Sports
When Don Foley first started teaching and coaching in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District, he figured it would eventually serve as a stepping stone to a bigger school.
Now some 30 years later, Foley is retiring from the same district with a deep appreciation and love for the small...
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau girls track team opened the season with a finish just inside the top 10, while the boys team was barely outside of it when they competed at the Golden Eagle Invitational at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on Saturday.
The meet, hosted by Mauston, had 14 boys and girls...
The Arcadia and Blair-Taylor high school track and field teams opened the 2023 season last week with an invitational at University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Arcadia had the best team finish last Tuesday, earning a seventh-place finish in the girls’ competition out of 31 teams. Blair-Taylor did not score...
Trey Lyga helped the Arcaida boys track team to a fourth-place finish by taking fifth in the shot put at the Cashton Indoor Invitational on Saturday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
The Arcadia boys track and field team had a couple of top finishes as they took fourth out of 20 teams at the Cashton Indoor Invitational held at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on Saturday.
Landan Bremer stood out for the Raiders, winning both the 200 and the 400 to score 20 of the team’s 41.5...
Cody Schmitz
The top boys and girls basketball players from the Coulee Conference both came from the Times area this year.
It was no surprise to see Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau junior Cody Schmitz be named the Coulee Conference Athlete of the Year for boys basketball again this year. Schmitz won the award as a...
The two Dairyland Conference teams to represent their sports in the state tournament also had the most selections on the All-DC first teams.
The Blair-Taylor girls basketball team and Whitehall boys basketball team both had two first-team All-Dairyland Conference selections. The teams were picked...
Fresh off of an appearance in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Tournament, two players from Whitehall earned all-state honors earlier this week.
Whitehall’s Devon McCune and Luke Beighley were both named honorable mention for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association...
Six Independence/Gilmanton wrestlers were named to the All-Dairyland Conference wrestling team after the Indees won the DC title this winter.
The Indees went 3-0 in DC duals and had five wrestlers go undefeated in conference matches. Included in the All-DC team was 2023 state qualifier Gavin...
Devon McCune of Whitehall drove to the basket during their WIAA State Semifinal game against Onalaska Luther on Thursday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Whitehall boys basketball coach Tyler Petersen said his team saw “a different caliber of athletes” in their 79-51 loss to Onalaska Luther in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Tournament semifinal game Thursday night.
The Norse came out strong as Seth Lambeck made jumper...
Blair-Taylor’s Lindsay Steien (above) and Abby Thompson (below) were both named to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Division Five All-State team last week. (Times photographs by Andrew Dannehy)
Blair-Taylor senior duo Lindsay Steien and Abby Thompson were both named to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Division Five All-State team, announced last week.
The duo helped lead the Wildcats to a 28-2 record and a state runner-up finish in the team’s first ever trip to the state...
