Nearly 30 Rockwood Fall Sports Athletes Earn Post-Dispatch All-Metro
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Nearly 30 Rockwood Fall Sports Athletes Earn Post-Dispatch All-Metro
A total of 27 fall sports student-athletes representing all four Rockwood high schools earned All-Metro recognition from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, including one Player of the Year.
Lafayette High's Shaye Witherspoon (girls volleyball) was named the top area athlete in her sport by the Post-Dispatch, after playing a leading role in the Lancers' fourth straight state championship. This is also the fourth straight year a Lafayette player has earned All-Metro girls volleyball Player of the Year honors and the third year in a row that a Witherspoon has earned the title, following Shaye's older sister, Maya in, 2023 and 2024.
A total of 11 Rockwood athletes were named first-team All-Metro, nine earned second-team honors, and seven were named to the All-Metro third team.
Congratulations to these outstanding Rockwood student-athletes! Click on the links below to learn more.
Player of the Year
First Team
- Paige Bray, softball, Rockwood Summit
- Bella Burlbaw, cross country, Rockwood Summit
- Mason Casso, football, Rockwood Summit
- Noah McCollum, football, Eureka
- Brady Micek, football, Lafayette
- Emily Perone, softball, Rockwood Summit
- Brooke Samuelson, cross country, Eureka
- Devin Walker, football, Rockwood Summit
- Tim Washington, football, Lafayette
- Mia Yin, tennis, Lafayette
Second Team
- Sydney Berger, softball, Lafayette
- Kathryn Carr, softball, Lafayette
- Luke Deutschman, swimming, Eureka
- Baron James, football, Lafayette
- Nick Nusser, soccer, Rockwood Summit
- Teagan Pocius, volleyball, Marquette
- Evan Wade, football, Rockwood Summit
- Addy Wiese, volleyball, Lafayette
- Emily Williams, field hockey, Lafayette
Third Team
- Kayla Arb, field hockey, Rockwood Summit
- Kelly Archambeault, cross country, Lafayette
- Haley Deakin, softball, Eureka
- Colby Durbin, field hockey, Eureka
- Ezekiel Hagen, cross country, Lafayette
- Caroline Ware, golf, Lafayette
- Gavin Waser, swimming, Rockwood Summit
Lafayette's Carter Brown (wrestling) and Marquette's Brody Owen (basketball) were also featured as athletes to watch in their sports as part of the Post-Dispatch winter sports season preview sections.
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