Category: "Sports"

FOOTBALL PREVIEW: A position by position analysis

By The Little Hawk Sports Team This week’s game: Waterloo West 5 p.m. Sophomore Kick-Off Dedication is scheduled in between the sophomore and varsity game. Background: The Little Hawks began their state championship defense last week by rolling Dubuque Senior 48 to 6.  This Friday night the Little Hawks play host to Waterloo West in their home [...]

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Thursday Sports Roundup — UPDATE: Video

By Emily Mitchell Little Hawk Staff Reporter State Track Scores as of Day 1 On the second day of State Track, the Girls have 2nd place with 25 points and West in 4th with 16. The top four ranks are as follows: 1. Dowling 28 2. City High 25 3. Ankeny 20 4. West High [...]

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City Track beats West at Regionals and moves on to State – SLIDE SHOW

By Erin Danielson Little Hawk Staff Reporter CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SLIDE SHOW As Emily Sotelo crossed the finish line, she was mobbed by city high teammates. Screams erupted from the crowd, and tears of joy were shed. Friday May 14th, at the regional track meet, City high beat West high for the first [...]

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Boys Tennis Prepares for Districts and State

By Tucker Tholen Sports Editor CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO SLIDE SHOW Coming down the stretch to the state tournament the boys tennis team faces Cedar Falls before districts on May 13th in Iowa City and then state competition. Last week the tennis team split two matches against West and Jefferson. The Little Hawks have a [...]

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The Man, The Legend, Chip Hardesty – Coach’s Profile

By Andrew Fenneman Little Hawk Staff Reporter Chip Hardesty doesn’t have a reputation for being a tough coach. He avoids most of the drill sergeant tactics used successfully by many high school coaches. “I try to take into account the personality of each player to see what they may or may not respond to, and [...]

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JV Girls Tennis dukes it out with West

By Margaret Yapp There was a City-West battle at City High this week.  Most inner-city battles stir up hard feelings, jeers and overall excitement.  But unlike other sports JV girls tennis can only be described with one word: fun, even when battling the west side ladies of troy. Before the meet the girls warmed up [...]

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Boys Soccer suffers loss against Cedar Rapids Washington

By: Colin McAllister CLICK HERE FOR SLIDE SHOW City High played against Cedar Rapids Washington Thursday, April 15.  Cedar Rapids scored the game winning point five minutes from the end of the game.  Junior J.D. McCullough scored City High’s point in the begging of the second half.  City High Lost to Cedar Falls three to [...]

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Mittman and Robertson lead track team to Drake – Girls win Clinton Relays

By Erin Danielson and Nora Holman Little Hawk Staff Reporters On Thursday April 22nd, 12 members of the boys’ track team will head to Des Moines to participate in the 101st annual Drake Relays. This meet is considered to be one of the biggest Track & Field meets in the country. Athletes from across the [...]

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Varsity finishes 3rd at Valley Relays

By Nora Holman & Liliana Coelho Little Hawk Staff Reporters Click here for… Photo Slide Show Varsity Boys Track finished third last Saturday, April 3rd. Chris Robertson ’10 placed first in the 3200 meter run with a personal best of 9:49.27. Another first place finisher was Bobby Millard jumping 21 feet 5 ½ inches in [...]

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Boys Tennis Win Big Against CR Prairie

By Tucker Tholen With the strong spring winds blowing on a Tuesday afternoon the City High boys tennis team opened up the season against Cedar Rapids Prairie. The Little Hawks won big 8-1, lead by City’s Nathaniel Gier ’10 who won singles 6-2, 6-1 and doubles 7-6, 6-7 and 10-7 in the tiebreaker. “That was [...]

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Cameron Herting nominated for KCRG Athlete of the Week

Cameron Herting has been nominated for his state championship performance in swimming. Go to the following link to vote for him. http://www.kcrg.com/sports/athleteoftheweek/vote

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City loses to Washington in Sub-State Final – Photo SLIDESHOW

Photos by Tucker Tholen ZOOM IN OR OUT ON YOUR BROWSER IF YOU DON’T SEE THE FULL IMAGE YOU MAY ALSO CLICK ON THE LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER TO ENLARGE THE SLIDESHOW

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Boy’s Swimming State Finals

By Margaret Yapp PHOTO BY: Bryant McAllister The bleachers of the Marshalltown YMCA are overflown with screaming moms and body-painted girls as the 2010 Iowa high school boy’s state swimming qualifiers walk onto the swim deck to start off the swim meet. Among the swimmers are nine City High qualifiers. Despite City’s small number of [...]

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#1 seed for boys basketball

By Tucker Tholen 2.5.10 With many doubts at the beginning of the season the Little Hawks boys basketball have showed the state their here to play. City Highs senior leader Nolan Amelon was sidelined by a mild ankle injury in the middle of the season. “ It sucks being injured during the season, especially during [...]

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Taking it to the pool

James Davis, Cameron Herting, Sid McMillin, Kanoe Russell, Colin McAllister, and Ben Weideman all are ranked to get on the podium at the meet.
To get to state, the swimmers will compete at Districts this weekend. To qualify for state, swimmers need to place in the top twenty-four over all of the divisional meets.

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Field House Fee

The University of Iowa is erecting a new recreational facility that will surpass the old one in both size and quality. However, students at City High are concerned about the potential loss of what has become a major hangout spot. “I pretty much eat, sleep, and drink over there. If they start charging, I’ll basically [...]

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City High Bowling

By Felix Mulligan 2.4.2010 The girl’s bowling team is rolling over their competition. The City High bowling team consists of 10 girls and 15 boys.  With only 3 meets left before Districts, the teams are working harder than ever before to prepare. “We are just going out there and doing our best to win but [...]

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