Iowa City Liberty will need to start and stay hot to achieve its goal — reaching the girls’ state soccer tournament for the first time in program history. Friday’s victory over Cedar Rapids Jefferson was 2A No. 8 Liberty’s fifth win against a 3A opponent in 2024.
Brett White’s first memories are of the Solon softball and baseball fields, watching the Spartans. He said he even had a playpen at the softball field. White enters his final season as a Spartan, starting since his eighth-grade summer.
The Iowa high school baseball season opens competition Monday. Here are 16 Gazette area players to keep an eye on this season.
Here is a look at eight Gazette-area teams to watch for the 2024 Iowa high school baseball season. The first day of competition is Monday.
Cedar Rapids Washington has announced the hiring of Nate Garner as its new varsity head boys’ basketball coach. Garner has been a head coach at the sub-varsity level at the school and served as interim head coach for the varsity during periods of the 2023-24 varsity season.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association has released the boys’ qualifying list for the 2024 state track and field meet. Here are the Gazette area qualifiers.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union has released the girls’ qualifying list for the 2024 state track and field meet. Here are the Gazette area qualifiers.
Warriors host winner of Indianola and Ankeny in semifinals Saturday
While star Gracie Federspiel’s absence did not prevent Solon from running away from the rest of the field in claiming the state-qualifier meet team title with 178 points, it surely places the Spartans’ pursuit of a third straight state championship in question.
Photos from the class 3A state qualifier track meet at Solon High School in Solon, Iowa on Thursday, May 9, 2024.
It would be a natural assumption to think the Cedar Rapids Xavier girls’ tennis team has been on a revenge mission of sorts this season. That's not the case according to Xavier Coach Matt Foxhoven.
Jackson Payne is direct and unafraid to discuss his path of hurt and heartbreak that includes injuries that derailed his University of Iowa career, the deaths of a close friend and his grandfather weeks apart and the uncertainty before he called Kirkwood Coach Todd Rima for another shot at college baseball.
Mount Vernon beat West Delaware 6-0 in an Iowa high school boys’ soccer match Tuesday in Mount Vernon.
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