Articles Tagged: Decorah High School

Photos from Friday’s Class 2A Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling semifinals at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

Decorah’s Thomas Sexton, Lisbon’s Tiernan Boots and South Winneshiek’s Collin Holm are The Gazette’s 3 stars from the Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament quarterfinals.

Thrusday’s Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling notebook features the Vaupel family serving as scorers and timers for each session of the tournament and Decorah’s Thomas Sexton’s stirring throw in the Class 2A quarterfinals.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association released brackets this week for the boys’ basketball postseason in Class 3A and 4A. Here’s an in-depth look at the substates containing schools from the Gazette area.

Here is a class-by-class breakdown of the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament, which begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

North Linn and Western Christian finish atop their respective classes, as the Iowa High School Athletic Association released its final boys’ basketball rankings of the season in Class 1A and 2A. Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Clear Lake remain top-ranked in Class 4A and 3A, which has one more set of rankings next week.

Conference realignment continues to be a topic on Call It Both Ways, The Gazette’s Iowa high school basketball podcast. This week’s episode begins with the latest updates as the Northeast Iowa Conference appears on the brink of collapse. Then, we take a look at more postseason brackets released by the IGHSAU (5A and 4A) and IHSAA (2A and 1A) and the big games involving top teams last week.

A stable high school athletics conference for more than a century, the Northeast Iowa Conference is now on the brink of collapse. Crestwood has been accepted by the Upper Iowa Conference, Waukon and New Hampton have been invited, and Decorah is in no-man’s land in terms of geography and enrollment.

Girls’ basketball: Examining the regional brackets in 5A and 4A.

A nearly two-hour episode of the Pinning Combination podcast talks all things wrestling in Iowa with Hall of Fame coach Dick Briggs, including the Hawkeye men’s loss to Michigan ahead of this week’s Penn State dual, the upcoming UNI-Iowa State dual, Wartburg’s one-sided win over Coe and recaps of the girls’ state tournament and boys’ state duals.

North Linn’s boys’ basketball team lost a couple of weeks ago to Alburnett and slipped from first to second in the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s rankings in Class 1A. The Lynx went from second to third last week despite not losing. But a 69-60 win this past Friday night at then-No. 1 Bellevue Marquette has moved North Linn back to the top spot in the class this week.

Decorah’s Naomi Simon captured the 170-pound at the IGHSAU state wrestling tournament Friday night at Xtream Arena in Coralville. She became the first Iowa female to become an undefeated four-time state champion.

Decorah’s Chloe Sheffield opened Friday with a pin to reach the 100-pound finals of the IGHSAU state wrestling tournament at Xtream Arena in Coralville. Naomi Simon reached her fourth final and was one of five medalists for the Vikings, who clinched the team title after the third session.

West Liberty’s Silvia Garcia-Vasquez placed third at state last year with her lone loss coming to Sioux City North’s runner-up Molly Sek. She got revenge Thursday, pinning the top seed in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union 115-pound state quarterfinals. Garcia-Vasquez was joined in the quarterfinals by sisters, Dionni and Bricsia.

Sigourney’s Reanah Utterback has placed at the IHSAA state tournament. She is competing in the IGHSAU state tournament this season and opened with two pins quicker than a minute Thursday morning.