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Vote: Who was the 2024 Idaho Football Player of the Year?
The high school football season is beginning to wrap up across the country and we start to take a closer look at player of the year awards.
But first, we want to let the fans decide on who they believe are the players most deserving before we here at High School On SI start naming the top performers of the 2024 season.
We continue to the West region and to the great state of Idaho and we ask the question: Who was the 2024 Idaho Football Player of the Year?
This list consists of five worthy candidates and we’re asking for your help as the fan to vote on who you believe had the best season this fall.
Voting will end on December 31st, 2024.
SBLive voting polls are intended to be a fun way to create fan engagement and express support for your favorite high school athletes and teams. Unless expressly noted, there are no awards for winning the voting. Our primary focus is to highlight the abilities and accomplishments of all the athletes and teams included in our poll. You can vote as often as you wish and are encouraged to share our polls with others. – SBLive Sports
Here are the nominations:
Chosen as the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year, there’s a lot to like about the 6-foot-4, 275-pound lineman from Rocky Mountain. In his junior season, the bulldozer of a lineman paved the way for Rocky Mountain’s offense in a major way, compiling an astounding 115 pancake blocks. Don’t think because he plays in Idaho that he’s not getting any national attention, as Tanner already has offers from Boise State, Boston College, BYU and Michigan among them.
Named the 6A Offensive Player of the Year, Symons put up some terrific numbers for the Vikings this past 2024 campaign. The junior 6-foot-4, 190-pound signal caller completed 194-of-294 passes for 2,869 yards and 25 touchdowns. When it came to passers, no one threw for more yards than Symon this past fall.
Another signal caller that put up some terrific numbers during the 2024 campaign was Garcia from Skyline. In helping lead the team to a successful 10-3 campaign, Garcia led the way on offense by completing 140-of-226 (61 percent) for 2,301 yards, 27 touchdowns through the air. On the ground, Garcia rushed for 448 yards and four scores.
No running back put up the kind of numbers Weil racked up throughout the 2024 season for Lakeland. The workhorse running back carried the rock 269 times for 1,945 yards and found pay dirt 30 times. Averaged an impressive 7.2 yards per carry, nearly setting up 2nd and short situations aplenty for the Lakeland offense.
Just a sophomore this past season, Vidlak made an impression on the Idaho high school football scene and recently received an offer from Stephen F. Austin. Vidlak was named conference player of the year after leading Fruitland to a quarterfinal playoff game and throwing for 2,649 yards and accounting for 33 total touchdowns.
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BLACKFOOT — A large contingent of Blackfoot Police officers has cordoned off an area near the Taco Bell on Parkway Drive in Blackfoot.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — An Idaho Falls angler is back in the Idaho record books after landing a record-setting lake trout at Payette Lake.
Idaho Fish and Game said Dylan Smith caught and released a 43.25-inch lake trout on May 2, setting a new state catch-and-release record for the species. The fish surpassed the previous record of 42 inches.
The catch marks Smith’s second appearance in Idaho’s record books. He previously held the state catch-and-release lake trout record after landing a trophy fish in 2018 before that mark was later broken.
According to Fish and Game, Payette Lake has become one of Idaho’s premier lake trout fisheries thanks to years of management efforts aimed at improving both lake trout and kokanee populations.
Pride Month looks different this June along Boise’s Harrison Boulevard, where a long-standing tradition of hanging Pride flags on lamp posts has been put on hold after a new state law restricted which flags can be flown on government property.
For several years, Pride flags lined lamp posts along Harrison Boulevard in Boise’s North End neighborhood. But Idaho House Bill 561, signed by Gov. Brad Little in March, restricts which flags can be flown on government property, including the City of Boise’s Harrison lamp posts.
In response, a group of neighbors formed Pride North End and launched a distribution effort to help residents show support from their own front yards. The group has been making Pride flags and yard signs available to people who want to display them at home.
“I thought that I would…be a personal example of ‘yes, this is what I do.’ This is what I believe in,” said Edna Schochat, a North End resident.
Pride North End has already distributed more than 900-yard signs and 250 flags. The group’s original donation goal was around $2,000 to order 100 flags and 200 yard signs, but it has exceeded that GoFundMe goal, reaching $10,000 worth of donations.
The group plans to continue holding public flag and sign distributions through the end of the month.
“We cannot just say something without doing something that proves that we mean what we say,” Schochat said.
Pride North End said any leftover funds after materials are distributed will go to local LGBTQ+ nonprofits. A link to the group’s GoFundMe can be found here.
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