Eisenhower junior adds another honor
Hahn caps state title season with NOW selection
Anna Hahn was a model of consistency for the Eisenhower girls. She was named to the NOW All-Suburban Girls Basketball Team. Photo By C.T. Kruger
The balance that carried the New Berlin Eisenhower girls basketball team to its first-ever WIAA state title has been well documented, but perhaps no player on the team was as consistent as junior forward Anna Hahn.
During the 28-game season, the 6-foot Hahn led or tied for the team lead in scoring in 13 games, never finished lower than third and scored in single digits only three times. She scored 20 or more twice, including a season-high 22 against South Milwaukee on Jan. 8.
That consistency, which resulted in 14 points per game and included 5.6 rebounds per contest, earned Hahn the Woodland Black Division player of the year award, a Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association all-state honorable mention and a spot on the 2009-10 NOW All-Suburban Girls Basketball Team.
"She's a coach's dream," Eisenhower coach Gary Schmidt said. "I guess the nicest compliment I could give her is she's a student of the game. She responds to the game, she responds to teaching. You don't have to tell her twice, you spell it out for her and she gets it. She's everything a coach would want in a player because it's never about her - she doesn't want to be the star."
Hahn, whose mother Tracy was on the bench as Schmidt's assistant for the Lions' state tournament run after serving as the program's freshmen coach, said winning the state championship has finally started to sink in with her and her teammates.
"It's starting to since we don't see each other every day and we don't have basketball together," she said. "I don't think it will completely sink in for awhile, but it's starting to. It was really cool to have the whole school at the pep assembly (March 31) supporting us.
"(Winning state) was really exciting. I remember at the beginning of the season, every team had the goal to go to state, but we took each game at a time. We knew we had a tougher nonconference schedule. When we got to the postseason, we were like, 'We're ready to do this,' and we really wanted to do it for the seniors."
Hahn, who is drawing college interest from mostly Division III schools, said she wants to improve her rebounding for next season. Schmidt thinks Hahn can become a more explosive offensive player.
"She has an inside-outside game and she averages less than one turnover a game, a person touching the ball that much," Schmidt said. "For her to get better, and she's got the artillery to do this, she's got to create a turnaround jumper and needs to get a little stronger in the post.
"I have funny hunch she's going to be the complete package next year."
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