High School Football
Mt. Pleasant participated in a camp last Friday with West Liberty, working frames with both the offense and defense and head coach John Bowlin thought his offensive line played physical and his quarterbacks saw the field well.
Danville hosted their team camp last week. Head coach Cody Thompson talked about what his staff worked on during the first week of August,
“Our main focus, what it was to install the basics of our offense and our and our defense, and then put a heavy emphasis on fundamental technique. You know, we’re going all the way back to step one. As you know, proper footsteps on our blocking schemes. You know how to run the correct route. Learning our route tree and then applying those to our basic system that we’re going to be running this year.”
Practice officially gets underway across the state of Iowa today.
WACO will host practice from 5 pm to 8 pm tonight and for head coach Chad Edeker it’s the aspect he loves the most about coaching,
“The most is when it hits 5:00 pm and get to step on the field and actually practice. You know the planning of the practice and all the clerical work stuff behind it is, is the stuff that’s the pain, you know, just getting out on the field and working with the kids and and watching them improve and see them do the stuff we’re asking is, you know, is the fun part.”
Van Buren County will have their practice this week starting at 7 am and going to 10 am.
Winfield-Mt. Union’s “Meet the Players” will take place on Wednesday, August 21st, at 6:30 pm.
High School Volleyball
WACO will practice tonight from 5 to 8 pm. The student-athlete needs a current physical and concussion form.
Van Buren County will have their practice starting at 4:30 pm.
High School Cross Country
New London will start practicing today at 9 am and runners must have a current physical and signed concussion form. Junior high runners are encouraged to join the high school practices for extra conditioning as their first practice is scheduled for Friday, August 23rd, at 4 pm. Head coach Bridget Swails talked about who is going to lead this young squad,
“So, we’re a very young team. I have just freshmen in high school running. So, I have one female. Her name is Irelynn Kelly. And so, I look to her. I had her in junior high track because I also coach that. So, I looked for her to be a leader and showing the kids what to do in terms of the stretches as we do them. They’re similar version of what we do. And then also freshman Nathan Bergman, who also ran cross country and junior high and I’ve coached. Last few years, so those two are the main leaders. But I also have, I mean they’re all freshmen, so they’re all learning what to do, but those are the two that I had all through junior high that I think will lead the team.”
Fairfield will officially get underway at 7:45 am today at Waterworks.
Mt. Pleasant will start their team camp today.
Van Buren County will start their practice at 4 pm at the track.
High School Baseball
Burlington Notre Dame placed three players on the 2024 Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association All-State Academic team. Spencer Brent and Caden Schwenker were named to the First Team and Dylan Kipp was tabbed to the Second Team. The seniors were selected by a panel of coaches as they demonstrated outstanding academic, moral, and athletic characteristics.
College Football
The University of Iowa will officially kick off the season on Saturday, August 31st, at home against Illinois State at 11 am.
Iowa State will take on North Dakota on August 31st at 2:30 pm at home.
This Day in Sports History
1879 – First National Archery Association tournament (Chicago).
1950 – First international game by an NFL team, New York Giants beat CFL’s Ottawa Rough Riders, 20-6 at Ottawa’s Lansdowne Stadium.
1994 – Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association go on strike leading to cancellation of the World Series for only the second time in MLB history (1904); labor dispute.