Sports

Zumba class will be offered at the Vinton Skate & Activity Center

The Vinton Parks & Recreation Department will soon begin offering a Zumba class at the Vinton Skate & Activity Center! This cardio-sculpt, calorie-burning, Latin-inspired dance-f...

Vikings Youth Wrestling season wrapping up

Carter Lamont   The Vikings Youth Wrestling season is coming to an end.  Here is how things finished out for some of the local boys.   Kindergarten Carter Lamont 50lbs 3rd pla...

Wrestling Wrap-up: Merchant named Viking Most Valuable Wrestler

Coach Johnson, Ryan Webster, Nathan Merchant, Brant Corcran, Riley Hopkins, Austin G-H.   The Vinton-Shellsburg Viking wrestling team and coach Steve Johnson held their season wrap-up Tuesday at the high school. Junior Nathan Merchant was named the Most Valuable Wrestler. Se...

VS Coach Don Lyle nominated for National Coach of the Year

Long-time Vinton-Shellsburg teacher and coach Don Lyle is a finalist for one of the National Coach of the Year Awards from the National High School Athletic Coaches Association. Lyle was nomina...

Vinton Parks and Recreation Department 2011-12 Adult Volleyball Standings 3/2/12

  This Week's Results   Sunday, February 26th   Coed Division Fareway / Tharp Design 39--6 Hummel's / Iron Shed 36--9 Ron-Da-Voo 32--13 ...

Vikette and Cyclone hoops star Monica Huelman Zaruba to join IHSGAU Hall of Fame

Monica Huelman Zaruba with her favorite team blanket.   When Monica Huelman Zaruba first joined the Vinton-Shellsburg High School girls basketball team as a freshman in the fall of 1992, coach Harold Shepherd knew right away that she would ma...

Bobcat defense holds off Vikings in Substate

Coach Johnson speaks to his team in the first quarter. The West Dubuque Bobcats held the Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings to their lowest point total of the 2011-12 season, defeating V-S, 55-41, in their Sub-State contest Monday evening at the McLeod Center o...

Vikings face rematch with W. Dubuque; winner goes to State Basketball Tourney

  Vinton-Shellsburg has seen its opponent for Monday's boys basketball Substate game already this seeson. That contest was the second game of the season, a 72-47 loss at Western Du...

Viking Alum Miller helping 11th-ranked Central track team

VS alum Phil Miller is a senior on the Central track team; he placed 2nd & 4th in recent events. PELLA -- Phil Miller, a 2008 Vinton-Shellsburg graduate and a senior on the Central College men's track team, is enjoying a successful season for the Division III 11th-rated Dutchmen. Mille...

Vinton Parks and Recreation Department 2011-12 Adult Volleyball Standings 2/24

This Week's Results   Sunday, February 19th     Coed Division Fareway / Tharp Design 36--6 Hummel's / Iron Shed 33--9 Ron-Da-Voo 32--13 ...