Albany Girls Basketball Receives Sportsmanship Award

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, in cooperation with Rural Mutual Insurance, has chosen the recipients of the team Sportsmanship Awards for the 2023 winter State Tournaments. The award winner in girls basketball is Albany. The Comets were the only undefeated team at 28-0 entering the State Tournament, its first appearance at State in program history. The fourth seed in the Division 5 bracket fell to top-seed and eventual champion McDonell Catholic 59-20 in the semifinals. It is the third time Albany has been presented the award and the first time in girls basketball and as a stand-alone program. The previous two recognitions were as members of a co-op. They shared the award with Evansville, the host team of the co-op for team wrestling in 2014, and with Juda, which was the host school of a co-op in softball in 2017.