Here are The Gazette’s second installment of 2025-26 area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
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Here are The Gazette’s second installment of 2025-26 area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
Action from the fourth annual Kennedy Cougars Invitational girl’s wrestling tournament in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falls used a significant size advantage and significant experience advantage to beat Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 79-43, in a boys basketball game Tuesday night at Kennedy.
University of Northern Iowa dumped Missouri, proving that the McLeod Center is becoming a tough place for visitors to win. Upper Iowa’s Ethan Doty placed at the Midwest Classic. Seven Kohawks place at the North Central Invitational and high school results in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
Here are The Gazette’s initial 2025-26 area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
Iowa State, University of Northern Iowa won tournaments last weekend. Iowa had four champions in Wisconsin. Competition for the boys’ high school season has started, while the girls’ season has hit full throttle, including the annual Dan Gable Donnybrook.All this and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
State cross country, Class 4A: Cedar Falls’ Jaden Merrick leads a pack of four sub-15 finishers in the boys’ race. Liberty’s Keegan Decker finishes third for the second straight year. Prairie is 4th in the boys’ team race; City High girls and boys are 7th.
See photos from the Iowa Class 2A and Class 3A state cross country championships.
High school volleyball: Tuesday’s seven area 5A, 4A and 3A regional finals.
"It's our fourth one-score loss of the year," lamented Kennedy Coach Brian White following the 14-7 loss. "If you win those games, all the sudden you are 7-2 and getting ready for the playoffs.
Five Gazette-area 5A, 4A and 3A volleyball regional semifinals to watch Thursday. All four remaining teams in 3A Region 8 are ranked, and a 3A Region 7 showdown pits River Valley South Division co-champions Mid-Prairie and West Liberty.
See photos as area high schools competed for the chance to compete at the Iowa state cross country meet.
High school cross country: Liberty’s Keegan Decker heads back to state as a title hopeful, but won’t be going solo. Both of Iowa City High’s teams qualify (the girls were champions), along with the Liberty boys.
Here are The Gazette’s second installment of 2025-26 area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
The Battle of Waterloo has been a marquee regular-season dual tournament and this year is no different with 21 ranked teams and 134 ranked individuals.
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