Prep track and field: Mount Vernon girls, Solon boys claim Wamac Conference championships.
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Prep track and field: Mount Vernon girls, Solon boys claim Wamac Conference championships.
Track and field: Solon-Mount Vernon girls’ duel in the Wamac is the top area storyline as the area conference meets loom.
Track and field: Area Super Ten for April 17, 2024. Solon girls, Iowa City West remain No. 1 in the area, but Mount Vernon’s girls are closing.
Area softball Super Ten (2024 preseason): Reigning Class 3A state champion Williamsburg opens on top.
Drake Relays (Saturday girls): Iowa City Wes’s Erinn Varga, Herring, Eriniah Carter, Sophia Olivo ran to third place in the girls’ shuttle hurdle relay.
Drake Relays (Thursday girls): Two schools, two school records in the high jump for Sydney Maue. The Mount Vernon newcomer is a runner-up, clearing 5 feet, 7 inches.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association’s first weekly boys’ soccer rankings provide some helpful talking points for this week’s episode of Park The Bus, The Gazette’s high school soccer podcast. We also take a look back at last week’s games by naming teams and players of the week for boys and girls.
Girls’ track and field: 2024 watch list of top area teams and individuals. Solon returns 55.5 points from its Class 3A title team of 2023.
Lance Pedersen, who posted a 79-29 mark in 10 years at Mount Vernon, will take the head coaching job at Clear Creek Amana, pending board approval Wednesday.
As we close the book on the Iowa high school girls’ basketball season and transition into spring, here is The Gazette’s first draft of 2024-25 preseason rankings.
Girls’ basketball, Super Ten: State champions Clear Creek Amana, North Linn and Solon are 1-2-3 in the final area rankings.
Top-ranked Estherville-Lincoln Central held No. 4 Mount Vernon to a season-low scoring output and won Thursday’s Class 3A semifinal, 45-37, at the girls’ state basketball tournament Thursday afternoon at Wells Fargo Arena.
Estherville Lincoln Central beat Mount Vernon, 45-37, in a Class 3A Iowa high school girls’ state basketball semifinal game Thursday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Scenes from the Iowa City West and Ankeny Centennial State Volleyball match on November 3, 2025. Iowa City West lost the match 23-25, 17-25, and 23-25.
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