MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Marshfield Columbus Catholic soccer player Nadim Torbey has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com September 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.
Torbey received 790 of the nearly 1,900 votes cast.
Other nominees for the September award were Marshfield volleyball player Corianne Johnson, Pittsville football player Riley Wayerski, Stratford volleyball player Mazie Nagel, and Spencer/Columbus football player Hunter Luepke.
Torbey, a junior midfielder, scored 24 goals and had four assists for Dons, who went 9-1-1 overall and 7-1 in Central Wisconsin Conference in September. Torbey had hat tricks (three goals) in a 3-1 win over Wisconsin Valley Lutheran on Sept. 5, a 6-0 shutout of Tri-County on Sept. 14, and a 6-2 win over Northland Lutheran on Sept. 21. He scored four goals in the first half of 8-0 win over Wausau Newman on Sept. 11.
Torbey is the first athlete to earn the Athlete of the Month award for the second time. He also won the award in October 2016.
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 October voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by Oct. 28.