Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Prairie High School

Girls’ basketball Super Ten: Snow, wind and cold limit the schedule. Cedar Rapids Prairie climbs to No. 4.

Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Wyatt Vlasek posted the principles of a new mental approach on his mirror, reading them each day. He has applied them to his wrestling and has reaped the rewards, climbing to sixth in the 157-pound rankings of Class 3A.

The Prairie Hawks defeated the Xavier Saints in a boys’ wrestling dual meet at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.

Girls’ basketball Super Ten: The first one after the holidays has the same top six as previously, led by Clear Creek Amana.

Wartburg captured its 13th title, while Coe and Upper Iowa rebounded after opening-round losses at the NWCA Multi-Divisional Dual Championships at the UNI-Dome. Life University got a title sweep. Iowa State swept out west, UNI got its 800th dual win and the Alburnett boys and Decorah girls impressed during the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Technically, Kris Murray isn’t a two-way player with the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers. However, the 23-year-old Murray, the 23rd pick in the 2023 NBA Draft from Iowa, has logged minutes with the Blazers and their new NBA G-League affiliate, the Rip City Remix, reps which have shortened his NBA learning curve.

Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys’ bowling team is 4-0, took first in the Prairie Boys Baker Invitational on Dec. 16 and lead Class 3A in score per match at 3,185 — 30.2 points higher than the next closest team, Waukee. The Hawks want to qualify for state as a team for the first time since 2020.

The seven-game MVC-CIML Shootout boys’ basketball event went down Saturday at the Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids. In one of the marquee games of the inaugural event, defending Class 4A defending champion West Des Moines Valley used a fourth-quarter spurt to down Linn-Mar in a matchup of the second and fourth-ranked teams. Top-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy also beat No. 7 Waukee.

Off to a dominating start in her junior campaign with a record of 20-2 and ranked No. 1 at 130 pounds, Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Mackenzie Childers is using her state title from a year ago as her motivation for working hard.

Jim Dostal was an all-state football player at Cedar Rapids Jefferson in the late 1970s, early 1980s. He was an all-American linebacker at Coe College and an assistant or head football coach in the high school and college ranks for nearly 40 years. He died Wednesday at the age of 59.

The final area girls’ basketball unbeaten? That will be determined next Tuesday. This Tuesday marks the first night of January action for some teams. Here’s a look at area conference races as we resume.

Here is The Gazette’s first 2023-24 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.

The Iowa high school boys’ wrestling is paused until 2024. The season resumes with 6 1/2 weeks of competition until champions are crowned in Des Moines. Here are some notable events for the second half of the season.

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union is likely to announce its girls’ basketball regional pairings in mid- to late January. Here is The Gazette’s first version of mock pairings ... all five classes, all 346 teams.

It’s been almost two years since Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys’ basketball team has won two games in a row. The Hawks accomplished that Friday night with an 81-58 victory over Cedar Rapids Jefferson.