The Gazette’s 2024 all-area football team: Iowa City West’s Jack Wallace is the offensive player of the year; Independence’s Tate Wood earns defensive honors.
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The Gazette’s 2024 all-area football team: Iowa City West’s Jack Wallace is the offensive player of the year; Independence’s Tate Wood earns defensive honors.
Union Community’s Jace Hedeman has subscribed to a new free and fun approach after his drerams of four state titles were dashed last season. He was dominant Saturday, winning the 132-pound title of the Cliff Keen Independence Invitational
This Linn-Mar boys’ basketball team should be one of the best teams in the Mississippi Valley Conference this season. The Lions notched a solid early season non-conference victory Saturday afternoon over Waukee, 68-60.
The Linn-Mar Lions hosted the Waukee Warriors in an Iowa high school boys’ basketball game Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.
The Gazette’s 2024 all-area volleyball team: Mount Vernon’s Chloe Meester repeats as player of the year; Mustangs Coach Maggie Willems is coach of the year.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson head boys’ basketball coach Wes Burns has a deteriorating back issue. He’s supposed to take it easy, but he didn’t on the sideline Friday night. Jeff lost a home game to Davenport North, 68-50.
Prairie defeated Xavier 65-51 at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, December 6, 2024.
Girls’ basketball: Keanna Worley posts 17 points, six rebounds, seven assists and four steals, and Cedar Rapids Prairie very nearly put all five starters into double figures in a 65-51 win at Cedar Rapids Xavier.
Brady Shekleton used a five-point move to win his 175-pound match and record one of nine Western Dubuque wins in a 45-25 victory over Cedar Rapids Xavier in a boys’ wrestling dual. The Bobcats also won the girls’ wrestling dual, 78-6, for the Mississippi Valley Conference sweep.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys’ basketball team didn’t have its season opener until Thursday night. Most teams in the state got theirs in either Monday or Tuesday. But the late start made no matter, as the Saints beat Iowa City High, 62-49.
See photos from semifinals and wreslebacks.
Girls’ basketball: Five early impressions from the first week of the season.
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