Sports
Kaden Updike returns to Arcadia after leading the team toa 5-1 record during the alternate fall season.
Equipment will be handed out and area football teams will hit the field for their first practices next week.
The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association sports calendar officially turns to a new year on Monday of next week as teams are eligible to hand out equipment before the official...
In most of February and early March of 2017, I was not sure if I would ever work in journalism again. I had quit a job as a general assignment reporter in Beloit at the end of that January, having succumbed to burnout and trauma stemming partly from covering a shooting of a 16-year-old father right...
Arcadia’s Gage McGuire threw to first for an out during their game against Tomah last Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Arcadia’s American Legion Post 17 baseball team lost three close games and won one lopsided contest last week.
Post 17’s three losses last week were by a combined five runs as they suffered walk-off losses on Monday and Saturday. The lone win came on Thursday when Arcadia controlled the game...
Recently retired Arcadia High School Athletic Director Bruce Schweisthal (right) handed the sectional championship plaque to former Arcadia baseball coach Paul Anderson following the 2007 sectional. (File Photo)
Bruce Schweisthal was a graduate student occupying a long-term substitute position in Whitehall when he was offered a job teaching in Arcadia.
In the 35 years since, offers to join other districts have come up, but Schweisthal could not imagine going anywhere else.
“I just could not leave. I fell...
Blair-Taylor players made up more than a fourth of the 2021 All-Dairyland Conference softball team.
That number shouldn’t be surprising considering the Wildcats went 18-0 in DC play as part of a 28-1 season that ended in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Semifinal game. As a...
The Whitehall Wolves returned to action with a split doubleheader on Sunday at home against the Eau Claire Rivermen.
Whitehall fell 5-3 in game one, before taking an 8-0 shutout victory in game two for a split matchup of the Chippewa River Baseball League South Division’s third-place Wolves and...
Arcadia’s Alex Madden was named the Coulee Conference Pitcher of the Year for baseball and Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Genna O’Neill was the Player of the Year for softball.
O’Neill helped the Red Hawks make a late surge, handing CC champion Westby its only conference loss of the season. She was...
The Olympics has always been about overcoming adversity to achieve excellence on an international stage unlike any other.
Coverage of the events themselves is always supplemented with feature stories of athletes who started their pursuit of glory in run-down gymnasiums or other meager circumstances...
Arcadia’s Carson Martin caught a pop-up along the fence in foul territory during their game against Elk Mound last week. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Runs were hard to come by for Arcadia’s Tickfer-Erickson American Legion Post 17 baseball team in one game last week, but they managed to string together a big inning to earn a win in another.
Post 17 managed just one hit as they were shut out on the road against Onalaska 5-0 last week Monday. On...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District is intending to hire Jeff Wiseman to replace Jon Steffenhagen as the school’s football coach.
The hire had not yet been approved by the G-E-T school board as of Tuesday of this week, but G-E-T Athletic Director Rick Schmidt confirmed that Wiseman had...
