Stanley County student athletes recognized at annual awards banquet

Stanley County hosted their annual Booster Club banquet Thrusday night in Fort Pierre to honor their student atheltes many accomplishments throughout the season this year. The kynote speaker was one of their most polific female athletes in Kristie Hallock-Moore who spoke about the importance of involvement and how far that can take you.

After Kristie’s speech, thousands of dollars were raised for the athletic program through an auction of signed team pictures. They followed the auction with the awards ceremony led by each head and assistant coach from each sport.

Each coachs took the podium to hand out awards that were based on performacne, sportsmanship and other important factors that come with being a great teammate. Below you will find the full list of award winners from this year’s banquet.

Football

• Team MVP – Paxton Deal
• Offensive Player of the Year – Landon Bame
• Defensive Player of the Year – Case Kolda
• OL/DL Player of the Year – Trevor Caldwell
• Hey Rookie! – Jaxton Hoftiezer
• Hey Rookie! – Sayth Cronin

Cheerleading

• Sideline Cheerleader of the Year – Keaton Keil

Volleyball

• Offensive Player of the Year – Breckyn Huebner
• Defensive Player of the Year – Timber Hanson
• Most Improved Player – Lainie Masteller
• Heart of the Buffalo – Myla Keefe

Cross Country

• MVP – Kamora Rutherford
• Most Improved – Bridger Gruber

Boys’ Wrestling

• MVP – Landon Bame
• Rookie of the Year – Gunner Schreiber
• Most Improved – Ryland Magee
• Hoka Hey – Jeffrey Knight
• Unsung Hero – Case Kolda
• Heart of a Buffalo – Witt Myers
• Heart of a Buffalo – Sayth Cronin
• Heart of a Buffalo – Wyatt Schilling

Girls’ Wrestling

• Most Improved Wrestler – Londyn Allen-Hunsaker
• Outstanding Wrestler – Gracie Rutherford

Girls Basketball

• MVP – Addy Deal
• Defensive Player of the Year – JoRayah Walker
• Heart of the Buffalo – Austyn Norman
• Rookie of the Year – Kynzi Hall
• Most Improved Player – Taylor Barta
• Committed Award – Jesse Fosheim

Boys Basketball

• Rookie of the Year – Jaxton Hoftiezer
• JV MVP – Carson Bourne
• Most Representative – Jack Deal
• Defender of the Year – Brendon Bothwell
• Co-MVP – Paxton Deal
• Co-MVP – Eddie Duffy

Golf (these will not have names as we don’t know the winners quite yet)

• Boys Golf
  • Top Golfer – Ian Schweitzer
  • Most Coachable – Trigg Roberts
  • Most Improved – James Fosheim

• Boys Track and Field

  • MVP Track
  • MVP Field
  • Most Improved
• Girls Track and Field
  • MVP Track
  • MVP Field
  • Most Improved

Other Awards

• Outstanding Male Athlete – Paxton Deal
• Outstanding Female Athlete – Did not award as we did not have anyone meet the requirements of being a 3-sport athlete
• Fan of the Year – Kyle and Jeannie Kafka
• Kenny Diegel Award – Carlee Brady
• Rod Louder Memorial Award – Trevor Caldwell
• Rod Louder Memorial Award – Addy Deal
• BJ Stoeser Memorial Award – Landon Bame