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Head football coaches in Class 5A, District 6 selected Iowa City West senior quarterback Jack Wallace as the district’s Most Valuable Player. Scott Chandler and his assistants at Iowa City Liberty is the Coaching Staff of the Year.
Photos from the Iowa high school girls’ swimming regional meet Saturday at Linn-Mar Aquatic Center.
Iowa City High swimmer Grace Hoeper, who attends Solon and will swim collegiately at Indiana, elected to defend her two 2023 state titles. On Saturday, she won the 50-yard freestyle (23.34 seconds) and the 100 freestyle (50.95) and also swam the lead leg of the Little Hawks’ winning 200 freestyle relay.
The former Iowa City West three-time state champion and four-time finalist Hunter Garvin returns to his home state for Stanford’s duals at Iowa State on Friday before visiting his hometown Saturday for a dual against Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
A closer look at Friday’s Gazette-area Iowa high school football state quarterfinal games.
Linn-Mar will host 1 of 6 regionals on Saturday
With Iowa high school football teams one win away from the UNI-Dome, The Gazette’s Prep Football Huddle podcast reviews last week’s playoff games and takes a class-by-class look at this week’s quarterfinals.
Iowa City West played well in all three phases of the game and Jack Wallace hit Julian Manson for three touchdowns in a 21-16 victory over No. 6 Bettendorf. The Trojans advance to the Class 5A state quarterfinals at Southeast Polk.
The Iowa high school football playoff field is down to 56 teams, eight in each of the seven classes. The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the quarterfinal host sites Friday night.
Photos from day one of the 2024 Iowa high school state cross country meet featuring Class 3A and 4A schools at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Friday, November 1, 2024.
Twenty-two Iowa high school football playoff games Friday feature Gazette-area teams. Here is an overview of 12 contests and the full schedule.
Five Gazette-area state cross country storylines, including Noelle Steines’ pursuit of a fourth consecutive individual championship and both the Mid-Prairie boys and girls contending for titles.
All four schools in Iowa City are in the state football playoffs’ round of 16. Iowa City Regina won its Class 1A first-round game last week. For the first time in the 16-qualifier era of big school football, a public district has three qualifiers in Iowa City Liberty, Iowa City West and Iowa City High in Class 5A.
It’s the final game of the season, taking place a month after Iowa finished its regular season in Nebraska. The Hawkeyes had one final chance to pick up a signature win against No. 14 Vanderbilt.
The Hawkeyes picked up their first ranked win since 2021 in the 2025 New Year’s Eve bowl game against the SEC’s Vanderbilt.
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