Cedar Rapids Grade School Speed Skating Derby winner
Vi ola Gibson scored 93 points to win the Grade School Championship Derby in Cedar Rapids. St Ludmila finished second, Wilkins third, defending champ Jackson fourth, LaSalle fifth.
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 2004
Page
26
Vi ola Gibson scored 93 points to win the Grade School Championship Derby in Cedar Rapids. St Ludmila finished second, Wilkins third, defending champ Jackson fourth, LaSalle fifth.
Cedar Rapids hosts Squirt Midwest League finals at Cedar Rapids Ice Arena with teams from Cedar Rapids Ames Des Moines Omaha Lincoln Neb Kansas City and Wichita Kan competing over two days. Cedar Rapids plays Saturday at 9 15 a m and 2 15 p m and Sunday at 9 15 a m and noon.
Cedar Rapids Ben La Maak Kenne dy Blair Ernst of Washington and Mitch Mueller of Iowa City West earned Mississippi Valley Conference athlete of the week honors. La Maak, a sophomore, led boys basketball with two wins and ranks seventh in scoring at 14.5 ppg. Ernst, a junior, tops MVC in scoring at 16.7 and adds 8.8 rebounds per game. Mueller, a junior, is a 25 0 130 pounder unbeaten at 25 0 in wrestling.
Gene Moody of Cedar Rapids won both men’s right-hand flyweight and light titles at the 2003 World National Wris twrestling Association Division II Open at Wild Willy’s Saloon. Samantha Edwards Manchester won women’s left-hand class. Steve Schwartzhoff Waukon and Samantha Smith also took titles. several others placed in multiple weight and hand divisions. Wild Willy’s Saloon finished second in the team standings.
The World Masters Association declared a world indoor record for the 1 600 relay in the 40 to 49 class. The team of Jan Daker Zanetta Hoehl Martha Lutz and Lynn Ingalls posted 5 minutes 2.96 seconds at a meet last year. Hoehl is from Solon Lutz a former Iowa City resident Daker formerly from Davenport Ingalls from Chicago.
Cedar Rapids based athletes earned varsity letters across football and swimming last fall. Coe College saw Blake Barrett Jeff erson Michael Herzberger Washington Ashton Northern Jefferson Keith Pochobradsky Washington Lucas Ptacek Jefferson from Cedar Rapids and Matt Wycoff Marion Michael Kuennen Palo Xavier receive letters. UNI swimmers include Amy Smith Linn-Mar freshman, Erika Uthoff-Schmuecker Iowa Valley senior, Reid Wooldridge Washington Cedar Rapids and Knox swimmer.
Pat Sauter of Cedar Rapids Washington is listed as a member of the St. Louis University men’s swimming squad. Adam Yack of Coralville Iowa City High is a senior on the College of Wooster men’s swimming team.
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