(Most Recent Winners Listed First)
March 14, 2011
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 12, 2011
Andrea Hines - Sanford School
Height: 5' 7"
Current Class: Senior
Positions Played: Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Years on Varsity: 3 Team Captain: 1 year
Other Interests: Lacrosse
Biggest Basketball Influence: Her Brother & Dad
College: University of Central Florida
How'd she iPOW? In the State Championship Game, Andrea scored 15 points, made 2 steals, and was the author of 4 assists. More than that, her ball handling skills were remarkable -- especially in the last quarter when the game was being decided. Hines becomes only the second player to have won an iPOW award twice.
March 10, 2011
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 12, 2011
Taylor Harris - Cape Henlopen High School
Height: 5' 11"
Current Class: Senior
Positions Played: Guard / Small Forward
Years on Varsity: 4 Team Captain: 3 years
Other Interests: President AVID 12; President Contemporary Issues Committee; Chairperson DECA; Peer Leader PBS; Community Work
Biggest Basketball Influence: Her Dad
Probable College: Clark Atlanta University
How'd she iPOW? In a truly "team" effort, Taylor brought just that little something extra to the State Tournament Semi-Final win over Ursuline. Seven for nine from the floor -- 19 total points. Seven rebounds. Two blocked shots. Three steals. Played a vigorous defense and a smooth, confident offense. Due in part to her efforts, Cape will make their first appearance in the Title Game since 1973!
February 28, 2011
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 5, 2011
Camille Simendinger - St. Anthony's Varsity, CYM
Height: 5' 6"
Current Class: 8th Grade
Positions Played: Forward
Years on Varsity: 3 (beginning in 6th grade)
Other Interests: Softball & Volleyball
Biggest Basketball Influence: Kayla Miller
Probable High School: Padua Academy
How'd she iPOW? Camille poured in 15 points in the CYM Championship Game to lead the Lady Tigers to the C Division Title. (This is the highest skill level in CYM. St. Anthony's prevailed over St. John the Beloved, 35 - 30. Game played 2/27/11.) She also was blocking shots, rebounding, and breaking up plays on defense. Just a tremendous overall effort. When asked if she had any other non-athletic interests to put on her iPOW profile, she simply said, "Not really. Sports is my life." She may be better known for volleyball, but, on this day at least, she was the most "impactful" player on the basketball court -- and it couldn't have come at a better time.
February 7, 2011
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending February 5, 2011
Olivia Winslow - St. Anthony's JV Team (St. E's League)
Height: 5' 1"
Current Class: 6th Grade
Positions Played: Guard
Other Interests: Gymnastics, Track
Biggest Basketball Influence: Michael Jordan
How'd she iPOW? Olivia scored 20 of her team's 26 points in a semi-final game at the Sherwood Park Shootout tournament on Friday night, February 4, 2011. Although her team lost by a single point and was eliminated, she clearly was not only the "Impact Player" in that game, but for the whole tournament. A 20-point performance in the pros, in college, or in high school is a noteworthy achievement. To do it at the 6th grade level in 3 quarters (each player must sit out a full quarter in that age bracket) is nothing short of astonishing. Our own Tom Dunn, just going on observation, believes that she may have had a triple-double. That is to say, she may have had over 10 rebounds and over 10 steals to go with her 20 points. A year ago, Winslow was playing forward and was a rebounding machine. This season, she has moved to point and added big-time scoring to her repertoire. Consider her overall tournament: Game 1, scored 13 of her team's 15; Game 2, scored 10 of her team's 21; Game 3 (the semi-finals), scored 20 of her team's 26. 14.3 points per game for the tournament.
You can see a quick video of Olivia here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBWWyRDAJt4
And a 3-minute one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDrpnY9l6Sc
January 24, 2011
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending January 22, 2011
Gracie Firestone - Tower Hill
Let the Kids Play, which provides sports equipment to needy youth clubs and schools both home and abroad. This organization has provided equipment to Kenya and South Africa and is currently working on putting something together for a Wilmington inner city school. Gracie has her own website www.graciefirestone.com which further details her dedication to community service, her academic excellence and her multi-sport accomplishments.Height: 5' 11"
Current Class: Senior
Positions Played: 3 & 4, post
Years Varsity: 5
Team Captain: 2 years
Other Interests: Soccer, Community Service, Playing Guitar
Biggest Basketball Influence: Amanda Blackstone
How'd she iPOW? Led all scorers with 20 points in 40 - 30 win over William Penn. Contributed half of the team's points, including a brilliant "touch pass" to the basket for points 19 & 20. Pulled in numerous rebounds and discouraged many Penn shots underneath with her height and long reach.
Gracie is a remarkable young woman. She founded, herself, a non-profit organization called
January 3, 2011
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending January 1, 2011
Lindsay Bollinger - St. Mary Magdalen
Height: 5' 2"
Current Class: 6th grade
Positions Played: Forward
Other Interests: Volleyball, Cooking, Go-Carts
Biggest Basketball Influence: Elena Delle Donne
How'd she iPOW? Lindsay scored 10 of her team’s 19 points to propel St. Mary Magdalen’s 5th/6th grade girls team to the IHM Christmas Basketball Festival Championship over a strong St. John the Beloved squad. (Final score: 19 – 15) While we have no actual count on her rebounds, that was probably around 10 as well, as Lindsay is very strong off the glass. Her team was missing not one, but two front-line players, and their usual head coach! Nevertheless, Lindsay stepped up her game and did what needed to be done. A truly “impactful” performance!
December 22, 2010
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending December 25, 2010
Yasmin Walker - Caravel Academy
Height: 5' 6"
Current Class: Sophomore
Years on Varsity: 2
Positions Played: Point & Shooting Guard
Other Interests: Drawing & Poetry
Biggest Basketball Influence: Renee Montgomery
Probable College: Uncommitted
How'd she iPOW? "Yaz" came up big for the Lady Bucs in their come-from-behind 50 - 42 victory over Archmere. (Game played 12-21-10.) While two teammates also scored in double digits, Yasmin was a one-woman wrecking crew in the 3rd and 4th quarters, scoring all 14 of her points in the second half of the game. Her 8-for-11 performance from the foul line was a key contribution to the win. Just a 10th grader, Walker will be around for the better part of the next three seasons. Most likely, she'll have many more huge games!
July 23, 2010
Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending July 24, 2010
Tori Casper - St. Elizabeth's High School
Height: 5' 4"
Current Class: Rising Senior
Years on Varsity: 3
Positions Played: Point & Shooting Guard
Other Interests: Soccer & Volleyball
Biggest Basketball Influence: Stephen Curry
Probable College: Uncommitted
How'd she iPOW? Tori Casper became our first Insta Signs Plus iPOW winner since the State Tournament in March by throwing down 16 points -- every one of them essential to her team -- as St. Elizabeth upset St. Mark's in overtime to win the Blue Division Championship of the High School Summer League. Tori scored 8 points in each half and that steadiness was crucial in this nice achievement for the Vikings.
March 11, 2010
Co-Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 13, 2010
Naiesha Brown - Sanford
Height: 5' 10"
Current Class: Junior
Years on Varsity: 3
Positions Played: Shooting Guard / Forward
Other Interests: Lacrosse & Volleyball
Biggest Basketball Influence: Lisa Leslie & Kevin Garnett
Probable College: Boston University or University of South Florida
How’d she iPOW? Naiesha was almost a one-woman show in the Semi-Finals. Our game coverage text best explains it: Her 27 points was almost half of the Warriors’ total output. But Brown was doing a lot more than putting the ball in the hoop. She led all players in the game in points (27), field goals made (8), free-throws made (11), steals (3, tied for first with 2 other players), and rebounds (17). As to her work on the boards, no one else in the game was even close to Naiesha. The next best individual rebounding total was just 6!
March 11, 2010
Co-Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 13, 2010
Jackie Jenkins - Smyrna High School
he difference maker was guard Jackie Jenkins. While her physical stature may be diminutive, standing at just 5’ 2”, she played every minute at a fever pitch and showed more tenacity than any other player in the game. And in a game like this, that’s going some! Her four three-pointers tore away at Cape Henlopen’s early game momentum, but it was her heroics from the free-throw line with just 13 seconds left in the game – a 2 for 2 performance – that secured the scoreboard in favor of Smyrna and dashed any hopes that the Cape Cinderella Story would carry over to the Title Game.Height: 5' 2"
Current Class: Junior
Years on Varsity: 3
Team Captain: 2 years
Positions Played: Shooting Guard
Other Interests: Softball & Cross Country
Biggest Basketball Influence: Teammate, Betnijah Laney
Probable College: Delaware State
How’d she iPOW? Was the key contributor to Smyrna's Semi-Final win (59 - 55) over Cape Henlopen. From DGB.com game coverage text: T
March 7, 2010
Co-Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 6, 2010
Gabrielle Julian - St. John the Beloved
Gabby led all scorers in the Title Game of the St. E’s League with 12 points, the only player on either side with 10 or more. From the story text on the game: “Coming up huge on the day was Gab Julian, who scored all 12 of her points in the second half, including nailing a pair of technical foul free-throws. But, the game was no walk in the park for Julian, who started off the game cold. Anyone could see she was not happy with her own performance in the first half. Still, to her credit, she let the game come to her. A decision was made to switch Gab to point guard, and almost from that moment on, the Eagles’ fortunes took a better turn. Her shots started falling, and by the end of the game, the cold start was a distant memory.” Gab Julian is the only iPOW winner this winter season below 7th grade, and only the second-ever sub-7th grader to get an iPOW during a winter season – the other being then 6th grader, Caroline Davis, a year ago.Height: 5' 2 1/2"
Current Class: 6th grade
Positions Played: Point & Shooting Guard
Other Interests: Softball & Soccer
Biggest Basketball Influence: Her mom
Probable High School: Padua Academy
How’d she iPOW?
March 1, 2010
Co-Impact Player of the Week - Week Ending March 6, 2010
Sabrina Hackendorn - Holy Angels CYM Varsity
Sabrina Hackendorn makes history as our first-ever two-time iPOW winner!
Height: 5' 8"
Current Class: 8th grade
Years Varsity: 2
Positions Played: Forward / Center
Other Interests: Volleyball, Track, Girl Scouts, Church Choir
Biggest Basketball Influence: Her dad and everyone that she watches in college games - especially the post players.
Probable High School: St. Elizabeth
How’d she iPOW? "There were a lot of deserving girls." Well, that's what Sabrina Hackendorn said as she made iPOW history by being the first player to be awarded a second t-shirt. And while her feelings on the subject have a lot of supporting evidence behind them, the truth is -- whether Sabrina likes it or not -- Holy Angels would probably have had a much tougher time winning the CYM title two years running without her in the lineup. There are more phenomenally good players on this team than you can shake a trophy at, but Sabrina is the straw that stirs the drink. Fifteen points, to lead all scorers in the C Division Title Game (game played 2-28-10); numerous rebounds; lots of instances where she broke up St. Mary's plays; great defense to the hoop (she played bottom middle in the 2-3 zone defense). DGB.com really had no option -- at least, not one that would've made any sense -- but to bestow Sabrina with this recognition.
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Winning Criteria
1. Only players that appear in games covered by DelawareGirlsBasketball.com are eligible. This will average about one game per week (in-season), though some weeks will feature 2 (or more) and other weeks none. DGB.com will make every effort to cover a variety of schools and conferences so that iPOW winners will come from all over. DGB.com is not associated with any particular school or group of schools. DGB.com is not a recruiting service, nor does it engage in recruiting activity.
2. While primarily a high school award, if DGB.com is covering a non-high school girls game (such as CYM, public junior high, AAU, etc.), those players are all eligible for the award.
3. DGB.com reserves the right to withhold an iPOW Award after games where it is determined that no one earned it.
4. DGB.com reserves the right to award multiple iPOW awards for a single game. (...Meaning 2 or more girls can win from one game, although this would be very rare.)
5. iPOW winners do not necessarily have to be on the winning team.
6. iPOW winners are not asked to or required to do any service for DGB.com in return.
7. No other "prize", material or monetary gain is extended from DGB.com to the iPOW winners.
8. Any player offered the award who requests not to be mentioned on the DGB.com website will have the award revoked. (In other words, if you don't want your name associated with the award, then you don't want the award very much.)
9. DGB.com reserves any and all other rights not specifically detailed on this page in connection with this award.
NB: On May 7, 2008, in phone conversation with Marie Dillon at NCAA Headquarters, it was verbally agreed that the iPOW award is "NCAA-legal" (my quotes, not hers). The gist of the NCAA's concerns being that the award does not consist of any money changing hands and that the website has no ties to any particular school's booster club or athletic department. The NCAA also requires that DGB.com not be a recruiting service. (We are not a recruiting service.)
Other than those ground rules, which DGB.com has been in FULL COMPLIANCE WITH, our iPOW Award is acceptable to the NCAA, according to Ms. Dillon, and will not jeopardize any recipient with possible/potential NCAA sanctions.
The following is taken verbatim from an email dated May 14, 2008 from Marie Dillon of the NCAA:
From: Dillon, Marie [mailto:mdillon@ncaa.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:10 PM
To: Jim Charles
Subject:Dear Mr. Charles,
This email is to follow-up from the conversation we had last week regarding your website. Per our conversation, your questions were regarding providing prospective student athletes (PSA) with a t-shirt and picture on a website with the PSA’s qualifications and achievements. Per our legislation, providing the PSA’s with a t-shirt, a picture and information on your website would be permitted provided several criteria is met. The award would need to be uniform for all athletes, the criteria for winning the award would need to be the same for all athletes, the award does not include cash, it is not being provided by a booster of an institution, and no recruiting is involved.
Sincerely,
Marie Dillon
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