The athletes who finished second through fifth in the voting:
TANNER MILLER

School: Mid-Prairie High School
High school highlights: Two-time all-state running back finished career with 4,005 rushing yards, 57 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He scored more than 1,000 points in basketball, averaging 19 points and 7 rebounds as a senior while earning first team all-state. Won 400-meter hurdles championship in 2A as a junior and senior. His team won state track title in 2008.
Future: Will play football at the University of Iowa.

MAX MARTINO

School: Cedar Rapids Kennedy
High school highlights: Versatile three-sport athlete. A …

-Female Finalists-

Karly Cochrane:
School: Mount Vernon High School.
High school highlights: Key member of a talented troop of girls that claimed state championships in volleyball, basketball and track in the 2009-10 school year. Competed in four state track meets, three state volleyball tournaments, two state softball tournaments and one state basketball tournament. A member of 10 state-championship relays in track. The starting shortstop for five years, she earned first-team all-state honors in 2009. Softball team placed fourth in 2010.
Future plans: Will …

Iowa High School Athletic Association Executive Director Rick Wulkow was kind enough to sit down for a short chat during last week’s state baseball tournament in Des Moines.
Wulkow has been with the IHSAA since 1980, including five years as executive director. A Lytton native, Wulkow was recently appointed president-elect of the National Federation of High School Associations.
Here’s the interview with Wulkow in its entirety.
Q: Tell me about the national appointment and how you feel about it?
A: It’s one of those things that you kind of dream …

Cedar Rapids Washington senior guard Josh Oglesby has cut his list of potential colleges to four, including Iowa, according to Iowa Barnstormers Coach Jamie Johnson.
Johnson, who coaches Oglesby’s AAU squad, wrote on his Twitter page Wednesday that Oglesby will pick between Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Arizona State. Johnson wrote that Oglesby plans to visit each school.
Oglesby, who stands 6-foot-5, was named to the all-tournament team at the Fab 48 Tournament in Las Vegas in July. He averaged 16.2 points and 5.1 rebounds a …

Cedar Rapids Washington basketball players were hard at it Monday morning, doing various shooting, passing, rebounding and defensive drills. Two huge fans blew in open doorways, though it didn’t seem to make the Warrior gym much cooler.
Despite just getting back from six straight days on the road with their AAU team, Josh Oglesby and Wes Washpun were sweating it out with the rest of their teammates. You’ve got to work hard to be a Division I college player, and that’s what these two will likely end up being.
Six-foot-1 guard …

Linn-Mar guard Matt Bohannon gave a verbal commitment Friday to play college basketball in 2011-12 to the University of Northern Iowa.
Bohannon is a 6-foot-4 guard who will be the third member of his family to play D-I basketball. Oldest brother, Jason, just finished a fine career at Wisconsin and brother, Zach, will be a sophomore at Air Force.
Their father, Gordy, played quarterback at Iowa.
“I talked to both of my brothers during the recruiting process,” Matt said. “They’ve both gone through it, obviously. They told me just to …

The deadline for nominations for 2010 Gazette Athletes of the Year is Thursday.
E-mail resumes to jeff.linder@gazcomm.com. Only seniors are eligible. Finalists will be announced Aug. 1; the winners will be announced Aug. 8.
Here’s a list of those nominated so far, plus some that we have added to the list:
MALE
Kyle Thoreson, Alburnett
Joby Frey, Cedar Rapids Jefferson
Max Martino, Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Andre Dawson, Cedar Rapids Washington
Ryan Sander, Cedar Rapids Xavier
Justin Hoffman, East Buchanan
John Chelf, Iowa City High
A.J. Derby, Iowa City High
Nick Moore, Iowa City West
Will Roth, Linn-Mar
Dalton Combs, Marion
Tanner …

Call it the great pinch hit that shouldn’t have been. Well, maybe.
Whether you think Ryan Raaf struck out in the sixth inning of last night’s prep baseball doubleheader opener at Cedar Rapids Kennedy is up to you. The Iowa City West senior swung at a two-strike pitch that sounded as if it hit something before squirting away from Kennedy catcher Sam Hunter.
Was it Raff’s bat, then Hunter’s gear? If so, that’s a foul ball. That’s what the home plate umpire ruled.
But Raaf said he never …

Jarrod Uthoff said he hopes to have his final list of college candidates whittled to the three-to-five range by the end of this month. He got one more school to consider last weekend.
The Cedar Rapids Jefferson junior basketball player said the University of Iowa has officially offered him a scholarship. It’s the 11th offer for the 6-foot-8 forward.
“I talked to Coach (Fran) McCaffery this weekend and took a tour of the campus,” Uthoff said. “After we were done, he just said ‘Well, we’d love …

A well-known former Iowa Hawkeye guard will take over a Class 4A prep basketball program in the state.
This isn’t repeating the news last week concerning Jeff Horner and West Des Moines Valley, though the folks at Cedar Rapids Prairie hope their hire creates a similar buzz. At least among its current and future players.
The school announced Tuesday that James Moses is its new head varsity coach. He replaces Paul Schenkelberg, who stepped down last month.
“Very excited,” said Prairie Athletics Director Rocky Bennett. “The bottom line is we …