Wally Sheets spent almost three decades as head football coach at Cedar Rapids Washington, having one of the best careers in Metro history. He died Thursday in Florida after a long illness at the age of 88.
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Wally Sheets spent almost three decades as head football coach at Cedar Rapids Washington, having one of the best careers in Metro history. He died Thursday in Florida after a long illness at the age of 88.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy and West Branch started the 2023 Iowa high school football season 0-2 against tough schedules but have won every game since, including a pair of eye-openers last week. The Prep Football Huddle podcast discusses those teams and more noteworthy resurgences this week.
Led by individual champion Adam Gray, Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s boys’ cross country team earned its first MVC Super meet title in school history Thursday at Birdsall Park. The Cougars placed all five scorers in the top 17 and upset Class 4A top-ranked, short-handed Cedar Falls.
The Anamosa football team won one game last season and one the season before that. But it has a 4-2 record going into Friday’s penultimate regular-season game against Camanche and is eyeing a playoff berth, something that hasn’t happened much at the school.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Reid Hall claimed the Class 4A boys’ state golf individual title last season. He will attempt to repeat in his fourth state appearance, beginning Friday at Otter Creek Golf Course in Ankeny.
This week, a handful of teams that have climbed into The Gazette’s rankings during the regular season get to test themselves against more-established top-10 teams. Here’s who all 72 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face in Week 7.
Prep volleyball: Area Super Ten (Oct. 5, 2023). Same order of power at the top: Clear Creek Amana, Mount Vernon and Xavier; Beckman climbs into the top 10 for the first time all season
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released regional volleyball pairings Wednesday.
Iowa high school volleyball: At just 5-6 1/2, Lisbon’s Ava Czarnecki ranks in the top five (all classes) in kills and efficiency.
A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 7.
Class 3A second-ranked Mount Vernon beat 4A No. 8 Marion in four sets (25-19, 25-21, 16-25, 25-15) in a Wamac Conference East Division volleyball match Tuesday night at Marion High School.
Prep volleyball: No ‘fraidy cats ... Mount Vernon adjusts to Marion’s block in a four-set win that wraps up the Wamac East title.
Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford evaluate teams’ stocks, the toughest district and technology on the fan experience. We also pick which coach would be fun to mic up for a game.
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