Sports

Wed
16
Aug

Michael J. Hager Award winners ...

Each year the Waukon Swim Club honors swimmers with the Michael J. Hager Award given in memory of Michael J. Hager (1960-1991), who was the son of Bonnie and the late James Hager of Waukon. This year’s Michael J. Hager Award recipients are pictured at right, left to right, Dane Burns and Allia Ericson.

Michael Hager loved swimming. In 1976, as a lifeguard at the pool, he started the Waukon Swim Club. He worked as a lifeguard, swam with the club and coached until he graduated from high school in 1978. He went on to attend college for one year at William Penn University and then transferred to Luther College, where he swam for the Norse for three years. Each summer, Hager would come home to coach the swim team and lifeguard at the pool until he graduated from Luther in 1982. Hager believed that a swimmer did not have to be a technical or precision swimmer to be good in the sport. He believed that everyone could learn to swim and love the water.

Wed
16
Aug

Sets on the Beach - Waukon Park & Recreation Adult Sand Volleyball League Tournament Champion ...

Left to right - Front row: Leah Bulman, Justine Sullivan, Andrea Gibbs, Lexy Johnson; Back row: Reed Kelly, Isaac Roe, Noah Hatlan. Not pictured: Brock Hatlan and Lainey Sweeney. Submitted photo.
 

Wed
09
Aug

Brennan named All-America Scholar Athlete at Luther

Katie Brennan ...
Katie Brennan ...

Katie Brennan, a 2019 graduate of Kee High School in Lansing and a senior on the 2023 Luther College softball team, was recently honored for her work both on and off the field this season. The Lady Norse third baseman was one of seven players from this past season’s Luther softball team named All-America Scholar Athletes by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Tuesday, August 1.

To earn All-America Scholar Athlete honors, a player must have achieved a 3.5 grade point average (GPA) for the 2022-2023 academic year. The seven Lady Norse to achieve that honor headlined an overall team effort that ranked Luther 124th among all Division III softball teams with a 3.07 team GPA.

Wed
09
Aug

Waukon baseball plays to 15-19 record, makes some history in 2023

The 2023 Waukon baseball season continued to build on a renewed foundation with a third consecutive season of 15 wins that marks the best consecutive season stretch for Waukon baseball since the two-year span of a combined 51 wins during the diamond Tribe’s 2007 and 2008 campaigns that included the program’s best-ever season record of 29-10 in 2007. This season’s 15 wins all came in the regular season, marking the most regular season victories for the Indians since 2008, and improves upon the 14 wins garnered during last summer’s regular season and another 14-win regular season from the Tribe’s 2011 campaign that marks the most recent best record during a 17-22 campaign that took the Indians to their last State Tournament appearance, that season grand finale coming amongst Iowa’s Class 3A ranks.

Wed
09
Aug

Kee baseball team plays to 19-19 season record during 2023 campaign, finishes second in Upper Iowa Conference play

Despite fielding nearly an entirely new squad of varsity players this summer, the 2023 Kee baseball team played its way to an even season record of 19-19. Returning just one of its day-to-day players from the previous season that graduated nine seniors, and having just one senior headlining this season’s upperclassman leadership, that average season record included a well above average mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play of 12-6 that placed the Hawks in a tie for second place (record-wise) with an MFL/MarMac squad that played its to the brink of Class 2A State Tournament qualification but that Kee had beaten in two of the three games the two teams played against one another this year.

Wed
02
Aug

Harpers Ferry Fireflies finish as Granny Basketball National Tournament Runner-Up for 2023 ...

The Harpers Ferry Fireflies played in the National Granny Basketball Tournament held July 15-16 at Luther College in Decorah, winning five of their six games played to end up as the National Tournament Runner-Up for the second consecutive season and for the third time in the last four tournaments.

The Fireflies have finished either first or second in each of the last seven Granny Basketball National Tournaments, winning four National Championships in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021 and adding runner-up finishes in 2019 and last year in 2022 to this season’s second-place final result, with no tournament being able to be played in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wed
02
Aug

Lifeguard staff for Summer 2023 at Waukon Family Aquatic Center ...

More than a dozen local young men and women of high school to heading off to college age have been serving local residents and visitors to the Waukon Family Aquatic Center again this summer in a capacity they never hope to use, but one in which they are more than prepared to do so, if necessary.

Pictured above are members of the lifeguard staff for Summer 2023 at the Waukon Family Aquatic Center. Left to right - Front row: Hayden Palmer, Ashlin O’Neill, Cameron Johnson, Maycie Curtin, Halea Corwin, Sarah Hennessy, Reagan Lubahn and Bailey Sherman; Back row: Waukon Family Aquatic Center Manager Julie Lenth, Draemon Berger, Avalea Burns, Ella Homewood, Keeran Barr, Olivia Bossom and Waukon Family Aquatic Center Assistant Manager CC Althoff. Not pictured: Ethan Baker and Caleb Perkins. Submitted photo.
 

Wed
02
Aug

Harpers Ferry Boosters, Inc. hosts its annual Firecracker 5K Run/Walk event

The 2023 Firecracker 5K held Saturday, July 1 was the lead-off event for the Fourth of July holiday weekend in Harpers Ferry. The event is hosted by Harpers Ferry Boosters, Inc. and is the organization’s main annual fundraiser which helps the group offer financial support to many organizations and worthy causes benefiting Harpers Ferry and Allamakee County throughout the year.

The top overall female finisher was Addy Carlson, and the top male finisher was Michael Goodenbour, both of Cedar Falls. The top finishers in each age division each won a medal and are listed in the chart accompanying this article. Special thanks to Kaylee Bachman for singing the National Anthem prior to the start of the race.

Wed
02
Aug

Waukon softball team plays to first winning record in 13 seasons with 16-15 campaign

The Waukon softball team played to a 16-15 season record that may seem to be about average on paper but was actually well above average in so many more aspects. That 16-15 result marks the first time in more than a decade that the diamond Tribe has recorded both a winning record and 15 wins in a season.

“I think our greatest accomplishment was how well these girls played together and never gave up in any game we played,” Waukon softball coach Melissa Ward shared. “It showed in how close of games we played and our ending record this season. Our 16-15 record is the first year since 2010 where the softball program has won more than 15 games and had a winning record. It’s hard to have teams that know each other as well as this squad did. The experience and leadership this team had was great. There will be a solid group of returners coming back next year, so being able to play the game the way we know how will be what we need to build on moving forward.”

Wed
26
Jul

Sweeney Real Estate donates to Waukon Wrestling Club following purchase of property for new training facility ...

Completion of a real estate transaction that resulted in the Waukon Wrestling Club non-profit group purchasing the shop area steel building (pictured in the photo background above) at 807 1st Avenue SW in Waukon further resulted in a generous donation presented to the Waukon Wrestling Club by Sweeney Real Estate of Waukon, the agency involved in the property transaction. The shop building was previously owned by Adam and Jennifer Hooten as part of the Teddy’s Auto Sales location, and the Waukon Wrestling Club had recently purchased the building to create a new training facility for the Waukon Wrestling Club and its many youth participants of all ages and skill levels.

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