Mark Bliss announced Monday he is stepping down as head football coach at Cedar Rapids Prairie after nine years in order to help take care of a daughter who is fighting cancer.
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Mark Bliss announced Monday he is stepping down as head football coach at Cedar Rapids Prairie after nine years in order to help take care of a daughter who is fighting cancer.
Iowa football’s 2024 recruiting class, once in the top five after an early wave of in-state commitments, remains in the top 25 of major recruiting sites’ rankings.
With Friday’s football schedule release by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, The Gazette is offering a one-time, 10-game, nine-week tour of the best games in our circulation area, with no stadium visited more than once.
Former Solon standout AJ Coons has gone into the transfer protal. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound receiver spent the past three years with South Dakota State.
Butch Pedersen, a legendary football coach and iconic figure at West Branch High School, died Monday after a battle with cancer.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association announced districts and groups for each class of prep football for the 2023-24 seasons.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released preliminary classifications for prep football Monday. It is the first year the IHSAA is classifying schools by a combination of enrollment and percentage of free and reduced lunch students. Cedar Rapids Washington will bump from Class 4A to 5A in the new two-year cycle. Williamsburg will go from 2A to 3A.
Iowa’s track record with previous walk-ons was again helpful as the Hawkeyes recruited many who turned down scholarship opportunities elsewhere.
Landen Akers is only months removed from being one of the final cuts of the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. However, the former Cedar Rapids Washington all-stater and Iowa State receiver is looking at his present, being on the roster of the XFL’s San Antonio Brahmas, and to hopefully one day returning to the NFL.
Northern Iowa finalized its 2023 football recruiting class Wednesday, unofficially announcing 28 signees. Among the Panthers’ 28 newcomers are more than six Division-I transfers, one junior college transfer and 20 high school prospects.
Iowa coaches would be required to receive training once every five years instead annually on how to identifying and respond to a student-athlete with a suspected concussion under House bill.
Prep football: The Iowa Department of Education passes the amendment for socioeconomics to be a factor in football classification.
Cedar Rapids Xavier beat Max Duggan’s Lewis Central team in a 2018 Iowa high school state football playoff semifinal. Now they’re rooting for the TCU quarterback vs. Georgia.
The two Hawkeyes earned First Team AP All-America honors Monday morning, after both earning First Team conference honors earlier this month.
Iowa’s men’s basketball team played No. 4 Iowa State to the wire Thursday night before losing by four. As it did two weeks ago after a loss to nationally ranked Michigan State, the Hawkeyes were able to get an immediate bounce back, stomping Western Michigan, 91-51, Sunday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
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