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Oswego East senior Aubrey Lamberti is the 2025-2026 girls basketball Record Newspapers Player of the Year · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego East senior Aubrey Lamberti is the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Girls Basketball Record Newspapers Player of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Joshua Welch and this article is being read
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  Speaker 1: by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Aubrey
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  Speaker 1: Lamberti held modest expectations for herself when she first arrived
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  Speaker 1: with the Oswego East basketball program four years ago. Modesty.
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  Speaker 1: That is still a trait that fitz Lamberty, now a senior.
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  Speaker 1: The five foot nine forward, will leave Oswego East as
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  Speaker 1: that program's all time leading scorer. She is second in
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  Speaker 1: career rebounds, with accolades that come with that statistical greatness,
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  Speaker 1: and yet Lamberty never carries the airs of a star.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely did not think I would accomplish all that
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  Speaker 1: I did, Limberti said freshman year. I was on the team,
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  Speaker 1: one of the younger girls, and we still had other
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  Speaker 1: leaders and great players on the team. I was just
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  Speaker 1: trying to do whatever I could to be somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: an asset to the team. Lomberti became a mainstay and
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  Speaker 1: pillar of the Wolf's success, along with fellow senior Desiree
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  Speaker 1: Merit for four years. Lamberty this season averaged sixteen point
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  Speaker 1: seven points per game, seventeen point two in conference games,
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  Speaker 1: along with seven point five rebounds, three assists, and two
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  Speaker 1: point five steals. In January, she passed Christine Corpu's as
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  Speaker 1: Saswego East's all time leading scorer with her thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifth point. She finished with four hundred eighty three
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  Speaker 1: this year. She led the Wolves to eighteen wins and
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  Speaker 1: a regional final, and Aubrey Lomberty, for the second consecutive season,
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  Speaker 1: is the record Newspapers Player of the Year. It is
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  Speaker 1: probably hard for Oswego East coach Abe Coretto to envision
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  Speaker 1: a lineup without Lamberty, and with good reason. In four seasons,
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  Speaker 1: she never missed a game that consists and se carried
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  Speaker 1: over to Lamberty's demeanor. She never got too high, even
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  Speaker 1: the night she set the career scoring record or the
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  Speaker 1: night she went coast to coast for a buzzer beater
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  Speaker 1: in a regional semifinal. Likewise, Lamberty rarely got too low.
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  Speaker 1: She works extremely hard every day in practice, and her
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  Speaker 1: demeanor is pretty much the same for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: Careto said she doesn't have these highs and lows. She
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  Speaker 1: is pretty calm overall. She just wants to play the
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  Speaker 1: game of basketball, and she is not worried about these
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  Speaker 1: other things. She has focused on the team and winning.
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  Speaker 1: Her teammates celebrate her achievements. She doesn't talk about it much.
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  Speaker 1: I try not to let things get to me, Limberti said.
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  Speaker 1: After a game that doesn't go my way, I reflect
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  Speaker 1: on it, but don't take it too hard. The accomplishments
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  Speaker 1: are exciting, but I try to stay humble and not
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  Speaker 1: overdo it. We celebrate as a team. That respect for
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  Speaker 1: the game and her peers comes from a young lady
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  Speaker 1: who's been taught the game at a young age. Her
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  Speaker 1: grandfather I'm played collegiately at Beloit and coached at Bartlett.
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  Speaker 1: Lamberti's dad's Steve, played at Augustana and has coached at
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  Speaker 1: Plainfield Central. It's helped me tremendously being surrounded by basketball,
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  Speaker 1: Lamberty said. They know the game, the right things to do,
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  Speaker 1: the right thing to do in certain situations, going back
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  Speaker 1: after games to discuss what I could do better. It's
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  Speaker 1: been so helpful to me throughout my basketball career. Lamberty
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  Speaker 1: at Oswego East amassed record breaking scoring numbers despite being
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  Speaker 1: a player one wouldn't necessarily identify as a scorer an
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  Speaker 1: athletic player for her height, Lamberty was very good scoring
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  Speaker 1: in transition and off rebounds. She developed into an accurate shooter,
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  Speaker 1: and for a player foremost on opponent's scouting reporter, Lamberty
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  Speaker 1: was quite efficient. Her shooting percentage the last three years
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  Speaker 1: was close to fifty five percent on two point field goals,
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  Speaker 1: around thirty eight percent from the three point line, and
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent on free throws. I never tried to force it,
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  Speaker 1: never went into a game trying to just score, Lamberty said.
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  Speaker 1: It was always just doing whatever I could to help
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  Speaker 1: my team win. When it happens I'm open, I'd shoot.
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  Speaker 1: Doing the other things, the rebounding, all that other stuff
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  Speaker 1: helps as well. Limberty plans to do it next at
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  Speaker 1: Division three Illinois Wesley And she made her commitment in February.
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  Speaker 1: She plans to study biology there on the optometry track.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back on her four years at Oswego East, LAMBERTI
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  Speaker 1: reflected on an amazing journey. I'm just so honored and
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  Speaker 1: proud and honestly just so grateful that I have been
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  Speaker 1: able to have coaches and teammates to help me get
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  Speaker 1: to this point. Lamberty said being able to play with
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  Speaker 1: Desiree and Nicole Worbinski has been so much fun. They're
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  Speaker 1: not only talented players, but they are amazing teammates and
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  Speaker 1: amazing people. We have created such bonds. I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to accomplish what I did without them