CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Thomas Eilers is the 2013 winner of the Nick Adenhart Memorial Scholarship, the Cedar Rapids Kernels announced Thursday. Eilers played baseball, basketball and football at Prairie. He plans on attending the University of Iowa to major in mathematics. The Nick Adenhart Scholarship is awarded annually in honor of the [...]
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By Jamie Johnson, community contributor DES MOINES – The first Heartland Shootout is loaded with some of the best high school basketball teams and players in the Midwest. With several Top 100 nationally rated players – including Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa recruit – basketball fans and college coaches will have plenty to see [...]
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IOWA CITY — As a freshman, Peter Jok once was the state’s best-known basketball prospect in the 2013 class, and Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery was there to recruit him. A knee surgery after Jok’s sophomore year kept him from reaching his potential at both West Des Moines Valley and with his AAU team, and Jok [...]
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The Iowa Barnstormers look to build off one of their most successful seasons, and not just on the boys’ basketball side, either. The AAU basketball organization just finished its second season of girls’ basketball, and every member of the 17-and-under squad will play college basketball this fall from the junior-college to Division II level. “We’re [...]
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IOWA CITY — Iowa City West junior Wyatt Lohaus was in no rush to make a college basketball decision, especially with two seasons of high school eligibility remaining. But Lohaus found the right fit on Wednesday when he took a visit to Northern Iowa. He decided to link up with the Panthers on Friday morning [...]
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IOWA CITY — Iowa City West all-state guard Jeremy Morgan visited Northern Iowa on Wednesday and liked it so much he plans to stay for a while. Morgan, a 6-foot-6 incoming senior, committed to the Panthers Tuesday night. He picked UNI over Iowa State, Drake, Rice, Weber State and Creighton. Morgan will sign his letter of [...]
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MARION – If it wasn’t hoops, what would it have been, Marcus Paige? “Probably baseball,” the recent Linn-Mar graduate said. “I played baseball all the way up through seventh grade. I was pretty good, I enjoyed it. I was a lefty, so I didn’t get to play any of the infield, other than first. Center [...]
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Editor’s note: Here is your chance to tell your story about your team, your school or your favorite player. If you’d like to join The Gazette’s growing list of high school contributors, contact J.R. Ogden at jr.ogden@thegazette.com By Chase Lynn, Dubuque Senior sophomore DUBUQUE – One year. That’s how long junior basketball player Domen Zevnik [...]
continue »Editor’s note: Here is your chance to tell your story about your team, your school or your favorite player. If you’d like to join The Gazette’s growing list of high school contributors, contact J.R. Ogden at jr.ogden@thegazette.com By Chase Lynn, Dubuque Senior sophomore DUBUQUE – One year. That’s how long junior basketball player Domen Zevnik [...]
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