CEDAR RAPIDS — This wasn’t just a baby step on the road back to respectability.“It was a big, big baby step,” said first-year Cedar Rapids Washington Coach Adam Sanchez, after his Warriors ended a 26-game losing streak with a 53-50 win last night at Cedar ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- For Aleena Hobbs, green meant go.Hobbs hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 30 seconds left, and Cedar Rapids Washington rallied from a 16-point deficit to edge Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 57-56, in a girls' basketball game Friday night at Kennedy High School."We just always ...

The coaching carousel for local prep wrestling programs took a few interesting spins since last season.It is easy to be confused by the whirlwind of activity, and the connections of each move.Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Lisbon rehired their former coaches, Iowa City High said goodbye one of ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Another game, another Top-10 foe for the Cedar Rapids Prairie Hawks.After losses to No. 2 Muscatine and No. 6 Iowa City High, Prairie clamped down on ninth-ranked and previously unbeaten Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 51-44, in a Class 5A Mississippi Valley Conference tilt ...

Ian Christianson of Cedar Rapids is one of 54 soccer players nationwide who have been invited to the 2013 Major League Soccer Player Combine, Jan. 11-15 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Christianson did not play prep soccer, starring for the Cedar Rapids Soccer Association club team for ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- It could have been worse.Morgan Martin will miss time due to a knee injury. She apparently won't miss the entire season.Cedar Rapids Kennedy girls basketball coach Tony Vis said Tuesday morning that an MRI has indicated an injury to Martin's medial patellofemoral ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Paige Hendrickson was prepared for the worst.Class 5A ninth-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy held off 4A No. 9 Dubuque Wahlert, 45-41, in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls' basketball game Friday night at Kennedy High School. But the outcome was a side note.As the Cougars completed ...

Cedar Rapids Kennedy played its first girls basketball game of the Tony Vis era with heavy hearts.And big hearts.The Cougars rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to defeat Cedar Falls, 51-35, in their opener Tuesday. To beat a quality Mississippi Valley Conference on the road ...

Drew Wall.(Cliff Jette/The Gazette-KCRG TV9)CEDAR RAPIDS -- Drew Wall was not defined by affliction, nor the battle it forced him to wage.The 16-year-old sophomore at Cedar Rapids Kennedy was defined by the spirit and strength he exhibited during his daily fight with cancer, and the ...

Cedar Rapids Kennedy golfer Drew Wall, a sophomore who inspired many with his battle with cancer, passed away Monday surrounded by family at his home in Cedar Rapids.The 16-year-old sophomore returned home Monday after a recent stay at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.Read ...