Audrey Shindelar is the Post Bulletin All-Area Girls Basketball Player of the Year
Mar. 27—As Audrey Shindelar zip lined, scuba dived and fished with her family in Belize — on the northeastern coast of Central America — during Stewartville's spring break last week, her mind drifted. Exotic fish were seen, but so were images of Benilde-St.
Margaret's basketball players going past her and her Tigers teammates, even as she zip lined at break-neck speeds. It wasn't quite a nightmare what happened to Shindelar and her teammates when they met the Red Knights on March 14 in the Class 3A championship at Williams Arena, but it was a painful loss, only the second setback that Stewartville was dealt all season. It marked a rare sad moment for Shindelar, not only this past season, but in her stellar varsity career that has stretched five varsity seasons.
The happy memory that sticks with Shindelar is that her team reached the state tournament four straight years, the last two with her as its clear main star. The tough part is that for four straight years it was Benilde-St. Margaret's that ended their season, twice in the championship game.
But when all was said and done, what especially left her shedding so many tears at game's end was that it was over. Her time as a Stewartville Tigers basketball player had finally run out. It has been a glorious five seasons.
"Not to win it hurt, because we'd made it to the state championship my freshman year, too, so it was tough not to win it this time," Shindelar said. "But I was just glad that we had had a chance to be there. My tears came in knowing that it was over, that I'd never get another practice with my high school team and never get another game with them.
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