MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Marshfield Columbus Catholic boys basketball player Tyler Fuerlinger has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com February High School Athlete of the Month.
The High School Athlete of the Month Award is sponsored by Marshfield Clinic, Cost Cutters Family Hair Care and Burt Trophy & Awards.
Varsity athletes from the following high schools are eligible to be nominated for the award: Abbotsford, Athens, Auburndale, Colby, Columbus Catholic, Edgar, Granton, Greenwood, Loyal, Marathon, Marshfield, Neillsville, Owen-Withee, Pittsville, Spencer, Stratford and Thorp.
Fuerlinger garnered 445 of the nearly 1,600 votes cast during voting at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from March 1-7.
Other nominees for the February award were Marshfield gymnast Emma Haugen, Pittsville boys basketball player Matthew Carlson, Spencer/Columbus Catholic wrestler Hunter Luepke, Stratford wrestler Mason Kauffman, Loyal girls basketball player Morgan Reinwand, and Auburndale boys basketball player Caleb Weinfurter.
Fuerlinger, a senior guard, earned first-team all-Cloverbelt Conference East Division and Player of the Year honors after helping the Dons to their second-straight conference title (15-1) and a 20-2 regular season. Fuerlinger torched opponents to the tune of 25.6 points per game during February. In seven games, Fuerlinger scored 30 or more three times, including a season-high 32 against Greenwood on Feb. 14.
Fuerlinger joins Columbus Catholic volleyball player Kendra Baierl (September), Columbus Catholic soccer player Nadim Torbey (October), Abbotsford football player Ethan Kramas (November), Owen-Withee girls basketball player Jennifer Wendler (December), and Marshfield boys basketball player Ethan Posteluk (January) as winners of the award during the 2016-17 school year.
Nominate someone for the March Athlete of the Month award by emailing paul@marshfieldareasports.com. Voting will take place here from April 1-7.