Photos from the 2023 Mississippi Valley Conference boys’ swimming Super Meet at the Linn-Mar Aquatic Center.
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Photos from the 2023 Mississippi Valley Conference boys’ swimming Super Meet at the Linn-Mar Aquatic Center.
The Linn-Mar girls’ basketball team completed a season sweep of Iowa City West, 58-48, its fifth top-10 win of the season.
Decisions by some Linn-Mar swimmers to compete for club teams instead provided openings for others and they have taken advantage. Entering Saturday’s Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet, the Lions are ranked fifth in the state power rankings.
Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association dual rankings will help determine regional dual sites and pairings over the next two weeks. The latest rankings were released. High school and college action highlighted the weekend.
The Linn-Mar Aquatic Center is one of six Iowa high school boys’ swimming district sites statewide on Feb. 4.
Girls’ basketball: Linn-Mar places four in double-figures, rules the boards in a 57-47 win over Cedar Rapids Kennedy.
Linn-Mar beat Cedar Rapids Kennedy 57-47 in an Iowa high school girls’ basketball game at Kennedy.
No. 4 Linn-Mar beat No. 9 Iowa City High in a boys’ wrestling dual at Linn-Mar, 49-21.
Iowa City High’s Kael Kurtz and Linn-Mar’s Brayden Parke added another chapter to a competitive rivalry between the two ranked Class 3A wrestlers. City High’s top-ranked Gabe Arnold edged the Lions’ No. 2 Tate Naaktgeboren in a battle between nationally-ranked seniors. Linn-Mar dominated the rest of the dual for a 49-21 victory.
Watch or listen to the January 4, 2023 episode of the Pinning Combination podcast, talking all things wrestling in Iowa.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union opened 2023 with a notable announcement. Girls’ regionals and the Iowa City High at Linn-Mar boys’ dual are among the wrestling events to watch in January.
Girls’ basketball: Giant-slaying Linn-Mar takes down its biggest titan yet. Lions hit 14 3-pointers (eight by Zoe Kennedy) in a double-overtime conquest of No. 1 Waterloo West on Tuesday.
A break from competition helps coaches get in-season and club swimmers on same page while end-of-season goals become clearer.
Girls basketball: Rowan Jacobi posts 44 points, 16 rebounds in her home-court finale, a 63-37 Class 1A regional-semifinal win over Lone Tree.
These wounds matter. These nicks, cuts and abrasions are fully earned. And all Mount Vernon’s top-ranked and unbeaten 157-pound senior needed to do to reveal their deeper meaning was calmly raise his forefinger to indicate there’s merely one more match to win to finally join two of his older brothers as a state champion.
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