MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Auburndale wrestler Dylan Baird has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com January 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.
Baird won the voting with approximately 25 percent of the nearly 3,000 votes cast.
Other nominees for the January award were: Columbus Catholic boys basketball player Bryce Fuerlinger, Marshfield gymnast Gracie Holland, Neillsville boys basketball player Alex King, Stratford wrestler Dylan Schoenherr, and Owen-Withee girls basketball player Jennifer Wendler.
Baird, a junior, won the 138-pound title at the Marawood Conference Wrestling Tournament on Jan. 26, improving to 22-7 this season. Baird also went 5-0 at the Wausau East Lumberjack Duals on Jan. 19 and finished fourth at the Fred Lehrke Tournament at D.C. Everest on Jan. 5.
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 February voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by Feb. 23. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the February award will take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from March 1-7.
Baird joins previous 2018-19 Athlete of the Month winners: Spencer/Columbus Catholic football player Jarred Mandel (September), Marshfield football player Ryan Krueger (October), Columbus Catholic girls basketball player Hailey Roehl (November), and Stratford boys basketball player Vaughn Breit (December).
Note: Voting for the January award was to end at midnight Thursday, Feb. 7. A glitch in the voting software used did not end the voting at midnight and it continued until approximately 9:30 a.m. Feb. 8. We were able to look back at the vote totals as of midnight, and Baird was the leader and declared the winner.