Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Kristen Hahn has been selected as a first-team “Gym Dandy” by PrepVolleyball.com.
Hahn, a defensive specialist bound for Iowa State, was one of 13 players selected to the first team. The players selected as Gym Dandies are primarily back row players.
She garnered Elite All-State honors for the second-straight year, racking up 628 digs as a senior.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Max Martino will guard the big guys. Or the little guys.
He’ll use his size. Or his speed.
“I’ll be whatever they need me to be,” Martino said Tuesday, after it was announced that the senior from Cedar Rapids Kennedy has signed to play men’s basketball at the University of Northern Iowa as an invited walk-on.
A two-year varsity starter at guard, Martino averaged 8.3 points and 4.0 rebounds per game last season.
Martino (6-5, 195) is Kennedy’s 2010 Male Athlete of the Year and has been a standout on the track and football …

Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Christian French and Williamsburg’s Austin Blythe have been nominated to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
The game is Jan. 8, 2011, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. The annual classic East vs. West match-up will be televised live on NBC at noon (Iowa time) and will feature the nation’s top high school football players.
Blythe has committed to play at the University of Iowa. French has offers with a number of Division-I programs.
The players were nominated by the U.S. Army All-American Bowl Selection Committee, which consists of All …

CEDAR RAPIDS — This is the time prep tennis coaches are put to the test.
With rosters due Monday for Thursday’s Class 1A and 2A district meets, boys’ tennis coaches are challenged to find their best possible lineup.
It turns out that determining lineups for district competition is more complex than filling out a sheet with names. Coaches implore strategy to try to advance as many athletes to the state meet as well as improving the team’s chances to reach team substate.
Coaches and players have to decide whether to compete in singles …

There’s a first time for everything and the Linn-Mar boys’ tennis team proved it Saturday.
None of the current Lions, including fifth-year head coach Chris Wundram, had ever notched a team victory over Cedar Rapids Kennedy. That changed.
Linn-Mar punctuated a solid season with a 6-3 win over the host Cougars, snapping Kennedy’s 23-match Mississippi Valley Conference win streak over the weekend.
“It was really great,” Lions senior T.J. McCann said. “We haven’t beaten them in the four years I’ve been on varsity. It was finally nice to beat that team. I think …

DES MOINES — Ryan Dusil explained the euphoria of a victory lap at the Drake Relays.
“People you don’t even know, they’re cheering for you,” he said. “Somebody said, ‘Way to bring it back to Cedar Rapids.’ “
Cedar Rapids Kennedy buried the Relays record with a winning 56.09-second effort in the boys’ shuttle hurdle relay Saturday afternoon.
Jake Losch held off Linn-Mar star Kyle Dunn at the end. As it turned out, it didn’t matter — the Lions were disqualified. Linn-Mar’s time would have been 56.17.
“I could feel (Dunn) coming,” Losch said. …

DES MOINES — Christian French isn’t going to rush.
His number of football offers rising constantly, French said Friday that “I just want to take my time” in making a decision.
“I’m going to investigate each school so I make the right decision,” he said. “I am not going to be rushed.”
Among French’s offers: Iowa State, Iowa, Missouri, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Louisville and Kansas State.
French said that Notre Dame wants him to play outside linebacker; the other have him tabbed as a receiver or tight end.
The junior from Cedar Rapids Kennedy advanced …

CEDAR RAPIDS — If in retirement style, Erik Boyer placed his soccer shoes at midfield and walked off the soccer pitch for the rest of the season, you couldn’t blame him.
Going into last night’s match with Waterloo East, the Cedar Rapids Kennedy senior striker had played seven games. He had seven goals and seven assists.
Seven, seven, seven.
“Those are lucky numbers,” Boyer said.
Of course, there’s not much luck involved in Boyer’s game. He’s been an integral part of Kennedy’s second-ranked, undefeated squad.
A second-team all-stater last season, he has played at a …

Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Cedar Falls were Mississippi Valley Conference divisional winners for sportsmanship in the winter season of 2009-10.
The award encompasses wrestling and boys’ and girls’ basketball.

These are provided by the Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union
 
Class 2A
1-Ankeny
2-Cedar Rapids Kennedy
3-Urbandale
4-West Des Moines Valley
5-Iowa City West
6-Johnston
7-Pleasant Valley
8-Bettendorf
9-Cedar Rapids Washington
10-Sioux City North
11-Linn-Mar (Marion)
12-Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson
13-Cedar Rapids Jefferson
14-Dowling Catholic
15-Davenport West
 
Class 1A
1-Cedar Rapids Xavier
2-Dallas Center-Grimes
3-Bishop Heelan (Sioux City)
4-Union (LaPorte City)
5-Pella
6-Waverly-Shell Rock
7-Solon
8-Norwalk
9-Columbus Catholic (Waterloo)
10-Glenwood
11-Davenport Assumption
12-Dubuque Wahlert
13-Nevada
14-Lewis Central (Council Bluffs)
15-Grinnell