CEDAR RAPIDS - If you've got to replace a coach who is part of a historical championship run, you might as well do it with a former player who is part of a historical state championship run.Cedar Rapids Xavier is expected Wednesday to officially announce ...

Xavier's Lucy Martin (17) tries to flip the ball around ADM's Kendra Koch (16) during their class 2A quarterfinal game at the 2012 Iowa Girls High School State Soccer Championships Thursday, June 7, 2012 at the Muscatine Soccer Complex in Muscatine. Xavier won the game ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Mike Winker was asked the other day to try and put some perspective into the historical run his girls' soccer program is on.The Cedar Rapids Xavier activities director thought for a minute, then brought his niece's name into the conversation. Bailey Dorrington ...

 CEDAR RAPIDS -- The rumor is Cedar Rapids Xavier girls' soccer coach Doug Graham has been especially hard on his team in the early part of the 2012 season. Practices have been difficult, conditioning tough.Well, it's not really a rumor. It's fact."This year is a ...

They attempt to go back to back to back to back to back to back this weekend.If you don't want to count all those backs, the Cedar Rapids Xavier girls' soccer team goes for a six-peat at the state tournament. That's six consecutive championships.They're the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Just call it the Xavier Rule.That’s said in jest, of course. The Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union is contemplating increasing the number of state tournament qualifiers in several sports, so there’s no conspiracy here.It already has done so in soccer, with ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - The Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union decided to go to two classes in girls' soccer for the 2002 season.Class 2A is for the biggest schools enrollement wise. You've got your West Des Moines Valleys, your Bettendorfs, your Cedar Rapids Kennedys.Then there's ...