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In the last week of regular competition, the Thermopolis Middle School track team traveled to Greybull for the 2026 Greybull Middle School Invite. All four teams for Thermopolis ended the day in first place in the team standings with seven other teams in attendance . The 6th/7th grade boys had 179 points, the 8th grade boys had 200 points, the 6th/7th grade girls had 158.5 points and the 8th grade girls finished with 178 points. On Saturday, May 9, Thermopolis will host the Big Horn Basin Conference meet at Leroy Hayes Field. Qualifying kids...
In their last regular season matchup for the short spring season, the Hot Springs County High School Bobcat golf teams faced off with some big school teams last week in the Cody Spring Invite Tournament at the Olive Glen Golf Course. With eleven teams competing in both the girls division, as well as in the boys division, the competition was stiff and the scores were superb all around. For the girls, the home team took the championship with a team score of 280. The Lady Cats finished second, with just ten strokes more than Cody. In the boys...
After getting weathered out the week before, the Hot Springs County High School track teams made up for lost ground last week by competing in three meets all in one week. On Tuesday, April 28, the teams faced off in a quad meet in Shoshoni, then traveled to Casper for meets at Kelly Walsh High School on Thursday, and the Wyoming Track Classic in Casper on Friday. Both the girls and boys teams took first place in the team standings in Shoshoni, with teams scores of 162.5 and 251.5, respectively. With that many team points, it is clear there...
Let’s just say the weather this winter in Wyoming has been a bit atypical. While the indoor winter sports of wrestling and basketball were under way, outside it was more like spring than winter. And, just as we hit the outdoor sports of spring, mother nature sends along some of the snow we were lacking back in February. For Coach Ryan Shaffer and the Bobcats golf teams, it has been a bit of rocky ride this spring. Snow showers meant cancellations of both the Buffalo tournament two weeks ago and also last week’s tournament in Powell, making a s...
Porshia Birdsley recently won the USS PRO Middleweight Max Monsters. She got almost nine reps on the 375lbs. axle deadlift (locked out eight solid reps). She had the overall fastest time for the men's and women's division in the farmers carry/frame carry with weights of 175lbs. per hand in farmers and 400lbs. frame carry 50'/50'. She set the 165lbs. national stone record....
With the wintery conditions last week, the middle school track meet scheduled for last Friday at Rocky Mountain was canceled. Wet conditions also led to the cancellation of all field events on Saturday in Powell. This week, the team is scheduled to compete in the Greybull Middle School Invite on Saturday, May 1. Results from Powell include: 6th/7th Grade Boys 100 meter - Dawson McLean, 2nd, 13.51; Braxton Delay, 8th, 14.30; Tristan Steadman, 14th, 14.46; Cheston Kimes, 20th, (tie) 15.23; Zeke Needham, 17.01; Kade Enis, 18.49 200 meter - Dawson...
The Hot Springs County High School track teams traveled to Douglas on Thursday last week, but were weathered out in Shoshoni the following day. Although the weather cut short their planned competition, the teams certainly made the best of the situation. In Douglas, the Bobcats finished in second place in the team standings with a team score of 138.5. The team from Riverton came in first with a team score of 152.5. For the girls, the home team came in first with 143 points. The Lady Cats finished seventh out of ten teams with a team score of...
Last weekend, the middle school track team competed at the Shoshoni Jr. High Invite along with 14 other schools. The Shoshoni Invite is unique as some schools bring 5th grade athletes, putting the 5th and 6th grades in the youth division and the 7th and 8th graders in the middle school division. In the team rankings, the middle school girls placed 4th with 59.5 points, the youth girls placed 6th with 43.50 points, the middle school boys place 2nd with 97 points and the youth boys placed first with 95 points. With the season nearing the mid-way...
Mother Nature’s plans for the weather can always be a bit challenging for the spring golf season and the Hot Springs County High School Bobcat golf teams were reminded of that last week. The team had planned to compete in a dual in Lander on Thursday, and then head over the hill to play in Buffalo on Friday. With a chance of snow in the forecast, the Buffalo event was cancelled, however, leaving the teams with a weekend off, to hit their home course for some unscheduled practice rounds. In Lander on Thursday, Ruth Needham continued to find h...
In February of this year, a few fly fishing enthusiasts got together in Casper and organized a statewide fly fishing tournament for high school age participants. The Wyoming High School Fly Fishing Championship event was held last Saturday on the gold medal waters of the Grey Reefs section of the North Platte River. Hot Springs County High School joined in the fun with three members of their newly organized fly fishing club team. Locals Steth and Elisa Daniels dove into the project, getting the...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat golf teams traveled to Sheridan last week to play in the Kendrick Spring Invite Tournament, which was hosted by Big Horn High School and Tongue River High School. With several of the Lady Cats away at the State FFA Convention there were only two players, and thus the girls team did not factor in the team standings. The Bobcats finished fifth among the eight teams competing in the event. Sophomore Ruth Needham took the girls championship, carding a very...
The Hot Springs County High School Track Team continued their season in Glenrock last week. With the FFA State Convention going on in Cheyenne, the team continued to see some shortages in numbers of competitors. With just three girls competing, the Lady Cats finished 10th out of twelve teams, while the Bobcats claimed a first place finish in the team standings with a team point total of 168. The thinclads continue to excel in track events. Ammon Gevas earned first place finishes in both the 400 meter dash (53.19), and the 3200 meter run...
Thermopolis Middle School track competed in Riverton last Friday along with 20 other Wyoming schools at the 2026 Spartan Invite, giving the team from Thermopolis a chance to see competition from schools outside the Big Horn Basin. Over 900 participants gathered with multiple events seeing entries of well over 100 kids. The Thermopolis teams did not place in the top six, but had some great individual performances. Next week the team will be in Shoshoni on Saturday, April 18 with action starting at 10 a.m. Results from Riverton are: 6th/7th Grade...
Thermopolis Wrestling Club wrapped up the season at the culminating WAWA Kids/16U/Jr State tournament last weekend in Casper. TWC brought home 17 individual state titles across all three styles of wrestling. Aksel Polson, Trenton Enis and Fischer Lewis all earned the Triple Crown honors with a first place finish in all three wrestling styles. As a team, TWC finished in second place with 1076.5 points behind first place Green River Grapplers who ended the weekend with 1255.5 points. Five...
Thermopolis individual champions at Black Hills Nationals include Gabe Ryan, Aksel Polson, Hailey Robinson and Hayden Robinson....
Thermopolis Wrestling Club (TWC) members competed in Rapid City, S.D., at the AAU Black Hills Nationals tournament and in Powell at the USA wrestling 3 style tournament over the weekend. In Rapid City, TWC was tied for 4th place as a team with 118 points. 262 clubs competed. Individual champions were Gabe Ryan, Aksel Polson, Hailey Robinson and Hayden Robinson, who won championships in two different divisions. Thermopolis Wrestling Club will conclude the regular season this upcoming weekend at the Wyoming Amateur Wrestling Association State...
Bobcat Anthony Cheatham finished first in both the shot put and the discus at the Worland D&D Invitational....
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcats played host for their Spring Bobcat Invite last Thursday at the Thermopolis Golf Course. Teams from Ten Sleep and Rawlins joined the local team to make up a small, but talented field. The weather on Thursday took a slight turn from the early spring temps seen in recent days with an overcast sky, an increasing breeze and some chilly air, but that didn’t serve to dampen the excitement of hitting the links for the new spring season. In this first outing of the spring, Coach Ryan Shaffer said he was h...
The Bobcats and Lady Cats track teams were in Worland last Thursday to compete in the 2026 D&D Invitational. With teams from twelve schools appearing, the number of competitors was vast and the competition was first rate. While the wind dropped the feels-like temps for the teams competing at the Bobcat Golf Invite in Thermopolis that day, in Worland, the weather held off, allowing the competition to go on at a fast pace and providing some perfect conditions for field and track events. Coach Boone Bowker has high expectations for his team this...
Last Tuesday, the middle school track team competed in a triangular meet with Worland and Ten Sleep, hosted by Worland. While small in size, the athletes were able to bring home many individual championships. Following the spring/Easter break, the team will be back in action in Riverton on April 10, beginning at 10 a.m. Individual results from Worland: 6th Grade Boys 100 meter - Tristan Steadman, 1st, 14.09; Gabe Ryan, 4th, 15.20; Fletcher Lewis, 6th, 16.21; Aksel Polson, 8th, 16.23; Connor Fairbanks, 17.12; Zeke Needham, 17.78; Isaac Haddix,...
Thermopolis Middle School track kicked off their season last Saturday in Burlington. All four teams finished the event in 4th place in the team standing with the eighth grade girls with 53 points, the 6th/7th grade girls with 80 points, the 8th grade boys with 55 points and the 6th/7th grade boys with 72 points. Individual results are: 8th Grade Girls 100 meter - Piper Trujillo, 15.39; Aliyah Deere, 17.06; Annabelle Weyer, 17.28 200 meter - Peighton Vargas, 3rd, 31.90; Dayton Basse, 5th, 31.94; Annabelle Weyer, 36.49; Aliyah Deere, 37.60 400...
Mother Nature continued to provide some fine spring-like weather for the Hot Springs County High School track team as they competed in Cody last week. The meet was smaller than the season opener in Wind River the week before, however, the competition continued to be top-notch. With seven schools sending teams to the event, the girls from Thermopolis finished in seventh place with 27 team points. The boys team finished in third place with 106 team points. The girls from Powell won the event while the host team from Cody took the boys team...
Following their superb fall season, the Hot Springs County High School golf team will kick off their spring season this week, hosting the Thermopolis Invite on Thursday, April 2 at the Thermopolis Golf Course. The Lady Cats team garnered state championships in 2023 and 2025, with all five of the Lady Cats finishing in the top ten in last fall’s state tournament. Add to that success, the Bobcats’ team state championship in 2024 and a second place finish in 2025, and that’s three consecutive years of state titles for the vaunted Therm...
With 37 wrestlers competing in the Montana Open wrestling tournament last weekend in Billings, Thermopolis Wrestling Club came home with the team runner-up honors scorning 263.5 points, just 5.5 points shy of winning the tournament. This year was the highest ever placing for Thermopolis Wrestling Club members at the large tournament.The club also had six wrestlers win the coveted Buffalo Skull trophy, the most ever won by the club. The Montana Open is one of the premier youth wrestling...
Patches of green are showing up at the Thermopolis Golf Course as a hole flag flutters in strong winds beneath sweeping clouds and Roundtop Mountain in the background....
