebounds, and 11 assists in 83-46 win over Searsport.
  • Simon Allen- Central- basketball- had 23 points in 83-46 win over Searsport.