Waukon High School well represented at 2016 Shrine Bowl to be played Saturday

Mariah Hancock and Kate-Leigh Wilson selected to Cheer Squad; Peyton Hesse to play for North Squad in football classic

Waukon High School will be well represented once again for the 2016 Iowa Shrine Bowl All-Star Football Classic being played this Saturday, July 23 at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.

Graduated senior Peyton Hesse will represent Waukon football as a member of this year’s North football squad, while fellow schoolmates Mariah Hancock and Kate-Leigh Wilson have been chosen to represent Waukon cheerleading as members of the cheerleading squad as well. Wilson, however, will be unable to participate in her second year of being selected to take part in the annual classic.

The Iowa Shrine Bowl Game is an all-star football game between selected pre-college football athletes residing on either side of a north-south dividing line in Iowa. In addition to the football game, the players, cheerleaders, coaches and managers experience a week filled with various activities, culminating in a football and cheerleading mini-camp for the Shriner’s Hospital children and their parents to take part in Friday, July 22.

An Honors Banquet also takes place that same Friday evening, July 22. Saturday, July 23 will feature a parade in Cedar Falls at 9:30 a.m. followed by an autograph session. The Shrine Bowl game is scheduled for a 4 p.m. start at the UNI-Dome on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls.

Football players are selected by a process of nomination by coaches, balloting by statewide sports media professionals, and official invitation from a representative of the Iowa Shrine Bowl. Cheerleaders are nominated to try out for the Shrine Bowl squad, that try-out process taking placing in January each year.