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Every morning on the way to work I listen to ESPN Radio to catchup on sports from the night before and hear the so-called “experts” spin their twists on a variety of topics. Instead of analysis of Sunday’s Super Bowl, the past week plus has been nothing but talk about the psi of footballs. Under closer examination, someone on the New England Patriots probably deflated footballs, but in truth they probably would have won the AFC Championship against the Colts with bricks for footballs, eight...
The distance between Green River and Rock Springs High School is a mere 19.9 miles. While the schools are located relatively close and share the same county, there is no love lost between the bitter rivals. On Thursday night, the Green River High School boys and girls basketball teams will host their rivals in Wolves Gymnasium in a 4A West Conference game that means a whole lot more than the rest. Green River senior forward Tanner Trumble said the rivalry means everything to him. "I always look...
The Green River High School girl’s basketball team won’t need much motivation in seeking their first conference win of the season. In their only game of the week, the Lady Wolves will host rival Rock Springs Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Rock Springs will come into the game with a 2-0 conference record and Carroll said a key to a Green River win will be taking better care of the basketball. “We turn the ball over sometimes when it’s not a contested turnover and we really need to stop that. I don’t think our decision making is bad, we just can’t let...
The Wolf Pack is on a roll. The Green River High School wrestling team showed once again last weekend they are one of the premier teams in the state. The Wolves came away with a second place finish competing against 30 teams from Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming at the Tiger-Grizz Invitational in Idaho Falls. Green River finished with 215.5 points, just behind Bonneville, Idaho, who won the tournament with 221.5 points. “It was nice to see the wrestlers compete very hard for the second week in a row. We wrestled with intensity, our technique h...
Friday night, the Green River High School wrestling team will take to the mat for their second home dual of the season against a strong Star Valley team. There would be nothing better for the team to look into the stands and see a standing room only crowd to cheer them on. Green River is known across the state as a wrestling town and there are 11 state titles to back it up. It’s time to fill the gym. If you haven’t been paying attention, the program has been gaining momentum over the past sev...
The Green River High School boy’s swimming team picked up an additional state qualifier at a meet last Friday in Pinedale. Keyan Moore was able to qualify for state tournament later this year in Gillette in diving. He became the third member of the team to qualify for state. Brendan Bloomquist qualified in the 100-breaststroke and Paul Wright qualified in the 100-butterfly during meets in December. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said they have a couple swimmers and divers that are also really close to qualifying. She added the Zander Potter d...
The Green River High School indoor track team had some outstanding individual finishes last weekend at the Weber State Developmental High School Track Meet. Head coach Steve Boyd said it was a good meet and everybody seem pleased with their marks for the teams first event of the season. The highest placer for Green River was standout senior Holly Huber who finished fourth in the 55-meter hurdles. Junior Josie Givens carried the momentum for a successful cross country campaign with a fifth place finish in both the 1600 and 800-meter races. Boyd...
When I’m excited for something it seems like time stands still. No matter what I do, every hour seems to never end and the days seem to pass by like a months and the months pass by like years. There are also times when life seems to go by too quickly. The great moments in life seem to pass by if they were seconds instead of minutes and decades instead of years. Each time I’m with my son Julian I really feel this is the case, and I’m sure that most parents feel the same. Time goes by too quickly...
It was a great weekend for the Green River High School wrestling team. Competing at home, the Wolves went undefeated and placed first at the annual Bill Thoman Memorial Wrestling Tournament. Green River won the tournament with wins over Moffat County, Colo. (62-12), Cheyenne South (54-21), Lander (54-21), Douglas (46-34), Scottsbluff, Neb. (53-24), Cheyenne East (48-26) and Uintah, Utah (38-29). The win in the finals against Uintah avenged an earlier dual loss against the Utes. "We wrestled...
Over their past six games, the Green River High School boy’s basketball team has traveled more than 1,400 round-trip miles. Tomorrow night the Wolves will have a much easier trip with a 86 mile trip to Evanston to take on the 7-4 Red Devils. It will be first game of 4A West Conference play for both teams. Afterward, the squad will get to play their first home game since before Christmas Saturday at 2:30 p.m. against Riverton (5-5). Green River head coach Dan LaRose said there is a lot of learning that comes from the pre-conference schedule a...
It’s a whole new season for the Green River High School girl’s basketball team. The Lady Wolves will open the 2014 4A West conference season with two games this week. Green River will travel to Evanston Thursday, and will host Riverton Saturday at 1 p.m. Last week, Green River (2-8) dropped two games on the road 40-26 against Cheyenne South and 42-39 to Laramie. Following the games, head coach Rick Carroll said the team is starting to see where they need to be on the offensive side of the ball. He said they are starting to get more fam...
Four-years-ago, University of Wyoming head basketball coach Larry Shyatt inherited a mess. Shyatt took the reigns of the program from former coach Heath Schroyer. Things were awful in Laramie, and it was time for a change. Schroyer’s record was under .500 and it wasn’t just that. Questionable coaching and the inner workings of the program led to a complete apathy with fans and the once rocking Arena-Auditorium was mostly empty when the Cowboys took the floor. So in stepped Shyatt. It wasn’t his...
The Green River High School indoor track team will kickoff their season Friday at Weber State University. Wolves head coach Steve Boyd said practice has been going good and it will be nice to get in the first meet of the season. He said there are currently 35 kids who came out for the team. While the numbers are a bit less than last season, Boyd said he likes the team numbers right where they’re at. With a meet also scheduled Friday in Saturday in Utah at Brigham Young University, Boyd said the Weber competition may not be as big as it has i...
Lawmakers ascended yesterday to the state capital in Cheyenne for the 63rd Wyoming Legislature. Going into the session 2015 General Session convened Tuesday at noon, Rep. Stan Blake (D-Green River) said one of the most important issues will be to not only spend money wisely, but to invest in cities, towns, and counties. Blake said there is $125 million the budget set aside and the Legislature needs to spend all of that and possibly more. “We need to invest in Wyoming and its infrastructure while we have the extra money,” he said. Earlier thi...
I’m not a morning person. I arrive to work around 8 a.m. and before I get going with work and making phone calls, I always like to spend a few minutes looking at other newspapers and catching up on sports from the night before. This is usually the relaxing point of my day, but I also use this as an opportunity to come up with ideas for things to write about and this was the case today. I came across an article today about President Obama and his idea about giving people two free years of communi...
The Green River High School boy’s basketball team will be gunning for their first win of the year Friday night with a return trip to play Cheyenne South High School. The two 4A squads also played last Friday night in Cheyenne, with the Bison picking up the 67-28 victory. The Wolves will be coming into the game after arguably their most competitive game of the season last Saturday afternoon, a 57-46 loss to Cheyenne Central. Head coach Dan LaRose said the team went into the game with senior Hayden Love and junior Kamden Carroll both nursing i...
This weekend, local fans will get a chance to see some amazing wrestling when 14 teams from four states join host Green River High School at the annual Bill Thoman Memorial Wrestling Tournament. The two-day tournament will feature four pools of teams. Pool "A" will include Green River, Lander, Cheyenne South and Moffat County, Colo. The Wolves will open Friday at 1 p.m. against Moffat County in the main gym at the high school. Green River will wrestle Cheyenne South at 2:45 p.m. and Lander at...
The Green River High School varsity wrestling team finished fifth last week at the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah. The tournament featured 28 teams from Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah. “As a team, we didn’t wrestle very well this weekend, we lost too many close matches and many of our leaders didn’t compete like they need to,” head coach Marshall Rhodes said. “We haven’t been working as hard as we should in practice and we still need to get in better shape.” Leading the way for Green River was defending state champion Cole Verner, who f...
The Green River High School girl’s basketball team showed some positive signs last week at a three-day tournament in Cheyenne. While the Lady Wolves were unable to pick up a victory, head coach Rick Carroll said the team played hard in all three games, especially on defense. “Defensively, there were times when we played good, but we were inconsistent,” he said. “There are times we have minutes pushed together we don’t score or allow them to have a run, and we need to work on that.” he said. On the offensive side of the ball, Carroll said the te...
The Green River High School boy’s swim team placed third at last week’s Rock Springs Quad competition. The top individual finishers for the Wolves were Brendan Hobbs, who placed third in the 100-yard butterfly and Ethan Moffatt, who also placed third in the 100-yard breaststroke. Hobbs also placed seventh in the 200-yard freestyle, while Moffatt was eighth in the 100-yard freestyle. Paul Wright placed fifth in the 200-yard IM and eighth in the 100-yard backstroke. Keyan Moore placed fourth in diving. Coleton Spalding finished in fifth, Mil...
It’s pretty simple to say that life was a lot more simple growing up. There was nothing quite like waking up with the biggest concern being which hill to try to fly down on a bicycle or knowing that it was the weekend. I could spend literally all day trying to solve the video game I had just purchased. And while this is a time you can never return to, there are some rare moments that take me back to my childhood. It can be something a simple as a smell, or maybe a song that I used to jam on m...
After a rough start last Friday at Star Valley, the Green River High School boy’s basketball team is looking to get out of the gates quicker Thursday evening against Sheridan. A quick start by the Braves put the Wolves in an early hole in the 58-40 loss. Head coach Dan LaRose said the team had a game plan for the Star Valley game, but his team came out flat. LaRose said it was a long bus ride and wait for the game, but there comes a time you have to say that the game is going to start and you have to be physically and mentally ready to play. He...
The Green River High School girl’s basketball team will face a tough test this week with three games against 4A North teams. The Lady Wolves will be traveling to compete at the Cheyenne Invite with their first game Thursday against the number one team in the state, Sheridan. The Lady Wolves will take on Cheyenne South (2-4) Friday and Cheyenne Central (6-1) Saturday. Green River will enter the contest against the Lady Broncs (4-1) with a 2-3 record. In their last contest Jan. 2, the Lady W...
In just one game under the direction of interim head coach Rick Carroll, the Green River High Schools girl’s basketball team showed amazing growth on the defensive side of the floor. In their second matchup of the season against Star Valley, the Lady Wolves showed marked improvement on defense, holding the Lady Braves to 28 fewer points than the first matchup in December that ended with a final of 63-26. While Green River lost the game 35-18, Carroll said the girls were extremely competitive a...
The Green River High School wrestling team will begin the 2015 portion of their schedule against some solid competition. Fresh off a second place finish at a large tournament in Colorado, the Wolves will once again take to the road this weekend when they travel to the Tournament of Champions in Vernal, Utah. Green River head coach Marshall Rhodes said some of the better teams in Utah should be at the two-day tournament. After a first-place finish in Evanston and the second-place finish in Grand...
