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Around Wyoming brings you news from around the state, keeping you informed with brief updates of stories you may have missed.

Around Wyoming, Thursday, May 9

A Campbell County high school senior got to spend a few more seconds on the soccer field after a torn ACL cut her final season short. The Gillette News Record reports Averi DeWine has been helping coach. But she still got to do something important to her: finish out the season, taking the field for the first 13 seconds of the Camel’s last regular season game.

Injured swans from the region are getting a second chance thanks to the Wyoming Wetlands Society. Buckrail reports the organization takes in birds with wing injuries and rehabilitates them. Then, they’re released on special swan ponds to breed and help bolster populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

YouTuber United ball has written a new jam to help people remember the 23 counties in Wyoming. The video features every county “talking” about itself and sharing some fun facts.

And bus and train travel booking platform Wanderu has named Devils Tower as the sixth most iconic national monument in the country. It’s also in the top three in the West. The rankings were based on the total number of Instagram posts of the monument.

Ivy started as a science news intern in the summer of 2019 and has been hooked on broadcast ever since. Her internship was supported by the Wyoming EPSCoR Summer Science Journalism Internship program. In the spring of 2020, she virtually graduated from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in biology with minors in journalism and business. When she’s not writing for WPR, she enjoys baking, reading, playing with her dog, and caring for her many plants.