Glenwood City Sports
Hilltopper track trio competes in Whitewater
WHITEWATER — A trio of Glenwood City track and field athletes competed in an elite competition over the Easter weekend. Seniors JJ Williams and Blake Wakeling and junior Haylie Hannah took part in the Wisconsin State Indoor Track and Field Championships held at UW-Whitewater on Saturday, April 8. Williams continued to impress in the season’s…
Read MoreGlenwood City golfers look to compete for conference title, return to state
by David Popko Golf head coach For the upcoming Glenwood City golf season, Coach Popko and Coach Ketola welcome back nine golfers from last year and greet seven new golfers who range from freshmen to juniors. In last year’s golf season, the Hilltoppers won one meet, finished second or tied for second in the rest,…
Read MoreGlenwood City track and field teams return talent, gear up for run at conference championships
GLENWOOD CITY — A year ago both the Glenwood City girls’ and boys’ track and field teams came close to capturing Dunn-St. Croix Conference championships. The Lady Hilltoppers finished second to Mondovi while their male counterparts came in third behind boys’ champion Mondovi and runner-up Elk Mound. The Glenwood City boys went on to finish…
Read MoreTopper softballers ten-run Wolves for first win
PEPIN — After losing 12-2 in its season opener to Colfax three days earlier indoors at the Valley Sports Academy in Lake Hallie, the Glenwood City softball team scored its own 10-run victory over Elmwood-Plum City last Monday, April 3. Due to snow-covered fields at both schools, the contest was played in Pepin with the…
Read MoreFour GC youth wrestlers earn trophies at WWF Kids Folkstyle State
MADISON — Glenwood City sent ten youth wrestlers to the 2023 Wisconsin Wrestling Federation’s Kids Folkstyle State Championships, which were held Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25 at the Alliant Energy Center Coliseum in Madison, and four returned home with trophies in tow. Monti Fry led the Glenwood City contingent with a fourth-place finish,…
Read MoreWilliams wins mile, Hilltopper boys finish third at Stout Elite track and field meet
MENOMONIE — Based on their top performances a week earlier in the Northern Badger Classic, several Glenwood City track and field athletes were invited back to UW-Stout’s Sports and Fitness Center last Friday, March 31 to compete in the Stout Elite meet. It proved to be a banner day for the Glenwood City boys as…
Read MoreToppers hope to climb baseball standings in 2023
GLENWOOD CITY — After spending the past four seasons at or near the bottom of the Dunn-St. Croix standings, the Glenwood City baseball team is looking to climb the conference ranks in 2023. While the Hilltoppers’ third-year head coach Dean Fayerweather, who is 3-28, lost Brady McCarthy, the team’s most versatile player from a season…
Read MoreTopper softball team looks to continue rebuild and improve on diamond
GLENWOOD CITY — After winning back-to-back Dunn-St. Croix Conference championships in the 2019 and 2021 seasons (there was no season in 2020 due to COVID) and finishing with 21 wins in each of those years, the Glenwood City softball program suffered its first winless season in over two decades when it went 0-16 a year…
Read MoreGC boys’ track finishes third at Northern Badger Classic
MENOMONIE — The Glenwood City boys’ and girls’ track and field teams had a successful start to the 2023 season. The boys’ squad scored 37 points, one point behind runner-up Chetek-Weyerhaeuser, to finish third in the small schools division at the annual Northern Badger Classic held last Saturday, March 25 at UW-Stout’s Sports and Fitness…
Read More10 HILLTOPPERS AND 9 BULLDOGS ON TEAMS D-SC wrestlers earn 2022-23 all-conference honors
Ten wrestlers from Glenwood City and nine from Boyceville earned all-conference honors this season. Glenwood City sophomore Wyatt Unser, who recently finished as the Division 3 state runner-up at 113 pounds, was chosen as the Dunn-St. Croix’s wrestlers of the year. All-conference designation is determined by the wrestler’s final placement in their resepctive weight class.…
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