Sanner Tabbed As Athlete Of The Week After scoring 11 points and grabbing 11 rebounds in Warsaw’s first two games, Abby Sanner came off the bench to record 21 points and gather 16 rebounds in the Lady Tigers’ win at Tippecanoe Valley Saturday.
For that effort, Sanner has been named the Times-Union Athlete of the Week for Nov. 11-16.
Lady Vikings coach Chris Kindig joked the 6-foot-2 Sanner may in reality be closer to 6-5. “Sanner looks like she’s about 6-5,” said Kindig. “She’s not 6-5, but she sure looks like she’s 6-5. She’s strong as an ox, and she gets the ball two feet from the basket and turns around, that’s tough to defend that.”
Warsaw head coach Lenny Krebs said the sophomore is just learning to use her physical gifts to her advantage.
“I also think it took Abby a while to realize that she had a true advantage and we were gonna keep looking for her,” said Krebs. “In the first half I thought she started out really aggressive, and then she kind of lost that aggressiveness there for a while. But I thought the second half she was extremely aggressive.
“You can’t teach 6-2, and the strength that she has. I don’t think she understands how good she’s really capable of being.”
After Wednesday’s matchup with Wabash, Warsaw will play a pair of games at the Northern Lakes/Duneland Conference Shootout in Merrillville Saturday.
