Senior shortstop Kellen Sweeney of Cedar Rapids Jefferson has been named a first-team preseason prep all-American by Rawlings, it was announced Wednesday.
Cedar Rapids Xavier senior pitcher Jon Keller was a second-team pick. The all-Americans were selected by Rawlings, in partnership with Perfect Game USA baseball club in Cedar Rapids.
Sweeney has recovered well from Tommy John surgery in his right elbow last fall. The brother of Oakland A’s outfielder Ryan Sweeney has committed to play college baseball at the University of San Diego.
Keller has committed to play at Nebraska.
The list of 400 Rawlings all-Americans …

DES MOINES — The abundance of private schools at this week’s boys’ state basketball tournament once again has some people questioning if the Iowa High School Athletic Association should look into an enrollment “multiplier” to determine sports classifications for non-public schools.
States such as Missouri and Arkansas use a multiplier system, while other states have separate athletics classes for public and private schools. As an example, the enrollment of Council Bluffs St. Albert (which was in the Class 1A field) would jump from 152 to 228 using a multiplier of 1.5.
There …

There are the divisions for the MVC in 2010-11 and 2011-12:
MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Cedar Rapids Washington
Dubuque Senior
Dubuque Wahlert
Iowa City High
Linn-Mar
Waterloo West
VALLEY DIVISION
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids Jefferson
Cedar Rapids Prairie
Cedar Rapids Xavier
Dubuque Hempstead
Iowa City West
Waterloo East

As voted by coaches.
2009-10 All-Metro Boys’ Basketball

Here it is. Chris Robertson of Linn-Mar and Bob Fontana of Cedar Rapids Kennedy are the division coaches of the year. Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s Jarrod Uthoff and TrayVonn Wright of Waterloo West were players of the year.
Striking how much better the Valley Division was this season than the Mississippi Division. Three MVC are at the state tournament next week, all from the Valley Division.
2009 10.PDF All MVC Hoops

It’s the coaches that pick the All-Metro sports teams, including girls’ basketball.
Here’s the way I would select the teams, based on eight first-teamers and eight second-teamers:
 
FIRST TEAM
COLLEEN BOUCHARD, sr., Xavier … 11.4 ppg, .419 3FG%, 3.0 spg
TIA DAWSON, jr., Washington … 15.8 ppg, 11.6 rpg, 4.0 bpg
KRISTEN HAHN, sr., Kennedy … 6.6 ppg, 4.4 spg, 66-36 ast-to-TO ratio
ALEX JACOBSON, sr., Jefferson … 12.7 ppg, 4.0 apg, 3.6 spg
KAYLA KLOPFENSTEIN, sr., Linn-Mar … 12.2 ppg, 2.2 apg, .381 3FG%
MORGAN PAIGE, sr., Marion … 25.8 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 3.6 spg, .569 FG%, …

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ALL-CONFERENCE WRESTLING TEAM
MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
FIRST TEAM ALL-DIVISION
 

 Weight
 
    Name

Record
Overall

 
School

 
Grade

103
Alonzo HendersonKegan Wakefield

25-5
21-1

Waterloo West
Iowa City West

11
9

112
Jack Hathaway

39-2

Iowa City West

10

119
Jon Skarda

31-9

Iowa City West

12

125
Luke Kremer

32-4

C.R. Kennedy

10

130
Braxton Chicchelly

26-7

C.R. Xavier

11

135
Gradey Gambrall

38-5

Iowa City West

10

140
Kevin Brimeyer

24-11

Dubuque Hempstead

11

145
Jordan Baskerville

24-12

C.R. Kennedy

11

152
Justin Koethe

24-1

Iowa City West

10

160
Nick Moore

41-0

Iowa City West

12

171
David Solis

20-10

Iowa City West

12

189
Dexter Curry

16-3

Iowa City City

12

215
Brock Haas

32-3

Dubuque Hempstead

12

285
Josh McDonald

29-4

C.R. Xavier

12

 
COACH OF THE YEAR      Mark Reiland & Iowa City West Coaching Staff                               
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-DIVISION
 

 Weight
 
    Name

Record
Overall

 
School

 
Grade

103
 

112
Ben Feuerhelm

24-15

C.R. Kennedy

10

119
Ryan Rodriguez

24-13

C.R. Kennedy

10

125
Shane Broderick

24-9

Dubuque Wahlert

10

130
Shane Williams

25-13

C.R. Kennedy

10

135
Sam Hunter

9-5

C.R. Kennedy

12

140
Logan Kubovec

20-14

C.R. Kennedy

11

145
Evan Smith

18-16

Dubuque Hempstead

11

152
Ryan Sheldon

29-9

C.R. Kennedy

11

160
Zach Parsons

26-8

C.R. Kennedy

12

171
Mike Steimel

21-13

Waterloo West

12

189
Mitch Berendes

23-12

Dubuque Hempstead

11

215
Mickey Pelfrey

33-9

Iowa City West

9

285
Colin Johnson

26-10

Dubuque Hempstead

12

 
HONORABLE …

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE WRESTLING ACADEMIC HONORS
 MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
 

SCHOOL
NAME
NAME

 
Cedar Falls
 
Michael Kelley
 
Tim Toerner

 
C.R. Prairie
Derek Dozier
Jordan Netolicky

 
Dubuque Hempstead
 
Brian Ensign
 
Brock Haas

 
Dubuque Wahlert
 
Ben Berning
 
Jon Kane

 
Iowa City City
Isaac Thompson
Alex Sullivan

 
Iowa City West
 
Nick Moore
 
Griffin Weihe

 
Linn-Mar
Michael Green
Dailey Johnson

 
 
VALLEY DIVISION

 
C.R. Jefferson
 
Zac Builta
 
Stephen Settlage

 
C.R. Kennedy
 
Drew Johnson
 
Chas Mollenhauer

 
C.R. Washington
 
Zach Pilcher
 
Justin Cole

 
C.R. Xavier
 
Josh McDonald
 
Jason Milke

 
Dubuque Senior
 
TJ Weidemann
 
Enoch Warnke

 
Waterloo East
 
Jeremy Helgeson
 
Kendrick Veasley

 
Waterloo West
 
Ian Brauer
 

DUBUQUE — Iowa City West Coach Mark Reiland said it was one of those days. A satisfactory effort, but nothing spectacular from his Trojans.
Other Mississippi Valley Conference teams may beg to differ and would likely exchange outcomes any day.
West crowned five champions, tallying 244½ points, to win its seventh straight MVC tournament title Saturday at Dubuque Senior. The Trojans finished a massive 89 points ahead of runner-up Linn-Mar.
The approach is the same every year, according to West senior Nick Moore.
“It’s come in and score as many points as possible,” Moore …

MARION — Kiah Stokes was highly efficient, if not wildly prolific.
Stokes took only eight shots from the floor Friday night, but made every last one of them as Class 4A top-rated Linn-Mar won its 30th straight Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ basketball game, 48-34, over No. 12 Cedar Rapids Xavier at Linn-Mar High School.
“They were physical, so I wanted to be physical right back,” said Stokes, who scored 19 points in front of hopeful suitors like Iowa State women’s coach Bill Fennelly and two coaches from Purdue.
“Once I got the ball, I …