emmetsburg, clear lake, grinell

[ronsss]

emmetsburg, clear lake, grinell, these 3 teams use to be a major force in high school year after year. i can remember in 70 or 71, harlan played emmetsburg, tell u how old i am....anyhow, these teams have seem to faded in the sunset...what happen to the once dominate 3 teams i mentioned????

 

[paxregis]

Clear Lake’s enrollment has declined and they are now in 2A. They are on track to make their 20th playoff appearance in 21 years (missed in 2016)

 

[ronsss]

thanks...i had thought clear lake was 3a....wow, their enrollment dropping that much? and emmetsburg, they use to dominate, sure have a slipped a notch or 2

 

[paxregis]

Clear Lake was always a smaller 3A school (300-340 BEDS depending on if an outlier sized class was coming through). Now they run in the 280-90s, so a big 2A. I can’t remember off hand which cycle it was but they were the smallest 3A after losing an alphabetical tiebreaker to Kuemper, Carroll.

 

[ronsss]

some people think harlan will slip to 2a, i really dont see that happing...harlan has 4 smaller towns (panama, westphilia, portsmoth,defiance), catholic mostly , that attend harlan community. its my opinion that those 4 smaller communities, and harlan will keep the numbers stable...i may be wrong, but that is where my betting money is going...the 4 smaller communities i mentioned are mostly farm families that will allways add to harlan,s bed numbers. i was in high school at harlan when those 4 communities joined harlan high school. it really helped harlan,s football program, and i can remember those kids were very excited to be part of harlan high school.