Ask New Hampton cross country coach Jamie Ohrt and her Turkey Valley counterpart, Sarah Bakula, about settling into a routine this season, and they both pretty much have the same answer.
What routine?
After Charlie and Tate Geerts had balloons tied around their wrists and ran around the gym floor to show them off, their mother talked about her “other” family.
Nashua-Plainfield’s volleyball team — especially its freshmen — continued to make solid strides last week as the Huskies battled Top of Iowa Conference rival North Butler before falling in four sets and went 1-2 at the Dunkerton Invitational on Sa
Isn’t there a saying that attitude is everything?
Then the Turkey Valley girls should continue to grow as a team, even though they struggled at the Waukon tourney last Saturday.
Turkey Valley started their rally against South Winn a little too late Thursday.
After dropping 25-13 and 25-12 sets, the Trojans were breathing down the necks of the Warriors in the third set, but also lost that one, 25-22.
Sooner or later, the folks at the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union had to take notice of the New Hampton volleyball team; after all, the Chickasaws are 17-0, have claimed two tournament titles and won 40 of the 44 sets they have played.
as soaked with sweat after Turkey Valley’s 54-7 win over Springville Friday night, he said the heat — the temperature was around 80 at the start of the game, and of course, there’s the humidity — didn’t bother him.
While Turkey Valley’s cross country team sent one more runner onto the course when the Trojans competed at Starmont Tuesday, some of the athletes were running at less-than-optimal health.
The good news is the folks who run the Osage Invitational cross country meet removed the most dangerous part of the course — a rocky hill that had “ankle sprain” written all over it.
Anyone looking at volleyball statistics will notice New Hampton’s name. The Chickasaws are third in Class 3A with 467 kills and they’re second with 138 aces, or 3.14 per set.
