Thursday, April 28, 2011
Cedar Falls 13, Waterloo East 0
The Cedar Falls boys' soccer team had 11 different players score in a 13-0 dominating victory over Waterloo East.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Tigers win Cole Collinge Relays
The Cole Collinge Relays were held at George Hauser Field at Cedar Falls High School. The host Tigers outlasted Waverly-Shell Rock for the team title, 126-107, by winning three of the final four events (distance medley, 4-by-100 and 4-by-400). Both C.F. and the Go-Hawks won six events.
Monday, April 18, 2011
New working arrangement
Well, I'm all done (for the most part) as interim editor of the Independence Bulletin Journal. They've found someone else, Ben Frotscher, to be the full-time editor, however our publisher, Deb Weigel, and managing editor, Anelia Dimitrova, have given me another opportunity. I'm back to being assistant editor of Hawkeye Racing News, and that means I'm back to traveling to Vinton four times a week. But also, I'm on the payroll for sports for both the Cedar Falls Times and the Bulletin Journal.
It's about time I'm employed full-time with benefits and all in the journalism game after six or seven years after leaving the Britt News-Tribune and Forest City Summit. I've been with the Times as correspondent since 2008, so I've paid my dues. It's time for me to take this and run with it.
It's about time I'm employed full-time with benefits and all in the journalism game after six or seven years after leaving the Britt News-Tribune and Forest City Summit. I've been with the Times as correspondent since 2008, so I've paid my dues. It's time for me to take this and run with it.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Update on Cassy Herkelman
At the suggestion of my friend Jill Lavender (jills-thrills.blogspot.com), I'll give my views on here about the Iowa state wrestling championship that ended yesterday.
The above video, made by the Cedar Rapids ABC affiliate KCRG, talks about the match Thursday between Cassy Herkelman, the girl I featured in late November for the Cedar Falls Times, of Cedar Falls and Linn-Mar's Joel Northrup.
Northrup decided, due to his religious make-up, he could not find it in his conscience to wrestle a girl. However, the other 13 boys in the Class 3A 112-pound division had no qualms with wrestling a girl (there are 16 wrestlers who qualify, two of them in Class 3A at 112 were girls, Cassy and Ottumwa's Megan Black).
Because Northrup decided to default, not only was Cassy the first girl to qualify for state (Black qualified about an hour later), but she's the first to advance to the quarterfinals. Of course, she lost Friday to Matt Victor of Indianola in the quarters, 5-1, and then Jordan Jones of Des Moines North/Hoover pinned her in 1 minute, 21 seconds.
I wrote in my column in the Independence Bulletin Journal that appeared in yesterday's edition that I thought Northrup should have faced her, because if it were me, gender doesn't matter. It's another wrestler.
However, Northrup issued a statement that said the following:
"Wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times. As a matter of conscience and my faith I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most other high school sports in Iowa."
He's right ont he last part, though. Iowa doesn't have a separate division for girls in high school wrestling. If a girl wants to wrestler interscholastically in Iowa, they must wrestle boys, unless she happens to draw a girl in either a dual meet or tournament.
In my feature, the Herkelmans told me only three other boys refused to face her. Northrup had two opportunities to face her: once in a dual meet in Cedar Rapids, which he did not participate, and Thursday.
It's sad, really. This girl's accomplishments of making one of the most prestigious tournaments around has been tempered by someone who refused to wrestle her.
The above video, made by the Cedar Rapids ABC affiliate KCRG, talks about the match Thursday between Cassy Herkelman, the girl I featured in late November for the Cedar Falls Times, of Cedar Falls and Linn-Mar's Joel Northrup.
Northrup decided, due to his religious make-up, he could not find it in his conscience to wrestle a girl. However, the other 13 boys in the Class 3A 112-pound division had no qualms with wrestling a girl (there are 16 wrestlers who qualify, two of them in Class 3A at 112 were girls, Cassy and Ottumwa's Megan Black).
Because Northrup decided to default, not only was Cassy the first girl to qualify for state (Black qualified about an hour later), but she's the first to advance to the quarterfinals. Of course, she lost Friday to Matt Victor of Indianola in the quarters, 5-1, and then Jordan Jones of Des Moines North/Hoover pinned her in 1 minute, 21 seconds.
I wrote in my column in the Independence Bulletin Journal that appeared in yesterday's edition that I thought Northrup should have faced her, because if it were me, gender doesn't matter. It's another wrestler.
However, Northrup issued a statement that said the following:
"Wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times. As a matter of conscience and my faith I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most other high school sports in Iowa."
He's right ont he last part, though. Iowa doesn't have a separate division for girls in high school wrestling. If a girl wants to wrestler interscholastically in Iowa, they must wrestle boys, unless she happens to draw a girl in either a dual meet or tournament.
In my feature, the Herkelmans told me only three other boys refused to face her. Northrup had two opportunities to face her: once in a dual meet in Cedar Rapids, which he did not participate, and Thursday.
It's sad, really. This girl's accomplishments of making one of the most prestigious tournaments around has been tempered by someone who refused to wrestle her.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Another opportunity
Well, I have another job opportunity within Community Media Group. Anelia Dimitrova, the regional editor for Northeast Iowa (based with Waverly Newspapers/Cedar Falls Times) called me Wednesday morning letting me know that the editor position at the Independence Bulletin-Journal is opening up, and she wants me to take the helm for at least the next three months.
The editor currently, Mike Hohenbrink, is leaving in the next couple weeks, so Anelia needed me to start there Monday, so I can get shown the ropes. I told this to Mark Roussell, the Witham Auto Centers Cedar Falls sales manager, and he understood. While I was at the Waterloo lot, Mark and Tim Godfrey, the general manager for all three lots, discussed it, and Tim figured he'd try to get me to stay. If I were one to be into sales, I would stay, but I'm a journalist. I had to take this opportunity and give my two weeks (I'll still do three mornings a week for the next two) so they can find my replacement.
Anyway, from my understanding, Anelia wants me aboard instead of having their correspondent take over because I have design skills. Of course, I also have many years of experience in different kinds of writing and photography, so that goes for me. Plus, Anelia, as she said time and again, has been looking out for something to give me a more permanent position within the company. The question is only my best fit.
I'm interim because the publisher, Deb Weigel, figured we'd also have a nationwide search in case I or they don't feel it's my fit or something like that. Plus, at the start of April, Hawkeye Racing News resumes weekly publications. I'm still going to be able to do Cedar Falls-area sports, as the correspondent does most of the evening meetings and such.
So, we'll see how things go. Until then, everyone have a Happy 2011!
The editor currently, Mike Hohenbrink, is leaving in the next couple weeks, so Anelia needed me to start there Monday, so I can get shown the ropes. I told this to Mark Roussell, the Witham Auto Centers Cedar Falls sales manager, and he understood. While I was at the Waterloo lot, Mark and Tim Godfrey, the general manager for all three lots, discussed it, and Tim figured he'd try to get me to stay. If I were one to be into sales, I would stay, but I'm a journalist. I had to take this opportunity and give my two weeks (I'll still do three mornings a week for the next two) so they can find my replacement.
Anyway, from my understanding, Anelia wants me aboard instead of having their correspondent take over because I have design skills. Of course, I also have many years of experience in different kinds of writing and photography, so that goes for me. Plus, Anelia, as she said time and again, has been looking out for something to give me a more permanent position within the company. The question is only my best fit.
I'm interim because the publisher, Deb Weigel, figured we'd also have a nationwide search in case I or they don't feel it's my fit or something like that. Plus, at the start of April, Hawkeye Racing News resumes weekly publications. I'm still going to be able to do Cedar Falls-area sports, as the correspondent does most of the evening meetings and such.
So, we'll see how things go. Until then, everyone have a Happy 2011!
Sunday, December 19, 2010
C.F. sweeps boy/girl doubleheader from Waterloo East
Cedar Falls swept a boy/girl doubleheader Friday night.
Battle of Waterloo
Waverly-Shell Rock was second, Denver-Tripoli third in the championship bracket Saturday, while Cedar Falls was runners-up in Bracket 4.
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