Rockwood Spring Sports Athletes Earn All-Metro Recognition from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Rockwood Spring Sports Athletes Earn All-Metro Recognition from St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A total of 36 Rockwood School District spring sports student-athletes representing all four high schools earned All-Metro recognition from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
These athletes -- 17 boys and 19 girls -- made the Post-Dispatch All-Metro teams in baseball, golf, lacrosse, soccer, track and field, volleyball, water polo. A total of 15 athletes earned first-team honors -- including Players of the Year Kyle Kubasta (Lafayette High, boys volleyball) and Kylee Pickens (Eureka High, girls lacrosse) -- 12 earned second-team recognition, and nine were named to the third team.
Congratulations to these outstanding Rockwood student-athletes!
First Team All-Metro
- Kyle Kubasta, Lafayette, boys volleyball (Player of the Year)
- Kylee Pickens, Eureka, girls lacrosse (Player of the Year)
- Natalie Barnard, Lafayette, girls track and field
- Michael Callahan, Lafayette, baseball
- Callaway Combs, Eureka, girls soccer
- Mia Fernandez, Eureka, girls lacrosse
- Maddie Gregston, Rockwood Summit, girls lacrosse
- Katie Jundt, Rockwood Summit, girls soccer
- Marin Lally, Marquette, girls lacrosse
- Matt Robb, Eureka, boys lacrosse
- Margaret Schnieders, Rockwood Summit, girls lacrosse
- Noah Schott, Lafayette-Eureka, water polo(co-ed)
- Blaine Schutte, Eureka, girls soccer
- Thomas Shuert, Marquette boys golf
- Lucas Tran, Lafayette, boys volleyball
Second Team All-Metro
- Jack Behl, Lafayette, boys lacrosse
- Ruby Copeland, Eureka, girls lacrosse
- Emily Derucki, Lafayette, girls soccer
- Maddie Gibson, Rockwood Summit, girls lacrosse
- Addison Keen, Lafayette, girls soccer
- Neveah Kerber, Marquette, water polo (co-ed)
- Sydney Kronauge, Marquette (2nd Team)
- Landon Matthews, Lafayette, baseball
- Dominic Mazzola, Marquette, boys golf
- Yash Rao, Rockwood Summit, boys golf
- Drew Stubblefield, Eureka, boys lacrosse
- Owen Waeckerle, Lafayette-Eureka, water polo (co-ed)
Third Team All-Metro
- Maria Anderson, Rockwood Summit, girls lacrosse
- Nate Bridges, Eureka, boys lacrosse
- Logan Darnell, Rockwood Summit, baseball
- Jimmy Farmer, Marquette, boys lacrosse
- Cassidy Kerber, Marquette, water polo (co-ed)
- Griffin Lobdell, Lafayette, boys lacrosse
- Sienna Nicholson, Rockwood Summit, girls soccer
- Brooke Samuelson, Eureka, girls lacrosse
- Xander Schmitt, Lafayette, baseball
Schutte, Keen Earn Soccer All-America, All-Region Honors
Recent Eureka High graduate Blaine Schutte was one of 43 players from around the nation -- and only four from Missouri -- to be named to the United Soccer Coaches High School All-America team.
Schutte and Lafayette High's Addison Keen were also among 19 players from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma to be named to the United Soccer Coaches High School All-Central Region team.
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