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Porshia Birdsley recently placed 16th out of 23 in the world at the 2024 Official Strongman Games World Finals held in Madison, Wisconsin at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum on December 6-8. Birdsley's weight class is under 73kg or 160lbs. There were four events to compete over two days. First was the log and trump log. This is where one rep on the bigger log (190lbs) beats any amount on the little log (165 lbs). Second was the car yoke walk with 620 lbs. Third was the axle deadlift with 405 lbs...
The Hot Springs County High School Bobcat Wrestlers traveled to Powell last week-end to compete in the Powell Invite. Twenty-two teams from across the region were in town, to get a feel for the trajectory their respective seasons may follow. For the Bobcats, the season started with a bang! In a very large tournament, with experienced teams, representing some extremely tough competition, the Bobcats finished in third place – and were the top Wyoming school – just ½ point out of second pla...
The Lady Cats wrestlers kicked off their season in Cody last weekend. The Cody Girls Invite saw twenty-one teams come in, to begin the 2024-25 wrestling season. The Lady Cats are, once again, a young team, albeit a team which gained a wealth of experience last year. Returning junior, Alix Sorensen, will again join forces with returning sophomores Lilly Quintanilla, Summer Galovich and Ava Dafoe. Freshman Izzy Hetzel will join her upper-class teammates in this year’s quest for championships. The action in Cody on Friday saw the Lady Cats come a...
Following on the heels of their outstanding performance at regionals in Thermopolis, nine members of the Thermopolis Middle School wrestling team were in Douglas on December 15 to compete in the Wyoming Amateur Wrestling Association (WAWA) Middle School Wrestling Championships. With thirty-nine teams in attendance, the competition was both stellar, and grueling. This tournament serves as the qualifier for athletes to represent the state of Wyoming at the upcoming Heartland National Duels, which will be held in Council Bluffs, Iowa in March of...
After finishing last season in fourth place – with just one win in their division – the Hot Springs County High School Bobcat basketball team drops down to Class 2A this season – and looks to fare far better this year and to make the play-offs. In early voting, the team is ranked number three among 2A teams. To kick off the season, the team traveled to Lander last Friday, to play their former Class 3A rival. Despite a 2A team playing a 3A team, the game went to the visiting Bobcats, who led the Lander Tigers from the tip-off. At game’s end, th...
The Hot Springs County High School Lady Cats basketball team opened their new season against Class 3A Lander last Friday. In a game where neither team looked to be in regular season form, the Lady Cats were never in contention on the scoreboard and were defeated by a score of 54 to 27. The Lady Cats are a young team, with just two seniors, Hanna Hill and Austin Slagle. Three juniors, Jayssie Owsley, Kamryn Farrell and Charlee Slagle are joined by two sophomores, Chloee Owsley and Morgan Jones. Two freshman made the varsity team to start the sea...
The Hot Springs County High School Speech and Debate team earned the 1A/2A Team Sweepstakes Championship trophy at the Landins Outlaw Tiger Classic Speech and Debate Tournament held at Lander Valley High School on December 13-14. Coached by Lyle Wiley, Alyssa Brown, Riley Jeffs, and Markie Whitney, the Bobcats brought ten students to compete in the large tournament that hosted 17 schools and nearly 300 entries. Senior Kiesha Kraushaar set the pace with a second place finish in Dramatic Interpretation. She also broke into semifinals in...
Last Saturday, the Hot Springs County School District played host to the 2024 Big Horn Basin Conference Wrestling Championships. After months of planning and coordination, and with the aid of more than twenty individuals, the Conference Championships were widely attended – resulting in a great success for the district, and for the home teams. With ten schools sending teams to compete at the event, the high school gym was packed to the rafters with parents, grandparents, friends and family - a...
On Thursday, December 5, the Thermopolis Middle School Eighth Grade "A" Team played their final game of the regular season. The contest was held at the TMS gym, and was well attended by the faithful Thermopolis fans. Facing Worland for the second time this season, the win was never in doubt for the outstanding eighth graders. The team had defeated Worland on October 29 by a score of 53 to 4. And, last week's game ended with Worland scoring better the second time around, but still not coming...
While the focus this fall has been upon all of the athletic prowess of the high school teams – all of whom had excellent seasons this year – the Thermopolis Middle School “A” girls basketball team has quietly put in an undefeated season. The team is coached by assistant head coach, TJ Owsley, and is composed of eight eighth graders, and two seventh graders. The girls have played together for three years, and have gained a level of skill and determination that one usually looks for at the high school level. Head coach, Ashley Cleare, views t...
Thermopolis resident Porshia Birdsley has qualified to compete at the Official Strongman Games held at the Alliant Energy Center Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin. The event runs from December 5-8, with Birdsley scheduled to compete in the womens 161 lb. class. Our local VFW will be airing the competition at Post 2281 on Friday and Saturday. At this national festival of strength, Birdsley will be competing against strongwomen from around the world. The competition features nearly 400 strongmen and strongwomen competitors from over 35 countries....
The Hot Springs County High School gym will be packed on Saturday for the Big Horn Basin Middle School Athletic Association Conference Wrestling Tournament. Weigh-ins are at 8 a.m., a seed meeting will be held at 9 a.m. with wrestling action kicking off at 10 a.m. The event will feature both “A” and “B” brackets for the boys and an “A” division for the girls. Thermopolis has a number of great TMS wrestlers who will be fighting to earn conference championships, so fans are encouraged to attend the event and show your support. Concessions...
Eleven Thermopolis Middle School wrestlers were crowned champions last Saturday at the Lander Valley Middle School Invite. Thermopolis also had three runners-up and two third place finishers. Results include: Girls 86-95 - Hailey Robinson, 1st, 6 points. Quarterfinal - Robinson won by fall, 1:37, over Alexia Brown (Riverton), Semifinal - Robinson won by fall, 1:29, over Krislynn Callshim (Fort Washakie), 1st Place Match - Robinson won by major decision, 13-1, over Delta Craft (Greybull) Girls 110-116 - Briar Lahoe, 1st, 6 points. Quarterfinal...
With the high school football season being now complete, last week the Wyoming Coaches Association released its list of football honors for the 2024 season. Head coaches across the state came together to vote for the players each coach considered most deserving of recognition, for their contributions to their team’s success, in the long and difficult season. In order to be considered for 2024 All-State Honors, a player must first be recognized as All-Conference in the 2024 season. Each classification, All-Conference and All-State, has a l...
Last Thursday, the Thermopolis Middle School wrestling team hosted a quad with Lander, Riverton and Worland. Thermopolis dualed Lander first posting a record of 21 wins and 11 loses. Their final dual was against Riverton, winning 16 out of 22 matches. Coach Toby Emery said "The team has been wrestling extremely well this season, and they did not disappoint wrestling in front of their home crowd. The team continues to impress me week in and week out; I could not be more proud of their...
The Lady Cats volleyball team delivered an outstanding effort this season, finishing third in the Class 2A Northwest Quad - with an overall record of 15 and 18, and an in-conference record of 3 and 3. The team finished just one game back in the quad, behind Greybull and Rocky Mountain, who were tied for first place. After their very successful season, the Lady Cats received some significant honors this past week. With their second place finish at the regional tournament in Lander, four team members were recognized as Class 2A All-Conference...
Lillian Estenson hits the ball back over the net during a game of tennis with her family at the Candy Jack Park tennis courts last weekend....
After finishing regionals as runner-up champs the week before, the Lady Cats volleyball team had punched their ticket to the State Championships in Casper last weekend. At the Ford Center, in Casper, on Thursday, November 7, the Lady Cats were the West number two seed, and faced off with Pine Bluffs. The Lady Hornets had finished their regular season in third place in the 2A East, and were the East third seed for the State Championships. After dropping the first game 25-19, the Lady Cats came back against the Lady Hornets, and won game two by...
Thermopolis Middle School wrestling team members saw back to back action last weekend with the Herder Middle School Duals in Glenrock on Friday and the Worland Invitational on Saturday. In Glenrock the Thermoolis boys team placed 3rd in Pool B and 5th place overall. Girls were able to participate in a number of exhibition matches. Individual results were not available for the Glenrock tournament. Up next, the team will host their first home quad on Thursday at the high school starting at 4 p.m. and then will travel to Greybull on Saturday....
The Lady Cats varsity volleyball team competed at the 2A Regional Championships in Lander on November 1 and 2 last week and punched their ticket to the 2A State Championships in Casper this week. On Friday, the Lady Cats played Big Piney – who had finished the regular season in second place in the 2A Southwest. Playing with determination and skill, the Lady Cats swept Big Piney in three games, winning 25-13, 25-20 and 25-15. The Lady Big Piney Punchers defeated Wind River on Friday afternoon, and defeated Kemmerer on Saturday morning. P...
Capping off an outstanding cross country season, two Bobcat harriers finished in the top ten at the 2A State Championships in Cheyenne and for their efforts each received All-State Honors. After finishing in second place at regionals, outstanding junior Jadeth Elder was proclaimed state champion, finishing the course with a time of 17:43.80. Elder also had a first place finish at the Wyoming Indian event, earlier in the season. For Elder, it is his second straight year to be named All-State. Fellow junior Cole Keller finished in ninth place at...
The Thermopolis Middle School boys and girls wrestling team is two weeks into competition for the season. They competed in Cody on October 26 and then travel to Cowley for the Rocky Mountain Invitation last Saturday. Results from both tournaments are: Cody 77-84A - Tucker Sayler, 2nd 91A - Fischer Lewis, 1st 98A - Tanner Myers, 2nd; Ryker Sayler, 3rd 110-115A - Trenton Enis, 1st; Samuel Johnson, 4th 132A - Jack Morningstar, 3rd 138-145A - Tanner Delay, 2nd 64-68B - Talon Owsley, 1st 91-96B - Braxton Delay, 1st 97-100B - Chance Stothart, 4th Gir...
The Wyoming High School Cross Country State Championships were held in Cheyenne on October 26. Following up his second place finish at regionals the week before, outstanding junior athlete Jadeth Elder finished the Little America championship course in first place with a time of 17:43.80 to earn the 2A State Championship title and take his place at the top of the podium. Elder finished in third place at the 2023 2A State Championships, with a time of 18:01.50, behind champion Howard McNiven of...
The Lady Cats varsity volleyball team traveled to Cowley last Friday to face off with the Lady Grizzlies of Rocky Mountain High School. Thermopolis had hoped to gain a little ground on the talented second place team. Unfortunately, however, it was not to be. The Lady Cats lost the match in three straight games: 25-20, 25-22 and 25-10. Coach Shannon Hill said, "We dropped the first game, but then lead most of game two. We missed a string of serves in that second game, and that allowed Rocky...
The Bobcat varsity football team’s season came to close in Pinedale on Friday, October 26. Even with their win over Pinedale, the Cats finished the season with a record of 5 and 3 overall, and 4 and 3 in West Conference – sitting in fifth place, just out of earning a playoff spot. They came in just behind fourth place Worland by a mere tie breaker. Because the Cats had lost to Worland earlier in the season, the Warriors hold the tie breaker, and will move on to the playoffs as the number 4 seed in the 2A West Conference – behind Mountain View,...
