The Griswold Tigers football team will have a new coach and rejuvenated attitude for the upcoming 2023 season. Seth Lembke takes over the reigns as head coach after spending 10 seasons as an assistant coach at a few stops, including two stints at Griswold. He said the Tigers are very excited to get to work for camp and the new season.

The Tigers are trying to improve step-by-step after a winless campaign with a young group last season. Coach Lembke said it starts with attention to detail.

The Tigers will still be a young team but a lot of those young guys have already been thrust into varsity competition so Coach Lembke doesn’t want them to use age as an excuse. He said a few guys have stood out as returning leaders.

Coach Lembke said they have a lot of ideas on things they would like to do on both sides of the ball but they are going to start simple.

Griswold opens up the 2023 season August 25th on the road at Boyer Valley. Listen to the full interview with Coach Lembke below.

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Iowa State center Rob Jones wants to boost his scoring next season and it begins at the charity stripe. The Prior Lake, Minnesota native averaged just under six points per game last season but it could have been more. Jones connected on less than 41 percent of his free throws. It is a weakness he has been working on this summer.

Jones says he has been working on a routine and rhythm at the free throw line.

Free throwing shooting has been a focus of the entire team. The Cyclones finished last in the Big 12 from the stripe last season at 67 percent.

The Cyclones leave August fourth to play three games in the Bahamas.

IOWA CITY — Junior guard from the University of Iowa, Caitlin Clark, was named the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Division I Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for all sports in 2022-23 on Wednesday.

“I’m honored to have been selected for this award because there’s a ton of excellent student-athletes across the United States,” Clark said. “My academic craft is something that I take very seriously while playing basketball at the highest level. I want to thank the CSC for selecting me for and Division I Academic All-America Team Member of the Year.”

Clark also won the 2023 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award, Honda Cup and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as by THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). She also won the 2023 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophies along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors. She also was the ESPY award winner for Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports.

“I’m thrilled that Caitlin has been selected for this award,” said P. Sue Beckwith, MD, Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder. “She truly exemplifies what it means to be a student-athlete at the highest level and the way she represents the University of Iowa. Our program couldn’t be prouder of what she has accomplished this year.”

She is also a two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award. She also won the Honda Sport Award for Basketball in April.

Clark led her team to its first-ever NCAA Championship game and helped post the Hawkeye’s most wins in a single season. During the NCAA Tournament, she posted the first 40-point triple-double in NCAA Tournament history (men’s or women’s) and broke the NCAA single-tournament records for most 3-point FG made (24) and most points scored (191). This season, she is the only player in the nation with 1,000 points, 240 rebounds, 310 assists and 45 steals.

Overall, Clark became the first player in Division I women’s basketball history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season and was fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons.

Off the court, she is a two-time First Team Academic All-American and was named the 2023 CSC Academic All-America of the Year for women’s basketball.

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head coach Matt Fannon has finalized his 2023 coaching staff, officially announcing the hiring of Kathleen Duwve (DOO-vee) as assistant coach/goalkeeper coach.

Duwve will reunite with Coach Fannon in Ames, as she was a standout goalie for Bowling Green and played under Fannon from 2017-19. Duwve will also reunite with DePaul transfer Kristin Boos who signed with the Cyclones earlier this summer. She will join new additions Olivia Seddon and Jermima Job as soccer staff members.

A Sylvania, Ohio, native, Duwve arrives in Ames after spending two years as an assistant coach at DePaul University. With the Blue Demons, Duwve worked primarily with the goalkeepers. Across her two years, Duwve’s keepers posted 143 saves and eight shutouts.

Prior to her stint in Chicago, Duwve played professionally for Apulia Trani ASD in Italy’s Serie C before returning to the United States to play for the Gotham Reserves (NJ/NY) in the WPSL.

Before becoming a professional athlete, Duwve starred for Coach Fannon’s Falcons at BGSU, starting 56 games across her four years. She totaled 216 total saves and toted a .797 save percentage. Duwve earned 32 career wins and tallied 14 clean sheets.

In her freshman campaign with the Falcons, Duwve started 11 of 13 matches and recorded 10 saves in three different outings. Her sophomore season was cut short, as she sustained an injury that limited her to just three contests.

Duwve bounced back from injury in a big way, helping to lead Bowling Green to two straight MAC Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances over her junior and senior years in 2018 and 2019. She started all 22 matches during her junior campaign and tied the BGSU single-season wins record, tallying 14. In the postseason, she made three saves against the No. 14 Penn State Nittany Lions.

Duwve built on her stellar junior season and turned in an equally impressive senior year which again resulted in BGSU making the postseason. She posted six complete-match shutouts and started 22 of 23 matches (missing one due to injury). She totaled 54 saves and again made three postseason saves, this time against Michigan.

Duwve finished her collegiate career as Bowling Green’s all-time leader in career winning percentage and goals against average while ranking among the top five all-time in every goalkeeping category.

She earned first-team All-Conference honors in the MAC twice, as well as once earning a United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region award. Academically, Duwve was on the Academic All-MAC Team, a MAC Distinguished Scholar Athlete and earned the MAC Commissioner’s Award.

The Iowa State soccer program will kick off its season on August 17, welcoming Arizona to the Cyclone Soccer Complex for the start of the 2023 regular season. Admission to all home matches is free.

On Friday, July 14th the Atlantic Community School District Booster Club held their annual golf tournament at Nishna Hills Golf Course.

This year’s tournament boasted a roster of 32 teams, 38 hole sponsors, 7 corporate sponsors, and multiple volunteers. Volunteers manned a variety of areas including individual betting holes, registration tables, and a team that helped prepare lunch.

The 2023 Booster Club Golf Tournament raised just over $20,000. Funds from the tournament funded the new shed at the Atlantic High School tennis courts. 

Megan Roberts, ACSD Booster Club Scheduler commented,”Our partnership with Beth Johnsen, ACSD Superintendent and Lisa Jones, ACSD SBO have begun as both were out in full support of the event and were in attendance throughout the day!” 

“The Boosters Club put on a well-organized golf outing to fundraise money that supports our activities program!  The turnout of teams and local business support was outstanding. The Atlantic Community support was speaking loudly with how they are loyal supporters for taking care of the needs of our kids. I am very impressed with the overwhelming advocacy for the school district. I met a lot of awesome people at the event and I look forward to being part of the growing support and energy in Atlantic.” ACSD Superintendent Beth Johnsen commented on the overwhelming support from the community she witnessed as she attended her first official ACSD event. 

Booster Club member Tina Zellmer commented on the vital support from all involved. “The tournament’s success is paramount to all those who step up and offer support!” This year’s tournament offered corporate sponsorship opportunities. The 2023 Booster Club Golf Tournament Corporate Sponsors included: Meredith Communications,

Duke rentals, Brocker Karns & Karns, Rolling Hills Bank & Trust, Olsen Fuel Supply, AM Choron & Son, Mutual of Omaha – Stuart Dusenberry, State Farm – Megan Roberts

The 2024 ACSD Booster Club golf tournament is scheduled for Friday, July 19th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club. 

Your ACSD Booster Club holds monthly meetings on the third Monday of the month at 630pm, in the Atlantic High School media center. 

You can also stay up to date by following the Booster Club’s Facebook page:  “Atlantic School Booster Club“.

Questions pertaining to this press release should be directed to ACSD Communications Specialist, Mallory Robinson. 

Questions pertaining to the ACSD Booster Club should be directed to: boosterclubhelp@gmail.com