HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
Notebook: Wyss feels energy on Hodag volleyball first day
Jayme Wyss’s first in-season day as head coach of the RHS volleyball team on Monday was a bit of a whirlwind between the typical first day paperwork, roughly two hours of practice, the first day of varsity tryouts and a parents’ meeting after practice.
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Registration for RIA hockey, learn to skate now open | WIAA board conducts first meeting of fall, contact ad hoc committee meets
Pigskin Preview Week 1: Ashland at Rhinelander
It’s a bit of a new-look Great Northern Conference in 2024, with Tomahawk and Wausau East joining the league as football members. As the Rhinelander Hodags prepare to go after their fifth postseason appearance in six years, they will gear up for GNC play by taking on two former members …
RHS Sports recap: Wednesday, Aug. 21
Girls’ swim: Rhinelander at Colby/Abby Pentathlon
RHS Sports recap: Tuesday, Aug. 20
Girls’ tennis: Rhinelander 1-2, Bay Port Invite
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RHS Sports recap: Monday, Aug. 19
Girls’ tennis: Rhinelander 0-3, Bay Port Invite
Team Preview: RHS girls’ swimming
The Hodags have a run of five straight sectional titles and five straight top-five finishes at the WIAA Division 2 state meet. They will look to extend those streaks to six years come November, but observers around the state will be curious to see what Rhinelander will do for an …
Team Preview: RHS girls’ tennis
Whether it was a matter of the Rhinelander High School girls’ tennis team fading back to the pack, the rest of the Great Northern Conference getting better or a combination of the two, 2023 was an uncharacteristic season for the Hodags.
Hodags Germain, Chariton on preseason football watch lists
Two members of the Rhinelander High School football team were named last week to watch lists for statewide football senior class awards by website WisSports.net.
Football: Hodags’ scrimmage cut short by weather
A pair of pop-up storm cells suspended and, eventually, canceled a five-team scrimmage at Crandon. The Hodag varsity unit was able to get roughly 30 offensive snaps and 40 defensive plays in before heavy rain and thunderstorms ended things for good a little more than two hours after the scrimmage …
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Fall Practice Notebook
The Rhinelander High School girls’ swim team has been in this position before, entering a season as defending WIAA state champions.
Team Preview: RHS football
Rhinelander went 5-5 and qualified for the WIAA postseason for the fourth time in five years — and just the sixth time in school history. But the Hodags faded down the stretch with only one win in their last six games. As kickoff for 2024 nears, Kraemer said the team …
Bates to return to sidelines for RHS boys’ soccer
Following a one-year hiatus, Nathan Bates will be patrolling the sideline for the Hodag boys again this fall. Bates’s return to the program was confirmed to the River News last week by both Bates and RHS activities director Brian Paulson.
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Rhinelander Women’s Pool League to meet Aug. 28 | Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame to induct three Sept. 7 | WIAA selects first Student-Athlete Leadership team
Passing game steals spotlight at Green & White practice
The passing game stole the show as quarterbacks Truman Lamers and Chandler Servent combined to throw four touchdown passes with no interceptions during Saturday’s Green and White intrasquad practice at Mike Webster Stadium.
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