After losing the area title on a coin flip last season to its rivals, the Wetumpka girls soccer team came into this season with goals and a score to settle. Those goals? Simple.Â
The Wetumpka Indians (8-4-4, 3-0) entered this soccer season with a vendetta: beat Stanhope Elmore at all costs. Last season, the Mustangs shut out the Indians in their area game, winning 8-0 in the first matchup and 3-0 in the second. With t…
It doesn’t matter which sport or what circumstances, when Wetumpka and Stanhope Elmore face off it is guaranteed to be an absolute showdown. That was the case again last week, as the Mustangs’ softball team went out to Wetumpka to take on the…
Sixty of Alabama’s top high school basketball prospects are headed to the North-South All-Star games this summer, for which dates are yet to be announced. The AHSAA released four 15-member squads on Thursday, two representing the North and tw…
On Monday night, Wetumpka’s softball team — now ranked No. 15 in the country after defeating Thompson last week — pulled out of a close call against county foe, the Holtville Bulldogs, to win their 30th game of the season. In the pitcher’s ci…
Wetumpka’s Juliana Eldridge is one of the premier high school wrestlers in the state, and she’s leading the charge for girls wrestling in and around Elmore County. For that reason, and of course her undeniable success on the wrestling mats, Eldridge is the first-ever Elmore County Girls Wres…
Last season, Wetumpka’s baseball team was 16-5 heading into spring break. The Indians finished out area play in the following two weeks, but managed to win only three games in the final weeks of the season before exiting in the first round of the playoffs.Â
There’s no doubt the Wetumpka Indians are one of the best softball teams in the state. The Indians have appeared in the top five teams in Class 6A since the first round of ASWA rankings this season and competed with some of the best talent in the South.Â
The Bryant-Jordan award is a statewide student-athlete scholarship program. The AHSAA recognizes a total of 52 athletes for the Larry D. Stripling Scholar-Athlete Award and an additional 52 athletes for the Ken and Betty Joy Blankenship Student-Athlete Achievement Award. Each of the regional…
Competition is not simply a desire to win basketball games. For the best athletes, competition is about striving to become the best version of themselves, pushing limits, constantly working, constantly learning, from games to practices, to how they go about rest, recovery and even how they refuel.Â
To a soccer player, scoring a goal is something that comes naturally. The sound of the ball hitting the back of the net becomes almost musical as it is so frequently repeated.Â
Just two seasons out from an area title and Elite Eight appearance, the Wetumpka Indians are determined to prove they can compete with the best of the best in AHSAA Class 6A baseball. With a 7-1 record through the first three weeks of the sea…
After last season’s disappointing and premature finish, the Wetumpka Indians are back on the dirt and reloaded with new talent, experienced players and drive to compete at a high level. The Wetumpka Indians hosted their first Class 7A softbal…
Now a third season out from its last state championship, Wetumpka’s softball team is looking for the right pieces and the right formula to get back to that place. As far as pieces, the Indians bring back three All-Elmore County first-team pla…
On opening day for each team, the Wetumpka Indians traveled to Tallassee to take on the Tigers. The Indians ended up claiming the first game out of two times the intercounty rivals will face each other this season, 10-4.Â
The Wetumpka Indians started this season with high expectations as the defending Class 6A Area 4 champions. Fielding one its best teams in recent history, the Indians were still a young team with only three seniors and three of five starters …
