Articles Tagged: Vinton-Shellsburg High School

Here are five Gazette area 5A, 4A and 3A Iowa high school softball regional-quarterfinal games to watch Thursday.

There are three classifications in Iowa high school girls’ soccer in 2024, meaning a total of 24 state tournament qualifiers. Here’s a breakdown of the brackets with a look at how Gazette-area teams are set up.

It’s time for the postseason in Iowa high school soccer. The Park the Bus podcast previews every substate and region involving Gazette area teams and makes state-qualifier predictions.

Photos from the 2024 Wamac Conference girls’ golf tournament at Gardner Golf Club in Cedar Rapids on Monday.

In The Gazette’s weekly Iowa high school golf notebook: Vinton-Shellsburg’s success has come at a good time, the IHSAA postseason begins next week and the Western Dubuque girls lead Class 4A in combined adjusted average.

Photos from the Vinton-Shellsburg vs. Marion boys’ soccer game at Marion High School on Monday.

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.

A list of Gazette area golfers and teams to watch for the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ spring golf season.

Meet The Gazette’s 2024 all-area high school girls’ wrestling team: Naomi Simon of Decorah is the Wrestler of the Year and Gene Adams of Decorah is the Coach of the Year.

Vinton-Shellsburg bowlers Vann Lessig and Kylee Kirchner — separated by 18 lanes in their championship matches at Cadillac XBC in Waterloo — secured Class 1A individual state titles within moments of each other.

Tori Richart and Vingon-Shellsburg finished first at last Monday’s Class 1A state qualifier in Ames — giving the Vikings their fourth consecutive appearance at state.

West Liberty’s Silvia Garcia-Vasquez placed third at state last year with her lone loss coming to Sioux City North’s runner-up Molly Sek. She got revenge Thursday, pinning the top seed in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union 115-pound state quarterfinals. Garcia-Vasquez was joined in the quarterfinals by sisters, Dionni and Bricsia.

Sigourney’s Reanah Utterback has placed at the IHSAA state tournament. She is competing in the IGHSAU state tournament this season and opened with two pins quicker than a minute Thursday morning.

On Thursday and Friday, there will be 448 wrestlers who will toe the line in hopes of becoming a state champion at the second IGHSAU girls’ state wrestling tournament at Xtream Arena in Coralville. Here are five things to watch.

Vinton-Shellsburg received regional titles from Bree Swenson and Chloe Sanders and advanced seven to next week’s IGHSAU state wrestling tournament in Coralville. Vinton-Shellsburg finished second to Bettendorf in the Region 6 team race Friday at Alliant Energy PowerHouse.