Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Washington High School

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

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.

A vote last November in the College Community School District will likely change the high school swimming landscape in Cedar Rapids very soon.

Maurice Blue has been part of the Cedar Rapids Washington football program for around three decades as a player and coach. He became the first Black head coach in Metro history in 2017. Wednesday he said he has resigned from the position.

Cedar Rapids Washington’s boys’ basketball program graduated virtually all of its top players from last season, with this season’s team filled with very inexperienced varsity players. But those guys have formed a 5-2 record so far, including a 56-51 overtime win Tuesday night at Cedar Rapids Xavier.

Cedar Rapids Xavier junior Jack Foster was so unsatisfied with how his first season of varsity went that he devoted more time to clubs and competing in the offseason. He’s reaping the rewards now. Foster won the 126-pound title Saturday at the North Linn Lynx Invitational.

A small group of Warriors are learning life lessons as well as skills on the mat, something to build on now and in the future.

Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Prairie sprints away with a 23-2 third quarter, handles Cedar Rapids Washington, 59-31.

Marion’s boys’ basketball team lost its season opener earlier this week by 49 points, but the Wolves rebounded Saturday by beating Cedar Rapids Washington, 70-61. Both teams came into the season inexperienced.

There were open weights and double forfeits. But, there wasn’t a shortage of one thing during Tuesday’s girls’ wrestling quad at Cedar Rapids Jefferson — excitement. The J-Hawks were dominant in their own gym, going 3-0 during the quad.

Linn-Mar hosted Cedar Rapids Jefferson, Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Cedar Rapids Washington in the Metro boys’ swim meet Tuesday night.

A look at some of the top Gazette-area teams and swimmers in the 2023-24 Iowa high school boys’ swimming season. Iowa City High and West will be among best teams in Eastern Iowa.

New Linn-Mar boys’ swimming coach Ian Hoover-Grinde has a talented roster to work with and a philosophy for success.

Two-time defending state champion Waukee has the top qualifier in six events and is second in three others for the Iowa high school girls’ state swimming meet, set for this Friday and Saturday at the Marshalltown YMCA. The IGHSAU has posted a full list of tentative state qualifiers.

After letting the fourth set slip away, Cedar Rapids Washington rebounded immediately, building a 9-2 lead in Game 5. The Warriors went on to outlast Cedar Rapids Kennedy (22-25, 25-18, 25-20, 22-25, 15-11) in a Class 5A regional quarterfinal Tuesday night at Washington High School.