First-class Flyer: Freeman’s David Walter is Mitchell Republic’s 2026 boys basketball player of the year

First-class Flyer: Freeman’s David Walter is Mitchell Republic’s 2026 boys basketball player of the year

FREEMAN, S.D. — Well before he stepped on the varsity court wearing a Freeman Flyers uniform, David Walter was practically inseparable from the game of basketball. Flyers’ coach Lance Friesen, a Freeman native, remembers a young Walter riding around the community with a basketball wedged between the bars of his bicycle, ready to play at a moment’s notice. That exceptional enthusiasm for the game pushed Walter to want to be part of a culture chan…