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ALL-CONFERENCE/ALL-STATE FOOTBALL - State awards for 3 Pirates; 10 earn an all-conference award

State awards for 3 Pirates; 10 earn an all-conference award
Gilman’s Kolby Keepers quickly gets into the backfield and pressures McDonell Central quarterback Cael Holm during the second quarter of Saturday’s WIAA state championship. Plays like these helped Keepers become the North Central East Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year for 2025. Keepers also made the secondteam offense in the conference and earned All-Region and All-State first-team honors from the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS
State awards for 3 Pirates; 10 earn an all-conference award
Gilman’s Kolby Keepers quickly gets into the backfield and pressures McDonell Central quarterback Cael Holm during the second quarter of Saturday’s WIAA state championship. Plays like these helped Keepers become the North Central East Conference’s Defensive Player of the Year for 2025. Keepers also made the secondteam offense in the conference and earned All-Region and All-State first-team honors from the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association. MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS

When its top two teams dominate the rest of the pack and wind up playing each other in the WIAA’s state championship game, it only makes sense that those teams also dominated the voting for the a...

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