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Iowa City Liberty’s Landon Bell celebrated his first state wrestling tournament win Thursday. A day later, he secured his first state medal with a quarterfinal victory in the Class 3A state tournament Friday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Iowa City West’s Justin Avila entered the 2025 boys’ state wrestling tournament Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines with a “No Regrets” attitude. If he produces his best performance, prize will take care of itself.
Here is a class-by-class breakdown of the 2025 Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament, which begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Girls’ basketball: Best public-school team in Iowa City? After Liberty’s 56-51 triumph over City High, that’s still yet to be determined.
Here are The Gazette’s sixth 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
Linn-Mar’s Malik DeBow has made a habit of wrestling his best late in the season. He rolled to his third Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet title and helped the Lions claim their third MVC tournament team title in the last four seasons.
Prep volleyball: Jessica Hauptmann hired as volleyball coach at Iowa City Liberty. As Jessica Gehrke, she was the 2010 Gazette Female Athlete of the Year at Iowa City West and is an Iowa High School Hall of Famer in volleyball and track.
Girls’ basketball notes: With the aunt-niece duo of Coach Stephanie Dacey and senior Carly Rich leading the way, Williamsburg is on the brink of the Wamac Conference West Division championship.
Here are The Gazette’s fifth 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
Girls’ wrestling: Taylor Cavanh and Evelyn Eggleston are leaders and won MVC gold on same day
Here are The Gazette’s fourth 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: Wins on back-to-back nights over Maquoketa and Cedar Falls boost Iowa City Liberty to No. 3.
Girls’ basketball: Janessa Mosley’s lone basket comes with 4 seconds left, and that sends Iowa City Liberty past Maquoketa, 49-48.
High school softball: Nikki Gahring steps down as coach at Cedar Rapids Xavier after 21 years, 14 as head coach.
Class 2A No. 6 Alburnett won the first eight matches, including seven with bonus points, and rolled to a 51-21 dual victory over No. 12 Mount Vernon Thursday night at home.
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