DES MOINES – All seven members of the Ottumwa High School girls cross-country team earned all-conference honors on Thursday by placing in the top 16 of the CIML Metro Conference meet.

DES MOINES – Ava Johnson helped Ottumwa secure a pair of wins on Tuesday in a CIML Metro conference dual at Des Moines Lincoln.

OTTUMWA – The dream was starting to become a reality for the Ottumwa High School volleyball squad.

OSKALOOSA — Not that they needed any more confidence at this point of the season with a six-ranked squad on the cusp of a conference title and a top seed in their regional, but Oskaloosa took care of business on Saturday at their home tournament by dominating their way to a perfect 5-0 record and a title without dropping a single set.

OTTUMWA – Libby Moses was not physically at her best last Thursday night.

IOWA CITY – Jasmine Luedtke edged out Lina Newland for the top time among Ottumwa runners competing in the girls race at the Bud Williams Invitational on Thursday.

OTTUMWA – It started out rough. It ended with a flourish.

OTTUMWA – There was no warming up in the bullpen for Ashlynn Sheets.

INDIANOLA – Both Ottumwa High School cross-country teams finished seventh at the Indianola Invitational on Thursday.

OTTUMWA – It might be the first time in the history of Ottumwa swimming that the Bulldogs had three relay teams disqualified in a single race.

OTTUMWA – It didn't even dawn on Kiley Heller until the match was over on Tuesday night.

OTTUMWA – Perhaps the Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont volleyball team should invest in parachute pants.

MARSHALLTOWN – Back in the pool at the Linda Bloom Natatorium for the first time since competing at state, the Ottumwa High School girls swimming team racked up 94 points on Saturday at the Marshalltown Bobcat Invitational.

DES MOINES – From winless to perfect in one night.

OTTUMWA – No hope.

OSKALOOSA – Several area teams battled it out with some of the top teams and top athletes in the state on Tuesday at the Oskaloosa Invitational cross-country meet.

FAIRFIELD – While athletes around Waterworks Park had to be helped back to their camps, Lina Newland looked like she was ready to keep on running.

RUNNELS – It was the signature win of last season for the Ottumwa High School volleyball team.

OTTUMWA – The one draw back to running a cross-country race at night?

OTTUMWA – Patricia Mulholland might have to start wearing steel-toed boots to practice.

JOHNSTON – In almost three full decades of coaching cross-country, Jeff Smith has never been part of a night like....

OTTUMWA – Ottumwa High School softball tryouts will be held this week at Huston Field. The two-part tryouts will take place on Wednesday and Friday from 4:30-6:30 p.m.

OTTUMWA – Mike McWilliams had planned on being at Thursday night's season opener for the Ottumwa High School girls swimming team.

OTTUMWA – For Kayla Joos, there was something special about walking back into Evans Middle School Gymnasium.

OTTUMWA – Mike McWilliams wasn't one to sugarcoat anything.

OTTUMWA — Mike McWilliams, the head coach of the Ottumwa High School swimming program for 42 years, passed on Thursday morning at the age of 80.

OTTUMWA — Ottumwa High School announced on Wednesday plans to establish an athletic hall-of-fame recognizing former athletes as well as any former or current coaches that represented the school at high level within their program.

OTTUMWA – Lina Newland has a state track and field medal from her all-state performance in the girls long jump this past spring.

OTTUMWA – The first day of practice is a full week away. There are over three weeks to go until the first meet of the season.

OTTUMWA – The first week of August will bring several summer camps taking place in Ottumwa.

OTTUMWA — Three members of the Ottumwa High School softball team earned first-team all-CIML Metro conference honors. Sophomore pitcher Ashlynn Sheets, sophomore infielder Ella Allar and junior Amber Shotts were selected to the first team with Sheets being one of three utility players selected.

MUSCATINE — If the Muscatine Muskies go on to win the state softball championship this season, perhaps it's fitting that opened the postseason facing Ottumwa at Kent-Stein Park.

OTTUMWA — Ashlynn Sheets could feel the nerves in the first inning in the Bulldogs' 5A Region 8 quarterfinal against Iowa City West on Thursday.

OTTUWMA — It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

OTTUMWA — Perhaps it's fitting that memorable night for the Ottumwa High School softball program ended with such a memorable play.

BURLINGTON – Samantha Weeks delivered the biggest hit of her young Ottumwa High School softball career on Tuesday, delivering a bases-clearing double with two outs in the sixth inning to help rally the Bulldogs in the second game of a historic doubleheader against Burlington.

OTTUMWA – Practice makes perfect. Even when it comes to high-fives in the outfield.

OTTUMWA – For the past few years, Samantha Weeks has been just one of the boys of summer.