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Believed to be first woman in state of Iowa to serve as both General Manager and Golf Pro

Morgan McMillan is blazing new trails, as she has been named General Manager/Golf Professional at Oneota Golf & Country Club in Decorah. She is the first woman General Manager/Golf Professional in Oneota’s 100-year history.

McMillan is one of only nine women Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) club professionals in the state of Iowa, and is believed to be the only one of those women to also serve as General Manager of her 18-hole club. She is truly considered a pioneer among women golf professionals in Iowa.

“Morgan has the highest in quality hospitality skills; is high energy and hardworking; has an infectious smile and has received overwhelming support from the Oneota membership to be awarded the position of General Manager,” shared Oneota Golf and Country Club Board of Directors President Andy Nelson.

The Waukon Park & Recreation Youth Soccer Program is for boys and girls in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Basic fundamentals of soccer will be taught along with team participation. Teams will be grouped together as follows: Kindergarten is alone, first and second graders will be together, third and fourth graders will practice and play together, and fifth and sixth graders will be together.

Different size fields and balls will be used to accommodate the lower ages and skill levels. All players must wear shin guards and they must be covered by socks or pants. Cleats are optional.

The games will be played Saturday mornings starting April 23 and will run for five weeks. The dates will be as follows: April 23, April 30, May 7, May 14 and May 21. The make-up dates will be May 16 (Monday), May 17 (Tuesday), or May 19 (Thursday), if needed.

The Waukon bowling teams provided first-year head coach Kim Shelton with a memorable inaugural season at the helm during this 2021-2022 campaign, and for a number of different reasons. The pinnacle of that memorable season was the history that was made, fueled by the hard work and fun experienced by each squad of at least a dozen bowlers, with the Waukon girls bowling team rolling its way to a 4-5 season record and the Indian boys bowling to a 5-4 dual match mark this season.

Historical Huinker posts best Indian State finish, sets new single-game school record

An already historic accomplishment for the Waukon boys bowling team led to even more history being made Tuesday, February 22 at the Class 1A State Bowling Tournament held at Maple Lanes in Waterloo. With qualification for this year’s Class 1A season grand finale by junior Cody Huinker and senior Chase Boydston marking the first time in program history that multiple Indian bowlers have qualified for State Tournament competition, the history-making continued when Huinker bowled his way to the highest-ever Indian finish at that season grand finale and did so with help from a new school record single-game total of 280 pins.

The Waukon Park & Recreation Youth Soccer Program is for boys and girls in Kindergarten through sixth grade. Basic fundamentals of soccer will be taught along with team participation. Teams will be grouped together as follows: Kindergarten is alone, first and second graders will be together, third and fourth graders will be together, and fifth and sixth graders will be together.

Different size fields and balls will be used to accommodate the lower ages and skill levels. All players must wear shin guards and they must be covered by socks or pants. Cleats are optional.

The games will be played Saturday mornings starting April 23 and will run for five weeks. The dates will be as follows: April 23, April 30, May 7, May 14 and May 21. The make-up dates will be May 16 (Monday), May 17 (Tuesday), or May 19 (Thursday), if needed.

Four outstanding individuals who’ve contributed mightily to the sport of wrestling will be inducted into the Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame (IWHOF) in Cresco Monday, April 11. The 51st Annual Awards Banquet and Induction Ceremony will begin with a 5:30 p.m. social hour followed by a 6:30 p.m. banquet at the Cresco Country Club south of Cresco.

After a two-year pause due to the pandemic, the Hall of Fame is excited to honor these individuals and also deeply saddened as new inductee Wyatt Schultz passed away August 21, 2021. Schultz, greatly missed by the wrestling community, will be honored, along with his friends and family.

The list of this year’s Iowa Wrestling Hall of Fame inductees includes the following:

The Waukon bowling teams had the bittersweet result of having their season ended for a majority of this season’s team members while also being able to celebrate a bit of history for the program Tuesday, February 15 at their Class 1A State Qualifying Tournament being hosted by Dubuque Wahlert High School at Cherry Lanes in Dubuque. Team champions and the top four individual finishers earned qualification for this year’s season grand finale, and although each team finished shy of that required championship finish, the Waukon bowling boys had two individuals place within the top-four individual finishers to earn their way to this season’s Class 1A State Tournament.

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A second qualification for the Class 2A State Tournament in his first three years of high school wrestling resulted in another step forward for Waukon junior Jakob Regan among the Iowa high school wrestling elite this past week. After qualifying as a 106-pound freshman two seasons ago and suffering consecutive losses for an early exit on day one in that State Tournament debut, Regan sandwiched his first season grand finale victory in between a pair of losses to top-five finishers in this season’s Class 2A 126-pound weight class Thursday and Friday, February 17 and 18 to finish just one match shy of standing among the top-eight finishers who would make the 126-pound podium at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

The Waukon boys basketball team had its 2021-2022 season brought to a close, but not before taking an initial strong step down the postseason trail and putting itself into position to repeat that feat, only to have that opportunity yanked away in the closing seconds. That initial step was a 73-47 win over Oelwein in the opening round of Class 2A District 9 play Monday, February 14 at North Fayette Valley High School, but an abrupt end to that postseason trail came Thursday, February 17 at top 10-rated Monticello by virtue of a 54-53 loss in the questionable closing seconds.

The Kee boys basketball took one step down its postseason tournament road this past week before that road came to an end later in the week. The basketball Hawks opened their Class 1A District 6 Tournament with a 72-67 win at home over South Winneshiek Monday, February 14 and then gave Class 1A 12th-rated Edgewood-Colesburg a hard-fought battle before surrendering a 60-53 loss at Edgewood Thursday, February 17 to have their season brought to a close.

The Hawks’ 2021-2022 season came to completion with an even 12-12 overall record that includes a 9-7 mark in Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) play that placed the Hawks in a tie for fourth place in the final UIC standings with South Winneshiek. With the season-ending loss the Vikings handed the Hawks, Edgewood-Colesburg advanced on to the Class 1A District 6 championship game Tuesday, February 22 to be played at Starmont High School against Wapsie Valley.