LINCOLN, Ill. (WAND) - Lincoln Community High School student-athlete Kloe Froebe has been named the 2023-24 Gatorade Illinois Girls Basketball Player of the Year. 

Froebe is the first Gatorade Illinois Girls Basketball Player of the Year to be chosen from Lincoln Community High School.

The award recognizes the nation’s top high school athletes for excellence on the court, in the classroom and in the community.

Froebe, a 5-foot-9 senior guard, led the Railsplitters to a 38-0 record and the Class 3A state championship this past season. She averaged 28.7 points, 6.6 rebounds, 5.2 steals and 4.8 assists. She poured in a title-game record 36 points to go with six assists in Lincoln’s 60-44 win over Glenwood High School in the state final.

She is a four-time Class 3A First Team All-State selection and was the runner-up for Ms. Basketball as a junior.

She scored 1,063 points as a senior and finished her prep basketball career at No. 5 in state history with 3,262 points.

Froebe was also a three-year class president and is the student body president at Lincoln Community High School. 

She is a member of the Future Business Leaders of America and has participated in multiple fundraising campaigns to benefit St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. She has volunteered as a youth basketball coach and at a food pantry.

“Kloe Froebe really is an unbelievable basketball player,” said Brandon Rose, head coach of Rochester High School. “As an opposing coach, you hate going up against her, but you love watching her play. She has no weaknesses to her game.”

Froebe has maintained a weighted 4.92 GPA in the classroom and ranks No. 1 in her class.

She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at Colorado State University this fall.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. 

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