The Iowa Association of Track Coaches released their individual rankings for cross country on Wednesday.

Area ranked runners are listed below.

Class 1A Girls
5. Madison Sporrer, Logan-Magnolia
13. Stefi Beisswenger, Audubon
15. Olivia Spurling, Earlham
17. Addison Murdoch, Woodbine
21. Ava Campbell, ACGC
27. Emily Albertsen, IKM-Manning

Class 1A Boys
3. Collin Lillie, St. Albert
4. Patrick Heffernan, Boyer Valley
8. Andrew Mahaffey, ACGC
10. Doug Berg, Nodaway Valley
11. Justin Reinhart, ACGC
23. Landon Bendgen, Woodbine
25. Caden Keller, IKM-Manning
27. Gunner Wagner, Woodbine

Class 2A Girls
6. Mayson Hartley, Clarinda
29. Raenna Henke, Clarinda

Class 2A Boys
16. Alex Razee, Shenandoah
19. Kyle Wagoner, Clarinda
25. Trey Schaapherder, Clarinda

Class 3A Girls
10. Lindsey Sonderman, Harlan
19. Lola Mendlik, Denison-Schleswig
21. Madelyn Berglund, Glenwood
26. Dyllan Kaufman, Winterset
30. Breckyn Peterson, Glenwood

Class 3A Boys
2. Ethan Eichhorn, Lewis Central
5. Bryant Keller, Glenwood
14. Andrew Smith, Glenwood

Full rankings HERE

Special teams have been a big part of Iowa’s success over the years and they will likely be counted on again this season. The Hawkeyes ranked in the top five in the Big Ten in nearly every special teams category and led the conference in kickoff returns.

That’s special teams coordinator LeVar Woods. Senior defensive back Terry Roberts has been a special teams standout and saw it as a way to get on the field early in his career.

Roberts has excelled at covering punts and says it is a way to create field position.

Robert says the Hawkeyes are not concerned about preseason expectations. Despite 16 returning starters from a 10-4 team the Hawkeyes will open unranked.

The Hawkeyes open September third at home against South Dakota State.

The Atlantic football team will have a strong number of guys to turn to for leadership in 2022. The Trojans return a lot of experienced players and have a large senior class of 22 players. Atlantic Head Coach Joe Brummer said the program overall has good numbers this year and that makes the possibilities for the team exciting.

Coach Brummer said another benefit to having their returning experience is the accountability that they naturally bring to each other.

On the defensive side of the ball the line of scrimmage should be a strength. Brenden Casey, Jarrett Armstrong, Miles Mundorf, Nathan Keiser, and Evan Sorensen all have starting experience on the line. All the starters in the linebacking core return as well with Logan Terrell, Colton Becker, Easton O’Brien, Tanner O’Brien, and Jackson McLaren. The secondary is where some shoes will need to be filled from last year but Coach Brummer said there are guys that have some experience and there as been good competition there. Coach Brummer said the offseason commitment has been good and they hope to be able to finish games stronger this season.

The Trojans open up the season on Friday night at Glenwood. We’ll have coverage on KJAN with pregame at 6:30 p.m. and kickoff at 7:00 p.m. You’ll also be able to hear a full preview with Coach Brummer on Trojan Preview each Friday through the season at 4:45 p.m.

The Covid-19 pandemic cut many seasons and careers short but others have taken advantage to extend their playing days. Drake linebacker Ryan Kriceri is entering his sixth and final season with the Bulldogs and when he is done he will leave with three degrees.

The native of Aurora, Illinois also plays on special teams and was named second team All Pioneer Football League as a long snapper. There was never any doubt about returning for a final season.

The Bulldogs are coming off a 2-9 season and Kriceri hopes to leave his mark on the program.

The Bulldogs open the season on September third with a visit to defending FCS champion North Dakota State.

The Kansas City Chiefs are saddened to share the passing of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, Chiefs legend and Kansas City icon, Len Dawson.

“My family and I are heartbroken. Len Dawson is synonymous with the Kansas City Chiefs. Len embraced and came to embody Kansas City and the people that call it home. You would be hard-pressed to find a player who had a bigger impact in shaping the organization as we know it today than Len Dawson did,” Chiefs Chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said. “I admired Len my entire life – first as a Hall of Fame player on the field, and later as he transitioned into a successful broadcasting career. Throughout his remarkable career, Len made it a priority to give back to the community that he loved. The franchise has lost a true legend. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Linda and his family.”

Dawson was the heart and soul of the Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs franchise during his illustrious14-year Chiefs career, helping make the franchise one of professional football’s premier teams while becoming one of the game’s elite passers.

Under the leadership of Head Coach Hank Stram, who brought Dawson to the Texans/Chiefs franchise in 1962, Dawson’s Chiefs were perennial contenders and won American Football League Championships in 1962, 1966 and 1969. He earned the Most Valuable Player award for Super Bowl IV when he directed Kansas City to a 23-7 win over the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings. Dawson won the AFL passing title four times and still holds the franchise’s career records for pass attempts (3,696), completions (2,115), passing yards (28,507) and touchdowns (237).

He was named to six AFL All-Star teams and one Pro Bowl squad, and also earned AFL Player of the Year honors for the 1962 season. Dawson started 158 regular season games for Kansas City, the most of any quarterback in franchise history. He led the AFL in passing four different seasons (1962, 1964, 1966 and 1968), pacing the AFL in completion percentage eight times, including a string of six-straight seasons from 1964-69.

Dawson was recognized as the 1973 NFL Man of the Year, one of five Chiefs players to ever earn the honor. He retired from professional football on May 1, 1976. He was enshrined into the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1979 and was immortalized at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 1987. He was also enshrined in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996.

Dawson enjoyed an equally legendary broadcasting career that began during his playing days. In 1966 he served as a sports anchor with KMBC Radio and as sports director for KMBC-TV while serving as the club’s signal caller. Following his retirement from professional football after the 1975 season, Dawson joined NBC and served as a color analyst on NFL games until 1982. He then joined the Chiefs Radio Network as a color commentator in 1984, serving on the team’s radio crew for 35 years. While working NFL games for NBC, Dawson embarked on what would become a 24-year run that spanned four decades (1977-2001) as the host of HBO’s popular “Inside the NFL,” cable television’s longest-running series and the first NFL-related program to air on cable.

For his contributions to broadcasting, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as the recipient of the Hall’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012. He became just the third individual in professional football history to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a broadcaster, joining Dan Dierdorf and Frank Gifford.

Dawson began his professional career as a first-round draft pick of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers in 1957. He went on to land with Cleveland in 1960 but was cut by the Browns prior to the 1962 season, at which point he was signed by the Dallas Texans as a free agent on July 2, 1962. In total he spent 19 years as a quarterback in the NFL/AFL.

(Chiefs.com)

Class 5A
1. Ankeny (@ Waukee)
2. Dowling Catholic (vs #4 Southeast Polk)
3. Iowa City High (vs Iowa City Liberty @ Kinnick Stadium)
4. Southeast Polk (@ #2 Dowling)
5. Pleasant Valley (vs #10 CR Prairie)
6. WDM Valley (vs Waukee Northwest)
7. Cedar Falls (vs Johnston)
8. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (vs Iowa City West (Thur))
9. Urbandale (vs Bettendorf)
10.Cedar Rapids Prairie (@ #5 Pleasant Valley)

Class 4A
1. Lewis Central (1-0) (vs 3A #1 Harlan (Thur))
2. Cedar Rapids Xavier (@ Western Dubuque)
3. Waverly-Shell Rock (vs 2A #2 Waukon)
4. Webster City (@ 3A #4 Humboldt)
5. North Scott (vs Davenport North)
6. Indianola (@ Ankeny Centennial)
7. Bondurant-Farrar (@ 3A #10 Ballard)
8. Spencer (vs Spirit Lake)
9. Norwalk (@ Pella)
10.Decorah (vs Crestwood)

Class 3A
1. Harlan (@ 4A #1 Lewis Central (Thurs))
2. Solon (@ West Liberty)
3. West Delaware (vs Dubuque Wahlert)
4. Humboldt (vs 4A #4 Webster City)
5. Davenport Assumption (1-0) (Idle)
6. Nevada (@ Boone)
7. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley (@ 2A #4 Central Lyon/GLR)
8. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (@ LeMars)
9. Mount Vernon (vs Anamosa)
10.Ballard (Huxley) (1-0) (vs 4A #7 Bondurant-Farrar)

Class 2A
1. West Lyon (@ Western Christian)
2. Waukon (@ 4A #3 Waverly-Shell Rock)
3. Williamsburg (vs 1A #6 Iowa City Regina)
4. Central Lyon/George-Little Rock (vs 3A #7 Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley)
5. OABCIG (vs Ridge View)
6. West Marshall (vs South Tama)
7. Monticello (vs Cascade)
8. Osage (vs A #10 Saint Ansgar)
9. New Hampton (vs MFL MarMac)
10.North Fayette (vs South Winneshiek)

Class 1A
1. Van Meter (@ Earlham)
2. West Sioux (vs A #3 HMS (Hartley))
3. Dike-New Hartford (vs #10 Waterloo Columbus)
4. Dyersville Beckman (vs Camanche)
5. Underwood (0-1) (@ Tri-Center)
6. Iowa City Regina (@ 2A #3 Williamsburg)
7. Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center (vs Greene County @ Ogden (Sat))
8. Pella Christian (vs DSM Christian)
9. Denver (@ A #6 Wapsie Valley)
10.Waterloo Columbus (@ #3 Dike-New Hartford)

Class A
1. North Linn (vs Alburnett)
2. West Hancock (vs Garner-Hayfield-Ventura)
3. HMS (Hartley) (@ 1A #2 West Sioux)
4. Lynnville-Sully (vs Pleasantville)
5. East Buchanan (vs Highland (Riverside))
6. Wapsie Valley (vs 1A #9 Denver)
7. Woodbury Central (vs Hinton)
8. Grundy Center (@ South Hardin)
9. Mount Ayr (vs Nodaway Valley)
10.Saint Ansgar (@ 2A #8 Osage)

8-Player
1. Remsen St. Mary’s (@ Harris-Lake Park)
2. Easton Valley (@ #4 Don Bosco)
3. WACO (1-0) (vs Springville)
4. Don Bosco (vs #2 Easton Valley)
5. Newell-Fonda (@ West Bend-Mallard)
6. Gladbrook-Reinbeck (@ North Iowa)
7. Turkey Valley (@ Edsgewood-Colesburg)
8. Lenox (@ Seymour)
9. Baxter (@ Colo-Nesco)
10.Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire (vs Kingley-Pierson)

Shenandoah Early Bird XC Meet
08/23/2022

Girls Team Scores

1. Clarinda 35
2. Treynor 58
3. AHSTW 63
4. Creston 92
5. Tri-Center 106
6. Shenandoah 178
7. Red Oak 180

Girls Individual Top Ten

1. Raenna Henke, Clarinda 20:45.83
2. Mayson Hartley, Clarinda 21:56.53
3. Quincey Schneckloth, Tri-Center 22:55.86
4. Maya Hunter, Clarinda 23:06.89
5. Hannah Wilson, Fremont-Mills 23:23.00
6. Kasey Lang, Treynor 23:36.01
7. Rylie Knop, AHSTW 23:44.54
8. Lilly Irwin, Underwood 23:54.01
9. Ava Paulsen, AHSTW 24:00.89
10. Alyssa Kulesa, Treynor 24:17.56

2022 Shen Girls Early Bird XC Meet

Boys Team Scores

1. Clarinda 42
2. Tri-Center 69
3. Creston 85
4. Treynor 87
5. Shenandoah 92
6. East Mills 163
7. Underwood 173
8. Essex 199

Boys Individual Top Ten

1. Treyton Schaapherder, Clarinda 17:36.02
2. Kyle Wagoner, Clarinda 18:09.87
3. Alex Razee, Shenandoah 19:16.61
4. Mason Yochum, Treynor 19:35.81
5. Riley Wipperman, Creston 20:02.53
6. Sean McGee, Tri-Center 20:07.64
7. Alex Lihs, Clarinda 20:11.39
8. Tony Racine, Essex 20:19.72
9. John Ross Biederman, Treynor 20:21.58
10. Steven Barrett, East Mills 20:24.22

2022 Shen Boys Early Bird XC Meet

Iowa corner Riley Moss is trying to be more of a leader on and off the field. The Ankeny native returned for a fifth season after earning some All American honors last season. He was named a preseason All American by the Associated Press this week.

Moss says he returned because there are still areas he needs to improve in before trying to latch on in the NFL.

The defense is again expected to carry the Hawkeyes but Moss says expectations from the outside are never higher than they have internally.

Iowa opens the season September third at home against South Dakota State.

(2-0) Clarinda def Lenox (21-6, 21-6)
(2-0) Stanton def Lenox (21-16, 21-16)
(2-0) Stanton def Clarinda (21-11, 21-17)

(2-1) Denison-Schleswig def MVAOCOU (12-21, 21-18, 15-8)
(2-0) Sioux City West def. Denison-Schleswig (21-17, 21-19)
(2-0) Siouxland Christian def Denison-Schleswig (21-16, 21-17)

(3-1) Earlham def Ogden (25-18, 25-20, 19-25, 25-12)

(2-0) Glidden-Ralston def Collins-Maxwell (25-9, 25-9)
(2-0) Greene County def Collins-Maxwell (25-11, 25-6)
(2-0) Greene County def Glidden-Ralston (25-19, 25-16)

(2-0) Logan-Magnolia def Heartland Christian (25-9, 26-24)
(2-0) Logan-Magnolia def West Harrison (25-16, 25-9)
(2-1) West Harrison def Heartland Christian (18-25, 25-18, 15-12)

(3-0) Ridge View def South Central Calhoun (25-19, 25-23, 25-18)

(2-0) Riverside def Bedford (25-19, 25-21)
(2-0) Riverside def Essex (25-7, 25-1)
(2-0) Bedford def Essex (25-18, 25-20)

(2-0) Southeast Warren def North Mahaska (21-15, 21-15)
(2-1) North Mahaska def Seymour (17-21, 21-7, 15-3)
(2-1) North Mahaska def Moravia (19-21, 21-8, 15-7)

(3-0) Twin Cedars def East Union (25-12, 25-18, 25-8)

(3-1) Van Meter def ACGC (25-20, 24-26, 27-25, 25-17)

(3-0) West Central Valley def Panorama (25-15, 25-23, 25-16)

(3-2) Woodward-Granger def. Madrid (26-24, 20-25, 22-25, 25-18, 15-3)

The Atlantic volleyball team is coming off a season that saw solid improvement and with a ton of experience returning they are hoping to make that next jump. Head Coach Michelle Blake said not only do they return a lot of talent, it’s also a pretty cohesive team.

Coach Blake said they will have some good height at the front of the net again but one area they hope to really improve is their overall defense.

The Trojans debuted at #12 in the preseason IGHSAU Class 3A rankings that were just released this week. Coach Blake said while that kind of recognition is nice it isn’t anything to get caught up in. The Trojans finished 17-20 last year and Coach Blake said they really want win the close matches this year and become a winning team.

Some of the key returning players are Abby Smith who led the team with 207 kills. Aubrey Guyer who had 134 kills an 41 blocks. Chloe Mullenix who led the team with 55 blocks. Lexi Noelck and Jada Jensen who led the way with 322 and 329 assists respectively. That’s just to name a few of the statistical leaders. Coach Blake said Guyer has been one of the strong team leaders.

The Trojans open up their season on Thursday night at home against Des Moines Roosevelt. The varsity match will start at about 7:15 p.m. They will follow that with a weekend trip to the AHSTW Tournament.