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WELLMAN
The afternoon dismissal bells have sounded at Mid-Prairie High School and senior Tatem Telfer heads for the library.
The first thing you’ll notice is his jacket. It’s an …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/23/24 10:12 PM
The moment itself was special.
Mid-Prairie’s girls cross country varsity team, a squad with just one senior and a boatload of freshmen and sophomores, won a state title on the second day …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/16/24 11:25 PM
WELLMAN
The night was February 11, 2022.
The bleachers, both sides, were overflowing at Mid-Prairie’s home gym. The noise was so deafening you could have set off a firecracker and …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/5/24 12:21 AM
FORT DODGE
For the third time in nine years, Mid-Prairie’s cross country teams finished one-two at Saturday’s Class 2A state championship meet in Fort Dodge.
The Golden Hawk …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/3/24 10:36 PM
WELLMAN
The story starts at the Kalona YMCA.
Dakota Mitchell, just a young girl in elementary school then, was playing in a recreational youth volleyball league at the Y.
Sherry Evans, …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
11/3/24 08:00 PM
WELLMAN
When the last powerful kill secured a 3A regional volleyball championship Tuesday night, Mid-Prairie’s packed home gym erupted with cheers.
Jovi Evans, a junior, jumped into …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/30/24 02:35 AM
IOWA CITY
The world of cross country running changed for Emmett Swartzentruber nearly a year ago in Fort Dodge.
It was historic.
It was magical.
It was powerful.
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/27/24 07:08 PM
WELLMAN
Mid-Prairie scored 35 consecutive points in the last three quarters of Friday’s 35-7 football playoff win against Union, sending the Golden Hawks into a second-round playoff battle …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/26/24 08:34 PM
TIPTON
When the last ball dropped to the floor Monday night, Mid-Prairie’s players jumped high above it to celebrate their triumph.
The Golden Hawks defeated Wilton 15-13 in the …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/16/24 12:54 AM
WELLMAN
Mid-Prairie wasted no time Friday night.
Junior running back Hudson Ehrenfelt danced into the end zone with the first of his four touchdowns less than four minutes into the game. A …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/12/24 11:59 PM
MEDIAPOLIS
In one joyful moment, the emotions of the past year exploded with the finish of a football game.
Underneath a scoreboard that displayed the numbers 24 and 8 into the night air in …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
10/12/24 11:33 PM
In one big moment, Mid-Prairie’s Jovi Evans leaped to smash the ball over the net and scored a point in a River Valley volleyball match against Wilton.
No big deal, right?
A minute …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
9/29/24 07:06 PM
WILLIAMSBURG
Brooklyn Stutzman had never been paced by a Gator ATV before.
Never.
She had never won a cross country race.
That is, until the third of September, when in the first …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
9/15/24 01:16 AM
Dakota Mitchell, a rising senior at Mid-Prairie High School, will have a dazzling Vegas story to tell if, on the first day of class in August, a teacher asks for the essay: How I spent my summer …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
7/27/24 08:50 PM
CHARITON
The hugs in the outfield told a story.
Oh, you could glance up at the scoreboard on the night of July 11 and see the 4-0 score and know that it meant the end of the summer season …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
7/20/24 11:45 PM
When Mid-Prairie’s baseball team traveled to Des Moines on a sunny afternoon in July 2020, one of the bright-eyed kids watching that day at the ballpark was Carson Pence.
The Golden Hawks …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
7/15/24 01:06 AM
Minutes after Mid-Prairie finished off an 11-0 win against Washington at Paul Bailey Field early on the day of June 29, Golden Hawks coach Kyle Mullet stood in the dugout and glanced proudly at the …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
7/7/24 02:59 AM
IOWA CITY
The rain and the thunder had finally disappeared overhead.
And that’s when the Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks went to work one day last week at Iowa City Regina.
Luke …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
6/22/24 11:53 PM
RIVERSIDE
The dark sunglasses almost hide the baseball passion of a 56-year-old man who has come home to Highland High School this summer.
But the passion is clearly there.
And …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
6/15/24 08:01 PM
BOONE
The phone started to ring before 5 in the morning.
Two hours early.
Then, the alarms.
Mid-Prairie seniors Gabi Robertson and Madi Davidson were snug in their beds at a hotel …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
6/1/24 11:32 PM
