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With a few weeks left in the season, the Green River High School boys swimming and diving team are competing tired, but continue to impress head coach Colleen Seiloff. "They're kind of exceeding those expectations," she said. The boys won their two meets over the past weekend, which included a competition at home. Despite the tiredness that happens later in the season, before the coach begins tapering her swimmers for Regionals and State, Seiloff said swimmers continue to cut their times, with...
The Lady Wolves are 2-0 in their quadrant following a win at home against the Jackson Lady Broncs Saturday. The Lady Wolves shown themselves to be an overwhelming force as they played, ending the game 65-26. Throughout much of the game, the Lady Wolves maintained a comfortable lead over the Lady Broncs, which exploded midway during the second quarter as the Green River squad picked apart the Jackson defense and more than doubled their lead by the end of the half. Head coach Rick Carroll said...
Monday afternoon, head coach Josh Wisniewski was having his boys work on their bridging. "Keep your shoulders off the mat," he ordered as they worked through the drills. "Try to stay in your bridge." The drills come after two close losses to Worland and Cheyenne East Saturday during the Thoman Soda Ash Memorial wrestling tournament. "We gave up to many pins this weekend," he said. While the coach said it's never fun losing duals, he does see a lot of improvement from his boys compared to where...
With six weeks until the end of their season, the Green River High School Boys Swimming and Diving Team continue to push themselves in the pool. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said the boys are swimming tired, but remain competitive at their meets. It will be another three weeks until they start to taper their practices in preparation for State. The process slowly eases the practice workouts on swimmers, allowing them rest and compete at 100% during Regionals and State. The team hasn’t had any n...
The Wolves wrestling team had a successful week of competition, with the JV squad defeating a team from Wind River High School and the varsity boys taking down the Rock Springs Tigers at a home dual. The Wolves sent the Tigers home after a 45-35 skirmish while they left Wind River High School 53-24. “The boys were a little nervous at first going down 30-6 against Rock Springs,” head coach Josh Wisniewski said. “They were able to weather the storm and come up with some big wins in our lower weigh...
The weekend of basketball competition following the long holiday break didn’t go how the Wolves would have hoped. Competing in Cheyenne over the weekend, the Wolves left the state’s capital with two losses on their record. The took a loss Friday against Cheyenne East 79-68, followed by a loss Saturday to Cheyenne Central where the boys were outscored 2 to 1 in a game ending 80-40. Central is currently ranked the top team in 4A, while East is third. “We were extremely flat Saturday morni...
While other sports had the opportunity to take a break over the holidays, the Green River High School Swimming and Diving Team hit the road to compete in meets in Laramie and at Cheyenne East Dec. 30-31. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said the boys continued to work had and cut times during the meet. While they weren't able to add to the list of swimmers qualifying for state, Seiloff said some of the boys added to the number of events they qualified for. "They were really solid I think," she said....
The Wyoming Cowboys struggled from the field in an 81-61 loss to Fresno State on Monday evening in the Save Mart Center in Fresno, Calif. Wyoming shot 39 percent from the field for the lowest total of the season. The Bulldogs also held the Pokes to a season low 61 points. The Cowboys move to 7-2 overall and 1-1 in conference play with the Bulldogs improving to 3-3 overall and 1-2 in the MW. “I think Fresno State had their back against the wall and they wanted to come out and find a win and give them credit,” UW head coach Jeff Linder said. “In...
For many sections of public lands in western and southern Wyoming, the shed antler and horn hunting collection closure is approaching. The annual closure for sections of public land, state land and Wyoming Game and Fish Commission wildlife habitat management areas in Wyoming begins on Jan. 1 at midnight. The shed collection closure is meant to protect wintering big game. A Wyoming Game and Fish Commission regulation prohibits anyone from collecting shed antlers or horns on public land, such as U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management...
As we approach the end of a year unlike any other, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department is proud to reflect on some of our top accomplishments over the year. Notably, the Department worked tirelessly to conserve more than 800 species of fish and wildlife that call Wyoming home. “The pandemic certainly impacted how the Wyoming Game and Fish Department carried out business, but it didn’t stop us. Game and Fish took our charge to conserve wildlife and serve people more heartily than ever. Because when seemingly nothing was certain, one thing was...
The Lady Wolves are riding high after a winning weekend at the Flaming Gorge Classic. The Lady Wolves beat back a late-game rally from Gillette High School Friday, earning a 44-42 win. Saturday afternoon, The Lady Wolves came away with a decisive victory over Kelly Walsh 57-37. Head girls basketball coach Rick Carroll said he was pleased with how the Lady Wolves played throughout the weekend. He was especially happy with how well the girls rebounded while taking on Gillette Friday night. "They...
The Wolves faced strong teams from Gillette and Kelly Walsh during the Flaming Gorge Classic tournament they hosted in Green River, with the boys coming up short against the team from Campbell County, but rebounding in their second game. Head coach Laurie Ivie said the Wolves dug themselves into a big deficit during the first half, with the Wolves trailing 29-42. The Wolves spent much of the third quarter closing on Gillette. “We brought it to within four, but ran out of steam,” Ivie said. The...
A long weekend of competition may have exhausted the Wolves swimming and diving team, but they continued to impress, qualifying four additional swimmers for the State meet. The qualifiers are Cole Gilmore, Levi Westburg, Braden Fry and Kayson Snow. In total, 17 of the team’s 20 members have qualified for events at State, which include the full roster of divers. Head coach Colleen Seiloff said the State competition rules allow for the five divers to compete, but only the top four will score p...
The last week may not have gone the way the Wolves wrestling team wanted, but they continue to make gains early in the season. The boys took on Mountain View Wednesday, winning the dual at the end the night. Members of the team then traveled to Gillette for a series of duals. The boys ended the weekend 2-4, though head coach Josh Wisniewski believes they were capable of finishing 4-2. “We could have wrestled better,” he said. He doesn’t think the boys overlooked their competition, saying the coaches continually remind wrestlers not to overl...
The Green River High School boys swimming team started the season with a splash in their first two meets of the season. The Wolves competed at a meet in Rock Springs Friday, then participated in the Rawlins Pentathlon Saturday. In Rock Springs, the 3A team took first, scoring 421 points at the meet. The team's success continued Saturday, taking second with 153 points/ Of the team's 19 swimmers and divers, 13 qualified for state. "I was pleased with the way they performed," head swimming coach...
The Wolves were split between three wrestling competitions over the weekend, which included a home dual against Shoshoni Saturday. The Wolves defeated Shoshoni 19-18. Head coach Josh Wisniewski said some wrestlers went to Heber City, Utah while other competed at a tournament in Evanston. Through the weekend, Wisniewski thought the Wolves wrestled well and believed the team matched up pretty well against the squad from Shoshoni. While the coach was happy with the team's performance, he plans to a...
The Lady Wolves didn’t start their season the way they would have liked, but were able to rebound after a loss Friday. The team sits a 1-1 for the season so far, their first game a 56-50 losing effort to Laramie and a dominating 50-34 win over Cheyenne South at home Saturday. “We made some steps forward from last night (in Laramie),” head girls basketball coach Rick Carroll said after Saturday’s game. Carroll said he’s coach a young team this year, with only three seniors playing for the Lady Wo...
The Wolves are working to hard prepare for the upcoming Flaming Gorge Classic, coming into the tournament after a 71-62 win against Cheyenne South Saturday. Head coach Laurie Ivie liked what she was seeing from the Wolves during their home opener. “The boys played very well in our home opener, she said. “We got up and down the court quickly, shared the ball well, found open shooters and had four players score in double digits.” While she was happy with how the game went for the team, there...
The Green River High School boys swimming and diving team will start their season against Rock Springs Friday and head coach Colleen Seiloff is busy prepping her swimmers for the upcoming season. According to a news release from Sweetwater County School District No. 2's Athletics Director, Tony Beardsley, the complete swimming season hasn't been finalized yet. Seiloff said the late schedule is a symptom of competing during a pandemic, saying the girls season in the fall had a finalized...
The Green River High School winter sports teams are gearing up for their seasons. Practices have already been underway at the high school. While the high school athletes continue to sharpen their skills in preparation for their first competitions, they're doing so under several new rules designed to limit the potential spread of COVID-19 and make contact tracing easier to accomplish. "We have protocols in place to reduce the risk of transmission, Josh Wisniewski, head wrestling coach said....
It wasn’t until 1955 when hunters could harvest the historic wild turkey in Wyoming. Hunters’ interest has continued to gain momentum since. With both fall and spring seasons to chase gobblers, hunters’ stealthy pursuits provide excellent food for their families and mementos of feathers, beards and spurs to commemorate the hunt long after. It all started in 1935, when the Wyoming Game and Fish Department swapped sage grouse with New Mexico for 15 Merriam’s turkeys – nine hens and six toms. The imports were released on the George Waln Ranch on...
Through the years, the Wyoming-UNLV football series has been one of the closest and most thrilling series in the Mountain West Conference, including the highest scoring game in league history, four overtime battles and 14 of 24 previous meetings being decided by eight points or less. This Friday at 2 p.m., M.T., will be the 25th meeting in the series and the first to be played in Las Vegas' new Allegiant Stadium. The game will be broadcast on radio over the Cowboy Sports Network, beginning with...
The Green River High School golf team finished a very successful season this year despite several set backs, including one of the varsity girls getting injured in a car crash and missing the rest of the season, as well as not being able to practice at their home course the entire week before conference because of storm damage. This years senior captains were Kaylee Lundgren, Kayde Foster, Jake Probst and Clayson Mele, while the other captains included sophomore Ryker Mele, and freshman Isabell...
