How Zeeland West grad Hannah Stroebe made huge impact as a freshman at Wooster
Freshman post player got plenty of action against several top 10 teams in Division III during her freshman season.
When Hannah Stroebe stepped onto the court at the College of Wooster, she was in new territory. After a breakout senior season at Zeeland West, Stroebe found a school where she could play upper-level NCAA Division III basketball and study biology on the pre-veterinarian track. But Stroebe got a ton of playing time as the second-string post player for the Fighting Scots, gaining valuable experience for the future.
"I did not really know what to expect," Stroebe said. "It took a little bit to transition into college basketball. It is a faster pace and all the girls are really tough.
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That was a cool experience, but also really scary to have that as your first college game," she said. During the season, Wooster faced Denison, John Carroll, Ohio Wesleyan and Baldwin Wallace all when they were in the top 10 in the country in Division III, not to mention DePauw, Wittenberg and Heidelberg, Capital University, Kenyon and Oberlin - all Division III stalwarts. It was a lot of great competition to push Stroebe and the Fighting Scots.