Thousands of area male and female basketball athletes, volunteers and fans of all ages converged on Eau Claire's Owen Park area for the annual Gus Macker 3-on-3 basketball tournament this past weekend under ideal weather conditions.  Teams from as far away as Hurley and Crivitz donned sneakers under a sort of carnival type atmosphere along the banks of the Chippewa River. Photos from the July 13th-14th event will be available soon.

 

Will Ryan who is the son of legendary head basketball coach Bo Ryan of the Wisconsin Badgers is reportedly set to become an assistant basketball coach at North Dakota State University. Badger basketball fans may recall North Dakota State's upset of the Badgers at the Kohl Center two seasons ago.

 

Carson Park will be a busy place this weekend for some Great Plains Football League playoff action.

The Chippewa Valley Predators face the Artic Blast of the U.P. of Michigan on Saturday at 7pm

The Eau Claire Crush face the Northern Wisconsin Thunderhawks on Sunday at 6pm.

 

The very first West Wisconsin Sports All Area high school pre-season football team has been released and is available on our homepage. Any comments can be submitted by using our Contact Us button on the homepage as well. We appreciate all the comments that have been submitted so far.

 

The Rosemeyer head football coaching tree just continues to grow. We have Rod Rosemeyer at Durand, Robin Rosemeyer at Gilman, Jeff Rosemeyer at Colby and now Dean Rosemeyer at Eau Claire North. Dean Rosemeyer was named interim head football coach of the Huskies last week but is no stranger to the Huskies sideline. He's been with the program since 1984.

 

Highly placed sources have told WWS that Shaun Fisher will likely be the new head basketball coach at Unity high school. Stay tuned.

 

Eau Claire native Sis Paulsen has been named an assistant hockey coach for the Mankato State University Women's hockey team. Paulsen who was a 4 year letter winner on the Wisconsin Badgers Women's hockey team spent the past 3 years as an assistant coach for the Bemidji State Women's hockey program.

 

UW-Stout two-time All American Women's basketball player Kelsey Duoss will leave in late September to play professionally in Australia. She has signed a contract to play for the Dandenong Jayco Rangers. You can listen to Kelsey's interview with WWS on our homepage by clicking on "Year of the coach" and then scrolling down to the UW-Stout senior interviews.