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Five Illinois senior girls basketball players -- Young's Ashlee Anderson, Marshall's Adrienne "NuNu" GodBold, Lincoln-Way East's Kersten Magrum, St. Charles North's Kelsey Smith and Marian Catholic's Kaila Turner -- are on the prelimnary ballot for a spot in the McDonald's All-American game that will be played in Miami, Fla.
Anderson (Pitt) and Turner (Notre Dame) are headed to the Big East while GodBold and Magrum (Illinois) and Smith (Michigan State) are Big Ten-bound
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Why don't we see Ashley Wilson from Wheeling High School on this list?
after seeing Magrum at Fenwick she has my vote
I also saw LWE's Magrum play in both the Marian Catholic and Fenwick games. She is worthy of playing in the McDonald's All-American game.
Ashley Wilson was nominated to the McDonalds All-American team though you never mentioned her on your little list and it's so pathetic how the Chgo Sun-times reporters show they have so little respect the for Wheelings girls basketball team. They may have lost to Whitney Young but they are still the better team and I think you all know it. The nicest comment you could come up with is that they have the easiest path to 4A. Geneva is undefeated, what tough teams have they played or will they play.....none!!!
There were 30 seniors from Illinois nominated for the McDonald's girls game
Trust me, I know who they are
I am the person who nominates the players from Illinois
There were only five girls on the preliminary ballot, the five I mentioned in my little list
Ashley WIlson was not on the ballot
It was not my list, it was their list
Wheeling does have the easiest path to the Final Four. There is nothing not nice about it, it's the truth.
I don't make the pairings or assign teams where they go
Wheeling didn't just lose to Whitney Young last month, they got blown out
On that night, they were not even close to being the better team
If they play again, we'll see
And Geneva is better than you think
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my blog. My opinion of the Chgo reports still has not changed. I find you all completely bias. Yes Wheeling lost by 20 pts to WY but they have also beat almost every other team they've playd by 20+ pts. I know you don't make the pairings but neither does Wheeling and trust me I know Geneva has not beat any rank team this season. And everyone that Whitney Young beat was not the best teams either but you all make it seem like their beating all top ranked teams.
I've only been covering the girls for a month, but since Wheeling beat Fenwick at Thanksgiving in a game that was decided when Fenwick's best player was on the bench with foul trouble, they did not play a top team except Young the rest of the season.
Geneva did beat a ranked team when they played Batavia the first time. Batavia was unbeaten until then. They are still 22-4.
They also played three teams in the Benet tournament that have winning records
I'm not trying to make it seem like anything
No team can control who the teams in their conference are but Whitney Young won a national tournament in Phoenix. They played in a shootout against state-ranked teams from New Jersey. They played an unbeaten (at the time) nationally ranked team in Indiana whose best player is going to UConn. They beat three ranked teams at Thanksgiving (Von Steuben, St. Charles North and Montini), They beat Marshall three times and Bogan, all ranked teams. They beat TF North (before it lost a top player to an ACL) and won by almost 40. And they blew Wheeling out at Willowbrook and Young played only freshmen and sophomores the last five minutes and Wheeling had its starters in.
Why wasnt anyone from bolingbrook on that team. It doesnt matter. The State Championship Game speaks for it self.