Iowa High School Sports

Paul Rundquist learned a lot of basketball and life lessons from his father, Gordon, who died in the fall. This season has been more difficult than usual for Paul, but he has Iowa City Regina with a 10-1 record after a win at Mid-Prairie

Girls’ basketball: All five starters hit double figures, and 3A No. 1 Mount Vernon tops Center Point-Urbana, 68-41.

Here are boys’ basketball standings from schools and conferences from The Gazette area.

Hawkeye Wrestling Club’s Olympic silver medalist announced Monday that he will wrestle Japan World champion Masanosuke Ono in Flowrestling Feb. 26 at Xtream Arena in Coralville. Iowa men dominate, UNI men and Iowa women win NWCA National Duals and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Mike Hilmer has been named one of 24 recipients of a National Coach of the Year award by the National Federation of State High Schools Coaches Association for the 2023-24 school year. Hilmer led North Linn to the Class 1A boys’ basketball state championship before leaving to take a superintendent job at Bellevue.

Cedar Falls remained atop Class 4A in the second Iowa High School Athletic Association boys’ basketball rankings of the season. Huxley Ballard (3A), Western Christian (2A) and Bellevue Marquette (1A) stay at No. 1 in their respective classes, as well.

She has sights set on first state tournament berth after disappointing regional fiinsh last year and is ranked No. 4 in the state in Class 2A at 155 pounds

Girls’ basketball: A downhill slope remains slippery in terms of participation in Iowa. Six schools, including Central City, aren’t playing a varsity schedule, and last year’s statewide number of 6,179 is a 38-percent decrease from 2007-08.