Ipswich senior named All-State GBB

Ipswich girls' basketball standout Kamryn Heinz has been selected to the South Dakota Basketball Coaches Association's Class B All-State First Team.

Heinz, an IHS senior, has worked her way up the all-state recognition ladder. As a sophomore, she was third-team all-state and as a junior a second-teamer. And her 2018-19 leadership definitely factored into Ipswich making a long awaited trip to the State B, where the Lady Tigers finished seventh. And all that despite tearing her ACL in July and then putting herself on the fast track to rehabilitate!

Her career and season numbers speak for themselves. She averaged 18 points and 10 rebounds as a senior, a double-double in anybody's book. She was number one in IHS program history in career three-pointers (151), assists (359) and is second all-time in career points (1,732) and rebounds (884). She once scored 37 points in a single game last year against Faulkton, a school record.

That definitely describes her amazing versatility as a player and that she is like a coach on the floor when she is on the court. That's why she posts such impressive numbers in both scoring and passing the ball to open teammates, as well as rebounding at only 5-9, according to her coach Brian Hogie.

She joins four other seniors on the first-team, Ethan's Karly Gustafson, Avon's Lauren Sees, Warner's Laurie Rogers and Tripp-Delmont/Armour's Mattilynn Reiner. White River sophomore Caelyn Valandra-Prue rounds out the six-member first-team list. Gustafson is the Class B player of the year. Heinz and Rogers were both selected to play for the Class B team in the March 23 32nd Annual 3-Class Shootout in Salem.