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The Waukon football team opened its home schedule for this season with what is believed to be a bit of history, as the grid Tribe hosted Oelwein Friday, September 4 in non-district play and ended up scoring what is believed to be its highest single-game scoreboard total in program history with an 80-0 victory. Scoring on 11 of its 12 possessions in the ballgame, the Tribe bolted to a 44-0 halftime lead and played its reserves the entire second quarter but continued to execute at a high level that helped the Indians keep up their record-setting scoring pace, despite keeping the ball on the ground for a vast majority of the ballgame.

The Indians are next scheduled to wrap up their non-district schedule this Friday, September 11 at Class 3A West Delaware. The Hawks are coming off a 61-25 home win over another Class 2A District 3 squad, North Fayette Valley, this past Friday, September 4, and also own a season-opening win, 42-7, at Marion.

In its only competition of this past week, the Kee volleyball team opened its dual match, home and Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) schedules when the Lady Hawks hosted Postville Tuesday, September 1. In a back-and-forth battle that extended into four sets and had three of those decided by five points or less, Kee’s girls ended up coming out on the short end of that UIC battle.

The Hawks are next scheduled to host Clayton Ridge Thursday, September 10 before playing in the Kepros Invitational hosted by Crestwood High School Saturday, September 12. Kee will then host South Winneshiek Tuesday, September 15 before playing in the Waukon Invitational Tournament Saturday, September 19.

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The start of the 2026 Eight-Player District 4 schedule for the Kee football team took the Hawks to a place where history has not been on their side against an Easton Valley team that has not allowed the football Hawks to find the win column in their seven match-ups since 2013. Kee’s grid charges put all of that history behind them in their Friday, September 4 District 4 opener, handling an overall young River Hawk squad that has just one senior and two juniors on its roster to score on nine of Kee’s 10 offensive possessions in the contest - and a couple of Easton Valley’s as well, including the Hawks’ first seven series with the ball on the way to a 66-0 triumph.

Waukon Golf and Country Club held its season club championships Sunday, August 23. Jeremiah Weighner won the Junior Boys championship nine-hole event with a score of 38. Tayla Berns won the Junior Girls championship nine-hole event with a score of 45. Dylan Stegen won the Men’s championship with an 18-hole score of 67. Ramsey Welch won the Women’s championship with an 18-hole score of 88. Individual scores from the event appear in the Wednesday, September 2 edition of the Standard.

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Being ranked second in the initial Class 2A rankings by the Iowa Track & Field Coaches Association, the Waukon girls cross country team took its first competition steps toward proving that high regard when the Lady Indians - literally - ran away with the team title at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, August 25. Placing four runners within the top 15 individual finishers and all five of their team-scored runners within the top-21 of that overall field of 130 runners at the all high school meet with just a single girls race, the distance Tribe tallied 53 team points to top the remainder of that field of nine scored teams by at least 20 points.

The Waukon girls were next scheduled to compete in the Charles City Invitational this Thursday, September 3. The Lady Indians will then take part in the North Fayette Valley Invitational at West Union Thursday, September 10 before competing at the Starmont Invitational scheduled for Tuesday, September 15.

The Waukon boys cross country team got its 2026 campaign started Tuesday, August 25 at the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational that featured only high school competition, and also had all levels of that high school event compete in just one race. The Indians placed three of their runners within the top-15 overall competitors in the 114-runner boys field to help tally a team score of 112 points that placed the distance Tribe fourth in the meet’s field of 11 scored teams which was topped by a Waterloo United team that placed four runners within that same top-15 and all five of its scored runners within the meet’s first 16 individual finishers for a team total of 43 points.

Even with eight returning varsity letterwinners this season, the 2026 Kee volleyball team will still have an abundance of new faces - at least to the high school volleyball court - to try and make this fall’s campaign the best it can be. Coming off of a winless season last fall and in the grips of a five-season stretch with no more than two match wins during any of those campaigns, the combination of those varsity veterans and a renewed look from the top down for this season’s squad is looking to change that recent trend.

The change at the top for Kee volleyball comes in head coach Kelly Welsh. The former Kelly Dibert is a 2004 graduate of Kee High School, where she played volleyball for the Lady Hawks during her high school career. She also brings experience coaching youth volleyball within local programs to the helm of the varsity level of play.

Waukon High School and the Allamakee Athletic Booster Club hosted the annual Community Appreciation Meal Membership Drive and Meet the Team Night at Waukon High School Tuesday, August 18. In addition to the meal and membership drive, the 2026 Waukon Indian fall sports teams were introduced and all in attendance were treated to a motivational message from Waukon High School alum Marcus Weymiller, who presented a challenge to local student-athletes of raising the standard in everything they take part in, while he also outlined a four-step process to help accomplish that feat - a process that helped him achieve some of his own lofty goals in life.

The 2026 Waukon football team will return nearly half of this season’s overall program numbers of 51 players, freshmen through seniors, as varsity letterwinners from a squad last fall that put together a 6-4 season record and made a ninth consecutive appearance in the Class 2A State Play-Offs. The grid Tribe of 2025 played to a 4-1 Class 2A District 3 mark that laid claim to a District Runner-Up result last fall that came behind an Osage team that was undefeated until the Class 2A State Semifinals last season, with 24 young men returning from that grid Tribe mix to help pave the way again this season.

Barb Trammell, former Lansing resident who founded the concept of Granny Basketball in 2005 (as proclaimed on the Lansing welcome sign in the submitted photo below) and who now lives in California, returned to the state of Iowa in mid-July for the Granny Basketball National Tournament played in Ankeny July 17-19. A former member of the original Lansing Great Dames Granny Basketball team, Trammell brought her current Granny Basketball team, the California Poppies, to this year’s National Tournament in Iowa, with fellow former Lansing Great Dames players Sharol Zweibohmer of Lansing and Denise Tinker of Elgin joining the Poppies in playing in this year’s National Tournament. Trammell is pictured in the middle of the three ladies in the front row of the submitted team photo at right below.