Local Sports News

Multiple Awards and Accolades Awarded To Hanover Athletes

Senior, football player, Noah Wezensky was awarded the 15^th annual Thomas A. Brady, MD Comeback Scholarship Award earlier this month. The award is given by the Methodist Sports Medicine Foundation and the IHSAA. It is designed to honor both male and female student-athletes at the collegiate and high school levels from Indiana who have distinguished themselves by overcoming adversity or injury that affected their level of, or ability to participate in collegiate or high school sports and excelled beyond expectations. Wezensky fell while hiking and suffered serious injuries that caused him to miss his entire sophomore season. He returned his junior year and was off to a great start before a torn ACL sidelined him just four games into the season. The quarterback returned for his senior season stronger than ever, and threw for nearly 2,400-yards, ranking among the HCAC's best. The senior averaged 234.6 yards per game with 21 touchdowns.

Congratulations to Hanover Women’s Lacrosse Goalie Julia “Juice” Long, for winning the Mildred E. Lemen Mental Attitude Award. This is presented to someone who displays outstanding mental attitude and puts the teams needs above her own. Juice was a backup goalie during her first 2 years, and was voted the team’s captain by her peers her Junior year.