SPORTS
Winter Practice Notebook
With only eight days between the first practice of the season and the first game, the Rhinelander High School boys’ basketball team started this past Monday knowing it had little time to waste as it begins its Great Northern Conference title defense.
RHS Sports recap: Thursday, Nov. 21
Girls’ basketball: Rhineladner 57, Crandon 40
Massey, Hokens named Hodag soccer MVPs
Seniors Karter Massey and Hart Hokens took home the Rhinelander High School boys’ soccer team’s top honors on Saturday, selected as the squad’s defensive and offensive most valuable players. The awards were presented during the team’s year-end banquet in the RHS commons.
Team review: RHS cross country
The Hodags’ returned to the WIAA state meet as a team for the first time since 2021. The three-year trek to get back to Wisconsin Rapids felt more like an odyssey at times — filled with highs and lows that eventually culminated with a 14th-place finish for the boys’ squad …
Bowling: Hodag boys split again in district play
A ninth-game loss against Wittenberg-Birnamwood kept a reorganized Rhinelander/Three Lakes boys’ bowling squad from winning both of its matches Sunday in Wisconsin High School Bowling Club District 9 competition.
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Youth Sports Roundup
Rhinelander Swim Club gears up for season | Middle school basketball
Hodag swimmers take 3rd at state
The Rhinelander High School girls’ swim team relinquished the WIAA Division 2 state crown Friday night, but the Hodags made sure they went down with a fight.
Team preview: RHS girls’ basketball
The Rhinelander High School girls’ basketball team will look to keep pace against a strong top half of the Great Northern Conference this winter, but coach Ryan Clark concedes that it will be a challenge as up to half of his rotation will be seeing its first appreciable varsity minutes.
Paulson named WADA District 2 AD of the year
Rhinelander High School activities director Brian Paulson was recently named the district athletic director of the year by the Wisconsin Athletic Directors Association. The award was presented to Paulson during WADA’s annual conference Nov. 10-12 in Wisconsin Dells.
Team review: RHS volleyball
The Rhinelander High School volleyball team continued to make small, incremental gains in 2024 under first-year head coach Jayme Wyss that the team hopes will eventually lead it back to being a contender in the Great Northern Conference.
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Sports digest
Retzlaff not returning to Xfinity Series ride in 2025 | Martin scores touchdown in Whitewater finale | Hodag alumni to host baseball clinic Dec. 28
RHS Sports recap: Friday, Nov. 15
Girls’ swimming: Rhinelander 3rd/34, WIAA D2 state swim meet
Hodags swimmers to face strong challengers in state title defense
The battle for the WIAA Division 2 girls’ swimming state championship appears to be a three-horse race going into tonight’s state meet in Waukesha — and the defending champion Rhinelander Hodags may need to go to the whip entering the final furlong.
The field for tonight’s state swim meet
Rhinelander’s quest for back-to-back WIAA Division 2 state girls’ swim titles — and what would be the Hodags’ third championship in the last five years — appears to be a long shot going into tonight’s state championship meet in Waukesha.
Winter Practice Notebook
The Rhinelander High School girls’ basketball team was up before the sun Monday morning as it rang in the first day of practice for the new winter sports season.
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