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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...
The Lady Wolves played the annual Make-A-Wish basketball game against the Rock Springs Lady Tigers last Thursday. Green River took the lead in the first quarter, outscoring Rock Springs 22-13. In the second quarter the Lady Wolves fell behind, letting Rock Springs score 17 points to their four points. Head Coach Rick Carroll said the girls came out strong but didn't play very well defensively and got too impatient offensively. It was a tight third quarter, with Green River scoring 11 points and...
On Thursday, February 23 the Wolves played a game against the Tigers in Rock Springs. The gym at the Rock Springs High School was full during the Make-A-Wish game for these two rivalry teams. Green River couldn't come up with a win against Rock Springs and lost 41-62. Leading the team for scoring was Caleb Lake with 18 points, along with Chris Wilson with six rebounds. Caleb Lake had three assists and he and Theron Archibald had two steals each. On Saturday, the Wolves played their last...
Green River High School student Damien Holmes will be soaring to new heights - and helping the teammates he throws into the air do the same - when he becomes a Blue Hawk. Holmes recently signed his letter of intent to cheer at Dickinson State University in North Dakota. "I think it's wonderful," GRHS Head Cheer Coach Mikayla Smart said of Holmes's future opportunity. "It's incredible to have a kid of his caliber come from our school and be recruited at the level that he's being recruited at."...
The 3A State Championships took place last week on Thursday and Friday in Gillette. There was intensity filling the air during the prelims as the swimmers and divers prepared to jump in the water. All of the athletes were hoping that they would make the cut and be able to swim in the top twelve the following day. On Friday, 13 teams showed up at the Aquatic Center with the top 12 athletes in each event ready to fight for the gold. As each event started, loud music played as the swimmers came...
The Lady Wolves basketball team has been tearing up the court. They have won two more conference games, putting them in great positioning for Regionals. Green River hosted an intense game against the Evanston Red Devils last Thursday. It was a battle. In the first quarter, Evanston was doing a great job on the boards and was out-rebounding Green River, taking the lead 17-11. During the second quarter, Green River battled back, bringing the score board closer and only trailing Evanston by one...
The Wolves Boys Basketball team played a conference game against Evanston on Thursday, February 16. It was an intense game for both teams. Unfortunately, during the second quarter Green River lost control of the game and went into halftime down by 19 points. They spent the rest of the game trying to make a comeback but fell short. The Wolves lost to the Red Devils 65-70. Leading the team was Theron Archibald with 23 points and Caleb Lake with 12 points. Archibald also had four rebounds along...
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....
It was another fun-filled weekend of basketball for the Lady Wolves. They traveled to Riverton on Friday to play the Wolverines. The ladies started out a little slow, missing some easy baskets, but they were able to steal the ball back and score some points, ending the first quarter with 15 points to Riverton's 10. The next two quarters, Green River out-scored Riverton 14-4. The last quarter of the game, Riverton tried catching up, scoring 13 points to Green River's 12, but it was too late in...
The Wolves played Riverton and Cody this past weekend on February 10 and 11. On Friday, the boys played Riverton, ending with a score of 60-49, with Riverton taking the win. Even though the boys came up short, it was a great game to watch. "Our team worked extremely hard on defense, and played very disciplined on the offense side," said Head Coach Laurie Ivie. Overall she feels it was probably one of the best games they've played all year. Some of Green River's top scorers during the Riverton...
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...
The Green River Boys Swimming and Diving team hosted the Last Chance meet last Thursday and wrapped up their regular season. They also honored the six seniors that jumped into the pool for the last time for the Green River High School team. The seniors that were honored included Braxton Cordova, Kyle Kight, River Kirts, Brady Young, Zeke Reading and Ryan Fischer. The Wolves came out on top, beating Evanston, Rock Springs and Lyman. They didn't pick up any new qualifiers to compete at state, but...
Green River High School football standout Kyler Bartlett will be taking his skills to South Dakota. The senior recently signed his letter of intent to play football as an offensive guard for Black Hills State University. "I'm super thrilled," Bartlett said. Playing college football has been a dream of Bartlett's since he was young. As he fulfills that dream with the BHSU Yellow Jackets, he'll be in familiar territory. Bartlett will be playing the same position he did in high school, as well as...
It was an adrenaline-pumping weekend for the Green River Boys Swimming and Diving team as they competed in the 3A West Conference Championships in Lander. They had amazing individual performances, and as a team they worked together and finished in second place. Brady Young was awarded Swimmer of the Meet and tied for Swimmer of the Year with Lander's Dylan Huelskamp. "It felt really amazing and I was pleasantly surprised to receive athlete of the meet and the year," Young said. "Overall, I'm mos...
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...
Excitement filled the air as the Lady Wolves stepped out on the court last Thursday. It's always an edge-of-the-seat kind of game when Green River gets to play Rock Springs at home, and the bleachers were filled with fans cheering for the teams. The Lady Wolves took the lead in the first quarter 13-4, while the second quarter tightened up the scoreboard with Rock Springs scoring 14 points to Green River's 12. The third quarter was intense - Rock Springs scored 11 points while Green River only...
The Wolves had two games this past week on Green River's home court. Their first game was on Thursday, February 2 against the Rock Springs Tigers. We always love rivalry games and the energy in the gym. Unfortunately, the boys lost to Rock Springs 54-60. "The Wolves out-rebounded the Tigers, but the difference in the game was the foul line," said Head Coach Laurie Ivie. Rock Springs shot 24 free throws and the Wolves only shot 10, which was definitely an advantage the Tigers had. Kason Ivie had...
The Green River Wolves Swimming and Diving team made it to the Gillette Invite last weekend despite most of the roads in the state being closed. The team struggled to get points in the swimming events and took a fifth-place finish out of 10 teams. It was no surprise that Green River's Braxton Cordova took another first-place finish in the 1-Meter Diving event. He has been working very hard this year to complete his dives and his hard work has shown in his top performances. Brady Young took...
It was an exciting Saturday for the Lady Wolves when they won another conference game. The ladies conquered the Star Valley Braves with a final score of 53-38, in an intense game, bringing Green River to a 3-0 conference record. The girls came out slow at the beginning of the game, trading baskets and turnovers, but they picked up momentum by the next quarter. During the second quarter Green River got Star Valley to turn the ball over more and they had really great ball movement in offense. The...
The Green River Wolves Boys basketball team played the Star Valley Braves on Saturday. The Wolves kept up the first half of the game, making some good plays. Coming into the second half of the game, the boys were very flat. This led the team to an unfortunate three-to-four-minute hole where the Braves had a 13-0 run and Green River couldn't recover. The Wolves lost the game with the final score of 60-70. Although the game didn't lean in their favor, "the boys played some of their best basketball...
