The Mercury Club is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Hy Truman/Donald Goldberg and Hy Truman/Rae Kleinbaum Memorial Awards. Isaac Sanders is the 89th male winner and Daphne is the 38th female winner.
Isaac Sanders
Isaac is a 4-time letter winner in both track and soccer. He was also a team captain in both sports during his junior and senior years. He has run in the state track meet in both his junior and senior years. In soccer he was an all Lake Conference player as a sophomore and senior.
As a student, Sanders has a 4.0 GPA and graduated in the top 1% of his class. He was a member of the National Honor Society and was on the Academics Deans List. He will be attending the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has been very active at the Beth El Synagogue tutoring kids ages 9-13 every Saturday morning as well as being a Herzl camp Ozo counselor in training and now about to become a first year staff counselor in 2025.
Isaac also has close family ties to the Mercury Club. His great uncle was Hy Truman and his great grandmother was Rae Kleinbaum.
Daphne Grobstein
Daphne is a multi-sport athlete as well. She earned 6 letters in both cross country and track and 4 letters in Nordic skiing. She was a cross country and track captain in her senior years and captain of the Nordic ski team as a junior and senior. Grobstein appeared in the state meets in all 3 sports. She was All-State in cross country in 2021 and all conference in 2021 and 2022. In Nordic skiing she was all Lake Conference in 2024 and 2025.
In school she graduated with a 3.91 GPA and was a member of the National Honor Society. She was also a Scholar-Athlete Award winner in 10th-12th grades. She will be attending The College of St. Benedict in the fall where she plans to participate in both cross country and track.
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