MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Marshfield cross country runner Joseph McKee has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com October High School Athlete of the Month.
The High School Athlete of the Month Award is sponsored by 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.
McKee received 660 of the nearly 1,800 votes cast.
Other nominees for the October award were Abbotsford football player Joe Aguilera, Stratford volleyball player Jadyn Dahlke, Edgar cross country runner Marissa Ellenbecker, and Marathon football player Donavon Free.
McKee, a sophomore, qualified for his first state meet with a fifth-place finish at the Division 1 sectional at Winneconne on Oct. 20, running in a time of 16:29.73. McKee ended up 48th in the 189-member Division 1 boys field at the WIAA State Cross Country Championships in Wisconsin Rapids on Oct. 28, finishing in 16:44.64. He also took fifth at the Wisconsin Valley Conference Meet at Standing Rock Park in Stevens Point on Oct. 14 in 16:39.0.
The winner of the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com High School Athlete of the Year will be announced Monday, July 10.
Nominate someone for the November voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by Nov. 28.