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Not many state records last for the better part of five decades.

That’s especially true in a sport like golf where technological advances have consistently improved such records for years. That will be on display this weekend in Afton, Rawlins and Big Horn, where the Class 4A, 3A and 2A state golf championships will take place, respectively.

But Wyoming’s best high school golf may have happened at a state meet nearly 50 years ago, where one team set a record that has been not only unbroken, it stands alone as a paragon of the sport.

No team has even come close to challenging what happened at the 1976 state Class AA golf tournament in Casper, where for two days at the Casper Golf Club, four students at Natrona formed the greatest golf team to ever play in the state.

As a team, the Mustangs tallied 582 strokes, a number encompassing the total strokes for the team’s top four golfers over the two-day tournament. That number of 582 continues to stand as the closest thing Wyoming high school sports has to an unbreakable record.

Despite improvements to clubs, golf balls, courses, and more, the 1976 Mustangs’ two-day total has never seriously been challenged. Only four boys teams in state golf tournament history have broken the 600-stroke barrier, and only one other team has come within 12 strokes of the 1976 Mustangs’ 582. The second-best mark came from Cheyenne Central’s 2005 team, which tallied 594 strokes over two days (293-301). The teams from 2015 Riverton (286-311=597) and 2010 Sheridan (297-300=597) are the only others that have ever broken 600 strokes.

So what made these Mustangs unique? Well, having two state champions on the roster sure helped, but even individual talent can’t solely explain what happened at the 1976 Class AA state golf meet.

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What’s unusual about Natrona’s state record score is that it seemingly came out of nowhere, both for the team and for the sport.

The previous year, Campbell County and Cheyenne East had tied for the Class AA championship (with the Camels winning in a playoff) with team totals of 662. Natrona finished sixth at 685; do the math, and the Mustangs improved by a whopping 97 strokes just one year later.

Prior to Natrona’s 582, the best two-day total for a state championship meet was Kelly Walsh’s 634-stroke total in 1972, which tied Natrona’s 634 in 1968. The ’76 Mustangs beat that record by 52 strokes.

Moreover, the ’76 Mustangs had not played their best golf prior to state. The Natrona yearbook said the Mustangs played in seven tournaments before state, winning just two — the Casper meet and the Laramie meet. The week before state, Campbell County had won the Douglas Invitational single-day tournament with a 306; Natrona shot a 311 and finished second. The Mustangs also finished second in a meet in Riverton, third in Sheridan, fourth in Gillette, fifth in Cheyenne.

Sure, the Mustangs were contenders for a title. However, nothing indicated the Mustangs were on track to turn in a record-setting performance.

But on day one, the Mustangs shot a 294 — the first time ever a boys team had finished with a team total under 300 strokes on a single day of state golf tournament play — and the record chase was on for coach Don Weishaar’s bunch.

Senior Rob Bennett, the defending state individual champion, led the Mustangs and took individual honors for the day with a 68, a score noted by the Casper Star-Tribune as even par. But it was the depth that paced the Mustangs to such a low team finish: junior Max Gutz and sophomore Scott Puzey added a 74 apiece and senior Eric Sherer shot a 78 to round out the day.

The score was good enough to give Natrona a 14-stroke lead on defending team champion Campbell County, which itself had shot a 308 and was still on pace for one of the best scores in state golf meet history.

Somehow, the Mustangs were even better the second day. Bennett shot a 72 to win the individual championship for the second consecutive year at 140 total strokes. But again, the depth was the story. Puzey hit a one-under 67 to finish second to Bennett in the individual chase; Sherer shot a 72; Gutz a 77. Together, they combined for a total of 288 strokes on day two, six strokes better than the already-record pace they set the day before, and 582 for the meet.

Puzey, reached via email this summer at his home in Thailand, said he remembered the tournament well. Several factors played into the Mustangs’ favor that day, including the pressure he felt as an underclassmen to perform well after winning the spot on the team over several seniors.

He also said the Casper Golf Club was an advantage to the hosts. “It was our home track so we all knew the course well,” he said.

Natrona won the team title by 27 strokes. In doing so, the Mustangs beat a team in Campbell County that would have obliterated the state record for two-round score with its 609, which would have beat the old record of 634 by 25 strokes in and of itself. The Camels’ 609 still stands as the 15th-best team round at state and is one of just three such rounds to have been shot in the 20th century.

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The records didn’t last.

The next year, Natrona finished fifth at state with a two-day total of 641, with Gutz and Puzey shooting in the 80s.

Natrona did return to the top of the podium in 1978, with Puzey winning the individual title at 151 strokes and the Mustangs the team title (by more than 20 strokes) at 627. Puzey said NC’s title that year came in Cody, with snow dotting the course during the tournament, and “that was a better team.” Both Don Bader and Mike Quarve finished in the top five for Natrona, and teammate Mike Hauffe wasn’t far behind.

After Campbell County’s 612 to win the state meet in 1977, it would be another 15 years before any Wyoming team broke 620 strokes at state; in 1993, three teams (Natrona at 605, Cheyenne Central at 610 and Kelly Walsh at 618) did so. It would be almost 30 years before another Wyoming team broke 600 strokes at state, with Central’s 594 in 2005.

For Weishaar, who died in 2004 with 12 state golf championship teams to his name (nine for the Natrona boys, one for the Kelly Walsh boys and two for the Natrona girls), the 1976 team represented the pinnacle of what was possible in a fickle sport.

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Don’t read this part if you don’t want this good story spoiled… (because here’s where the story unravels a bit, and people reading this story carefully and familiar with golf may have already identified it. If, indeed, the par for the course was 68, instead of 72 as it normally is on a typical 18-hole course, Natrona’s record may need to come with an asterisk. A team of four players shooting even par over a par-68 will shoot 32 fewer strokes in a two-day tournament than a team shooting even par on a par-72. If NC’s ’76 team had been on a par 72, a score of 614 (582+32) is more likely. That said, state tournaments have been played on courses of varying par totals; I’m still digging into what they might have been, because the record-keeping on that has been incredibly inconsistent.)

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The four players of Natrona’s record-setting team all went their own ways.

Puzey played professionally around the United States for much of the 1980s and 1990s and later moved overseas, playing professionally as part of the senior tour in Asia. Bennett played golf collegiately at the University of Wyoming and now lives in Casper, working as an engineer. Sherer moved to Texas and has been a lawyer in the San Antonio area for the better part of four decades. Gutz, now Max Guetz, attended UW as well — he and Puzey were fraternity brothers before Puzey transferred to SMU.

Together for two days, though, they set a record that still stands — and may stand forever.

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Here are the top 10 two-day scores from boys’ teams at the Wyoming high school state golf championships:

–patrick

(Photos courtesy of the 1977 NCHS yearbook.)

Here’s a quick spring sports recap from Champlists on the highlights from last week’s state culminating events:

Soccer: The boys teams from Jackson (4A) and Cody (3A) and the girls teams from Kelly Walsh (4A) and Lander (3A) won the state soccer tournaments this spring.

The Jackson boys won the 4A state title for the fourth time in six years. In all, Jackson has won eight state championships, all since 2012, and tied Cheyenne East for the most state titles in boys soccer history. They outscored their state tournament foes by a combined 11-0.

Cody won the 3A boys title for the fifth time overall and for the first time since 2017. The Broncs’ combined winning margin at state was 13-1, including a 3-0 victory against host Green River in the title game; the Wolves’ appearance in the championship game was the program’s first.

Kelly Walsh’s girls were the only repeat champion from 2023. KW won its fourth title in program history and its first repeat championship. The Trojans needed two goals in overtime to beat Jackson 3-2 in the 4A championship game.

Lander’s 3A girls title was its second in program history, going with the one it won in 2021. The Tigers were in thrillers throughout the tournament, beating Buffalo 3-1 in overtime in the quarterfinals, Douglas 3-2 in a 7-6 shootout victory in the semifinals, and a tight 2-1 victory against Cody in the championship.

Jackson’s Taya McClennen became just the 20th girl in state history to be a four-time all-state selection. Six boys — Douglas’ Luke Ewing, Jackson’s Braden Hills and Teddy Opler, Kelly Walsh’s Parker O’Neill, Powell’s Chance Franks and Sheridan’s Dane Steel — were three-time all-state picks, as were six girls — Cheyenne Central’s Ekena Little, Kelly Walsh’s Peyton Hill, Laramie’s McKenna Barham, Natrona’s Rian Barthel, and Riverton’s Cameran Paskett and Savannah Morton.

Track and field: Boys team champions were Sheridan (4A), Douglas (3A), Big Horn (2A) and Burlington (1A); both Big Horn and Burlington were repeat champions. Girls team champions were Sheridan (4A), Lander (3A), Kemmerer (2A) and Cokeville (1A). Sheridan’s 4A sweep of team titles was the first time such a feat had been accomplished at the big-school level since Campbell County did so in 2006.

Two athletes joined the ranks of four-time event champions. Cheyenne East’s Taliah Morris won the Class 4A girls long jump for the fourth consecutive year, while Mountain View’s Mylie Micheli claimed the Class 3A pole vault championship for the fourth year in a row.

In all, a whopping 10 overall state meet records were broken; another 14 state meet classification records were broken:

Boys

• 100 (Class 2A and overall): Gavin Stafford, Big Horn, 10.31; broke overall record of 10.50 (Stephen Michel, Laramie, 2008) and 2A record of 10.83 (Jose Wright, Kemmerer, 1987)
• 200 (Class 4A and overall): Chance Morris, Sheridan, 21.11; broke 4A and overall record of 21.39 (Stephen Michel, Laramie, 2008)
• 4×400 relay (Class 4A and overall): Thunder Basin, 3:19.02; broke 4A and overall record of 3:20.07 (Natrona, 2014)
• 1600 medley relay (Class 4A and overall): Cody, 3:28.35; broke overall record of 3:31.42 (Star Valley, 2018) and 4A record of 3:32.09 (Sheridan, 2023)
• 200 (Class 2A): Gavin Stafford, Big Horn, 21.16; broke 2A record of 21.68 (Jose Wright, Kemmerer, 1987)
• 4×100 relay (Class 2A): Big Horn, 43.07; broke 2A record of 43.88 (Big Horn, 2023)
• 1600 medley relay (Class 1A): Saratoga, 3:45.61; broke 1A record of 3:45.89 (Farson, 2018)
• Long jump (Class 2A): Gavin Stafford, Big Horn, 23-0.75; broke 2A record of 22-4.5 (Trent Bowers, Lovell, 1995)
• Shot put (Class 1A): Quade Jordan, Encampment, 57-6.5; broke 1A record of 55-2.25 (Matt Davis, Kaycee, 1999)

Girls

• 100 (Class 4A and overall): Taliah Morris, Cheyenne East, 11.68; broke 4A and overall record of 11.91 (Arnetta Simpson, Cheyenne Central, 1998)
• 200 (Class 4A and overall): Taliah Morris, Cheyenne East, 23.45; broke 4A and overall record of 23.79 (Jerayah Davis, Kelly Walsh, 2013)
• 400 (Class 4A and overall): Addie Pendergast, Sheridan, 54.40; broke 4A and overall record of 54.62 (Pendergast, 2023)
• 300 hurdles (Class 4A and overall): Addie Pendergast, Sheridan, 42.69; broke 4A and overall record of 43.21 (Lauren Taubert, Natrona, 2016)
• 1600 medley relay (Class 4A and overall): Cody, 4:06.74; broke 4A and overall record of 4:12.26 (Cody, 2023)
• Long jump (Class 4A and overall): Taliah Morris, Cheyenne East, 20-8.5; broke 4A record of 19-8.5 (Morris, 2023) and overall record of 19-9 (Ann Wingeleth, Lyman, 2015)
• 100 (Class 3A): Brooklyn Asmus, Torrington, 11.91; broke 3A record of 12.12 (Kereston Thomas, Rawlins, 2011)
• 200 (Class 3A): Brooklyn Asmus, Torrington, 24.24; broke 3A record of 25.03 (Kereston Thomas, Rawlins, 2011)
• 300 hurdles (Class 1A): Addison Barnes, Cokeville, 44.88; broke 1A record of 44.92 (Barnes, 2023)
• 4×100 relay (Class 3A): Torrington, 48.81; broke 3A record of 49.97 (Worland, 2023)
• 4×400 relay (Class 3A): Lander, 4:03.66; broke 3A record of 4:04.20 (Lander, 2001)
• 1600 medley relay (Class 3A): Wheatland, 4:10.56; broke 3A record of 4:14.04 (Rawlins, 2023)
• 1600 medley relay (Class 1A): Cokeville, 4:29.43; broke 1A record of 4:33.15 (Burlington, 2023)
• Long jump (Class 3A): Lily Nichols, Wheatland, 18-9.5; broke 3A record of 18-8.75 (Naya Shime, Riverton, 2018)
• Shot put (Class 3A): Adelyn Anderson, Lander, 44-7.25; broke 3A record of 44-4.25 (Jesseca Cross, Powell, 1992)
• Shot put (Class 1A): Harper Boche, Southeast, 41-8.75; tied 1A record (Shelby Ekwall, Southeast, 2022)

Another eight all-time marks were set during the 2024 season; (1) Taliah Morris’ 23.45 in the 200 and (2) 20-8.5 in the long jump; (3) the Cody girls’ 4:06.74 in the 1600 medley relay; (4) Gavin Stafford’s 10.31 in the 100; (5) Chance Morris’ 21.11 in the 200; (6) the Thunder Basin boys’ 3:19.02 in the 4×400 relay; (7) the Cody boys’ 3:28.35 in the 1600 medley relay; and (8) Kelly Walsh’s Landon Walker’s 49-1 in the triple jump. All records were set at the state championships except for Walker’s.

Softball: For the third consecutive year, Thunder Basin won the state softball championship. The ‘Bolts ran through Cheyenne East 10-0 in the state title game. Thunder Basin’s closest game of the tournament was a 9-7 victory against Natrona in the first round; after that, Thunder Basin won its remaining four games by 10 runs apiece.

Campbell County’s Avery Gray became the state’s first four-time all-state softball selection. Meanwhile, Campbell County’s Lanae Kimbley, Thunder Basin’s Natalie Clonch and Macie Selfors, Cheyenne East’s Aleah Brooks and Gracie Oswald, Cody’s Riley Simone and Violet Wollschlager and Green River’s Kodi Allred all notched their third all-state selection.

What stuck out to you in this spring sports season? Leave a comment below, and be sure to visit Champlists for full champion histories of all of Wyoming’s high school sports.

–patrick

With the close of the fall sports season comes a big update of champions to champlists.com, the source for Wyoming’s state champions and a host of other information for a swath of sports. Some highlights from this fall:

Cross country: Star Valley, Evanston and Burlington won team titles, with Burlington’s championship the first as an independent team. Natrona, Powell and Wright won the girls championships. Star Valley’s Habtamu Wetzel won the 4A boys title for the second time, while Charlie Hulbert (Cody) and Howard McNiven (Burlington) won their first individual titles. The girls champions were all first-time winners — Jackson’s Madison Antonino, Worland’s Zena Tapia and Burlington’s Jessie Michaels.

Golf: Riverton’s Parker Paxton and Lovell’s Erika Cook won the Class 3A boys and girls individual titles, respectively, for the fourth consecutive year, becoming just the fifth and sixth golfers in state history to win four individual state titles in their career. The Upton boys won their first state golf championship by taking the 2A title. Cheyenne East (4A) and Riverton (3A) also won boys titles. Sheridan (4A), Wheatland (3A) and Thermopolis (2A) won the girls team titles. Cheyenne East’s Daniel Meyers (4A boys), Upton’s Logan Timberman (2A boys), Natrona’s Cheyenne Ward (4A girls) and Sundance’s Savanah Peterson (2A girls) also won individual titles, each winning their first.

Girls swimming: Kelly Walsh’s girls won the 4A title, the program’s first state championship, while Green River won the 3A girls championship. Green River’s Tanith Smith joined a small group of swimmers to have ever won six individual titles, winning the 50 freestyle for the third consecutive year and the 100 freestyle twice to go with the 100 backstroke title she won in 2021. Smith, a junior, would become just the sixth girls swimmer in state history to finish with eight individual championships if she can win two more next year. The 4A team chase ended close, with the top four teams separated by just 13 points, the closest finish among four teams in state history.

Tennis: Laramie (boys) and Cheyenne Central (girls) won team titles; Central’s girls won their 17th team championship, extending a state record. Cheyenne South’s Andrew Lock won the boys No. 1 singles title for the second consecutive year. Kelly Walsh’s Taylor Nokes won the girls No. 1 singles title. Both are seniors. Meanwhile, sophomore Hailey Mathis-Breitkopf of Cheyenne Central won the No. 2 singles title for the second consecutive year.

Volleyball: Laramie (4A), Mountain View (3A), Big Horn (2A) and Cokeville (1A) won state championships. Laramie and Mountain View both won titles for the third time in four years, while Big Horn won for the second time in three years. Cokeville, meanwhile, won its first title since 2020 but won its 26th state championship overall, more than double any other program in the state. Laramie’s Maddy Stucky and Big Horn’s Saydee Zimmer were named all-state for the fourth consecutive year, becoming just the 15th and 16th players in state history to be so recognized. Big Horn’s Emme Mullinax and Emma Prior and Powell’s Addy Thorington were named all-state for the third consecutive year, while two-time all-state selections included Buffalo’s Cassidy Bessler and Tess Rule, Burns’ Brooke Hansen, Campbell County’s Aubrey Dewine, Cody’s Molly Hays, Greybull’s Kelsie McColloch, Lingle’s Natalie Speckner, Lyman’s Hailey Eldredge, Mountain View’s Kate Walker, Rock River’s Mikayla Alexander, Sundance’s Jaylin Mills, Thunder Basin’s Piper Martin, Upton’s Sophie Louderback and Wright’s Jazmin McOmber.

As always, if you see anything that looks incorrect or weird on the site, let me know!

–patrick

Here’s a quick overview of the 2023 winter high school sports seasons in Wyoming, aside from basketball, as updated to champlists.com:

Boys wrestling: Sheridan won its second team title in program history in taking Class 4A’s top honors, while Kemmerer won its second team title — and its second in a row — in winning 2A. Meanwhile, Green River won its 18th team title in winning 3A. Douglas’ Lane Ewing, the Class 3A champ at 160 pounds, became Wyoming’s 27th four-time individual champion. Each team champion finished with three individual first-place finishers. Individual championships from Dane Steel (152), Kelten Crow (160) and Colson Coon (182) paced Sheridan to the 4A title. Green River’s 3A winners came from Lucas Todd (106), Kale Knezovich (138) and Thomas Dalton (145). Kemmerer got individual titles from Roany Proffit (126), Karl Haslem (132) and Riggen Walker (152).

Girls wrestling: Wyoming’s first girls state wrestling meet was a one-class affair, won by Star Valley. The Braves only had one individual champion — Veil Foreman at 135 — but had enough depth to win. Pinedale finished second. Wind River, with Molly Bornhoft at 105 and AnnaBeth Bornhoft at 115, was the only school to have more than one individual champion.

Boys swimming: The two biggest swimming dynasties in Wyoming continued unabated. The Lander boys won their 27th consecutive 3A swimming championship, while Laramie won its sixth straight championship in 4A. Lander won its 30th title in school history, while Laramie won its 26th, ranking 1-2 in state history. Cheyenne Central’s Ethan Merrell joined a list of just 30 boys swimmers in state history, and just the second from Central, to become a six-time individual champion, winning the 200 individual medley and the 100 breaststroke for the third time each.

Indoor track: For the first time, indoor track teams were split into Class 4A and Class 3A divisions. Cody swept the first set of 3A team titles, while Natrona’s boys and Sheridan’s girls won 4A team titles. Natrona’s boys set a state meet record with 198.5 team points. Cheyenne East’s Taliah Morris set a new standard in the girls long jump at 19 feet, 2 inches, while Pinedale’s Colby Jenks set a new all-class record in the boys 800 (1:53.92). The Cheyenne Central girls also set a state record in the 1600 medley relay at 4:14.11.

Alpine skiing: Jackson swept the boys and girls alpine skiing titles for the 12th consecutive year, with the Jackson girls winning their 14th straight title. Jackson also swept the individual titles, with Taylor Smith sweeping the girls’ races and Owen Janssen (slalom) and Travis D’Amours (giant slalom) splitting the boys’ individual titles.

Nordic skiing: Lander’s girls ended Jackson’s streak of consecutive state championships at 11 and won their first state title since 2010. The Jackson boys, meanwhile, won their fifth straight title and their 13th title in 14 years. Natrona’s Ally Wheeler won both individual girls races, while Lander’s Bennett Hutchison (freestyle) and Jackson’s Sam Sinclair (classic) won the boys individual titles.

Basketball updates are also available on wyoming-basketball.com, as the full 2023 season has been posted.

As always, if you see anything that looks weird or incorrect, please let me know! I’m at pschmiedt@yahoo.com, or just leave a comment here on the blog.

–patrick

With a full list of all 2,470 Wyoming state wrestling individual champions now available on champlists.com, we can break down those champions by a number of different ways — the most obvious by school.

As the list below shows, Green River is Wyoming’s individual champion capital, with 117 individual championships coming from the Wolves’ ranks. Other schools with at least 100 individual championships are Campbell County (105), Natrona, Powell and Star Valley (104 each), and Worland (100).

Down at the bottom of the list, though, are 10 programs listed with one champion apiece.

And that, too, is incredibly interesting.

Of those 10 champions, only one champion is from an active program — and that is Hanna’s James Montez. Montez was the Class 2A 145-pound champion in 2010, the Miners’ first and only state champion.

Six others come from defunct programs. In chronological order, they are Guernsey’s Myron Baker (1947), LaGrange’s Joe Alire (1972), University Prep’s John Trujillo (1972), Medicine Bow’s Robert Casey (1973), Jeffrey City’s Jamie Evans (1980) and Burlington’s Ron Pace (1989).

The remaining three are kind of outliers from co-op programs. Kaleb Brothwell (2022) is Lingle-Southeast’s only champion, as is Lincoln Siebert (2021) of Burns-Pine Bluffs. However, both co-ops are relatively new, and all four schools have their fair share of their own individual champions. Similarly, Riverside’s Steve Bower (1989) is Riverside’s only champ listed, but Basin pre-Riverside days, as well as Basin/Manderson wrestlers as part of the Greybull-Riverside co-op, have won plenty of individual titles.

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Here are the state wrestling champion tallies by school or wrestling co-op:

–patrick

Here’s a quick overview of the 2022 fall high school sports seasons in Wyoming, aside from football, as updated to champlists.com:

Golf: The girls golf teams from Kelly Walsh (473) and Sheridan (484) posted the two best team scores ever seen at the state meet. They both beat the old record of 489 set by Sheridan last year. Natrona, which finished third at 501 strokes, finished tied for the seventh-best round ever by a team at state.

Individually, three players — Riverton’s Parker Paxton on the boys side and Lovell’s Erika Cook and Upton’s Brooklyn Materi on the girls side — won their third consecutive individual championships. Paxton is one of six boys to ever accomplish at least three state titles, while Cook and Materi are two of just six on the girls’ side. Paxton and Cook will return next season in attempts to become just the third boy and third girl to finish with four individual golf championships.

Kelly Walsh’s Josh Lane won the 4A boys title and Thermopolis’ Hadley Johnson won the 2A boys. Sheridan’s Samantha Spielman won her second 4A girls individual title (also winning in 2020).

Jackson and Riverton each won their second consecutive boys title, while Thermopolis’ boys won their fifth consecutive boys title. Kelly Walsh won the 4A girls, while Wheatland (3A) and Upton (2A) each won their second striaght.

Tennis: The Kelly Walsh girls won their second consecutive title and eighth overall to move into a tie for second place for most state tennis championships with Sheridan. Central leads with 16 overall. Gabriella Blumberg was the only repeat singles champion, winning No. 1 singles after winning No. 2 singles last year.

The Jackson boys win their fifth tennis title, with Cheyenne South’s Andrew Lock winning the No. 1 singles individual title.

Cross country: Saratoga’s Grant Bartlett won his fourth consecutive Class 2A championship, and in doing so became the first boy in Wyoming history to win four cross country individual titles. Mountain View’s Owen Burnett won his second consecutive 3A title and Star Valley sophomore Habtamu Wetzel won the 4A championship. Star Valley, Mountain View and Rocky Mountain/Burlington won team titles for the boys.

Three first-time champions were among the girls ranks with Cheyenne Central’s Sydney Morrell (4A), Lander’s Ameya Eddy (3A) and Moorcroft’s Mallory Jones (2A) winning individual titles. Central and Saratoga won their second consecutive team titles, while Cody won its fourth straight.

Volleyball: Wyoming had four new champions, as none of 2021’s title teams repeated. Riverside won its first championship in school history in its first year in 1A, while Burns won the 2A title and its third in school history after moving from 3A. Mountain View and Lyman played each other for the second consecutive year in the 3A title match, with Mountain View coming out on top this year to win its fifth team title. And in 4A, Kelly Walsh became just the third program in the state to crack-double digit championships with its 10th by winning the 4A title. (Cokeville has 25 titles and Pine Bluffs 12.)

In all, 11 players were named all-state players for the third time: Big Horn’s Saydee Zimmer, Cheyenne East’s Elysiana Fonseca and Boden Liljedahl, Kaycee’s Sierra Kilts, Kelly Walsh’s Abi Milby and Peyton Carruth, Laramie’s Maddy Stucky, Natrona’s Megan Hagar, Riverside’s Caroline Schlattmann and Vaidyn VanderPloeg and Thunder Basin’s Joelie Spelts. Zimmer and Stucky are juniors; the others are seniors.

Girls swimming: Laramie and Lander continued their dynasties, as Laramie won its sixth consecutive title and Lander won its sixth in seven years.

Cody’s Tara Joyce became the 31st girls swimmer in state history to win at least six individual championships with victories in the 200 and 500 freestyle events.

Remember to check out champlists.com for a ton of historical information on Wyoming high school sports.

–patrick