Girls Basketball

Xavier's Kelsie Sargent (7), Tori Shepard, and Annie Dale (11) run with the rest of the team to collect their championship trophy following their victory over Waukee in their class 2A championship game at the 2011 Iowa Girls State Soccer Tournament Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Muscatine Soccer Complex in Muscatine. (Brian Ray/ SourceMedia Group News)

Seven straight would be just great for Xavier girls’ soccer team

No Iowa girls team, in any sport, has pulled off a seven-peat

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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Jefferson tabs Edwards as girls basketball coach

He served as Howell's assistant at Washington for 8 years; now he'll succeed Niemeyer on the west side

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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Coaching search continues at Jefferson, Kennedy

Girls basketball, wrestling positions remain open

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 [...]

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State’s best girls’ players to meet at Mount Mercy this weekend

Niemeyer still in charge of the Iowa Girls Coaches Association Senior Basketball Classic

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 [...]

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Howell not interested in boys’ job at Washington

He has carved his niche with the girls' program, and views a switch as a lateral move

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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Ankeny's Maddie Muhlenbruck (left) avoids contact with Iowa City West's Ally Disterhoft during the second half of their class 4A championship game at Wells Fargo Arena on Saturday, March. 3, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa. West won in overtime. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette-KCRG-TV9)

Area’s best: Disterhoft and Donald

West junior, Benton coach headline all-area girls basketball team
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2011-12 Girls’ Basketball all-area team

Weekly, Disterhoft, Strait highlight stellar crop

2011-12 GAZETTE-KCRG GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM

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Kennedy girls basketball head coach Dennis Roloff during their game at Kennedy High School, 4545 Wenig Rd NE in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday evening, February 8, 2011. Iowa City West defeated Cedar Rapids Kennedy 62-53. (Stephen Mally/Freelance)

Roloff’s reign ends at Kennedy

Stecker: It's 'time for different leadership' in girls basketball

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 Kennedy head coach Bob Roloff (left) talks with Cedar Rapids Jefferson head coach Larry Niemeyer before their game at Kennedy High School at Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (SourceMedia Group News/Jim Slosiarek)

2 days, 2 decisions, and the end of 2 eras

Niemeyer, Roloff combined for 1,185 wins; now Lilly's the dean of the Metro

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 Jefferson head coach Larry Niemeyer talks to players during a timeout in the second quarter of their game against Cedar Rapids Kennedy at Kennedy High School at Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (SourceMedia Group News/Jim Slosiarek)

Niemeyer declares ‘free agency’

After 34 years, he says he won't return to coach Jefferson girls basketball program next winter

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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