Today is Saturday, November 30, 2024
Whippet Volleyball Senior Kindyl Kilar was selected by the Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association (WVCA) as a First Team All-State selection. Kindyl played a 6 rotation outside for the Whippets and ended her career as a Whippet on top of the leaderboard.
Kindyl was selected as the RVC first team All-Conference, AVCA Best and Brightest First Team, Team Offensive Player of the Year, Team Co-Defensive Player of the Year, Team MVP and Captain, and now 1st team all-state.
Kindyl averaged 6.3 kills per set, with 564 kills this season, which placed her number one in the Whippet record book, and number one in Division 2 for the state. Her season stats include .322 hitting percentage, 62 Aces (99.2%, 1 error), 25 total Blocks, and 314 Digs.
Even more impressive are her career stats, which she accomplished in only 2 ½ years. Her time as a Whippet was shortened due to a knee surgery her freshman year, and a shortened COVID year playing only in the Spring her sophomore year. Career stats include; 1172 Kills (1st in school history), 147 Aces (4th in school history), 50 blocks, 727 Digs (5th in school history).
Kindyl will be signing her National Letter of Intent to play at Florida International University (FIU) on November 30th.
Coach Kilar commented, “Kindyl was a great leader for this Whippet Program. Her presence will be missed, but we know she left her teammates with an example of what it means to be a team leader that will not soon be forgotten. Kindyl is a special player, and FIU is getting a great one!”
Article and Photos Submitted by Mary Kilar
Whitewater High School Head Volleyball Coach
mkilar@wwusd.org
Action Photos Courtesy of Bob Mischka
By Lynn Binnie
Whitewater Banner volunteer staff
whitewaterbanner@gmail.com
According to an announcement on November 13 from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), UW-Whitewater (8-2) will host Aurora University (Ill.) (9-1) in the first round of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. The game will be played on Saturday, November 19, with kickoff at noon. UW-W received the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) automatic bid. UW-LaCrosse (9-1) will also participate in the championship, having secured one of five at-large bids into the 32-team field.
The Warhawks hold six national championships (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014) in 18 NCAA appearances.
All contests through the national semifinals will be conducted on campus sites, while the national championship Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl will be held December 16, at Navy Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis, Md. The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU at 6 p.m. CST.
What a way to close out the 2022 Girls Swim Season! The Whippets competed at the State Meet on Friday, November 11, at Waukesha South High School, and man did they show up to compete!
Makayla Bazeley started off the State meet in the 200 Freestyle. She was originally seeded 11th overall, however her competitive edge earned her a 7th place finish with a time of 1:57.79. That’s about a 3 second drop!
Makayla Bazeley didn’t stop there…she competed in the 100 Butterfly where she earned herself a spot on the podium with a 5th place finish by going a time of 59.77!
Grace Foucault finished out her high school individual swim career in the 100 Backstroke. She placed 12th overall with a time of 1:00.37!
To finish off the State Meet, Makayla Bazeley, Brooke Bazeley, Emerson Dunham, and Grace Foucault competed in the 400 Freestyle Relay. And boy was this a race! The girls beat their seeded time by 6 seconds with a time of 3:51.24!
With Makayla’s lead off performance in the 400 Freestyle Relay, she is now the NEW school record holder for the 100 Freestyle with a time of 54.04! Everyone else on the relay also had some amazing splits including Brooke Bazeley (58.99), Emerson Dunham (1:01.87), and Grace Foucault (56.34).
We would like to give a special shout out to our relay alternates, Josie Treder and Ashly Xochipa. We appreciate their continued work at practice and endless support to their teammates!
Another shout out to our Whippet swimmers who came to support their teammates – Charlotte Hajewski, Lucy Davis, Sanibel Fox-Simes, and Georgia Esch. We appreciate you all!
And that’s a wrap for the 2022 Girls’ Swim Season!
Article and Photos Submitted by Sarah Reynolds
Whitewater High School Head Girls’ Swim Coach
sreynolds@wwusd.org
Editor’s note: The following announcement was posted to the WIAC website.
NORTHFIELD, Minn.–University of Wisconsin-Whitewater won the NCAA Division III Men’s Cross Country North Regional at the St. Olaf College (Minn.) Cross Country Course on Nov. 12.
The regional title is the second straight for UW-Whitewater. The Warhawks posted 74 points to slip past the second-place total of 82 points by UW-La Crosse. UW-Whitewater earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Championship that will be conducted Nov. 19, in Lansing, Mich.
St. Olaf finished third with 108 points, while UW-Stout was fourth with 117 and UW-Eau Claire fifth with 133.
Additional Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) team finishes included: UW-Oshkosh sixth with 176 points; UW-Stevens Point 10th with 267; and UW-Platteville 12th with 363. A total of 29 teams competed in the race.
UW-Whitewater’s Christian Patzka claimed the individual title after completing the 8,000-meter course in 224:09.15. A total of 120 runners completed the race. UW-La Crosse’s Ethan Gregg was second in 24:18.59, UW-Whitewater’s Gunner Schlender third in 24:22.69 and UW-La Crosse’s Isaac Wegner fourth in 24:29.65.
Additional WIAC runners securing All-North Region recognition for placing in the top 35 included: UW-Stout’s Spencer Schultz (eighth in 24:48.69); UW-Stout’s Matthew Ryan (ninth in 24:51.33); UW-Oshkosh’s Steven Potter (12th in 24:55.88); UW-Whitewater’s Justin Krause (13th in 24:57.73); UW-La Crosse’s Corey Fairchild (14th in 24:59.01); UW-Stout’s Ian Williams (17th in 25:03.56); UW-Eau Claire’s Mason Shea (18th in 25:07.05); UW-Oshkosh’s Joseph Kehoe (21th in 25:21.00); UW-Oshkosh’s Jake Krause (23rd in 25:22.60); UW-Platteville’s Logan Bell (24th in 25:22.72); UW-Eau Claire’s Zach Yengo (25th in 25:23.13); UW-La Crosse’s Parker Huhn (26th in 25:24.38); UW-Whitewater’s Dan Anderson (27th in 25:26.09); UW-Eau Claire’s Sam Verkerke (28th in 25:26.20); UW-Eau Claire’s Tyler Osen (29th in 25:26.30); UW-Whitewater’s Chris Allen (30th in 25:26.50); and UW-Eau Claire’s Jake Hesse-Withbroe (33rd in 25:30.63).
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