Welcome to Week 1 of the 2023 Iowa high school football season! Follow score updates and analysis from Gazette reporters throughout the night via our live blog.
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Welcome to Week 1 of the 2023 Iowa high school football season! Follow score updates and analysis from Gazette reporters throughout the night via our live blog.
With the talent and experience the 2023 Winfield-Mount Union football team boasts, it’s easy to see why it has lofty aspirations.
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Why should Friday get all the fun? Week 1 of the Iowa high school football schedule also comes with a pair of ranked matchups on Saturday night. Here’s a look at who all the teams ranked in The Gazette’s preseason poll face this week.
There are plenty of standout Iowa high school football games Friday night (and Saturday) that we preview in the first Prep Football Huddle podcast of the season. Plus, a look at our preseason rankings and storylines to watch.
Consistency and discipline. Those traits form the foundation of Cedar Rapids Xavier’s football program. The players have grown to expect, accept and promote the tenets by Duane Schulte, the Saints’ only head coach who has 208 career victories, seven state finals appearances and four championships, including the Class 4A crown last season, in the 26-year history of the school.
Prep football: A dozen of the top Gazette-area games to watch in Week 1.
Nick Brooks grew up in Cedar Rapids and attended middle school here. He went to Georgia for a couple of years and became a big-time college recruit. He’s back now in Cedar Rapids for his junior year, and the 6-foot-8, 385-pound offensive lineman is eager to help Cedar Rapids Kennedy win a lot of football games.
Iowa City High, 6-4 last season, opens at home against Joliet Cathloic on Friday — a program that has won 28 of its last 31 games, an Illinois-record 15 sanctioned state titles and, according to its website, “34 state and national championships.”
Here is The Gazette’s Iowa high school football Class 5A poll ahead of the 2023 season. Southeast Polk starts at No. 1.
Center Point’s Delaney McSweeney set an example by staying home to help elevate the Iowa volleyball program. How many others follow her will be key for Jim Barnes’ rebuild.
See photos as Cedar Rapids Prairie hosted Iowa City Liberty for an early season volleyball match.
Iowa women’s basketball picked up its first commitment of the 2025 recruiting class, and it’s a big one. Big enough to give Lisa Bluder goosebumps.
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