Vogel Player of the Year

#6 posting 4.8.2007
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COLLEGE AWARDS
Here is the first gbbrecruit college awards. I am going to be handing out awards for players that played HS ball in Minnesota, so if you don't see Emily Fox's name that is why. She went to school in Colorado.

Without further ado here are the teams....
player, college, (HS), ht, yr
D1
Megan Vogel, South Dakota State, (St. Peter), 5-11, 2007 POY. averaged 17.5 ppg for the 25-6 Jackrabbits. Last team left standing (SDSU) with major minutes by a MN player. SDSU exited in the WNIT semis. Team leader. And to top it all off #19 pick in the WNBA draft by Washington, the only MN player picked.
Tamra Braun, Valparaiso (Prior Lake) 6-5, 2007; averaged 9.5 ppg and 8.6 rpg for the 20-11 Crusaders.
Lisa Bue, North Dakota State (Austin) 5-10, 2008; averaged 14.1 ppg for the 14-11 Bison.
Kelly Roysland, Minnesota (Fosston) 5-9, 2007; averaged 13.2 ppg for the 17-16 Gophers despite being injured.
Kristin Wiener, Northern Illinois (Holy Angels) 6-3, 2007; averaged 15 ppg and 8 rpg for the 19-12 Huskies.

Here is a little history lesson:
Starting lineup for the MN Metro Stars 17U team in 2002:
Alyssa Nelson (Breck/Montana State)
Annika Boyd (Minnehaha Academy/Indiana)
Megan Vogel (St. Peter/SDSU)
Leslie Knight (Hopkins/Minnesota)
Jamie Broback (Eastview/Minnesota)
Off the bench:
Mary Lennick (Breck/Trinity)
Sophie Farrell (Breck/DNP in college)
Kelly Finley (Breck/Northwestern/Colorado State)
Lindsey Hugstad-Vaa (Breck/Maine)
Melissa Miller (Breck/Northwestern)
Team was coached by Andy Meinhardt and Alissa Case
The MN Metro Stars played and beat almost all of the top teams in the country that July. They ended up in 5th place at Nike End of the Trail out of 128 teams. They were in the Final Four at Nike US Junior Nationals (Las Vegas). They finished in 1st place at Nike USA Cup (Chicago). Both the End of the Trail and USJN losses were by 2 points.

D2
Erika Quigley, St. Cloud State (Duluth East), POY. 6-2, 2007. averaged 24.5 ppg and 11.6 rpg for the 17-11 Huskies. She walked off with the five major D2 awards this year and can add this prestigious award to the collection.
Alison Adamson, Augustana (Willmar) 5-5, 2007. Averaged 16.1 ppg for the 25-7 Vikings.
Amanda Behnke, Concordia St. Paul (St. Croix Lutheran) 6-2, 2008. averaged 17.2 ppg, and 8.2 rpg for the 22-10 Golden Bears.
Kierah Kimbrough, North Dakota (Badger-Greenbush-Middle River), 6-1, 2009. averaged 15.7 ppg and 8.6 rpg for the 32-4 Sioux.
Ashley Langen, North Dakota (Kittson Central), 6-2, 2008. averaged 14.4 ppg and 8.5 rpg for the 32-4 Sioux.

D3
Bri Monahan, Gustavus (Hutchinson) POY. 6-0, 2007. averaged 16.3 ppg for the 22-6 Gusties. Also drew some WNBA interest.
Rachel Berglund, St. Catherine (Dawson-Boyd), 5-9, 2008. averaged 16.4 ppg for the 15-11 Wildcats.
Ellie Boone, St. Benedict (Maple Grove), 6-0, 2007. averaged 10.3 ppg for the 22-6 Blazers.
Jessica Merseth, Bethany Lutheran (MN Valley Lutheran) 5-11, 2007. averaged 19.4 ppg 11.5 rpg for the 19-10 Vikings.
Traci Reimann, UW River Falls (North Branch) 6-0, 2007. averaged 12.7 ppg and 9.4 rpg for the 16-11 Falcons.

2YR
Sonja Ellingson, Anoka-Ramsey (Maple Grove) 5-10, 2010. POY. averaged 17.1 ppg for the 26-4 Rams. D3 Tournament champions. MVP of the tournament.
Michelle Cheney, River Falls (Sartell) 6-2, 2009 averaged 20.0 ppg for the Voyaguers.
Tarah Geisler, Itasca (Greenway) 5-5, 2009. averaged 14.1 ppg for the Vikings
Brittany Gladis, Rochester (Chatfield) 6-2, 2009. averaged 15.7 for the Yellowjackets.
Jenna Norman, Mesabi Range (Virginia) 6-0, 2010. averaged 14.3 for the Norse

D1 FRESHMAN OF NOTE
Jenna Smith, Illinois (Bloomington Kennedy)
Jessie Miller, Illinois Chicago (Holy Angels)
Chelsea Frazier, Columbia (Breck)
Maria Boever, South Dakota State (Worthington)

OTHER STATES
(only D1 listings)
NORTH DAKOTA
Amanda Girodat, North Dakota State (Kindred) 5-8, 2007. Averaged 5.8 ppg for the 14-11 Bison.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Jennifer Warkenthien, South Dakota State (Willow Lake) 6-0, 2009. averaged 9.7 ppg for the 25-6 Jackrabbits.

I didn't track the Iowa and Wisconsin players throughout the country, but I hope to get that done next year.

Next up: tomorrow.