Winter Sports Pep Rally

IC City High knows how to put on a pep rally!  From the band playing, cheerleaders cheering, introductions of the winter sports players to the FUN of the bacon wrapped donut eating contest, three point shooting contest, dunk contest, and the trivia contest with the winners riding the bull.

Let the pep rally begin!

The basketball players waiting for their time
to be introduced.

Coach Showalter joining the team.

Donut eating contest

Trivia Contest

Mr. Bacon on the mechanical bull!

Malin, Tony and Cam were in the dunk contest.
Nice dunk Tony.

And the winner was....Cam!

Let the Games Begin!

The first game of the season was a home game against non-conference opponent Davenport Central.  City WINS 57-51.  Good job TEAM IC City High!

Coach Lee with his fiance, Cam

Hall of Pride Game

City High hosted the Hall of Pride Game vs. West Branch.  This game allowed by the state involved a community service project.   The Crisis Center of Iowa City will be helped with food items collected that evening and money collected will be used to buy more items.

West Branch and City High players

Let the game begin!
Line ups are announced.

Half time entertainment - Little Hawk Basketball Club game.

Planning the last few seconds.
Perry with a 3 pointer to win the game!

Team Photos!

Team Photo Day!

Uniforms and then Tuxes!

The TEAM!

Great fun to put the players in tuxes.
I can't wait to see the poster!

Varsity Coaches

Coaches
Tyler Griffith, Don Showalter, Ryan Lee

Jamboree

Uniforms on and READY to play!  City High White played Wilton and City High Red played Williamsburg.  Each game was two quarters where City worked on the skills from the previous week of practices.

City White vs. Wilton

City Red vs. Williamsburg

Practice, Pizza and Iowa Basketball

It was a BUSY first week of practice!  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the players reported for two-a-days starting with a 6:45 am practice and then a late afternoon/evening practice.  Thursday they had one practice at 2:30 and Friday one practice at 5:15 am!!  A catered breakfast on Friday helped get their school day started.  

Saturday the players reported for practice at 3:00.  After a hard practice and lifting they were ready for some team fun.  Off to Godfather's for pizza and then to Carver Arena to watch the Iowa basketball game.

Coach Showalter instructing the players.

Working on defense.

Writing in their notebooks.
"Successful people make a habit of doing things
 unsuccessful people don't like to do."  

Time for pizza!

At the Iowa basketball game:  Iowa vs Gardner-Webb.
Down by 20 at half-time, Hawkeyes roared back to win.

Photo op with the Iowa dancers
Connor's sister is one of the dancers.