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Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School
Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School is a public senior high school located in Waverly, Iowa, United States. It provides high school education for Waverly and surrounding areas in Bremer County. Organization The school is part of the Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District. The current principal is David Fox. Education is provided in grades 9–12. As of the 2010–11 school year it had an enrolment of 671 students, 96% of whom were White. Athletics The Go-Hawks compete in the Northeast Iowa Conference in the following sports: *Cross Country *Volleyball *Football *Basketball The Go-Hawks won the Class 3A boys' basketball state title in 2007 and 2013. In 2015 they won their first 3A state baseball championship under longtime head coach Casey Klunder. Waverly-Shell Rock has had two players win the Iowa Mr. Basketball award as the best high school boys basketball player in Iowa: Mike Bergman in 1989, and Clayton Vette in 2007. *Bowling *Wrestling *Track and Field * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverly, Iowa
Waverly is a city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States. The population was 10,394 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Bremer County and is part of the Waterloo– Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The sister city of Waverly is the German city of Eisenach, which is famous for the Wartburg castle. Waverly is the location of Wartburg College, which is named after this castle. Early Waverly history Indian reservation The first permanent residents of Waverly were settled there against their will. Because of their alleged assistance given to Chief Black Hawk during the Blackhawk War of 1832, the Winnebago were forced to cede their lands east of the Mississippi and to move to Neutral Ground in what is now northeastern Iowa. They were to receive $270,000 ($10,000 per year for 27 years) and were required to surrender several of their tribesmen accused of murdering whites during the war. At that time there were three tribes living in the area, the Win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public School (government Funded)
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Independent schools with low tui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District
The Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District is a rural public school district located in the communities of Waverly and Shell Rock in the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Iowa. The district spans Bremer, Butler and Black Hawk counties. There are seven schools in the district—including four elementary schools, a middle school, a senior high school, and a residential alternative high school. History Schools Elementary schools: *Margaretta Carey Elementary School (K–4), Waverly *Shell Rock Elementary School (K–4), Shell Rock *Southeast Elementary School (K-4), Waverly *West Cedar Elementary School (K–4), Waverly Middle schools: *Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School (5–8), Waverly High schools: *Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School (9-12), Waverly *Waverly-Shell Rock Lied Center (residential 10–12), Waverly Enrollment See also *List of school districts in Iowa This is a list of school districts in Iowa, sorted by Area Education Agencies (AEA). Dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northeast Iowa Conference
The Northeast Iowa Conference (NEIC) is a six school athletic conference made up of mid-sized schools in the Northeast Corner of Iowa. The conference dates in 1920, making it one of Iowa's oldest existing athletic conferences. Members Departing members highlighted in red. Waverly-Shell Rock will be removed from the NEIC as of June 30, 2023, due to an imbalance of enrollment when compared to the other members. Likely landing spots for the school include the Iowa Alliance Conference or the Mississippi Valley Conference Invited Members The following school districts were invited to the NEIC on April 25 for the 2023-24 school year. No school district has yet announced its intentions. Oelwein and Osage were formerly charter members. Osage left the conference in 1958, Oelwein in 2021 History The NEIC was founded in 1920 by seven schools in northeastern Iowa. These seven schools were Charles City, Cresco, Decorah, New Hampton, Oelwein, Osage, and Waverly. All of the schools wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State School
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary educational institution, schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High School
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools. In the US, the secondary education system has separate middle schools and high schools. In the UK, most state schools and privately-funded schools accommodate pupils between the ages of 11–16 or 11–18; some UK private schools, i.e. public schools, admit pupils between the ages of 13 and 18. Secondary schools follow on from primary schools and prepare for vocational or tertiary education. Attendance is usually compulsory for students until age 16. The organisations, buildings, and terminology are more or less unique in each country. Levels of education In the ISCED 2011 education scale levels 2 and 3 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bremer County, Iowa
Bremer County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,988. Its county seat is Waverly. The county was named for Fredrika Bremer, a Swedish feminist writer. Bremer County is included in the Waterloo- Cedar Falls, IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.9%) is water. It is intersected by the Cedar and Wapsipinicon rivers. Major highways * U.S. Highway 63 * U.S. Highway 218 * Iowa Highway 3 * Iowa Highway 27 * Iowa Highway 93 * Iowa Highway 188 Adjacent counties *Chickasaw County (north) * Fayette County (east) * Floyd County (northwest) *Black Hawk County (south) * Buchanan County (southeast) * Butler County (west) Demographics 2020 census The 2020 census recorded a population of 24,988 in the county, with a population density of . 97.01% of the population reported being of one race. 92.39% wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey Klunder
Casey Klunder is an American baseball coach. He is the current head baseball coach at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, a position he has held since the May of 2023. Klunder played college baseball at Waldorf College—now known as Waldorf University—in Forest City, Iowa. Coaching career Waverly-Shell Rock High School In 2006, Klunder took over as head baseball coach at Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School (WSR) in Waverly, Iowa. He compiled an overall record of 386–185 as a Go-Hawk and led them to the schools first ever state baseball championship in 2015. During his tenure they also were ranked in the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association (IHSBCA) rankings for 14 straight years and reached as high as No. 1 on multiple occasions. After their state championship in 2015, Klunder was named the 2015 IHSBCA Coach of the year, and he had coached in the IHSBCA All-Star game in both 2010 and 2016. In his time with WSR they qualified for the state tournament four times, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa Mr
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Iowa was a part of Louisiana (New France), French Louisiana and Louisiana (New Spain), Spanish Louisiana; its Flag of Iowa, state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, people laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy transitioned to a diversified economy of advanced manufacturing, processing, financial services, information technology, biotechnology, and Sustainable energy, green energy productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clayton Vette
Clayton Vette (born September 5, 1988) is an American professional basketball player, who last played for Okapi Aalstar, Okapi Aalst of the Pro Basketball League (PBL). Standing at , Vette plays as power forward (basketball), power forward. Professional career On July 25, 2017, Vette signed with ZZ Leiden of the Dutch Basketball League. On July 6, 2018, Vette re-signed with Leiden. On March 31, 2019, Vette and Leiden won the NBB Cup. In the 2019 offseason, Vette signed with Okapi Aalstar of the Belgian Pro Basketball League (PBL). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Vette, Clayton 1988 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Belgium American expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic American expatriate basketball people in Hungary American expatriate basketball people in the Netherlands American men's basketball players Antwerp Giants players B.S. Leiden players Basketball players from Iowa Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball players Landstede Hammers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Des Moines Register
''The Des Moines Register'' is the daily morning newspaper of Des Moines, Iowa. History Early period The first newspaper in Des Moines was the ''Iowa Star''. In July 1849, Barlow Granger began the paper in an abandoned log cabin by the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon River. In 1854, ''The Star'' became the ''Iowa Statesman'' which was also a Democratic paper. In 1857, ''The Statesman'' became the ''Iowa State Journal'', which published 3 times per week. In 1870, ''The Iowa Statesman'' became the ''Iowa State Leader'' as a Democratic newspaper, which competed with pro-Republican ''Iowa Daily State Register'' for the next 32 years. In 1902, George Roberts bought the ''Register'' and ''Leader'' and merged them into a morning newspaper. In 1903, Des Moines banker Gardner Cowles, Sr. purchased the ''Register and Leader''. The name finally became ''The Des Moines Register'' in 1915. (Cowles also acquired the ''Des Moines Tribune'' in 1908. The ''Tribune'', which merged with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Stumme-Diers
Paul Stumme-Diers (born 1960) was a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Greater Milwaukee Synod. Born in 1960 in Waverly, Iowa, Stumme-Diers is the fourth of five children of Herman and Dorothy Diers. He was baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Waverly and graduated from Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School. In 1982, he graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington with a bachelor's degree in political science. Paul and Laurie Stumme-Diers were married in 1983 in Waverly. Both attended Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa and graduated with masters of divinity degrees in 1988. On August 13, 1989 they were ordained at St. Paul’s in Waverly. In September 1989, he was called to serve at Resurrection Lutheran Church in New Berlin, Wisconsin; he later served as pastor at Resurrection from 1989–1997, and at All Saints Lutheran Church in Wales, Wisconsin, from January 1998 to August 2002. As a pastor in the synod, Stumme-D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
