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Stanley Cooper, a senior running back at Southeast Polk, had the defining performance of September in Class 5A. On Sept. 18 he carried 29 times for 196 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-28 win over defending 5A champion Dowling Catholic. His last score was a 52-yard run in the fourth quarter, and his brother Adrian ran in the two-point conversion that tied the game. Cooper came into the season after rushing for 1,311 yards and 17 touchdowns at 8.5 yards per carry, and he has the Rams back in contention for the 5A title.
Ginger Fay became the first eighth grader in Iowa to earn an automatic state qualifying time, and she now holds automatic cuts in both the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard individual medley. She ranks fourth in the state in the 100 breaststroke against swimmers up to four years older, swims on a 200 freestyle relay ranked No. 1 in the state, and has become one of the top point scorers for the back-to-back defending state champion Maroons.
Uweza Kalolero, a senior running back for the Cedar Rapids Washington Warriors, finished the regular season as Class 4A’s leading rusher. He ran for 1,591 yards and 13 touchdowns on 199 carries, averaging 8.0 yards per attempt, and led the class with 1,789 all-purpose yards. His best stretch came in October, when he rushed for 928 yards and seven touchdowns in four games. That included a 423-yard, five-touchdown night on 39 carries in a 52-20 win over Waterloo East in the season finale. Kalolero transferred to Washington from crosstown Jefferson after rushing for 1,026 yards there in 2025, and he closed his career by carrying the Warriors to back-to-back wins.
Kimber Corwin, a junior for the Dowling Catholic Maroons, led Dowling to its third consecutive CIML conference championship in October. At the conference meet she won the 200 individual medley and 500 freestyle, swam the butterfly leg of the winning 200 medley relay, and led off the winning 400 freestyle relay. She was the only swimmer in the conference with four event wins. Through the conference meet she had 15 first-place and two second-place individual finishes this season. Corwin is also the defending state champion in the 200 IM, which she won last November with an automatic All-American time.
