Gevenia Carter
The Avalon Middle boys and girls basketball teams have been selected to participate in the 2012 NBA All-Star Gatorade Jam Session Invitational Basketball tournament Feb. 23-26. The tourney will bring together Central Florida's premier boys and girls middle school basketball programs.
UCF senior guard A.J. Rompza and junior forward Keith Clanton picked up Conference USA Men’s Basketball Player of the Week awards in January. Rompza snagged the honor Jan. 9 after leading UCF to a pair of league victories. Rompza averaged 13.5 points, 6.5 assists, 5 steals and 4 rebounds in wins over Tulane and East Carolina. Clanton picked up his award Jan. 23 after leading the team to victories over Memphis and UAB – two programs that the Knights had never defeated. Clanton averaged 16.5 points on 59.1 percent shooting in the wins.
Five members of the East River High School Boys wrestling team took home first place titles at the Metro Conference Championship at Cypress Creek High School Jan. 27. Micah Cross, Tanner Meadows, Corey Ray, Felix Rodriguez and Griffin Soderquist all won in their weight class. In addition, East River wrestlers Deshawn Dexter, Alex Perryman and Josh Swestyn won third place titles.
UCF junior guard Gevenia Carter was named the Conference USA Player of the Week and the College Sports Madness C-USA Player of the Week on January 23. Carter picks up the UCF women’s basketball team’s first C-USA weekly award of the season, and the second College Sports Madness honor.