Jefferson High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Blue helps J-Hawks enjoy golden meet

Cedar Rapids Jefferson sophomore Jasmine Blue needed a Brink's truck to haul all her gold medals back to school Saturday afternoon.

Blue collected four gold medals and helped Jefferson smash three meet records at the 28th Annual J-Hawk Relays on a mild, sunny day at Kingston Stadium in Cedar Rapids

Blue captured the 100 meter dash and ran on the 4x200 relay, sprint medley relay and 4x100 relay that set new standards for excellence.

"It feels so great," said Blue, a sophomore. "We've worked so hard as a team. Our team has put in so much work and so much effort. And I have, too."

The J-Hawks snapped their own meet record in the 4x200 relay. That's significant, because the Jefferson girls broke the all-time state record in that event last year when they won the 4x200 relay at the Class 4A state meet.

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J-Hawk boys boot Davenport North

Seth Jellison, Jordan Hawkins and Carter Schmidtz scored goals Tuesday as Cedar Rapids Jefferson blanked Davenport North, 3-0, in a boys soccer match at the Lower Kingston field in Cedar Rapids.

Ian Karr, Henok Kidane and Zeb Grimm had assists for the J-Hawks.

Jeff boys win Prairie tennis meet

Jacob Donald captured the No.1 singles title Saturday to help the Cedar Rapids Jefferson J-Hawks claim top honors at the Cedar Rapids Prairie Invitational tennis meet.

Donald clipped Jimm Huiskamp of Davenport Assumption, 6-2, 6-3, in the championship match.

The J-Hawks won both of the doubles titles in the seven-team meet.

Zach Denny and Nate Weger defeated Caleb Scott and Jeremy Ellerby of Marion, 6-1, 6-0, in the finals at No.1 doubles. Jason Chung and Kellen Brown beat Daniel Rholf and Jack Thomas of Davenport Assumption, 6-1, 6-1, at No.2 doubles.

Team Standings

1. Jefferson 38, 2. Davenport Assumption 28, 3. (tie) Marion 20, Prairie 20, 5. Western Dubuque 10, 6. Independence 4, 7. South Tama 0.

Ordman resigns as Jefferson coach

Stu Ordman announced Tuesday morning that he has resigned as the boys basketball coach at Cedar Rapids Jefferson to become the new coach at Iowa City Regina.

Ordman, who lives in Iowa City, succeeds Randy Larson at Regina.

Ordman compiled a 232-160 record in 17 years as the head coach at Jefferson with four trips to the state tournament in 1999, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The J-Hawks finished 7-15 this past season.

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Olson named MVP of all-star game

Jacob Olson would love to follow his brother's footsteps and play basketball at Kirkwood Community College next season.

He'd also love to strike out on his own and play at Mount Mercy University.

Either way, the all-state point guard from Cedar Rapids Jefferson figures it's a win-win situation.

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Olson set for All-Star Game

Six high school basketball players from the Cedar Rapids Metro area will participate in the 4th Annual Eastern Iowa All-Star Games at Kirkwood Community College on Wednesday.

A.J. Carter of Kennedy and Jacob Olson of Jefferson will play in the boys game that's scheduled to start at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Katie Sommer of Linn-Mar, Kristie Sommer of Linn-Mar, Morgan Martin of Kennedy and Cyerra Hutchins of Prairie will play in the girls game at 6 p.m.

A 3-point shootout will be held during halftime of the girls game, and a dunk contest will be held during halftime of the boys game.

Tickets cost $8 for adults and $6 for students. Doors open at 5:30.

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J-Hawks win relay in Dubuque

DUBUQUE — Tim Wolfe of Linn-Mar won the 55 meter dash in 6.67 seconds Saturday at the University of Dubuque Boys High School Indoor Classic.

The Jefferson J-Hawks claimed the 4x200 relay in 1:33.41, nipping Linn-Mar by two-tenths of a second. Jacob Beaton, Nate Karlan, Dan Larson and Dylan Chittick ran for Jefferson.

Karlan placed second in the 55 for the J-Hawks (6.71).

Daniel Murphy finished second in the 1600 for Linn-Mar (4:26.47). Marshall Creech grabbed third in the 400 for the Lions (56.12).

Dubuque Hempstead won the meet with 68 points. Linn-Mar tied for fifth place with 46 points. Jefferson finished seventh with 44.

Ranschau sisters run 1-2 at Dubuque

DUBUQUE - Madison Ranschau of Cedar Rapids Jefferson won the 55 meter hurdles at the University of Dubuque Girls High School Indoor Classic Friday.

Ranschau was clocked in 8.39 seconds. Her sister, Abilene Ranschau, placed second in the same event in 8.76 seconds and Sam Kitterman of Jefferson was fourth (9.26).

Jefferson placed third in the 4x200 relay (1:49.03) and third in the 4x400 relay (4:09.94).

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Carter tops all-Metro basketball team

Kennedy senior A.J. Carter has been named the Athlete of the Year on the 2014 All-Metro Boys Basketball Team, as selected by the Metro coaches.

Jon McKowen of Kennedy was named the Metro Coach of the Year in his first season with the Cougars.

Jacob Olson of Jefferson, Adam McDermott of Xavier, Jordan Bohannon of Linn-Mar, Michael Mims of Prairie, Jared Printy of Washington and Nic Uhlir of Linn-Mar joined Carter on the first team.

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