Scott Saville
Sports Director
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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.
Updated: May. 18, 2022 at 7:35 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
“His passion for the sport, his passion for giving back, His passion for helping any athlete that he can.”
Updated: May. 13, 2022 at 7:02 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
For the last 13 years the twins have pushed each other team be better.
Updated: May. 12, 2022 at 10:42 PM CDT
|By Jack Lido, Chelsie Brown and Scott Saville
4A athletes impressed at Kingston Stadium, while 3A athletes competed at Benton.
Updated: May. 6, 2022 at 10:57 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
English Valleys sophomore Kennedy Axmear saved her best throw for Drake with a toss 131.6 to win the first Drake Relays flag in school history.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 10:45 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Xavier Senior tennis player Brady Horstmann hopes to go out with a bang in his Senior season. Brady is 10-2 on the year in No. 1 singles play, and hopes bring home some more hardware this season.
Updated: May. 4, 2022 at 10:58 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Former West branch and Hawkeye golfer Sean McCarty is at it again qualifying for his 2nd PGA championship.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 10:46 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Breaking two minutes in the 800 meter run is difficult, to do it 200 in times your career is unbelievable.
Updated: Apr. 30, 2022 at 8:30 PM CDT
|By Jack Lido and Scott Saville
Some of the best high school athletes in the state ran alongside some of the best college and Olympic athletes in the world at the 112th Drake Relays.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 11:26 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Prairie junior golfer Addie Berg is having a record-breaking season. Berg tied a 24 year old women’s course record at Airport national firing a 61 to win the CRandIC tournament.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 7:06 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Payton Wensel was a champion racer at Linn-Mar, but the adjustment to Division I track and field was difficult.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2022 at 10:58 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Jayden Stafford was born with Spina Bifida, but that doesn’t stop him from playing the game he loves. Jayden. a freshman at Mid-Prairie, spends a lot of time in the Wellman middle school gym perfecting his shot.
Updated: Apr. 20, 2022 at 10:56 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
“In high school I don’t even know if I could name the 10 events in the decathlon,” West said. “I just have a blast when I’m doing it. I don’t really think of it as being that grueling.”
Updated: Apr. 19, 2022 at 7:04 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
The Iowa Warhawks, getting ready for their fourth season in Cedar Rapids, has fought through adversity.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022 at 10:40 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Solon junior Morgan Link is a goal scoring machine. She had 25 goals last year as sophomore, and she’s off to a great start in 2022.
Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 6:54 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
When she started seriously lifting weights, Nichol Toomire was around 40 years old. She was tired of the ‘role’ she was in.
Updated: Apr. 12, 2022 at 8:22 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Myles Scheckel of Cedar Rapids has always liked competing.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2022 at 10:34 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Williamsburg’s Derek Weisskopf is a big time athlete. He can do it all on the football field, the basketball court and the track.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2022 at 6:48 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Everett Brown IV of Cedar Rapids had enough.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2022 at 7:35 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Gary “Smiley” Bloore misses his favorite Iowa City teams, but he’s still smiling over at Clover Ridge Place in Maquoketa.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2022 at 10:55 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
The Drake Relays have a new slogan this year: back on track.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2022 at 9:13 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Raising money for a good cause? Sounds great. Checking an item off a bucket list? You bet!
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 10:57 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Cedar Rapids Prairie guard Jake Walter went out with a bang. In his senior season, he filled up the state sheet for the Hawks, leading them to their first state tournament since 1998.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2022 at 10:39 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Eastern Iowa High Schoolers ended their season with a North vs South All Star game at Kirkwood Community College.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2022 at 10:39 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Wayne Murdock of Cedar Rapids, who will turn 90 in April, has built himself the ultimate man cave.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 10:44 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
The Hawkeyes enter the NCAA tournament as one of the hottest teams in the countr, winning 12 out of their last 14 games, but they’re done celebrating the Big Ten title, focused on Richmond.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 6:38 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
Despite a brutal schedule, four games in four days at the Big Ten Tournament, the Hawkeyes were energized at Wedneday’s practice at KeyBank Center. They say they are rested and ready to go.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2022 at 6:04 PM CDT
|By Scott Saville
The Iowa ties run deep for Stokes. His father Greg also starred for the Hawkeyes.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2022 at 11:00 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
The Miss Iowa Basketball winner broke 8 school records including the all-time scoring record at Cedar Rapids Washington with 1,492 points.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 10:56 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Western Dubuque bowler Cecilia Daly had a record breaking year.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 10:44 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Benton Community Senior Jaiden Moore finished his high school career in style last Saturday night, becoming the first wrestler at his high school to win a state title in 37 years.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 10:44 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Max Meiborg has been a loyal manager for the Cedar Rapids Jefferson boys basketball team, and Thursday he got his chance to put on a uniform and play in a game.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2022 at 10:51 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
A heavyweight matchup, one high school sports fans were waiting all year to see, did not disappoint.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 11:00 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Central City Senior Sara Reid is averaging a double double this year 19 points and 10 rebounds a game. And like brother, like mother, like daughter.. The entire Reid family can light it up.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 7:11 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Cycling may sound like a spring or summer sport, but fat tire bikes have allowed cyclists to pedal all year round.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 10:51 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Kennedy bowler Lucas Dolphin finished fourth at state last year, so he’s highly motivated to top that this season.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 10:45 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
The four teams game into the night with a combined six losses, something had to give on Tuesday night.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2022 at 8:40 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
In 1998 Tom Brady’s Michigan Wolverines took a trip to Kinnick Stadium, and Brady through four quarters Brady’s life wasn’t easy.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2022 at 11:04 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
The Linn-Mar girls earned a close win over Washington 54-53. The Washington boys were in control against Linn-Mar, winning 52-37.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2022 at 11:42 AM CST
|By Scott Saville
Iowa Valley freshman Emma Peach joined her sister Millie Peach as a state wrestling champion and a KCRG TV-9 Athlete of the week.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2022 at 10:13 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
In 2016, Jen Loeb became the first woman from Iowa to climb Mount Everest. But she still had more mountains to climb.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2022 at 10:37 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Marion and Kennedy both extended their win streaks Tuesday night. Both stay atop their respective divisions.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2022 at 10:39 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Midland Senior 195 pound wrestler Cayden Miller is a man on a mission. Miller who is undefeated this year just recently broke the career school record for pins with 103.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2022 at 10:59 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
It doesn’t happen often in sanctioned high school bowling, but on Tuesday night in Dubuque, Lucas Dolphin achieved perfection.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2022 at 6:46 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
January 19th is is the 29th anniversary of Hawkeye basketball legend Chris Street’s death, he was killed in a tragic car accident.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2022 at 6:50 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Hannah Stuelke is rewriting the record book.“Hannah is one of a kind,” said Washington and UNI assistant coach KK Armstrong. “She does everything on the floor. She can play point guard she can play one-five, she does it all.”
Updated: Jan. 13, 2022 at 11:03 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
What a Senior year it has been for 6′3 Springville forward Rhenden Wagaman. He scored 41 points in back to back games this year and went over the 1,000 Point career scoring mark earlier this season.
Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 9:29 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
It's crazy how far Keegan Murray has come from his days at prairie high school to leading the country in scoring at 24.7 points a game.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 7:20 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
EDCO’s opponents on the court look cross-eyed, because they’re constantly seeing double, or even triple.The EDCO varsity team has five brothers: the Carter triplets and the Putz twins. The two groups happen to also be step brothers.
Updated: Jan. 6, 2022 at 11:12 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Kennedy bowler Michaela Beckmann is already a two-time first team all-stater. She’s off the a great start to her senior season, ranked third in the state with a 480 two game series.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2022 at 6:56 PM CST
|By Scott Saville
Every bowler dreams of a perfect game: 12 strikes, 300 points. Drew Klosterman fulfilled the dream twice.