Minden Boys Basketball

🏀 Minden Youth Basketball Camp 🏀

Campers of the Day

Monday: Dominic Cervantes & Stetson Poore
Tuesday: Ashton Ellebrecht & Bo Young
Wednesday: Erik Wegner & Kasen Shelton

We had 54 3rd - 8th grade boys attend camp this year! Over the course of 3 days, we worked on a lot of fundamentals, played a bunch of games and had a lot of fun! We always love teaching the game we love to play to the next generation! Thanks to everyone for attending and to the high schoolers for helping the camp run smoothly.

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🏀 Basketball Banquet 🏀

Team Award Winners ⬇️

Varsity:
Offensive Player of the Year: Trae Christensen
Co-Defensive Players of the Year: Landon Bules and Luke Grollmes
Co-Most Improved Players: Cole Schwenka and Luke Craig

Junior Varsity:
Offensive Player of the Year: Cohen Schmidt
Defensive Player of the Year: Turner Schmidt
Most Improved Player: Zach Klabunde

Reserve:
Offensive Player of the Year: Bryson Knott
Defensive Player of the Year: Bo Lutkemeier
Most Improved Player: Landon Grollmes

Southwest Conference Sportsmanship Awards:
Jack Scheibel and Ambrose Bloomfield

Academic All-State:
Luke Grollmes and Landon Bules

2025-26 will be a memorable season for a lot of us. Can’t even explain how much fun it is to be around such good kids that love to compete in a sport that us coaches love to teach. Not only are they awesome on the court, but they’re even better people off the court. Seniors, we are really going to miss seeing/talking/hanging out on a daily basis with you guys during basketball season next year. Love every one of you guys and the culture and lasting impact you had on our program these last 4 years. 5 straight 10+ wins in a season and only the 2nd winning season in the last 13 years. Really was a special year for everyone involved.

Love the culture that the players and coaches have built in the last 5 years. But it’s also never a time to be satisfied. Can’t wait for 2026-27!!!

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Subdistricts are out!

Whippets will play Doniphan-Trumbull @ Gothenburg High School on Tuesday night @ 7:30pm

🏀 CHAMPION OF THE NIGHT 🏀

Trae Christensen

Trae was the best player on the court last night! Kid never quit playing hard until the final buzzer. Finished with 26 points and 14 rebounds. He was an absolute DAWG!!!! Proud of you, Trae! Keep up the great work!

Also, THANK YOU to our fans and student section! Always a great atmosphere when the Dusters come to town.

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Varsity: Landon Bules

Landon was very assertive tonight against STC! Attacked when needed and shared the ball when teammates were open. He got us organized and into something offensively against the FIVE different defenses we saw tonight! Love the way he’s playing right now. Keep it up, kid!

🏀 CHAMPIONS OF THE NIGHT (last night) 🏀

JV: Zach Klabunde

Zach embodies what it means to be a TEAMMATE! Always plays hard. Always cheers for others. Always positive. He was AWESOME yesterday for 32 minutes and the love shown to him from our team tells you how important he is to the success of our whole team! ZBo is a DAWG!!!!!

Varsity: The Bigs!

Luke x2 and Trae had a combined 63 points and 28 rebounds (unofficially) last night against Ravenna. Those 3 were exceptional and vital to our offensive success. Keep it up fellas!

🏀 CHAMPIONS OF THE NIGHT 🏀

JV: Bo Lutkemeier

Bo’s got a motor that never quits! Always fun to watch him compete. He was everywhere yesterday in our OT win against Ord JV!

Varsity: Luke Grollmes and Jackson Armstrong

Luke had his best offensive game of the year against Ord. He was aggressive and patient at the same time. Attacked AND shared the ball when needed!

Jackson has been a spark on the offensive end for us this year. He had another good shooting night and played some great defense to go along with offensive contribution!

Great work fellas!

(Yes we forgot both belts. S/O Shibby for his belt contribution! 😁)

🏀 CHAMPIONS OF THE NIGHT 🏀

TEAM BELT‼️‼️‼️

Toughness. Togetherness. Team. Wins every time. Proud of these boys. Compete for the holiday tourney championship tomorrow! Let’s go!

🏀 GAMEDAY! 🏀

🟣 Minden Whippets (4-1)
🆚 Elm Creek Buffaloes (5-0)
📍 Elm Creek High School
⏰ Junior Varsity @ 4:30pm
🕰️ Varsity @ 7:45pm
💻 Elm Creek Hudl Channel
📻 98.9 The Vibe

🏀 CHAMPIONS OF THE NIGHT 🏀

JV: Turner Schmidt

Turner was AWESOME today. He always plays hard and was uber active and disruptive on the defensive end of the ball! Fun watching this kid day in and day out.

Varsity: Ambrose Bloomfield and Landon Bules

Double varsity belt! Ambrose played great defense on CC’s best player when we got into a little foul trouble tonight. He knows and SHINES in his role! Landon was great for us on the offensive side of the ball. Valued it and got everybody involved.

Great work tonight fellas!