Jeff Webster
WOODWARD -- If experience pays, the Woodward-Granger football team will be well off this season.
The Hawks return almost their entire roster and boasts a squad with 14 seniors this year, but the one piece missing is a big one,...
The Perry football team opened last season with a pair of non-district wins at Dewey Field, generating hopes for a winning season.
Those wishes were overturned with seven losses in District 2 play, leaving the Jays 2-7 overall.
The goal for...
If watching high school athletes work hard, never complain and maximize their potential is something you appreciate, the Perry cross country teams should be worth your attention.
"What we have is a team with a lot of grit," veteran Bluejay...
WOODWARD -- Last year Woodward-Granger resurrected a cross country program that had been dormant for over a decade. Now, as the second season begins, the decision to do so certainly appears to have been a wise one.
"I am really...
DES MOINES -- Sometimes all the hard work pays off.
For Perry's Kade Killmer, it paid off to the tune of over $16,000 worth of college scholarship funds.
Killmer recently showed Lori, his market heifer, at the Iowa State Fair. So...
WOODWARD -- For the first time in several years, the tiniest chink in the stout armor of Woodward-Granger's volleyball program might be visible.
Gone are five veteran starters, include the school's all-time service, ace and block leaders, players who helped...
PANORA -- Panorama was one of only six Class 1A schools to send both their boys and girls cross country teams to the state meet last season. With no losses to graduation, the Panther girls are loaded with both...
New Perry volleyball head coach John Fulton inherits a team that must replace three starting seniors off an 8-26 season that was marked by an 0-7 trip through the Raccoon River Conference.
"We know we have challenges ahead of us,...
PANORA -- A young Panorama volleyball team struggled to a 5-23 overall mark last season, with the Panthers finishing just 1-7 in WCAC play.
Now a year more experience, second year head coach Renae Follmuth and her charges are in...
New Perry Elementary Assistant Principal Ryan Marzen summed up his first wide-scale meeting with the student body Monday by noting the variety of reactions he was noticing.
"Some of the kids are excited, some are scared, and some are just...