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Seneca senior Dawson Davidson was named First Team All-Conference for the 2024-25 season by the Ridge & Valley Conference. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)
By Derick Kelly
Despite only having three athletes combined between the two schools named All-Conference, the Seneca and Wauzeka-Steuben Boys Basketball teams each managed to have a player named to the Ridge & Valley Conference All-Conference First Team for the 2024-25 season.
Named to the team was Seneca senior Dawson Davidson and Wauzeka-Steuben junior Cooper Lomas. Earning honorable mention honors was Seneca junior Gage Wall.
Lomas is a repeat first team selection while Davidson upgraded to the first team following a second team selection last season. Lomas was also named to the honorable mention team as a freshman in 2022-23.
Prairie du Chien senior Bryce Lenzendorf was one of three Hawk wrestlers to earn SWC First Team All-Conference honors for 2024-25. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)
Blake Thiry was named the SWC’s co-Wrestler of the Year, his second conference player of the year award in the 2024-25 school year. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)
By Derick Kelly
The Prairie du Chien Boys Wrestling team received plenty of recognition on the 2024-25 Southwest Wisconsin Conference All-Conference Team following the Hawks sixth consecutive conference championship this past January.
The Hawks were led by three first team selections in Bryce Lenzendorf (165 pounds), Blake Thiry (215 pounds) and Jack Simmons (285 pounds). Earning second team recognition were Keaton Achenbach (106 pounds), Hunter Reid (120 pounds), Mason Hird (144 pounds) and Jackson Perkins (150 pounds) while Jake Kramer (157) was named honorable mention at 157 pounds.
PdC senior Irelynd Cejka (right) was one of four Prairie girls wrestlers to earn SWC All-Conference honors for the 2024-25 season. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)
By Derick Kelly
Led by three first team selections, the Prairie du Chien Girls Wrestling Team had four all-conference honorees in their first season as a program.
Earning first team honors were freshman Rosalie Kossman (100 pounds), freshman Aspen Gelo (120 pounds) and senior Irelynd Cejka (138 pounds) while sophomore Addyson Claycomb earned second team honors (185 pounds).
Prairie’s Brady Lenzendorf was named to the SWC’s Honorable Mention team. (Derick Kelly/Courier Press)
By Derick Kelly
Prairie du Chien Boys Basketball players Brady Lenzendorf and Sam Kramer were both named honorable mention all-conference selections by the Southwest Wisconsin Conference.
Lenzendorf (senior) and Kramer (junior) both earned all-conference recognition for the first time.
Off the court, Kramer was joined by teammates Garrett DeHart, Ashton Landt, Nick McCullick and Cayden Sutter in being named to the 2025 Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Academic All-State Team.
Jean Carol (Hoffman) Irish was born on June 4, 1935, to Earl and Beatrice Hoffman with sisters Marion, LaVon, Lois, and JoAnn and Wyleen (Eunice) eight years later. The six sisters gathered with their families for holidays at the Hoffman home in Lancaster, and all the grandchildren vividly remember the sisters “debating” — solving the problems of the world.
Reuben Wayne Thornton, 73, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin died Thursday, March 13, 2025 at his home after a brief illness. Reuben was born May 26, 1951 to Harold and Virginia (Williams) Thornton in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
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John Hying, a student at Prairie du Chien School District, spoke to the Board of Education about the school’s policies and snow make up days. (Steve Van Kooten/Courier Press)
