HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
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 …
Fall Practice Notebook
The Rhinelander High School girls’ swim team has been in this position before, entering a season as defending WIAA state champions.
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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.
PHOTOS: Hodag Hoops Camp Winners
Pictured below are the winning teams from 3-on-3, 4-on-4 and 5-on-5 tournaments held during the annual Hodag Hoops Camp July 29 to Aug. 1 at the Jim Miazga Community Gymnasium.
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PHOTOS: Strong turnout for ABC Scramble
There was a full field of golfers for the Rhinelander Athletic Booster Club’s 43rd annual golf scramble Friday, Aug. 2 at Pinewood Country Club in Harshaw.
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Retzlaff could make NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend | College volleyball tripleheader in Eagle River Aug. 24 | Gillen named new Hodag Nordic head coach
Tempo key as Hodag football practice commences
From the typical first-day clerical items to an emphasis on sprinting in and out of drills, tempo and efficiency were the buzzwords Tuesday as the Rhinelander High School football team held its first official practice of the fall.
Hodag Hoops Camp sees record turnout
Bolstered by a strong local turnout, the annual camp posted record numbers this week. Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball coach Derek Lemmens estimated roughly 150 players turned out for the four-day event, which was split into sections for players in grades 7-9, grades 4-6 and grades 1-3.
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WIAA ad hoc committee to initially focus on coach contact | Meeting dates for 2024-25 Hodag Lanes bowling leagues announced
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