K.J. Pilcher

The Gazette’s “Fab 5” Gazette-area 8-Player football players to watch during the 2024 Iowa high school football season: Montezuma’s Brady Boulton, BGM’s Beau Burns, Kee’s Dalton Mudderman, Ed-Co’s Pryce Rochford and Iowa Valley’s Nolan Kriegel.

For the second straight season, Cedar Rapids Xavier has set a boys’ golf team scoring record for 18 holes. The Saints shot 290 for second at the Warrior Invitational held Thursday at Saddleback Golf Course in Solon.

Seventeen Gazette-area Iowa high school football teams have new head coaches, resulting from the need for a new challenge or relocation to simply seizing the opportunity to achieve a goal as a head coach

The Hawkeye Wrestling Club is encouraging fans to join them in welcoming silver medalist Spencer Lee back from the Olympics in Paris, France. He is expected to arrive at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Saturday night around 10:56 p.m.

The final results were filled with tiebreakers and cardbacks. In the end, Iowa City High’s Jack Rogers earns individual medalist honors and Dubuque Wahlert edged the Little Hawks for the team title at the Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet Thursday at Gardner Golf Course.

Jack Rogers’ father and grandfather were accomplished golfers who played at the NCAA Division I level. They passed their love of the game to the Iowa City High junior and it stuck at a young age.

Gazette-area golfers and teams to keep an eye on during the 2024 Class 4A Iowa high school boys’ golf season this fall.

The Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association all-state teams are out. Five players from Class 4A state champion Cedar Rapids Kennedy were honored.

Former University of Iowa three-time NCAA champion and Hawkeye Wrestling Club member Spencer Lee became the first Hawkeye to reach the Olympic finals since Tom Brands in 1996. He earned silver after a 4-2 loss to Japan’s Rei Higuchi in the 125.5-pound final.

Linn-Mar’s Morgan Rupp and Christian Cloyd both captured open division titles at the 2024 Rotary Pribyl Junior Golf Classic at Elmcrest Country Club. Rupp claimed her third straight girls’ open title and Cloyd won his first boys’ open title in his first appearance in the event since winning a novice title a few years ago.

Spencer Lee’s mother, Cathy, is a native of France. His Olympic debut will be in the country many of his maternal relatives still live. He will get to wrestle in front of his maternal grandmother for the first time when he opens against China’s Wanhao Zou Thursday in Paris.

After his final college season and a brief showing at the 2023 U.S. Open, Lee took a break from wrestling and traveled to Japan. He visited Tokyo and other places in the country, attempting to get the sport off his mind. He came back determined to compete and will contend for an Olympic gold, starting Thursday.

Wrestling began Monday but Spencer Lee will compete Thursday at 125.5 pounds (57 kilograms) in men’s freestyle at the Olympic Games in Paris. Lee is the 20th Hawkeye wrestler to wrestle in the Olympics.

Gehrig Turner among 2024 seniors participating in Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Series event this weekend at Pella.

The Iowa high school baseball season has ended. Here are the second annual Gazette-area baseball awards.