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How all 10 Iowa City-area wrestlers performed at Iowa girls state wrestling tournament
Iowa City High’s Shaona Emmanuel discusses state wrestling goals
Shaona Emmanuel has never made the Iowa high school girls state wrestling tournament. The Iowa City High junior is hoping to change that this season.
The 2025 Iowa high school girls state wrestling tournament featured non-stop action.
Ten Iowa City-area wrestlers competed in the two-day event from Feb. 6 through Feb. 7 at Xtream Arena in Coralville.
Here’s how each Iowa City-area wrestler performed at the state tournament.
Iowa City Liberty
Peyten Van Dyke was the only wrestler to represent Iowa City Liberty at the state tournament.
The Liberty sophomore placed eighth at 155 pounds in 2A. She lost in the opening round before clinching wins in the next two rounds of consolations, which included a 6-3 sudden victory. Ultimately, she fell short in the third round of consolations and in the seventh-place match.
Van Dyke had a strong performance at state in her first season with the Lightning. After not placing at state as an Iowa City West freshman, Van Dyke returned and earned a spot on the podium.
Iowa City High
Amelia Terrill (110 pounds), Izzy Brown (145 pounds), Shaona Emmanuel (155 pounds) and Molly Carlson (170 pounds) represented Iowa City High at the state tournament.
Emmanuel placed third. The Tanzania native fell in the opening round but pinned her way through five matches for a spot on the podium. All of those wins were decided within the first round of the match. It was a strong state tournament debut for the City High junior.
Brown and Terrill fell in the opening round and ensuing consolation round. Carlson fell short in the opening round but answered with a pin in round one of consolations. She ultimately lost in the next round of consolations.
Iowa City West
Iowa City West was represented by senior Trinity Myers at state. In her second state appearance, the 120-pounder fell in the opening round before securing a pin in the first round of consolations. She ultimately fell in the second round of consolations.
Myers capped off her senior season with a 29-15 record.
Solon
Solon was represented by Kara VeDepo (105 pounds), McKenna Rogers (110 pounds), Tess Richards (115 pounds) and Olivia Bonnema (140 pounds).
Rogers secured a pin in 29 seconds in the first round before falling in the quarterfinals and second round of consolations. Bonnema earned a 7-6 decision in the first round but dropped matches in the quarterfinals and second round of consolations.
VeDepo lost in the first round in overtime and sustained an injury that forced her to medically forfeit the first round of consolations. Richards lost in the opening round and first round of consolations.
Marc Ray is the high school sports reporter for the Iowa City Press-Citizen. He can be reached at MARay@gannett.com, and on X, formerly Twitter, at @themarcszn.
TAMA COUNTY, Iowa — A pair of power outages left more than 700 people without power in Tama County Friday afternoon.
Alliant Energy says the larger outage, just north of Garwin, was caused by a semi-truck striking one of their power poles. That outages impacted 690 customers as of 5 p.m. Friday.
The smaller outage impacted roughly 36 people in Tama. The outage was caused by equipment needing repairs.
Alliant says crews are on site and working to fix both outages.
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (KTIV) – The Iowa Great Lakes community is remembering Leo “Butch” Parks, a longtime lakes-area businessman and founder of Parks Marina.
He died Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the age of 81.
Parks established the marina on East Lake Okoboji in 1983, growing it from a small fishing boat operation into a business with marinas, sales, service, rentals, storage, and popular destinations like the Barefoot Bar.
Parks and his wife, Debbie, also owned Okoboji Boat Works for 23 years.
Funeral services are set for Friday, Jan. 16, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Spirit Lake. It will be followed by a celebration of life at Snapper’s restaurant in Okoboji that evening.
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Iowa woman accused of pandering for prostitution and harassment after incidents at Casey’s and a daycare
AURELIA, Iowa (KTIV) – A Northwest Iowa woman is facing charges of harassment and pandering for prostitution after two incidents took place in December 2025.
Forty-seven-year-old Kristal Miller of Odebolt was taken into custody on an arrest warrant and faces three charges: one count of pandering for prostitution and two counts of first-degree harassment, according to court documents.
The charges stem from two separate incidents that took place on Thursday, Dec. 18. 2025.
According to court documents, at 6:15 a.m., Miller reportedly went to the Casey’s General Store, located at 100 Pearl St. in Aurelia. Documents state Miller approached an employee and customers, requesting money from them.
Authorities state Miller claimed she was wanted by the FBI and told people, if anyone called the police, “she would kill them.”
During this encounter, she also allegedly asked an employee to remove the string from her hooded sweatshirt. Documents state when the employee refused this request, she threatened to strangle them.
That same day at 7 a.m., Miller reportedly approached a female employee outside an Aurelia daycare and asked them for money.
Court documents stated Miller suggested the unnamed employee leave her boyfriend. Miller reportedly told the employee, if she did, then she and Miller would both be paid.
Authorities say when she was told no by the employee, Miller became upset and started yelling at them.
Miller also allegedly threatened to “steal her car” and ”take her away to her guys to start a new life.”
She was booked into the Cherokee County Jail on a cash-only bond of $5,000. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled in Cherokee for Friday, Jan. 9, at 10 a.m.
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