MARION – Linn-Mar is on the brink of its first trip to the boys’ state soccer tournament since 2008, and a talented cast of underclassmen is leading the way.“We’ve had a good year, it’s been a while,” Linn-Mar Coach Corey Brinkmeyer said after his 10th-ranked ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Brian Erbe sported a blue windbreaker at a preseason softball practice. And a broad smile.He's home."To be the head coach at the place I went to school ... it's an awesome feeling," said Erbe, the new head coach at Cedar Rapids Jefferson."I had ...

  Area teams to watch for the 2013 softball season: ALBURNETTCoach – Kevin Johnson (15th year, 482-325)         2012 record – 29-142012 postseason – Class 2A regional quarterfinalistReturning starters (10) – SS Taylor Huber (fr.), LF Madison Harger (jr.), 2B Kaitlyn Boline (jr.), 1B Danica Windfield (sr.), DH Amber ...

(RESULTS)DES MOINES -- The awards ceremony ended, then a lengthy, happy photo session with family and friends began near the finish line at Drake Stadium.The white banner rippling in the breeze was a championship banner.Linn-Mar captured its first boys track and field title in school history, ...

(RESULTS)DES MOINES -- Rachel Broghammer crossed the finish line for the final time as a high school athlete and turned toward Taylor Jacobson.Then came the tears.Not of disappointment, but of accomplishment and pride."I'm just so happy," Broghammer said. "Think back to where we were four ...

(RESULTS)DES MOINES -- Thirty-eight years, Woodbine held the all-time Iowa best in the girls' 800-meter relay.Thirty-eight years, but no longer.Cedar Rapids Jefferson was No. 1 in the Class 4A girls' race Friday at the state track meet. And No. 1 ever.Maliya Rattliffe, Lucy Schneekloth, Jasmine Blue ...

DES MOINES - Jefferson head coach Bill Calloway didn't want to appear hyperbolic, but he thinks his high school squad executes open handoffs better than Olympians.Watch closely, or from afar, and you'll see what's different about the J-Hawks' baton passes. Keep an eye to the ...

Cedar Rapids Jefferson boys' basketball coach Stu Ordman announced Thursday that head sophomore coach Brandon Horman has accepted a position as co-head coach with the J-Hawks varsity."(He) has demonstrated dedication and leadership and has an outstanding ability to collaborate," Ordman said in a release. "(I) ...

MARION -- "Hot stuff" in middle school. Humbled as a freshman.Now, Perrion Scott has it together. And he and his sprinting buddies give the Linn-Mar Lions an added dimension that might push the them over the top.Scott has a hand in four titles as the ...

CEDAR  RAPIDS -- The high school softball season begins Monday, and it will begin at Waterloo West without Larry Niemeyer.The nation's winningest coach, Niemeyer is hospitalized with kidney disease. As a result, he has stepped down from his new position without coaching a game."He has ...