DES MOINES — The Ottumwa boys and girls both secured their first CIML Metro conference wins of 2021 on Thursday. The Bulldogs boys posted their best team score of the season, rolling a 3,162 at Air Lanes to beat Des Moines Roosevelt by 575 pins.
DES MOINES — For the first time in 32 days, the Ottumwa High School bowling returned to the lanes.
OTTUMWA — Even in the midst of a winning streak, there are always things to work on.
BURLINGTON — Six Ottumwa High School swimmers medaled on Saturday at the 46th annual Burlington Grayhound Invitational.
DES MOINES – The first weather-related postponements of 2021 impacted the Ottumwa High School bowling and boys swimming teams on Thursday.
DES MOINES – Making her start on the varsity high school hardwood, Zoey Jones helped the Ottumwa High School girls basketball team break through with the first win of the season.
DES MOINES – Laphina Campbell scored 23 points while dishing out six assists, leading Des Moines North to a season-opening win over Ottumwa in the first CIML Metro conference contest of the season, preventing the Bulldogs from earning their first win of the season.
FAIRFIELD – With a huge South Central Conference showdown looming, Centerville had one more non-conference hurdle to clear.
OTTUMWA – Losses are a part of sports on all levels.
The 2020 area high school volleyball season was, if nothing else, unique.
OTTUMWA – Annual postseason awards were handed out to members of the Ottumwa High School volleyball team.
OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa girls basketball team doesn't have to look far to see how quickly the fortunes can turn around for a program.
OTTUMWA — Steps continue to be taken by the Ottumwa High School girls basketball team in 2020.
OTTUMWA — The future may be uncertain.
GRINNELL — Ivey Schmidt racked up 29 points for eighth-ranked (4A) Grinnell on Tuesday night, outscoring visiting Ottumwa by herself in an 83-24 non-conference win for the Tigers.
OTTUMWA — Joe VandenBerg knew who the 11th-ranked Ames Little Cyclones would rely on Monday night in the season-opener for the visitors from Story County.
Postseason honors roll in for Coulter
MOUNT PLEASANT — The Ottumwa girls basketball team had to wait two extra weeks to finally tip off the 2020-21 season.
OTTUMWA — The plan as always this season is to compete against the best high school bowlers in the state this February.
OTTUMWA — Normal. That certainly would not describe Tuesday afternoon's season-opening dual with Davis County for the Ottumwa High School bowling teams.
OTTUMWA — Anne Guest could have chosen a easier path, one that would have virtually guaranteed her a spot as the top jumper as a freshman on a college track and field team next year.
OTTUMWA — Two talented area seniors have been honored by the Iowa Girls High School Coaches Association as all-district selections.
OTTUMWA — The last ball Zoe Seamans sent down the lane last year as an Ottumwa High School bowler came with tears in her eyes.
MARSHALLTOWN — Fans may not be able to be there on Saturday to root for the Ottumwa swimmers at the girls state meet.
OTTUMWA — After over a decade without producing a state swimming qualifier, Ottumwa considered it a victory just to send four girls to compete in a pair of relay races last year.
Ottumwa freshman Ava Johnson looks on from her lane during action for the Bulldog girls swimming team.
OTTUMWA — The Iowa High School Athletic Association will conduct this week’s high school football semifinals and next week’s finals at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls as planned using precautions established in consultation with the University of Northern Iowa and Black Hawk County Health Department.
WEST DES MOINES — It wasn't exactly a repeat performance for Leah Chelgren, Libby Moses and Mac Payne on Saturday in Iowa High School girls state swimming qualifying meet.
SIGOURNEY — Sigourney-Keota nearly made every winning play last season.
AMES — It was, to say the least, an interesting night for Brock Purdy.
OTTUMWA – The last time Isabelle Mellin and Alexia McClure were teammates, they were suiting up as sixth grader to play on the Ottumwa Storm traveling youth basketball team.
OTTUMWA – It was just eight months ago that Leah Chelgren, Mac Payne, Willow Larsen and Ava Johnson were sharing the pool competing against the best swimmers in the state.
Ottumwa High School senior Isabelle Mellin is joined by her family as she signs her letter of intent to attend college and run cross-country at Indian Hills Community College on Thursday at the Hellyer Student Life Center in Ottumwa.
OTTUMWA — Ottumwa Youth Wrestling is hosting sign-ups this Wednesday and Thursday at the Ottumwa YMCA from 5-6:30 p.m.
FORT DODGE — Meghan Coulter has run against some of the best athletes in the state at some of the biggest meets of the season this month.
OTTUMWA — Two miles into last week's Class 4A state qualifying race, Meghan Coulter still needed to make up a lot of ground in order to make it to Fort Dodge.
FAIRFIELD — The 2020 regular season ended just how it started for the Ottumwa High School girls swimming team.
DES MOINES — The Central Iowa Metropolitan League, based upon guidance received from Governor’s Office of the State of Iowa, the Iowa Department of Education, the Iowa Department of Public Health, the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, and the Iowa High School Athletic Association, has r…
OTTUMWA — Timing is everything. Location might have something to do with it too.
OTTUMWA — Emma Weilbrenner may get to sleep in on Friday morning.
PLEASANT HILL — Kylie Latham. Alli Bookin-Nosbisch. Carollin Mellin.
JOHNSTON — Emma Weilbrenner collected 25 of her team-leading 41 assists during the Johnston Invitational on Saturday in Ottumwa's lone win, a three-set victory over Ames.
BURLINGTON – It was considering a signature win for the Ottumwa High School volleyball team earlier this season when the Bulldogs beat Southeast Polk in four games at Evans Middle School Gymnasium.
AMES – The realities of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic means the Ottumwa girls cross-country team will have to wait until 2021 to try and win a second straight CIML Metro Conference team title.
OTTUMWA – One week after current members of the Ottumwa High School volleyball team pulled out vintage Bulldog uniforms, Mallary Simmer went searching for a uniform from the past.
JOHNSTON — Ottumwa state swimming hopefuls Leah Chelgren, Libby Moses and Mac Payne continued testing themselves against the best competition in the state over the weekend as the Bulldog girls swimming team competed in the Johnston Invitational.
OTTUMWA — The Ottumwa High School volleyball team would have been content with Thursday night being the final night to step on the court together for a match this season at Evans Middle School Gymnasium.
OTTUMWA — It wasn't just a trophy that the Ottumwa girls cross-country team was after on Thursday at Waterworks Park.
OTTUMWA — Being the No. 1 team in the state right now is nice.
OTTUMWA — Nancy Vass, Zoey Jones and Leticia Sosa were hoping to have a special guest star arrive at Mike McWilliams Pool on Thursday to join them in one final 200-yard freestyle relay.
OTTUMWA — In the end, it looked just like another night of Ottumwa High School volleyball.
