Sports
I was so excited for spring.
There was that one day last week where the weather was beautiful and there were hidden tones of spring everywhere. There was the warmth of sunlight on my back (no, seriously), windows were down on every car I met on the highway and spring sports practices were set to...
Players from Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau earned the Coulee Conference’s top honors in boys and girls basketball.
Sophomore Cody Schmitz and senior Lindsey Lettner were both named the CC Athletes of the Year in their respective sport.
Schmitz honor came just before he earned all-state honors (see...
The Arcadia High School gymnastics program could have a larger pool of future gymnasts after a school board decision last Monday.
The district school board unanimously approved entering a gymnastics co-op with Independence High School at its meeting Monday. Board president Paul Servais was absent....
Arcadia’s Tegan Michalak competed in the 1600 at the Northern Badger Classic in Menomonie on Saturday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Arcadia boys and girls track teams didn’t have a lot of depth at the Northern Badger Classic on Saturday, but they did manage a few top-three finishes.
The Raider boys team finished eighth overall with three top-three finishes at the meet held at University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie. The...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau's Sam Ruiter finished the 3,200-meter relay at Saturday's invitational track meet at UW-La Crosse. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Both the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School boys and girls track and field teams ran to fourth place finishes in the large school division of the Cashton Invitational, an indoor meet at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse last Saturday.
G-E-T finished with 56.5 points in the girls’ side of the meet...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau graduate and former coach Mark Wagner was one half away from bringing a Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Championship to West Salem, but the Panthers stumbled in the second half.
Wagner — in his first season as the head coach at West Salem after coaching...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School track and field team opened the 2022 season with an invitational at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa last Saturday, and six different Red Hawks left with wins in their events.
The Red Hawks saw four athletes take second place while three others took third....
Tanner Andersen won 156 matches in his high school career for the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau/Melrose-Mindoro Titans.
After Gale-Ettrick-Trempeaelau/Melrose-Mindoro’s Tanner Andersen lost his first match at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) State Wrestling Tournament last month, he went back to the people that matter most.
The senior was devastated at first because he could no longer win a...
Davis Wenthe
A state champion at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau has been honored at the national level.
Now a sophomore at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Davis Wenthe ran on the Badgers distance medley team that took third at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Indoor Championships on March 12.
Racing in...
Evan Nehring of Blair-Taylor drew contact on his way to the basket during their sectional semifinal game against Blair-Taylor on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
When Bangor came out on fire from the three-point line, Blair-Taylor boys basketball head coach Randy Storlie knew his team was in trouble.
“We really tried to take the middle away early because they love to drive and go to the hole,” Storlie said. “We were just gambling that they wouldn’t hit...
