Iowa City Regina announced Monday that it has hired Paul Rundquist to be its new boys’ head basketball coach. Rundquist spent the past five seasons as co-head coach at Iowa City West and won a state championship with Mount Pleasant in 2012.
State track has concluded and some Iowa high school baseball programs will welcome back regulars that competed over the weekend. Here is a look ahead to some noteworthy matchups this week.
Cedar Rapids Xavier freshman Charlie LeGrand not only joined a team that lost a wealth of talent, he had the task of stepping into the No. 1 singles spot Horstmann held for his entire prep career. He takes a 16-5 record into the state meet, where he was given the No. 3 seed.
Prep softball: A growing tradition at Williamsburg consists of deep tournament runs, bright lights and loud sirens.
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Mya Messenger and Lily Belle Barker chose the state golf tournament over state doubles since both overlap this weekend.
Solon earned its first state runner-up team finish in 2021 and followed it up with another in 2022. The Spartans are back again and they are tired of silver.
Lisbon was one of three Gazette area state track and field team champions; Solon’s girls repeated in Class 3A, and Williamsburg shared the 2A boys’ crown with Mediapolis.
Lisbon’s boys’ track and field team won its first team title since winning three in a row from 2015-17. The girls’ 400-meter relay team won the school’s first title in the event, so in a span of about 15 minutes both Lisbon programs gave their fans a pair of milestones to savor.
Cedar Rapids Washington’s Miles Thompson captured the Class 4A boys’ 100- and 200-meter races Saturday at the state track and field meet. But he wants to be remembered as more than a guy who ran fast.
Sure, the Cedar Rapids Xavier boys’ shuttle hurdle relay team would have preferred a different path to victory. But, as Grayson Hartman said, “That’s the way track goes.”
Owen Douglas sprinted to a Class 2A 200-meter title Saturday during the state track and field meet at Drake Stadium, then anchored the Raiders’ gold medal-winning 400-meter relay. All those points proved to be highly consequential. Williamsburg tied Mediapolis for the 2A team crown — giving it its first state track and field team title since 2002.
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