{"id":211381,"date":"2026-10-19T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=211381"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:59:55","slug":"suever-named-nwc-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/19\/suever-named-nwc-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Suever named NWC Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview\u2019s Kara Suever has been named NWC Player of the Year and first team All-NWC in balloting done by conference volleyball coaches. After guiding the Lady Knights to a sixth straight conference championship, Crestview\u2019s Tammy Gregory was named NWC Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suever set a Lincolnview record with 350 kills this season, breaking the record previously held by Kendall Bollenbacher in 2021 (323 kills). Joining Suever on the first team is teammate Brooklyn Byrne, while Makynlee Dickinson was named second team All-NWC.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Kara-Suever-10-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211382\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lincolnview&#8217;s Kara Suever is the NWC Player of the Year. <em>Photo courtesy of Hanna Young<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Crestview\u2019s Kaci Gregory and Ayla Kreischer were named first team All-NWC, while Kaylee Owens was named second team All-NWC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kara Suever, Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaci Gregory, Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lydia Sarka, Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karlie Lora, Bluffton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooklyn Byrne, Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayla Kreischer, Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylin Goldman, Bluffton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Second Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Makynlee Dickinson, Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tatum Schwartz, Spencerville<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alissa Gallemeier, Delphos Jefferson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camryn Fruchey, Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Kaylee Owens, Crestview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aleena Nickles, Allen East<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aubrey Schroeder, Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claire Brinkman, Delphos Jefferson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saige Benroth, Columbus Grove<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reese Merschman, Lima Central Catholic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Player of the Year:<\/strong> Kara Suever, Lincolnview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coach of the Year: <\/strong>Tammy Gregory, Crestview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Lincolnview\u2019s Kara Suever has been named NWC Player of the Year and first team All-NWC in balloting done by conference volleyball coaches. After guiding the Lady Knights to a sixth straight conference championship, Crestview\u2019s Tammy Gregory was named NWC Coach of the Year. Suever set a Lincolnview record with 350 kills this [&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-211381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-26 18:25:01","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\/211381","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=211381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211391,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211381\/revisions\/211391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}