Mackenzie Coiley wins female athlete of the week

Each week during the high school sports season the Eastern Maine High School Sports Examiner and the Eastern Maine Sports Blog will announce a female and male athlete of the week. You can send your nominations to Marc @ easternmainesportsblog@yahoo.com. When you send your nominations include the athlete, name of the school, stats for the week of the nomination.

Past winners

2012/2013 Winter season- Week 9- January 28th-February 2nd

Female

Mackenzie Coiley- Foxcroft- Basketball- Scored 34 points and had 16 rebounds in 54-49 overtime victory over Washington Academy. Scored 22 points in 55-40 loss to Ellsworth. Coiley is the first female student/athlete from Foxcroft Academy to earn athlete of the week. She joins Donnie Boyer and Ryan Rebar as athlete of the week winners from Foxcroft.

Runner up

Morgan Merchant- Jonesport-Beals- Basketball- Scored 22 points including her 1000 career point and pulled down 16 rebounds in 63-44 victory over Sumner. Recorded a triple double (14 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists) in 67-27 victory over Vinalhaven. Scored 24 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in 67-37 victory over Vinalhaven.

Other nominations

Jillian Woodward- Orono- Basketball- Recorded 20 points, six rebounds, one block and hit game winning shot with seven seconds left in 38-37 victory over Mattanawcook. Scored 14 points including hitting the game winning shot with four seconds remaining in overtime in 44-42 victory over John Bapst.

Jessica Preble- Penquis- Basketball- Scored 22 points in 59-35 victory over Stearns. Scored 15 points in 47-35 victory over Central.

Sydney Churchill- Fort Fairfield- Basketball- Recorded 30 points, six rebounds, four steals and three assists in 67-36 victory over Madawaska. She hit 8 three pointers which broke her own school record of 7.

Melinda Ogden- Searsport- Basketball- Scored 22 points in 58-40 victory over Bangor Christian.

Taylor Pelkey- Stearns- Basketball- Recorded 24 points, 11 rebounds and two steals in 66-54 loss to Dexter.

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