The Iowa City Community School District board of directors voted to approve open enrollment for all-state girls’ basketball player Kelsey Joens, granting her permission to play her final season with her sister at West Liberty.
Pryce Sandfort, a 4-star recruit from Waukee and Payton Sandfort’s younger brother, has joined the 2023 Iowa men’s basketball recruiting class.
A federal class-action suit brought by youth basketball players who were potential sex abuse victims of former Barnstormers coach Greg Stephen reached a settlement Friday to set up over $1 million fund to benefit the victims. The organization also agreed to set up youth protection protocols and policies to keep players safe.
Cedar Rapids Washington grad and 2022 Gazette Athlete of the Year finalist Hannah Stuelke has been quickly adjusting as a freshman on an experienced Iowa women’s basketball team.
Iowa State true freshmen Eli King, Tamin Lipsey and Demarion Watson share a commitment to the bedrock principle that undergirds T.J. Otzelberger’s Iowa State men’s basketball program — elite defense.
First-team Class 3A all-state boys’ basketball guard Brayson Laube has committed to play college ball at Division II Augustana in South Dakota.
Nate Frese doesn’t expect to change much as head girls’ basketball coach at Iowa City West.
The nation’s winningest high school softball coach, Larry Niemeyer died Thursday night at age 84. He won three softball state championships and one in girls’ basketball at Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
Macy Daufeldt of West Liberty is the 2022 Gazette Female Athlete of the Year.
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Austin Hilmer of North Linn is the 2022 Gazette Male Athlete of the Year.
Gazette Athletes of the Year Ryan Driscoll (1992) and Monica Huelman Zaruba (1996) passed away about a year apart. They left tons of great memories for fans.
North Linn’s Nicole Miller (2015) and Ryan Miller (2018) were the area’s first sister-brother duo to earn Gazette Athlete of the Year honors.
Matt Morrison, James Morris and Derrick Loveless were key components of a successful Solon stretch, amassing eight state team championships with three more runner-up finishes in five sports from 2006 through 2011. They were named Gazette Athletes of the Year in 2009, 2010 and 2011, respectively.
Kara and Kate Galer are the only set of twins to earn Gazette Athlete of the Year honors, and are the first two of 10 winners from Iowa City West.
Few fathers and sons can match the athletic success of Marv and Drew Cook. The Cooks are still the only father-son combo to be named The Gazette’s Athlete of the Year.
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.
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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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