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The Green River Girls Wrestling team competed in the first-ever Wyoming Girls State Championships this past Thursday and Friday, February 23 and 24, in Casper at the Wyoming Ford Center. There were 30 teams competing, and the Lady Wolves finished in the top half of the state with a 13th-place finish. The team of two seniors, two juniors and two sophomores has stayed the course during the season. At State the team had some great matches, with half of the girls finishing in the top six and all of them gaining valuable experience. The top...
The Green River High School Girls and Boys Indoor Track team, weather permitting, will be taking the long trip north on Friday and Saturday, March 3-4, to participate in the Wyoming State Indoor Track Championships. The State tournament will be at the Gillette Sports Complex in Gillette and hosted by Campbell County High School. The Wolves lost out this past week to compete in a Last Chance State qualifying meet at the Laramie Invitation due to inclement weather and bad roads. The boys will have at least seven competitors at State and the...
Last week the Green River High School Indoor Track team took nine athletes to compete in the nationally-renowned Simplot Games at Holt Arena on the campus of Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho. Head Track Coach Dan Hansen was pleased with the results as they had four athletes receive medals, and the other athletes that attended either set P.R.s (personal records) or had a great experience. As a bonus, American thrower Ryan Crouser, currently the best shot putter in the world, was at the...
The Green River Wolves Boys Wrestling team showed why they were one of the favorites going into regionals, with a strong performance winning them the 3A Regional Wrestling Tournament. The team's score was 233.5 points ahead of second-place-finisher Evanston, the team that hosted regionals. Cody, another favorite, finished in third place with 194.0 points. The other teams participating were Powell in fourth, Pinedale in fifth, Lyman in sixth, Mountain View in seventh and Riverton in eighth in the...
The new Wyoming State Girls Wrestling program continues to progress as this week the Green River High School Girls Wrestling team traveled to the Bridger Valley to compete with fourteen other Wyoming high schools' girls wrestling teams in the first Lyman Girls Invitational Wrestling Tournament. The Lady Wolves came away from the competition placing third overall. In the 100 pound weight class there were only two wrestlers entered, and Jayleigh Wright lost by fall to her opponent from Pinedale....
This past Wednesday, the Green River High School Wrestling teams, including the Boys Varsity, Girls Varsity and Boys J.V. teams, all traveled to Evanston. The Evanston Red Devils are in their first year of 3A wrestling after dropping down from 4A. All three of the Green River teams defeated Evanston in highly competitive matches. The girls had just three girls wrestling on the day, losing one match by a fall and winning two by falls. Lily Harris at 132 and Brianna Uhrig at 114 both pinned their...
The Mustang Invite at Natrona County High School in Casper was the site of the High School Boys and Girls Indoor Track Competition this past weekend for the Wolves. There were eighteen teams competing, with over 100 competitors in multiple events. There was no team scoring, but Head Track Coach Dan Hansen noted that all but four of Green River’s competitors achieved their P.R.’s (Personal Record/Personal Best). Green River had seventeen team members competing in twenty-four different events with nineteen personal bests. Top placers on the day i...
After competing in eight straight large regional tournaments, which were all extremely competitive, the Green River Wolves boys Varsity and Junior Varsity teams hosted the always-tough Star Valley Braves wrestling team this past Friday night at the Green River High School Gym. Star Valley did not bring their girls wrestling team as state rules prevented them from competing due to the number of meets they had already participated in. The final score for the Varsity boys was extremely close as Sta...
The Green River High School Girls and Boys Indoor Track team took the long journey to Northeast Wyoming to participate in the Basin Nation Indoor Track Meet in Gillette, hosted by Thunder Basin High School. There were seventeen teams from Northeast and Central Wyoming, with Green River being the sole participant from Southwest Wyoming. Green River took a small team of 13 athletes who had to pre-qualify for the meet as the Wolves used this meet as a “true” varsity meet. Head Track Coach Dan Hansen pointed out that the meet started at 10 a.m...
Green River competed this past weekend in the state's largest wrestling tournament, the Ron Thon Memorial in Riverton. The tournament had 37 teams in the Boys Varsity division and the largest field since the inception of Girls Varsity Wrestling in the Girls division. Green River's Head Wrestling Coach Josh Wisniewski stated that he was "very happy with how we wrestled this weekend as a team. We had eight wrestlers place in the top four with one Champion in Thomas Dalton." The coach noted that...
The Green River High School Boys and Girls Indoor Track team traveled south this past week to compete in the annual Weber State Indoor Invitational for the first time since the COVID-19 cancellations. Green River competed with 58 teams from Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Wyoming in a huge regional meet. The Wolves had 21 athletes competing in 35 events, one competitor participating in three events, and several others competing in two events. Among the athletes whose performance Head Coach Dan Hansen noted was senior thrower Dillon Davis, who took...
The Green River High School Girls and Boys Wrestling teams competed this past Friday and Saturday at the Lander Valley High School Invite. There were twenty-five teams for the boys and seven teams for the girls. The teams that competed include Big Piney, Buffalo, Burns/Pine Bluffs, Cheyenne South, Cody, Cokeville, Douglas, Dubois, Green River, Greybull/Riverside, Jackson, Kemmerer, Lander, Laramie, Lyman, Mountain View, Pinedale, Powell, Rawlins, Riverton, Rock Springs, Saratoga, Thermopolis,...
The Green River High School Indoor Track teams traveled South to Provo, Utah this past Friday to participate with a limited number of competitors in just the two mile and a couple of field events along with a huge field of 95 other high schools from throughout the region. At the meet, both the boys and the girls competed in an event typically not part of meets in Wyoming — the weight throw. Amanda Davis finished third in a small field of competitors and her brother Dillon took second place just five inches out of first place. Head Coach Dan H...
This past Friday and Saturday, Green River High School hosted the Thoman Memorial Wrestling Tournament with 20 schools competing from throughout Wyoming as well as out-of-state teams from Rifle, Colorado; Uintah, Utah; Grantsville, Utah; and Salem Hills, Utah. The tournament took place in three gyms at Green River High School, Green River Recreation Center and Rock Springs High School. The format also included, for the first time, a full slate of girls wrestlers. The teams were broken down into...
This past Friday and Saturday the Green River High School Wrestling teams split up, with six wrestlers traveling to Fresno, California to compete in the Doc Buchanan Invitational Wrestling Tournament, which is recognized as the toughest high school tournament on the West Coast. According to Head Wrestling Coach Josh Wisniewski, "Boy did it live up to that." The coach noted that they were able to witness some of the best wrestlers in the country go toe-to-toe, and "our wrestlers were in the...
The Green River High School Wrestling team split and participated in two different tournaments this past week. Twenty-one varsity wrestlers were sent to compete in the very tough National Reno Tournament of Champions against 2,500 wrestlers from 30 different states. Other Wolves wrestlers, both boys and girls, competed in the local Joe Aimone Invitational wrestling Tournament in Kemmerer against 10 other Southwest Wyoming teams and one team each from Idaho and Utah. Both tournaments, according...
The Green River Wrestling boys varsity and junior varsity and, for their first meet ever, the girls varsity team, traveled south this past weekend to Heber City, Utah, to participate in the Wasatch Intermountain Duels, one of the toughest Utah/Regional Meets. Green River placed fourth among the 16 teams participating, and while the teams did not all compete against each other the Wolves finished with a dual record of 7-2 against some of Utah's best. Head Wrestling Coach for the Wolves, Josh...
Green River High School’s indoor track Head Coach Dan Hansen is excited to get the 2022/23 indoor track season underway. Hansen commented: “This year we will compete at the 3A level in Indoor Track and Field with the State having two classifications: 4A top 12 teams and everyone else in 3A.” Hansen went on to say that “if our kids continue to work hard at their craft, we should get some representation in the finals.” The early numbers for participants this year, according to Hansen, are between 30 to 40 kids. There are nine seniors and eight...
The Green River Wolves Boys Wrestling team, who finished third in the State in 3A wrestling last year, has seven wrestlers returning who placed in the top six places in their weight classes last year. Leading the way for the Wolves this year will be Junior Kale Knezovich, a two-time State Champion in the 2021/2022 season, and Senior Thomas Dalton, who was also a state champion in the 2021/2022 season. Those also finishing in the top six were Freshman James Herwaldt, Junior Spencer Wright, and...
Head football Coach Kevin Cuthbertson stepped down this week after a 2-7 season in which they failed to make the playoffs. Cuthbertson met with his players Monday to let them know. The Wolves’ final game of the season was a 44-7 loss against the Evanston Red Devils last Friday night, which eliminated Green River from the playoffs. The Wolves received the ball to start the game and marched right down the field with three passes completed, one to Skyler Lee and two to Hunter Finley, including the touchdown pass. With the P.A.T. good the Wolves l...
The Green River High School girls and boys cross country teams competed at the 3A State Championships at Wyoming Indian High School in Ethete this past Saturday. The young girls team, with five of six runners returning, finished sixth in the field of twelve teams with 96 runners. Leading the way for the Lady Wolves' runners was Isabelle Murdock who crossed the finish line in 16th place on the 5,000 meter course in 21:17.12. She was followed by Lily Murdock in 25th in 21:38.72 and Madison...
The Green River Wolves football team traveled to Star Valley to take on the second ranked, 3A, 5-2 Star Valley Braves on Senior Night for the Braves. Star Valley amassed 222 yards running the ball and 224 yards passing with their quarterback throwing four touchdown passes. The Braves kicked off to Green River, who was unable to move the ball in just three offensive plays and had to punt to the Braves. The Braves marched right down the field, focusing on the run, but their pass to the end zone was intercepted by the Wolves’ Hunter Finley and G...
Green River's boys and girls Cross Country teams competed this past week in the 3A West Conference Cross Country meet on a tough course at the Lander Golf and Country Club. Times were down a little as expected, but the competition was tough, also as expected. For the boys, Green River had seven runners in the field of 109 runners. The top finisher for the boys, as has been the case all season, was Nathan Stevenson. Stevenson was seeded in the top eight prior to the meet but outperformed that...
This past week the Green River High School Girls and Boys Cross Country teams competed at the Rock Springs Invitational with teams from Rock Springs, Mountain View, Lyman and Manila, Utah. The girls team took first place for the third time this season while the boys took forth. Five of the Lady Wolves' runners set their personal best times of the season, led by Isabelle Murdock taking second in the field of 26 runners with a fine time of 21:03.1. She was followed in the top 10 by Madison...
The Green River Wolves football team scored an impressive team victory over the Jackson Broncs this past Friday, winning 33-17 before a good crowd on Senior night in Green River. Jackson elected to receive to start the game, and after recovering a squib kick on the 46-yard line they started the game with excellent field position. Jackson's offense got an eight-yard pass completion and an 11-yard run to move deeper into Wolves' territory, but two straight penalties against the Broncs and they...
