The Coronavirus pandemic has made a drastic impact worldwide. One area in-particular is in the sporting world, as many professional and collegiate sporting events have been suspended or canceled. 

For the first time in school history, New Hampton is scheduled have a co-ed high school soccer team this spring.

New Hampton had never started its track season so early, but all in all, the Chickasaws’ girls coach Jeanette Laures will take it.

A record-breaking season, one in which Turkey Valley’s boys basketball team won a school-record 22 games, has netted the Trojans plenty of postseason recognition.

After a season in which it finished third place in the Upper Iowa Conference with a record of 12-4, the Turkey Valley girls basketball team had six players, the most in the conference, honored as all-UIC players.

During the regular season, Turkey Valley won each of two the meetings against South Winneshiek fairly easily, defeating them by an average of 19 points.

Free throw shooting down the stretch can often times be the difference in winning and losing the ball game, and it was for the Turkey Valley boys basketball team in the district final playoff game on Thursday night held at New Hampton High School.

In the Northeast Iowa Conference this season, only two players ranked inside the top 10 individually in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks per game. 
One was New Hampton’s Drake Wemark.

The Northeast Iowa Conference implemented five-on-five girls basketball in the 1994-1995 season. Up until this year, there hadn’t been a single freshman honored as a Northeast Iowa Conference first-team player.

With five minutes to play in the second quarter, Lake Mills’ Chett Helming had outscored Turkey Valley by himself 21-17.

With 12.3 seconds left in Turkey Valley’s regional contest against Kee last Tuesday, the Trojans’ Jalyssa Blazek was at the free throw line and the TV girls owned a slim 54-52 lead.

It wasn’t where they wanted to end the 2019-20 season, but the fact of the matter is New Hampton/Turkey Valley’s Carson Babcock and Jacob Reicks both knew there were literally thousands of wrestlers in Iowa who would have loved trading places with

It was an absolute war until the very end, but the Turkey Valley boys basketball team gutted out a close back-and-forth victory over Janesville - who entered with a record of 19-4 - 42-37 in the district final game on Thursday night at New Hampton

It was a fourth quarter that the Turkey Valley girls basketball team wishes they could have back.

Turkey Valley’s boys started their postseason game against Central rather slowly, but it wasn’t the first time it took awhile for the scoring machines to get rolling. Once they did, the Trojans breezed to a 68-34 win.