🎉 Rounding out our December Middle School Students of the Month! 🎉
Congrats to our final group of amazing students! Your hard work, leadership, and positive attitudes make a difference every day. We’re proud of you! 👏🐯
Great job to all of our December honorees! 💛🖤 #TigRRPride #StudentOfTheMonth #KeepShining
Do you know someone who would be a great fit for coaching Tiger Track & Field? Tag them, share this post, and help us find the perfect coach! Interested individuals should reach out to Marti Herzberg (715-284-4357) at the District Office or Andy Osegard (715-579-9527) at Black River Falls HS with any questions. Let’s build something great together! 💪 #TigerTrack #CoachingOpportunity #TigRRpride
A massive shoutout to Alyssa Tubbs, Hailee Scheurich, Amelia Moses, Olivia Larkin, Cherelle Gunderson, Isabella Falcon, Lauren Beck, Evelyn Bolger, Hayden Brown, Kenley Brown, and Hannah Falcon for earning a 3.500 GPA or better this fall semester! 📚🔥
Their hard work on and off the court has earned them the Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association All-Academic Award! Way to set the standard for excellence! 💪 Keep pushing, keep achieving! 🚀 #StudentAthleteSuccess #AllAcademic #TiGRRPride #HardWorkPaysOff
🏀 December Athlete of the Month – Girls Basketball 🏀
Big congrats to Lily Miller for being named December Athlete of the Month! 🙌🔥 Coach Erickson says: She is reliable every day while bringing a consistent energy and focus as well. Lily has become a player that continues to strive to improve her game as well as bring a consistent energy day in and day out." Keep grinding, Lily! 🏀💪 #TigerHoops #EnergyAndEffort
🎉 Another big congratulations to our next four Middle School Students of the Month for December! 🎉
Your dedication, hard work, and positive impact do not go unnoticed. Keep being awesome! 👏🐯
One more group to go—stay tuned! #TigRRPride #StudentOfTheMonth #KeepUpTheGreatWork
🎉 Congratulations to our first four Middle School Students of the Month for December! 🎉
We’re so proud of these students for their hard work, leadership, and positive attitudes. Keep up the great work! 👏👏
We’ll be announcing more soon—stay tuned! #TigRRPride #StudentOfTheMonth #KeepShining
Here are your basketball highlights!
January 23: Black River Falls Boys basketball fell behind early against the Arcadia Raiders and could never catch up, ultimately losing 77-57. Braylon Backaus (27 points), Cecil Lopez (14 points), Noah Larkin (5 points), Mason Meimann (5 points), Toby Hovland (4 points) and Nolan Beohm (2 points) were the scorers for the Tigers.
January 27: In a non-conference matchup, the Tiger basketball team played with energy and competitiveness that was absent against Arcadia. The team battled the entire game with their physicality against Richland Center's post players. The game came down to the wire, where Richland Center made a few more big plays down the stretch, wrapping up with a 62-57 loss. Leading contributors were Braylon Backaus (22 pts), Nolan Boehm (15 pts.), Cecil Lopez (14 pts.), and Zaedyn Roseth and Archer Grant with 3 points a piece.
Photo by Aralyn Whiteeagle, Breeze Staff (January 14)
The Tigers had a strong showing on the ice January 28, with both JV and varsity securing victories over Barron.
The JV squad played two full periods, coming away with a hard-fought 1-0 win. The lone goal of the game came from Ryan Casper.
The Varsity team dominated from start to finish, skating to a 10-2 victory.
Calvin Lakowske came away with 4 goals and 3 assists.
Wyatt Hanna (Neillsville Co-op) scored 2 goals.
Drew Apicella scored 2 goals and had 2 assists.
Andrew Gunderson scored a goal.
Briar Peterson scored a goal.
Ryan Magnuson (Neillsville Co-op) had 3 assists.
Maddux Alvarez had 2 assists.
Huston Arnaud and Henry Meek had an assist.
The Tigers look to keep their momentum going in their next game on Friday in Amery.
🤼 December Athlete of the Month – Wrestling 🤼
Way to go, Katelyn Nosbisch for being named December Athlete of the Month! 💥👏
Coach Prell says: "Katelyn works hard, and it's paying off with her recent 3rd place finish at Bi-State!" Keep dominating, Katelyn! 💪🐯 #TigerWrestling #HardWorkPaysOff
Congratulations to our talented 8th-grade musicians who participated in the UW-Eau Claire Middle School Honor Choir! They performed alongside 300 other singers from 23 different schools. Fantastic job on a day of hard work and representing BRF with #tiGRRpride! 🧡 🖤 🧡
While the weather outside might be chilly, the phone lines are heating up as schools reschedule postponed games! Here's the latest.
Boys hockey in Barron has been postponed to Tuesday, January 28. When rescheduling, we added a boys JV hockey game that evening!
Boys JV - 5:30 pm
Boys varsity - 7:00 pm
Boys basketball in Stratford has been postponed to Monday, February 10. We lost the C-Team game that evening due to a contest already scheduled for Stratford's C-Team.
Boys JV - 5:45 pm
Boys varsity - 7:15 pm
The Black River Falls soccer teams faced off against Baldwin-Woodville in two intense games on January 14.
The junior varsity team fought hard but ultimately fell short, losing 1-2. Ben Bresee scored the lone goal for BRF.
The varsity team also played a tough match, battling until the final whistle but coming up short with a score of 3-6. Despite the loss, there were several standout moments:
Goal 1: Maddux Alvarez, assisted by Drew Apicella
Goal 2: Maddux Alvarez, assisted by Drew Apicella and Calvin Lakowske
Goal 3: Henry Meek, assisted by Calvin Lakowske—marking Meek’s first goal of the season
In their first win of the season, the Tigers played a great all-around game against Onalaska Luther on January 14. Using a new zone defense, the Tigers were able to control the pace of play and focus on stopping Luther's top scorers. The Tigers had a great first half, going into halftime with a 20-point lead and increasing that to 25 after back-to-back transition alley-oops from Cecil Lopez to Braylon Backaus. Luther chipped into the lead in the second half, coming to within 2 points, but Lyndon Greengrass's free throw shooting and Nolan Boehm's ball control helped the Tigers secure their first win of the season, and the team claimed a 74-65 victory.
Offensively, Braylon Backaus (30 points) led the Tigers. Cecil Lopez (22 points), Nolan Boehm (9 points), Zaedyn Roseth (6 points), Lyndon Greengrass (4 points), and Mason Meimann (3 points) added to the winning tally.
📷 by Aralyn Whiteeagle, Breeze Staff
On January 11, in a non-conference matchup against Fall Creek, the Tigers got off to a slow start but fought their way back into the game, coming within 6 points in the second half. Fall Creek's size and shooting allowed the Crickets to pull away late in the game, securing the 62-42 win.
Braylon Backaus led the Tigers in scoring with 26 points, Nolan Boehm with 7 points, Cecil Lopez with 3 points, and Mason Meimann and Will Sedelbauer with 2 points each. #TiGRRpride
📷 by Aralyn Whiteeagle, Breeze Staff (photo is a sneak peek of last night's win!)
The wrestling team faced a tough challenge on senior night, falling to Whitehall 52-30 in a home match. Despite the overall result, individual victories were secured by Sully King, Keanau Goldsmith, Zayden Killian, Deacon Brown, and Auston Taylor, showcasing their skill and determination on the mat. #tigrrpride #seniornight
On January 12 and 13, high school vocal music director Kevin Fosado took Megan Knight, Katelyn Nosbisch, Zacharie Dobson, and Konnor Scharpf to the Vocal Dorian Festival at Luther College, which culminated in a concert on Monday night. This was an opportunity for these four high school choir seniors to learn and perform in a Midwest honors choir with almost 1000 students from four different states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois)! They were able to work with collegiate conductors, learn new pieces, meet top students from the Midwest, and have fun through choral music!
One of our wrestling moms, Trisha Jacox, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and started treatment this week. To support her and her three children, wrestling moms are collecting donations to help with expenses this evening at the home wrestling match. The match starts at 6 PM in the middle school gym.
It was a victorious night for the Lady Tigers as both the JV and varsity teams triumphed over Osseo-Fairchild on January 13.
In the varsity matchup, the Tigers edged out a close 65-60 victory. Bella Falcon led the charge with an impressive 23 points, while Olivia Larkin added 11 points to the scoreboard. The Lady Tigers came out strong in the second half, building momentum and energizing the crowd. The ladies started to make their fans sweat in the last two minutes, but the Tigers won.
The JV squad also performed well, earning their victory with contributions from top scorers Chylocree Belisle, who tallied 10 points, and Charlise Tebo, who added 7 points.
Congratulations to both teams on their hard-fought wins! Go, Tigers!
📷 Lyniah Coon, Breeze Staff
Parents: In 2023, Wisconsin enacted Act 20, a law aimed at increasing early literacy among students from 4-year-old kindergarten (4K) through 3rd grade. The act requires the assessment of early literacy skills and timely identification and support for students who may be struggling with reading. It also requires parent communication about students’ results, personal reading plans for at-risk students, and progress reports toward grade-level goals.
Beginning in January, parents/guardians of Black River Falls students in grades 5K-3 will be sent results from the winter early literacy assessment through a secure email. The email will be sent around January 20th from “no-reply@eduCLIMBER.com."
Select the large blue “View Documents” button in the email and answer the three questions on the page that follows. Then select “Submit” to see the list of documents you have received. We ask that you read the information shared and then select the “I Reviewed This Document” prompt to notify the district that the forms have been viewed. It is very important that the district has your current email information so you can receive these documents. Please contact the school’s secretary to update email addresses if needed.
You will receive a separate email for each 5K through 3rd-grade child in your family. If a personal reading plan is written for your child, you will receive additional similar emails with their plans and progress reports. Since the emails are auto-generated, you will need to contact either your child’s teacher or principal if you have questions.
Let's hear it for the girls' JV basketball team! They delivered a 38-29 win, defeating Alma Center-Humbird-Lincoln. Keira Small scored 17 points last night at Lincoln, and Charlise Tebo scored 8.
Varsity girls came up short in a hard-fought battle, falling 55-46. Bella Falcon led the charge with 15 points, and Charlise Tebo contributed 10 more points to the score.
Let's celebrate the effort and grit these players continue to display. Go, Tigers! #TiGRRpride
