HS basketball preview for this week: With the start of the new year conference races heat up in the WVC and more.

Chad Holmes is a central Wisconsin native who has covered news, sports and the stories and people you care about at WXCO for more than 20 years. In addition to hosting the “WXCO Morning Report” each weekday morning, Chad is the voice of Wausau West and Newman Catholic High School sports. Outside of his busy work life, Chad loves history and politics, movies and the theatre, and sports of all kinds. Also a proud graduate of D.C. Everest High School and the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire.  Reach him at chad.holmes@civicmedia.us.