The state football championship was enough to cement the legacy of Aaron Graves at Southeast Valley. Four-time varsity letterwinner. Four-time all-state selection. Three-time first team pick. Committed to the University of Iowa’s football program as a precocious 6-foot-4, 225-pound freshman ...

CEDAR FALLS — Little kids in the backyard count down the clock and throw the football in the end zone as the final seconds of a championship scenario count down. You do a spin move at the park to get around a defender, and then hurdle another and jaunt 99 yards to the end zone. As a ...

Success can be measured in a variety of ways. At St. Edmond, achievements are defined through culture. Mike Szalat has spearheaded the Gael cross country program for the past 23 years. Szalat takes a great deal of pride in his program and his runners — not just as athletes, but as ...

In 2002, the Iowa football team reeled off nine consecutive victories after a stunning home loss to rival Iowa State. An 11-1 regular season had fans playing the “what-if” game the rest of the way with BCS national championship scenarios — theories I still hear from time to time nearly 20 ...

High school football isn’t necessarily predictable, but a deep playoff run doesn’t just happen on a whim. In 2020, five of the six state champions finished the regular season ranked in the Top-4 of their respective classes. The same number — all but one — of title programs were in ...

We are in the golden era of college football scoring, where programs from across the country put up video-game like totals for points and yardage on a regular basis. Average team scoring eclipsed 30 points per game for the first time ever five years ago and hasn’t looked back since. In 2004, ...