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By Ray Hamill — The accolades continue for two-time Big 5 MVP Luke Moxon.

Just a few weeks after being named conference MVP for the second time in three years, Moxon is now also the 2024/25 Humboldt Sports Boys Basketball Player of the Year.

The Arcata senior closed out his high school career with another big season on the court, leading the Tigers to an undefeated run through conference play.

And that’s not all for the standout, who was the most dangerous player in the H-DNL this past winter after battling back from an injury that sidelined him for most of his junior campaign.

This week, Moxon announced that he will be taking his talents to the Division-I college courts after committing to play for the Montana Grizzlies.

But none of that surprises his high school head coach Kellen Maynard, and Moxon’s hunger for the game is one of the things that separated him from his peers over the past few seasons.

“He’s the ultimate competitor,”  Maynard said when Moxon was named MVP of the Big 5 last month. “In practice and in games he never quit, he never let up, he always gives 110 percent no matter what.”

Moxon beat out a talented list of finalists for the Humboldt Sports player of the year award, a group that included his junior teammate Luke Lemke, who was last season’s Big 5 MVP, as well as McKinleyvile’s Cole Armstrong and Bode Douglass, Eureka’s Will Mooney, St. Bernard’s Liam Dyer and Hoopa’s Brandon Romero.

According to Maynard, the senior standout set the tone for his teammates the entire season and that attitude and approach to the game should serve him well at the next level.

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“I think it’s all the intangibles with Luke,” Maynard said. “Not only is he a great scorer and a great defender, but he’s a great leader.

“He was always first in line for drills, always first in line to volunteer for something, always first in line to get after me or get after guys for something. He really held people accountable.”

The high school senior certainly left his mark on the Arcata High program.

In his four years with the varsity team, Moxon was a part of four straight league championships and two Dick Niclai tournament titles.

Moxon is joining a Montana team that is on the rise.

The Grizzlies qualified for the NCAA tournament this season for the first time in six years, falling to Wisconsin at the first hurdle by a score of 86-66.

The season was a successful one for the Montana men, who finished 25-10 and won the Big Sky Tournament title for the first time since 2019.