GRUNDY CENTER — Expectations couldn’t be higher for the Grundy Center football team, which has become a Class 1A powerhouse under the leadership of head coach Travis Zajac, heading into the 2025 season. The Spartans have won three straight state titles after three straight undefeated ...

REINBECK — The Gladbrook-Reinbeck football team has won at least seven games in every season since it started playing 8-Man in 2018, reaching new heights with last year’s trip to the state championship game. Now the Rebels have to maintain that level of play despite graduating eight ...

LE GRAND — The East Marshall football team is coming off its best season in seven years, but that 4-5 campaign hasn’t quelled the Mustangs’ long-starved quest for the playoffs. East Marshall brings back 15 letterwinners from last year’s roster that won three games in a row to start ...

MESKWAKI SETTLEMENT — It’s been nearly five years since the Meskwaki football team won a game, but the Warriors can’t worry about what they don’t have. They’re focusing on the matter at hand — one play at a time, one day at a time. The Warriors return six letterwinners from last ...

Of the 14 schools that played for a state football championship this fall, six of the high schools were located in just two of Iowa’s 99 counties. One would be no surprise to Iowans — the massive Polk County, accounting for 15 percent of Iowa’s population and home to the Class 5A ...

Judd Jirovsky is continuing to raise the bar for Grundy Center football. Grundy Center head coach Travis Zajac said Jirovsky’s junior season under center for the Spartans is in good company with some of the best to have played for Grundy Center in the past six seasons, where the Spartans ...