Articles Tagged: Maggie Willems

Mount Vernon’s Chloe Meester is honored as one of two Gazette Female Athletes of the Year in 2025.

Last year’s 2A champion, third-ranked Western Christian ruled its new neighborhood, outdueling No. 1 Mount Vernon in a four-set Class 3A state volleyball final, 25-23, 22-25, 25-22, 25-18, Thursday afternoon at Xtream Arena.

Pumped and prepared (but not overly prepared), No. 1 Mount Vernon spotted No. 4 Davenport Assumption the first set, then roared back to win Wednesday’s Class 3A state volleyball semifinal in four (23-25, 25-16, 25-15, 25-20) at Xtream Arena.

Prep volleyball: No ‘fraidy cats ... Mount Vernon adjusts to Marion’s block in a four-set win that wraps up the Wamac East title.

Ten of the top 15 Class 3A Iowa high school volleyball teams are located east of Highway 63.

With Chloe Meester at the service line, players like Brooke Ellyson got their swings in an early Mount Vernon surge, and the Class 3A second-ranked Mustangs swept No. 9 Center Point-Urbana, 25-11, 25-23, 25-19, in a Wamac Conference East Division volleyball match Tuesday night at Center Point-Urbana High School.

Prep volleyball: Chloe Meester’s summer consisted of some work with the National Team Development Program and a commitment to Louisville. Now, the Mount Vernon junior has gone 'from great to elite,’ and complete.

Short-handed and short-staffed, Marion’s volleyball team reached the championship match of the Westside Invitational, but Dike-New Hartford was way too much at the end.

Volleyball notes: Tuesday featured some back-roads driving and a pair of showdown sweeps for Iowa City Liberty and Mount Vernon.

Macy Daufeldt had a Class 3A state volleyball tournament record 33 kills in West Liberty’s first-round sweep of Mount Vernon.

Mount Vernon, West Delaware, West Liberty are Class 3A favorites to reach the state volleyball tournament.

Mount Vernon reversed earlier outcomes against Beckman and West Delaware to claim the Wamac Conference volleyball tournament title.

West Delaware junior Alivia Schulte collected 23 kills in a four-set win over Mount Vernon.

The Iowa City Liberty Lightning went 5-0 in a stacked round-robin volleyball event, extending their win streak to 14.

3A No. 10 Mount Vernon unveiled “skilled underclassmen, and amazing chemistry” Thursday, and the result was two matches of destruction.