Articles Tagged: Monticello High School

Mount Vernon converted on fourth down on its first four touchdown drives and handled Monticello, 35-6.

Prep football: A dozen of the top Gazette-area games to watch in Week 1.

Before he heads off to Iowa City, there is one more year of prep competition for Preston Ries to complete. As he gets set to start his senior year at Monticello, his numbers almost match Cooper DeJean's.

This is the fourth in a series diving into the area Iowa high school football districts for the 2023 season. Today, we examine Class 2A. Osage, Monticello, PCM and Mediapolis are the favorites.

Here is The Gazette’s Iowa high school football Class 1A poll ahead of the 2023 season. Van Meter, last year’s Class 1A state champion, starts at No. 1.

Four Gazette area first-team all-state volleyball players return in 2023: Clear Creek Amana’s Bliss Beck, Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Libby Fandel, Marion’s Michaela Goad and Mount Vernon’s Chloe Meester.

Here are five Gazette-area games to watch in Class 5A, 4A and 3A Iowa high school softball quarterfinals.

The five Male finalists for Gazette Athlete of the Year 2023: Ben Kueter of Iowa City High, Aidan McDermott of Cedar Rapids Xavier, Alex Mota of Marion, Tate Petersen of Monticello and Miles Thompson of Cedar Rapids Washington.

Week 7 of the Iowa high school baseball season includes a top-10 showdown in Class 1A that could be a prelude to a substate final, a battle between Mississippi Valley Conference divisional leaders and the start of 1A and 2A district games. Here is a look ahead to some noteworthy contests this week.

Mid-Prairie’s Danielle Hostetler powered past second-place finisher Hillary Trainor of Sumner-Fredericksburg as she entered the backstretch and never looked back, finishing in a gold-worthy time of 10:20.73 for her third straight state championship in the Class 2A 3,000-meter run.

Iowa football’s 2024 recruiting class, once in the top five after an early wave of in-state commitments, remains in the top 25 of major recruiting sites’ rankings.

A fabulous 15. Here is The Gazette’s area boys’ basketball team for 2023. Colby Dolphin of Cedar Rapids Kennedy is our player of the year. Kennedy’s Jon McKowen the coach of the year.

Upper Iowa senior 165-pounder Chase Luensman completed his mission of becoming an NCAA Division II national champion. He completed his title run with a 9-7 decision over Western Colorado’s Hunter Mullin.

Upper Iowa senior 165-pounder Chase Luensman focused on his effort, sacrifice and discipline to be his best. The work paid dividends in the form of an NCAA Division II Wrestling Championships finals berth Saturday at Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids.

Upper Iowa’s Chase Luensman reached the 165-pound semifinals, while teammates Tate Murty (141) and Colter bye (184) moved into the top eight of their weights. Three All-Americans is the most for the Peacocks at a national tournament since four won medals in 2018, which was also in Cedar Rapids.