Girls cross country team brings home the title By Dan Truttschel Correspondent Predicting a state championship is almost impossible to do – it takes a combination of skill, talent and maybe even a little bit of luck to pull that off. But after two miles of Saturday’s Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic […]
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Two Whippets represent WHS at state meet
By Kevin Cunningham Sports Correspondent Whitewater High School’s cross country had a very successful day running in the team’s race at the WIAA Sectional on Oct. 22 and a chance at qualifying for the WIAA State Meet was at stake. Two of the Whippets’ girls – junior Allisan Barrett and […]
Warhawks show support for #Jwegstrong
By Daniel Schoettler Correspondent The community as well as the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and its athletic programs showed support for UW-Whitewater baseball player Justin Wegner last Friday night against Coe College as part of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s “Playing for a Cause,” initiative. Wegner, 19, who was a freshman […]
No. 1 doubles duo medals at state
By Kevin Cunningham Sports Correspondent For most of the Whitewater High School girls tennis team, the 2016 season already concluded. But, for the Whippets’ top doubles team of Milena Maroske and Whitney Treder, the duo began its most important part of the season on Oct. 14 – the start of […]
Whippet runners head to sectional meet
By Kevin Cunningham Sports Correspondent The Rock Valley Conference Championship race took place on Oct. 13 for the Whitewater High School cross country team and head coach Chad Carstens had a clear goal in mind. With two boys teams who were ranked in the state competing in the meet, his […]
Greeley gains experience at sectional
By Chris Bennett Correspondent Elkhorn Area High School girls golf coach Steve Fisher said the experience junior Ava Greeley gained in advancing to within a tournament of state will serve her well as a senior. Greeley is the only member of the Elks to advance to the WIAA Division 1 […]
Volleyball 9-0 in conference
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent The final results from last week’s WIAA Division 2 sectional didn’t go in the Big Foot-Williams Bay’s two entries way. But even though both junior Meredith and freshman Clare Heckert fell short of a state berth, they still managed to put together a solid fall campaign. […]
Soccer boys draw even
By Chris Bennett Correspondent A tie likely never felt so good to the Elkhorn Area High School boys soccer team. The Elks and Muskego (5-4-8) played to a scoreless draw Oct. 8 in a non-conference match at Muskego on the heels of Elkhorn getting routed 6-0 Oct. 6 in a […]
Soccer tumbles in final minutes against McFarland
By Dan Truttschel Correspondent With just about 15 minutes left in a Rock Valley Conference Tournament game Monday night, the Big Foot-Williams Bay boys soccer team was within striking distance of McFarland. In the span of just five minutes, however, McFarland’s Alex Sonday took over. Sonday scored three quick goals […]
Warhawks win thriller against Titans
By Daniel Schoettler Correspondent Two teams from the same conference, both ranked in the top five in the country in Division 3 put it all on the line Saturday and it lived up to the hype. The UW-Whitewater Warhawks beat their archrival UW-Oshkosh Titans Oct. 8 in what was a […]