CEDAR RAPIDS – The start of high school football season sneaks up on most of us in broad summer daylight.  School just got started.  Labor Day still is 12 days away.  But come Friday night (Thursday for Cedar Rapids schools Jefferson and Xavier), it’s on.
The season, however, hasn’t crept up on the players.
“Pretty much, football has been my life this summer,” said Cedar Rapids Washington running back Andre Dawson, who carries the ball and the distinction of being the top college football recruit in his city.
“Coming in at 6 o’clock …

CLASS 2A DISTRICT 4
2008 co-champions — Sumner-Fredericksburg (10-2, 6-1),  Cascade (8-2, 6-1) and North Fayette (8-3, 6-1).  Also reached postseason — Dyersville Beckman (5-5, 4-3).
Players to watch — QB/LB Keegan Frisch, sr., Sumner-Fredericksburg; RB/LB Tanner Mork, sr., North Fayette; WR/LB Mitchell Schmit, sr., Sumner-Fredericksburg; OT/DT Gary Balk, sr., North Fayette; OL Jason Herbers, sr., Dyersville Beckman; OT/DE Dalton Jacobson, sr., Sumner-Fredericksburg; TE/DE Jesse Beringer, sr., Cascade; RB/DE Cody Radabaugh, sr., Dyersville Beckman; RB/DB Tom Nasvik, sr., North Fayette.
How they’ll finish — 1. North Fayette, 2. Sumner-Fredericksburg, 3. Cascade, 4. Monticello, …

CLASS 3A DISTRICT 3
2008 champion — Decorah (13-1, 7-0).  Also reached the postseason — West Delaware (7-4, 5-2), Crestwood (7-5, 5-2), New Hampton (6-5, 4-3).
Players to watch — RB/LB Brock Boeding, sr., New Hampton; WR/CB Chris Wanless, sr., Decorah; OT/DT Dylan Boyd, sr., New Hampton; OL/DE Ethan Jones, sr., Crestwood; LB Zach Kerndt, sr., Decorah; LB Brandon Henn, sr., New Hampton; DB Jordan Mangold, sr., West Delaware.How they’ll finish — 1. New Hampton, 2. Decorah, 3. West Delaware, 4. Crestwood, 5. Oelwein, 6. Waukon, 7. Western Dubuque, 8. Independence.
CLASS 3A …

IOWA CITY — Ed Thomas impacted all students at Aplington-Parkersburg High School, not just those playing football.
University of Iowa volleyball players Megan Schipper, a senior, and Becky Walters, a junior, recalled Thomas as a motivating figure and someone who helped them with strength training during summer break.
“When I went home to lift and stuff, I’d always call him and he’d spot me,” Walters said. “He was my driver’s ed teacher, a family friend. He coached my brother. It was hard. It was really hard.”
“He was always in the weight room …

CEDAR RAPIDS — Maybe we don’t have it right.  This could be simply an unnecessary Gazette/KCRG-created frenzy.
Perhaps this whole Cedar Rapids Kennedy-Cedar Rapids Xavier football rivalry isn’t that big a deal after all.
“In some ways, you do have it wrong,” said Xavier Coach Duane Schulte.
Schulte said his coaching staff and Kennedy’s coaching staff get along just fine.  Kennedy’s Tim Lewis pointed out the same thing in a Gazette story Sunday.
“I don’t know.  We try and get up for every game we play.  You have to,” Schulte said.  “Maybe the parents …

Here’s a list of pre-season rankings for the 2009-2010 season by the Iowa Girls high School Athletic Union.
Class 1A

1

Tripoli

29-10

2

Don Bosco

32-5

3

Twin Cedars

21-3

4

Schaller-Crestland

27-7

5

Southern Cal

26-7

6

Stanton

23-2

7

Exira

20-5

8

Grandview Park Baptist

32-11

9

Laurens-Marathon

21-11

10

Martensdale St. Marys’

22-5

11

Alta

16-6

12

Treynor

23-13

13

Galva-Holstein

22-13

14

North Sentral Kossuth

31-12

15

Holy Trinity Catholic

33-14

Class 2A

1

Western Christian

47-4

2

Mount Vernon

39-2

3

Unity Christian

29-14

4

Wapsie Valley

34-1

5

Dike-New Hartford

38-5

6

Camanche

35-7

7

Sumner-Fredericksburg

16-8

8

Pella Christian

32-8

9

Logan-Magnolia

24-4

10

Sheldon

28-4

11

Grundy Center

23-15

12

Cascade

25-15

13

Mediapolis

36-10

14

West Sioux

26-4

15

Clarke

25-11

Class 3A

1

Sioux City Bishop Heelan

39-12

2

Waverly-Shell Rock

42-6

3

Algona

36-3

4

Pella

28-9

5

Marion

46-6

6

Charles City

31-9

7

West Delaware

35-9

8

Nevada

29-11

9

Dubuque Wahlert

22-15

10

Carroll

23-11

11

Humboldt

27-7

12

Iowa Falls-Alden

23-13

13

Winterset

37-5

14

Western …

“I fought the law and the law won” could have a whole different meaning after Saturday night. That’s when CRPD officer Sarah Lacina jumps in the ring for her boxing debut. She looks like she could be one tough cookie in the ring.
 
CEDAR RAPIDS  – Sarah Lacina has been in her share of skirmishes.
Physicality is sometimes required as a member of the Cedar Rapids Police Department, but she’s starting to fight in a whole new arena.
Lacina, 25, of Marion, will compete in her first live boxing match Aug. 29 during …

The IGHSAU and IHSAA have released sites for the district/regional cross country meets, to be contested Oct. 22.
4A: Burlington, Cedar Rapids (Noelridge), Council Bluffs, Indianola, Marshalltown.
3A: Anamosa, Decorah, Knoxville, Perry, Spencer.
2A: Columbus Junction, Eagle Grove, Monticello, Nodaway Valley, Sheldon.
1A: Columbus Junction, Holstein, Marshalltown, Nodaway Valley, Starmont.
The top three teams and top 10 individuals advance from each site to the state meet, Oct. 31.

Sarah Lacina has been a police officer for the City of Cedar Rapids for three years. Friend and fellow officer Tom Grubb, introduced her to Mixed Martial Arts and she took up boxing to help with striking.
Listen to Lacina discuss how she was turned on to boxing.

She is a member of the Apache Boxing Club which trains at Valhalla Boxing Club in SE Cedar Rapids. Watch Lacina, working out with coach Joe Ruiz, during a bit of a workout session before sparring two rounds with established boxer and mixed-martial artist Katy …

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DES MOINES, Iowa – Friday Night Live kicks off the 2009 Iowa high school football season from 6 to midnight and one of the highlight games this week will be the one pitting Dike-New Hartford and…
Source: Iowa Sports Connection