By Jed Buelow
Tomahawk Leader Co-Editor, Sports and Nature Editor
After one heck of an impressive season that saw the Lady Hatchets cross country team qualify for state and the boys’ team take the Great Northern Conference championship, Tomahawk co-ed cross country took a moment to pause and collect their collective breath to hand out a bunch of well-deserved honors at their awards banquet Thursday.
The following is a list of this year’s honorees:
Rookies of the Year: (Boys) Jacob Towle (Girls) Greta Tjugum
Most Improved: (Boys) Trey Miller (Girls) Geena Wanta
Coaches Awards: (Boys) Drew Bolder (Girls) Emily Lacina
Scholar Athletes: (Boys) Trey Baalke, Jack Lacina, Trey Miller
(All 4.000’s 1st Qtr) (Girls) Macey Mann & Haley Voermans-Dean
Captains Awards: (Boys) Keaton Jed (Girls) Haley Voermans-Dean
Punchy Reich Memorial: Haley Voermans-Dean (as picked by her teammates)
GNC All-Conference: (Boys) Noah Buckwalter, Drew Bolder, Garron Albrent
GNC All-Conference: (Girls) Haley Voermans-Dean, Kate Reilly, Emily Lacina, Macey Mann
Most Valuable: (Boys) Noah Buckwalter & Drew Bolder (Girls) Haley Voermans-Dean
State Qualifier Awards: (Boys) Noah Buckwalter (Girls) Serena Reinke, Greta Tjugum, Kate Reilly, Macey Mann, Emily Lacina, Meagan Berg, Haley Voermans-Dean Service Award: Roger Martens
T.H.S. CROSS-COUNTRY JV AWARDS/VAR LETTERWINNERS 2019
J.V. BOYS – Frosh – John Mark Hawley; Soph – Henry Calhoun; AWARDS – Taje Casey; Senior – Trey Miller
GIRLS – Senior: Yumo Zhang
STAT GIRLS – Frosh: Morgan Hansmann
BOYS – Frosh: Jacob Towle (1); Soph – Arden Ziert (2); Junior – Garron Albrent (2), Trey Baalke (3), Drew Bolder (3), Hunter Borchardt (2); LETTERWINNERS – Noah Buckwalter (2), Ethan Liebnitz (1), Alex Norman (2), Hunter VanRyen (3;) Senior – Keaton Jed (4), Matt Johnson (4), Jack Lacina (1), Brady Tjugum (2), Reed Zedler (2)
GIRLS – Frosh: Neenah Fuste (1), Serena Reinke (1), Greta Tjugum (1), Leslie Vance (1) C.C. Soph: Ava Dragosh (1), Emily Lacina (2), Macey Mann (2); LETTERWINNERS – Kate Reilly (2), Geena Wanta (1)
Junior: Tiana Gerstenberger (2), Autumn Peissig (2) Senior: Meagan Berg (4), Gillian Buckwalter (4), Haley Voermans-Dean (4)
And as would be expected after such a successful season, Hatchet head coach John Zuelsdorf was named the 2019 Great Northern Conference Coach of the Year.