A compiled list of Milwaukee-area high school athletes for the early NLI signing period
Wednesday marks the beginning of the early signing period for Division I and II men’s and women’s basketball and the start of the signing period for all other sports except football.
The early signing period for basketball lasts until next week. The signing period for other sports except football goes until August. The early signing period for football begins Dec. 20.
Here is the list of Milwaukee-area commitments for all levels of collegiate play as provided by area athletic directors. To make additions or corrections, please contact the specific school's athletic director to have them get in contact with the Journal Sentinel.
Note: this list will be updated over the next couple of days, so names that aren't initially on the list will be added later once more are made available.
Baseball
Hartford: Division-I — RJ Thomae, Valparaiso University
Homestead: Division-I — Jackson Brewer, Columbia University; Division-II — Grant Poindexter, Cedarville University; Division-III — Will Van Laanen, St. Norbert College
Marquette: Division II — Andrew Halser, UW-Parkside; Division-III — Joey Halser, UW-Stevens Point
Oak Creek: Division-I — Payten Jibben, University of Illinois-Chicago; CJ Trask, Bradley University Division-II: — Nathan Hanel, UW-Parkside; Division-III — Austin Koberstein, UW-River Falls; Brady Rickert, Heartland Community College
Sussex Hamilton: Division-I — Ben Moser, University of St. Thomas (Minn.); Division-II — Noah Vernon, Winona State University
Union Grove: Division-II — Hayden Jamison, College of Lake County
Wisconsin Lutheran: Eddie Rynders, Kent State University
Men's basketball
Brookfield Central: Division-I — Jack Daugherty, Illinois State University
Carmen Northwest: Division-I — Dupree Fletcher Jr., Grambling State University
Grafton: Division-II — Michael McNabb Jr., Northern Michigan University
Homestead: Division-I — Tim Franks, University of St. Thomas (Minn.)
Marquette: Division-I — Nolan Minessale, University of St. Thomas (Minn.)
Milwaukee Lutheran: Division-II — Isaiah Allen, Northern Michigan University
Pewaukee: Division-I — Nick Janowski, University of Nebraska
Wisconsin Lutheran: Division-I — Kon Knueppel, Duke University
Women's basketball
Germantown: Division-II — Lucy Leininger, Minnesota State University
Grafton: Division-II — Sara Aleknavicius, Hillsdale College; Savannah James, Quincy University
Homestead: Division-II — Katelyn Odem, Truman State University
Wilmot: Division-I — McKenna Johnson, University of Minnesota
Men's cross country/track and field
Pewaukee: NAIA — Matteo Baldwin-Alvarado, Taylor University (Ind.)
Women's cross country/track and field
Brookfield Central: Division-III — Keagan Knue, Carroll University
Women's golf
Badger: Division-III — Chloe Chappell, UW-Platteville
Brookfield East: Division-I — Madison Haugen, Loyola University (Ill.)
Wilmot: Division-III — Payton Morton, UW-Oshkosh
Men's lacrosse
Brookfield Central: Division-III — Charlie Burghardt, Rhodes College; Owen Miller, Illinois Wesleyan University
Marquette: Division-II — Carter Karoly, Rockhurst (Mo.)
Women's lacrosse
Oak Creek: Division-III — Tessa Klauser, UW-Stevens Point
Men's soccer
Brookfield East: Division-I — Jack Wandschneider, Marquette University
Burlington: Division-I — Benjamin Graham, Western Illinois University
Cedarburg: Division-I — Dan Gill, UW-Milwaukee
Marquette: Division-I — Felix Huwiler: UW-Milwaukee
Whitefish Bay: Division-I — Breon Jarvis, UW-Milwaukee
Women's soccer
Badger: Division-I — Gigi Wilson, UW-Milwaukee
Brookfield East: Division-II — Emily Miner, Concordia University (Minn.); Division-III — Alie Hess, Loras College; Sam Schroeder, Wisconsin Lutheran College
Cedarburg: Division-I — Mary Stroebel, Northwestern University
Dominican: Division-I — Claire Emmerich, Drake University
Germantown: Division-I — Reese Berge, North Dakota State
New Berlin Eisenhower: Division-I — Sarah Stadler, Louisiana State University
Pewaukee: Division-I — Alex Amini, University of St. Thomas (Minn.)
Women's rowing
Brookfield East: Division-I — Ella Wurster, University of Tennessee
Whitefish Bay: Division-I — Teah Holbrook, UCLA
Women's rugby
Sussex Hamilton: Division-II — Grace Beatty, Lander University (S.C.)
Softball
Cedarburg: Division-I — Cassidy Gall, Evansville University
Germantown: Division-I — Maddy Balsiger, Belmont
Homestead: Division-II — Jenna Burd, Bemidji State University
Oak Creek: Division-III — Emma Schmidt, Augustana College
West Bend West: Division-I — Ava Thelen, The University at Buffalo; Mia Buske, South Dakota State
Women's swimming and diving
Badger: Division-I — Wylde Chupich, Nevada-Las Vegas; Cora Singleton, UW-Green Bay; Sailor Whowell, University of Notre Dame
Brookfield Central: Division-I —Kennedy Rainwater, University of Illinois
Brookfield East: Division-I — Audrey Olen, Auburn University; Maggie Wanezek, University of Wisconsin
The Prairie School: Division-II — Zoe D'Alessandro, Concordia University (Minn.)
More: WIAA girls state swimming and diving preview with teams and athletes to watch this weekend
Men's tennis
Brookfield East: Division-I — Oscar Corwin, Western Michigan University
Women's volleyball
Badger: Division-III — Olivia Sweeny, Northland College
Burlington: Division-I — Caitlyn Flees, Eastern Kentucky University
Cedarburg: Division-I — Jae Fitting, Loyola University (Ill.)
Oak Creek: Division-II — Kaitlyn Dohs, Eckerd College; Division-III — Amanda Baumann, UW-River Falls; Grace Turlais, UW-La Crosse
Pewaukee: Division-I — Dani Kopacz, Austin Peay State University; Division-II — Kendall Volinski, Milwaukee Area Technical College
Slinger: Division-I — Melia Johnson, University of Mississippi
Whitefish Bay: Division-II — Georgia Koscielak, Minnesota Duluth
Wrestling
Homestead: Division-I — Charlie Millard, University of Minnesota
West Bend West: Division-I — Cole Mirasola, Penn State University; Connor Mirasola, Penn State University
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee-area athletes that have signed their NLI in early period
