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Hoop wrap-up: Vikings celebrate success of 2012; look forward to 2013

Coach Johnson with the framed poster commemorating the 2011-12 season.   The Vinton-Shellsburg Vikings began the 2011-12 basketball season with no returning starters, only one senior (who had struggled through several injuries during his junior year) and six ...

Strong, Milroy to represent VSHS in WaMaC Senior Shootout, March 17

Vinton-Shellsburg senior basketball players Ashley Strong and Jake Milroy will compete in the WaMaC Senior Shootout this Saturday, March 17. The girls play at 5 p.m.; the boys at 6:30, at the Bento...

Vinton Parks and Recreation Department 2011-12 Adult Volleyball Standings

League champs Fareway/Tharp Design Lana Elwick, Dennis Bramow, Jessica Meyer, Sara Barron,Mike Allen   Vinton Parks and Recreation Department 2011-12 Adult Volleyball Standings   March 9, 2012       This Week's Results Sunday, March 4th    ...

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...