{"id":203058,"date":"2026-02-24T11:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203058"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:53:54","slug":"dowdy-named-to-all-wbl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/24\/dowdy-named-to-all-wbl-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowdy named to All-WBL team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Amaya-Dowdy-2-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203062\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amaya Dowdy was named honorable mention All-WBL. Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amaya Dowdy was Van Wert\u2019s lone all-WBL player in balloting done by league coaches. Dowdy was named honorable mention All-WBL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa-Glandorf\u2019s Karsyn Erford was named WBL Player of the Year and Titan head coach Troy Yant was named WBL Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rachel Rammel (Celina)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lilly Sifrit (Elida)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karsyn Erford (Ottawa-Glandorf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madison Mckee (Ottawa-Glandorf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ava Gadson (Shawnee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophia Menker (St. Marys Memorial)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Izzy McDermott (Bath)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jamie Rollins (Defiance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma Mitchell (Elida)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney Payne (Kenton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alivia Grothouse (Ottawa-Glandorf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cadence Wilson (Shawnee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Third Team<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mara Davis (Bath)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenna Korte (Celina)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lexi Good (Elida)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allison Kuhlman (Ottawa-Glandorf)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Reineke (St. Marys Memorial)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audrey Welsch (Wapakoneta)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bath: Addy Rex<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celina: Brooke Baucher<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defiance: Aliana Stantz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elida: Shae Rager<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenton: Brylee Bostelman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ottawa-Glandof: Savannnah Recker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shawnee: Alexis Whetstone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Marys: Claire Turner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert: Amaya Dowdy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wapakoneta: Sawyer Szelagowski<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Player of the year: Karsyn Erford &#8211; Ottawa-Glandorf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach of the Year: Troy Yant &#8211; Ottawa-Glandorf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Amaya Dowdy was Van Wert\u2019s lone all-WBL player in balloting done by league coaches. Dowdy was named honorable mention All-WBL. Ottawa-Glandorf\u2019s Karsyn Erford was named WBL Player of the Year and Titan head coach Troy Yant was named WBL Coach of the Year. First Team Rachel Rammel (Celina) Lilly Sifrit (Elida) Karsyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:58:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203067,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203058\/revisions\/203067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}