Sports
Mount Horeb senior Sydnee Swiggum recently signed with Iowa Lakes Community College to continue her softball career. Swiggum is the daughter of Eric and Christine Swiggum and is a graduate of Mount Horeb High School.
“We are very excited that Sydnee will be a Laker,” Iowa Lakes coach Katie King...
Ryan Kleppe, a 2003 Mount Horeb graduate, was recently inducted into the UW-Whitewater Hall of Fame.
Kleppe was a defensive lineman for two Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship teams and two national runners-up during his four-year career with UW-Whitewater from 2003-06. As a...
Mount Horeb’s boys golf team achieved honorable mention honors in the “Team Academic All-State” competition.
The Golf Coaches Association of Wisconsin (GCAW) recognizes high school golf teams with the highest ‘team’ grade point averages. ‘Team’ is defined as the five designated golfers on the...
It was another magical season for Mount Horeb’s girls softball team.
The Vikings finished in second place in the ultra-competitive Badger West Conference. Mount Horeb won a regional title for the second straight year. And the Vikings came within one game of reaching the state tournament for the...
Mount Horeb’s baseball team didn’t perform quite as well as it hoped this spring.
But the Vikings still had several individuals receive all-Badger West Conference honors.
Mount Horeb senior shortstop Kolton Schaller was named first-team all-conference. Senior second baseman Wyatt Denu and junior...
They left with their heads held high.
And rightfully so.
Mount Horeb’s girls softball team saw their terrific season end with a 5-0 loss to Jefferson in a WIAA Division 2 sectional final on June 2. The Vikings were bidding to become the first team in school history to reach the state tournament,...
For senior Grace Vesperman, it was the culmination of a stellar prep track and field career.
But for Marley McIntyre, it was the beginning of what could get to be an annual habit for the freshman sprinter.
Vesperman ran a leg on the Mount Horeb girls’ 400-meter relay team along with McIntyre, and...
They were white hot.
They were playing their best baseball when it mattered most.
And suddenly, anything seemed possible.
But Dodgeville put an end to all of that.
Mount Horeb’s baseball team fell to the host Dodgers, 7-1, in a WIAA Division 2 regional semifinal on May 31. The Vikings, who had won...
The competition was fierce.
The talent level was sky high.
And in the end, it was too much to overcome.
Mount Horeb junior Ethan Wittmann competed at the WIAA Division 1 Onalaska Sectional as an individual on June 1. And while Wittmann struggled at times, finished with a 90 and failed to advance to...
BARABOO – Like her father and mother, Marley McIntyre has track and field in her blood.
The freshman sprinter achieved the ultimate goal of qualifying for the WIAA Division 1 state track and field meet as both an individual and on a relay after a tremendous performance at the Baraboo Sectional last...