MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Auburndale softball player Hailey Grimm has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com April 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.
Grimm gathered 752 of the nearly 1,700 votes cast to win the voting, which was held from May 1-7.
Other nominees for the April award were: Marshfield girls soccer player Nina Hashimoto, Spencer track athlete Mason Barth, and Stratford track athlete Hunter Hannan.
Grimm was one of the main reasons the Auburndale softball team got the season off to a solid start. Grimm picked up the win with a nine-inning complete game effort in the pitchers’ circle against Wisconsin Rapids Assumption on April 26, striking out eight, and also went 2-for-4 with an RBI in a 5-4 victory. Grimm had two RBIs in a loss to Marathon on April 23, earned a pitching win against Assumption on April 22, and had two hits and scored twice in a victory over Rib Lake on April 9. Auburndale is now 8-3, riding a five-game win streak.
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 May voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by May 25. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the May award will take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from June 1-7.
Grimm 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), Stratford boys basketball player Vaughn Breit (December), Auburndale wrestler Dylan Baird (January), Stratford wrestler Dylan Schoenherr (February), and the Marshfield Columbus Catholic boys basketball team (March).