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This week's NDHSAA Alumni Spotlight shines on Angie Welle, a 1998 graduate of Fargo Shanley High School. Below is a list of accomplishments in Welle’s prep and collegiate athletic career.

ANGIE (WELLE) EDINGER - PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDOUT

GRADUATION YEAR: 1998, FARGO SHANLEY HIGH SCHOOL

HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL CAREER

• Finished prep basketball career with 2,013 points, 1,244 rebounds and 316 blocks.

• Averaged 25.5 points and 15.6 rebounds per game her senior season at Fargo Shanley HS.

• Named North Dakota Associated Press Sportscasters and Sportswriters (NDAPSSA) Miss. Basketball in 1997.

• Named North Dakota High School Coaches Association Class A Senior Athlete of the Year in 1997.

• NDAPSSA First Team All-State girls basketball team selection in 1997, 1996 and 1995 (senior, junior and sophomore seasons).

• NDAPSSA Second Team All-State girls basketball team selection in 1994 (freshman season).

• Four-time All-Eastern Dakota Conference selection (1997, 1996, 1995, 1994).

• Holds school record for points scored in a single-game (45 points) recorded during her senior season (1997).

• Averaged a double-double her sophomore, junior and senior seasons.

• Started every game of her four-year varsity girls basketball career.

• Helped the Fargo Shanley girls basketball team to NDHSAA Class A state tournament appearances in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997.

• Member of Eastern Dakota Conference & NDHSAA Class A girls basketball state championship teams at Fargo Shanley in 1996 and 1997.

• Three-time NDHSAA Class A Girls Basketball All-Tournament Team selection and was named the Tournament MVP three times.

• Committed to play women’s basketball at Iowa State after her senior girls basketball season in the fall of 1997.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF PREP ATHLETIC CAREER

• Also played volleyball and tennis at Fargo Shanley.

• Recorded 1,000-plus kills in her prep volleyball career.

• Four-time All-Eastern Dakota Conference volleyball team selection (1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998).

• NDHSCA East Region Volleyball Senior Athlete of the Year in 1998.

• Three-time NDHSCA All-State Volleyball Team selection.

• Three-sport letter winner at Fargo Shanley High School (Basketball, Volleyball & Tennis).

COLLEGIATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CAREER

• Played four seasons at Iowa State of the Big 12 Conference.

• Holds Iowa State all-time career school records in points scored (2,149), rebounds (1,209), free throws made (557) and field goal percentage (.641).

• Averaged 20.5 points per game and 11.3 rebounds per game her senior season.

• Earned All-American honors from nine publications during her collegiate women’s basketball career.

• Helped the Cyclones to four appearances in the NCAA Division I National Tournament (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) including advancing to the Elite 8 in 1999 and Sweet 16 in 2000 and 2001. 

• Helped the Cyclones to Big 12 Tournament Championships in 2000 and 2001.

• Scored a total of 178 points and collected 107 rebounds in 12 career Big 12 Tournament games played. 

• Named to Big 12 All-Tournament in 2000, 2001 and 2002. 

• Named Big 12 Tournament MVP in 2001.

• Was named Big 12 Player of the Week four times in her collegiate women’s basketball career.

• Women’s Basketball News Service Big 12 Player of the Year (2001)

• Women’s Basketball News Service, All-Freshman second team (1999)

OTHER AWARDS/HONORS

• Drafted 31st overall in the 2002 WNBA Draft by the Cleveland Rockers.

• Graduated from Iowa State in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education.

• Big 12 All-Academic Team (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002). 

• Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (Every semester in college)

• Inducted ino Fargo Shanley’s Hall of Fame in 2020. 

• Inducted into Iowa State’s Iowa State’s Cyclone Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017.

• Welle’s “No. 32” jersey was retired by Iowa State in 2010. Welle was the fourth player in Iowa State women’s basketball program history to have her jersey retired by the school. 

• Currently lives in Bismarck, ND where she is an assistant principal at Wachter Middle School.