Jeff Linder

The Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union have released assignments for next week’s state-qualifying meets.

Women’s basketball: State Farm announces partnership with Iowa star Caitlin Clark.

The Gazette’s 2023 post-Week 7 Iowa high school football poll: Creston (3A), Winfield-Mount Union (8-Player) are newly minted No. 1 teams; Central Lyon-GLR joins Van Meter atop 2A heading into its county showdown.

Prep cross country: Rested and refueled, North Linn’s Meghan Wheatley is at her best ever. She and Washington’s Micah Rees are individual champions at the North Linn Invitational.

Operating with one good eye and two strong legs, Lance McShane scored the winning touchdown on fourth down with 4:04 left to send Maquoketa Valley past North Linn, 22-15.

Cedar Rapids Kennedy and West Branch started the 2023 Iowa high school football season 0-2 against tough schedules but have won every game since, including a pair of eye-openers last week. The Prep Football Huddle podcast discusses those teams and more noteworthy resurgences this week.

Led by individual champion Adam Gray, Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s boys’ cross country team earned its first MVC Super meet title in school history Thursday at Birdsall Park. The Cougars placed all five scorers in the top 17 and upset Class 4A top-ranked, short-handed Cedar Falls.

Prep volleyball: Area Super Ten (Oct. 5, 2023). Same order of power at the top: Clear Creek Amana, Mount Vernon and Xavier; Beckman climbs into the top 10 for the first time all season

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released regional volleyball pairings Wednesday.

Iowa has the nation’s best women’s basketball player in Caitlin Clark. Question is, how will the pieces of the post puzzle fit?

Iowa women’s basketball media day notes: At her career scoring rate, Caitlin Clark should get the national career scoring record of 3,527 points in early March

Iowa high school volleyball: At just 5-6 1/2, Lisbon’s Ava Czarnecki ranks in the top five (all classes) in kills and efficiency.

A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 7.

Prep volleyball: No ‘fraidy cats ... Mount Vernon adjusts to Marion’s block in a four-set win that wraps up the Wamac East title.

Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford evaluate teams’ stocks, the toughest district and technology on the fan experience. We also pick which coach would be fun to mic up for a game.