By Cara L. Dempski In the second-to-last week before taking on Dunn-St. Croix foes, the Elk Mound volleyball team hosted a quad and then headed to Chippewa Falls for a tournament at McDonell Central. The Lady Mounders flew past their first foe of the evening September 7 with a 2-0 win over Elmwood before facing…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — Osseo-Fairchild’s team name may be the Thunder, but the only noise heard at Elk Mound last Friday night was the thunderous applause of the home team’s fans. The Mounders welcomed the Thunder to their home field September 8 for a non-conference contest before both teams got back to…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski CAMERON — If Elk Mound cross country coach Jeremiah Fredrickson wanted to see just how well his boys’ cross country team could do, he got his answer last Thursday at Cameron. The Mounder boys had five runners finish in the top 20 at the September 7 Cameron Comets Invitational to cop…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound cross country teams stepped onto their first course of the season in a Saturday meet at the Eau Claire City wells and came away with an 11th-place finish on both sides. Head coach Jeremiah Fredrickson took his team to the 2017 Husky Cross Country Invitational hosted by Eau…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski The Elk Mound volleyball team picked up its first two wins of the season at this year’s Menomonie Sprawl. The tournament, held at UW-Stout August 25 and 26, featured teams from all over Wisconsin seeking experience as they head into the 2017 regular season.
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski GLENWOOD CITY — It takes a determined group of high school students to start doing homework before the school year starts. Elk Mound’s 2017-2018 academic year did not start until September 1, but head football coach Dave Lew already had his 66-man roster studying. Their work: learning game keys, studying the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — If you ask Elk Mound cross country coach Jeremiah Fredrickson what his team is aiming for in 2017, you get a pretty direct answer. “Statistically speaking, we hope to contend for conference for both boys’ and girls’,” he said. “The team’s main goal is to qualify for state…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski MENOMONIE — Sam Stelter’s Elk Mound volleyball squad kicked off its 2017 season at UW-Stout’s Johnson Fieldhouse last Friday and Saturday as participants in the Menomonie Sprawl. While initial results indicate the Mounders came out of the first day winless, they did not go down without a fight. Results for the…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski CHETEK — Elk Mound may have lost its 2017 football match-up against Chetek-Weyerhaeuser, but won the hearts of their fans, and a few Bulldog supporters, with their conduct at the start of last Friday’s game. The Bulldogs, who beat the Mounders 20-6 in the most recent edition of their annual non-conference…
Read MoreBy Cara L. Dempski ELK MOUND — The Mounders’ head volleyball coach, Samantha Stelter, hopes to be in the thick of this year’s race for the Dunn-St. Croix title, but knows her team needs to smooth out its game first. “We’re working on becoming more consistent as a team,” Stelter said. “If we can play…
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