Articles Tagged: Mississippi Valley Conference

Davis Kern of Linn-Mar and Jacob Williams of Dubuque Senior have been named boys’ basketball players of the year in their respective divisions of the Mississippi Valley Conference.

All-conference girls’ basketball teams for 2023-24. Received so far: MVC Mississippi and Valley, Wamac East and West, River Valley North and South, Tri-Rivers East and West, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa.

2023 area all-conference volleyball portal. Received so far: MVC Mississippi and Valley, Wamac East and West, River Valley North and South, Tri-Rivers East and West, Northeast Iowa, Upper Iowa, all-Metro.

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.

The putting hasn’t always been a strength this season, but Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Garrett Nurre tore up the greens and claimed medalist honors at the final MVC Mississippi Division meet. He helped the Saints win the final divisional and finish overall runner-up to Dubuque Wahlert.

Cedar Rapids Kennedy senior Reid Hall opened his senior season the same way he closed last fall — with a title. The defending Class 4A state champion earned medalist honors at the Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet on Thursday at Thunder Hills Country Club in Peosta.

Prep softball: Portal for 2023 area all-conference teams. Received so far: Mississippi Valley, Wamac, River Valley, Tri-Rivers, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa, plus all-Metro

Boys’ track and field: Results from Thursday’s conference meets.

Girls’ track and field: Results from Thursday’s conference meets.

Track and field: MVC, Wamac, River Valley and Tri-Rivers will hold their track and field championships Thursday.

Sixteen boys’ basketball teams, most of them from the Mississippi Valley Conference and Central Iowa Metro League, will participate in the inaugural MVC-CIML Showdown. It’s a two-date event in January, with teams playing at an undetermined site in the Des Moines area and a full day of games at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids.

Girls’ basketball: All conference teams for 2022-23. Mississippi Valley, Wamac, River Valley, Tri-Rivers, Northeast Iowa, Upper Iowa.

Girls’ basketball season reset: North Linn looks like the area’s heaviest league-title favorite, and the race of highest intrigue, again, is the Wamac West.

The Gazette’s Jeff Linder reveals where he would place Waverly-Shell Rock, and how he would redraw the rest of the Iowa high school conference landscape.

The Gazette’s area girls’ basketball conference projections for the 2022-23 season, including the MVC, Wamac, River Valley, Tri-Rivers and more.