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Sonja Henning voted most-impactful Wisconsin high school girls basketball player
VIDEO: Who are the best Wisconsin high school athletes of all time?
As part of a USA TODAY project looking at the greatest athletes ever, we’re identifying Wisconsin’s best in several high school sports.
On May 14, we debuted the third in a series of reader polls asking who you consider the best high school girls basketball players in Wisconsin history, with 10 primary suggestions. We received nearly 1,800 votes, and here’s how people voted:
Sonja Henning voted as most impactful player in Wisconsin high school girls basketball history
Former Racine Horlick standout Sonja Henning was the reader’s choice for the best girls basketball player in state history after receiving 608 votes.
The lightning-quick Henning, a Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee in 2010, scored 2,236 points as a four-year starter at Horlick. When her high school career ended in 1987, she was the leading girls scorer in state history.
Henning was a two-time first-team all-state pick and the state’s Ms. Basketball winner in 1987, when she also made the Parade All-America team.
She continued her basketball career at Stanford, helping the Cardinal to the 1990 national championship and earning All-America honors as a senior.
After leaving Stanford, she played in several professional leagues before joining the WNBA and helping the Houston Comets win the league title in 1999. She spent most of the next three seasons with the Seattle Storm before ending her WNBA career in 2003 with the Indiana Fever.
While Henning was the top choice, she wasn’t the only popular one.
Here’s how you voted.
Our top 10:
1. Sonja Henning, Racine Horlick: 608
2. Heidi Bunek, Milwaukee Pius XI: 390
3. Anna DeForge, Niagara: 337
4. Arike Ogunbowale, Divine Savior Holy Angels: 143
5. Mistie Bass, Janesville Parker: 56
6. Jolene Anderson, South Shore: 52
7. Megan Gustafson, South Shore: 47
8. Janel McCarville, Stevens Point: 38
9. Angie Halbleib, Middleton: 15
10. Nicole Griffin, Milwaukee Vincent: 5
Here are the other names suggested as the most impactful in Wisconsin history
With the option to select someone other than our group of 10, we received 57 submissions, including many who received more than one vote.
Others with 2 or more votes:
LaTonya Sims, Racine Park: 15
Allie Ziebell, Neenah: 12
Jennah Burkholder, Janesville Parker: 4
Jenni Kraft, Milwaukee Pius XI: 4
Natalie Kussow, Hartland Arrowhead: 4
Ann Klapperich, Fond du Lac: 3
Katie Voigt, Lakeland: 3
Jorey Buwalda, Randolph: 2
Ann Kattreh, Kohler: 2
Natisha Hiedeman, Green Bay Southwest: 2
Tiffany Mor, Fox Valley Lutheran: 2
Kamy Peppler, Hortonville: 2
Nicole Polka, Greendale: 2
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Unveils Culver’s Uniform Patch in New Video Ahead of 2026 CFB Season
Wisconsin’s sports teams will have a fitting jersey patch on their uniforms this year.
The Badgers unveiled a Culver’s uniform patch in a new video on Tuesday.
The fast food restaurant, known for its ButterBurgers and Frozen Custard, was founded in Wisconsin and is beloved by those in the state. Now, Culver’s has partnered up with the state’s flagship university.
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What did prized Wisconsin commit Baboucarr Ann average in 2025-26?
The Wisconsin Badgers basketball offseason has looked slightly different than normal through the month of June.
Head coach Greg Gard’s class of 2027 rounds out the month of June, featuring three high-profile high school talents. Headlined by four-star in-state sensation Jalen Brown, the class also features three-star center Jack Thelen and Baboucarr Ann, Minnesota’s No. 1 prospect for the class of ’27.
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While 247Sports considers Brown the No. 70 player, No. 13 shooting guard, and No. 5 recruit from Wisconsin for the class of 2027, Ann’s status as a small forward is certainly comparable. The outlet’s composite ranking ranks Ann as the No. 63 overall player, No. 18 small forward, and top-rated recruit from his state, making the tandem one of the most prestigious duos to commit to UW in recent history.
247Sports’ director of scouting Adam Finkelstein had this to say about Ann in his recruiting profile:
“Ann is a long-armed, two-way wing who already has versatile tools and yet plenty of potential to keep improving for the foreseeable future… Ann is a long-armed, two-way wing who already has versatile tools and yet plenty of potential to keep improving for the foreseeable future.”
But how did Ann perform during his latest season with Maple Grove High School in Maple Grove, Minnesota?
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Through 31 games, he averaged 18.9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 1.4 steals per appearance, according to StribVarsity. If Ann can provide even half of that production as a freshman, Wisconsin’s wing depth could look quite scary when he arrives in Madison.
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3 dead after crash involving UTV, truck in western Wisconsin
BURNETT CO., Wisc. (FOX 9) – A crash involving a utility terrain vehicle (UTV) and truck in Burnett County, Wisconsin, killed three people after authorities believe the UTV failed to stop at an intersection.
Burnett County UTV, truck crash
What we know:
The Burnett County Sheriff’s Office says its dispatch received the report of a crash at the intersection of County Highway A and Connors Bridge Road around 6:38 p.m. on June 27.
Upon arrival, authorities determined that a white Dodge pickup truck was traveling westbound on County Highway A when the UTV traveling northbound on Connors Bridge Road failed to stop at a stop sign, resulting in a collision.
At the scene of the crash, authorities determined that the UTV driver, Gary Shreindel, 69, of Anoka, and two passengers – Constance Klatt, 68, of Anoka and Debra Nye, 69, of Lodi, Ohio – died as a result of the collision.
Following the crash, the pickup reportedly caught fire, but was extinguished without injury to the driver, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Source: Information provided by the Burnett County Sheriff’s Office.
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