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Girls' basketball: best of the best

By Tim Kolehmainen, Breakdown Sports Media, 05/14/18, 2:00PM CDT

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Walstad named 2017-18 Breakdown girls' hoops player of the year

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The Breakdown is pleased to announce its 2017-18 Minnesota high school girls' basketball players and coaches of the year. After leading her team to an undefeated state championship season in Class AAAA, Eastview's Megan Walstad was honored as the overall Breakdown player of the year. The full list of honorees is below:

Overall

  • POY — Megan Walstad, Eastview
  • COY — Kiara Buford, Robbinsdale Cooper

Class AAAA

  • POY — Megan Walstad, Eastview
  • COY — Molly Kasper, Eastview and Jen Wagner, Forest Lake

Class AAA

  • POY — Heaven Hamling, Grand Rapids
  • COY — Kiara Buford, Robbinsdale Cooper and Wendy Kohler, Alexandria

Class AA

  • POY — Maesyn Thiesen, Sauk Centre
  • COY — Scott Bergman, Sauk Centre and Chris Whiting, Mesabi East

Class A

  • POY — Kristi Fett, Lyle/Pacelli
  • COY — Justin Morris, Lyle/Pacelli and Ryan Hulke, Sleepy Eye

Congratulations to our postseason players and coaches of the year for the 2017-18 Minnesota high school girls' basketball season!

For the past 16 years, the Breakdown has covered the high school sports scene in Minnesota, naming both a preseason and postseason player of the year in each sport covered for each year (16 years of girls' and boys' basketball, 11 years of boys' hockey and girls' volleyball, four years of boys' baseball, one year of girls' softball, and soon to be our first year of girls' hockey).

We've complied that full list of players through the years, which is peppered with recognizable names from Minnesota's high school sports history. The full list may be found at: http://www.breakdownsportsusa.com/page/show/336134