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Rick Solem

Sports, news journalist since 2002. | Hometown: Greenville, Wis. | Avid noonball basketballer and sand volleyballer in La Crosse | Two-time Waupaca Boatride first-round playoff loser | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate | Cut from UW-SP's basketball team in 2000 on Midnight Madness as a junior walk-on | Went on to become UW-SP intramural basketball champion | Then UW-SP club lacrosse defenseman with two career goals (on two shots).

B-T, R-P fall in state titles, Caledonia takes 3rd

MADISON – He’s 6-foot-10. He’s the fourth-ranked player in the class of 2015 on rivals.com. And he was too much for Blair-Taylor High School’s boys basketball team to handle. In the […]

Central girls headed to state, Luther falls

MARSHFIELD, Wis. – The Central High School girls basketball team is headed to state. In what has been a theme quite a bit this season, the Red Raiders didn’t play […]

Central girls headed to state, Luther falls

MARSHFIELD, Wis. – The Central High School girls basketball team is headed to state. In what has been a theme quite a bit this season, the Red Raiders didn’t play […]

Caledonia a win from state title shot

The Caledonia High School boys basketball team is a game away from a state championship berth. That’s something it hasn’t done since head coach Josh Diersen, and assistant Jeremy Leis, […]

Caledonia a win from state title shot

The Caledonia High School boys basketball team is a game away from a state championship berth. That’s something it hasn’t done since head coach Josh Diersen, and assistant Jeremy Leis, […]

B-T has tall road to climb for state title

The seven times Blair-Taylor High School’s boys basketball team has made the state tournament, it lost. Thursday at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis., that drought finally ended. No related […]

B-T has tall road to climb for state title

The seven times Blair-Taylor High School’s boys basketball team has made the state tournament, it lost. Thursday at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis., that drought finally ended. No related […]

Central girls a game from state

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – The shooting wasn’t there, so Brittany Baldwin did what any good player does when the jumper isn’t falling. The 5-foot-7 senior guard got to the free-throw […]

Central girls a game from state

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. – The shooting wasn’t there, so Brittany Baldwin did what any good player does when the jumper isn’t falling. The 5-foot-7 senior guard got to the free-throw […]

La Crosse teams fall, B-T Caledonia, R-P move on

By RICK SOLEM MENOMONIE, Wis. – Central High School’s boys basketball team found its season on the line with 9.2 seconds left in the WIAA Division 2 section semifinal. And, […]

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