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.
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.
Tyler Hilton has improved so much since a year ago. The 6-foot-8 Linn-Mar senior boys’ basketball player is averaging 25 points in his team’s first three games this season and had a mammoth 26-point, 23-rebound game Friday night as his Lions beat Cedar Rapids Prairie, 67-59, at Linn-Mar.
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.
High school football: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Cash Parks, Cedar Rapids Prairie are the offensive, defensive players of the year on The Gazette’s all-area team.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier crashes the boards (plus-25), limits Cedar Rapids Prairie to 21-percent shooting and closes fast in a 51-37 MVC triumph.
Here is a list of 20 wrestlers and seven teams to keep an eye on for the 2025-26 boys’ wrestling season.
Here is a list of five boys’ basketball teams from the Gazette area that could be handfuls this season. We predict winners in each area conference as well.
Iowa City Liberty quarterback Reece Rettig has been named the Class 5A football player of the year by the Iowa Football Coaches Association. There are 45 players from The Gazette area that are first-team players in their respective classes.
Iowa’s Gabe Arnold made the most of his opportunity in Iowa’s win over Pittsburgh. University of Northern Iowa squashed North Dakota State in its home opener Sunday. Coe crowned five champions at its annual Turkey Invitational and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
Fresh off its first state-tournament appearance in school history, Maquoketa is No. 1
Cedar Rapids Xavier and Iowa City Regina play for titles in Class 3A and Class 1A, respectively.
The Cougars claimed 10 weights and defeated Iowa City Liberty, 54-21, in a boys wrestling dual Thursday night at Kennedy. Liberty won the girls’ dual, 62-18.
Women’s basketball: Iowa’s Emely Rodriguez is ‘suspended indefinitely due to a violation of team rules’
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