The first combined Winter Sports Banquet in a number of years was held Tuesday at the high school cafeteria and honored the participants in wrestling, swimming, basketball and cheerleading.

Competition cheerleading coach Carrie Parker also announced at the banquet that seniors Lori Sherling and Ashley Mead have been selected as the winners of the Vince Dooley Award for the school’s top athletes.

Sherling is a cheerleader and also plays on the varsity basketball and soccer teams, despite having had surgery on both knees.

Mead is the snapper on the Colquitt County football team and has received a scholarship to continue to play at Valdosta State. He also is a member of the soccer and swimming teams.

Colquitt County wrestling coach Travis Torbert introduced the 17 Packers who finished the season, including seniors Marquavious Clark, Chris Johnson, Antonio Slaughter, Arin Thompson, Dillon Underwood and Beau Weathers.

Clark was honored as the Region 1-AAAAA champion at 145 and also received the Upper Weight Most Valuable Wrestler Award and the Takedown King Award.

Clark went 42-10 this season, setting the school record for victories in a season, and had 27 pins.

Jose Zunun earned the Lower Weight Most Valuable Wrestler Award after going 32-15 with 11 pins. A junior and a three-year member of the wrestling team, Zunun is Colquitt County’s all-time winningest wrestler with 90 victories.

Also honored were Region 1-AAAAA runner-up Travis Register and scholar-athletes Weathers, Clark, Zunun, Bryce Giddens, Thomas Marshall and Will Burt.

First-year swimming coach Amanda Grage presented the Most Improved Awards to Cole Wilkes and Ashleigh Childs; the High Point Awards to Ethan Sobalvarro and Samantha Price; the Most Valuable Swimmer Awards to team captain Connor Walsh and Kara Dobbs; and the Packer Award to Ashley Mead.

Dobbs, Mead, Henry Norman and Amber Phillips received senior awards.

The scholar-athletes were Dobbs, Mead, Price, Walsh, Wilkes, Sobalvarro, Landon Bass, Andrew Carlton, Weston Cox, Mitchell Hawes, Jessica Price and Jody Morris.

“They’re like one big family,” Grage said. “They know when to work and they know when to play.”

The long-successful Colquitt County diving team had just five members, but three took the top three spots at the state Class AAAAA championships last month.

Kelsey Goodman won her third state championship, Ann Perry Blank was second and freshman Elizabeth Ann Kirkland was third.

Goodman, who will dive at Florida State, and Blank, who is heading to Georgia, are the team’s two seniors and Goodman leaves Colquitt County holding the state championship scoring record.

“They represented this school very well,” Coach Ed Goodman said of his two seniors.

Kelsey Goodman, Haley Goodman and Ana Jimenez received scholar-athlete awards.

Nate Hill took home the top awards for the boys basketball team.

Hill, a senior who leaves as Colquitt County’s all-time leading scorer with 1,459 points and finished with more than 900 rebounds, received the Best Offensive Player Award and a plaque for being named to the All-Region 1-AAAAA first team.

Junior Quan Daniels won the Best Defensive Player Award; Ty Smith and Trey White won the Most Improved Awards; and Luis Ballenilla and Amel Magwood earned the Coaches Awards.

The Junior Varsity Coaches Awards went to Dillon Presley and Tre Scott.

The eight Packers seniors were Hill, Ballenilla, Magwood, Andre Lowery, Tyrell Wright, Derrell Ward, Lawhe Wingfield and Travis Harris.

The scholar-athletes were Presley, Kyle Tolbert, D’Amonte Ridley and Tommy Hudson.

“A lot of times we fell short in games,” Coach Kirven Davis said. “But we’re developing young men.”

Senior Umeika Henry swept the top two girls basketball team’s award, being named the Lady Packers top offensive and defensive player. She also was named to the Region 1-AAAAA All-Region team.

Persephone Taylor was honored for being named to the All-Region second team and received one of the team’s Most Improved awards. Bria Wallace also was named Most Improved.

Seniors Shay Lovett and Lori Sherling received the Coaches Awards.

The Junior Varsity Coaches Awards went to Natalie Griffin and Breanne Jordan.

The team’s seniors were Henry, Lovett, Sherling and Taylor.

Receiving scholar-athlete awards were Sherling, Jordan Boyd, Kwantesha Love and Avery Castellow.

The basketball cheerleading team’s Tora Jenkins Award was presented to Alex Norris and its Packer Pride Award went to Najla Almond.

Receiving the Captains Awards were Norris, Jalissa Black, Jillian Carr, Synithia McGowen and Courtney Foy.

Black, Carr and McGowen received the Senior Awards.

The basketball cheerleading squad included 11 scholar-athletes: Almond, Foy, Norris, Savannah Belcher, Brooke Harrison, Jordan Hoes, Lauren Kelshaw, Taylor Morrell, Everley Perryman, Rhonda Robinson and Lyndsay Whitley.

Coach Carrie Parker said the competition cheerleading squad had one of the most successful seasons in school history.

The Lady Packers won one competition, finished second in two others and were the region runners-up, qualifying for state.

Parker presented the Captains Awards to Lori Sherling, Ashton Eunice and Kaylee Hamilton.

Sherling and Shay Herbert took home the Tora Jenkins Awards.

The Packer Pride Award, voted on by team members, went to Hamilton.

The Senior Awards went to Eunice, Hamilton, Herbert, Sherling, Megan Cook, Amber Ellis, Ivy Jarvis, Anna Stripling and Tayler Yost.

The 18 scholar-athlete awards went to Cook, Ellis, Eunice, Hamilton, Jarvis, Sherling, Yost, Robin Byington, McKenna Fletcher, Saige Frazier, Kaydee Phillips, Ivey Reeves, Savannah Richardson, Kari Saunders, Heather Stinson, Lindsey Wells, Amber Westley and Elyssa Whidby.

The Top Scholar Award was presented to Wells, who has the highest grade point average in the cheerleading program, which includes 51 girls. Her average is 102.5.