HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Team Preview: RHS boys' basketball
Rhinelander High School boys' basketball coach Derek Lemmens is not quite sure how his team will look in the 2021-22 season. One thing is certain though, whatever the end product, it will look much different than the unit that went 14-6 overall last year and finished runner-up to Medford in …
Team Preview: Northern Edge girls' hockey
Things will look much different from the Northern Edge girls' hockey team entering the 2021-22 season. The co-op, consisting of Rhinelander, Antigo, Lakeland and Wabeno high schools, graduated its top five scorers from last season, plus lost two of its top defensemen.
Team review: RHS girls' swimming
The Rhinelander High School girls' swim team has just closed a three-year stretch that has been paralleled only once before in program history.
Team review: RHS cross country
What a difference a year made for the Rhinelander High School cross country team. The Hodags didn't have enough runners to qualify for a boys' team score due to COVID-19 protocols by the time the WIAA postseason rolled around last October. Flash forward about 12 months and the Hodags were …
Team preview: RHS boys' hockey
With several key pieces from last year's squad returning, the Hodags are hopeful for similar success this season, but know duplicating the feat will be difficult in a top-heavy Great Northern Conference.
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Team preview: RHS boys' swimming
Rhinelander's combination of depth and talent makes it the overwhelming favorite to repeat as Great Northern Conference boys' swimming champions this year, but the Hodags have goals that extend well beyond the conference meet in the first week of February.
Hodag collegiate signing day
A little more than a year after announcing her verbal commitment, Rhinelander's Malia Francis officially signed her National Letter of Intent to head to Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. to compete for the Flames' NCAA Division I women's swimming program.
RHS alum Owen White tabbed as preseason men's basketball player of the year in GLIAC
Rhinelander High School alum Owen White has been unanimously selected at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's men's basketball preseason player of the year, the conference announced last Wednesday.
Team review: RHS football
Another eight-win season and a trip to the WIAA playoffs puts the 2021 Rhinelander High School football team right up there with some of the greatest teams in program history. Yet, much like last year's 8-1 campaign, the Hodags came tantalizingly close to reaching another echelon.
Winter practice notebook
Scottie Arneson felt a bit like a kid on Christmas morning Monday as he conducted his first official wrestling practice as a high school head coach.
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PHOTO: The next level
Rhinelander High School on Tuesday celebrated three of its student-athletes who have officially declared their intentions to play at the collegiate level.
BEST IN CLASS
The color of the trophy was silver this year, not gold, but the sense of accomplishment was the same for the Rhinelander High School girls' swim team at Friday night's WIAA Division 2 state meet.
Team preview: RHS girls' basketball
While the Hodags don't have that standout this year, they do have a number of players with returning varsity experience. All of them will need to pitch in this year to make sure the Hodags remain competitive within a tough Great Northern Conference.
Team review: RHS boys' soccer
The Rhinelander High School boys' soccer team came in as the defending Great Northern Conference champion and had aspirations of making another deep run in the WIAA tournament in 2021. None of that really came to fruition for the Hodags.
Volleyball team honors leaders at banquet
The Rhinelander High School volleyball team closed out its 2021 season Wednesday with a year-end banquet in the RHS commons with a unique twist on its awards.
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