Articles Tagged: West Liberty High School

In a change this year, Iowa high school boys’ soccer coaches no longer vote in weekly poll. Instead, a formula determines the order of teams that will help set the top seeds in substate brackets.

Comeback stories abound, the IHSSN picks up the boys’ state soccer championship games and 11 more things that stood out in Iowa high school soccer in the last week.

Matt Hoeppner has been hired as girls’ basketball coach at Cedar Rapids Jefferson. As far as selecting a turn-the-program-around guy, Jefferson couldn’t have done much better.

Northern Iowa football commit Jahsiah Galvan is off to another successful start in soccer after earning a state medal in his first year of high school wrestling.

Iowa City Liberty’s rankings milestones, Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s bounce-back win, Marion’s winning mindset and 11 more things that stood out in this week’s Iowa soccer roundup.

Here are five questions entering the 2022 Iowa high school boys’ soccer season, plus a handful of area players and teams to watch.

Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Tom Lilly and Cedar Rapids Washington’s Hannah Stuelke headline the 2021-22 Gazette area girls’ basketball team.

Wartburg’s Kyle Briggs made the decision to return for one more semester and a chance to compete in the NCAA national meet in his hometown again. He earned All-America honors again with a third-place finish.

A year has made quite the difference for Coe’s Will Esmoil, who produced one of the biggest victories of the first session of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships.

Cedar Rapids Washington’s Hannah Stuelke is named Miss Iowa Basketball 2022 and headlines a list of eight area first-team IPSWA all-state players.

Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Blake Gioimo has quietly produced one of the more dominant seasons in Class 3A wrestling. The top-ranked 113-pounder is 37-0 with a bonus-point win rate around 86 percent.

Girls’ basketball: West Liberty has only 7 players, but is 6-2 and has an eye on its first state-tournament appearance since 1965

Lisbon senior Quincy Happel dropped down a weight class to help solidify the Lions’ wrestling lineup. He has moved to 12-1 after winning the 126-pound title at the Mount Vernon Invitational.

Girls’ basketball Super Ten rankings: Iowa City West climbs to the top; Iowa City Liberty, Linn-Mar make the chart.

Introducing the 2021 Gazette all-area volleyball team, headlined by West Liberty’s Macy Daufeldt.