Today is Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Over the weekend of July 30, the Whitewater High School Boys’ and Girls’ Tennis Program sponsored the first annual Tim Nelson Doubles Tournament. It was a blast! Over 24 alumni participated in the inaugural event. The proceeds from the alumni tournament will go to the WHS Tennis Program.
The Whitewater community had the opportunity to watch some outstanding tennis. Congratulations to John Chenoweth and Tim Nelson, who won the event. A solid 2nd place finish went to the doubles team of Jim and Gina Foucault. Medalists include Elijah Grall, Colin Chenoweth, Sydney Treder, Hannah Delaney, Emilia Houwers, and Mariana Cano.
WHS Tennis Coach Baron West would like to thank all who attended and participated. He would also like everyone to know a date for next year’s alumni tournament. It will take place on July 22, 2023. All alumni and members of the WHS tennis community are welcome.
Article and Photos Submitted by Greg Stewart
WHS Staff Member and Former WHS Tennis Coach
gstewart@wwusd.org
UW-Whitewater Athletics on July 25 announced via Twitter that they are mourning the loss of student-athlete Derek Gray, indicating he passed away “playing the game he loved.”
Gray played two seasons with the Warhawks and was named a first team All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honoree this past season. He was also a standout player during his high school career at Madison La Follette.
Gray, a psychology major, passed away unexpectedly on July 24, 2022.
The UW-Whitewater flag will fly at half-staff on Friday, July 29, 2022, in Derek’s memory.
Update 7/27/22: Comments from Coach Pat Miller may be found in this article on Fox47 here.
United Hoops is holding tryouts for the 2023 AAU Girls Basketball season in late July; see photo for details. The program was founded in 2020 and this past season offered teams for the graduating classes of 2024, 2027, and 2029. We intend to add teams at the 2028 & 2030 age levels in 2023. Our teams are composed of athletes from Cambridge, Deerfield, East Troy, Elkhorn, Fort Atkinson, Jefferson, McFarland, Milton, Stoughton, and Whitewater and we hope to add athletes from more communities to our program in the future. The 2029 team finished 2nd at the Blizzard Battle in Appleton, the 2027 team were tournament champions at the JAG Select Spring Showcase, the United Showdown, and the July Jamboree, while the 2024 team finished 2nd at the United Showdown and Cheesehead Challenge and 3rd at the WI Xtreme Summer Challenge. Teams practice in Cambridge and/or Whitewater while participating in 7-8 tournaments as the season runs from mid-March thru the end of July. Our focus as a program is skill development while preparing girls for high school basketball and providing our high school age athletes opportunities to compete in NCAA certified events during the live recruiting periods. For more information, please visit our website at www.unitedhoops.net. Tryout information is posted at www.unitedhoops.net/tryouts.
Per an article in the July 18 Watertown Daily Times, Eli Crogan, [who coached men’s basketball at UW-W from 1970-74], and whose Hall of Fame coaching career for boys basketball included 22 seasons at Watertown High School, passed away at the age of 87 on Saturday.
Crogan suffered a stroke on Tuesday and died from complications according to his son, Craig.
His coaching career spanned 42 seasons and included several schools: Soldiers Grove (now North Crawford), Fennimore, Watertown, the men’s team at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Wayland Academy. His teams won 562 games and lost 320. This included 15 conference championships, 13 regional championships, two sectional championships and three trips to the state tournaments.
He was inducted into the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1996.
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