Sports

The Kee boys track and field team took part in its largest outdoor competition of this early season when they participated in the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31. Kee’s boys claimed a pair of first-place event finishes and one runner-up placewinning to headline their way to an eighth-place finish in the 10-team meet field with 46.5 team points.

The Hawks were also scheduled to compete at the Waukon Early Bird Invitational Thursday, April 2 but had that meet canceled by rainy weather. They were next scheduled to take part in the Edgewood-Colesburg Invitational Tuesday, April 7 before competing in Postville’s Foster-Kiesau Relays Thursday, April 9. They will then take part in the Decorah Relays Monday, April 13 before taking part in the MFL/MarMac Coed Invitational Thursday, April 16.

The first outdoor competition of the season for the Waukon boys track and field team proved to be a promising early success, as even though the Indians were a bit short-handed due to attendance by some team members at the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference early in this past week, they were still able to top the 10-team field of the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31. The track and field Tribe recorded four event wins, half of which were coupled with runner-up finishes to claim  a pair of one-two event sweeps that helped rack up 145 team points to claim team championship honors over the 10-team meet field.

In its only meet scheduled for this past week, the Waukon girls track and field team competed for the first time outdoors this season, finding some fairly good overall success despite having some team members unable to compete due to participation in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference early in the week. Despite that absence including some of the track and field Tribe’s high-end contributors and limiting participation for Waukon to just 16 of the 19 events that took place at the meet, the Lady Indians were able to claim one event victory and four runner-up finishes to help lead the way to 88 team points and a runner-up finish in the 12-team field of the Frostbite Open hosted by Sumner-Fredericksburg High School Tuesday, March 31.

The Waukon girls golf team got its 2026 spring campaign off to a middle-of-the-pack start, opening its competition schedule with a second-place finish in a triangular event Monday, March 30 hosted by Postville High School at Tri-City Golf & Country Club. A Lady Indian squad that was limited in number due to some team members participating in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) State Leadership Conference turned in a nine-hole team total of 233 strokes to finish behind Crestwood’s team total of 193 strokes and ahead of the Postville host squad that had only three team members and could not compile a team score.

Waukon High School senior Dylan Stegen signed his official commitment to play golf for Upper Iowa University in Fayette at a Thursday morning, March 26 signing event in the Waukon High School gym. Pictured in the photo at right submitted by Waukon High School from that signing event, seated in the front row, is Dylan (center) with his parents, Jenny (left) and Lee (right). Standing in the back row, left to right, are Dylan’s brother Vaughn and sister Grace, with older brother Connor also making an appearance by FaceTime at one point during the signing event.

In what was its only competition of this past week, the Waukon girls track and field team competed in its first full meet of its 2026 campaign as the Lady Indians competed in all 15 of the events at the newly-revamped Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) Meet held Tuesday, March 24 at Luther College in Decorah. Competing in that annual event for the first time as a new member of the UIC, the Waukon girls recorded top-three finishes in 10 of those 15 events, including one event victory and three runner-up efforts, to score 117.5 team points and win the team title at this year’s UIC Indoor.

The Lady Indians were next scheduled to compete at Sumner-Fredericksburg Tuesday, March 31. They are then scheduled to take part in the Postville Invitational Tuesday, April 7 before competing at Decorah Thursday, April 9.

The Waukon boys golf team will have plenty to look forward to for its 2026 season, as more than two dozen young men have reported for early-season duty. Within that double-dozen or more linksters lies even more to be excited about, as a full team’s worth of golfers will be coming back with varsity letterwinning experience from a squad last spring that played to a 17-7 record in dual competition and qualification for the Class 2A District Tournament for the first time in quite some time.

The 2026 Waukon boys track and field team will look to benefit from the return of a dozen varsity letterwinners from last season. Furthering the anticipation of that crew that will lead this season’s early-season collection of 54 young men reporting for duty will be the fact that half of those returning veterans bring experience with them at the ultimate level of Iowa high school competition as qualifiers for the annual State Meet, including a pair of two-year competitors at the season grand finale.

Those two-time State Meet qualifiers make up a majority of this season’s senior class of just three most veteran competitors, as Brandon Leppert and Sam Stock have each qualified for the track and field Tribe in the 4x800 relay in each of the last two seasons. Fellow senior Kelby Cahalan joined them in that event last spring, as all four of Waukon’s 4x800 State Meet competitors return, including sophomore Beckham Delaney.

The 2026 Waukon girls track and field season has gotten underway with an initial indoor schedule that has shown some strong promise for what lies ahead for the track and field Tribe, as approximately half of this season’s growing number of 44 overall team members return with letterwinning experience from last season, including experience at the highest level of competition. Guiding that familiarity in competition will be a new face at the helm of the Lady Indian track and field program, but one that is also still very familiar.

The 2025-2026 Waukon bowling season saw the girls and boys teams end up with win-loss records on differing ends of the spectrum, with the Lady Indians bowling their way to a 7-2 season record and the Waukon boys finishing their winter campaign with a 1-8 mark in dual matches. Each squad had seven or fewer participants this season, but the girls seemed to make the most of that mix of competitors from every grade level to break some records and continue to rewrite program history.

Regardless of the outcome for either squad, first-year solo head coach Jesse Peterson said the premise of success starts with making the sport enjoyable. “I feel that we had a fun environment and from that the kids worked hard on doing the basics of bowling,” Coach Peterson shared. “I believe if we can keep creating fun activities, that will help push them to be better in the future.”