WARSAW – A preview of local girls cross country teams for the 2015 season.

The Triton Athletic Department announced today that 2008 Triton graduate, Blake Schori, will be the next boys and girls cross country coach. Schori will take over for former coach Wes Rettinger, who led the Trojans for the past 11 seasons.

Some of the finer programs in the state reside right here in Kosciusko County. Our top five teams for the 2014-15 athletic season had four of the five make an appearance at the IHSAA State Finals in each respective sport. Our march to number one starts with: 5. FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING – What would …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw cross country program held its annual Blue Ribbon Distance Camp Thursday evening. The camp, which was held at WCHS, involved boys and girls in grades 4-8. The camp was conducted by Warsaw girls cross country and track coach Scott Erba, along with members of his coaching staff and current WCHS distance …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw cross country program will hold its Blue Ribbon Distance Camp on June 11. The camp is open to boys and girls in grades 4-8 and will take place from 5-7:30 p.m. at WCHS. Registration forms are available at www.warsawxc.com (news link) or on the WCHS athletic department’s website or at the …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw girls cross country program will hold a Call Out/Informational Meeting on May 20. All girls interested in running cross country this summer and in the fall for the team should attend. The meeting will be held from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the WCHS Cafeteria. Parents are welcome to attend the meeting. The …read more.

MISHAWAKA – In its 30th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, today announced Anna Rohrer of Mishawaka High School as its 2014-15 Gatorade National Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year. Rohrer was surprised with the news at school by American …read more.

WARSAW – Running and milk. The two go hand-in-hand right? They did on Friday for the Warsaw Distance Club in its first annual Milk Mile Championships held at WCHS. A total of 31 runners took part in the event, which had runners drink 12 ounces of mile before each lap around the track for a …read more.

Several members of the Warsaw girls cross country program braved the cold, snow and mud Saturday to compete in the Foot Locker Midwest Championships. The duo of sophomore Allison Miller and junior Hannah Dawson competed in the Seeded Division at the event held in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Miller placed 109th in the race in a time …read more.

TERRE HAUTE – Warsaw’s girls cross country team got to taste a bigger piece of the pie Nov. 16 when many of the roster ran in the Nike Midwest Regional meet. ‘The Saw’ team consisted of Allison Miller, Hannah Dawson, Anna Craig, Brooke Rhodes, Mia Beckham, Claire Kehler, Charlene Orr, Lauren Orr, Hannah Thompson and …read more.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee High School held its 2014 fall sports awards banquet Monday evening and issued its award winners for the fall season. BOYS CROSS COUNTRY MVP – Zach Cockrill Most Improved – Erik Diaz Mental Attitude – Jaxon Bame Coach’s Award – Logan Brugh Warrior Award – Tristin Ponsler GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY MVP – …read more.

UPLAND, Ind. – The Grace College men’s and women’s cross country teams wrapped up the 2014 season at the Crossroads League Championships on Saturday. The Lancers were battling a series of injuries and illnesses entering the meet and finished ninth in the men’s race and eighth in the women’s side. Nathan Lane highlighted Grace’s day, narrowly …read more.

By TIM CREASON TERRE HAUTE – Yeah, maybe Warsaw got caught up in all the excitement at the start of Saturday’s girls state cross country finals. But how does that old saying go? You don’t know if you don’t try. “They went out really hard, but so did everybody else,” said coach Matt Campbell following …read more.

WARSAW – Make history. That’s what the young and talented Warsaw girls cross country team is aiming to do on Saturday. The No. 6 Tigers of coach Matt Campbell head to the State Finals with one big goal in mind. History. Warsaw, with all underclassmen in its lineup, is looking for the best finish ever …read more.

WARSAW – Brooke Rhodes does not have to look far to find inspiration for her prep cross country career. Rhodes, a key performer for the No. 6 Warsaw girls cross country team, counts on her father Matt to provide plenty of motivation to fuel her desire for success. The elder Rhodes was also a cross …read more.

GOSHEN – An exciting fall sports season for Goshen High School will culminate this weekend with state finals appearances for two of its boys sports. The boys soccer team will be competing in the Class 2-A state finals this Saturday, Nov. 1, versus Brebeuf Jesuit. The game will be held at Michael A. Carroll Track …read more.

BOURBON – It was a big weekend for fall sports athletes at Triton High School. The football team started the winning ways Friday night with a 34-20 win at South Central in a Class 1-A sectional playoff opener. Jeremy Jones busted loose for three touchdown runs in the second half to spark the Trojans to …read more.

FORT WAYNE – The road officially ended for Wawasee’s Zach Cockrill while the trail continues on for others after the dust settled at the New Haven Cross Country Semi-state Saturday at IPFW. Cockrill, a senior, dealt with an injury that he could not overcome, finishing well off the pace at 18:14 and 112th overall. Cockrill …read more.

By TIM CREASON NEW CARLISLE – For a while, at least, it looked as if Warsaw might win the girls team title during Saturday’s semistate cross country meet at New Prairie High School. The No. 6-ranked Tigers got off to a fast start, worked their way to the front of the pack, and had six …read more.

It’s been smooth sailing for the Warsaw girls cross country team this season. The Warsaw boys team, on the other hand, has had a roller-coaster campaign. The pair will each shoot for one more big performance though come Saturday in the New Prairie Semistate. Both Tiger teams, who have won sectional and regional titles the …read more.

By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation Triton Junior-Senior High School is proud to recognize two of their athletes. Senior Derek Johnston and Freshman Baylee McIntire will be competing at the semi-state championships in cross country this weekend. The students are coached by Wes Rettinger.

LIGONIER – Whitko’s Brigit Nemitz competed Saturday in the West Noble Cross Country Regional. Nemitz finished in 43rd place overall with a time of 21:44. Fort Wayne Carroll won the regional team championship with a team score of 38. Host West Noble finished in fifth place to earn a spot in the New Haven Semistate …read more.

CULVER – Allison Miller epitomizes the Warsaw girls cross country team. Young, talented and unselfish. Those qualities carried Miller to individual glory and her team to another regional championship Saturday. The rain didn’t slow down the reign of the No. 7 Warsaw ladies as they dominated the field for the second straight year in the …read more.

[weaver_youtube 8F8X8eqj0QQ rel=0] ELKHART – A year ago, Wawasee was celebrating a cross country homecoming 30 years in the making. Saturday, Wawasee sat in disbelief as the cross country teams were both eliminated at the Elkhart Central Cross Country Regional at Ox Bow Park. Wawasee’s cross country teams had both run in the semi-state a …read more.

Step one of the state cross country journey is in the books and, for most, a learning curve was established. As the IHSAA cross country regionals loom this Saturday, second chances to improve and ultimately advance in the state tournament are on the course, and with luck, the course will be steady. Looking to maintain …read more.

FORT WAYNE – The Whitko girls cross country program will be represented at the regional this coming Saturday. Brigit Nemitz of the Wildcats earned a regional qualifying spot as an individual with her performance on Saturday at the Fort Wayne Northrop Sectional. Nemitz placed 24th overall in the girls’ race, but was in the top …read more.

SYRACUSE – Saturday was a big day for the Wawasee middle school boys and girls cross country teams. Wawasee claimed three of the four team titles, winning the boys and girls varsity races as well as the boys reserve race. Wawasee’s boys varsity team ran away with the title, totaling just 32 points to pull …read more.

[weaver_youtube SLDBNCbXdhs rel=0] ELKHART – Wawasee cross country head coach Doug Slabaugh had hoped and prayed he wouldn’t have to stand at the finish line pining over places. But that was exactly where he was as the Elkhart Central Sectional boys race was winding down, hunched over longtime program mom Linda Stookey’s shoulder fretting over times …read more.

CULVER – Perfect fall weather and the historical beauty of the Culver Academy campus set the scene for the 2014 IHSAA Culver Academies Boys Cross Country Sectional Saturday morning. Spectators were in for a treat as the 62 runners from 10 area schools ran a competitive race that would end up giving a regional birth …read more.

[weaver_youtube 53f6zhAZcI0 rel=0] CULVER – Running is usually the punishment for athletes in most sports, but that is obviously not the case in cross country. For the harriers that dare the courses across the state week after week, getting to run is the point and during the postseason getting the chance to run more is …read more.

SOUTH BEND – The freshman tandem of Nathan Lane and Tyler Houvener led Grace’s men’s cross country team to fourth place at the Bethel Invitational on Friday. Lane had a personal-record time of 26:06 to finish sixth individually, and Houvener shattered his previous PR by 50 seconds to take seventh place at 26:12. Brandon Smith …read more.

The 2014 IHSAA cross country postseason is here, and runners from all over the state are starting to taper and really worry about those stopwatches. Sectional championships will be on the line Saturday as boys and girls teams will take to the 5,000-meter courses in the official beginning march to the state finals. The Culver …read more.

GOSHEN – The ink has finally dried on the official lists for the Northern Lakes Conference All-NLC teams for cross country. The girls list is Northridge and Warsaw heavy after fantastic showings at the NLC Cross Country Championships Saturday morning. Championship race winners Northridge have Mackenzie Adams, Morgan Blyly, Briana Eggleston, Mariah King and McKenzie …read more.

WINONA LAKE – As part of Homecoming weekend at Grace College, the Lancers’ cross country team hosted the Lancer Invitational on a chilly Saturday morning. The men and women both placed second in the competition at Miller Field. Freshman Nathan Lane highlighted Grace’s efforts and was the fastest scoring runner in the race, finishing in …read more.

[weaver_youtube h4X7aozBxAQ rel =0] ELKHART – The Northridge girls cross country team came up with another way to ruin Warsaw’s party. Putting all five of its runners in the top 10, the Lady Raiders squeaked out a 32 final score to eek out a second-straight Northern Lakes Conference Championship title over Warsaw’s 33 points. And …read more.

ELKHART – The kings and queens aren’t scurrying from the castle just yet, but unrest in the Northern Lakes Conference cross country kingdom could take place Saturday morning. After Northridge’s stronghold over the conference for more than a decade, Warsaw finally muscled up the past three seasons and knocked the Raiders from the post in …read more.

SYRACUSE – Friday marked the second annual Wawasee Elementary Cross Country championships. Runners from the three elementary schools practiced for a month in preparation for a one-mile race at Wawasee Middle School. A total of 84 kids raced in the third through fifth grades. The event was divided into two races. The girls the top-five …read more.

[weaver_youtube VcnW800u8Jc rel=0] SYRACUSE – Needing to gain precious momentum heading into this weekend’s Northern Lakes Conference cross country tournaments, Wawasee’s boys and girls programs found themselves on both sides of the equation. Both programs split Tuesday, losing to Northridge and beating Concord to conclude the NLC regular season. Northridge were fantastic in both of …read more.

The Triton boys and girls cross country teams each notched second place finishes Monday evening. The host Trojans posted a team score of 41 on the boys side. John Glenn won the boys meet with a team score of 30 and Jimtown scored 49. Jimtown captured the girls meet with a score of 25. Triton …read more.

CULVER – The Warsaw girls cross country team competed in the Elite Division at the Culver Academies Invitational Saturday. Elite would be the best word to describe the performance of the Tigers too. Allison Miller turned in an outstanding individual effort to lead Warsaw in the state’s biggest and best invitational. The 33rd running of …read more.

Ladies Look Lovely At Crown Point After a tough stretch of conference games, Wawasee showed it still had some fight with a runner-up finish at the Crown Point Invite Saturday afternoon. Wawasee swept its pool games, including a rare win over South Bend St. Joseph’s. Wawasee downed the Indians 25-23, 26-24 and also took games …read more.

The Tippecanoe Valley Middle School football teams picked up a pair of big wins Tuesday to highlight athletic action. The 7th grade team blanked Northfield 22-0. Jaydin Conley had two touchdowns, 61 yards rushing and an interception for Valley. Tanner Trippiedi also had a touchdown and Jalen Potter 52 yards receiving for the winners. Alex …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw cross country teams continued their perfect run through the Northern Lakes Conference Tuesday night. Both the girls and boys teams celebrated Senior Night in style with dominating performances to collect two more league victories. Coach Matt Campbell’s girls team placed nine runners in the top 10 to defeated Concord 16-47 and …read more.

NAPPANEE – Goshen claimed the top two spots in both the boys and girls cross country races Tuesday night at Stauffer Park to pile up big wins against Wawasee and NorthWood. The combos of Nora Rangel and Adrienne Henke on the girls side and Gerardo Abad and Shawn Graves on the boys side helped Goshen …read more.

LIGONIER – The Wawasee middle school cross country teams found themselves racing familiar foes at the West Noble Middle School Cross Country Invitational Saturday morning. The Wawasee girls team took second place behind champion Maple Creek, which ran away from the 31-team field to win with just 31 points. Wawasee provided the nearest competition finishing …read more.

NEW CARLISLE – The Warsaw girls cross country team continued to impress on Saturday. The Tigers put together the program’s best ever finish in one of the state’s top invitationals at New Prairie. Coach Matt Campbell’s varsity lineup, comprised of seven underclassmen, posted a second place finish in the Class AAA race. No. 7 Penn …read more.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Grace College cross country team had two top-40 finishers at the highly competitive Indiana Intercollegiates on Friday. Nathan Lane finished 34th out of 150 runners in the Little State men’s race, and Katelyn McCullough was 37th out of 148 runners in the women’s race. “It was a tough course and …read more.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee’s middle school cross country teams continue to pile up success. Tuesday in a three-way meet, both teams brought home two more wins. The Wawasee girls beat Lincoln by a 20-39 count with Whitko scoring 85. The Wawasee boys dominated with a perfect 15 to Lincoln’s 55 and Whitko’s 81. Last Saturday, both …read more.

[weaver_youtube i9Pk_0HkqwA rel=0] SYRACUSE – It seems Warsaw can put any name in the cross country hat and come up with a winner. Tuesday night, it was Mia Beckham. The talented freshman found herself out front with a small group of contenders in the girls cross country dual with Wawasee, and Beckham pulled away for …read more.

The Warsaw girls cross country team continued its run of success Saturday. The No. 15 Tigers dominated the competition to claim the championship of the Fort Wayne Northrop Bruin Invitational. Warsaw posted a team score of 30 to easily outdistance runner-up and No. 16 Homestead with 66. DeKalb was third with 86, followed by Fort …read more.

MARION, Ind. – Katelyn McCullough and Nathan Lane both earned top-12 finishes to highlight Grace’s cross country performance at the IWU Invitational on Friday. McCullough’s eighth-place showing led the Lady Lancers to second overall as a team out of six squads, and Lane had the 12th-fastest time in the men’s race to pace Grace to …read more.

BRISTOL – Quality and quantity. The Warsaw girls and boys cross country teams exhibited plenty of both impressive traits Tuesday evening. Both Tiger teams opened up Northern Lakes Conference action by setting the tone from the start with wins over NorthWood and host Northridge. Coach Matt Campbell’s ladies team and coach Jim Mills’ boys squad …read more.

[weaver_youtube jiJEH-ppEp8 rel=0] ELKHART – It wasn’t an ideal night for the Wawasee cross country teams, but Tuesday’s triangular with Plymouth and host Elkhart Memorial gave great looks as the Northern Lakes Conference season opened for the three schools. On the boys side, the Chargers picked up a sweep by using a big pack to …read more.

WARSAW – The WCHS cross country programs will host the Elementary Cross Country Mile Run on Oct. 9. The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the cross country course at WCHS. The course is located behind the high school, off of Logan Street and across from the baseball field. There will be one combined …read more.

BOURBON – The Triton High School Athletic Department has announced a date change for an upcoming junior high cross country meet. The meet versus Tippecanoe Valley and Rochester has been changed from Sept. 16 to Sept. 25. The meet will still be held at Triton and will start at 5 p.m.  

Cockrill, Warriors Show Well At IWU Despite not defending team titles at the boys and girls Marion Cross Country Invitational, Wawasee still placed both its boys and girls teams in the top five and had a champion runner Saturday morning in the races held at Indiana Wesleyan University. Wawasee won both team titles in 2013. …read more.

WARSAW – Warsaw girls cross country coach Matt Campbell said that the plan was for his team to come out firing to see what they could do Tuesday night. What the host Tigers, a deep and talented bunch, did was simply run away from the competition in dominating their own Tiger Invitational. Star sophomore Allison …read more.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee Middle School cross country teams have been rather successful to begin its 2014 campaigns. Last weekend at the Prairie Heights Panther runs, McKenzie Smith led the way for the girls varsity team finishing fourth overall. The Lady Warriors put four runners on the awards podium in Smith,  Katie Haines (6th), Lila …read more.

The Triton boys tennis team rolled to a dominating conference win at LaVille Tuesday evening. The Trojans lost a grand total of seven games in blanking the host Lancers 5-0 for the Northern State Conference victory. Jared Fisher set the tone in singles play for the winners with a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 2. …read more.

WINONA LAKE – The theme for the Grace College cross country team in 2014 is sunathleo, which means “striving together.” Head coach Jeff Raymond’s desire is that the Lancers’ striving together as a larger unit will result in improved times for each runner this fall. Sunathleo. “I’m excited for the season because of the type …read more.

WATERLOO – Mia Beckham led the way for Warsaw Saturday in the DeKalb Baron Cross Country Classic. The WCHS freshman placed 14th overall as the Tigers took seventh place in the 11-team meet. Beckham covered the course in a time of 21:34 to pace her team. Warsaw chose to rest its top nine varsity runners …read more.

Seniors Fit To Be Tied The Wawasee boys soccer team and its fans celebrated the team’s seniors on Saturday afternoon and the seniors gave the fans something to celebrate in return, kind of. The Warriors played a solid game from start to finish but visiting South Bend Riley was just as solid. The two teams …read more.

The duo of Taylor Gunter and Haley Hoover each noted top 10 finishes Thursday to lead the Tippecanoe Valley Middle School girls cross country team to a third place finish in the LaVille Invitational. Gunter placed seven overall in a time of 14:56 and Hoover was ninth in 15:15. Lincoln won the girls meet with …read more.

HUNTiNGTON NORTH – The Warsaw girls cross country program opened its’ 2014 season with an impressive showing Saturday in the Huntington North Invitational. Sophomore Allison Miller led the way in the varsity event as the Tigers captured a second-place team finish. No. 7 Carroll won the girls’ title with a team score of 38. Coach …read more.

  WARSAW – The Warsaw boys cross country program has raised the bar the past two seasons. Coach Jim Mills expects that type of success to carry on again this fall for the Tigers. Warsaw, which has been blessed with top tier frontrunners each of the past two seasons, will need to stack the pack …read more.

WARSAW – Allison Miller is ready to leave freshman year as a thing of the past. The Warsaw Community High School sophomore had a rookie year to remember on the cross country circuit, but is ready to move past “being a freshman.” “It was a really fun season, but I was just as worried about …read more.

SYRACUSE – Much was not added to the trophy case in terms of actual hardware, but the girls cross country team at Wawasee had one of its finest seasons in 2013. Wawasee did win one title last season, the Marion Invite in which the Wawasee boys team was also crowned as champions, but more importantly, …read more.

Our final installment of the Top 10 lists features the five teams we feel had the best overall season in the 2013-14 calendar year. One just ended their season two weeks ago with one of its relay teams posting a second-place finish at the state finals while the other had an athlete take two second-place …read more.

Our look at the top 10 teams in the area actually mixes in two teams cut of the same cloth. The Wawasee boys and girls cross country teams had a historical season, checking in together at No. 10 while their classmates on the softball team had a season for the books, taking our No. 6 …read more.

SYRACUSE – Wawasee High School’s Austin Yoder signed his letter of intent to continue his running career at Grace College. Yoder is both a cross country and track athlete for the Warriors and will continue as such with Grace and head coach Jeff Raymond. “Austin comes from a good program, as both the cross country …read more.

The Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches issued its lists for the boys and girls Academic All-State recipients. Among those honored were three individuals from Warsaw Community High School’s boys team and a pair from the girls team. Senior Ellis Coon, who finished third at the IHSAA state finals, was voted Academic All-State …read more.

FORT WAYNE – The finish line of the New Haven Cross Country Semi-state resembled a scene from a monster movie, the weary defeated, the exhausted unable to continue. As the members of the Wawasee girls cross country team filed in Saturday afternoon among the walking dead, the hugs of completion amidst the agony symbolized the …read more.

SYRACUSE – Less than a week ago, the Wawasee girls cross country team beamed with delight after even outdoing itself at the Elkhart Central Girls Cross Country Regional. Taking an unexpected third place left the Lady Warriors giddy with excitement, but also with a new level of expectation as the New Haven Semi-state looms this …read more.

ELKHART – As the final team standings were being read off at Saturday’s cross country regional at Ox Bow County Park, Wawasee junior runner Bre Robinson stood with her team with a look of concern on her face not knowing the fate of her team at Saturday’s cross country regional at Ox Bow County Park. …read more.

ELKHART – The Warrior boys’ cross country team have a flare for the dramatic. After narrowly escaping the sectional last Tuesday, Wawasee had another close call on Saturday afternoon at Ox Bow Country Park. But close or not, the Warriors team score of 111 more than enough to get them to next week’s semi-state meet. …read more.

ELKHART – Simply put, conditions were ugly for the first round of a hopefully deep postseason run for Wawasee’s boys’ and girls’ cross country teams. Rainy weather led to a muddy course to help set the scene Tuesday night at Ox Bow County Park in Elkhart for the IHSAA Sectional Championships. As ugly as the …read more.

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” The famous words of Steve Prefontaine not only exemplify ability, but longevity. In order to achieve, there must be sacrifice. In giving more than 50 years of his life to teaching, mentoring, coaching, supporting and caring for the children and community he so …read more.

GOSHEN – The Northern Lakes Conference announced late Saturday afternoon its honorees among the cross country All-NLC teams for boys and girls runners this fall. The boys list featured the top five Warsaw Tiger runners from the NLC, a group that helped Warsaw to a championship season in the conference. Warsaw won the NLC championship …read more.

[weaver_youtube ksoRwM96HF4 rel=0] DUNLAP – In a sport that’s pretty cut and dry, the cross country conference races at Ox Bow Park were surrounded in a good bit of drama. First on the list Saturday morning was a scheduling snafu, that had race coordinators inadvertently sending inaccurate information to the schools of the Northern Indiana …read more.

SYRACUSE – Just five days ahead of the Northern Lakes Conference cross country tournament, Wawasee intended to cruise into the weekend on a high. With celebrations of seniors and veteran coaches in tow, Tuesday night’s triangular with NorthWood and Goshen should have been a grand time. After losing both boys and girls races to Goshen, …read more.

Wawasee Doubles Pair Of Threes A pair of third-place showings at the Culver Academy Cross Country Invitational were well-timed for the Wawasee programs. The Warrior boys were third at 157 points, behind only Brebeuf’s 122 points and LaPorte’s 127 points in the 23-team field. Zach Cockrill was eighth at 16:49 and Adam Doll was right …read more.

WARSAW – The Warsaw cross country teams continued to do what they have done so well in the past few years. Beat Wawasee and build steam heading into the postseason. The Tiger boys made it six in a row over Wawasee and, more importantly to them, moved to 5-0 in the Northern Lakes Conference standings …read more.

SYRACUSE – The Wawasee elementary cross country teams were scheduled to run its exhibition race tonight at Wawasee High School. That event, because of anticipated rain, will be postponed to Monday. The boys and girls races that were to be run tonight at 5:30 p.m. will be run Monday, Sept. 23, at the same time. …read more.

PLYMOUTH – Wawasee rebounded after suffering its first losses of the year to sweep past Plymouth and Memorial in both boys and girls cross country Tuesday. The Warriors took three of the top four spots in the boys race to score a 17-44 win over the hosts and 22-33 win over the Chargers. Memorial held …read more.

Lady Warriors Close Out With Win In the final regular season match of the girls golf calendar, the Wawasee Lady Warriors traveled to Lake James and beat host Fremont 182-228. Elizabeth Jackson took the reigns as medalist Thursday afternoon, shooting a 43 with teammate Courtney McDaniel shaking off a little rust with a 44. Aubrey …read more.

The Wawasee High School athletic department announced this morning the boys and girls cross country meets scheduled for today, Sept. 10, at Bonneyville Mill against Northridge and Concord will be postponed. The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures nearing 95 degrees today, peaking in mid-afternoon. With temps estimated to still be in the low 90s …read more.

NORTH MANCHESTER – The middle school girls cross country team from Wawasee continued to run red hot this fall, and a school record was set during its championship run at the Manchester Invitational Saturday morning. The varsity Lady Warriors were first overall, led by the new school record of 11:24.2 set by Carmen Yoder, replacing …read more.

Wawasee Doubles At Marion Invitational It was a banner day in several ways for the Wawasee cross country programs Saturday at the Marion Invitational. Wawasee’s first entry into the invite produced a double team championship as well as an individual title. The Warrior boys rolled to a team title with 29 points and the girls …read more.

Warriors Back On Track With Win After a tough loss to state-ranked West Noble Thursday night, Wawasee’s boys soccer team righted the ship a little Saturday with a 3-2 win at South Bend Riley. Wawasee (2-2-1) received goals from Rasmus Rich, Fernando Camargo and Harvey Lopez. Camargo, Carter Jones and Junior Garcia were all credited …read more.

[weaver_youtube RmBbG_TMNvg rel=0] NAPPANEE – It’s very early to tell much of anything in the cross country season, but small indicators were ever-present all over the Stauffer Park course Tuesday night. Wawasee senior Adam Doll made a huge statement by running away with the boys race against foes from host NorthWood, Fairfield and Bremen in …read more.

SYRACUSE – It’s a simple question first-year Wawasee head coach Doug Slabaugh has overviewed for his girls cross country program this year. How far do you want to go? “We are really young, but we have a ton of racing experience,” Slabaugh said no more than a week into official fall practice. “A lot of …read more.

Warsaw girls cross country will start us up in the countdown from five to one in our Top 10 teams list. 5. Ray Of Sunshine, Elements Of Surprise: The addition of Sarah Ray made a huge difference for the Warsaw girls cross country program in the fall. Ray, in her first season running cross country, …read more.

SYRACUSE – It wasn’t really much of a decision. Wawasee High School senior Jen Slabaugh was offered a scholarship, and the choice to continue her running career as well as pursue an opportunity in elementary education at Indiana Wesleyan University were too good to pass up. “I’ve been thinking about running for a while now,” …read more.

WABASH — No one could come up with a better title for a record than what Aaron Lewis gave to his latest country EP. The aptly-titled “The Road” chronicles exactly that from Lewis, his second foray into the country music world, but a trail that led him through his childhood to the music world he …read more.

It promises to be a busy Saturday for the Warsaw Community High School athletic program. With a lot at stake for a quartet of Tiger teams. The Class 2-A No. 2 Warsaw boys soccer team plays in a regional final at Mishawaka at 7 p.m. Saturday evening. The Tigers, who are 17-1-2 on the field, …read more.

Kolbe Leads Soccer Rout Nathan Kolbe led the way Tuesday night as the No. 4 Warsaw boys soccer team opened its season by blanking Fort Wayne Concordia 6-0 at WCHS. Senior Kolbe tallied three goals, two in the opening half, as the Tigers prevailed. Host Warsaw took a 4-0 halftime lead en route to the …read more.