MarshfieldAreaSports.com
Stratford wrestler Gavin Drexler has been voted as the WDLB-WOSQ Radio & MarshfieldAreaSports.com February 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.
Drexler earned 1,120 of the nearly 3,000 votes cast during voting from March 3-9 at MarshfieldAreaSports.com.
Other nominees for the February award were: Marathon girls basketball player Elizabeth Boehm, Loyal girls basketball player Remi Geiger, Edgar wrestler Ethan Heil, Neillsville girls basketball player Bella Opelt, and Marshfield boys basketball player Anthony Posteluk.
Drexler finished off a perfect season with state title at the WIAA State Individual Wrestling Tournament in Madison on Feb. 29. Drexler won Division 3 regional, sectional and state titles at 126 pounds. The sophomore pinned Bo Niewiadomski of Rosholt in 4:43 to capture his first state title and finished the season at 50-0.
Nominate someone for the March voting by emailing Paul Lecker at paul@marshfieldareasports.com by March 25. Please include relative statistics and reasons for that athlete’s nomination. Voting for the March award will take place at MarshfieldAreaSports.com from April 1-7.
Drexler 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), and Spencer girls basketball player Heavyn Kind (January) as winners of the Athlete of the Month award during the 2019-20 school year.