Terrian, Allen receive top Kingsford athletic honors
KINGSFORD — Three-sport standouts Olivia Allen and Luke Terrian earned Kingsford High School Senior Athlete of the Year awards at the Kingsford Flivvers Athletic Booster Club Senior Sports Awards program Tuesday.
Allen, who holds five school track and field records, also played basketball and volleyball.
Terrian, one of only three players in the 95-year history of Flivver basketball with over 1,000 career points, also gained football and baseball recognition.
In MVP selections, Allen was the girls track winner for a third time while Terrian took home the football award.
Kingsford High School Athletic Director Al Unger saluted six seniors who played three sports in 2018-19 — Allen, Terrian, Tori Kowalkowski, Jessi Yu, Tyler Beauchamp and Trevor Povolo.
Angela Gayan was recognized as the Flivver Booster of the Year.
Retiring Flivver football coach Chris Hofer said the 2018 campaign “wasn’t one of the best ones (with a 4-5 record) but we had a real nice football team. The highlight was how we stayed the course and didn’t point fingers, and that was an accomplishment in itself.”
Unger said Hofer displayed “unmatched commitment” in his 32 years as head coach.
The Flivvers have 20 varsity sports.
Kingsford boys basketball averaged more than 65 points a game, a record for a Dan Olkkonen-coached team. That number was helped with Beauchamp and Terrian each topping 1,000 career points in 2018-19.
From first-year cheer coach Heather Moore: “I was hired on a Monday and the first practice was Thursday. I was terrified. I didn’t know the words to the fight song.”
Booster club leader Dennis DalSanto said he’d appreciate volunteers to work the concession stand during the UP Track and Field Finals on June 1.
Swim coach Jim Lindstrom said Peyton Johnson holds nine Flivver and UP records.
Bowling coach Cathy Tomassoni presented cerebral Madelyn Doucette with a plaque that read, “Don’t think, just bowl.”
Haley Gabriel is the first four-year golfer for coach Jean Constantini.
Dr. Steve Terrian helps out the softball team. “With 24 girls swinging bats and throwing softballs, it’s good to have a doctor,” head coach Kevin Murdock said.
Here are the awards:
Football — Luke Terrian, MVP; Andrew Mann, lineman; Trevor Povolo, back
Girls Basketball — Brooke Kriegl, MVP
Girls Tennis — Annie McCole, MVP
Girls Cross Country — Lily Menghini, MVP
Cheerleading — Jessie Yu, MVP
Boys Track — Michael Creighton, MVP
Girls Track — Olivia Allen, MVP
Boys Tennis — Brett Hicks, MVP
Boys Golf — Matthew Solda, MVP
Girls Golf — Haley Gabriel, MVP
Girls Swimming — Peyton Johnson, MVP
Baseball — Hunter Lindeman, MVP
Wrestling — Trevor Povolo and August Early, co-MVP
Boys Basketball — Tyler Beauchamp, MVP
Volleyball — Abygail Pickett, MVP
Boys Bowling — Noah Jacko, MVP
Girls Bowling — Madelyn Doucette, MVP
Softball — Tori Kowalkowski, MVP
Boys Soccer — Kobe Gordon, MVP
Girls Soccer — Erica Whittkopf, MVP