Articles Tagged: Cross country

See photos as runners competed in an Iowa high school cross country meet.

High school cross country: Individual champion Dawson Scheil leads Mount Vernon-Lisbon to the boys’ title at the Williamsburg Invitational.

High school cross country: After a stress fracture last spring and a lower mileage schedule throughout the summer, Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Adam Gray is rounding back into winning form.

High school cross country: Linn-Mar’s Ethan Cheney finishes third in a Rich Engel Classic boys field that wasn’t as crowded at the front as it could have been.

Photos from the Cedar Rapids Invitational cross country meet, where Maquoketa High School’s Izzy Hardin took first place in the girls’ varsity 5k.

High school cross country: Maquoketa’s Izzy Hardin beats the big-school competition at the Cedar Rapids Invitational. Kennedy duo runs second and fourth in the boys’ race.

Depth is the key as Little Hawks finish at top of 17-team meet; Iowa City Liberty’s Decker wins individual title

Iowa City High placed fourth Saturday, Cedar Rapids Prairie took seventh, Iowa City West was eighth and Iowa City Liberty was ninth Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, at the Spartan Invitational in Bettendorf that featured five teams ranked in the top 10 of the Iowa Class 4A rankings, along with rated teams from Illinois and Minnesota.

Photos from the Prairie Invitational at Cedar Rapids Prairie High School Saturday, August 30, 2025

High school cross country: Western Dubuque’s Quentin Nauman blazes to a 15:12 clocking at the Prairie Invitational, winning by 25 seconds. Monticello freshman Mary Grace Lyons makes an early impression.

The scene has shifted from track to cross country, and Western Dubuque ace Quentin Nauman has another record -- 14:56 -- on his mind.

Western Dubuque’s Quentin Nauman is the reigning Class 3A boys’ state cross country champion, Vinton-Shellsburg’s Alex Torres was the 2A runner-up and Oelwein won the 2A title

State cross country, Class 2A: Tipton’s Noelle Steines captured her fourth championship and the Mid-Prairie girls and Oelwein boys ran to team titles.

Photos from day 2 of the 2024 Iowa high school state cross country meet featuring Class 1A and Class 2A teams from around the state at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.

State cross country, Class 1A: Maquoketa Valley’s Matthew Schaul and English Valleys’ Gage Heyne finished 3-4. The Earlham girls and Lake Mills boys are team champions.