Articles Tagged: Cedar Falls High School

Drake Relays, Thursday girls: Clear Lake’s Reese Brownlee retains the long jump title, edging Linn-Mar’s Abby Mecklenburg by a quarter-inch.

Prep football 2025: Nine big area games in nine weeks, starting with the Battle for the Boot in Week 1.

Linn-Mar’s Malik DeBow has made a habit of wrestling his best late in the season. He rolled to his third Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet title and helped the Lions claim their third MVC tournament team title in the last four seasons.

The Cedar Rapids Prairie boys’ basketball team seemed to announced their impending arrival to everyone in Class 4A earlier this season when it upset Cedar Rapids Kennedy. A 71-70, double-overtime win Tuesday night over top-ranked Cedar Falls might just show that the Hawks have indeed arrived.

Prairie Hawks win a double overtime thriller 71-70. Take down #1 Cedar Falls Tigers

But balanced and top-ranked Cedar Falls is the team to beat on Saturday at the Linn-Mar Aquatic Center, with the host Lions and I.C. West not far behind

Despite being defending state champion, advancing to a state championship game seven years in a row and having one of the top players in the state in his class (Mason Bechen), North Linn was left out of the first couple of the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s Class 1A poll after a 20-point loss to Dunkerton a couple of weeks ago. The Lynx are back in this week for the first time this season at No. 10. All of the No. 1s remain the same in Cedar Falls, Huxley Ballard, Western Christian and Bellevue Marquette.

Top-ranked Shayden Washburn was one of four Alburnett champions Saturday at the J-Hawk Invitational hosted by Cedar Rapids Jefferson. The Pirates won the team title by 81 points over Waukee Northwest.

Linn-Mar’s boys’ basketball team avenged a 27-point loss from earlier this season in beating No. 1 Cedar Falls, 69-61, in a fine Thursday night game at Linn-Mar. The Lions are ranked No. 6 in Class 4A.

Cedar Falls remained atop Class 4A in the second Iowa High School Athletic Association boys’ basketball rankings of the season. Huxley Ballard (3A), Western Christian (2A) and Bellevue Marquette (1A) stay at No. 1 in their respective classes, as well.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association has released its first official boys’ basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season. Your No. 1 teams are Cedar Falls, Huxley Ballard, Western Christian and Bellevue Marquette.

Pairings were set Thursday for the 14-team, 7-game crossover event, which will be held January 4th at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse. Matchups include Cedar Falls and West Des Moines Valley, Dubuque Senior and Waukee Northwest, and Cedar Rapids Kennedy versus Johnston.

The Cedar Falls boys’ basketball team already has posted three significant wins in the very early portion of the season. Probably its best came Tuesday night when the Tigers knocked off Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 79-73, ending Kennedy’s regular-season win streak at 46.

There is loud, then there is the experience known as a state meet at the Linda Bloom Natatorium, a part of the Marshalltown's YMCA-YWCA facility. The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union state swimming and diving championships return to the facility for a 21st straight year this weekend.

State volleyball, Class 5A state quarterfinals: Ankeny Centennial was able to hold a big lead in the first set and overcome a deficit in the second en route to a sweep over Cedar Falls.