Cedar Rapids Gazette - State/Local Sports

CEDAR RAPIDS — The Cedar Rapids Kennedy girls’ soccer team was anxious to display its true self. Prior to their first game, the Cougars were ranked fourth in the IGHSAU Class 3A poll. A...

Joey Gase has worked with a brand new team this season. The 25-year-old Cedar Rapids native has had some newfound success on the NASCAR Xfinity Series. “We’ve been much more competitive...

IOWA CITY — You get two looks at the Hawkeyes before the season begins. You get an open practice in the spring and a practice/sometimes game in August. Friday night is your spring look at the...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The last pre-draft tender from Russia worked out well for the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. Will history repeat itself? The United States Hockey League club announced Thursday that...

IOWA CITY — He’s an oddball in a way. Nick Allgeyer was a quarterback and wide receiver, not an offensive lineman. He ultimately picked baseball, not football. At least the Iowa...

SOLON — The North Cedar girls’ and boys’ track teams competed in the Solon Invitational on Tuesday. The girls’ finished third and the boys’ seventh.

IOWA CITY — After a year away, Brenda Frese and C. Vivian Stringer will return to Carver-Hawkeye Arena next winter. A native of Cedar Rapids, Frese will bring her Maryland Terrapins to Iowa...

A 20-game Big Ten men’s basketball season will be a reality next season. Thursday, we learned which 10 of the league’s teams will play at Iowa during the season. First, the three that...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Change is good, but change also can be scary. The Cedar Rapids Xavier boys’ tennis team is ready to embrace the changes to come this season. After coming off their best...

CEDAR FALLS — Northern Iowa head coach Mark Farley had two holes to fill on his coaching staff this offseason. Ryan Clanton, a former Oregon Duck under Chip Kelly, was hired to coach the...

Weather continues to impact the Iowa baseball team’s 2018 schedule, but no postponements or cancellations have been announced for this weekend’s series at Minnesota. Instead, the first...

This week’s area track and field Super 10. It is a purely mathematical system, and here’s how it works: Using Quik Stats, we score the top 16 area competitors in each event, using the...

The true story of “The Miracle Season” – the tragic death of Caroline Found and how the Iowa City West volleyball team honored her legacy en route to a second-straight state...

Josh Jackson is selling clothes and coffee. The goal is wholesale, not retail. The cornerback hit the turf running after his January announcement he was bypassing his senior season at Iowa and...

IOWA CITY — Defense never gets enough credit. That’s just how it goes. Iowa running back Akrum Wadley was named the MVP of the Hawkeyes’ 27-20 Pinstripe Bowl victory over Boston...

Mike Van Genderen may have said it best. “All of it is timing,” he said Wednesday, just days before the start of the weekly points races at Benton County Speedway in Vinton. This...

If DeWitt Central leaves the Wamac Conference, it leaves Maquoketa in a geographical quandry. It’s one that school officials appear to be resigned to accept. “It’s not ideal,...

Playing in chilly conditions is nothing new for high school tennis players in Iowa. Trying to play in subfreezing temperatures on courts covered with snow and ice is a different story all...

SOLON — A tricky part of track and field is learning to pace oneself. In practice. In a race. In a season. The North Cedar girls are taking the approach this season that it’s a distance...

MARION — Abigail Santana knows she always has the attention of the opposition. The Linn-Mar sophomore would not have it any other way. “I really do like that,” Santana said after...