MEXICO CITY — The United States 16-and-under national girls’ basketball team completed a dominant run Friday, defeating Canada, 103-52, for the gold medal at the 2009 FIBA Americas Championship.
Kiah Stokes, a junior-to-be at Linn-Mar, registered three points and three rebounds in 10 minutes.
The United States finished 5-0 — winning by an average of 70 points per game — and earned a berth in the 17U FIBA World Championship.

TRAER — Maybe Sara Stoakes will run the steeplechase.  Perhaps she’ll be a heptathlete.  She won’t be a triathlete.
“I can’t swim,” she said. “I mean, I can swim to save my life, but … well, we had a pool workout and everybody on the team beat me.”
Get her out of the water and onto the track, and Stoakes is nearly impossible to beat. Whatever the distance.  A self-proclaimed “simple farm girl”, she’s simple, yet miles from common. She developed the range and the desire to become a state champion in …

CEDAR RAPIDS — There’s the smile. With Keenan Davis, there always seems to be the smile.
“He is always happy,” said his mother, Caryn Davis. “I don’t know how to describe him. He’s just Keenan. He’s happy, willing to do anything. You never hear the negative from him, always the positive, regardless of what he’s doing.”
Keenan Davis is honored as The Gazette’s co-male athlete of the year. You already know most everything about the Cedar Rapids Washington graduate athletically.  He was a three-year varsity regular in basketball, a key member of …