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Hello Again Everyone – It s been an interesting day and a day filled with phone calls and e-mails from people across the state that took a look at the all state lists announced yesterday by the WFSCA.



The All State Selection meeting was Sunday in Stevens Point, there nearly all of the District Reps met and hammered out the lists.



As I looked at the lists my first thought was that there seemed to be about half as many kids on the lists as there have been in the past. I figured the District reps must have chosen to reduce the number of players by about half. I was apparently correct in that assumption as I talked with one of the reps this afternoon.



I decided to print out the list and take a close look at it. I decided to count how many players from each District were on the list and how many of those players are from Division 1, Division 2, Division 3 and Division 4 schools.



Here is the data:

There are 92 players on the lists.

Of the 92 players – 52 are from Division 1 schools which is 52.5%

Of the 92 players – 15 are from Division 2 schools which is 16.3%

Of the 92 players – 16 are from Division 3 schools which is 17.3%

Of the 92 players – 9 are from Division 4 schools which is 9.7%

Of the 52 players from Division 1, 6 are from SPASH which is 11.5% and 6 of 92 is 6%

In 2007 there were 192 players listed on the all state lists.



Here is a little more information on the pitchers on the list as well as some that are not that we pionted my radar at this spring. These are simply facts gleaned from sitting behind home plate at the state tournament and other games such as the all star games and other regular season, regional and sectional games and recording the data.

Beth Spoehr – Appleton East – 60-62 mph top speeds, mostly right around 58-59

Lexi Johnson – Madison Memorial – 54-56 mph top speeds, mostly right in that range

Stacey Tuskowski – SPASH – 55-57 mph and mostly in that range

Ashely Meinen – McDonell – 56 mph top speed, consistently at 55 mph

Bev Nordin – Verona – 52-54 mph consistently at state tourney

Cherise Waltz – Oakfield – 55-56 mph consistently

Courtney Wautier – Southern Door – 59-61 mph tops, 58 consistently

Laci Pustina – Highland – 54-55 mph consistently

Lauren Beres – Eisenhower – 60-61 mph – consistently threw 58 mph

Kayla Schlegel – Eisenhower – 60-61 mph – consistently threw 58 mph

Kesley Walasek – Park Falls – 58-61 mph with consistent rise ball at 57 mph –

Michelle Smith – Catholic Central – 56-58 mph

Jeni Luzinski – Thorp – 55-56 mph – mostly right around 54-55

Jordan Martin – Aquinas – 52 mph consistently

Carissa Neinas– Sevastopol – 54 mph – mixed things superbly between 51-54

Renee Schuttler – Monroe – 57 mph –

Rice Lake – Alyssa Anderson – 52 mph 

Jami Kessenich – Arrowhead – 52 mph

Ashley Wagner – Middleton – 56-58 mph

Bekah Rennicke – Homestead – 52 mph

Eryn Edgerton – Wausau West – 55 mph

Allison Stanke – Oak Creek – 51 mph

Alyssa Koch - Racine Case - 58-59 mph

Alyssa Roberts - Kenosha Bradford - 57-59 mph

Rachel Bublitz - Columbus - 55-56 mph

Lydia Free - Luther Prep - 56-57 mph

Nichole Nolan - Oakfield - 55-56 mph

Michelle Friedel - Portage - 54-57 mph

Michelle Mueller - LaCrosse Logan - 61-62 mph

Maddy Werner - Randolph - 53-54 mph

Tieraney Planasch - Dodgleland - 59-61 mph

Chelsea Hensler - Waterloo - 54-55



All the speeds were done with my Decatur Electronic ProSpeed DSP radar gun tuned perfectly at 77 mph. That radar gun is a $2000 piece of equipment that I have been using for many years. I periodically stand snext to those police department radar gun trailers and compare speeds. They are always the same or within one mile per hour of each other. My radar gun is accurate.



The above speed information is informational in nature and not meant to be judgemental in any way. It does show however that, for the most part, Division 1 pitchers are not any faster than D-2s, D-3s or D-4s.