Overtime: High school athletics in Connecticut

With today’s schedule likely to wiped out by snow, the week should be all over for FCIAC athletes and their body of work complete as the nominating process remains open for the first winner of the BlueStreak-Overtime FCIAC Player of the Week award.

You can nominate an athlete until noon on Tuesday. The first winner will be announced Wednesday.

Here is the procedure: nominations will be accepted from noon on Wednesdays until noon the following Tuesday. The award will be based on an athlete’s performance during the week (not on the season to date), from that Monday-Saturday. Thus, you want to wait to nominate a basketball player until after Friday night if he/she plays two games that week. If a basketball player has just one game on a Tuesday, you can nominate him/her after that game.

For athletes in other sports, please wait until they have finished competing for the week. I suspect most nominations will come in Friday night through Tuesday. You are only allowed to submit one name each week.

To nominate someone, please click on the “Send Your Nominations” link at the top right of the blog between the two BlueStreak ads. Please do not use the comments section of this posting. Give me the athlete’s name, school and the reasons for consideration (please include all pertinent statistics).

It should go something like this: “I would like to nominate Mary Smith of the Darien girls hockey team, who had four goals and two assists as we defeated New Canaan, 2-0, and Ludlowe, 3-1.” It is as simple as that. It would also help to include a contact number so we can get in touch with you if your nominee ends up winning.

After the voting closes, I will pick three finalists. Matt Cole, the president of BlueStreak, will then pick the winner, who will be announced each Wednesday and receive a plaque with his/her name on it as well as a T-shirt.

The hope here is to provide another forum to recognize athletes in all sports from all 19 FCIAC members, so please spread the word and encourage people to come to the blog and nominate someone. Coaches, athletic directors and readers are encouraged to participate in the process.