
March 12, 2026
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / John Gaines Photography DES MOINES — Payne Prottsman would be the first to say he has had more than his fair share of frustrations this season. But t...

March 12, 2026
Matt Levins- The Hawk Eye / John Gaines Photography DES MOINES — For the first time since 1981, the Notre Dame High School boys basketball team finds itself in the Class 1A s...

March 12, 2026
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / John Gaines Photography DES MOINES — Another day, another hero for the Notre Dame High School boys basketball team. In Tuesday’s 68-62 win over Bel...

March 3, 2026
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit - Jen Levins IOWA CITY — At 5 foot-7, Tatum Warner often is the smallest player on the basketball court. But the Notre Dame High School ...

March 3, 2026
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit - Jen Levins IOWA CITY — The last time the Notre Dame High School boys basketball team walked off the court at Iowa City High, they had ...

March 3, 2026
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye/ Photo credit- Jen Levins IOWA CITY — Amidst all the hoopla, picture-taking and handshake, Notre Dame High School boys basketball coach Dan Kies passed...

February 23, 2026
DES MOINES -- As Kael Cook stepped off the mat for the final time in his high school career early Saturday afternoon, he looked into the stands at the Casey's Center one last time...

December 31, 2025
Central College junior Ava Parkins, a graduate of Notre Dame High School, was named the American Rivers Conference Track and Field Events Performer of the Week. Matt Levins- T...

December 30, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye Megan Harrell was arguably the best women’s basketball player ever to don a Lincoln Land Community College jersey. During her two-year stint with the...

December 19, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit John Gaines Photography IOWA CITY — Gabby Deery may have struggled through an injury-plagued junior season for the University of Iow...

December 12, 2025
Matt Levins- the Hawk Eye GALESBURG, Ill. — Maddy Knapp didn’t have the volleyball season she was hoping for in her freshman year at Carl Sandburg College. The Notre Dame Hig...

December 10, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / John Gaines Photography Landry Haberichter always thought he would play baseball when it came time to head off to college. That was before the No...

December 6, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Dan Hockett - Photo Credit While offenses get most of the attention in high school football, it is still defense which wins games and championships. ...

December 5, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit- Dan Hockett While no area teams made a deep run in the playoffs this year, there were still plenty of memorable moments, record-setting...

December 3, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / John Gaines Photography (Above - Notre Dame's Ainsley Conrad bumps the ball against Wapello in a Class 1A regional quarter final game) For the first...

December 3, 2025
The high school girls cross country season was chock full of surprises from start to finish. Mount Pleasant freshman Avery Fedler took the area by storm, racing away with impressi...

December 3, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye The 2025 high school boys cross country season will go down as one of the most competitive ever. The area was loaded with solid teams from WACO to Colu...

November 26, 2025
MACOMB, Ill. — Western Illinois men’s basketball coach Chad Boudreau has had Shay Stephens on his radar since Stephens was old enough to dribble a basketball. Stephens, a 6-foot...

September 5, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / John Gaines Photography hay Stephens has blossomed into one of the top guards in the state over the course of the last three seasons at Notre Dame ...

August 27, 2025
The Notre Dame family fondly remembers Marge Classen. Marge taught science at Notre Dame High School for 18 years and served as moderator in a variety of extracurricular activit...
