Sports
Coming off a season where they finished just one game shy of winning a conference championship, the Arcadia softball team brings back a core of key players who will lead the charge as the Raiders gun for the Coulee crown in 2026.
Reigning Coulee Conference Player of the Year Tatum Drazkowski, who...
The Arcadia track and field team did not have a boatload of high placements at the loaded Blue Devil Invite last week, but a pair of Raider seniors earned spots just off the top of the podium.
Jaylie Dahl and Jerson Sanchez each notched a second-place finish at the meet held last Tuesday at the...
The Whitehall boys track and field team stacked another stellar all-around performance during the early-season indoor slate of their spring schedule, winning four events at a meet early last week across the border in Minnesota.
Four different Norse athletes won an event at the meet in Winona, where...
Steve Lyga has a coaching résumé matched by few in the area, with a career spanning over a half-century that has seen him coach softball, football and basketball.
After winning over 300 games in 19 seasons as the varsity softball head coach at Cochrane-Fountain City, Lyga decided last year that it...
Arcadia junior Tatum Drazkowski was the bedrock foundation for the Raiders during a successful winter for the Raiders, anchoring the team’s effort on both ends of the floor. For a second straight year, that impact garnered her a spot on the All-Coulee first team.
Drazkowski once again averaged a...
There has been a lot of handwringing the last couple years from college basketball fans over the lack of mid-major Cinderella upsets — a staple of the NCAA Tournament that has suddenly become an endangered species.
But fear not, Greg Gard and the Wisconsin Badgers are here to do their part in...
Independence/Gilmanton senior Arabelle Kniseley was one of several area players to earn Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Division Five All-State honors, announced last week.
Kniseley led the Indees, averaging 13.2 points and seven rebounds per game. She was also second in steals, averaging...
The Whitehall boys track and field team got their 2026 season off to a strong start this past weekend, placing fourth overall at an indoor meet in La Crosse.
The Norse compiled 45 points to place fourth in the boys’ team standings at last Saturday’s Cashton Indoor Invitational, which took place at...
Not even a week after a massive snowstorm hammered Wisconsin, the first sign of the spring sports season arrived with indoor track meets.
The Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau track and field team hit the ground running on the 2026 campaign, taking part in meets in both Winona and La Crosse and finding some...
There’s an old adage in college basketball that guards win in March. If that’s true, then the Wisconsin Badgers should feel confident that this is the year they finally break through for their first run to the second weekend of March Madness in nearly a decade.
The brilliance of the Badger...

