Scott Saville
Sports Director
Scott developed his love for high school athletics as a member of two state championship football teams at Carmel High School, in suburban Indianapolis.
Scott played college football for the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse. The highlight of Saville’s week since starting at KCRG-TV9 in 1996 has been covering the high school Athlete of the Week segments.
Scott has been married to his lovely wife Brenda for 29 years and has 3 daughters, Emily, Madeline, and Hanna and one grandson. In his spare time, Scott watches his daughters compete in high school and college sports.
Cael Tesch went all in on the Cedar Rapids Curling Club when it started in 2012.
It’s easy to find Emmett Eibern in the gym working on his basketball game, getting up hundreds of shots.
Since her diagnosis, Devyn’s parents have been working hard to advocate for state-funded cancer research.
Monticello senior Preston Ries is one of the best athletes in the state. Ries is a dunking and scoring machine on the basketball court, and a touchdown factory on the football field.
It was a wild scene as the Coe Kohawks learned they were heading to the postseason as an at-large selection.
“That is the whole point of trusting the process, if I could say anything about it it’s just ‘walk by faith rather than sight.’ The faith to believe in something that’s not exactly there yet, but it will be.”
The Prairie graduate was invited to the U.S. Olympic trails in December in Louisiana.
Hawkeye fans went crazy at Wrigley Field when Cooper DeJean came in on offense and picked up eight yards on the jet sweep.
Marion 6-1 Senior Michaela Goad is a killing machine. Goad had 400 kills on the year, leading the Wolves to the state tournament.
Iowa linebacker Jay Higgins waited his turn behind Jack Campbell, and now it is his time shine - and boy is he shining.
Mid-Prairie Junior Emmett Swartzentruber thought he was a year away from competing for a state cross country championship, boy was he wrong.
Top-seeded Mount Vernon avoided an upset on one side of the 3A state volleyball tournament, while seventh-seeded Union pulled one off.
Regina quarterback Gentry Dumont is making the most of his senior season. Dumont has 2,000 yards passing and 24 touchdown passes this season for the 8-1 Regals.
Janice Konchar saw her husband Mike struggling with his weight, and decided to take matters into her own hands.
Solon junior Grace Hoeper, who competes for City High, is dominating high school swimming this season.
Every day - 365 days a year - you’ll find 84-year old Robert Blong walking around country roads.
Williamsburg Junior Rayce Heitman did something Scott had never seen done before against South Tama.
Quinn Schulte leads four Xavier players on the Iowa roster this season. The second-year starter says there’s a lot of carryover from high school football at Xavier and college football in the Big Ten.
The Cyclones will host TCU Saturday night in the Jack Trice Legacy game.
Kyle Simmons of Maquoketa is legally blind, but it didn’t stop him from joining the cross-country team.
Nurre won tournaments at Western Dubuque and Linn-Mar earlier this year, and has fired a low round of 70 for the season for the 9th ranked Saints.
With Kalen Johnson and Jaziun Patterson out, Leshon Williams will get a lot of work this Saturday night in Happy Valley.
Iowa tight end Luke Lachey broke his ankle in Saturday’s contest against Western Michigan, and could be out for the season.
Prairie Senior Casey Kelley had the kind of game you dream about last Friday night against Senior. Kelley scored a school record six touchdowns, to go along with a whopping 440 all purpose yards.
Iowa State’s defense passed the test against Theo Day and UNI last Saturday, they’ll face another solid quarterback in the Cy-Hawk game.
It’s easy to find 54-year-old Jen Steadman running the trails every day for hours.
Rocco Becht was efficient in his first career start, completing 10 of his 13 attempts and earning a win against UNI.
Watch week 2 highlights from Friday Night Lights Endzone, on September 1st, 2023.
Jefferson running back Ish Kalalero started the season off with a bang rushing for 251 yards and 2 touchdowns in the 33-24 win over Muscatine, snapping a Jefferson 26 game losing streak, and bringing some glory back to the West side
Watch week 1 highlights from Friday Night Lights Endzone, on August 25th, 2023.
North Linn shortstop Skylar Benesh had a monster junior season, batting .500, crushing 16 home runs and stealing 52 bases to help lead the Lynx to the 1A state championship.
“We’ve done the same thing for 26 years I guess. I can’t remember the last time I wrote a practice plan.”
4:30 in the morning. That’s when Jefferson’s football roster arrives to practice this week.
Dyersville Beckman junior Luke Sigwarth was put in a pressure-packed spot in the 2A state championship game against Underwood. He had only pitched five innings all year, but coach handed him the ball in the title game.
Staci Schiltz of Cedar Rapids says hiking has changed her life.
Butch Pedersen is - and will continue to be - West Branch football, and West Branch players will have plenty of reminders of game days.
There might not be a more “Iowa” name than Hayden Large.
Jess Settles has been a life long basketball junkie.
Everyone would love to shoot their age in golf, and Tama’s Jim Roan has been shooting his age for almost 40 years.
Zach Johnson is a busy man these days.
They raised over $1.2 million again to provide tutoring and mentoring for students to help on the road to college.
One of the more motivating stories of this year’s RAGBRAI is Cedar Rapids’ Heath Thompson.
“I definitely remember the feeling of last year. I don’t want to feel that way again.”
Kennedy Connor hit a walk-off rbi single to left to give Regina a 4-3 win over Northeast to advance to the class 2a state softball semi-finals.
The Lions will face top-seeded Kingsley-Pierson in the semi-finals.
KCRG-TV9 is featuring a different cycling trail leading up to RAGBRAI and tonight we head to Pella to ride the Volksweg trail with old yeller.
“Getting started is the hardest part. The very first two weeks is horrible. After two weeks you start to see changes in your body in the way you feel, it makes it worth it,” Katie said.
Iowa women’s basketball players are rockstars, and head coach coach Lisa Bluder loves seeing players share memories with fans.
The Murrays have been playing together since they were toddlers.
Kyle Knock has spent most of his football career wearing Kennedy green and gold, but he has traded that for Prairie black and orange.
