SHERIDAN — Once the Wyoming High School Activities Association representative handed Sheridan High School girls basketball senior Annie Mitzel the third-place trophy at the 4A State Championship basketball tournament, the Lady Broncs posed for pictures before Mitzel raised the trophy over her head and smiled through tears at the blue and gold Sheridan cheering section.

“It is so amazing,” Mitzel said. “It’s something we never expected, but we started to believe in ourselves and just go have fun and we ended up with [a trophy], so it’s really cool.”

As the lone senior on Sheridan’s team that consistently started three to four underclassmen, Mitzel served as the safe keeper of the third-place trophy, carting the hardware to the stands to watch Sheridan’s boys team play and holding the trophy during the bus ride home from Casper. 

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