Nevaeh Farmer🏀⛹🏽‍♀️

Thank you Coach Haskins, Coach Donald and the women of UNCP’s basketball team . After an amazing visit I’m thankful and blessed to receive an offer!!! @donaldbohannon

Here are the nominees for Reader's Choice @theobserver girls HS Mecklenburg County scholar-athlete of the year. Meet them and vote for your favorite here: shorturl.at/jkwUW ANNA HINDE, CHARLOTTE CHRISTIAN: Softball star has led her team to the state finals and carries a weighted GPA of 4.294 (4.0 unweighted). Season stats: .550 batting average, .627 on base %, 1.060 slugging %, 10 doubles, 24 RBI, 32 runs, 17 walks, 6 home runs, starting shortstop with a .983 fielding %. First team all-conference and CISAA Player of the Year and all-state as a freshman in 2022 (2023 results not out yet). PSAT 1220, 2022 Charlotte Christian Timothy Award (“Service Above Self”), member of the National Junior Honor Society JADEN REDFERN, NORTH MECKLENBURG: senior volleyball, basketball and softball player carries more than a 4.6 GPA. She’s ranked No. 3 in her class and will attend Duke this fall. KELSEY SCIACCA, CHARLOTTE LATIN: freshman golfer won the CISAA Conference Championship and was the only Hawk to compete at the NCISAA State Championship, where she finished tied for 10th. She shot 78 at both championships, while maintaining a 4.0 GPA CLAIRE SMITH, ARDREY KELL: a four-year starter on the soccer team, Smith has played in the ECNL regional league (one of the top in travel soccer) for Charlotte Soccer Academy since 2012. She’s ranked No. 6 of 856 students in Ardrey Kell’s senior class and has a GPA of 4.67, while taking 13 AP courses and four dual enrollment college courses. She’s a Jefferson Scholarship semifinalist, a National Merit Scholarship semifinal, a two-time DECA champ and she spent the summer before her senior year with the NCSSM Summer Math and Science program, founding the Girls Who Code STEM club at Ardrey Kell. She is also a classical pianist who has complete 12 levels of increased difficulty. She’s won Charlotte Music Festival awards and volunteers at local retirement communities. She’ll attend Virginia in the fall. CHARLOTTE STAVIS, MALLARD CREEK: kicker for Football team also runs cross country and plays on the girls socer team. She broke the single-season school record for goals this season. Has better than a 4.0 GPA. LILY TODD, INDEPENDENCE: four-year varsity volleyball and basketball player carries a 4.54 GPA and is ranked fifth in her 2023 class. She’ll attend Duke this fall and plans to major in Mechanical Engineering. Todd has maintained a job at Publix and enjoys weightlifting. She’s involved in many clubs at school and is one of 10 Patriots on the DREAM team (committed to be drug and alcohol free). She’s a Deputy Group Commander in ROTC, a member of the Orienteering team, Drill Team and Saber team. She’s also in the National Honor Society. She’s one of few students in the nation to earn two AFJROTC scholarships and was awarded the J-100 AFJROTC Character-In-Leadership Scholarship, which includes full tuition and costs to any four-year university with an Air-Force ROTC program. She also earned the AFJROTC Flight Academy Scholarship; this covers the full cost of the AFJROTC Flight Academy, which results in a private pilots’ certification. AVA WILIAMS, BUTLER: junior has maintained an unweighted 4.0 for the current school year (and all three years at Butler) while taking AP, Honors and Dual Enrollment courses. Williams is a three-sport varsity athlete (tennis, basketball and softball). She plays a competitive regional travel softball schedule for the Bandits Elite Premier, and works a part time job at MARA. Her class rank qualified her to be selected as a Junior Marshall and inducted into National Honor Society. Ava was recently selected as a 23-24 Butler Dream Team member. Her current overall GPA is 4.313 (which does not yet include her current dual enrollment and AP course) and she recently committed to play softball at Roanoke College after high school. Ava finished the 2023 softball season with a .443 batting average and led the team with 17 stolen bases and a perfect fielding percentage of 1.000 and 93 putouts.

North Mecklenburg's Kairah Dixon-Booker is the All-@theobserver 2022-23 girls basketball team's most improved player Meet the entire team: bit.ly/3lzE3eZ