HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Stronger than iron
Rowan Wiczek caught two touchdowns passes from Abe Gretzinger, and the Hodags rallied for 20 unanswered points in the second half to defeat the Oredockers 20-7 in the season opener at Weikal Field.
RHS Sports recap: Monday, Aug. 24
Girls’ tennis: Rhinelander 2-1, Wausau West Invite
Team preview: RHS girls’ swimming
Led by a group of seven seniors — including five returning state qualifiers — the Hodags continue to have high aspirations. This group has been a part of the last three of Rhinelander’s eight straight Great Northern Conference and sectional titles, and has never finished lower than third in the …
Team Preview: RHS volleyball
After a season filled with numerous types of adversity, the Rhinelander High School volleyball team looks to improve during its 2026 campaign. That process began with a four-match scrimmage at Northland Pines on Saturday.
Team preview: RHS boys’ soccer
While the Rhinelander High School boys’ soccer team took its lumps last year, going 1-13-4 in head coach John Vojta’s first season, the Hodags played markedly better during the second half of the campaign.
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Hodag girls’ tennis goes undefeated in home quad
The Rhinelander High School girls’ tennis team enjoyed some home cooking on Friday, breezing past a trio of opponents in the Hodag Quadrangular at the RHS tennis courts.
Hodag golfers take 5th in first conference match
The Rhinelander High School girls’ golf team experienced a little bit of success Thursday, Aug. 20 as it played in its first ever conference tournament match.
RHS Sports recap: Friday, Aug. 21
Football: Rhinelander 20, Ashland 7 | Girls’ tennis: Rhinelander 3-0, Hodag Quad
Pigskin preview Week 1: Rhinelander at Ashland
The 2026 season opens for the Rhinelander High School football team tonight in a matchup of two teams that made the playoffs last season, and would like to do even better this year.
Medford media’s choice in GNC, Hodags picked 7th
Heading into a football season full of question marks in the Great Northern Conference, those who cover the league are putting their trust in a nearly perennial constant.
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Notebook: Vojta, Hodag soccer add familiar face to sidelines
There was a new face helping out the Rhinelander High School boys’ soccer team Monday as practice kicked off for the season — one that both head coach John Vojta and Hodag soccer fans of a certain vintage recognize.
Tennis: Hodag girls go 1-5 in opening tourney
The Rhinelander High School girls’ tennis team got its first official matches of the fall Monday and Tuesday as it went 1-5 overall in the Battle on the Fox Invite hosted by Bay Port High School in Suamico.
Youth Sports Roundup
JV2 Scrimmage | Youth gymnastics camp
RHS Sports recap: Thursday, Aug. 20
Girls’ golf: Rhinelander 5th/7, WVC Meet No. 1
RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, Aug. 18
Girls’ tennis: Rhinelander 1-2, Bay Port Invite Day 2
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