Dwight Gingerich is leaving Hillcrest Academy after 43 seasons as boys’ basketball coach to becoming head men’s basketball coach and athletics director at Goshen College in Indiana. Gingerich is fourth all-time in the state in career victories and a IHSAA Hall of Famer.
Girls’ basketball: Matt Hoeppner will leave Cedar Rapids Jefferson and take the job at Clear Creek Amana.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier turns to John Gianforte as its next coach, only its second in school history. He succeeds Tom Lilly, who won six state championships, including one in 2025.
Girls’ basketball: Jacob Misener is promoted to head coach at reigning Class 3A state champion Mount Vernon.
Iowa City West announced Monday that Jason Kern will be the school’s new head boys’ basketball coach, pending school-board approval. Kern has been head coach at nearby West Branch since 2018.
Girls’ basketball: A month after leading Mount Vernon to the Class 3A state championship, Nate Sanderson vacates his post as head coach.
One of the most successful boys’ basketball coaches in Iowa high school history, Steve Bergman announced Friday he has resigned as head coach at Iowa City West after 35 years. Bergman won six Class 4A state championships at the school and is 10th all time in career victories.
Boys’ basketball: Linn-Mar made it to the state tournament for the first time since 2012 this season. The Lions dropped an overtime heartbreaker in the Class 4A semifinals to West Des Moines Valley. Linn-Mar’s Chris Robertson is The Gazette’s Coach of the Year, senior center Davis Kern (the Metro’s all-time leading scorer) its Player of the Year.
Girls’ basketball: P.J. Sweeney, who led Clear Creek Amana to the Class 4A state championship in 2024, has announced his resignation.
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See photos as the Hawkeyes took on the Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma for a chance to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
Girls basketball: After leading Cedar Rapids Xavier to the Class 4A state championship, Tom Lilly and Libby Fandel are duly rewarded as The Gazette’s 2005 area coach, player of the year.
See photos as the Hawkeyes prepare to take on the Murray State Racers and the Oklahoma Sooners prepare to face Florida Gulf Coast.
Girls basketball: The Gazette’s preseason 2025-26 rankings, first draft. Our very early preseason No. 1 teams: Johnston, Dallas Center-Grimes, Maquoketa, Hinton and Council Bluffs St. Albert.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association announced Tuesday that it is moving the boys’ state basketball tournament from Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines to Iowa State University’s Hilton Coliseum in Ames, beginning in 2027. Many coaches like the idea of being in a true basketball facility.
Beginning in 2027, the Iowa boys’ state basketball tournament will be held at Iowa State University’s Hilton Coliseum, the Iowa High School Athletic Association and ISU announced Tuesday.
Girls basketball: Rowan Jacobi posts 44 points, 16 rebounds in her home-court finale, a 63-37 Class 1A regional-semifinal win over Lone Tree.
These wounds matter. These nicks, cuts and abrasions are fully earned. And all Mount Vernon’s top-ranked and unbeaten 157-pound senior needed to do to reveal their deeper meaning was calmly raise his forefinger to indicate there’s merely one more match to win to finally join two of his older brothers as a state champion.
Seventh-ranked Linn-Mar fell to No. 1 Waukee Northwest , 3-2, in the Class 3A girls’ state soccer championship at the Cyclone Sports Complex in Ames, Iowa Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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