Eagles Sports'Muth girls' hoops looking to replace four college athletes
Reloading is the name of the game for the Frankenmuth varsity girls’ basketball team as it approaches the 2025-26 season.
The Lady Eagles, fresh off a 23-5 overall record which saw them capture at least a share of another Tri-Valley Conference Red Division title and MHSAA Division 2 State Semifinal berth, open the new schedule with a 5pm game at Midland Dow on Thursday, December 4, and then a trip for another nonconference tilt, traveling to Portland for a 7pm Tuesday, December 9.
FHS Coach Joe Jacobs returns to the bench for his sixth season and owns a formidable 110-16 overall record and 67-1 TVC mark.
This season, Jacobs’ roster numbers nine cagers, as they lost four seniors off that semifinal run, a loss to Tecumseh, 52-43. All four are now playing college athletics:
Clare Conzelmann, who was the MLIVE Player of the Year, is now playing collegiate hoops at Lake Superior State University.
“You don’t replace Clare with one person. We will have to do that with multiple girls,” Jacobs said.
Rosemary Brenner is now competing in volleyball at Concordia University – Chicago, Izzy Bernthal joined the Mott Community College women’s basketball program, and Julia Rodriguez took her volleyball talents to Clarion University in Pennsylvania.
“They were all important pieces who will be tough to lose,” Jacobs lamented.
Sophomore Macy Donovan is returning for her second season where she averaged 11 points and five rebounds a game her freshman year, while shooting 43 percent from the floor.
Donovan earned All-TVC Red first-team honors, second-team, Dream Team for the Saginaw Region of MLive, was honorable mention All-State by the Detroit News, and HM for the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (BCAM).
Junior Grace Brenner is also back on the roster and Jacobs describes her as another coach on the floor.
“She is such a great point guard. She has incredible court vision and that is why we are rarely pressed,” Jacobs pointed out.
Brenner is climbing the assists record board and is currently 14th all-time with 219 handouts. For perspective, second all-time is 322 assists (Desirae Duvernois, 2009-10 to 2010-11). Ann Lemire holds the nearly-untouchable mark of 694 assists from 1991-94. Brenner dished out 109 assists last season, and was a second-team, All-TVC pick by all the league coaches. ....
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