Award winners have been announced for NRHEG 2017-18 winter athletics.
They were, by sport:
Boys’ Baskeball
• Panther Award — Benji Lundberg
• Most Improved Player — Brady Agrimson
• Practice Player Award — Gabe Dahle
• Best Defensive Player — Jerret Utpadel
• Captains — Lundberg, Utpadel, Nathaniel Techau
• All-conference — Lundberg, Agrimson, Jacob Schuller, Jerret Utpadel; honorable mention — Techau
Girls’ basketball
• Most Improved — Sophie Stork
• Panther Award — Lexie Ignaszewski
• Rebound Award — Betsy Schoenrock
• Most Valuable — Schoenrock
• All-state honorable mention — Schoenrock
• Captains — Schoenrock, Kelly Harden, Olivia Christopherson
• All-conference — Schoenrock, Harden, Christopherson, Stork; honorable mention — Sidney Schultz
• Gopher Conference Sportsmanship Award — Erin VanWilgen
Wrestling
• Most Takedowns — Tyler Jacobson
• Most Falls — Jacobson
• Most Team Points — Cole Staloch
• Most Wins — Staloch
• Most Valuable — Staloch
• Most Improved — Agro Gushwa
• Captains — Jacobson, Cole Staloch
• All-conference — Jacobson, Cole Staloch
• Gopher Conference Sportsmanship Award — Gushwa
Cheerleading
• Most Spirited — Hailey Westrum, Cassie Kormann
• Most Valuable Back — Lorelei Strom
• Most Valuable Bases — Taytum Ihrke, Sydney Schlinger
• Most Valuable Flyer — Laura Worrell
• Most Improved — Maggie Maloney
• Most Valuable Cheerleader — Ihrke
• Academic all-conference — Brenlee Knudson, Kyra Possin, Strom, Kormann, Maloney, Tali Wayne, Westrum, Worrell
• MSHSL Spotlight on Scholarship — Natalia Galindo, Avery Hill, Kormann, Maloney, Knudson, Possin, Schlinger, Strom, Cary Solland, Sophie Thompson, Wayne, Westrum, Worrell