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Pictured are Alyssa Schumacher (left) and Morgan Gransee (right) holding their certificates for making the All-District Softball Team this past season. Schumacher made the team as a catcher while Gransee was selected as an outfielder. Both players also made first team all-conference along with Bryce Hibbs and Sara Johnson.
In addition, Whitewater put three softball players on the Academic All-State Team. To be considered for this award the players must be seniors who have a 3.50 or higher cumulative GPA. Receiving this honor in softball were Jocelin Beecroft, Sara Johnson, and Catherine Yang.
Brianna Staebler had a week to remember in her young wrestling career as she traveled to Fargo, North Dakota, to participate in the National Freestyle Wrestling Tournament. This is a tournament that sees some of the best high school wrestlers in the country converge in the Fargo Dome to participate on 25 wrestling mats in both Freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling.
To start her week off, Brianna participated in the Cadet (16U) Women’s Freestyle tournament. Brianna was very dominant in this tournament winning her matches 10-0, 8-0, 4-0, and 3-2 in the National Championship match. In the finals, Brianna scored a takedown as time expired to win the match, winning the championship and coveted “Stop Sign,” which is the award in an octagonal shape.
After having a couple of days off to relish in her victory, Brianna was back on the mat, moving up to the next age group, to participate in the Juniors (19U) Women’s Freestyle tournament. Brianna started off strong, but then had a setback in the round of 16 putting her into the consolation bracket. After two shutout wins, Brianna had the opportunity to avenge her only loss up to his point defeating the girl who had defeated her the previous day. This put Brianna into the 3rd place match and locked up All-American Honors in the Juniors Division. Brianna wrestled an aggressive match but ended up falling in her final match in Fargo for 2019 and placed 4th. This accomplishment is nothing to scoff at as it is an outstanding achievement.
As the week closed out, Brianna was 10-2 on the week, with her avenging one of those losses. After healing up from a very competitive week Brianna will get back to training for the High School Super 32’s, which takes place October 12-13 in North Carolina.
Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkgsDlqRDJE to watch the interview of Brianna after winning the Cadet Championship. It’s a very nice interview and worth watching.
Article Submitted by John Schimming
On Sunday the Whitewater Buehler Law Office 14U softball team completed their season. Although the final game was not a win for the girls they had a very successful year finishing 12-4-1 on the season in Quad County Rec play.
In tournament action this weekend the girls started off on Friday night with a late game vs Big Foot, starting at 9:00. Big Foot is a very competitive team whom the girls defeated earlier this year 16-14 and tied 8-8. Yet again the young Chiefs and the young Whippet girls had a barn burner of a game. Whitewater was down five in the last inning and proceeded to score six in their bottom half to win the game 9-8, pushing them into the semi final game.
Against Lakeland the girls played very well, down only 1-0 in the 5th against a team that had outscored their opponents 118-16 in their last 6 games leading up to our game. Unfortunately the girls could not get their bats going and did end up losing 9-1. This put the girls in the 2nd place game against East Troy.
Yet again the girls were down going into the last inning, this time by six. They began to play much smarter ball and were more patient at the plate. The girls were able to get their six to force extra innings. Unfortunately the girls gave up one in the extra inning and lost 10-9 to finish in 3rd place.
Although the girls did lose that last game, I was proud of how they battled back when down by a lot to force extra innings. They showed a lot of heart in their last game of the season together.
As a coach it was very fun working with these young ladies and I look forward to watching them in the future as they grow as players. Thank you to the girls for a great season that provided a lot of excitement. Thank you to the parents for your support of the girls. Thank you to Josh Kubicz for his help coaching. It was a fun summer.
Article Submitted by John Schimming
Save the Date!
Attention Whippet Athletes and Parents: 2019-20 Athletic Code of Conduct Meeting
(for all high school sports)
Sunday, August 4, 2019, at 6 p.m.
Whitewater High School Auditorium
Individual Fall Sport Team meetings to follow.
Please contact Athletic Director Justin Crandall at jcrandall@wwusd.org with any questions or comments.
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