Community Sports

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. ...

The 6th grade boys basketball team from Newell-Fonda will play in the Iowa Youth Basketball Region Playoff in Cedar Falls on Sunday, February 26th. All Iowa teams in grades 4-9 have been invited to play off in the North and South Region Championships to advance to the over-all Iowa state championship. ...

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