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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.

The winter of 2016-2017 saw the inauguration of a high school bowling season at Waukon High School, and even though, as one might expect, there were some growing pains with a brand new season for a program never before undertaken, that growth carried over from pains to the establishment of a program with a promising future.

“I told the kids at the beginning of the season that you only get one first season and we have to put a good foundation in place,” Waukon bowling coach Jerry Keenan said. “This season has been a great experience for the participants. It allowed for another opportunity for high school students to get involved in an extracurricular activity. The bowlers had an enjoyable experience and made a lot of new friends along the way. It will be a lifelong activity for some. Bowling was a great addition to the extra-curriculars at our school and I thank the administration, the school board, and Scott Oder at Odie’s Place for making this opportunity happen.”

The Waukon boys basketball team played its way to a 6-15 season record but shot its way to a new school record in the process. A new season-best mark of 170 three-point field goals far surpassed the previous record of 138 established by the 2000-2001 basketball Indians.

“As far as season highlights go, this was one of the best outside shooting teams that we have had in Waukon,” Waukon boys basketball coach Jed Hemann said. “Our shooting kept us close in a lot of games.”

That overall season mark included a record of 2-10 in Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) play, leaving the Indians in sixth place in the final seven-team NEIC standings. Those two wins in conference play came against Oelwein, the team that finished below the basketball Tribe in this year’s final standings.

Waukon wrestling 182-pound senior Blain Swenson will be among the top senior wrestlers from northeast Iowa and southeast Minnesota who will face off in the 16th annual Iowa-Minnesota All-Star Border Battle dual meet at 7 p.m. this Friday, March 10 at Crestwood High School in Cresco. The event is sponsored by the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame housed in Cresco, and tickets for the event will be sold at the door at Crestwood High School. Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame President and event organizer Dennis Meirick noted wrestlers from Crestwood, Waukon, Decorah, Osage, South Winneshiek, MFL/MarMac, Postville, Sumner-Fredericksburg and North Fayette Valley have been invited to wrestle for the Iowa squad, which holds an 8-7 series advantage over the Minnesota squad.
 

The Northeast Iowa Rugby Club will be kicking off its fifth season as a club this spring. The club is comprised of members from around the tri-state area who range in age from 18 to 51 years old. The Club is always welcoming new members that may be interested in playing and/or as a social member. Right now the club has enough male members to field a male side (team), and women are also welcome to join. The goal of the club is to start a women’s side and an under 18 or high school side. The mission of the club is to grow the sport of rugby in the northeast Iowa area, while also contributing to the communities that its members reside through donations of time, labor and monetarily. The tentative spring schedule for the Northeast Iowa Rugby spring season includes the following: March 18 at Osage; March 25 at Clinton; April 8 vs. Bremer County (home games played in Decorah); May 6 at All Iowa Tournament in Iowa Falls; May 20 vs. River City (Mason City) in game held at West Union.

The Waukon High School cheerleaders offer their Little Indians Cheer Camp every year around the same time as the holiday break to help raise funds for new cheer uniforms. This year, the camp was held January 2 to learn cheers, dance, jumps, kicks and stunts. The youngest group or cheerleaders (pictured above) participated in the morning, ranging in ages from Pre-Kindergarten through second grade. The afternoon session involved kids in third grade up to eighth grade (pictured below). Due to weather cancellations, the little cheerleaders’ performance following the camp was postponed to January 5. The youngest kids performed at halftime of the JV game and the older kids performed at halftime of the varsity game that night. Participation numbers were reported as being up this year with around 130 kids registered. Submitted photos.

The Allamakee Sno-Blazers snowmobile club hosted its first annual Radar Run snowmobile speed event Saturday, February 11 at Green Valley Getaway in Waukon. The club previously sponsored local snowmobile drag races for many years, and this inaugural replacement event featured a 450-foot track that the 120 combined spectators and competitors found to be fast and entertaining.  A listing of the fastest finishers in each of the event’s eight classes of competition appears below:

Vintage 340cc - Bob Timmerman
Vintage 440cc - Kevin Benjegerdes
Vintage 500cc - Bob Timmerman
Modern Stock 500cc - Clayton Welsh
Modern Stock 600cc - Andrew Eberling
Modern Stock 700cc - Andrew Eberling
Modern Stock 800cc - Jason Bellmeyer
1000cc/Modified - Bryce D.