MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Pittsville boys basketball player Matthew Kissner has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com March High School Athlete of the Month.
The High School Athlete of the Month Award sponsors for the 2019-20 school year are Cost Cutters Family Hair Care of Marshfield, Stevens Point Orthopedics, and Burt Trophy & Awards. The monthly award will continue through June 2020, and the winner of the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com High School Athlete of the Year will be announced July 9.
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.
Kissner earned 530 of the nearly 1,600 votes cast during voting from April 1-7 at MarshfieldAreaSports.com.
Other nominees for the March award were: Stratford boys basketball player Ben Barten, Marshfield gymnast Gracie Holland, Thorp boys basketball player Isaac Soumis, and Auburndale boys basketball player Cooper Weinfurter.
Kissner, a senior forward on the Pittsville boys basketball team, scored more than 20 points in each of the Panthers’ four WIAA Division 5 playoff games in March. Kissner scored 25 points against Marion in the regional quarterfinals on March 3, had 26 points in a 68-60 win over Athens in a regional semifinal on March 6, and had 22 points and 12 rebounds in Pittsville’s win over Almond-Bancroft in the regional finals on March 7. In the sectional semifinals against Rib Lake, Kissner had 25 points as the Panthers lost 61-45 on March 12. Kissner, the co-player of the year in the Central Wisconsin Conference South Division, scored in double figures in each of the Panthers’ 26 games this season, averaging 24.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game as Pittsville finished 19-7.
There will be no April award. If sports begin in May, we will have awards in May and June. Nominate someone by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the May award would take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from June 1-7.
Kissner joins Marshfield soccer and football player Kyle Tremelling (September), Marshfield Columbus Catholic volleyball player Meghan Kibbel (October), Auburndale cross country runner Erricka Zenner (November), Spencer/Columbus Catholic wrestler Ashton Ackman (December), Spencer girls basketball player Heavyn Kind (January), and Stratford wrestler Gavin Drexler (February) as winners of the Athlete of the Month award during the 2019-20 school year.