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Girls volleyball team getting ready for season opener in October
After taking first place at regionals last year, the girls volleyball team is setting up for another competitive season. With seven out of 11 players returning and a roster of strong hitters,...
Swim team breaks personal records at Juneau meet
The Juneau Invitational Sept. 15 and 16 was a weekend full of progress and personal bests for the Wrangell swim team. The team participated in 27 individual and four relay events during the two-day event, which was hosted by Thunder Mountain High...
Runners continue to improve times in advance of Southeast regionals
At the last cross-country meet before regionals, the Ketchikan Invitational, the Wrangell Wolves continued to shave seconds - and in some cases, minutes - off their times as they prepare for the end...
Wolves raced in Sitka against largest field yet
The Wrangell Wolves competed in the Sitka Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 16 - their largest cross-country meet before regional and state championships, with more than 240 competitors from 16 high...
Cross-country meet draws large crowd of runners and supporters
Over 300 athletes, family members and volunteers showed up to the Wrangell Invitational cross-country meet Saturday, Sept. 9, for a race featuring teams from 10 schools around Southeast. The Sitka...
Swimmers log personal bests at first swim meet of season
The high school swim team competed in its first meet of the season, the Sitka Invitational, on Sept. 1 and 2. Though the Wrangell Wolves placed sixth overall, many swimmers logged personal bests in...
Wrangell hosts high school cross-country meet on Saturday
The year’s only high school cross-country meet in town is set for Saturday, Sept. 9, with runners from nine Southeast schools scheduled to travel to Wrangell for the competition. Starting time for the 10-team meet is 1 p.m., said Wrangell coach...
Boomchain Loucks wins first cross-country meet of year
Wrangell sophomore Boomchain Loucks was the fastest runner at the first cross-country meet of the school year, turning in a time of 17:23.23 at the meet on Saturday, Sept. 2, in Klawock. Wrangell’s Keegan Hanson was right behind, taking second...
Swimmers dive into new high school season
The whistle trills. "50 freestyle! Take your mark!" The athlete gets into position on the platform. The horn sounds. "Go! Let's go!" SPLASH! With the reopening of the community swimming pool, the high...
Cross country team prepares to run down goals
This year’s Wrangell High School cross country team has some big running shoes to fill. Last year, the boys team placed first at regionals and first at state, which was a first-ever accomplishment for the team. Some of those runners are returning...
Wrestling Camp
Visiting coach Mike Bundy demonstrates a move on incoming freshman Jackson Carney at Wrangell Wrestling Camp on July 13. The camp was sponsored by Parks and Recreation and backed by grant funding....
A shot at learning more
Alysa Horn, center, instructs students Boomchain Loucks, left, and Jackson Pearson last Friday during drills at a three-day basketball camp at the high school gym over the weekend. Horn is the owner...
Time to play ball
Malachi Harrison looks to the catcher, determining his next pitch during opening day of Little League in Wrangell last Saturday. Harrison plays for the Wolverines, who faced the Cubs in the first...
Diamonds shine
Delilah Roane, 11, sweeps a dugout last Saturday as part of the volunteer effort to clean up the baseball diamonds at Volunteer Park. The batting cages were weeded and raked, while the fields were...
Student interest in spring sports goes deep; coaches hope it's enough to play ball
For the first time in more than a decade, it's possible that Wrangell High School could have not only a baseball team but a softball team as well. But the question remains as to whether umps will...
Cheer squad places 7th at state competition in Anchorage
The Wrangell High School cheer squad has finished their season of drills and RAH, RAH, RAH-ing with the conclusion of state competition last week. The squad of Brodie Gardner, Cassady Cowan, Alisha Armstrong, Lily Younce and Nate Rooney placed sevent...
Boys varsity team wins fourth place at state tournament
After three days of intense play, the Wrangell High School boys varsity basketball team won fourth place in the state Division 2A championship in Anchorage. It was the first time the team went to stat...
Wrangell AAU girls team nets first-place at home tournament
While the high school state championship tournament in Anchorage was attracting a lot of hoopla, the Stikine Hoops Invitational was netting plenty of its own excitement back home, including a big...
Kake boys cap undefeated season with 1A state championship
The last time the Kake high school boys basketball team appeared in a state championship game was more than two decades ago. The team was competing in Division 2A and current head coach Anthony Ross, who went by Anthony Dolan at the time, was on the...
Boys defeat Petersburg in battle for second place, win spot at state
In four days of tough battles on the hardwood, including an overtime win in the third round, the Wrangell High School boys basketball team took second place in the Southeast regional championships...
Boys team splits with Petersburg, girls win both games at homecoming
At times, the cheers for the Petersburg Vikings were almost as loud as the cheers for the Wrangell Wolves. And the cheers for the Wolves were almost deafening. The Wrangell High School gym was alive...
Chiefs defend homecourt against visiting Wolves to win all four games
Learning to adapt and improvise can be a key strategy in basketball, which is what Wrangell’s basketball teams had to do last weekend against Metlakatla. However, it was not enough. The Wrangell High School varsity boys and girls teams traveled to...
Middle school wrestlers win top spots at Juneau regionals
Stikine Middle School wrestlers traveled to Juneau last weekend for regionals, winning first- through eighth-place finishes. The girls squad showed up in force, taking first, second and third place in their weight classes. It was the first time a...
Wrangell varsity boys fare better in rematch against Sitka
The last time they met on the hardwood, the Wrangell High School boys varsity basketball team fell in two games against the Sitka team on Sitka’s homecourt. “Our guys played really tough,” head coach Cody Angerman said after those games in...
High school boys sweep Craig, while girls teams struggle
Coordinated plays, three-pointers galore, solid defense and near misses defined Wrangell High School basketball teams’ games against Craig High School last Friday and Saturday. The boys varsity and junior varsity teams each won both of their games...
