By Justin A. Rice, Globe Correspondent

High school principals and athletic directors have until next Wednesday to nominate student athletes for the 16th annual Massachusetts Student-Athlete Citizenship Awards Ceremony on April 24 at Northeastern University.

This awards ceremony and program are designed to recognize Massachusetts high school student-athletes who have demonstrated excellence in three disciplines: academics, athletics and citizenship. The ceremony will be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Curry Student Center Ballroom at Northeastern University.

The theme of this year’s event is “How Can Student-Athletes Make a Difference in the Community?”

The event, which is being sponsored by Sport in Society at Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, is open to schools in Districts A, B, C, D, E and H.

Each school can nominate two male and two female students that merit this recognition and have participated in community service. One faculty member, coach, or parent representative should also be willing to provide transportation and accompany the students.

For more information contact Ted O’Reilly at 617-373-4025 or m.oreilly@neu.edu.

Justin A. Rice can be reached at jrice.globe@gmail.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeJustinRice or @BPSspts.

By Hannah Becker, Globe correspondent

Newton South has a new gymnastics star.

In her first vault as a member of the Lions girls’ gymnastics team, freshman Camila Hernandez broke the school record in the event, during Wednesday night’s 134.0-133.9 win over Billerica.

Hernandez scored a 8.9 for her piked tsukahara vault, breaking the record of 8.8 set in 2006 by Violette Ehartock.

“She’s a strong vaulter,” coach Greg Beaupre said. “Very powerful.”

Hernandez, who competes in all four events, suffered a hyperextended knee during warmups for the team’s first meet of the season. She has been gradually coming back, according to Beaupre, and tonight was the first night she was able to compete to her full ability.

“She’s very focused and dedicated,” Beaupre said. “Basically willing to do anything for her team.”

The Lions squeaked out the one-10th victory, thanks in large part to Hernandez.

In addition to finishing first on vault, she also won the uneven bars (8.85), and finished second in floor (9.25) and balance beam (8.7). She took home first in the all-around with a 35.7.

“She’s definitely the type of kid you really want to have on your team,” Beaupre said.

By Liz Torres, Globe Correspondent

In a duel of unbeatens, Burlington (5-0) toppled Andover (4-1), 153-147.75, in boys' gymnastics yesterday.

Red Devils freshman Ryan Girouard emerged as a top athlete in the meet on the floor (8.25), pommel horse (7.1), high bar (8.5), parallel bars (6), vault (8.65) and rings (6.75).
Senior Joe Hanafin scored 5.35 on the high bar and 6.6 on the parallel bars and 8.35 in the vault.

"Both are key players and a foundation for the team," said Red Devils coach Rich Baczewski.

With the MIAA North and South gymnastics sectionals just weeks away, the Globe debuts its ranking of the top teams in each region. The top 12 teams in each sectional, based on each school's four best scores, advance to the Feb. 19 North and South meets at Hudson High School. Barnstable is the defending state champion and hopes to defend that title on Sat. Feb. 26.

For all of the standings, and rankings, go here.

As you may have noticed when you picked up your Boston Globe this morning, all of our high school sports standings are moving online here at Boston.com starting today.

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• Notebooks for boys' and girls' basketball and boys' hockey
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• Players of the week and leading scorers

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