Volleyball: Whitefish, Polson have 2 All-State picks

Nov. 16—Whitefish's Isabella Hartwig and Brooke Zetooney and Polson's Avery Starr and Mckenna Hanson have been named All-State for volleyball out of the Northwest A.

The league coaches chose their all-Northwest A teams, and a third Polson Pirate made first team: Julia Barnard. Bigfork's Ava Davey also was first-team all-Northwest A; she and Hartwig are juniors, while the rest of the first team are seniors.

Hartwig and Zetooney were the top hitters for a Whitefish squad that finished third at the Western A Divisional and qualified for the State A tournament for the first time since 2018. The Bulldogs went 17-12 this season.

Starr, Barnard and Hanson helped Polson make it to Bozeman for the first straight season. The Pirates won a match at State and finished 12-8.

The complete honors team list is below.

Northwest A

All-State/All-Conference

First team

Avery Starr, sr. Polson*

Brooke Zetooney, sr. Whitefish*

Mckenna Hanson, sr. Polson*

Isabella Hartwig, jr. Whitefish*

Ava Davey, jr. Bigfork

Julia Barnard, sr. Polson

*-denotes All-State selection.

Second team

Maddie Moultray, sr. Columbia Falls

Jerel Whitegrass, sr. Browning

Myli Ridgeway, jr. Whitefish

Taylor Howlett, so. Bigfork

Emalee Alton, jr. Columbia Falls

McKenna Corley, fr. Ronan

Honorable mention — Natalie St. Goddard, sr., Browning; Samantha Rensvold, jr., Polson; Seattle Adams, jr., Ronan; Bailey Smith, sr., Whitefish; Hannah Simpson, sr., Polson; Lauryn Buhr, jr., Ronan; Ainsley Scott, sr., Whitefish.

Coach of the Year — Addy Connelly, Whitefish