BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — WKU Hilltopper Basketball freshman guard Taveion Hollingsworth has been named one of 10 finalists for the 2017 Lexington Herald-Leader Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year Award.
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Hollingsworth, a 6-foot-2 native of Lexington, Ky., is the highest active WKU men's basketball figure in the award's voting since coach Ralph Willard in 1993. He's the highest active WKU men's basketball player since Ty Rogers in 2008.
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Hollingsworth finished his prep career at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School as the all-time leading scorer in Lexington boys' basketball history with 2,495 career points. He's the first high school basketball player from Fayette County to ever finish in the top 10 of the award's voting.
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Hollingsworth has also made an immediate impact at WKU, starting all 21 games this season while averaging 12.5 points, drawing the top defensive backcourt assignments and shooting 50 percent from the floor.
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The guard is close to cracking WKU's top-10 lists for minutes played and points scored by a varsity freshman.
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The winner of the Kentucky Sports Figure of the Year Award will be announced Feb. 7.
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