Very good coaching leads the way of selecting the GDW all performance team:

Three schools prosper behind good leadership in 2025/26 local hoops:

GDW All Performance team selections 2025/26:

 Three coaches locally share something well in common with one another in a certain time frame  of 5 years.
  Stu Stuedeman of Cullman is tops in this category for going 131 & 29 since coming here in the fall of 2021. A state title the first year was the icing on the cake for consistency by the leader of the Bearcats.
Mason Voce of West Point stands alone with this feat. Three consecutive years of 20 plus winning seasons at the largest school in the Cullman County system. This compiles to 69 victories with the future very much in the quest of more to come.
Drew Adams is in a different mode. From 2022 to 2025, Adams engineered 84 victories with the Good Hope Raiders.
He went further into the Southwest corner of Cullman County for the last season, taking the reign of the Cold Springs Eagles.
It would be dividends for Adams and the smallest school of the county in one wonderful season.

 Gameday Weekly has decided in selecting Adams the 2025/26 coach of the year for the following was put on display.

 A record setting year of 29 victories out of 34 decisions for Cold Springs. The Eagles would claim 17 consecutive victories, the best of any local group in the recent completed season.

 Going 14 & 0 in their very young facility to make it be known how difficult it is to win at this venue.
A 6 & 2 record against Class 2A opposition and ranked all season long in the state poll, spending a couple of weeks at the top of the heap.

 Stuedeman and Voce are to be honored for what went about with these two in the quest of winning with hard work the common pattern for all three have paid the price and their squads are showing the great example.
Now the GDW All Performance team 2025/26:
First group:
PG: Ayden Black of Cold Springs
SG: Sam Dorough of Cullman

 WG: Jaxson Shelton of West Point
SF: Maddox Chapman of West Point

 C: Brooks Loftin of Cullman
C: Breydon Hallman of Cold Springs

 Second team:
PG: Kade Vincent of West Point

 SG: Gray Hopper of Cullman
SG: Sam Abney of Hanceville

 WG: Cash Dickerson of Cold Springs
SF: Bryson Bush of Vinemont

 C: Cade Allbright of Holly Pond
Third team:

 PG: Gavin Parr of Vinemont
  SG: Zayden Cruce of Fairview

 WG: Nolan Franklin of West Point
SF: Lindan Hill of Cold Springs

 C: Tucker Screws of Good Hope
Honorable mention:

 Cullman: Emory Bonds
  Fairview: Callin Collins

 Good Hope: Kye McSwain
Hanceville: Drake Bentley

 Holly Pond: Asher Thrift, Ty Dunn
Vinemont: Cheston Wilhite, Colton Gillis

Player of the year:
Sam Dorough of Cullman: Dorough earned honors of outstanding performer in the Veterans Day Classic, the Randy Jones Classic, the John Tekulve Classic, the 6A Area 13 MVP and the MVP from the 6A Northwest Regional.
County game of the year:

 Good Hope 64 to 63 over Vinemont in OT January 12. Good Hope shook off a 17 point 2nd deficit in winning on an 18 foot FG by Ayden Young as time expired in the OT. The upset sent Vinemont from the No. 3 seed into the county tournament to No. 6 with Good Hope moving up to the 4 seed.
Non county game of the year:

 Cold Springs 65 to 58 over Decatur Heritage in OT February 17 in the NW Regional semifinal from Wallace State. The Eagles faced a talented group from DHCA and was able to get a single season record 29th victory in the process.
Playoff game of the year:

 Cullman defeats Lee Huntsville 80 to 53 in the AHSAA 6A Northwest Regional championship at Wallace State February 24.

 The Bearcats were in a groove of playing well vs. athletic type teams with the Generals seeing it on a Tuesday afternoon.
Cullman went up 34 to 14 at the half as Lee was stunned by how the Bearcats executed in the first 16:00 of play.

 Chaos would go into a higher level in the final half for Cullman by unloading 46 points on the scoreboard at Tom Drake Coliseum, 28 in the final period of play.

 The 'Cats hit 13 treys out of 27 attempts and turned a potential close encounter in the 6A final into a one sided display of offensive type hoops.
This sent the Bearcats to the Final Four for the first time since they won the crown back in 2022.

 Photo of Cullman SG Sam Dorough in the AHSAA Northwest Regional 6A final vs. Lee Huntsville February 24 at Wallace State. Cullman won 80 to 53 with Dorough selected the regional MVP.

 Photo courtesy of Martha Needham.