Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 133, Number 12, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 25 March 2010 — Page 7

North Wood awards winter sports athletes

North Wood High School held its annual winter sports awards night cm Tuesday, March 16 to honor athletes who participated in wrestling, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls swimming, and cheerleading. Most Valuable Player (MVP) award winners for the various winter sports were: Wrestling: Chase Anglemyer and Zach Rhymer Boys Basketball: Michael Paul and Cameron Williams Girls Basketball: Courtney Frantz and Lindsey Steffen Boys Swimming: Jared Lechlitner Boys Diving: Trent Jacobs Giiis Swimming: Brittani Grove Girls Diving: Melissa Berger Cheerleading: Cassidy Bessler and Katie Stephenson

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Winter sports award winners are (front row) from left: Katie Stevenson, Cassidy Bessler, Zach Rhymer, Melissa Berger, Brittani Grove, Courtney Frantz, Lindsey Steffen and

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For wrestling, Rhymer and Bryce Hershberger both qualified for the regionals with Heranberger being a sectional champion, and Rhymer continued on to the semi-state- Justin Mullins earned the Most Improved Award, while Nick Christofeno was the Mental Attitude Award winner. In boys basketball, Paul and Williams were both named Northern Lakes Conference (NLC) honorable mention. Junior Kyle Heckaman was named the Most Improved Player. In addition to their shared MVP award, Frantz and Steffen were both all-NLC, along with classmate Kelcie Lehman. Lehman also shared the Most Improved Player award with junior Hillary Lechlitner. Junior Kaci Heeter was honorable mention all-NLC and won the Mental Attitude Award.

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(back) Michael Paul, Cameron Williams, Zach Sweeden, Trenton Jacobs and Jared Lechlitner.

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For swimming, Justen Hochstetler and Aaron Ttoxel shared the mental attitude award for boys, while Emily Hoffman won die girls' mental attitude award. Most improved swimmer awards went to Corban Wyatt (boys) and Brenna Ghigliotto and Karlie Kratzchmar (girls). Kaitlin McFarland took home the mental attitude award for cheerleading, while Abbye Carter won die most improved award. Elizabeth Kern won the best overall spirit award. The Advance News, as well as the entire Wa-Nee school corporation community, congratulates all of these award winners, as well as the many other student athletes and cheerleaders who gave of their time and effort to represent their school in a winter sport.

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time, t genoki public and members of, tit wwwjwppaneehealthandfit- —- ■■■" ' I. ■■■All. I, ■....1*,-.| l jj A season of growing By Brennan Angle MW STUDENT Part 2 of 2 ;• Last week, Brennan introduced readers to his thoughts on the 2009-10 boys freshman basketball team and its season of growing. Today, he continues: I don't remember how it came to me, but I believe it was one Wednesday at church. I just felt like I was being talked to by God. I remember Him saying, "This year hasn't gone how you wanted, but will you still shine My light?" That clicked with me. I realized we had been doing it all wrong. I talked with a few of my buddies on the team who 1 knew were spiritual as well. They totally agreed. The year may have been over for basketball wins, but we still had a job. I felt like we were being called to make die players around us better, to build them up and help them grow in life as well. These were our peers. I knew that things needed to change; I needed to start using my talents I had been given for His glory not mine. I think down the line we began to do better at both of those, we didnt go on a ridiculous winning streak, but basketball wasn"t what He was working on. I think we made tremendous strides. Now I'm not saying this at all to be like, "Look at me." I'm saying this to show what God had done. We were a lost team that had nothing going for them: injuries, quitting, losing, etc. We were just a freshman basketball team, but to us this meant the world. Look what God can do through us even in a year like this. It truly proves that He's always with us. I wish we would've realized this at the beginning of the year, but at least we did now, moving forward. My hope is that now we can carry that on to upcoming basketball years and we can be a team playing not for ourselves, but for Him. This may seem minor to some people, but to me, it was pretty awesome. I feel like I have been asked to share this story for a reason; I wouldn't have shared it without purpose. Hopefully someone can take something out of this story. God is always with you. He will never close a door without first opening a new one. And that's what we learned as a team through our season of growing.

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