King's Annual Basketball Awards 2023
On Monday, 30 October, our College celebrated the second annual Basketball Awards Night. This year has been exceptionally strong for King's Basketball and finished on a high note at the annual Champion Basketball School of Queensland (CBSQ) tournament which involved over 500 teams. King's CBSQ Sophomore Girls finished 2nd and Sophomore Boys 4th, while the Junior boys finished 4th and the girls finished 6th. Our Opens teams also had a great tournament, finishing in the top 8 overall. This year also saw 15 players selected for the district Hinterland team, nine continued to represent the South Cost Region, while Lailani Brown was successfully selected for the State team.
Congratulations to our 2023 Basketball Awardees:
- Rising Star - Female: Layla Rotunno
- Rising Star - Male: Jordan Kaesler
- Female Player of the Year: Rica Chanel Enriquez-Paea
- Male Player of the Year: Ayden Merrylees
- We Are King's Award: Dylan Achim
- CBSQ Open Boys MVP: Quin Baumann
- CBSQ Open Boys Coaches Award: Hudson Ross
- CBSQ Open Girls MVP: Rica Chanel Enriquez-Paea
- CBSQ Open Girls Coaches Award: Layla Rotunno
- CBSQ Junior Boys MVP: Ayden Merrylees
- CBSQ Junior Boys Coaches Award: Qyton Tuimaseve-Efaraimo
- CBSQ Junior Girls MVP: Mariah Al-Nabhan Suarez
- CBSQ Junior Girls Coaches Award: Sienna Brown
- CBSQ Sophomore Boys MVP: Jordan Kaesler
- CBSQ Sophomore Boys Coaches Award: Rocky Zhu
- CBSQ Sophomore Girls MVP: Charlize Brown
- CBSQ Sophomore Coaches Award: Karma Dantzler