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Pezzetti receives Coaching with Character Award
Nov. 18, 2016 by Dan Holm of the Des Moines Register Ankeny Centennial co-head football coach Jerry Pezzetti was the recipient of the Walt Fiegel Award on Friday in Cedar Falls. Jerry Pezzetti has been awarded a lot of honors during his legendary coaching career. On Friday, Ankeny Centennial’s co-head football coach received an award that means… Read more »
ALLSPACH: LOSING ANOTHER
Feb 8, 2015 by STEVE ALLSPACH Covering the Iowa high school football playoffs over the years, you treasure unforgettable characters, legends and icons like the late Walt Fiegel of Our Town’s East High and Pat Mitchell of Cedar Falls. Wins and losses aside, Walt and Mitch were, still are, two of the winningest coaches in… Read more »
Childhood friends collaborate on University of Iowa popcorn, movie promotion
Nov 2, 2014 by DAVE DREESZEN SIOUX CITY | A while back, a recruiter at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business came up with an idea to promote the school. How about giving prospective students a free night in with popcorn and a movie, the recruiter told Barb Thomas, the college’s director of communications…. Read more »
ALLSPACH: Heads up
by Steve Allspach Cherokee’s Adam Timmerman, Emmetsburg’s Bruce Nelson and West Lyon’s Kyle Vanden Bosch will be inducted into the Iowa High School Football Hall of Fame during the upcoming playoffs in the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls. On the coaching side. Three with close personal ties will be involved. Former Sioux City West Coach Ken… Read more »
East ’84 champs celebrate anniversary
BARRY POE Oct 9, 2014 SIOUX CITY | Every 10 years, the fellas who played on East High’s 1984 state championship football team get together to relive the glory days. And rightly so, since that team is the only Sioux City public school ever to capture a state high school football crown. They’ll convene again… Read more »
Spirit of late Sioux City Coach Fiegel lives on
TIM GALLAGHER May 2, 2013 SIOUX CITY | Ten years ago this Halloween, Walt Fiegel coached his final football game. Try as they might, the East High Black Raiders fell to rival Bishop Heelan 27-0, ending the season with a 3-6 mark. Down and out? That wasn’t Fiegel, the legend who piloted East to a… Read more »
HERSOM: MORE FAREWELLS
MORE FAREWELLS by Terry Hersom, Sioux City Journal One of life’s grim realities, I guess, is that sorrow is everywhere, every day, and we can only pray to deal with it bravely or hope it doesn’t pile up on us any more than we can handle. Certainly, this has already been a tough month for… Read more »
Seventh Fiegel benefit golf tournament draws near
By Barry Poe Apr 24, 2010 SIOUX CITY — It’s that time of year again. It’s time for so many of the young men whose lives were changed forever simply by being around the late Walt Fiegel to celebrate their former coach once again. Members of the Walt Fiegel Foundation will hold their seventh annual… Read more »
Tuttle wins Fiegel Scholarship
Jerry Giese – Journal sports writer Jul 23, 2007 Marshall Tuttle has fond memories of Walt Fiegel. The East High School linebacker/fullback was once a ballboy for the legendary football coach, who won 158 games in 26 seasons and posted a 128-79 record with the Black Raiders. Even as a youngster, Tuttle heard of stories… Read more »