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Student-athletes honored during Redhawk Recognition ceremony

TRAER – Stellar student-athletes were honored this past August during North Tama’s annual Redhawk Recognition ceremony. Four awards recognizing outstanding freshman/sophomore and junior/senior athletic achievement were given out as part of the ceremony including the Kent Vesley and Tonja ...

Braving the streets

TRAER – On the morning of Saturday, Aug. 10, this year’s Winding Stairs festivities started with an anticipated yearly event, braved by only the boldest. The annual Winding Stairs Festival 5K provides a hilly course to runners and walkers alike all well helping raise money to support North ...

Under Coach Halstead, Redhawk volleyball prepares to summit

TRAER – As she enters her 11th season as head North Tama volleyball coach, Channing Halstead is poised, ready, determined, hungry – all the adjectives – to take her girls to the pinnacle this year for the first time in school history by playing for the Class 1A state tournament ...

Redhawk softball hosts ‘2024 Softball Olympics’

TRAER – As part of the 2024 Olympic Games which were held in Paris this year, the North Tama softball team hosted its own ‘Softball Olympics’ competition. Winners included: *Briar Blake and Addy Hochstetler who took first in Quik Toss *Faith Dvorak in first, Briar Blake in second, ...

Conference champs!

TRAER – Under first year head coach Dalton Hulme, North Tama baseball ended the 2023-24 season with not only a winning record (15-12) but with the Iowa Star Conference All-South Division championship. The Redhawks went 15-12 overall, and 10-5 in the conference by beating out Baxter (8-7) and ...

NICL to increase ticket price for conference high school athletic events

The North Iowa Cedar League (NICL) has announced an adjustment to ticket prices for high school athletic events, effective at the start of the 2024-25 school year. Beginning with the upcoming season, ticket prices will increase from $5 to $7 for adults and from $5 to $7 for students for all ...

Keller and Silhanek represent Tama County in 4-H National Shooting Sports

AMES – Eighteen Iowa delegates showcased their skills and sportsmanship at the 2024 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships in Grand Island, Neb., June 23-28. The event attracted a record number of 708 youth from 40 states, competing in compound archery, recurve archery, air rifle, air ...

Pair of Redhawk baseball players recognized with all-district honors

Twelve area high school baseball players were recognized by the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association on all-district teams released late last month including two from North Tama County High School. In the Class 2A Central District, West Marshall’s Grayson Shaver, Owen Siegert ...

Seven Redhawks selected for all-Iowa Star South squads

TRAER – The North Tama softball program continued its upward trajectory this season under second-year head coach Madonna Merchant by landing seven players on the Iowa Star Conference South all-division teams. For the second year in a row, Redhawk infielder Gabriella ‘Gabby’ Seda was ...