After a season in which the girls finished 7-14, and the boys went winless with an 0-14 record, the HCHS Cyclones Tennis team is ready to get back to work on the courts.

Senior Cyclone Erica Rust took home MVP Honors at the KMALand All-Star Basketball Classic in Clarinda, scoring 16 points and adding 16 rebounds.
“It’s definitely a really special moment and feeling,” Rust said. “Just knowing you’re playing against a lot of other girls that are very good basketball players in KMALand and being able to win the MVP Award was very special.”

Senior Cash Emgarten started off his final season of Spartan Track & Field with top 10 performances in the 60 and 200m dash at the Indoor Track Meet in Ames, finishing 8th in both events with time of 7.30 and 23.52, a personal best for him.

Senior Cade Sears set the tone for the HCHS Cyclones Thursday at the Lied Recreation Athletic Center in Ames, taking home the 3A Athlete of the Meet Award.
“It’s a huge honor for anyone if you’re the 3A player of anything,” said Cyclone Head Coach Sam Brummer. “You’ve done something well to help your team and Cade obviously did that for us.”

After a strong 2023 campaign in which the IKM-Manning Wolves boys track and field team took many high finishes, including taking 2nd place at the Denison and Carroll Co-Ed events and the Raider, Ace Nelson, and Bob Clark Relays, along with 3rd place finishes at the Jim Yunek Relays and BV HS Co-Ed Track Meet, the Wolves are ready for a new season.

Coming off a season in which the AHSTW Lady Vikings track and field team had some high finishes, including 2nd place at the Riverside Track Meet, 4th at the Griswold Tiger Relays, 6th at the AHSTW Co-Ed Meet, and 8th place at the WIC HS Track Championships and Southwest Valley May Co-Ed Meet, they are ready to get back to work.

After a season in which the Vikings finished high up at multiple events, including the Griswold/Stanton Coed Meet and Tiger Coed Relays taking home 3rd place, and the AHSTW and Southwest Valley Coed Meet finishing 2nd, the boys track and field team is ready for a new season.

After a strong finish during its 2023 campaign in which they brought home a third place trophy, the HCHS Cyclones boys track and field team is ready to get back to work.
“It’s definitely exciting to kind of get rolling,” said Cyclone Head Coach Sam Brummer. “The weather has cooperated better this year than it has in years past. That’s made the transition into track and field season very nice.”

AHSTW Senior Viking Graycen Partlow will be continuing her softball career at Kansas Wesleyan following the conclusion of her high school days.
“I’m very excited to play,” Partlow said. “I’ve loved softball as long as I’ve been playing it. Since I was a little girl, my dad has instilled that love in me, and I just love the game and everything about it.”

In just over two weeks, the HCHS Cyclones girls track and field will begin a new season starting March 16 at the Northwest Missouri State High School Invite and Cyclone head coach Jenny Hamilton said she’s hoping the team avoids the mistakes they made last year.

The HCHS Cyclones girls basketball team has wrapped up its 2023-2024 campaign, finishing with an overall record of 20-4, including starting the season 8-0 with their first win of the season coming against Treynor 58-40.
“It’s been so much fun,” said Cyclone Senior Hannah Sonderman. “It’s such a fun group of girls. We all love each other.”

In less than a month, a new track and field season will get underway for the IKM-Manning girls March 15 at the BVU HS Elite Meet where they will be one of 16 schools competing.

Trailing by 11 at halftime in their Regional Final match against the undefeated Westwood Rebels, the Exira-EHK Spartans were hoping for a second half comeback, but couldn’t catch up to the Rebels losing 55-35.

2020 HCHS graduate and current Dordt Defender Senior Lucy Borkowski helped lead her track & field team to a third place finish at the Great Plains Athletic Conference held for two days at the Ruth Donohoe First Dakota Field House in Yankton, South Dakota.