Alumni Tracker: Zitzmann helps RCTC to state junior college playoffs

Josh Zitzmann

 2009 Tiger grad Josh Zitzmann hauled in four passes for 108 yards and a pair of touchdowns in Rochester Community and Technical College's 52-0 win over Minnesota West last Saturday. Rochester opens post-season play as the second seed in the Minnesota Junior College playoffs this Saturday...In the same game, another former Tiger, Nick Albano led the Yellowjackets in tackles with eight.

2009 FHS male Athlete of the Year Derek Waldbillig has started all five games at running back for Bethel University this year, scoring six touchdowns...Ex-Tiger Bubba Friedlund has drawn three starts for the Royals at offensive tackle.
 

Alex Carlson

Alex Carlson, a 2007 Tiger grad, who went on to play junior hockey in Iowa after graduation, is a senior forward for Ohio State this winter. The former Tiger skater scored a goal in the Buckeyes' season-opening 3-2 win at Minnesota-Duluth last weekend....Ex-Tiger Krystal Baumann who transferred from Vermont to Minnesota State, Mankato, ranks second on the Mavericks in shots attempted through five games

Former Tiger all-state volleyball player Katie Habeck sits  first in blocks and fifth in kills for Concordia University-St. Paul, the defending NCAA Division II champions who were ranked sixth in last week's national poll...2009 Tiger female Athlete of the Year Kirstee Rotty leads the St. Olaf College volleyball team in digs, averaging 5.87 per set...Danielle Dombeck of the Tiger class of 2010 ranks third in digs for North Dakota State University

Kayla Seivert

Former FHS girls soccer standout Kayla Seivert is a starting defender for the University of Wisconsin-Stout....2012 Tiger alum Kelli Harstad has started every match for the St. Mary's University soccer team in his her freshman season.

Sam Leske, a second team all-state selection last year at FHS, has started six games this fall for Gustavus Adolphus who sport a 10-2-1 record heading into this week....Two other players from last year's Tiger team are playing collegiate soccer this fall. Chad Stivers is the starting keeper for Edgewood College (Wisconsin) with a 5-3-1 won-lost record and 1.20 goals against average....Brandon Scott has five goals and four assists in nine games for St. Scholastica who owns a perfect 10-0 record in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC).

Brandon Scott

1989 FHS male Athlete of the Year Matt Walter's Annandale football team takes a 6-1 record into its regular season finale tonight...2006 Tiger grad Brent Mahltsedt, who played basketball and football at St. Olaf College, will coach the Tiger B-squad boys basketball team this winter.

2005 FHS Oscar Lubke Award winner Ben Kampf, a former University of Minnesota track and cross country runner, ran the Twin Cities Marathon 10-mile race two weeks ago, finishing fourth overall in a field of 7632...1991 Lubke Award winner Chris Rupp now lives in Lyon, France, where he ran his first marathon earlier this month...