Sports

Entry Name Score
Neal Corwin 88
Betty Estebo 87
Karen Mathis 86
Miles Hansmeier 84
Francis Ottaway 84
Brady Hogan 83
Val Reinke 82
Bob Stilwell 82
Annabelle Dibert 82
Samantha Herman 82
Kelly Bucher 82
Harvey Estebo 81
Rosanne Wicks 81
Molly Ottaway 81
Tami Stilwell 80
Jarod Dahlstrom 79
Marlene Houg 79
James Bucher 79
Jennifer Moose 78
Randy Hesse 78
Morgan Weymiller 77
Jim Winters 76
Jaxon Brinkman 76
Mary Engrav 76
Kristina Dibert 76
Brenda Houg 76
Randy Bloxham 76
Paul Norton 75
Bob Kubitz 75
Amy Opperman 75
Logan Houg 75
Kent Schultz 75
Ken Krambeer 75
Jack O'Neill 75
Cindy Barness 75
Chance Adam 74
*Trey Cota 74
Chad Wilson 74
Damon Micheal Weber 74
Bobbi Hansmeier 74
Mike Kramer 74
Crystal Corwin 74

The Waukon Park & Recreation Youth Soccer Program is for boys and girls in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Basic fundamentals of soccer will be taught along with team participation.

Teams will be grouped together as follows: Kindergarten participants will have their own league, first and second graders will be together, third and fourth graders will be together, and fifth and sixth graders will be together. Different size fields and balls will be used to accommodate the lower ages and skill levels. All players must wear shin guards and they must be covered by socks or pants; cleats are optional.

Games will be played Saturday mornings starting April 8 and will run for five weeks, all played at the soccer fields on the west edge of Waukon, across the street from the Waukon Wellness Center. There will not be games held April 15 due to Easter weekend.

The Waukon girls track team is fielding 41 team members for its 2017 campaign, with more than half of this season’s team members being listed as returning letterwinners from last season. A total of 22 varsity veterans return for this season, some of them not only returning with experience at the highest level of Iowa high school competition with State Meet qualification, but also winning medals at that season grand finale last spring.

The Kee girls track team will field 21 members for the 2017 season, with just over half of this year’s squad returning with letterwinning experience. Within that returning veteran experience lies an even greater benefit for the Lady Hawks with a pair of those veterans bringing back with them experience from every high school competitor’s ultimate destination, the State Meet.

A squad of 55 members holds a great deal of promise for the 2017 Waukon boys track team this spring, but that promise won’t have a great deal of experience to benefit from. Just 10 of this year’s Indian track and fieldsters return with varsity letterwinning experience, as the track Tribe graduated a large group of strong competitors last spring.

Those veteran 10 are led by six seniors in Austin Day, Adam Gruman, Hunter Jensen, Tyler O’Neill, Brandon Regan and Blain Swenson. Juniors Evan Armstead, Abe Schwartz, Mitchell Snitker and Isaiah Welch round out this season’s returning letterwinning experience.

The Kee boys track team is fielding one of its largest squads in recent seasons, as 23 young men have reported for early-season duty this spring. While the old saying goes “there is strength in numbers,” the numbers where the strength of varsity letterwinning experience comes from are not all that high, with just four varsity veterans returning this season.

“There are a lot more boys out this year than in the past,” Kee boys track coach Nick Mooney said. “However, very few of them have significant experience and I will be looking to those more experienced guys to help out at practice by setting a good tempo and sharing their knowledge of skills.”

Entry Name Score
Dana Waters 55
Karen Mathis 54
Annabelle Dibert 54
Carol Johnson 53
Neal Corwin 52
James Bucher 51
Paul Norton 51
Jarod Dahlstrom 51
Marlene Houg 51
Heather Delaney 50
Samantha Herman 50
Chad Wilson 50
Crystal Corwin 50
Ellen Lenth 50
Val Reinke 50
Bob Stilwell 50
Cory Huinker 49
Jaime Waters 49
Nathan Wood 49
Zach Rethwisch 49
David Decker 49
Harvey Estebo 49
Molly Ottaway 49
Ralph Hammel, Sr. 49
Anna Quillin 48
Tami Stilwell 48
Jerry Schoenthal 48
Dave Martin 48
Renee Martin 48
Mari Delaney 48
Claire Beyer 48
Brent Beyer 48
Ron P. Herman 48
Miles Hansmeier 48
Kristina Dibert 48
Emily Hammel 48
Jim Winters 48
Russell Jones 48
Francis Ottaway 48
Brenda Houg 48
Ashley Jones 48
Darwin Johnson 48

Waukon wrestling 182-pound senior Blain Swenson competed among the top senior wrestlers from northeast Iowa and southeast Minnesota at the 16th annual Iowa-Minnesota All-Star Border Battle dual meet hosted by Crestwood High School in Cresco Friday, March 10. Pictured above, Swenson controls two-time Minnesota State Tournament placewinner Travis Capelle of Stewartville on the way to a 6-2 loss in their match late in the All-Star dual. The Minnesota squad won the event, 37-30, to even up the annual series sponsored by the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame in Cresco at eight wins each.
 

Waukon High School and Luther College alumnus Greg Lonning was inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Division III Hall Fame Thursday, March 9 at the NWCA Hall of Fame Banquet held at the La Crosse Center Ballroom in La Crosse, WI. The banquet and induction ceremony were part of the NCAA Division III National Wrestling Championships also held at the La Crosse Center this past weekend, March 10-11.

A 1979 graduate and State Wrestling placewinner at Waukon High School and a 1984 graduate of Luther College, Lonning was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a wrestling coach. He also had the honor of sharing that induction ceremony honoring with one of his former wrestlers, three-time All-America honoree and 1996 NCAA Champion at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Jeff O’Gara, who is also currently an assistant wrestling coach at Luther College in Decorah.

The 2016-2017 Waukon wrestling season saw the Indian mat program take some small steps forward, but forward nonetheless. The wrestling Tribe posted a season record of 9-16, including a mark of 1-5 in Northeast Iowa Conference competition.

This season’s nine wins were an improvement over last season’s seven dual meet victories, and that single Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) victory, a mid-season triumph over Oelwein, was the mat Tribe’s first NEIC dual meet victory in six seasons. The Indians also won the team championship at the Riceville Tournament this season.