Category: sports
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2025 Spring Sports Preview
April 1, 2025 Track and Field On any given day, track practice at Earlham functions like a well-choreographed ballet. Kids on all four teams—high school boys and girls and middle school boys and girls—all work through their drills at the same time, one group never getting in the way of…
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Happy Anniversary!
2014-15 Cardinals finished 3rd at the state basketball tournament March 25, 2025 For young adults, the ten years right after high school are action packed. When you’re busy getting your career rolling, starting a family, and just generally finding your way in the world, things are happening so fast that…
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Wrestling: Three Cardinals Advance to State
February 18, 2025 Canoyer, Millage will return to The Well At the district tournament in Truro on February 15, Cardinal senior Dallas Canoyer earned his fourth trip to Wells Fargo Arena for the state tournament with a 1st place finish at 126. By winning the 120 lb. division, sophomore Max…
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Boys’ Wrestling: Cards 6th at Conference
January 21, 2025 Injuries and illnesses have riddled the Cardinal lineup this season; but it’s wrestling—nobody is going to feel sorry for you. Despite their issues, the Cards have battled on. The able-bodied of the Earlham squad competed well at the conference tournament on January 18 in Truro and they…
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Happy Anniversary to the 2014 State Champion Earlham Cardinal Softball Team!
August 27, 2024 Ten years ago, an experienced, talented, well-coached Earlham Cardinal team capped an amazing season by winning the Class 2A state softball championship in Fort Dodge. In commemoration of that achievement, we recently talked to Coach Caskey and a few members of the team about their remembrances and…
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Earlham Cardinals Summer Sports Preview
May 21, 2024 Softball Expectations are always high with Earlham softball. When a program is a perennial powerhouse with a slew of state tournament appearances and a couple of state championship trophies, that just comes with the territory. With eight high-level returning starters—five seniors and three juniors—from a team that…
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Spring Sports Preview
March 26, 2024 Track Earlham track and field is just one big happy family. Technically, there are four teams: high school boys and girls, and junior high boys and girls. But on most spring days after school, they’re all out on the track or on the roads at the same…
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Boys’ Wrestling: Cardinals Fly High at State
February 20, 2024 With two wrestlers that placed and two that advanced to the 3rd round of the consolation bracket, the Earlham Cardinals finished 16th in Class 1A at the state wrestling tournament last week. That’s not bad for anybody. For a school that didn’t even have its own program…
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Celebrating the Seniors
February 13, 2024 Basketball, wrestling, and band seniors were honored on February 6 between the girls’ and boys’ basketball games with Des Moines Christian. We spoke with the basketball seniors about their years playing for the Cardinals. For those of you that played high school sports, when you think back…
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Cardinal Girls Wrestling
January 30, 2024 Glade Wins Super Regional There is no easy path in wrestling, but Haley Glade made her run to the super regional title at 145 ‘look’ easy. She won her first three matches by fall in an average time of just over 2 minutes. She won the 1st…
