High hopes, big goals

Being a swimmer means countless hours in the pool and hard-core workouts. Four Xavier students take on that challenge. Senior Rory Bostwick, junior...

Aiming bigger

As a new season approaches, the anticipation of new beginnings appear. For the boys of Xavier’s wrestling team, the new season means another chance ...

New team, same mindset

A new season brings new players and new roles to fill, but the Xavier boys’ basketball team still has the same goal in mind: to win a state champion...

A new dynamic

Newbies often get overlooked. The Xavier girls’ basketball team welcomes five new freshmen to their varsity team for the 2018-2019 season: Bella Bar...

The perfect ending

“The perfect ending of my senior season is to win the state championship with an undefeated season, and we did that,” senior Patrick Chambers ...

Daniels finds future home

Many kids have heard “If you dream it, you can do it”. This applied to junior Caitlynn Daniels when her dreams came true as she verbally committed...

“An honor” for Bakanov

It only took two words for Xavier sophomore Andrei Bakanov to describe what it is like to play for the Cedar Rapids Roughriders: “An honor.” Bakan...

Repeat season

Currently undefeated with a record of 12-0, the Xavier football team has advanced to the state championship game. They will go up against a distri...

A record breaking season

The Xavier girls’ volleyball team played with something to prove. After losing in the semifinals at the state volleyball tournament the past two yea...

Humbling successes

With a record of 180 wins and 79 losses, Xavier Coach Duane Schulte is placed on the “50 greatest Iowa high school football coaches of all time�...