IOWA CITY -- Ally Disterhoft, the state's leading scorer and Miss Iowa Basketball 2013, was named to the 40-player Parade Magazine girls basketball all-America team.Disterhoft averaged 26.3 points per game, shooting 63.5 percent from the field (including 47.0 percent from 3-point range) and 80.7 percent ...

WELLMAN -- Marc Pennington will be the new middle-school principal at Mid-Prairie, and will vacate his post as varsity girls' basketball coach.Pennington coached eight years at Mid-Prairie, posting a 96-93 record. The Golden Hawks were Cedar Valley Conference co-champions in 2012, and advanced to the ...

MARION -- A pair of talented twins probably will be spending their senior year at Linn-Mar High School.Lisa Sommer said Wednesday that she is "95-percent sure" that her daughters, Katie and Kristie Sommer, will enroll at Linn-Mar in the fall. They currently are juniors at Dubuque Senior."I'm ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- It has a new name. And a new home.The Iowa Girls Coaches Association has renamed its all-star basketball games in honor of Larry Niemeyer, the former Cedar Rapids Jefferson coach who still chairs the event.The six-game series, which features 120 of the ...

Ally Disterhoft has won the highest honors a girls' basketball player in Iowa can earn.Miss Iowa Basketball, by the Iowa Newspaper Association. Gatorade Player of the Year.Maybe this one pales by comparison. But this one, she earned twice.Disterhoft, who led Iowa City West to its ...

IOWA CITY -- Add another elite award to a growing list for Ally Disterhoft. Gatorade has announced the Iowa City West senior as its 2012-13 Iowa girls' basketball player of the year. The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic ...

VAN HORNE -- Benton Community High School will host the Wamac Conference Senior Shootout on Saturday.The girls game is set for 5:30 p.m., with the boys to follow at 7.A 3-point shooting contest will be held at halftime of each game, with a dunk contest for the boys ...

 Preseason girls basketball rankings for 2013-14, courtesy Jeff Linder of The Gazette/KCRG.These are adjusted after reclassification reflected by 2013-14 BEDS Documents.CLASS 5A 2012-13 W-L 2013 Postseason1. Des Moines East 21-3 5A state qualifier2. West Des Moines Dowling 21-5 5A state runner-up3. Waterloo West 16-7 5A regional finalist4. West Des Moines Valley 14-8 5A regional semifinalist5. Cedar ...

 DES MOINES -- Her team's success has kept the state's top individual honor at the back burner of Ally Disterhoft's mind.But, yeah, Ally Disterhoft admitted, the thought of becoming Miss Iowa Basketball 2013, it was there."I'd thought about it a bit," said the Iowa City ...

Just 48 hours prior, the Xavier girls basketball team won the 4A state championship 53-52 over Harlan at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. On Monday, coach Tim Lilly and his girls basketball team joined "On Iowa Live" to talk about the win and more."On ...