MARION -- Rob Justis said he takes "no regrets and lots of great memories" as he leaves his post as Linn-Mar High School volleyball coach."I had a blast," he said Tuesday evening, a few hours after he turned in his resignation.Justis was the head coach ...

MARION -- Red became yellow. Then green meant go for Pleasant Valley.A long day at the Linn-Mar Invitational volleyball tournament ended in controversy Saturday evening, when Class 5A sixth-ranked Pleasant Valley rallied past 4A No. 8 Solon to win the championship, 16-25, 25-14, 18-16.That's how ...

(LATEST IGHSAU RANKINGS)It's been four years since Barb Sullivan left the Cedar Rapids Kennedy volleyball program to leave a fingerprint on a program of her own, a few blocks to the west.Now, it appears she has a team that can make a legitimate claim as ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- First time: Scared.Second time: Steely.Class 4A 10th-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier reversed a lopsided pool-play loss, knocking off No. 3 Solon, 21-18, 13-21, 15-10, to win the championship of the Warrior Invitational volleyball tournament Saturday at Cedar Rapids Washington."I think when we played ...

Cedar Rapids Kennedy swept the top four spots and rolled to the girls' championship at the Bob Brown Invitational cross country meet Thursday at the Ashton Cross Country Course.The Cougars compiled 16 points, finishing 1-2-3-4-6, and won their second straight meet. They edged Iowa City ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Momentum can be a fickle, fleeting thing.It darts, it dances. It comes, it goes.Tuesday night, Iowa City High grabbed it, lost it, regained it, then kept it."The first two games were total opposites of each other," City High Coach Craig Pitcher said ...

Class 5A top-ranked Iowa City High visits No. 2 Cedar Rapids Kennedy for a Mississippi Valley Conference volleyball match tonight.We at iowaprepsports.com conducted a poll on the winner; 36 votes were cast.Here were the results:City High in 3: 11 votes (30.6 percent)City High in 4: ...

Next week's Mississippi Valley Conference volleyball opener has gained some serious sizzle.Iowa City High is No. 1 and Cedar Rapids Kennedy No. 2 in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union's preseason Class 5A rankings, released Monday afternoon."That's a lot to live up to," Kennedy ...

IOWA CITY -- In last year's Class 4A state volleyball final, Iowa City High was "the other team.""I think, with all the circumstances, everybody was rooting for (Iowa City) West to win," said Little Hawks Coach Craig Pitcher.Rooting for West? Or rooting for a storyline?Surely ...

Area players to watch for the 2012 volleyball season:SAM BARZ, sr., Union -- Averaged 3.5 kills per game with a .304 kill efficiency.CHELSEA BERRY, sr., Starmont -- Averaged 3.5 kills and 2.4 digs per game with a .325 kill efficiency.JORDAN CALEF, sr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy ...