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Wrestling Regional Dual Assignments

Sports

January 23rd, 2024 by Asa Lucas

Sites and assignments for wrestling’s 2024 regional dual team tournaments are now available for all three classifications.

Regional duals for all three classes are scheduled for 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 30. The top eight teams in each class qualify for the State Dual Team Tournament, set for Saturday, Feb. 3 at Xtream Arena in Coralville.

Update in 2024: The top 24 ranked teams in each class according to the latest IHSAA rankings will compete at eight regional duals with the highest-ranked teams hosting, if possible and practical within geographic areas.

The top-ranked team at each site receives a bye during the first round. The winner of the first round dual wrestles the top-ranked team in the final. Finals matchups are listed as to-be-determined (TBD) below.

REGIONAL DUAL ASSIGNMENTS

CLASS 3A

 

At Southeast Polk

First Round: #16 Iowa City, City High vs. #17 Norwalk

Final: #1 Southeast Polk vs. TBD

At Indianola

First Round: #15 Ankeny vs. #18 Valley, W.D.M.

Final: #2 Indianola vs. TBD

At Bettendorf

First Round: #13 Prairie, Cedar Rapids vs. #19 Iowa City, West

Final: #3 Bettendorf vs. TBD

At Fort Dodge

First Round: #14 Carlisle vs. #22 Waukee

Final: #4 Fort Dodge vs. TBD

At Ankeny Centennial

First Round: #11 Johnston vs. #21 Xavier, Cedar Rapids

Final: #5 Ankeny Centennial vs. TBD

At Waukee Northwest

First Round: #10 Bondurant-Farrar vs. #24 Dallas Center-Grimes

Final: #6 Waukee Northwest vs. TBD

At Dubuque, Hempstead

First Round: #12 Clear Creek-Amana vs. #20 North Scott

Final: #7 Dubuque, Hempstead vs. TBD

At Linn-Mar, Marion

First Round: #9 Waverly-Shell Rock vs. #23 Pleasant Valley

Final: #8 Linn-Mar, Marion vs. TBD

CLASS 2A

 

At Osage

First Round: #16 Anamosa vs. #19 Crestwood, Cresco

Final: #1 Osage vs. TBD

At Mount Vernon

First Round: #14 Solon vs. #18 Columbus Community

Final: #2 Mount Vernon vs. TBD

At Creston

First Round: #15 Carroll vs. #20 Winterset

Final: #3 Creston vs. TBD

At West Delaware

First Round: #13 Benton Community vs. #23 Decorah

Final: #4 West Delaware vs. TBD

At Sergeant Bluff-Luton

First Round: #11 Glenwood vs. #17 Webster City

Final: #5 Sergeant Bluff-Luton vs. TBD

At Independence

First Round: #12 North Polk vs. #22 Union, LaPorte City

Final: #6 Independence vs. TBD

At Algona

First Round: #10 Hampton-Dumont-CAL vs. #21 New Hampton/Turkey Valley

Final: #7 Algona vs. TBD

At Ballard

First Round: #9 Humboldt vs. #24 Williamsburg

Final: #8 Ballard vs. TBD

CLASS 1A

 

At Alburnett

First Round: #16 Pleasantville vs. #17 Earlham

Final: #1 Alburnett vs. TBD

At Don Bosco, Gilbertville

First Round: #15 MFL MarMac vs. #20 Nodaway Valley

Final: #2 Don Bosco, Gilbertville vs. TBD

At Wilton

First Round: #13 West Branch vs. #19 Interstate 35, Truro

Final: #3 Wilton vs. TBD

At Lake Mills

First Round: #14 Denver vs. #18 Akron-Westfield

Final: #4 Lake Mills vs. TBD

At Nashua-Plainfield

First Round: #12 Emmetsburg vs. #22 Central Springs

Final: #5 Nashua-Plainfield vs. TBD

At West Hancock

First Round: #11 Wapsie Valley vs. #23 Riverside, Oakland

Final: #6 West Hancock vs. TBD

At Jesup

First Round: #10 Lisbon vs. #24 North Butler/Clarksville

Final: #7 Jesup vs. TBD

At Hinton

First Round: #9 Logan-Magnolia vs. #21 Shenandoah

Final: #8 Hinton vs. TBD

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Freyler an Academic All-American

Sports

January 23rd, 2024 by Asa Lucas

AMES, Iowa – Iowa State defensive back Beau Freyler has been named a 2023 College Sports Communicators First-Team Academic All-American.

Freyler, who owns a 3.90 GPA while majoring in kinesiology, is the sixth player in school history to earn first-team honors (eight times). The Cyclone football program has earned All-America accolades six times during head coach Matt Campbell’s tenure.

A junior from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Freyler had another impressive season on the field. He earned Associated Press First-Team All-Big 12 honors after starting all 13 games for the Cyclones and finishing fourth in the conference with 107 tackles, while also making two interceptions. He is the first Cyclone since 2017 to record 100 or more tackles.

He is a two-time academic all-district selection and was named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team in 2022, with the 2023 list still to be announced.

Freyler was one of five Big 12 Conference student-athletes named to the first team, while three others received second-team honors.

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Schulte Voted Academic All-America

Sports

January 23rd, 2024 by Asa Lucas

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa football senior Quinn Schulte has been named to the Academic All-America second team. The announcement was made on Tuesday by College Sports Communicators, formerly the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

A member of Iowa’s Leadership Group last season, Schulte is a four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. The native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was also recognized on the Dean’s List six times between 2019-22.

Schulte (6-foot-1, 209 pounds) started all 14 games at free safety in 2023. He ranked fourth on the squad in tackles (65), tied for third with four pass break-ups, to go along with an interception (39-yard return versus Rutgers). After the season, Schulte was named an honorable mention all-conference selection and was a Brett Greenwood Award recipient.

Schulte holds a 3.72 grade point average and graduated with a degree in interdepartmental studies (health science-multidisciplinary science) with a minor in human physiology last spring. He plans on starting the dentistry DDS program this fall.

Last month, Schulte announced that he would return in 2024 for a sixth season. He has started all 27 Hawkeye games played the last two seasons.

In 25 seasons under Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, 11 Iowa football student-athletes have combined on 15 occasions to earn Academic All-America recognition.

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State Auditor says report from his office shows property taxes are regressive

News

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – State Auditor Rob Sand has released a report of all the property tax levies in Iowa and Sand says it shows the property tax is regressive. “Fairness in taxation is a big issue and knowing now, as we have now proven, that lower income and middle income, middle class Iowans pay a higher rate on their taxes per thousand dollars of valuation than wealthy Iowans, I think that’s an important consideration for policy makers,” Sand says. Sand says the lowest overall levies are in northwest and north central Iowa.”Rates are a little bit higher in central and southern Iowa,” Sand says, “and in most large and mid-sized cities as well.” Sand has released a series of maps showing the tax rates in the 4100 property tax districts in Iowa.

“Until today some people have suspected but we have never known that in fact when compared to median income rates, according to Census data, that property taxes in Iowa are in fact a regressive tax,” Sand says. “What that means is that working class and middle class Iowans pay a higher rate on their property taxes than wealthy Iowans do.”

Sand reviewed property tax rates in 2014, 2017 and 2024. He is not making recommendations for changes in how cities, counties, school districts and other local government entities collect property taxes. Iowans who own property get a notice in August about payments that are due in September and March.

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UI exhibition highlights the destructive power, beauty of wildfires

News

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The dead of winter may be the ideal time to take in a new photography exhibit at the University of Iowa called “Facing the Inferno.” It’s a collection of pictures showing the devastating impact of wildfires snapped by Kari Greer, a contract photographer with the National Interagency Fire Center, based in Idaho. Jessica Smith, spokeswoman for the UI’s Pentacrest Museums, says it’s a spell-binding series of images. “A lot of the photos that Kari has taken over time have been when she was close to these fires, and they may have been published or used in a journalistic way,” Smith says. “In this exhibition, they’ve been divorced from the original content that would have been published with them and reexamined from a point of fine art.”

Smith says the exhibition captures the striking visual narrative of wildfires through Greer’s lens. “It’s really visually stunning. They range from small candid portraits of firefighters themselves — and they’re really telling, you can just see exhaustion in their eyes and of course they’re covered in soot,” Smith says, “but there’s some others that are more nature-based, focusing specifically on fire itself or smoke.”

Photo from the Kari Greer exhibit

The exhibit opened last week in the Hanson Humanities Gallery at the Old Capitol Museum, and Smith says the collection chronicles the raw intensity of massive wildfires. “There are some of actual damage, like putting a house or some context into a human-impacted space and they’re just gorgeous,” Smith says, “and then you realize what you’re looking at, and then you have a lot of questions and there’s some deeper meaning there.” She says the collection was assembled in the galley to delve into the evolving role of contemporary photographers, and the ecological implications of wildfires on society. “Facing the Inferno” is considered a timely and essential exhibition for everyone. Smith notes, even Iowans who are far from any wildfires experienced smoke and air quality issues last summer.

“We have a staff that’s really thinking carefully about what we want to be in there and it’s usually something that’s quite topical, and something that is going to have strong curricular connections,” Smith says. “So we can be supporting hands-on learning opportunities for our students, getting them out of their textbooks and out of their classrooms and into a space to explore and think about things, and this is a really, really strong example of that.”

Greer will be delivering a free lecture on the Iowa City campus in a few months, likely in late March or early April.

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Bill to ban gender neutral terms in some Iowa high school language courses

News

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Teaching a gender neutral version of Spanish, French or any other language would not be allowed in Iowa schools under a bill that’s passed a subcommittee in the Iowa House.

Republican Representative Bill Gustoff of Des Moines says it’s not about pronouns in the English language, but other languages have words in male and female versions. “If that’s part of the language, then teach the language,” Gustoff says, “but don’t rewrite an entire language to remove ‘el’ and ‘la’ and ‘o’ and ‘a’ as endings.”

Gustoff says he introduced the bill because a teacher told him they would be disciplined if they did not teach a gender neutral version of a language. Gustoff says the teacher asked not to be publicly identified and Gustoff is not revealing the district where the teacher works.

Tye Nyhus, a Spanish instructor in Des Moines, says teaching and using gender neutral pronouns in class is important for some students. “Kids that don’t use it will likely not remember it,” Nyhus says, “but those who do will remember the feeling of being seen for a lifetime.”

Europeans have been debating the use of nouns coded as masculine and feminine. The agency that oversees usage of the Italian language has come out against gender neutral terms. In November the French senate voted to ban the use of gender neutral terms in government documents.

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ELLEN M. SOKOLOWSKI, 71, of Atlantic (Visitation 2/3/24)

Obituaries

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

ELLEN M. SOKOLOWSKI, 71, of Atlantic, died Monday, January 22, 2024 at home in Atlantic. A visitation for ELLEN SOKOLOWSKI, with the family present, will be held February 3rd from 2-until 4-p.m. at the Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic.

An inurnment will take place at a Columbarium in the Calvary Cemetery in Sioux City, IA at a later date.

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MARIANA EKIPWICH TILLIPAU, 65, of Oakland (Svcs. 2/9/24)

Obituaries

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

MARIANA EKIPWICH TILLIPAU, 65, of Oakland, died January 19, 2024, at her son’s home, in Oakland. Funeral services for MARIANA TILLIPAU will be held 11-a.m. Friday, February 9, 2024, at the Schmidt Family Funeral Home in Atlantic. The service will be webcasted for those who cannot attend the service.

Following the services, a luncheon hosted by her family in the Community Room of the funeral home.

Mariana will then be returned to Hilo, Hawaii for a second service and burial.

Condolences can be sent at: schmidtfamilyfh.com.

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LAUREL DIANE “Dee” LEACH, 84, of Council Bluffs (Memorial Svc. 1/25/24)

Obituaries

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

LAUREL DIANE “Dee” LEACH, 84, of Council Bluffs, died Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, at Country House. A Memorial service for “DEE” LEACH will be held 11-a.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, at St. John’s United Church of Christ in Council Bluffs. Hoy-Kilnoski Funeral Home in Council Bluffs has the arrangements.

A lunch will immediately follow the Memorial service, in the parish hall.

Memorials are suggested to St. John’s UCC.

LAURAL “Dee”LEACH is survived by:

Her daughter – Michelle (Harry) Redman

Her sons – Mark (Marta) Leach, and Maylon Leach.

5 grandchildren: her brother and sister-in-law, and other relatives.

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ALVIN K. WOODRASKA, JR. 89, of Harlan (No Services)

Obituaries

January 23rd, 2024 by Ric Hanson

ALVIN K. WOODRASKA, JR., 89, of Harlan, died Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024, at the Salem Lutheran Home. No services will be held for ALVIN K. WOODRASKA, JR.  Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan is assisting the family.

ALVIN WOODRASKA, JR., is survived by:

His wife – Dixie [Backer] Woodraska, of Harlan.

His son – Ken (Marcia) Woodraska, of Oelwein.

His daughters – Terri (Larry) Duffer, of Thaxton, MS., & Sharon (Kevin) Lucke, of Harlan.

His sister – Yvonne Barr, of Sioux Falls, SD.

and 6 grandchildren.

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