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While football season is months away, the Storm Lake football team has seen a change to their spring workouts due to the cancellation of school from the COVID-19 pandemic. The spring workout season is simple for the players, mostly spending time in the weight room, but head coach Rudy Wieck and his players are not allowed in the weight room, or any gym, and have had to make due with home workouts...

The decision on Monday was made jointly by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, Iowa High School Music Association and the Iowa High School Speech Association to join up with Governor Kim Reynolds after she announced on Sunday that all schools should close for the next four weeks...

The coaches of the Storm Lake trap shooting team have agreed that the team needs to follow the lead of the schools’ decision to postpone activity, although events do not take place at the schools. According to an announcement Monday, the team is postponing all practices and meets until the schools can resume normal classes. ...

With the conclusion of the 2019-20 girls basketball season for the six area girls teams, the Pilot Tribune honors the best of the best following an exciting year that saw Newell-Fonda win their second straight 1A Championship, this one in thrilling fashion. Without further ado, here are the All-Area girls team honorees, Player of the Year and Coach of the Year...

With the conclusion of the 2019-20 girls basketball season, capped off with the second straight 1A Championship from Newell-Fonda, the Twin Lakes Conference released their All-Conference teams as well as naming their coach of the year. To recap the TLC slate: Newell-Fonda won the conference title with an 11-0 record. Sioux Central was fourth after an 8-3 mark, St. Mary’s tied for seventh after going 4-7 and Alta-Aurelia was 12th after going 1-10...

Newell-Fonda overcomes 16 point deficit to stun Bishop Garrigan

DES MOINES - The game was tied for all of four seconds on Friday afternoon as Newell-Fonda took on St. Ansgar in a 1A semifinal contest. Mustang junior Maggie Walker hit a three-pointer as Newell-Fonda never looked back in their 84-33 win over the Saints. The 51 point margin of victory sets a new 1A State Tournament record as N-F broke their own record previously set back in 2013...

Forty teams qualified for the State Basketball Tournament after days, weeks and months of practice. Another championship caliber team that will show its talent Friday and Saturday has practiced just a few hours. That team is the All-Iowa Honor Dance Team, which has become a tradition at the Girls’ State Basketball Tournament. After just hours of practice together, the students annually put on a show that is nationally recognized as one of the finest of its kind...

With the conclusion of the 2019-2020 boys basketball season, the Pilot Tribune went to work figuring out which of the area athletes would find a place on the All-Area Boys team as well as picking Player and Coach of the Year. This year’s first team sees players from four different schools on it...

Alta-Aurelia alum Abby Kraemer was enjoying her freshman year at Dordt College and was excelling on the softball field before the cancellation of the season. Kraemer, an animal science major, is one of the millions of college students who have seen their year interrupted by the COVID-19 virus...

Newell-Fonda alum Erin Gerke, has taken a bit of a winding road to find her perfect spot to grow as a student and as an athlete. It took Gerke a couple of times get to the right school, but the Newell native has found her spot at Buena Vista University...

Newell-Fonda alum Olivia Larsen is currently in the midst of her freshman year at Morningside College in Sioux City. The former Mustang standout has not only been learning on the court but also in the classroom, and having to deal with now having to learn from her home in Fonda...

A quadricep strain ended the junior season of Buena Vista University track and cross country athlete Zach Kenny last year. This year, Kenny suffered a similar shortened spring fate. The cancellation of the track and field season, Kenny’s last chance to take part in BVU athletics, brings his career to a close through no fault of his own...

Buena Vista University senior Emily Hoesing, a Sioux City native, always wanted to run for a track and field team, but through most of her time in high school, she was unable too. However, once she arrived at BVU, Hoesing made the long run to the Beaver track and field team and tried to make her mark in the distance events...

This was supposed to be the year that Buena Vista University men’s tennis coach Brett Groen saw his two seniors play out their final year and graduate. However, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, Groen and the rest of his team saw their season come to a premature end...

Buena Vista University track coach Colton Slack had a good idea it was coming a couple of weeks ago when he was at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships with Max Murphy last week. The coach and his athlete were set to compete but the championships were canceled due to COVID-19 and soon saw the outdoor season suffer the same fate as the finale to the indoor one...

Storm Lake’s resident Ironman Matt Hanson was able to get back to action last month following an injury suffered last year. However, thanks to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, Hanson has found himself back on the sidelines as he waits for the Ironman competitions to continue...

Despite the inability to go to a gym or play basketball in the park with a group of friends, people can run to remain in shape, and get much-needed exercise while isolated. Buena Vista Regional Medical Center Fitness Center Manager Evan Franzmeier has some tips on how to start a new regime of running and even preparing for a 5k race...

In order to protect communities amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the annual Buena Vista University Athletic Fundraiser, scheduled for Saturday, April 4, will be postponed. BVU will determine a future date and share information for the event as soon as possible...

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU) action continues on Iowa PBS. The IGHSAU and Iowa PBS have announced a contract renewal for the broadcasting rights to the Iowa Girls High School State Championships. Fans across Iowa and beyond will continue to have access to unparalleled coverage of the championships, cheering on their favorite Iowa Girl from anywhere...

CEDAR RAPIDS – Six GK Storm gymnasts competed in the Winter Wonderland meet last weekend (Feb. 21-23). The individual competitors came home with several medals, and Bronze gymnast Alexis Cole was an all-around champion. Alexis Cole placed first all around in her age group with an all-around score of 37.025. She was first on floor (9.550) and beam (9.475), tied for fifth on bars (9.050), and placed sixth on vault (9.000) to become the all-around champion...

STORM LAKE – The GK Storm & Blaze gymnastics teams hosted their third annual Dream of Spring Invitational home gymnastics meet last weekend (Feb. 8-9) at the Storm Lake High School gymnasium. The Bronze team placed third and the Gold team placed fifth overall, and four GK Storm gymnasts scored top-three all-around finishes...