Congratulations to these 12 students who earned the 2018 Walt Fiegel Foundation Scholarship! Amber Allyn, North Jose Ayala-Garcia, West Medinat Ayodele, Bishop Heelan Ross Gengler, Sergeant Bluff- Luton Paige Hanson, East High Hannah Huggins, North High Josh Nutt, East Rachel Okine, Dakota Valley Elda Rodriguez-Virrueta, East Diego Santiago, Bishop Heelan Grace Wilmes, Bishop Heelan Simone… Read more »
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15th Annual Walt Fiegel Weekend May 10, 11, and 12, 2018
We would love to have you join us! The More the Merrier! This is our 15th year of what is now known as Walt Week. It is like a reunion that we all look forward to. Everyone is welcome. Happy Hour on Thursday, May 10 at Eddies Tavern Dinner/Auction/Scholarship Awards: Friday, May 11, 2018 at the… Read more »
Fiegel Foundation provides for many
by STEVE ALLSPACH May 14, 2017 SIOUX CITY – Not exactly lyricists when they were still drawing bountiful breaths, Walt Fiegel and Rich Vanderloo still found some measure of iambic pentameter in “telling it like it is.’’ It might not have been poetry, addressing any and all who might be inclined to listen, but there… Read more »
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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 »