It’s time for the semifinals of the Iowa high school girls’ state basketball tournament. Six games Thursday will determine the championship matchups in the larger three classes. Find the schedule, live stream links and updated scores and stats here throughout the day.
Girls’ state basketball notes: In their third year at Waukee, Dani Franklin-Printy and husband Jared Printy have the fourth-ranked Warriors in the Class 5A girls’ basketball state semifinals after a 46-44 win over No. 5 Ankeny Centennial on Monday.
It’s the first day of the 2024 Iowa high school girls’ state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, featuring quarterfinal games in Class 5A and Class 3A. Find the schedule, live stream links and updated scores and stats here throughout the day.
Eight Class 5A teams earned bids to the 2024 Iowa high school girls’ state basketball tournament with wins Tuesday night. Here’s a look at Tuesday’s regional finals and the state bracket and schedule released by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Seven area girls’ basketball teams are involved in Class 5A and Class 4A Iowa high school girls’ basketball regional finals Tuesday. Six of them are making lengthy road trips.
Photos from the Iowa high school boys’ state swim meet at the University of Iowa Aquatic Center in Iowa City on Saturday
The seven-game MVC-CIML Shootout boys’ basketball event went down Saturday at the Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids. In one of the marquee games of the inaugural event, defending Class 4A defending champion West Des Moines Valley used a fourth-quarter spurt to down Linn-Mar in a matchup of the second and fourth-ranked teams. Top-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy also beat No. 7 Waukee.
The MVC-CIML Crossover Shootout event is January 6 at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids. It features seven games, most of them pitting a school from the Central Iowa Metro League against one from either the Mississippi Valley Conference or Mississippi Athletic Conference
In a state meet where Waukee dominated the team race, Iowa City High's Grace Hoeper was one of the individual stars.
Two-time defending state champion Waukee has the top qualifier in six events and is second in three others for the Iowa high school girls’ state swimming meet, set for this Friday and Saturday at the Marshalltown YMCA. The IGHSAU has posted a full list of tentative state qualifiers.
Those attending Saturday’s girls’ state qualifying swim meet at the Linn-Mar Aquatics Center will have the opportunity to see one of the best girls’ swim programs in recent Iowa history. Top-ranked Waukee is one of nine teams assigned to compete at Linn-Mar.
All seven classes will compete in the Iowa high school football postseason Friday. Here are some of the Gazette-area’s Round of 16 games.
All seven classes will compete in the Iowa high school football playoffs this week. The Gazette’s Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford share their thoughts on topics related to the postseason.
Top-ranked and two-time defending state champion Waukee headlines a nine-team field assigned to the Linn-Mar state qualifying meet to be held on Nov. 4. Assignments for the six girls’ swimming qualifying meets were released over the weekend by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
This week, a handful of teams that have climbed into The Gazette’s rankings during the regular season get to test themselves against more-established top-10 teams. Here’s who all 72 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face in Week 7.
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