CEDAR RAPIDS -- It has a new name. And a new home.The Iowa Girls Coaches Association has renamed its all-star basketball games in honor of Larry Niemeyer, the former Cedar Rapids Jefferson coach who still chairs the event.The six-game series, which features 120 of the ...

Ally Disterhoft has won the highest honors a girls' basketball player in Iowa can earn.Miss Iowa Basketball, by the Iowa Newspaper Association. Gatorade Player of the Year.Maybe this one pales by comparison. But this one, she earned twice.Disterhoft, who led Iowa City West to its ...

IOWA CITY -- Add another elite award to a growing list for Ally Disterhoft. Gatorade has announced the Iowa City West senior as its 2012-13 Iowa girls' basketball player of the year. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic ...

 DES MOINES -- Her team's success has kept the state's top individual honor at the back burner of Ally Disterhoft's mind.But, yeah, Ally Disterhoft admitted, the thought of becoming Miss Iowa Basketball 2013, it was there."I'd thought about it a bit," said the Iowa City ...

DES MOINES -- Tony Vis stood outside the Wells Fargo Arena interview room Thursday night, his former players talking to the media.One by one, they exited the room and greeted Vis with bear hugs."I'm really happy for them," Vis said. "I knew when I left, ...

DES MOINES -- Iowa City West's championship reign ended in an avalanche of 3-pointers.Third-ranked Mason City set a state-tournament record with 14 triples, and the Mohawks downed No. 10 West, 72-53, in a Class 5A quarterfinal Wednesday night at Wells Fargo Arena."I knew we were ...

 DES MOINES -- The 2004-05 women's basketball poster for the Iowa Hawkeyes featured a little girl in a long, blonde ponytail, facing away from the camera.The theme: DREAM BIG.The little girl? A 9-year old named Ally Disterhoft."I knew the coaches and they were looking for somebody about ...

(TUESDAY SCORES)CEDAR RAPIDS -- Ally Disterhoft believed. Well, up to a point."You always expect to win," she said. "But there were times I thought, 'Wow, is this real life?'"It almost went too perfectly for us."Disterhoft scored 29 points as 10th-ranked Iowa City West upset No. ...

IOWA CITY — They knew they’d have to go through the defending champion to get there.Senior Mickey Hansche’s 3-pointer with 29.6 seconds left capped a frantic 13-2 rally as Class 5A second-ranked Iowa City High clinched the Mississippi Division championship with a stunning 46-44 win ...

C.R. KENNEDY 64, C.R. JEFFERSON 43“Maddie Meier, on fire!” exclaimed Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s public-address announcer.She wasn’t the only one. Four Cougars hit double figures in scoring as they rolled to a 64-43 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson on Athletic Hall of Fame Night Friday night ...