June 1 River Region Sports wrap

Valle Catholic High School honors student athletes

From Valle Catholic High School

STE. GENEVIEVE – Valle Catholic High School honored athletes at the Annual Sports Ceremony held May 24, 2023.

 

Head Football Coach Judd Naeger presented the following special awards to members of the 2022 football team:

Front (L to R ):

Sam Drury, Team Leader

Carson Tucker, Ultimate Warrior

Chase Fallert, Team Leader

Isaac Basler, Special Teams Player of the Year

Back (L to R):

Noah Elbert, Lineman of the Year

Tim Okenfuss, Defensive Player of the Year

Bryce Giesler, Offensive Player of the Year

Not pictured: Jacob Calbreath, The Rock

 

Boy’s Basketball Head Coach Tyler Search presented the following special awards to members of the 2022-23 basketball team:

 

 

Front (L to R):

Tyler Gegg, 6th Man Award

Carson Tucker, Hustle Award

Chase Fallert, MVP

Back (L to R):

Clayton Drury, Most Improved

Harry Oliver, Most Improved

Sam Drury, Two-way Player

 

Girl’s Basketball Head Coach Brian Bauman presented special awards to the 2022-23 girl’s basketball team.

 

 

Madelyn Griffard, Offensive Player of the Year

Nicole Gegg, Most Improved and Miss Hustle

Brooklyn Weibrecht, Defensive Player of the Year (not pictured)

 

Volleyball Coach Nancy Fischer presented the following special awards to members of the 2022 volleyball team:

 

L to R:

Kristen Drury, Outstanding Effort

Addi Donze, Most Coachable

Ava Bauman, Most Improved Player

Ade Weiler, Leadership

Abree Zipprich, Team Player

 

Cross Country Coach Samer Zoughaib presented the following special awards to members of the 2022 cross country team:

 

 

Front (L to R):

Madelyn Griffard – MVP and Nancy Fischer Hardest Working Award

Nicole Gegg – Newcomer Award

Back (L to R):

Jimmy Braun – Newcomer Award

Peter Roth – MVP

Austin Ringwald – Most Improved

Not pictured: Natalie Kist, Most Improved and Matthew Hoog, Nancy Fischer Hardest Working Award

 

Special awards were presented to the following Dance Line members on behalf of Sam Gegg, head coach.

 

L to R:

Lydia Klump, 110% Effort

Ava Meyer, Most Improved

Addison Shuh, Rising Star

 

The following students received Straight “A” Awards. They completed an entire season of a MSHSAA activity at either the 9th grade, JV or varsity level, and earned an unweighted 4.0 grade point average for the entire school year … straight A’s for both first and second semester!

 

Seniors

 

Jayce Bales, Samuel Drury, August Palmer, Peter Roth, Theresa Steele, Sophia Varga, Macy Wolk

Juniors

 

Kelsey Blum, Emma Christine, Gwen McKlin, Camryn Skaggs, Truman Tucker, Ade Weiler, Cannon Wolk

 

Sophomores

 

Josh Fallert, Madelyn Griffard, Patrick Schilly, Thomas Varga, Brooklyn Weibrecht, Abree Zipprich

 

Freshmen

 

Ava Bauman, Lydia Brown, Drake Meyer, Ady Rayoum, Addison Shuh, Jackson Tucker

 

 

Soccer

JACKSON – Saxony Lutheran plays Villa Duchesne Friday at 10 a.m. at the Fenton World Wide Technology Soccer Park in Fenton in a semifinal round game in the state soccer tournament.