Wildcats
While high school athletes get pulled in several different directions through the summer, one place they are all likely to congregate is in the weight room.
That has been the case for the Holton, Jackson Heights and Royal Valley athletes since late May and the weight rooms have remained full and...
While it would be easy for a team with as much recent success as the Holton High School wrestling squad to rest on its laurels, the Wildcats have done anything but that the past few summers.
After earning trophies (two firsts and a third in 2015) at the Class 4A state tournament the past three...
Every summer, coaches at high schools around the country start the rebuilding process with their teams.
It’s no different for Ryan Noel and the Holton boys basketball team. Gone to graduation are a number of key players from last season, including two prolific scorers (Garett Beecher and Trey...
Even in taking just a small group of athletes to the state track meet in Wichita, the Wildcats of Holton managed to pull off something pretty special this weekend.
The HHS girls had four athletes competing in four events, one of those being a relay, at the Class 4A state track meet and every one...
It’s hard to imagine a regional track meet being on par with state as far as level of difficulty is concerned, but last Friday’s Class 4A regional in Hoyt may have come as close as possible in replicating that state-caliber competition.
Truth be told, some events did in fact have the top four...
Considering the hurdles the Holton golf team has had to overcome this season, what was another one to leap over in Big Seven league competition at Lake Perry on Wednesday?
With the heavy rain from the past week, the Wildcats and the rest of the league competition had some hazards to be wary of,...
With the Jackson County spring sports teams in the midst of league week, that means postseason competition is right around the corner.
Officially, regional competition will start with the golf and baseball tournaments next Monday, followed by softball on Tuesday and regional track meets closing...
It may not have ended the way the Wildcats wanted, but even a loss in the championship game couldn’t take away the great deal of success the team had in the Butch Foster Memorial Classic baseball tournament in Kansas City over the weekend.
Even in the final game, Holton was cruising along against...
For notable signs of just how different this Holton golf team is from years past, one need not look further than Thursday’s performance at the Nemaha Valley Invitational.
Something happened that has only happened rarely in the past several seasons, as the Wildcats left a tournament without a team...
Maybe it got into a pattern after being forced into the underdog role more often than not over the past weekend, but the Holton softball team found itself having to rally on its home field quite a bit against Perry-Lecompton on Monday night.
The Wildcats dug themselves into some holes in the...
