Olivia Huck, Madison Sherman selected for Laurens Academy Hall of Fame

Laurens – Seniors Olivia Huck and Madison Sherman were inducted into the Laurens Academy Hall of Fame during the school’s annual athletic banquet on May 17.

Huck was inducted for girls basketball while Sherman was inducted for volleyball.

Huck was the SCISA Region 4-Class A Player of the Year for the second straight year. Huck, who scored over 1,700 career points, averaged 18.9 points per game last season to go with 8.3 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.5 steals. She was also named to the Region 4 All-Tournament team. Huck shot 44 percent from the field and 76.5 percent from the free throw line.

Huck was selected as the basketball team’s Player of the Year. The Defensive MVP was Rylee Ballard, Emily Kate Moore won the Joshua 1:9 Award and Madisyn Graham won the TNT Award.

Sherman was also a 2-time Region Player of the Year for volleyball and was an All-State selection both years as the Crusaders won consecutive Class A state championships

           Sherman was the team MVP while her sister, Campbell Sherman, was the Offensive MVP. Olivia Suttles was the Defensive MVP, Emily Suttles won the Coaches Award and Huck won the Faithful Award.

Huck was also the softball MVP and was the Region Player of the Year and a North-South All-Star Game selection. She had a .469 batting average and led the team in hits with 23, home runs with three and runs batted in with 25. In the circle, she had a 10-5 win-loss record and struck out 125 batters to go with a 1.11 earned run average.

Senior catcher Emily Suttles was the Defensive MVP. The All-Region and North-South All-Star selection batted .200 and scored 13 runs with a .950 fielding percentage and 126 putouts.

The Coaches Award went to Catherine Riddle and Lillie Davenport was Most Improved.

           Evan Asalone was Offensive MVP for baseball while Braydon Burke was Defensive MVP. Hack Hardy won the Coaches Award and Elijah Hornberger was Most Improved.

           Boys basketball award winners were Burke for Offensive MVP, Garrison Vaughan for the Coaches Award, Asalone for Most Improved and Garrett Murphy for the Toughness Award. Huck was Senior MVP for sporting clays while Carter Medlin was Most Improved, Wyatt Little was Rookie MVP and Eli Garrett won the Coach’s Award.

           For football, Murphy was the Offensive MVP and Nathan Bell was the Defensive MVP. Vaughan was the Lineman of the Year, Caleb Hardy was the Big Wheel winner and Hack Hardy won the Coach Kirk/Kirton Leadersship Award.

           For cheerleading, Moore was Most Spirited, Davenport and Riddle both won the Captain Award, Stuti Patel was Most Improved and Campbell Sherman won the Coaches Award.

           The Founders Award goes to athletes who played three sports. Receiving the award were Morgan Bolding, Hornberger, Makayla Lindley, Caroline Mullinax, Bell, Braydyn Dorn, Graham, Jay Riddle, Jared Willard, Davenport, Hannah Ervin, Huck, Catherine Riddle, Hector Rubio and Emily Suttles.