Sheridan/Johnson County Sports Year In Review 2025

The calendar has reached the end of 2025, and a lot happened sports-wise in Sheridan and Johnson Counties.

Click on various links to see what happened.

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Winter 2025:

The Sheridan Girls Basketball Team finished as 4A State Runners-Up, while the boys placed 3rd.

The Tongue River girls basketball team repeated as 2A State Champs.

The Arvada-Clearmont boys basketball team won their first game in more than 4 years, and halted a state record 90-game losing streak.

The Sheridan Girls Wrestling team were State Runners-Up.

Becca Oetken became Wyoming’s first 3-time Girls Individual State Champ.

Kayley Alicke became the first nordic skier in Sheridan High School history to win a state championship.

The Sheridan High School boys indoor track and field team 4-peated as state champs.

Ben Forsythe of the Sheridan Boys Swimming and Diving Team repeated as state champ in both the 50 yard freestyle and 100 yard breaststroke races, to help the Broncs to a 5th place finish.

The Sheridan Lady Hawks repeated as WAHL State Champs.

The Sheridan Hawks Junior Hockey Team qualified for the NA3HL Frontier Division playoffs and were eliminated in the first round.

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Spring 2025:

Softball debuted at Sheridan High School.

The Lady Broncs went 19-11 with 2 ties and qualified for the state tournament.

The Sheridan Boys outdoor track and field team repeated as 4A State Champs and made it 4 of the last 5, while the Big Horn boys 3-peated at the 2A level.

The Sheridan boys 1600 meter sprint medley relay team placed 1st at the Nike Outdoor National Track and Field Meet.

The Buffalo boys soccer team claimed the 3A Crown in shootout fashion.

Goalie Orion Ostheimer was named the Wyoming Gatorade Player of the Year.

The Sheridan boys soccer team were 4A State Runners Up.

In April, former Sheridan College Men’s Basketball Coach Bruce Hoffman passed away at the age of 88.

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Summer 2025:

The Sheridan Troopers Legion Baseball team made it to the AA State Championship Game, and took home the runner-up trophy.

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Fall 2025:

The Sheridan Broncs football team 5-peated as 4A state champs, and ran their state record win streak to 55, which is currently the 2nd longest active win streak in the country.

The team also increased their home win streak to 34, which is a new state record.

Beck Haswell of Sheridan was named the 2025 Wyoming Football Gatorade Player Of The Year.

Big Horn finished the season as 2A State Runners-Up.

BH won their 3rd State Volleyball Championship in a row in Class 2A and made it 4 of the last 5.

The Tongue River Volleyball team finished 3rd.

Addison Bettinger of Buffalo is this year’s 3A Girls Individual Golf State Champ, while Easton Lewis of Tongue River was the 2A Boys Golf State Runner-Up.

The Sheridan Boys Tennis team won their second state championship in school history.

The other was in 1985.

Matt Brown and Eric Venn are state champs at boys #1 doubles, while Sam Wilcox and Christian Lamen won boys #3 doubles.

The Sheridan boys cross country team won their second 4A state championship in school history.

The other was in 2019.

The Big Horn girls cross country team won their first ever 2A State Championship.

Lyla Marney repeated as the 2A Girls Individual Cross Country State Champ.

The Buffalo boys and Tongue River girls cross country teams were 3A and 2A State Runners-Up respectively.

Ethan Rayo of Buffalo is the 3A Boys Individual Cross Country State Champ.

Milan Monteraselli of the Buffalo HS Girls Swimming and Diving team is the 3A State Champ in the 100 yard breaststroke race to help the Lady Bison finish 3rd.