HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Team review: RHS Football
Murphy's Law dominated a season that began with high expectations following back-to-back eight-win seasons. Anything that could go wrong seemingly did for the Hodags as both injuries and losses mounted.
Team review: RHS volleyball
The Rhinelander High School volleyball team has experienced five straight difficult seasons, but if things improve moving forward, 2022 may be looked upon as the year the Hodags began to turn things around.
PHOTO: RIA holds 12th annual Faceoff Banquet
Supporters of Rhinelander hockey and figure skating packed the banquet room at Holiday Acres Resort Saturday, Nov. 12 for the Rhinelander Ice Association's 12th annual Faceoff Banquet.
Four of a kind
Rhinelander had four fourth-place finishes, and placed in the top 10 with eight of their nine entries, to finish fifth overall out of 37 teams Friday night in Waukesha.
Team preview: RHS girls' basketball
The Hodags return only one starter and a couple of other role players from a team that went 16-10 overall and 8-4 in the GNC behind sectional semifinalists Mosinee and Lakeland.
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Winter practice notebook
The Northern Edge girls' hockey co-op will have a lot to do in a short amount of time prior to opening the season with a tournament over Thanksgiving weekend in Fond du Lac.
Hodag swim team still has high hopes at state
Bringing home more team hardware from the WIAA D2 state girls' swim meet will likely be a longshot for the Hodag girls' swim team this season. Still, coach Jenny Heck said that will not change the Hodags' mission at the Waukesha South Natatorium.
Winter practice notebook
Coach Ryan Clark enters his 10th season with one of the younger Hodag girls' basketball squads he has had during his time in Rhinelander.
Team review: RHS girls' tennis
There was a point during the 2022 season when the Hodags' stranglehold over the GNC appeared to be in serious doubt. Ultimately, order was restored and Rhinelander overcame an early-season loss to Lakeland to win yet another conference title.
Ending with a splash
The Hodags outplayed top-seeded Notre Dame following a 51-minute weather delay but did not have enough to overcome an early deficit in a 2-1 loss to the Tritons Friday in the D3 state semifinals at the Uihlein Soccer Complex.
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Rhinelander swims to sectional four-peat
The Rhinelander High School girls swim team has another WIAA sectional championship plaque to pair with a Great Northern Conference trophy.
Ruetz, Smith named fastest harriers
The Rhinelander High School cross country team put a bow on its season Thursday, honoring some of the squad's top runners with awards.
Volleyball team skips awards, honors seniors at banquet
The Rhinelander High School volleyball team chose to forgo team awards, instead taking extra time to honor its class of five seniors during its season-ending banquet on Wednesday.
Playing with house money
The Rhinelander High School boys' soccer team hears the doubters and, frankly, the Hodags don't care.
Shoutouts & Callouts
It has taken the better part of a week for me to wrap my head around exactly what I witnessed Saturday night in Rice Lake, as fan interference ultimately played a significant role in the outcome of a WIAA sectional final boys' soccer game between Rhinelander and Rice Lake. As …
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