Republic's girls basketball season ended Thursday with a 52-41 loss to Nixa in the Class 6 District 5 semifinals. The Lady Tigers finished 23-5 after a week that started with a comfortable 58-34 win over Waynesville in the district opener Monday.
Republic's boys basketball season ended with a district semifinal loss to Kickapoo, but not before the Tigers delivered one of their best defensive performances of the year in a quarterfinal rout of Ozark.
Republic closed the regular season with two wins, avenging an earlier loss at Willard and then beating Parkview to claim the Central Ozark Conference West title outright.
Republic tied a school record on the road, honored its seniors at home and watched another record fall in a two-game stretch that secured the Central Ozark Conference West title and sent the Lady Tigers into districts at 22-4.
The 2025-26 Willard High School wrestling season has come to end as both the girls and the boys teams competed in Columbia on Friday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 28 in their respective Class 2 and Class 3 state tournaments.
Republic's girls swim team made program history at the MSHSAA Class 2 State Swimming and Diving Championships in St. Peters, sending eight swimmers to the meet — its largest state contingent ever — and advancing four entries to Saturday's finals, also a program best.
