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The Whippets travel to McFarland Thursday, October 21^st, to take on the Spartans in the second round of WIAA Volleyball Regionals. The game is slated for 7:00 p.m., and masks are required to be worn by all.

The Whippets swept Big Foot Tuesday, October 19^th, in front of a large and loud Whitewater cheering section to claim a 3-0 first round victory (25-21, 26-24, 25-20).

Stat Leaders for the night were as follows:
Aces: Avery Hintz, Cali Kopecky, and Kindyl Kilar each had 2
Kills: Kindyl Kilar with 18, and Cali Kopecky and Savanna Hill both with 4
Blocks: Jenna Pope with 2
Digs: Cali Kopecky with 15, Kindyl Kilar with 10, and Avery Hintz with 9

Article Submitted by Kathy Bullis
Whitewater High School Head Volleyball Coach
kbullis@wwusd.org
Photo Courtesy of Peter Mischka

The Whitewater Girls’ Swim Team competed in their last regular season triple dual meet against Platteville/Lancaster and Elkhorn at home on Tuesday, October 19.

The Whippets did not disappoint; we had multiple best times from a number of our swimmers!

In the 200 Medley Relay, Michelle Abarca had her best split of the season with a time of 37.26.

In the 200 Freestyle, Grace Foucault placed 1st with a time of 2:07.22, which is also a best time.

In the 200 IM, Makayla Bazeley placed 1st with a time of 2:22.70, which is also a best time.

In the 50 Freestyle, Brooke Bazeley placed 2nd with a time of 28.16, which is also a best time.

In the 100 Freestyle, Grace placed 1st and Josie Treder had a best time with a 3 second drop.

The Bazeley sisters faced off in the 500 Freestyle! They respectively placed 1st (Makayla) and 2nd (Brooke)!

In the 100 Back, Emerson Dunham went a best time with a 4 second drop.

In the 100 Breaststroke, Josie went a best time with a 3 second drop.

The 400 Freestyle Relay, consisting of Grace, Brooke, Emerson, and Makayla, took 1st.

The 200 Freestyle Relay, consisting of Grace, Josie, Brooke, and Makayla, took 2nd.

We are very proud of our Whippet Swimmers and are looking forward to a couple more best times this weekend at the Platteville Invite!

Article and Photo Submitted by Sarah Reynolds
Whitewater High School Head Swim Coach
sreynolds@wwusd.org

The Whitewater Volleyball Team took 4th Place at the Rock Valley Conference Tournament this weekend by defeating Big Foot, then losing to McFarland and Edgerton. Up next for the Whippets is WIAA Regionals, where they will host Big Foot, at 7:00 p.m., on Tuesday, October 19th.

Article and Photo Submitted by Kathy Bullis
Whitewater High School Head Volleyball Coach
kbullis@wwusd.org

By Chris Lindeke
Assistant Athletic Director, Strategic Communications and Branding
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Saturday, October 16, 2021

Final Stats: https://uwwsports.com/documents/2021/10/16/UWOUWW.pdf

The No. 3 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team secured its third victory over a nationally-ranked opponent of the 2021 season Saturday with a 32-13 win at No. 18 UW-Oshkosh in a Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference contest.

The Warhawks (6-0 overall, 3-0 WIAC) tallied 22 unanswered points in the second quarter and made key defensive stops in the fourth quarter to withstand a comeback by the Titans. UW-W forced a pair of turnovers in the game and held the ball for nearly 11 minutes in the fourth quarter to secure the win.

Running back Alex Peete rushed for 79 yards and totaled two touchdowns (one rushing, one receiving) in the contest. Wide receiver Ryan Wisniewski caught six passes for 121 yards.

Quarterback Max Meylor completed 17-of-25 passes for 211 yards and two scores.

Linebacker Ryan LIszka totaled six tackles and two interceptions, including a pick-six late in the fourth quarter, to lead the defense, which limited UWO to 217 yards of total offense.

Linebacker Aaron Sturdevant posted a team-high nine tackles, and defensive back Egon Hein finished with five tackles.

UW-Oshkosh (3-2, 1-2) got on the board first scoring a touchdown with 3:45 to play in the first quarter for the first points allowed by the UW-W defense in any first quarter this season.

The Warhawks tied the game at 7-7 on their first drive of the second quarter. Meylor ran for 16 yards on the first play of the drive before back-to-back completions to Wisniewski of 41 and 28 yards, respectively. On third-and-goal from the UWO 7-yard line, Meylor hit Tyler Holte for a 7-yard score with 11:21 on the clock.

UW-Whitewater took the lead for good on the ensuing kickoff as the Titans were called for an illegal forward pass in the end zone for a safety.

On the next possession, Meylor hit Wisniewski for 42 yards and later found Holte for seven yards on third down to set up his 5-yard touchdown pass to Peete to make it 15-7 near the midway point of the second quarter.

The two teams exchanged punts before Liszka’s first pick set the Warhawks up at UW-Oshkosh’s 25-yard line. A 20-yard completion from Meylor to Sam DeLany on third down set up a 1-yard touchdown run by Peete with 39 seconds to play in the half for a 22-7 advantage.

The Titans controlled most of the third quarter, cutting their deficit to 22-13 with a touchdown drive on the first possession of the second half. UWO later drove inside UW-W territory, but a 41-yard field goal was pulled wide left to give the Warhawks the ball back with 12:57 to play in the contest.

On the ensuing drive, Peete carried nine times for 48 yards to help set up a 36-yard field goal by Matt Maldonado for a 25-13 lead with 4:54 remaining in the game.

The two teams exchanged punts before Liszka posted his second interception of the game, returning it 31 yards to the end zone with 1:26 left to account for the final margin.

The Warhawks visit UW-River Falls next Saturday, Oct. 23, at 1 p.m.

Under sunny skies, the Whippet CC teams competed in the Rock Valley Conference Championships at UW-Whitewater. With the recent rains it made for pretty soft conditions, even muddy in some areas, but a great atmosphere for high level racing.

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The boys’ team shot off the line first and battled their way around the 3.1-mile course. Jack Hefty crossed the line first again for the Whippets as he secured his first all-conference honors as a freshman to seal off 17th place, good enough for a second-team all-conference honor and to bring home a medal. Jack finished his race in 19:37. Cooper Hammond ran a gutsy race and showed tremendous grit as he crossed the line in 26th with a time of 20:16. CJ Tomomitsu finished just outside the top 30 with a 33rd place showing in 20:42. Nate Holden was the team’s fourth runner placing 37th in 20:50. The team’s fifth runner was Miles Nickelsburg, finishing in 54th with a time of 22:09. Ben McCulloch was 61st in 23:10, followed by Andrew Rollette in 66th with a time of 24:40. The varsity team finished in 7th out of 10 schools competing. 

In the JV boys’ race, the team was led by freshman Onyx Thompson, who ran his second-best time of the year on the grueling UWW course to finish in 23:56, good enough for 31st. The boys’ JV team also finished in 7th place.

On the girls’ side, the Whippets were paced by Caelyn Caputo, who finished in 17th place to not only earn her first ever medal at a CC meet but at the same time earned a second-team all-conference honor! Caelyn looks strong and confident in her races, and it was nice for her to finish in an all-conference position after continually making small gains throughout the season. Sophie Walton ran a strong race and was just a few places off her goal of earning all-conference by placing 27th with a time of 25:15. Emma Weigel and Nola Coburn ran stride for stride much of the race and found themselves in 29th and 30th place with times of 25:28 and 25:29. Olive Coburn and Gwen Truesdale came home in 34th and 35th places with times of 25:55 and 26:30. Isabella Aranda rounded out the top 7 varsity runners in 43rd with a time of 28:09. The girls’ team finished in 6th place out of 10 teams. 

In the JV race, the girls featured Jenni Villarreal who battled her way through a combined boys’ and girls’ field to take home the title of JV conference champ! Jenni completed her 5K race in 26:47. Running strong races on the JV team were Sami Van Daele who took 4th, Lucy Troxel in 6th, Evie Troxel in 8th, and Izzy Dieter in 13th. Once the team scores were revealed, the JV girls won their meet with 21 pts versus Brodhead/Juda’s runner up score of 34. What a race by these girls!

The team will now shift their focus to the WIAA Sectional Meet on Saturday, October 23rd, hosted at UW-Parkside. The boys will race at 12:25, and the girls will be at 1:10. #1Family

Full Results: https://my.raceresult.com/183490/

Article Submitted by Chad Carstens
Whitewater High School Head Cross Country Coach
ccarstens@wwusd.org
Photos Courtesy of Bob and Peter Mischka

Whitewater Volleyball traveled to Clinton last night and came home with a 3-0 victory (25-23, 24-14, 25-19). This marked the end of regular season play. Saturday, October 16, the Whippets will compete in the Rock Valley Conference Tournament up in Edgerton, and then they will host Big Foot at 7:00 pm in the first round of WIAA playoffs Tuesday, October 19th.

Stat Leaders against Clinton:
ACES: Cali Kopecky- 5
KILLS: Kindyl Kilar 24
BLOCKS: Jenna Pope and Aidyn Amundson – 1
DIGS: Avery Hintz 10
ASSISTS: Avery Hintz 14

Article submitted by Kathy Bullis
Whitewater High School Head Volleyball Coach
kbullis@wwusd.org

Editor’s note: The following information was provided by UW-W.

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams begin their first full season in two years this week as they host Illinois Tech for a dual meet at the Williams Center.

The Warhawk men and women competed last spring in an abbreviated 2021 season, facing all four of its Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference opponents in duals spaced out over five weeks.

Head coach Elise Knoche returns for her fourth season at the helm of the two programs.

The Warhawks continue their slate with WIAC duals in November at UW-Oshkosh (Nov. 6), home against UW-La Crosse (Nov. 13) and home against UW-Stevens Point (Nov. 20).

UW-Whitewater closes the calendar year Dec. 3-4 at the Wheaton (Ill.) Invitational.

The New Year begins Jan. 22 with a triangular against Lawrence and Lake Forest (Ill.) at the Williams Center. UW-W visits UW-Eau Claire Jan. 29 to finish out the regular season.

The WIAC Championship is set for Feb. 16-19 at Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wis. The NCAA Championship is slated for March 16-19 in Indianapolis, Ind.

Seniors Jaclyn Fohlmeister (Lakemoor, Ill./Wauconda), Abby Thompson (De Pere, Wis./De Pere) and Anna Yeazel (Whitewater, Wis./Whitewater) look to lead the Warhawk women into 2021-22 on the women’s side.

Yeazel, a fifth-year senior, placed sixth in the 400-yard individual medley and seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke at the 2020 WIAC Championship. She is among the top 10 in program history in the 400 IM. Last winter, Yeazel led the team in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke and the 400 IM, and owned the top split in the 50-yard breaststroke.

Thompson is a two-time WIAC podium finisher in the 200-yard butterfly, and she placed seventh in the conference in the 400-yard individual medley in 2020. She led the team in the 100-yard butterfly last winter.

Fohlmeister was among the team’s top three in the 50-yard freestyle last season. She was also third in the 50- and 100-yard butterfly.

Makenna Clark (Joliet, Ill./Joliet West), Morgan Nabors (Spring Green, Wis./River Valley) and Leanne Stigler (Beloit, Wis./Muskego) enter their third seasons with the program.

Clark competes primarily in the backstroke and freestyle events. She ranked second on the team in the 100 back in 2021. Nabors led the 2021 Warhawks in the 100-yard freestyle.

Stigler is a five-time WIAC medalist, including runner-up finishes in the 200-yard individual medley and 400-yard medley relay in 2020. She holds top-10 UW-W personal bests in the 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard breaststroke and 200 IM. She finished second to Yeazel in the 50- and 100-yard breaststroke events last winter.

Kayleigh Denruiter (Brantwood, Wis./Phillips), Amanda Harper (Appleton, Wis./Kimberly), Ciara Hynes (Eureka, Mo./Eureka), Gabby Sponseller (Goshen, Ind./Concord), Meadow Warren (Lake Geneva, Wis./Badger) and Brianna Zimdars (Whitewater, Wis./Whitewater) comprise the team’s sophomore class.

Zimdars held the team’s top split in the 50-yard freestyle and led UW-W in the 200- and 1000-yard freestyle and the 100 and 200-yard backstroke in 2021.

Sponseller posted the team’s best time in the 200-yard individual medley. Hynes recorded the team’s best split in the 50-yard freestyle in 2021.

Harper and Denruiter competed as freestyle sprinters during their rookie campaign in 2021. Harper finished fourth on the team in the 50 free.

Warren recorded three season bests in freestyle events at the team’s final meet of the 2021 season.

Newcomers to the program include Emily Connell (New Berlin, Wis./Eisenhower), Morgan Galloway (Muscatine, Iowa/Muscatine), Gianna Gnewuch (Madison, Wis./Verona Area) and Gabby Hayes (New Berlin, Wis./West).

The following UW-Whitewater student-athletes from your coverage area are members of the 2021-22 Warhawk women’s swimming and diving team:

Anna Yeazel of Whitewater (Whitewater High School), a senior majoring in physical education.

Brianna Zimdars of Whitewater (Whitewater High School), a sophomore majoring in general business.

By Chris Lindeke
Assistant Athletic Director, Strategic Communications and Branding
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Saturday, October 9, 2021

No. 3 Warhawk Football Moves to 5-0 With Home Win

Final Statistics: https://uwwsports.com/documents/2021/10/9/25659.pdf

The No. 3 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater football team retained the Miner’s Axe rivalry trophy Saturday afternoon with a 65-21 victory against UW-Platteville in the 26th annual George Chryst Memorial Bowl in front of 15,406 fans at Perkins Stadium, the third-highest attendance in the 50-year history of the stadium.

The Warhawks (5-0 overall, 2-0 WIAC) piled up 630 yards of offense, including 296 on the ground and 334 through the air, and led 44-7 at halftime. The team’s 44 first-half points were the most it scored since November of 2018, when it tallied 50 in the first half of a win against Eureka (Ill.) in the NCAA Playoffs.

Max Meylor, who was named UW-W’s Offensive Most Valuable Player of the game, threw for a career-high 313 yards on 22-of-27 passing with four touchdowns. Ryan Wisniewski caught six passes for 106 yards and two touchdowns to lead the receiving corps.

Egon Hein paced the defense with five tackles, and Niko Lemke totaled 2.5 tackles for a loss, including a pair of sacks. Defensive MVP Thomas Wojnowski collected three tackles and a key interception deep in UW-Platteville territory that set up a Warhawk touchdown.

Following a 60-yard return on the opening kickoff by Wisniewski, UW-Whitewater converted a key fourth down on a run by Peete, and Meylor completed the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run around the right side for a 7-0 lead with 10:57 on the clock.

The Warhawks intercepted Colin Schuetz on the next two drives. Jaden Hendrickson posted the first one with 9:46 left in the first quarter, and Wojnowski collected the second at the 7:22 mark, which led to an 18-yard touchdown pass from Meylor to Preston Strasburg with 6:33 left in the first.

UW-Whitewater added to its lead one drive later. After a three-and-out by the Pioneers (1-4, 0-2), Alex Peete ran straight up the middle untouched past the line of scrimmage for a 57-yard touchdown and a 21-0 advantage with 4:25 remaining in the period.

A blocked punt on the ensuing drive by Daniel Baggett went through the back of the end zone for a safety and a 23-0 UW-W lead with 2:21 to play in the quarter.

Meylor hit Wisniewski for his first touchdown of the day on the next drive, a 14-yarder that capped an eight-play, 59-yard drive for a 30-0 lead with 12:46 to go in the second quarter.

UW-Platteville found the end zone on the next drive, the first points allowed in the first half this season by the Warhawk defense, at the 12:32 mark.

With just under four minutes to play in the quarter, Meylor hit Zach Sherman for an eight-yard score to give UW-Whitewater a 37-7 advantage. On the next offensive drive, the Warhawks added to the lead on a 30-yard pass from Meylor to Wisniewski with 14 seconds until halftime.

UW-Whitewater continued to add to its lead in the third quarter as Peete plunged in from one yard out with 6:46 on the clock for a 51-7 lead.

The two teams exchanged touchdowns the rest of the way. Ryn Ponick capped a 10-play, 75-yard drive with a 1-yard touchdown run at the 10:05 mark of the fourth quarter, and Drake Martin accounted for the final margin with 1:14 to go on a 2-yard touchdown run that completed a nine-play, 75-yard drive.

The Warhawks visit No. 9 ranked UW-Oshkosh next Saturday, Oct. 16, at 1 p.m.