Class 4A state volleyball team capsules. Teams listed in bracket order. COUNCIL BLUFFS ABRAHAM LINCOLN Lynx Coach -- Yvonne Carson (5th year at Abraham Lincoln, 176-108)Record & ranking -- 25-21, UnrankedTournament history -- 11th appearance, third in a row.Starting lineupNo. Name Ht. Yr. Pos.1 Samantha Bohnet 5-6 Fr. S6 Lauren Meeker 5-10 Jr. OH9 Victoria Krohn 6-0 So. OH11 Olivia Leisinger 5-11 Jr. MH13 Michaela Kennedy 5-11 Sr. MH14 Hannah Christensen 5-11 Sr. OH           IOWA CITY ...

Ankeny, Sioux City Heelan, Western Christian and Tripoli are the No. 1 teams in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union's preseason volleyball rankings.Western and Tripoli are defending champions in 2A and 1A. Ankeny was the 4A runner-up while Heelan advanced to the semifinals in ...

MUSCATINE - Call them the queens of the shootout. Call them state champs."They're hard, tough players," said Ankeny Coach Chris Allen, after his team outlasted Iowa City West, 1-0, in a Class 3A state soccer tournament championship game Saturday that went to sudden-victory penalty kicks.These hard, ...

DES MOINES -- There was contact, Kiah Stokes conceded.But contact doesn't always translate into a foul. It didn't in the final seconds Wednesday, and Linn-Mar survived.Stokes scored on a frantic, coast-to-coast drive with 20 seconds left, then blocked away Maddie Manning's last hope as second-ranked ...

DES MOINES -- There was contact, Kiah Stokes conceded.But contact doesn't always translate into a foul. It didn't in the final seconds Wednesday, and Linn-Mar survived.Stokes scored on a frantic, coast-to-coast drive with 20 seconds left, then blocked away Maddie Manning's last hope as second-ranked ...

In a trash bin, there is a garbage bag. In a garbage bag, there are hundreds of pieces of shredded paper.On those hundreds of pieces of shredded paper are the worst fears documented by member of the volleyball team from Iowa City West.The Women ...

4A Championship 1 2 3    Ankeny (35-4) 26 23 16     **Iowa City West (37-7) 28  25 25      CEDAR RAPIDS -- In a trash bin, there is a garbage bag. In a garbage bag, there are hundreds of pieces of shredded paper.On those hundreds of pieces of shredded paper are the worst fears documented by member of the ...

3A Semifinal 1 2 3 4   Sioux City Heelan (46-10) 24  13 25  17   **Mount Vernon (40-0) 26 25  23  25   3A Semifinal 1 2 3 4  5 Waverly-Shell Rock (49-2) 17 25 22  25 11 **West Delaware (41-3) 25 23  25  22  15 4A Semifinal 1 2 3 4   **Ankeny (35-3) 25  24  21  25   Cedar Rapids Xavier (30-12) 19 19  25  18   4A  Semifinal 1 2 3 4  **Iowa City West (36-7) 11 25  25  28  Cedar Rapids Kennedy (35-8) 25 20  17  26    CEDAR RAPIDS -- They played a low-down, rotten first game. Then they parted with it."We went out in the hallway and took ...

Top-ranked Ankeny, winners of two straight big-school titles, moved to 25-0 this season against 4A competition, defeating Cedar Rapids Xavier, 25-19, 25-19, 21-25, 25-18.“We didn’t block very well (in a quarterfinal win Wednesday),” said Erin Roggenburg. “We practiced hard (Thursday) and we showed what we could ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Her volleyball career ended, Kiah Stokes went back to school to sign the most important paper in her life.Stokes signed a national letter of intent to play women's basketball at the University of Connecticut at 3:30 Wednesday afternoon, about two hours after ...