Award winners were announced for 2015-16 NRHEG High School winter sports at the annual ceremony Thursday, March 17.
They were, by sport:
Boys’ Basketball
• Best Defensive Player — Oakley Baker
• Panther Award — Cole Ignaszewski
• Most Improved — Sam Prigge
• Practice Player — Tyler Schlaak
• All-conference — Baker, John Cole; honorable mention — Chad Agrimson
• Captains — Cole, Baker, Agrimson• Gopher Conference Academic Award — Agrimson, Baker, Ignaszewski, Benji Lundberg, Sam Prigge, Jack Schultz, Nathaniel Techau, Jerret Utpadel
• MSHSL Spotlight on Academics — Agrimson, Baker, Cole, Ignaszewski, Lundberg, Prigge, Schlaak, Schultz, Techau, Utpadel, Luke Overgaard, Tyler Raimann, Nickolas Shultz, Dempsey Tucker
Wrestling
• Most Valuable — Wyatt Fitterer
• Most Wins — Fitterer (34)
• Most Falls — Fitterer (23)
• Most Team Points — Fitterer (202)
• Most Takedowns — Cordell Peterson (47)
• Most Improved — Karter Sletten
• All-state — Fitterer
• All-confrence — Peterson, Fitterer, Cole Staloch, Bryce Okland, Zeke Erickson
• 100th pin for the team — Staloch
• Gopher Conference Academic Award — Fitterer
• MSHSL Spotlight on Academics — Fitterer, Peterson, Staloch, Andrew Bailey, Alex Buckmeier, Trey Hoppe, Tyler Jacobson, Ross Lenort, Andrew Reich, Thor Routh, Trai Wicks
• Captains — Erickson, Cordell Peterson, Palmer Peterson
• Ironman Club — Fitterer, Jacobson, Okland, Staloch, Brett Kubiatowicz, Cordell Peterson, Chad Erickson, Zeke Erickson, Lucas Herrmann, coaches Nate Jensen and Jamie Harshmann
Cheerleading
• Most Valuable Cheerleader — Lizzy Hagen
• Most Improved — Laura Worrell
• Most Universal — Nicole Edon
• Most Valuable Flyer — Abby Christopherson
• Most Valuable Bases — Bayli Possin, Jessica Nafe
• Most Valuable Back — Abby Wacholz
• Most Spirited — Christopherson
• Academic all-conference — Christopherson, Edon, Hagen, Nafe, Worrell, Corrie Powell, Taylar Tieskotter, Tali Wayne, Torrie Stencel, Hailey Westrum
• MSHSL Spotlight on Academics — Christopherson, Edon, Hagen, Nafe, Possin, Powell, Stencel, Tieskotter, Wayne, Westrum, Abby Wacholz
Girls’ Basketball
• Most Valuable — Maddie Wagner
• Rebound Award — Marnie Wagner
• Most Improved — Kelly Harden
• Practice Player — Harden
• All-conference — Wagner, Wagner, Kayley Camerer; honorable mention — Rachel Collins
• Capains — Wagner, Wagner, Collins