LCHS Senior Kloe Froebe named
2023-24 Gatorade Illinois Girls Basketball Player of the Year
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[March 14, 2024]
In
its 39th year of honoring the nation’s most elite high school
athletes, Gatorade today announced Kloe Froebe of Lincoln Community
High School is the 2023-24 Gatorade Illinois Girls Basketball Player
of the Year. Froebe is the first Gatorade Illinois Girls Basketball
Player of the Year to be chosen from Lincoln Community High School.
The award, which celebrates the nation’s top high school athletes
for excellence on the court, in the classroom and in the community,
distinguishes Froebe as Illinois’ best high school girls basketball
player. From CEOs and coaches to star athletes, Gatorade Player of
the Year winners showcase the power of sport, touting an all-star
group of alumni that includes Candace Parker (2003-04, 2002-03 &
2001-02, Naperville Central High School, Ill.), Paige Bueckers
(2017-18, Hopkins High School, Minn.) and Juju Watkins (2022-23 &
2021-22, Sierra Canyon School, Calif.).
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The 5-foot-9 senior guard led the Railsplitters to a 38-0 record and
the Class 3A state championship this past season. Froebe averaged
28.7 points, 6.6 rebounds, 5.2 steals and 4.8 assists, and she
poured in a title-game record 36 points to go with six assists in
Lincoln’s 60-44 win over Glenwood High School in the state final. A
four-time Class 3A First Team All-State selection, she was the
runner-up for Ms. Basketball as a junior. She scored 1,063 points as
a senior and concluded her prep basketball career at No. 5 in state
history with 3,262 points.
A three-year class president and now the student body president at
Lincoln Community High School, Froebe is a member of the Future
Business Leaders of America. She has volunteered locally as part of
multiple fundraising campaigns to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s
Research Hospital, and she has donated her time as a youth
basketball coach and at a food pantry. “Kloe Froebe really is an
unbelievable basketball player,” said Brandon Rose, head coach of
Rochester High School. “As an opposing coach, you hate going up
against her, but you love watching her play. She has no weaknesses
to her game.”
Froebe has maintained a weighted 4.92 GPA in the classroom and ranks
No. 1 in her class. She has signed a national letter of intent to
play basketball on scholarship at Colorado State University this
fall.
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The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually
recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50
states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys
and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls
soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and
awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection
process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection
Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media
and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state
winners in each sport.
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Froebe joins recent Gatorade Illinois Girls
Basketball Players of the Year Lenee Beaumont (2022-23, Benet
Academy), Katy Eidle (2021-22, John Hersey High School), Greta
Kampschroeder (2020-21, Naperville North High School) and Angela
Dugalic (2019-20, Maine West High School), among the state’s list of
former award winners.
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As part of Gatorade’s commitment to breaking down
barriers in sport, every Player of the Year also receives a grant to
donate to a social impact partner. To date, Gatorade Player of the
Year winners’ grants have totaled more than
$4.9 million across more than 1,600 organizations.
To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check
out past winners or to nominate student- athletes, visit
playeroftheyear.gatorade.com or follow us on social media.
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