Congrats to UChoose Student-Athlete of the Week
Kayla Croswell, Notre Dame-Fairfield girls basketball

Kayla Croswell, a senior point guard on Notre Dame-Fairfield’s girls basketball team, has been voted our newest UChoose Student-Athlete of the Week!

Kayla scored 24 points — 12 in the second overtime — as ND-Fairfield defeated Newtown 80-74 in the South-West Conference tournament semifinals Feb. 24. ND-Fairfield lost to New Fairfield 58-50 Feb. 26 in the SWC title game in a game streamed live at CPTVSports.org. ND-Fairfield (18-5) is the fifth seed in the CIAC Class S tournament (CPTV Sports will carry the finals LIVE from Mohegan Sun Arena March 21-22).

Congrats to Kayla, who joins Greenwich boys basketball player Conor Harkins, Holy Cross-Waterbury girls basketball player RaShana Siders, Fairfield co-op boys hockey player Jake Fuss, Northwest Catholic boys hockey player Anthony Ceolin, Northwest boys basketball player Christian Thomas, Masuk-Monroe boys basketball player Bryan Acevedo, New Fairfield/Immaculate hockey player Peter Masi, Simsbury boys basketball player Rayon Christie, Greenwich boys hockey Matt Lodato and Wilbur Cross runner Danae Rivers as our winter Student-Athletes of the week.

Our fall winners:

Fairfield Warde girls soccer player Taylor Gabrenas, Cheshire girls volleyball player Jillian Haberli, Torrington boys soccer player Kevin Vaca, Cheney Tech-Manchester quarterback Rafael Lebron, Maloney-Meriden soccer player Ricardo Lopez, Danbury boys soccer goalie Ian Shannon, Northwest Catholic-West Hartford running back Delano Robinson, Derby’s Ben Slowik, Norwich Free Academy’s Jawaun Johnson, Valley Regional’s Andrew Tuscano, Windsor’s John Nolan.

Click here on our guidelines for the award, which is determined in an online vote starting Sunday and ending Monday at noon. Be on the lookout for our next nominees of the 2014-15 winter sports season Saturday March 7!

Photo courtesy Notre Dame High