Top area teams and individuals to watch for the 2025 boys’ high school track and field season.
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Top area teams and individuals to watch for the 2025 boys’ high school track and field season.
Girls’ track and field: Linn-Mar’s Abby Mecklenburg became the first Iowa girl to hit 20 feet in the long jump (unofficially) earlier this spring. The reigning Class 4A state champion pursues Drake and state-meet records, plus the all-time Iowa best.
Top area teams and individuals to watch for the 2025 girls’ high school track and field season.
The Pinning Combination with The Gazette's K.J. Pilcher and Dick Briggs
Girls’ basketball: P.J. Sweeney, who led Clear Creek Amana to the Class 4A state championship in 2024, has announced his resignation.
Tigerhawks will chase another state crown with the moto this season of ‘Grind. Glory. Repeat.’
Lots of talented individuals and teams aim to get back to state tournament
See photos as the Hawkeyes took on the Sooners in Norman, Oklahoma for a chance to advance to the Sweet Sixteen.
Girls basketball: After leading Cedar Rapids Xavier to the Class 4A state championship, Tom Lilly and Libby Fandel are duly rewarded as The Gazette’s 2005 area coach, player of the year.
University of Northern Iowa 184-pounder Parker Keckeisen wrestled for his second national title and a chance to play spoiler against Penn State’s Carter Starocci, who was going for his unprecedented fifth NCAA crown. Starocci won, 4-3.
Iowa’s Drake Ayala, Michael Caliendo and Stephen Buchanan and UNI’s Parker Keckeisen won semifinal bouts Friday, advancing to the finals of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
See photos as the Hawkeyes prepare to take on the Murray State Racers and the Oklahoma Sooners prepare to face Florida Gulf Coast.
University of Iowa moved five into the quarterfinals and finished tied for fourth in the team race after Day 1 of the NCAA Wrestling Championships Thursday at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. UNI has all 10 alive with Cael Happel and Parker Keckeisen in the quarterfinals. The Panthers are in seventh place.
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