Columbus Catholic volleyball player Meghan Kibbel wins voting for WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com October High School Athlete of the Month

Columbus Catholic volleyball player Meghan Kibbel has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com October High School Athlete of the Month. (Photo by Paul Lecker/MarshfieldAreaSports.com)

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Marshfield Columbus Catholic volleyball player Meghan Kibbel has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com October 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 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.

Kibbel garnered nearly 2,400 of the more than 5,500 votes cast during voting Nov. 1-7.

Other nominees for the October award were: Abbotsford football player Dalton Feddick, Marshfield cross country athlete Eliana Kanitz, Stratford football player Teddy Redman, Loyal cross country athlete Savannah Schley, and Auburndale football player Cooper Weinfurter.

Kibbel, a junior setter, was a model of consistency for the Dons, who reached sectionals for the third time in the past four seasons and won a share of the Cloverbelt Conference East Division title this past season. She had 29 assists in a 3-0 sweep of Rib Lake in a WIAA Division 4 regional semifinal on Oct. 24, and had 26 assists and 11 digs in the Dons’ 3-0 win over Athens in the regional final on Oct. 26. In a three-game sweep of Gilman in the Cloverbelt East finale, Kibbel had 33 assists, and she had 25 assists in conference wins over Spencer and Greenwood earlier in the month.

Nominate someone for the November voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by Nov. 25. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the November award will take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from December 1-7.

Kibbel joins Marshfield soccer and football player Kyle Tremelling (September) as winners of the Athlete of the Month award during the 2019-20 school year.