Dustin Reichwald

Trenten Zahn finished in 17:38, 26th overall

From Coach Carstens:

Verona hosted the Whitewater Whippet cross country teams on a cloudy, rainy, muddy day on Saturday. Although the conditions weren’t favorable to getting good traction, countless Whippets improved immensely from their first race of the year at Alumni a week prior.

Trenten Zahn had a breakout race in a field that included 23 teams of all divisions and looked quite strong finishing in 17:38, good enough for a medal in the stacked field and 26th overall. Freshman Gio Anello also got tested for the first time and ran a superb race as a young Whippet. He placed 51st with a time of 18:20. Notably, Gio was the 3rd best freshmen in this large invite. Aidan Coburn, Will Hofmann, and Cooper Hammond chopped large chunks of time off their previous mark and wrapped up the team score good enough for 16th overall. Leading the charge in the JV race and knocking on the door of the Varsity team was first-time racer Manny Rodriguez. He finished 156th out of 464 finishers in his race and a time of 21:35. He paced the team to a team finish in 20th overall.

The girls’ program was once again led by senior Nicole Tomomitsu. In between wrapping up her final shows this Labor Day weekend for the Tommy Bartlett Ski show, Nicole was able to have a good showing running a 22:30 and finishing 60th overall in the sloppy conditions. Crystal Chan, Jenna Lee, and Olive Coburn also competed in the Varsity race and improved their times over last week. The Varsity had an incomplete team score. In the JV field, things were led by freshmen Jenny Villarreal finishing in 323rd and the team finished in 16th place overall.

Both teams will not be racing the following week to get some good training in and adjust to school life once again. The next meet is slated for Tuesday, Sept. 11th in Marshall.

Full results can be found at this link: https://www.whs.wwusd.org/page/3155

The WHS volleyball team finished 2-2 and tied for 5th place at the Oshkosh Lourdes Invite, which took place over the weekend.

Results:

Lost to Manitowoc Lincoln: 13-25, 17-25
Beat Fall River: 16-25, 25-19, 15-11
Gibraltar: 25-23, 17-25, 15-10
Lost to Oshkosh Lourdes: 20-25, 15-25

Stat Leaders on the day:

Aces: Anna Riemer with 8
Kills: Anna Riemer with 14
Blocks: Kacie Carollo with 5
Assists: Cora Linos with 51

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The No. 12 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team started its 2018 season Saturday night with a 38-6 victory at Dubuque (Iowa) in a non-conference affair at Chalmers Stadium in Dubuque.

UW-Whitewater opens its home schedule next Saturday, Sept. 8, against Concordia Moorhead (Minn.) at 1 p.m. at Perkins Stadium. Fans are invited to attend the first performance in the Warhawk Concert Series starting at 11 am National country recording artist Eric Paslay will perform live in the Perkins Stadium parking lot.

For more on the game from UWWsports.com, 

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The Whippets football team lost to Clinton on Friday, August 31, 18-47. Dylan Pease completed 16 of 33 passes for 290 yards and 3 touchdowns with no interceptions. Cooper Pease caught two touchdown passes with Eli Kohl catching the third. Cooper caught 4 passes for 119 yards followed closely by Kohl with 6 passes for 114 yards. Will Leibbrand led the rushing attack with 59 yards. The Whippets are now 0-3 for the season but they have increased their scoring by one touchdown in each of the last 2 weeks. Whitewater’s next game will be at Big Foot on September 7 with opening kick-off at 7:00.

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Comments from Coach Nelson:

The Whippets faced off against the top two teams in the conference this past week and while they were not able to come away with wins, they showed much improvement in the two matches.

Against Jefferson, Whitewater fell 2-5 but had two matches that went three sets that were the difference in the match.

“Jefferson is the defending conference champion and they only lost a couple of players from that team. We actually had a little more turn over and we were able to push them. We just don’t have the consistency yet to pull those matches out.”

In Thursday’s match with East Troy, the Whippets again saw improvement, losing a close one 3-4 after having lost to the Trojans 1-6 two weeks ago.

“I was really pleased with the improvement we showed compared to our match two weeks ago. We were much more aggressive in spots and more mentally tough than we had been that first time.”

Sydney and Katelyn were the two players that were able to turn their results around from two weeks ago. Sydney made up her mind before the match started that she was not going to lose. In their last match Jessica won 6-3, 7-5; this time Sydney took control right away and did not allow her opponent into the match.

Katelyn was beaten 6-4, 6-0 by Izzy Galluzo the first time they played. This time Katelyn got down early, but she stayed composed, made some adjustments, and was able to get the set to a tiebreaker. This was Katelyn’s fourth tiebreaker this season, but for the first time, she was able to pull out the win. That gave her the confidence to take over the second set right away.

There were several well-played matches against East Troy, but the one that was probably one of the most competitive is not the match that you would have noticed by just looking at the scores. Hannah Delaney’s match at two singles saw incredibly long points and games, with one point going well over 40 hits between the two players. The East Troy player was just a little more consistent and able to win more of those long points.

The Whippets’ most consistent player this week has been Cassidy Laue who won both of her matches, playing solid tennis. She is really working on the fundamentals and is eliminating errors and staying mentally tough and focused throughout the entire match.

Whitewater’s next match is home against Big Foot on Thursday, Sept. 6 at 4 pm.

The Whitewater Arts Alliance’s Cultural Arts Center will host its fourth annual “Artrageous Birds” exhibit from September 6 to September 30 with 72 art pieces by 26 artists from Wisconsin and Illinois.  The gallery will be open to all art and bird lovers from Noon to 5 p.m. on Thursdays through Sundays, and features a wide variety of artistic styles, including photography, mixed media, watercolor, collage, oil, porcelain sculpture, polymer clay, and alcohol inks.  The exhibit is free and open to the public at 402 West Main Street at the Cultural Arts Center.

All 26 exhibiting artists are eligible to win one of several awards:  Award of Excellence I ($200), Award of Excellence II ($100), Award of Excellence III ($75), Humorous Interpretation ($50), the People’s Choice Award ($50), and Honorable Mentions.  The judge for the event is Mary Ann Inman.  Awards will be given at a reception on Sunday, September 30 at 2 p.m.

The City of Whitewater gained its Wisconsin Bird City designation in 2014. The Whitewater Urban Forestry Commission (UFC) is responsible for implementing and fulfilling the requirements to maintain this designation.

Bird City Wisconsin mobilizes citizens and public officials who already know that birds are more than beautiful – they are significant. A Bird City is a community whose government educates its citizens about birds while implementing sound conservation practices. Whitewater is one of them!  Bird City Wisconsin encourages its communities to address the decline of urban birds like the Chimney Swift and Purple Martin, species that have declined in Wisconsin by 32.3% and 92.7%, respectively, over the last 40 years. They support our community in our efforts to protect and manage green space, build and erect nesting structures, landscape with native plants, reduce threats like collisions, and generally make urban areas friendlier for breeding, wintering, and migrating birds.

The Cultural Arts Center is located on 402 West Main Street in the historic White building near the Birge Fountain. Parking is behind the building.  An elevator is available for access from the parking lot entrance.  More information about the Whitewater Arts Alliance can be found at www.whitewaterarts.org and on Facebook.