MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Stratford boys basketball player Vaughn Breit has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com December 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.
Breit earned nearly 1,200 of the 2,795 votes cast.
Other nominees for the December award were: Athens girls basketball player Kenadi Diedrich, Marshfield wrestler Sam Mitchell, Colby girls basketball player Ashley Streveler, and Spencer/Columbus wrestler Logan Zschernitz.
Breit scored in double figures in all seven of Stratford’s games in December and is averaging 15 points per game for the Tigers, who are a perfect 10-0 this season. Breit was 10 of 12 shooting and scored 26 points in a victory over Wausau Newman Catholic on Dec. 18, and was 10 of 13 from the field and scored 21 points in a victory over Almond-Bancroft at the Sentry Classic in Stevens Point on Dec. 28. Breit, a junior forward, is shooting 62.7 percent from the field this season.
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 January voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by Jan. 23. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the January award will take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from Feb. 1-9.
Breit joins previous Athlete of the Month winners for the 2018-19 school year: Spencer/Columbus Catholic football player Jarred Mandel (September), Marshfield football player Ryan Krueger (October), and Columbus Catholic girls basketball player Hailey Roehl (November).