Jeff Linder

Iowa women’s basketball: Ava Heiden will join the Hawkeyes in 2024. She’s a top-50 junior and will be the program’s first Oregonian.

State volleyball 2022: Brackets, top players, The Gazette’s predictions and more.

State volleyball tournament: Cassidy Hartman has done it all for Iowa City Liberty, and has done it all very well.

State cross country, Class 4A: Iowa City High’s Ford Washburn pushes Dowling’s Jackson Heidesch for more than 2 miles, then Heidesch finds another gear and wins in a record effort of 14:56.

State cross country: Marion’s Jedidiah Osgood, Solon’s Kayla Young are Class 3A runners-up. Ballard’s Paityn Noe runs an all-time Iowa best among Iowa girls, at 16:48.

State cross country, Class 2A: Mid-Prairie’s Danielle Hostetler won her third straight championship, and the seventh straight for her family.

State cross country, Class 1A: Iowa City Regina boys win their first championship since 2010.

Who got a promising draw? Who got the “Group of Death”? We break down the Iowa high school football playoffs Round of 16 pairings on this week’s Prep Football Huddle podcast.

Marion’s Jedidiah Osgood is going to the state cross country meet on Saturday with a purpose, to win a state championship. He’s aware of the competition, but he’s also in tune with his body and what it can do.

Scouting the individual and team races for the 2022 Iowa state cross country champonships.

Prep volleyball: The state’s leader in kills, Isabelle Elliott helps Sumner-Fredericksburg deny Lisbon in a 2A regional final.

Clear Creek Amana neutralized West Delaware in a Class 4A regional volleyball final sweep. The Clippers will face Marion at state.

Lisbon will try again for a state volleyball tournament breakthrough, but Sumner-Fredericksburg — led by the state’s leading hitter in Isabelle Elliott — stands in the way.

The Gazette’s Iowa high school football staff poses and answers questions about the playoffs: Surprise team to reach the UNI-Dome? Will anyone run the table?

Top-ranked Springville got contributions from everybody in a Class 1A regional volleyball semifinal sweep of Central City.