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Badger announces Academic Top 10 Badger High School recognized its Class of 2022 Academic Scholars during the annual Southern Lakes Conference Academic Honors banquet.

After four years, according to the school, the 10 Badger seniors have achieved the highest academic ranks in their graduating class.

Seniors recognized include Zachary Blasiman, Nolan Cassidy, Emma Fasano, Grace Geils, Benton Greenberg, Bergen Greenley, Katherine Murray, Thomas Whowell, Anna Wollaeger and Evan Wruk.

The conference principals announced the top academic graduates from each of the eight schools in an April 10 banquet.

Each student received an Academic Excellence Award at the banquet.

Badger seniors received an Academic Excellence Award at an April 10 Southern Lakes Conference banquet (top row, from left) Badger Principal Jennifer Straus, Grace Geils, Anna Wollaeger, Bergen Greenley, Emma Fasano, Katherine Murray, and Superintendent James Gottinger; (bottom) Zachary Blasiman, Nolan Cassidy, Thomas Whowell, Benton Greenberg, Evan Wruk.

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PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Out-work everyone

Badger’s Berghorn breaks rushing record, will play college football at Minnesota

By Mike Ramczyk CORRESPONDENT

He lives all the way down on the Illinois-Wisconsin border.

It’s a quiet setting, with five acres, a big silo and miles of farmland in all directions.

It’s a Walworth address, and across the street is Illinois.

Cole Berghorn lives in the Big Foot district and attended Reek Elementary, but when it came time to go to high school, Berghorn and a lot of his friends he grew up playing football with wanted to go to big, bad Badger – even if it meant a 20-minute drive to school every day.

During an interview last December, the 18-year-old Lake Geneva Badger graduate was just chilling at home with mom Heather on a Friday night, nursing his injured knee on crutches and hoping to fully heal by the beginning of the year. The living room is festive with a towering Christmas tree, and it’s just Cole, mom and the family dog hanging out.

It was only a few months prior that Berghorn was fighting for extra yards during a WIAA Division 2 playoff game against Kettle Moraine when four players piled on and Berghorn heard a pop.

He ended up tearing a ligament in the knee and missing most of the biggest game of his life.

Badger fought hard without its star player and went into overtime before the Lasers won, 13-7. It took a diving catch in the back of the end zone to beat the Badgers, who finished 8-3.

Berghorn was held to 39

yards, a season low, on six carries.

And the 6-foot, 215-pound beast of a runner still ended up with a mind-boggling 2,178 yards for the season.

It only took Berghorn seven games to shatter the previous school record of 1,546 yards, set by Tyler VanDeVelde in 2015.

In fact, he ran for 200 yards in a game seven times, including six in a row, totaling 27 touchdowns and 9.9 yards per carry.

His season high was 328 yards on a mere 26 carries against rival Waterford.

In the one playoff game he started and finished, a 21-20 victory over Milton, he ran for 222 yards.

Berghorn earned first team all-state and all-region honors and was named the Southern Lakes Conference player of the year.

For his efforts, Berghorn was named the 2021 Southern Lakes Newspapers All-Area Football player of the year.

The right school for running Berghorn chose the right school to become an elite running back.

Badger is a “Running Back U” for its success on the ground, as it regularly racks up the most rushing yards in the area.

With talented runners like VanDeVelde, Peter Krien, Trevor York, Chris Walker, Kyle Poplar, Badger’s system has helped produce memorable stats and seasons during the 15-year Matt Hensler era.

But now Berghorn stands alone in a class by himself.

He is a preferred walk-on

Elkhorn for physical therapy.

He also works out to strengthen the rest of his body at Evolve Performance Training Center (EPTC) in Lake Geneva, where owner Cory Englebert practically gave Cole a key to the place for whenever he wants to train, not only with weights and running but also football-specific training.

The bottom line is Berghorn had a decent junior season before turning heads at summer football camps thanks to a huge offseason of living in the gym.

He was thrilled to be stacking up the postseason awards.

“It means a lot,” said Berghorn, sitting in the dining room of his home during the interview. “I worked really hard for it. It’s cool to see that hard work really does pay off.

It’s a great feeling.”

MIKE RAMCZYK Lake Geneva Grad

Lake Geneva Badger senior running back Cole Berghorn shattered the school rushing record with 2,178 yards in 2021 and earned all-state honors in the process. He is the Southern Lakes Newspapers Player of the Year.

for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, Wisconsin’s Big 10 neighbor and rival, and he earned every bit of this dream come true.

“Cole is an awesome kid and a tremendous worker,” said Hensler. “One of the hardest workers we’ve had.

His practice habits are unbelievable. A few weeks into his sophomore year, he just kind of flipped a switch. We knew then that he was going to be

something special. He’s been on a steady climb ever since.

“He was a great leader for us and obviously had an awesome season and has had such a positive impact on our program. He’s been so much fun to work with and to watch play.”

To give you an idea of his dedication, Berghorn has three gym periods in school, and since he is injured is able to leave school to drive to

A season to remember Cole said Badger’s welloiled triple option offense, where the quarterback is constantly faking handoffs to three different backs, and the defense often can’t locate who has the ball, helped him put up video game numbers.

He credited his offensive line and quarterback Kegan Huber, a first team All-Area selection that will be playing at Division 1-AA North Dakota State this year.

“It worked out great with me and him,” Cole said.

“They would always think I would get the ball, but whenever he kept the ball, he’d be gone.”

Berghorn opened the season with a 120-yard performance in a loss at Greendale.

Badger student wins National Merit Scholarship Wollaeger became one of 1,000 distinguished students to earn award

Anna Wollaeger, a Badger High School student, earned a Corporate-Sponsored National Merit Scholarship.

She was one of 1,000 distinguished high school seniors around the United States to earn the honor.

Wollaeger earned the scholarship from Snap-on Incorporated.

Scholars were selected from students who advanced to the Finalist level in the National Merit Scholarship competition and met the criteria of their scholarship sponsors.

Corporate sponsors provide National Merit Scholarships for Finalists who are children of their employees, who are residents of communities the company serves, or who plan to pursue college majors or careers the sponsor wishes to encourage.

According to the NMSC, high school juniors entered the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program when they took the 2020 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.

Semifinalists first had to advance to the next round by fulfilling additional requirements.

Each semifinalist had to submit a detailed scholarship application, which included writing an essay and providing

information about extracurricular activities, awards, and leadership positions.

Semifinalists also had to have an outstanding academic record, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, and earn SAT scores that confirmed the qualifying test performance. From the semifinalist group, over 15,000 students met finalist requirements.

By the conclusion of the 2022 competition, about 7,500 Finalists will receive National Merit Scholarships totaling nearly $28 million.

According to evaluators, winners are finalists who have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

NMSC, a not-for-profit organization that operates without government assistance, was established in 1955 to conduct the National Merit Scholarship Program.

The majority of National Merit Scholarships offered each year are underwritten by some 400 independent corporate and college sponsors that support NMSC’s efforts to honor the nation’s scholastically talented youth and encourage academic excellence at all levels of education.

Anna Wollaeger

Then, he flipped a switch and reeled off six straight games of 200 or more yards. In a nine-game stretch, he ran for 2,026 yards.

Cole finished fourth in the state in the rushing yards, and there were only seven kids with more than 2,000 rushing yards.

In perhaps the game of the year, Badger and Union Grove met Oct. 8 in Union Grove with the Southern Lakes championship on the line as both squads came in undefeated in conference play.

It was a battle of the league’s two best running backs, as the Grove’s Cody Cotton ran for 209 yards and four touchdowns and Berghorn ran for 170 as the Broncos won, 27-22, and went on to capture the league title.

Cotton had missed the previous four games with an injury.

“Cody’s a good player (and) that was a tough game,” Berghorn said. “That was more like pounding, like yard by yard.”

Berghorn was held to 5.9 yards per carry, but the game could’ve gone either way.

“My parents have shown me how to work hard, especially my dad. He’s a very hard worker,” Berghorn said.

“Also, I looked up to the high school players when I was little. We would stand out there with our jerseys and give them high-fives. I was always so excited for high school football,” he added.

The hard work paid off exponentially, as Cole realized his dream of high school stardom.

Now, it’s about using that work ethic at the next level.

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