Trevor White is this week’s Olympia Athlete of the Week. Trevor is from Minier and went to Olympia his whole life. From a young age, Trevor always enjoyed playing or watching any sports. In his time at Olympia High School, Trevor played baseball, basketball, and even represented the Spartans very well in bowling. Trevor’s basketball career came to an end after his freshman year, when he decided to really focus on bowling, which ended up paying off for him in a big way. In his junior season of bowling, Trevor placed 11th in the IHSA Regional Bowling Tournament with a six-game total score of 1232, which was good enough for him to advance to the IHSA Bowling Sectionals. At Sectionals, Trevor finished 3rd, this time bowling a six-game total score of 1342, earning him a spot in the IHSA Bowling State Tournament. Trevor performed very well at State, in front of many of his friends and family. He ended up bowling a score of 2468 in twelve total games at the State Tournament. This performance was enough for Trevor to start getting noticed by college bowling coaches. After talks with a few different schools and after a couple different visits, Trevor accepted a scholarship offer and committed to bowl at Missouri Valley College. Unfortunately, for Trevor’s senior year, there was no IHSA Postseason Bowling due to COVID concerns. Now a graduated senior, Trevor is looking forward to moving into MVC in August and getting his collegiate bowling career started. 

Not only did Trevor have an incredible high school bowling career, he was also known as the school’s biggest “hype man” when it came to football, basketball, and volleyball. Trevor ran the student section at Olympia, that’s called the “Blue Crew”. The Blue Crew was known across the Illini Prairie Conference, to be one of the rowdiest student sections in the area. Whether it be for football, basketball, or volleyball, you could count on Trevor being in the front row of the Blue Crew and getting the rest of the students hyped up. Trevor had a great amount of success for himself, but some other athletes have told me that they think Trevor wanted to see others succeed even more than himself.