15.8 points/4.3 rebounds a game
If they wanted to, a group of former Tiger women's basketball players could band together and form their own collegiate starting five.
Leading the list would be 2008 FHS grad Abby Kenealy, a senior at Southwest State, who leads the Mustangs this winter with respective per game averages of 15.8 points and 4.3 rebounds....2009 female Athlete of the Year, Kirstee Rotty, a starting guard for St. Olaf College, has helped the Oles to an 11-2 start by averaging 11.5 points and 4.7 rebounds a contest.
The other three positions would go to three members of last year's Missota Conference squad that lost to Rochester Mayo in the Section 1 championship game: Jordan Bridges, Elena Koch and Jamie Kenealy.
Bridges just recently returned to action for Jamestown College (North Dakota) after suffering an ankle sprain prior to the holiday break. In her first game back, she tied her season-high with 10 points and grabbed seven rebounds in a lopsided win over Oglala Lakota College.
Elena Koch, College of St. Benedict
3.3 points/1.8 rebounds per game
Koch has played in nine of 11 games as a freshman forward for the College of St. Benedict where she is averaging 3.3 points and 1.8 rebounds a game. Kenealy has averaged 1.1 points and 1.0 rebounds a night for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in nine games.
Another ex-Tiger, Carly Chell, who transferred after her sophomore season and eventually graduated from Apple Valley, is in the regular rotation for Wisconsin-Superior...Even when Abby Kenealy graduates from Southwest State next spring, another Tiger will be ready to make the jump to collegiate ball with senior Taylor Meyer set to play for Minnesota-Duluth.
Former Tiger 1000-point scorer Josh Zitzmann (2009) is averaging 10.3 points and four rebounds a game for Rochester Community and Technical College...Another 2009 FHS grad, Jake Lippert, a junior on the University of St. Thomas men's basketball team, has been on the shelf after being injured in the Tommies first game of the season.
Nate Rowan
Minnesota Twins intern
Nate Rowan of the FHS class of 2005, who has been covering Tiger boys and girls hockey for this website this winter, has been awarded one of two internships by the Minnesota Twins for the 2012 season. Rowan, who owns a degree in journalism from Concordia College, will be working with the production of the Twins radio broadcasts. He starts his internship by working at the annual TwinsFest the last week in January.
2007 FHS grad JJ Akin, who went on to play football at Gustavus Adolphus College, will be returning to the St. Peter campus, this time as an employee. Starting this month, Akin joins that school's Office of Admissions as a counselor...Trevor Davis, a 2008 Tiger graduate, has coached the FHS B-squad boys basketball team to a perfect 10-0 record this season. Davis, a senior javelin thrower on the Hamline University track and field team, intends to pursue a career in coaching at the collegiate level.
2005 FHS male Athlete of the Year Kevin Kratz who later played hockey at Concordia College is managing a restaurant in Lillehammer, Norway, the site of the 1994 Winter Olympics.
