Category: Nominations

Tate Hosch (Cascade track & field) — Hosch set a school record by running the 100 meters in 10.91 seconds on Thursday night in the Harold Sweet Relays at Dalzell Field in Dubuque. Hosch beat Bellevue’s Keenan Kilburg by .22 seconds for first place in the meet. He also anchored the 4×200 relay with Eli…

Aaron Culbertson (East Dubuque track & field) – The senior has dominated throwing events all spring. He finished 5th at the state indoor meet after being ranked 13th and has placed first in shot put and discus in every meet since. Culbertson broke the program discus record and holds the shot put mark as well…

Kailyn threw discus at Hempstead’s meet on Monday, taking third, with a throw of 129ft 4 inches. The throw broke her old PR and the Marquette school record by 9 ft, and qualified her for the Drake Relays. The next day, at North Cedar, Kailyn threw shotput 39ft 0 inches, making her #27 in the…

Jeremy O’Rourke / Liam Kroger (Dubuque Senior soccer) — Off a throw in by Ethan Callahan, O’Rourke scored the winning goal to give Dubuque Senior its first ever win against No. 2-ranked Pleasant Valley. Kroger, the goalkeeper, posted the 1-0 clean sheet after making several key saves in the final 15 minutes to hold off…

Maelyn Kluever (Maquoketa soccer) — The junior shares eighth place in the state, regardless of class, with 37 points though the first four games of the season. That includes 17 goals and three assists. Earlier this month, she set a school record with seven goals in a single game.

Joe Winter (River Ridge/Scales Mound baseball) — Winter threw 6 2/3 innings of no-hit ball as the Wildcats defeated Amboy, 3-0, for their sixth consecutive victory. Winter threw 54 of his 75 pitches for strikes and came within a pitch of a complete-game no-hitter before Aidan Soppe recorded the final out to complete the combined…

I would like to nominate an athlete on the boys Maquoketa Soccer team. His name is Luc Schumacher. He is a foreign exchange student visiting from Germany, who has helped lead his undefeated team to 4 victories. Last night he broke the scoring record for Maquoketa scoring 6 goals. The Cardinals shut out West Delaware…

A senior who has been to state the last two years, he placed fifth in the Illinois indoor state meet earlier this month in just his second meet of season. Last week, he PR’d by throwing 165.5 feet in the discus foe the Galena, River Ridge and East Dubuque tri-op program in a meet at…

Payton Gile (Cuba City softball) – The Cubans’ ace pitcher tossed a five-inning, 11-strikeout no-hitter in a 10-0 victory over Wisconsin Heights in a tournament Saturday in Cuba City. Later in the day, she struck out 13 and allowed one unearned run in a one-hitter to lead the Cubans to a 5-1 win over Dodgeville.…

In the first meet of her high school girls golf career, the freshman shot a 42 to earn medalist honors and lead the Comets to a 211-213 victory over Anamosa at Fawn Creek County Club in Anamosa, Iowa. She beat Anamosa junior Olivia Miller by one stroke. Tott tied for the fifth-best score in the…