Sports
The Pepin/Alma football team made up nearly 40 percent of the All-Dairyland Conference First Team slots.
When the all-conference teams were announced last week, the Eagles had 11 players taking up 28 first-team positions. That included the only two unanimous selections in wide receiver Evan Olson...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau senior Cody Schmitz is preparing for his final season as a Red Hawk in 2023-24 and is also in the midst of deciding where he will play college basketball come next year. Schmitz, who has offers from multiple Division II schools, has high hopes for the Red Hawks in 2023-24. (Times file photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Cody Schmitz is no secret among college basketball programs across the country.
As the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School senior prepares for his final season as a Red Hawk, the defending Coulee Conference player of the year is also in the midst of deciding what jersey he will don next.
Schmitz...
Paul Halvorsen, a 1956 graduate of Blair High School, was voted as one of the five best boys basketball players in the history of Trempealeau County. (Submitted photo)
With one more season to play, Cody Schmitz was ranked among the best players in the history of Trempealeau County by a group of 10 former players and coaches in a poll conducted by the Times.
Schmitz, a senior at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau, enters his final season with 1,811 career points. He is four...
25 YEARS AGO
November 12, 1998
Members of the Whitehall-Acoyapa Partners of the Americas have asked for, and gotten, a lot of help from local folks for this area’s Nicaraguan sister city. Now, the organization is asking for assistance for other areas of Nicaragua. The local group is organizing a...
Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau’s Adrianna Rotering had a strong finish as she ended her senior season by taking 71st at the WIAA State Cross Country Championships in Wisconsin Rapids on Saturday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Two area runners competing in the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Cross Country Championship meet ran opposite races.
Arcadia Nestor Badillo started fast as finished 92nd in the Division Two boys race at Ridges Golf Course in Wisconsin Rapids on Saturday. G-E-T’s Adrianna...
Senior defender Jared Hernandez worked to keep a Columbus Catholic attacker away from the middle of the field during the first half of last Thursday’s 4-1 loss in a sectional semifinal at Marshfield High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Arcadia Raiders looked like they had done it with eight minutes left in their Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Division Four sectional semifinal playoff soccer game on Thursday.
Walker Slaby lined up a midrange shot for Arcadia and ripped it toward the far corner of the net, but...
Arcadia’s Casidi Pehler let her excitement show as she cleared the bar during the Division Two pole vault competition at the WIAA state track and field meet last June at UW-La Crosse. Pehler announced her commitment to North Dakota State University on Friday. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
Senior Casidi Pehler will continue her track and field career beyond the gates that surround the track at Arcadia High School.
Pehler announced on Friday her commitment to join the Division 1 North Dakota State University track and field team this fall.
“I am so excited to announce my verbal...
Max Knapmiller of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau extended a stiff-arm after breaking through a hole during their WIAA Level One playoff game against Stanley-Boyd on Friday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
If a handful of plays had gone the other way, perhaps the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau football team would be preparing for another game this week. As it was, G-E-T fell behind 26-0 in the first half and lost, 34-21, to Stanley-Boyd last Friday night.
S-B’s first two touchdowns came on fourth downs and...
Taylor Sylla of Independence/Gilmanton narrowly missed the cut for the WIAA State Championship race by finishing eighth while Blair-Taylor’s Ella Halverson finished 81st at the WIAA Westby sectional on Saturday. (Times photograph by Andrew Dannehy)
Eighth is often good enough to advance from the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association sectional round to the state championship race. But last Saturday’s Division Three Westby Sectional featured a top-seven with runners from six different schools, leaving Independence/Gilmanton’s Taylor...
Independence/Gilmanton’s Nora Schank passed a ball over the net in the second set of last Tuesday’s regional playoff loss at Cochrane-Fountain City High School. (Times photograph by Benjamin Pierce)
The Independence/Gilmanton high school volleyball team saw its season end last Tuesday in a regional playoff game on the road.
The 11th-seeded Indees traveled to play one of the top teams in the Dairyland Conference this season in Trempealeau County opponent Cochrane-Fountain City (23-7 overall, 8-...
