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Golden Hawks lead All-Union offense
Lambert coaches, Ehrenfelt captains 2025 squad
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Whether in the air or on the ground, points were flying onto the scoreboard for area football teams this fall, but some squads certainly had a leg up over everybody else.
One of those teams was Mid-Prairie. The Golden Hawks had one of the best air and ground games in Southeast Iowa, so it’s no surprise they lead the offensive selections for the 2025 All-Union squad.
Included in that are a coach and a captain, both coming from the same school in Wellman.
Listed below is the offense of the 2025 All-Union football team.
COACH: Daren Lambert, Mid-Prairie
There were a lot of good coaching jobs in Southeast Iowa this year, as the Union area was able to ride the playoff wave all the way into the quarterfinals. By the time that round hit, however, it was only the Golden Hawks left.
For the second-straight year, Mid-Prairie coach Daren Lambert had his team one spot away from the Dome, taking the Golden Hawks to the Class 2A quarters after a 9-2 regular season.
Lambert’s team was champions of Class 2A District 6, rolling through the league with a perfect 6-0 record.
CAPTAIN: Hudson Ehrenfelt, senior, Mid-Prairie
You’ve got to have an incredible season to be chosen as the number one football player in the Union coverage area, and even more so to make it such an overwhelming choice.
Mid-Prairie’s senior back was unbelievable all year, however he could get his hands on the ball.
Ehrenfelt ran for 1,042 yards and 15 touchdowns this year. He was Mid-Prairie’s top pass catcher with 36 grabs for 615 yards and six scores, and he even found the end zone twice on punt returns.
QB: Brooks Weber, junior, Mid-Prairie
Taking over for his big brother, Mid-Prairie junior Brooks Weber was the perfect man to slide in at QB1 for the Golden Hawks.
Weber slung the ball all over the field this fall, throwing for 1,973 yards and 30 touchdowns, while keeping his interception total relatively low, at nine.
Weber ran the ball for 58 yards as well, adding a dash of end-to-end speed to go along with his incredible year throwing the pigskin.
RB: Ethan Bisgard, junior, Fairfield
The Fairfield football team was in the playoff race until the very last day of the regular season, and that’s a danger for everyone else when you look at star juniors like Ethan Bisgard.
Bisgard rushed for 1,082 yards and 13 touchdowns this season, carrying the ball for a ridiculous 11.5 yards per carry. He also led the Trojans with 202 receiving yards and two scores.
RB: Nolan Glick, senior, Pekin
Although some of his most important plays came on the defensive end this winter, Pekin running back Nolan Glick still did plenty enough in the backfield to earn a spot on the 2025 squad.
Glick rushed the ball for an impressive 1,393 yards and 19 touchdowns, both of which led the team by a large margin. He also caught nine passes for 141 yards and two scores.
While Glick did score the vast majority of his touchdowns from the backfield, he also finished the year with one very important pick-six, which seeled the district title for Pekin.
WR: Kaden Kos, senior, Mid-Prairie
When it was time to find the end zone, nobody did it better than senior Kaden Kos, who led Mid-Prairie in receiving scores this season.
Kos caught 39 passes for 532 yards and 10 scores, while also providing sparks on special teams, taking two punts back to the end zone.
WR: Henry Adam, junior, Pekin
No matter where Henry Adam is, he’s a danger to take the football into the end zone.
Adam caught a team-high 23 passes for a team-high 500 yards this year, scoring five touchdowns in the receiving game. He also rushed for 336 yards and five touchdowns, and had 109 yards off of interceptions, one of which went back for a score
WR: Tayson Samuels, junior, Winfield-Mt. Union
The Winfield-Mt. Union football team nearly snuck right into the playoffs this year, and a lot of that was thanks to the passing game.
Samuels led all W-MU receivers with 53 catches and 615 yards this year, while also pulling in three touchdowns.
TE: Max Edwards, senior, Winfield-Mt. Union
A big tight end like Max Edwards is pretty important when you’re throwing the ball as much as the Wolves did this fall.
Edwards caught 46 passes for 580 yards, and led W-MU with eight of the team’s 14 touchdown catches.
OL: Owen Menke, senior, Sigourney-Keota
It’s almost a broken record when you talk about just how much success Sigourney-Keota has running the football year after year after year.
Once again, a stout offensive line helped the Cobras rush for over 2,000 yards in 2025. The team went for 2,207 yards and 32 scores. Menke, the senior leader, led that squad with 46 pancakes on the year.
OL: Adam Stafford, senior, WACO
WACO’s Adam Stafford was the biggest man on the line in about every game WACO played this year, and maybe that had something to do with the team’s rushing number this season.
The Warriors went for 2,054 yards on the ground and 33 touchdowns, thanks in large part to their large guys up front.
OL: Carter Myers, senior, Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant had one of the biggest, oldest and most successful offensive lines of anyone in Southeast Iowa this year, and Carter Myers was there putting his body on the line every day.
Myers aided the offense to 1,603 rushing yards and 24 touchdowns this year. He had 15 pancakes, and even played some defense, finishing the year with 11.5 tackles.
OL: Greyson Hartman, junior, Washington
It seems the Demons always have someone making the Union team’s offensive line, and Hartman was one of the best in Southeast Iowa all year.
Along with his teammates at the line, Hartman helped the Demons run wild on the ground. Washington went for 1,691 yards and 26 touchdowns this season.
OL: Tommy Miller, junior, Mid-Prairie
You don’t get to the quarterfinals without a good offensive line, and Tommy Miller was a huge part of that unit this year in Wellman.
Miller, along with his friends on the line of scrimmage, helped the Golden Hawks push for 1,608 total rushing yards and 23 touchdowns this seasons. One of those scores just happened to be from Miller himself.
Utility: Zandrik Allison, junior, Fairfield
A huge part of Fairfield’s run-heavy offense was workhorse Zandrik Allison. The junior carried the ball more times than any other Trojan, going for 747 yards and 10 touchdowns. He also caught more touchdowns than anyone, taking three of his five receptions this year for scores.
Utility: Hayden Shelman, junior, WACO
Sometimes a player will just scream “utility.” Hayden Shelman did a little bit of everything for the Warriors this year, and that’s why he earns this spot.
Often running it from the quarterback position, Shelman rushed for 1,212 yards and 18 touchdowns this year. He also led the team in passing, with 571 yards and three scores, and once even found the end zone in the pass-catching game.
