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By Paul Lecker
MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Stratford senior Kalyn Schueller and Wausau Newman Catholic senior Lily Shields were named Co-Players of the Year and were among the seven first-team selections on the 2024 All-Marawood Conference South Division Volleyball Team.
Schueller was a unanimous first-team selection for the second year in a row and was joined on the first team by Stratford teammate Emerson Roy after the Tigers won the Marawood South title with an undefeated 5-0 record. Roy, a senior setter, was also a first-team pick in 2023.
Edgar’s Emery Borchardt and Kaitlyn Hartnady, Marathon’s Emma Love and Newman Catholic’s Camille Sobolewski round out the first team picks.
Shields was named to the first team for the third year in a row after being as second-team pick as a freshman in 2021.
Auburndale sophomores Lily Bellanti and Chesney Nagel, and Stratford senior Daisy Yoder were among the second-team selections.
Auburndale juniors Sidney Wolff and Kylie Anderson, and Stratford junior Tria Tubbs and senior McKenzie Novotny were honorable mention picks.
2024 All-Marawood Conference South Division Volleyball Team
(*denotes unanimous selection)
First team: Emery Borchardt, sr., Edgar; Kaitlyn Hartnady, jr., Edgar; Emma Love, jr., Marathon; *Camille Sobolewski, jr., Wausau Newman Catholic; *Lily Shields, sr., Wausau Newman Catholic; Emerson Roy, sr., Stratford; *Kalyn Schueller, sr., Stratford.
Second team: Anna Schooley, sr., Wisconsin Rapids Assumption; Lily Bellanti, so., Auburndale; Chesney Nagel, so., Auburndale; Katelyn Love, so., Marathon; Katie LeBlanc, sr., Marathon; Annika Svennes, sr., Wausau Newman Catholic; Daisy Yoder, sr., Stratford.
Honorable mention: Claire Nelson, sr., Wisconsin Rapids Assumption; Rylan Cusack, fr., Wisconsin Rapids Assumption; Sidney Wolff, jr., Auburndale; Kylie Anderson, jr., Auburndale; Naquene Ellenbecker, so., Edgar; Ella Baumgartner, jr., Edgar; Chenpieng Phakithong, sr., Marathon; Mayven Schneider, so., Marathon; Grace Hoelter, sr., Wausau Newman Catholic; Lexi Rice, so., Wausau Newman Catholic; Tria Tubbs, jr., Stratford; McKenzie Novotny, sr., Stratford.
Co-Players of the Year: Kalyn Schueller, Stratford, and Lily Shields, Wausau Newman Catholic.