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 completely different year,” said Xavier’s Annie Dale. “Coach [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — He has no head-coaching experience. But Jason Edwards is full of energy. “I think that’s fair to say,” Edwards said Friday after accepting the varsity girls’ basketball job at Cedar Rapids Jefferson. “I am passionate about girls’ basketball. I will bring a lot of positive energy to the table.”
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Chuck McDonnell would like to have an athletics director in place at Cedar Rapids Jefferson before selecting a girls’ basketball coach. But, he said, it’s not a must that it happen that way. “I don’t want to lose any good coaching candidates,” McDonnell — the Jefferson principal — said Monday. “I don’t [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS — Larry Niemeyer has released the reins as girls’ basketball coach at Cedar Rapids Jefferson. But he said this won’t be his final season in charge of the Iowa Girls Coaches Association Senior Basketball Classic. “I really enjoy meeting the kids from around the state that you read about,” Niemeyer said. “It’s a [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS — Frank Howell said Monday he will likely pass on applying for the boys’ basketball coaching job at Cedar Rapids Washington. “I don’t think I have any interest,” Howell said. “I see it as a lateral move.” The vacancy arose Friday, when Brad Metzger announced his resignation as boys’ basketball coach. He took [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Dennis Roloff spoke to his girls’ basketball team for the final time Wednesday afternoon. “It was a pretty sober meeting,” he said. “They listened to what I had to say, then I told them I didn’t want to keep them from the rest of their day. “Then I left.”
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Tom Lilly is a middle-aged man in what he calls “a young person’s game.” “I think some people are under the impression that you have to be young and energetic to coach,” Lilly said Wednesday in the wake of the news that Dennis Roloff’s tenure as girls’ basketball coach had come to [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Larry Niemeyer sat at his dining-room table, cleared his throat, wiped his eye and proclaimed himself “a free agent.” Niemeyer told The Gazette and KCRG on Tuesday that he will vacate his role as head girls’ basketball coach at Jefferson High School, a position he has held for 34 years. “I still [...]
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