River Valley’s Mason Schulte at 144 pounds and Blake Brickl at 190 pounds are All-Conference second team wrestlers this year in the Southwest Wisconsin Conference. Max Giroux at 150 pounds and Ty Larson at 157 also represent River Valley as All-Conference honorable mention wrestlers, not pictured. (Submitted photos)
Nicole Riberich is seen playing for the Reedsburg Area High School girls soccer team. She is a student athlete at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and was recognized for her academic and athletic achievements. (Independent Star News file photo)
A former Reedsburg Area High School student has been named Academic All-District at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Nicole Riberich of Rock Springs was one of 21 student athletes acknowledged by the College Sports Communicators for the 2025 season.
Ithaca/Weston had less than 10 wrestlers on the mat for Saturday’s Scenic/Ridge/Rivers Conference Tournament at North Crawford High School but all of them performed well as I/W worked their way to a third-place team finish.
Reedsburg’s Kaylee Petersen, middle, stands atop the podium as Reedsburg’s first ever girls wrestling conference champion after winning the 152-pound weight class at Friday’s first ever Badger Conference Girls Wrestling Tournament in Baraboo, Reedsburg was second overall in team scoring Friday and first among the Badger Small schools. (Submitted photo)
Reedsburg continues their success in their first season as a high school girls wrestling program. Reedsburg placed second in the final team scoring Friday in the first ever Badger Conference Girls Wrestling Tournament in Baraboo.
It was a little good and a little bad this past week for Ithaca/Weston Girls Basketball, splitting a pair of non-conference games, a rarity with 2 straight games outside the Ridge and Valley at this time of year.
For one of the few times this season, the Badger Lightning girls hockey co-op, featuring players from several area schools, played back-to-back Badger Conference games last week.
River Valley has its first ever Conference Champion girls wrestler at the high school level. Makenzie Schulte won the title at 126 pounds with a 3-0 record Friday night at the first ever SWC/SWAL/Scenic Bluffs/Ridge and Valley Girls Wrestling Tournament in Boscobel. Schulte is now 32-9 for the season.
The Blackhawks from River Valley took a 3-game boys basketball win streak to Sauk-Prairie last Tuesday night to face an Eagles team that is contending for the Badger Small championship. Valley’s streak came to an end with an 81-61 loss.
Weston played none of their three scheduled boys basketball games this past week as the program goes through a transition with three weeks remaining in the regular season. AD Maggie Landsinger sent this statement on Friday.
