Community Sports

Storm Lake native Matt Hanson competed at the IRONMAN World Championship event in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He stated it was a tough day for him as he got off to his best swim of his career, but began to suffer cramping issues that plagued him the rest of the day...

Newly-named Storm Lake Whitecaps head coach Dan Wendel has been the head baseball coach at Alta-Aurelia High School the past nine seasons. He has amassed an overall record of 203-67 since he took over the program in 2009 and led his teams to three State Tournament appearances. He was the first baseball coach in the history of Alta or Alta-Aurelia baseball to take a team to the State Tournament. In his first season the Alta Cyclones advandced into the State’s Semi Final game finishing 31-3...

CEDAR FALLS - There were many shooters from M&G Gun Club at Schaller and the surrounding area that competed and won trophies at the Iowa State Trapshoot event in July going from the 18-23. Those coming home winners were Jim Roeder, Brody Deitering and Chayden Wright from Schaller; Gary Stille, Ray Dentlinger, Trey and Dayne Crouch from Storm Lake; Jesse Bremer and Austin Tiefenthaler from Holstein; Jim Pemble from Sac City and Jessica Gunderson from Kiron...

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. ...