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After leading Washington to a second-straight Southeast Conference championship, Washington senior Lauren Kimball was named the league?s Co-Player of the Year when the All-Southeast Conference girls? basketball teams were released on Wednesday.Kimball, who earned all-conference honorable mention last season as a junior, shared the league?s Player of the Year award with Keokuk senior Rachel Dunlap. Kimball was ...

Mid-Prairie?s Mariah Swartzentruber and Columbus? Megan Pretz were recently selected to play in the Iowa Girls? Coaches Association Larry Niemeyer Senior All-Star Game, which will be held at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids on April 6. Both will play for the Class 3A Dark squad, which will be coached by Crestwood?s Doug Sickles.Swartzentruber, a 5-foot-8 forward, averaged 10.2 points and 6.2 rebounds ...

Washington seniors Sammy Ellingson and Lauren Kimball were recently selected to the 2012-13 Iowa Girls? Coaches Association Academic All-State girls? basketball team.?That?s the first time we?ve had two players make that team,? Washington head coach Phil Long said.Ellingson, Kimball and six of their teammates were also recently selected to the Southeast Conference All-Academic girls? basketball team. Seniors ...

At each of the Washington Community Y Water Sharks swim team?s meets this season, Emily Adam and Lyndsay Adrian have been there at the edge of the pool, coaxing on the squad?s younger swimmers.Adam and Adrian, who are both high school seniors, decided to help out this season by coaching the 10-and-under swimmers in addition to their roles as swimmers on the squad.?They?re a lot of fun because they just have so ...

The Washington junior varsity boys? basketball team ended its season with a 55-30 loss at Grinnell on Feb. 15.The Demons shot just 25 percent (9-for-36) from the field in their final game of the season.Junior Noah Lebsack scored 12 points to lead the Demons, and he also blocked seven shots and grabbed three rebounds in the contest. Junior Mason Quigley added eight points, three assists and three steals, and ...

The Washington Community Y Water Sharks swim team took 62 swimmers to the Southeast Sectional meet at the Davenport North Family YMCA on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Water Sharks qualified 13 relays, 13 individual girls and six individual boys for the state meet, which will be held in Marshalltown on March 2-3.Megan Buitendorp qualified for state in five events. She won three individual events, taking first place in ...

When Mid-Prairie takes on second-ranked MOC-Floyd Valley in the quarterfinals of the Class 3A girls? state basketball tournament next Tuesday afternoon, it will be the school?s seventh state tournament appearance. But it will be the Golden Hawks? first state tournament since 2004, when the tournament was still played in Veterans Memorial Auditorium, more commonly known as ?The Barn.?So when the Golden Hawks ...

The Washington eighth-grade boys? basketball team wrapped up its season by winning two of three games at rival Mt. Pleasant on Feb. 14.The Demon A team lost to the Panthers 46-21. Mason Rich scored nine points to lead Washington, and he also had three steals, a rebound and an assist in the contest. John Dillon added four points, three steals and a rebound. Bryce Sinn had three points to go with a team-high six ...