Articles Tagged: Waukon High School

Here’s a look at who all 71 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face Friday night, including a pair of highly-ranked Class 5A matchups and two 2-0 8-Player teams meeting.

This is the fourth in a series diving into area Iowa high school football districts for the 2024 season. Today, we examine Class 2A. North Fayette Valley, Anamosa, PCM and Mid-Prairie are the title picks.

A watch list of top Gazette-area teams and individuals for the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ cross country season.

Here’s a look at Tuesday’s 2A and 1A Iowa high school baseball district semifinals. Luke Sigwarth’s home run propelled defending state champion Dyersville Beckman past Monticello.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Saturday in Class 3A quarterfinals and Class 2A regional first-round games.

A stable high school athletics conference for more than a century, the Northeast Iowa Conference is now on the brink of collapse. Crestwood has been accepted by the Upper Iowa Conference, Waukon and New Hampton have been invited, and Decorah is in no-man’s land in terms of geography and enrollment.

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.

Spencer Lee is back to being Spencer Lee with another freestyle title. Upper Iowa with a strong showing at the Midwest Classic. Linn-Mar leads a good local performance at the Battle of Waterloo. Vinton-Shellsburg girls’ and West Branch boys’ win team titles. This is the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Class 2A and 3A cross country teams raced at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023.

Capsules for the 2023 Iowa high school state cross country meet Friday and Saturday at Lakeside Golf Course.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the round of 16 pairings for all seven classes Saturday. Each class is split into four four-team pods with the pod winner advancing to the state semifinals held at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. In Class 5A, Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Cedar Rapids Prairie, Iowa City High and Linn-Mar made the field and will play on the road for the first round.

It’s playoff time in Iowa high school football, at least for Class 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player. This episode of the Prep Football Huddle podcast previews the Round of 32 in those classes and looks at what’s at stake in the final week of the regular season for 5A, 4A and 3A teams.

The Iowa high school football postseason begins for teams in Classes 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player. The Gazette’s Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford share their thoughts on teams bound for the UNI-Dome, upset-minded No. 4 seeds and the benefits of a Week 9 game for non-playoff programs.

Here is a primer of area playoff races as the Iowa high school football season heads into its final week in Class 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player.

Cedar Rapids Kennedy and West Branch started the 2023 Iowa high school football season 0-2 against tough schedules but have won every game since, including a pair of eye-openers last week. The Prep Football Huddle podcast discusses those teams and more noteworthy resurgences this week.