WJBC Athletes of the Week: Feb. 1, 2016

Posted on February 1, 2016

WJBC, in partnership with Frontier Communications and Roberts Trophies, is proud to present the WJBC Athletes of the Week.

Winners for the week of Feb. 1, 2016:

Maddie Griffith – Bloomington Girls Bowling

Maddie bowled a 180 in the third and final game of Monday’s dual meet win over Decatur MacArthur and averaged a score of 162 in leading the Purple Raiders to their first win in two years.

Austin Hartke – Normal West Boys Swimming

Austin won the 100-yard butterfly and 100 backstroke while setting a meet record and was part of the winning 200-yard medley relay as West placed second in the Intercity Swim Meet at Normal Community High School.

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