Community Sports

To most people a challenge would be running a few miles after a couple of weeks of building to that point. To other people, a challenge is looking at an IRONMAN event and saying they would like to do that for their next hill to climb. For former Storm Lake resident Benjamin Ellingson, completing an IRONMAN event was his hill to climb...

CARROLL - After a long slumber the Storm Lake Whitecaps have brought a championship back to town after defeating the Carroll Merchants on Friday night to bring home the Pioneer Collegiate League championship, 8-5. The Whitecaps struck early against the Merchants. ...

Baseball has been second nature to Jordan Wendel. From a young age, Wendel was raised around baseball. His brother was a player. His father, Dan, a coach. Jordan knew that baseball was going be his thing. Through years of hard work, Wendel has a scholarship to Butler University...

It has been 60 years between the last White Caps season and first Whitecaps season. The landscape of baseball has changed through 1957 to current day. Social media, travel and the game itself has undergone changes. Pitch counts are the norm in the sport. What has not changed through that time span is the love of the game...

Registrations are now being taken for the Storm Lake HyNoon Kiwanis Triathlon, set for August 19. Participants should register by August 9 to be guaranteed an event t-shirt. The event will again be based at King’s Pointe Resort, with the route along the shoreline of the 3,200 acre lake. The sprint triathlon includes an 800 meter swim, 12.63 miles bike ride and 3.1 mile run...

On July 15, Storm Lake Athletics will be holding their second annual four person best-shot tournament to raise money that will support reducing the cost of activity tickets for Storm Lake High School students. The entry fee for the tournament is $50, which includes 18 holes of golf with a cart and food. Along with the tournament they will be raffling off a bike donated from Lakeshore Cyclery and Fitness in Storm Lake...

CYLINDER - The Alta-Aurelia trap team competed in a qualifying round for the Iowa Games on Saturday afternoon at the Sportsman County Park. The top three finishers advanced to the finals which will be held on July 15 in Elkhart. Elkhart is located north of Ankeny...

Lake Creek will be hosting a golf outing in June 24. The event will be a fundraiser for the Kenny Arnold Foundation. The foundation gives money for cancer research and education. It is a 4 person best shot event. There will be hole prizes and door prizes to be given at the golf event.Tee off is at 10:00 a.m. and the cost is $80 per person...

Perhaps you may or may not know this but there is a semi-professional football team that is based out of Aurelia. Two years ago, the Northwest Iowa Bulldogs had their inaugural season and have built themselves within the Aurelia community. The Bulldogs used to be the mascot of the Aurelia school district before they merged with Alta. ...

THE WOODLANDS, TX - On Saturday, Storm Lake native Matt Hanson set a new American record completing the course in seven hours and 52 minutes and earning an Ironman Championship in the process. Andrew Starykowicz took the early advantage over the rest of the field jumping out to a 13 minute lead only for Hanson to overtake him on the final leg of the competiton. ...

CommUNITY Education will be offering Beginner Ball, an instructional T-Ball program for children 5 and 6 years old. Beginner Ball is scheduled to begin on Saturday, April 22nd. Skills will be taught from 11 a.m. until noon on four Saturday mornings – April 22nd, 30th and May 6th, May 13th.. ...

On Sunday afternoons at Frank Starr Park in Storm Lake, a group of 20 or so guys join together and practice a sport that not many people know about, rugby. Rugby was created by William Webb Ellis back in the 1820s after he picked up a soccer ball during a game. He was later banned from playing the sport so rugby came from those ashes...

In early June the Storm Lake Whitecaps will make their return to the baseball diamond for the first time since 1940 as part of the Pioneer League this summer. The new league will have four teams this season which includes the Whitecaps. Storm Lake native Nic Seaman was tabbed to be their head coach back in November of 2016...

The GK Storm Gymnastics hit the road again on the weekend of March 4th and 5th and landed in Des Moines for the Field of Dreams Meet. Storm Lake had 12 gymnasts representing the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum teams. The results are as follows: The Bronze Team: Caitlyn Deyoung – vault 7.20, bars 9.00 receiving fifth place, beam 8.4, floor 8.450 and an All Around score of 33.050. ...

Swim 2.4 miles, bicycle 112 miles, and run 26 miles. Anyone of these activities is likely going to leave the average person slumped in a puddle of sweat questioning their life choices, but for two time Ironman champion Matt Hanson, doing all three is just an average day at the office...

The Turn Around’s GK Storm (Storm Lake) and GK Blaze (LeMars) hit the road again and headed to La Vista, Nebraska for the Metro Stars Meet on the weekend of February 18th and 19th. Between both the Storm Lake and LeMars teams, there were a total of 37 gymnasts who represented The Turn Around. GK Storm had girls representing the Bronze team, Silver team and Gold team. The results for the GK Storm team are as follows:...

On Saturday, March 4th several Junk Yard Dog team members competed at the sixth annual BV Classic wrestling tournament. This tournament features grade school, high school, college, and old timer categories. All of the wrestlers competed very well, while demonstrating excellent sportsmanship. Brayden Marshall had a great day taking first place in his weight group...

Alex DeRoos, an eighth grade student wrestling for the Junkyard Dogs (Alta-Aurelia’s youth program), was crowned the 171 pound State Champion on Sunday, February 26th at Wells Fargo Arena. Alex, the son of Louie and Sherry DeRoos, and five time NW Iowa District Champ for the Junkyard Dogs, started through his bracket of 32 on Saturday with two falls, one over Sawyer Springer (Fort Dodge) in 36 seconds and another pin over Camden Krueger (Denver-Tripoli) in 1:40 securing a spot on the podium. ...