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9^th State Championship Basketball,

Swimmer Led IWA’s Successful Season

By Jim Wieners

Winning Missouri State High School Activities Association Team Championships are nothing new for Incarnate Word Academy, especially in Girls Basketball.

However, having an IWA individual win a state title is. In addition, it came in Girls Swimming, with Sophomore Ellie Wehrmann winning two titles.

IWA Basketball won an MSHSAA-record ninth state title since 1995, their eighth since 2006 and their fifth in the last six years as a Class Four team. That ties Girls Soccer, which also owns an MSHSAA record nine titles (1989-2009), for second at IWA behind Girls Volleyball (11-1976-2005). Overall IWA has won 29 state titles since 1976, which ties the combined total of Berkeley High and McCluer South-Berkeley (of which 28 are in Track and Field) for the most state titles among North County High Schools.

Besides Basketball, IWA, an all-Girls high school, took home four state trophies. Incarnate Soccer became the closest to winning state without winning it at all by taking second place to Rockwood-Summit nearly two weeks ago. Last Fall IWA finished fourth in State in Softball and Volleyball (losing twice to Pleasant Hill).

Overall IWA won district titles in Tennis, Softball, Volleyball, Cross Country, Basketball and Soccer. Tennis lost in the Quarterfinals to eventual third-place finisher Mary Institute-Country Day School (5-3). State Cross Country came in 15th-place out of 16 teams. IWA won the Midwest Women’s Athletic Association titles in Softball and Basketball.

Meanwhile   Wehrmann won Class One Swimming titles last February at the St. Peters Rec-Plex in the 100- and 200-Yard Freestyles. It is the first year of Swimming as a two-Class Sport. In Tennis, last October (2017) in Springfield, the doubles team of Maria Brandt and Elizabeth Goldstein took Class One State Runner Up.

TRINITY CATHOLIC — Track And Field took home Class Three State Trophies after the Boys Girls won District Three and Sectional Two. The Boys were Class Three State Runner Up while the Girls took Third Place.

Junior Kemric Winston, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch All-Metro Multi-Events selection, won state in the Boys 100- and 200-Meter Dashes while the Boys 4×100- and 4×200-Meter Relays won State titles. Freshman Sydney Juszczyk, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newcomer of the Year, won State Girls Javelin, junior DeAyvion Smith won State Girls 400-Meter Dash and the Girls 4×200-Meter Relay won State.

Girls Soccer won Class One, District Three before losing 1-0 in the Quarterfinals to State Runner Up Principia. Trinity won Archdiocesan Athletic Association Small Division titles in Football and Boys Basketball, both teams were District Runner Up.

LUTHERAN NORTH — The only State trophy the Crusaders took home was the Class Two Football Semifinal Trophy after Lutheran North lost a 7-6 heart breaker to State Champion Lamar. Lutheran North won district titles in Football, Girls Volleyball, Girls Basketball (Quarterfinalist0, Girls Soccer and Baseball. Lutheran North won Metro League titles in Football and Girls Basketball. Junior Joshua Hopkins took Class Three State Field Runner Up in the Long Jump.

CORRECTION — Rockwood Summit Girls Soccer Coach Chris Kappler is male, not female.

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