She tried to hold it back. But she just couldn’t. Solon’s Cydney Jaster watched from the sidelines with a boot on her right foot as her teammates fought relentlessly for the 2025 WaMaC Volleyball...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Championship season has arrived for high school cross country in Iowa, meaning the stakes are the highest they’ve been all season for the Solon Spartans. Solon competed at the WaMaC...

Hunched over with his hands on his knees in an attempt to catch his breath, a young Rene Meza knows that the hardest part is still ahead of him. He’s one lap into a four lap run around the track, and...

This was not your typical Solon Senior Night. The storied Senior Night traditions for Solon remained the same, with the announcement of each senior athlete, the passing of the torch to the kindergarteners,...

COGGON — Solon’s cross country teams have battled injury, sickness and inconsistency all season, but with post-season around the corner, the Spartans and Lady Spartans put down clutch performances...

Comparison is the thief of joy, and it always will be. Going into the 2024-25 school year, Amelia Guinn had her doubts. The soon-to-be freshman attended Solon volleyball open gyms in the summer, questioning...

INDEPENDENCE — The varsity Lady Spartans clinched the WaMaC East Championship, their first since 2012, Tuesday, October 7 with a 3-0 sweep of the Independence Mustangs. Solon held off the Mustangs...

After Solon’s Maddox Kelley scored a 49-yard rushing touchdown in the first drive of the game versus Keokuk, quarterback Eli Kampman isolated himself on the bench with a computer and watched film. He...

As fans arrived, posters lined the wall showcasing the eight seniors (Jillian Elijah, Gretchen Hammill, and Jaelyn Posekany on the JV squad and Kennedey Whitford, Cydney Jaster, Jozie Lahr, Kiley Devery,...

Every breath became a gasp for air, but Anders Holmes’ legs only began moving faster. He couldn’t tell exactly how many guys were ahead of him, but he knew it was too many. The cheerful shouts from...

It sits in the corner of the Solon football locker room. Rust bleeds through the flaking tan powder coat, peeling like old bark. Steel is warped and thinned from years of abuse. Its legs wobble. One...