Big Foot beat Whitewater 53-41 in a RVC girls’ basketball crossover game on Tuesday, January 27. Big Foot jumped out to an early 14-2 lead before Whitewater went on a 12-6 run to cut the lead to six towards the end of the first half. Whitewater was able to pull within eight with a few minutes remaining but was not able to get it any closer. Emery Kachel led Whitewater with 23 points while Leah Paulsen led Big Foot with 29.

Whitewater plays at Turner on Friday, January 30.

Article Submitted by Mike Dowden
Whitewater High School Head Girls’ Basketball Coach
dowmi01@wwusd.org

The Whippet Boys’ Swim Team had a strong showing at the EagleJay Invite on Saturday, January 24th, finishing 3rd overall in a competitive field! The day was filled with personal bests, Top 16 finishes, and great team energy from start to finish.

Top 16 Finishes:

• 200 Medley Relay

A Relay (Hunter Runnoe, David Enns, Wyatt Esch, ChaCha Binagi) – 11th (2:12.16)

• 200 Freestyle:

Cruz Aranda – 1st (1:54.71)

• 50 Freestyle:

Mateo Bazeley – 3rd (23.54)

Caleb Kluck – 9th (25.72)

Wyatt Esch – 10th (25.78)

• 100 Butterfly:

Langdon Coburn – 2nd (56.87)

Wyatt Esch – 11th (1:11.37)

• 100 Freestyle:

Cruz Aranda – 1st (51.31)

Mateo Bazeley – 2nd (52.24)

David Enns – 15th (1:03.53)

• 500 Freestyle:

Angel Kilar – 11th (8:03.72)

Cooper Housel – 12th (8:06.48)

• 200 Freestyle Relay:

A Relay (Cruz Aranda, Langdon Coburn, Caleb Kluck, Mateo Bazeley) – 2nd (1:35.76)

B Relay (David Enns, ChaCha Binagi, Hunter Runnoe, Wyatt Esch) – 10th (1:53.22)

• 100 Backstroke:

Langdon Coburn – 4th (1:03.37)

Ian Agen – 16th (1:47.43)

• 100 Breaststroke:

Caleb Kluck – 9th (1:19.77)

David Enns – 1:23.21

• 400 Freestyle Relay:

A Relay (Cruz Aranda, Mateo Bazeley, Caleb Kluck, Langdon Coburn) – 3rd (3:37.87)

B Relay (Cooper Housel, Angel Kilar, Ian Agen, Carson Miller) – 12th (5:16.81)

Other Highlights:

• ChaCha Binagi dropped 9 seconds in the 200 Free (3:06.27) and 2 seconds in the 100 Free (1:10.79).

• Carson Miller had a massive day, dropping 28 seconds in the 100 Free (1:20.88) and 6 seconds in the 100 Breaststroke (1:37.17).

• Cooper Housel dropped 5 seconds in his 100 Free leading off the 400 Free Relay.

• Hunter Runnoe dropped 2 seconds in the 100 Free, finishing with a time of 1:08.51.

The Whippets are back in action Tuesday, January 27th, as they travel to Edgerton High School to take on Edgerton/Evansville in their final dual meet of the season. Swimming starts at 5:30 PM — come out and support the team!

Article and Photos Submitted by Sarah Reynolds
Whitewater High School Head Swim Coach
ReynoldsSM07@uww.edu

The Whitewater Girls’ Wrestling team followed up their Janesville Craig Invite title with a busy week of wrestling the week of January 19th. 

On Tuesday, January 20, the girls traveled to Edgerton to compete in two dual meets against the Tiders of Edgerton and the Trojans of Beloit Turner. The girls wrestled extremely well dropping only one match on the evening. This loss was a rematch for the girls from a previous loss by pin. This was a tough battle with De Porter winning at one point 12-9 but coming up short in the end.

The ladies opened the night with a 66-0 victory over a very short-handed Edgerton team The team then followed with a 56-12 victory over Beloit Turner.

Wednesday night, January 21, the team hosted their only dual meet at home against Madison Memorial and Big Foot in which our Seniors (Isabelle Cantu, Silvia Harris, and Atreya Wilson) were honored as well as parents recognized for their support of our students.

The girls wrestled extremely well on the evening with an opening dual meet victory over Madison Memorial 48-21. A big turning point was a victory by Aubrey Fuoco (145) who was able to wrestle through a scramble position and put her girl on her back for the pin. 

In the closing dual of the night the Lady Whippets came out victorious against the Lady Chiefs of Big Foot 42-19.  Coming up with the big pin for the Whippets was Emma Maas (114) with her first period pin, running her pinning combination extremely well in the victory. Also with a big pin on the night in the nightcap dual was Storm De Porter (132) pinning her opponent early in the first period. Likely the most exciting match of the night belonged to Atreya Wilson (138). There was a lot of action in this match with both ladies going with big moves. Unfortunately, Atreya dropped the match 13-17. 

The victories this week pushed the Whippets’ Team record to 4-0 on the season.

The girls are next in action with three dual meets on Tuesday night, January 27, at Beloit Turner. They will wrestle Beloit Turner, Janesville Craig, and Jefferson. These should all be very good dual meets for all the teams involved! Wrestling begins at Beloit Turner High School at 5:00 pm Tuesday night.

Article and Photos Courtesy of John Schimming
Whitewater High School Head Wrestling Coach
jschimming@wwusd.org