• Taylor Koth of Hailey, a 2018 Wood River High School graduate, was one of six 2020 University of Oregon football players making the spring semester Dean’s List (3.75 GPA or higher) in Eugene. Koth is a sophomore placekicker.
He’s a grandfather now, the president of a family-owned business headquartered near Austin, Texas, a 5-handicapper on the golf course, an avid fly fisherman, and the father of two daughters who excelled in academics and in high school and college swimming.
Carey School athletic director Lee Jay Cook has earned a prestigious honor from the Idaho Athletic Administrators Association (IAAA).
These are the golden years for Fred Trenkle, 71, of Shoshone, who started his legendary basketball coaching career 50 years ago in the old Hailey junior high school gym.
(Editor’s note: The last time Wood River High School sent a boys’ basketball team to the state tournament was in 2004, which was coach Fred Trenkle’s first season in his second stint at the Wolverine helm. To make state, Wood River defeated Kimberly on Feb. 25, 2004 at the College of Souther…
Several generations of Wood River High School graduates have fond memories of being coached or taught by the late Bob Shay of Ketchum.
Editor’s note: Idaho’s premier footracer, Monte Brothwell of Bellevue, wrote this remembrance about Wood River High School coach Bob Shay shortly after Shay retired in 1988. Brothwell was a Wood River student in the early 1970s who developed into a state champion cross country runner. This a…
The Sun Valley Community School has announced its annual All-School awards, given this year without an in-person ceremony but in a message to families of the school.
If the conversation ever lags when the Wood River High School cross country team takes training runs in 2020, Wolverine runners can always ask new coach Keith Wilson about salmon fishing.
Sun Valley Community School and Hailey’s Wood River High School have been honored by the Idaho High School Activities Association (IHSAA) for the organization’s academic, athletic and sportsmanship awards.
Outstanding Wood River High students in athletics and activities were honored Wednesday during the Bob Shay Most Inspirational awards ceremony staged virtually by athletic/activities director Kevin Stilling.
Family and friends of Larry Lloyd have announced the recipient of the 2020 Larry Lloyd Scholarship. He is Wood River High School graduating senior Blake Nelson of Hailey.
Jerome native and longtime Wood River Valley resident Derek Ruhter has spent the last 10 years helping coach the Wood River High School, Wood River Middle School and local club wrestling programs.
Wood River High teacher and coach Mendy Benson of Hailey will be inducted in the near future into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame as one of 13 members of the Class of 2020.
Last week, Blaine County School District administrators came to terms with the realization that all school events would be canceled for the rest of the 2019-20 school year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
School closures for health and safety reasons because of the coronavirus crisis have dictated that high school athletic activities won’t be held until August at the earliest.
Camas County High School senior Trey Smith has made the All-Idaho 1A Division 2 first team in the annual voting process hosted by The Idaho Statesman newspaper.
Ryan Anderson of Bellevue has completed an outstanding collegiate running and academic career at University of Minnesota-Morris.
Carey’s Kylie Wood was recently voted Sawtooth Conference “Player of the Year” for her girls’ basketball efforts during a remarkable 2019-20 season on the floor.
Record-smashing Wood River High senior guard Johnny Radford has made the All-Idaho 4A boys’ basketball first team in voting hosted by the Idaho Statesman newspaper.
The Wood River High School Culinary Arts team featuring, from left, Sandra Martinez, Jaki Tellez and Danielle Nelson, captured the 4th District FCCLA cooking competition Feb. 11 at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls. Wood River took the top gold among students from five other distri…
By a 24-11 vote, the Idaho Senate passed a bill Monday that would bar transgender girls and women from competing as females in high school and collegiate sports, following the bill’s passage through the House of Representatives last month.
Just a few days before the Idaho High School Activities Association suspended all competitive events for three weeks, several hundred Idaho athletes from smaller schools gathered at Kimberly High School Thursday, March 12 for the Kimberly Spring Opener track and field meet.
On Monday, the Idaho High School Activities Association (IHSAA) announced it has suspended all sanctioned sports and activities for its member schools effective for 20 days from Tuesday, March 17 through Sunday, April 5.
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