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CASPER— Day 1 of the Wyoming State Track Championship Meet is in the books and Worland High School is off to a solid start. Unlike in Buffalo where the weather was cold and miserable, the state meet in Casper started with a warm and beautiful day. “The weather was terrific and go figure the last meet of the year we finally see some great weather,” joked coach Tracey Wiley. In the first day of the state meet senior Bryanna Mickelson placed fifth in the shot put with a throw of 36-03.25 and teamma...
WORLAND- The final meet of the high school track season starts today, with schools from all four classes heading to Casper to compete in the state track meet. Champions will be crowned and WHS and TSHS are looking to add their athletes to that list of state champions and even contend for a team championship. Worland Worland High School will be taking 17 boys and eight girls for the state meet. The Warriors will have a shot at contending for the state championship and while the Lady Warriors...
WORLAND - The Worland High School golf program ended the spring season on a strong note, setting the pieces in place for a promising fall season. Considering the previous spring season only had two players out and this season there were six girls and three boys representing Worland High School, along with the Worland Middle School club members, the numbers bump alone would be cause for celebration. But the Warrior and Lady Warrior golfers grew and kept developing their game all season long, impr...
WORLAND – The time of the year is upon us when the next generation of wildlife is coming into the world. The Wyoming Game and Fish wants to remind people to leave these newborns alone and walk away for the animals' sake. These little wonders are adorable and seem fragile producing the desire to protect in people when protection is not needed. Upon finding the creature alone, people assume that the young animal has been abandoned and must be saved. "When people come across those little guys h...
LANDER- Over the weekend Lander was host to the 2A/1A West regional track meet and the schools from the basin compete against other teams from the region. Burlington The BHS track team, while small in numbers and rather green, had a terrific day in Lander. Senior Zariah Tolman won the 1A West regional pole vaulting championship, once again, clearing 10-0, a full two feet from the nearest competitor. Sophomore Tallon Wiles won the triple jump for his team with a jump of 38-00. Coach Ryan Olson...
WORLAND- After dropping a match last week against Cody that cost them the quadrant. The Worland Warriors soccer team came out firing against the Douglas Bearcats and won 8-0. While the Bearcats were a young inexperienced team and the weather was typical Wyoming weather the Warriors still approached the match from a professional, business-like mindset. There are things they needed to work on as a team, things that will help them achieve their goal of contending for a state championship, and they...
DOUGLAS- There is no such thing as nice weather during the spring in Wyoming and the Lady Warriors fought through the rain and cold along with the Lady Douglas Bearcats to a 5-1 victory yesterday night. It took Worland sometime to get going as the score was 1-0 heading into halftime. After halftime the Lady Warriors turned on the offense and never looked back, outscoring Douglas 4-1. Scoring for Worland were Emily Keller, Casey Wassum (2) and Hannah Ozmon (2). "I believe the weather had an...
BUFFALO - The Worland High School track team started the 3A East regional tournament strong and carried that momentum into Saturday at Buffalo. As a team Worland finished third overall, the boys team finished second and was only 5.5 points away from first, while the girls team finished fifth. The weather was once again frigid and just as they did on Friday, the track team wouldn't let it bother them. "With the weather being so cold the kids still showed up and performed. We couldn't have asked...
The first U.S. Congressional hearing on daily fantasy sports (DFS) sports took place this past week. Officially labeled "Daily Fantasy Sports: Issues and Perspectives" the hearing was a complete waste of time. Shocking, right? The one effective part of the hearing was reigniting the debate around the legality of DFS and sports gambling as a whole. Quickly, DFS operates like so, you pay an entry fee into a contest that can range anywhere from 50 cents to $1,300. You select from a pool of actual...
LANDER - The Best of the Best meet brought, well, the best of the best athletes from each middle school track team to compete in the final meet of the season Thursday afternoon. Amongst the state's top competition, the Worland Middle School track team ended their season strongly with multiple top-placed finishes. Eighth grader Kate Wassum swept the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, seventh graders Carmyn Buckman (discus), Cole Harmon (high jump) and Taylor Pierce all took first place in their...
BUFFALO- It was a cold and windy day in Buffalo for the 3A East Regional Track Meet yesterday but that did not slow down the Worland High School track team. The Warriors and Lady Warriors had a great start to the regional meet with multiple athletes podiuming all throughout the day. For the 800-meter race Chance Martello finished first while teammate Gabe Webster finished eighth. Martello also finished first in the 3200-meter and freshman Porter Harman was right behind him in second. Leading up...
WORLAND- As soon as it started the WMS soccer teams are about to put the finishing touches on their first season. The inaugural season of soccer has gone terrific for the WMS teams. Just this past Tuesday the teams hosted their final home match of the season against Buffalo. The Lady Braves showed their offensive prowess and defensive fortitude with an 8-0 victory over Buffalo Middle School. "Offensively we had great shots and they did great at finishing the ball and following their shot," said...
WORLAND- The Worland High School track team is headed to Buffalo today to compete in the 3A East Regional meet today and tomorrow. Regionals will serve as the last chance for the Warriors and Lady Warriors who haven't automatically qualified to make the state meet next weekend in Casper. Leading up to regionals the team's practices have been productive even as the weather tried to play spoiler. "Monday and Tuesday we had to move inside, while it wasn't ideal the kids still worked hard and were...
WORLAND - From the fall season to the spring season the Worland Community Center youth recreation soccer league has seen a tremendous growth. This spring season alone there are 220 plus kids, from Worland and Ten Sleep, registered to play and learn the game of soccer. There are four divisions U6, U8, U10 and for the first time in a few years a U12 division. The U6 has 10 teams, the U8s and U10s seven teams each and the U12 four teams. And from Monday through Thursday and Saturday the fields at...
WORLAND- Worland senior Aubrey Goodrick signed her national letter of intent to play for the Laramie County Community College yesterday morning at Worland High School. After making history by helping WHS girls basketball win their first state championship, Goodrick will continue making history at the next level. After laying dormant since 1992, LCCC has rebooted their women's basketball program and Goodrick will be a part of part duex of the LCCC program. When asked her thoughts on playing...
WORLAND- Greybull boys basketball coach Jim Prather has decided it is time to step away from coaching basketball. With 251 career wins, a five-time conference coach of the year and a COY in 2006, five conference championships, eight trips to the state tournament, a regional championship in 2015 and a state championship in 2006, coach Prather believes it is time. "I've been coaching for 32 years in some capacity and there comes a time when you'd like to try something new and felt now was as good...
CODY- The Lady Warriors lost to Northwest quadrant rival Cody Tuesday night 6-2. "Cody outhustled us today, they were very disciplined on defense and offense and kept punishing us on our mistakes. They played a great game and deserved the win," said coach Danielle Warren. The Lady Fillies jumped on the Lady Warriors by taking a 2-1 lead into halftime and out of the break scored another goal to make it 3-1. A goal by junior Hannah Ozmon in the 61st minute gave Worland a boost as they looked to...
WORLAND - The Cowboy Joe Golf Tournament hosted at the Green Hills Golf Course over the weekend was all the fun promised and more. The tournament which is a series of tournaments put on by the Cowboy Joe Club throughout the state to raise money for the student-athletes at the University of Wyoming. "The early forecast said it was to rain all day but the weather held up, we had a pretty good turnout and overall the event was very positive, " said golf professional Mike Propp. From start to...
WORLAND- The Worland Middle School Braves track team wrapped up their season with the conference meet held at Worland High School on Saturday. The sixth-grade boys team took first place in the conference while the seventh-grade boys and girls and eighth-grade boys took third. The eighth-grade girls placed fourth in the conference. Coach Rob Woffinden said of his team, "All the middle school athletes showed commitment and enthusiasm for their individual activities and many of them stepped up at c...
WORLAND- It was an exciting atmosphere yesterday afternoon, to start it was senior night for the boys and girls of Worland High School soccer teams. Then the opponent for the night was Jackson, the No. 1 ranked team for both boys and girls. The Lady Warriors got the first shot at Jackson and from start to finish they made the Lady Broncs play their game. Worland was more physical, faster and locked-in mentally. They made Jackson work for each and every possession. At the end of the first half...
CODY- A strong showing at the Cody Trackstravaganza Thursday night has the Worland Warriors ready for the regional meet in Buffalo next weekend. "Both boys and girls teams are strong. We've been having a good year and look to bring it all together for regionals," said coach Tracey Wiley Thursday night. In Cody Bryanna Mickelson took second in both the shot put and discus, Kylah Mills was second in the 400-meter, Allyson Klingler second in the 1600m and the girls 4x100-meter relay team (Kylah Mil...
WORLAND-The Green Hills Golf Course will host its leg of the annual Cowboy Joe tournament Saturday, May 7 at 10 a.m. The tournament is part of a series of tournaments put on by the Cowboy Joe Club to raise money to support the over 350 student-athletes playing for the University of Wyoming. Tournament participants will all receive Nike tournament gifts, there will also be nine hole prizes and Nike team prizes up for grabs amongst the competitors. Traveling on behalf of the Cowboy Joe Club for...
CODY— The Worland High School track team was scheduled to compete today in Thermopolis but with the weather once again putting a damper on things, the team headed to Cody Thursday night for the last meet of the 2016 regular season. “We wanted to take advantage of the good weather before that weather front came in. And it was also a chance for us to have more of the kids AQ (Automatic Qualifiers),” said coach Tracey Wiley on changing meets. It was a good night for Worland at the Cody Track...
There was a time when watching your favorite college team on television was a special occasion, especially if you are a University of Wyoming fan. The Cowboys may have been on national TV once or twice a year, if they were lucky. Not any more. The Mountain West recently released its national TV schedule for the 2016 football season, and eight of UW's 12 games will be showcased on ESPN's family of networks or CBS Sports Network. Five of those are at home. Impressive for a team that went 2-10...
WORLAND - The regular season is coming to a close for many of the track teams in the area and each of one is working hard at getting ready for regionals and state. Burlington Burlington Coach Ryan Olson has been proud of his team's progress all season long. "We're a small young team but the kids have been doing very well at making the improvements necessary to get better. We started the season by writing their personal best on a board for them to see and that really seemed to motivate them...