What is really amazing about IC Regina, was they were horrible a few years before they went on their run, lucky to win a game or two year after year, just a total basketball school and then they just exploded and had a decade of winning titles.
Iowa High School BEDS count 24-25
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Marv Cook, former Iowa player, his record was 74-5 which included a 56 game winning streak. His winning percentage is the highest in HS history in the state.
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It shouldn't be lost on people that Highland and Lone Tree shared a football program from 1993-2005. Fast forward to 2025...one didn't have a season and the other only played 2 games.
The buildings are both old and building one new one was going to be cheaper than repairing the two, allegedly. Several of the teams are already combined and several more should be just because of low participation.
VB lost games to Highland in week 6 and New London week 8. They did beat Cardinal to win a game this season other than the two forfeits they will get, Cardinal will finish the year without a win on the field.
There are quite a few 8 man schools that dropped this year too, by what I have seen.
Im curious what the numbers show, compared to years ago. Are less kids going out for sports across all sports? Are certain sports seeing more reduced participation than others? Are similar numbers still going out but the number of sports they are going out for is less? ie, years ago many more kids went out for 2+ sports and now concentrate on just 1. Is it because there are now more options that kids have to choose? (now kids have Soccer, Girls Wresting, cross country etc, that many didnt offer years ago) Is it just because of school size? (Which doesnt seem to be entirely the case since schools that easily had the numbers for teams now dont with same number of kids in the school etc.)
Numbers are down across all sports in both boys and girls sports. There were a few girls BB teams that cancelled their season last year because of lack of players. It's been going on for awhile and will continue until some of the smaller schools either merger or agree to share sports.
Charles city and Clarion were two teams that cancelled their HS girls BB seasons last year. Two decent sized schools.
I swear we had them when I played.... but I could be remembering wrong, its getting to be a long time ago.
Those are 2 really big school districts to be merging. If going by the BEDS that will make the largest district by number of students in Iowa.
Seems like a really strange merger.
Bound has 6 games and a scrimmage listed. Someone else answered the question.
In our school, you have to have a third of the boys in each class go out to make a viable team. We average less than a quarter now. Kids don’t care for the time commitments.
Club Volleyball killed high school basketball.
