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Lady Wildcat golfers finish 2nd at Zeeland Invitational

August 22, 2019

The Wayland girls' varsity golf team finished in second place to Zeeland West Thursday at the Zeeland Invitational. The Dux won it with a team score of 384 for the 18 holes of play at the Holland West Ottawa Golf Club.. (Photo supplied)

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WHS junior aces No. 9 hole at Orchard Hills in season debut

August 19, 2019

Wayland High School junior Rylee VandenBerg had a hole in one on the par three No. 9 at the Orchard Hills golf course during the Wayland Invitational tournament Monday, the season opener for the Wildcats, Byron Center, Comstock, NorthPointe Christian, Zeeland West, Middleville Thornapple Kellogg and Hastings.

Wildcat cross-country teams launch seasons at ‘Early Bird’

August 17, 2019

Early Bird medalists (from left) Gracie Hasse, Naomi Oosterhouse and Hannah Smith. The Wayland girls’ cross-country team was second and the boys third in the season-opening Early Bird Invitational Friday at Hudsonville Unity Christian. The host team won the girls’ competition with 24 team points and Wayland had 35. For...

WHS grad Brittini Merchant joins CMU softball coaching staff

August 13, 2019

Wayland High School graduate Brittini Merchant is one of two assistant coaches who have joined coach McCall Salmon's Central Michigan University softball staff. Merchant, a two-time All-Mid-American Conference selection while playing at CMU from 2008-11, along with former Michigan standout Sara Driesenga will fill the assistants' roles for Salmon, who was named to...

Hopkins, Wayland teams enjoy pre-season C-C scrimmage

August 13, 2019

A sure sign that autumn is just around the corner is the news Tuesday morning of a fun scrimmage in cross country between Wayland and Hopkins High School teams. A big part of the fun was the custom of individual runners predicting their times. The actual season will get under...

Hasse, Cronkright co-captains of Lady Wildcats’ cross team

July 31, 2019

Seniors Grace Hasse (left) and Riley Cronkright have been chosen as co-captains of the Wayland girls' cross-country team for the 2019 season. Cronkright was a qualifier for the state Division 2 meet as a sophomore. The Lady Wildcats, coached by Sue Brewer, will start practice in a couple of weeks....

Former Homer, FHN football coach new Wayland AD

July 15, 2019

Matthew Moffett Wayland Union Schools has hired Matthew Moffett as new athletic director/assistant principal at Wayland Union High School. Moffett has been athletic director and head football coach at Homer High School and most recently was a physical education teacher and head football coach at Forest Hills Northern. He received...

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O-K Silver to have only 4 football teams this fall

July 2, 2019

Hopkins this fall will play three O-K Silver Conference opponents twice . three schools are dropping football from league competition Calvin Christian, NorthPointe Christian and Wyoming Lee are leaving and Belding, Godwin Heights, Hopkins and Kelloggsville will remain to play each other twice to make up for the loss of...

Phil Regan back in the Bigs as Mets’ interim pitching coach

June 20, 2019

Phil Regan, the most famous athlete ever to graduate from Wayland High School (1955), has been named interim pitching coach for the New York Mets at the tender age of 82. It is his first Major League coaching job since 1999 when he was pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians. He...

Presley’s not done yet. She’ll go pro in Poland this winter

June 18, 2019

Apparently, Presley Hudson just can't get enough of playing basketball. She has just signed a contract to play professionally this winter in Europe for Politechnika Gdańska in Gdansk, Poland. Hudson, a 2015 Wayland High School graduate, daughter of now former Wildcat head basketball coach Mike Hudson and national free throw and...

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