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Nichols grabs last win at Delta with historic victory at 2024 Semoball Awards
Part of a generational class that helped transcend the Ladycats into a Class 1 powerhouse, Addison Nichols of Delta got top honors at the 2024 Semoball Awards as this year’s My Daddy’s Cheesecake Girls Basketball Athlete of the Year.
One of Southeast Missouri’s leading scorers, Nichols got a reputation around the boot for being ice cold from distance, and it showed with her clutch performance up and down the area.
Winning the 2023 FSCB Holiday Classic, grabbing the Scott-Mississippi Conference Player of the Year award and finishing the regular season undefeated in state borders, Nichols racked in accolades all year long.
With Delta’s win in the third-place game at the MSHSAA Show-Me Showdown in early March, it put a cap on a historic senior year for the senior as she ended a magnificent Ladycat career.
The stats add up, too. Nichols’ astounding senior year saw her become one of the hottest shooters in all of Missouri, and she finished her senior year shooting 40 percent from 3-point land.
Her scoring average climbed into the low 20s toward the end of the year, helping her to become one of the top scorers in all of Missouri, including her finish as the leading scorer at Class 1’s final four.
Nichols joins rarified air for the Ladycats, who’ve had just one athlete in school history win a Semoball Award prior to their newly minted girls basketball standout.
Joining the decorated Kendall Holweg, who won two track awards and two female athlete awards for four total trophies, it’s quite the club that Nichols enters.
The Oran, Missouri, native had a rather prosperous Delta career herself, finishing as one of the very few athletes in program history with two state final-four finishes.
Both years, the Ladycats finished third as the 2022 and 2024 squads mustered up deep runs in the Class 1 ranks before falling short in the semifinals, restoring Delta back to its former glory.
Part of one of the greatest small-school girls basketball programs in this part of the state, Nichols joined forces with the heralded David Heeb at the beginning of her high school career, and it paid off.
Transferring in from rival Oran High School, Nichols’ final few years of her prep career saw her go from a bits-and-pieces contributor to one of the most dangerous multi-level scorers in the bootheel.
Her 51 percent average from the field, dicing up defenses from the arc and down into the paint ushered her way to an easy first-place finish at the 2024 Semoball Awards.
The perfect pairing of individual talent and team success, Nichols was the embodiment of the new-age Delta Bobcats: Gritty, resilient and unrelenting in the pursuit of greatness.
Part of what makes Delta so special, the ‘Cats say farewell to one of the most influential athletes in school history who helped redefine one of the most historic programs around.