Glenwood City Sports

by Joel DeWitt Sports Correspondent BRUCE — The end of the regular season brings new life as teams enter the playoffs. The fifteenth seed Glenwood City boys’ basketball team was looking to leverage that renewal in its quest to beat second-seed Bruce in first round action of the WIAA Division 5 playoffs. The Hilltoppers started…

by Joel DeWitt Sports Correspondent COLFAX — The Glenwood City boys’ basketball team traveled to Colfax for their season finale. The Hilltoppers have struggled offensively of late, scoring 37 or less in the past five contests.  While the offense did come alive, the Hilltoppers couldn’t match the Vikings second half output. Colfax put up 41…

Glenwood City students, Rileigh Schwartz, age 16, and Mariah Bolden, age 9, both qualified for individual gymnastic events in the state competition to be held in Rochester, Minnesota on March 5th. The girls are team members of Premier Gymnastics in Clear Lake, and are MAGA Divisional Championship Competitors. Only the top 24 competitors for each…

CHIPPEWA FALLS — The Glenwood City girls and first-year head coach Kirsten Konder knew they faced a herculean challenge when they played Chippewa Falls McDonell Central in the opening round of the WIAA Division 5 girls’ basketball regional last Tuesday, February 21. The Macks (22-5), unbeaten champions of the Cloverbelt West Conference and ranked eighth…

MADISON – Mitchell McGee’s first state wrestling tournament which was held at the Kohl Center in Madison February 23-25, was all too brief. The Glenwood City sophomore, competing in the Division 3, 138-pound weight class at the 2023 WIAA Individual State Wrestling Championships lost a close 5-2 decision during last Thursday night’s preliminaries.The match pitted…

MADISON — It’s devastating when a dream dies and a long-held goal goes unfulfilled.  Such a crushing blow can defeat an individual or provide an opportunity to rise to a new challenge. Glenwood City senior Ian Radintz faced such a dilemma when he suffered a gut-churning, one-point loss in the Friday’s state wrestling semifinals, ending…

MADISON — Glenwood City’s Wyatt Unser is a young man of few words and loads of composure. Instead, the Hilltopper sophomore chooses to let his wrestling speak for itself and oh, did it speak volumes at this year’s state wrestling tournament. In his second straight appearance in Wisconsin’s premier prep wrestling tournament, Unser defeated a…

MADISON – The girls’ state wrestling tournament just marked its second year of existence and already Glenwood City’s Savanna Millermon has a pair of state medals. The Hilltoppers’ trailblazer junior copped her second consecutive state medal by going 3-2 with a trio of pins to place fourth in the girls’ 107-pound weight division at the…

EDGAR — Winning a sectional wrestling championship is not an easy task. Staking claim to multiple such crowns is an even rarer feat but one that a pair Glenwood City athletes can now say they have achieved. Hilltopper senior Ian Radintz captured his third straight sectional gold medal while teammate and sophomore Wyatt Unser pocketed…

CADOTT — Goals provide a target and road map to one’s ultimate destination. While not all targets are hit, adjustments are made to keep moving forward in order to reach that main objective. For this year’s Glenwood City wrestling squad, who has been ranked among Division 3’s top eight programs for much of the season,…