HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Team Preview: RHS girls' swimming
The Rhinelander High School girls' swim team has a tough act to follow coming off the most successful year in program history. The question entering the 2021 season is what will the Hodags do for an encore after capturing their first WIAA Division 2 state championship last fall.
Team Preview: RHS girls' tennis
For only the second time in the last 10 seasons, the Rhinelander High School girls' tennis team does not enter as the defending Great Northern Conference champion. The Hodags are looking to change that this fall, but know it will take some work to reclaim the title from rival Antigo.
Springers siblings tabbed as RHS/NP skiing MVPs
In an event held nearly six months after the end of the season, the Rhinelander/Northland Pines Alpine Ski team handed out its awards for the 2020-21 season Thursday night at CT's Deli. Siblings Ty and Tommie Jo Springer cleaned up again, winning the team's skiing most valuable player awards.
Rhinelander's Lamers awarded $2,500 Cousins Subs scholarship
Cousins Subs and its Make It Better Foundation selected Quinn Lamers of Rhinelander High School as a second-place prize winner of a $2,500 Wisconsin Sports Awards Scholarship, the restaurant chain announced in a press release last Wednesday.
Team preview: RHS football
The Rhinelander High School football team has done plenty over the last two seasons that it seldom, if ever, accomplished over the last several decades. Yet there's one major box still left unchecked - the team's first conference title since 1989.
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Notebook: Hodag girls' swim team reminded of last year's success
If anyone needs a reminder of how the 2020 season went for the Rhinelander High School girls' swim team, one look at the wall outside the entrance to the Heck Family Community Pool will jog their memory.
Rebels' Bixby: Playing in Legion All-Star Game 'felt like a dream'
Not many can say they have toed the rubber on a Major League diamond. Rhinelander's Isaac Bixby can cross that item off his bucket list.
Hodags wrap up first week with Family Day
Aside from a brief downpour at the end, Saturday's Hodag Football family day went off without a hitch at Mike Webster Stadium. Both sides in Rhinelander's intrasquad practice found the end zone once and, overall, coach Aaron Kraemer said the roughly two-hour practice was a good way to end the …
Volleyball players make up for lost time at camp
The Rhinelander High School volleyball team has only had a head coach for a few weeks, and the start of the season is right around the corner. Roughly 40 players took part in a three-day camp put on by the Hodag Spikers Volleyball Club.
Legion results parallel high school for Rhinelander baseball
The Rhinelander Post 7 American Legion baseball season and the Rhinelander High School prep season were almost mirror images of each other. Not only did the two draw from essentially the same group of players, both teams' trajectories were eerily similar, right down to the way both seasons ended.
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Smoke screen: Air quality alert moves Hodag football practices indoors
Air pollution caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires that has drifted into Wisconsin forced the Hodags into the climate-controlled environment of the Hodag Dome both Tuesday and Wednesday.
MVP Bixby headlines list of RHS baseball award winners
Isaac Bixby was honored Sunday as the Rhinelander High School baseball team's most valuable player during an awards picnic and ceremony held at Stafford Field.
Photos: Hodag Hoops Camp winners
Winners of mini-tournaments were recognized at the end of the Hodag Hoops Camp, which concluded last Thursday.
Team review: RHS Track & Field
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rhinelander High School track and field team had to wait two years to prove that its 2019 season, in which it won the boys' Great Northern Conference title and sent multiple entries to the WIAA state track meet, wasn't a fluke.
Hodag Hoops camp returns after one-year hiatus
Rhinelander High School boys' basketball coach Derek Lemmens was happy to be back in the gym last week for one of his favorite weeks of the summer. Lemmens and the Hodag basketball program hosted the annual Hodag Hoops youth camp last Monday through Thursday at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium, …
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