Nate Frese's team took the West high court for the last time this season on Saturday night, as they faced off against the Riders from Des Moines Roosevelt in their first substate game. Beginning their...
To finish their season, the Trojan Bolts competed in the 2023 state boys swim meet at the CRWC on Feb. 10 and 11. The team scored 136 points, placing them in eighth. Four individuals and two relay teams...
While two school’s flags claiming Colonial Lanes hang proudly above the bowling alley, the green and red came to a clash as the Trojans and Little Hawks dueled for the Golden Pins.
As the King and...
Jannell Avila ’23 was a well-known wrestler in Iowa for years before girls’ wrestling was sanctioned in the state. As a freshman, Avila won the Iowa Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association State...
Paige Albright, Managing Co-Editor, Podcast Editor
• February 8, 2023
Not many west high sports teams get to travel across state lines for competition, however, after qualifying for another year this past summer the West High Dance Team spent five days at Disney...
West Side Story: When did you first start wrestling?
Alex Pierce ’26: I started at six years old at the little kids' wrestling club here [at West].
WSS: Who has been your biggest mentor or inspiration,...
Ella De Young, Print Managing Editor
• February 2, 2023
To start off the exciting, busy month of February at West High, three accomplished athletes in three different sports signed their National Letters of Intent in the West High cafeteria after school Feb....
With the sanctioning of girls’ wrestling in Iowa, Iowa City West decided to induct a new coach for the team. Elijah Sullivan came to West with a positive attitude toward the job with high hopes. After...
With West students decked out in white and City High students sporting camouflage, the cross-town rival student sections were packed and ready to witness two intense, back-to-back basketball games in the...
Crowds cheer as the boys swim team crowds onto their bleachers. They wave flags, one is purple with a lighting bolt and reads “OS14”, the other has waves and reads “just keep swimming”. Both these...
Sitting around a table with sweat dripping down their backs, students carefully pick their team for the next fourteen weeks. As students shuffle through tabs on their computers, looking closely at statistics...
