Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

At 4-1 Liberty High is off to the best start in school history and has already matched its best win total from the past three seasons.

The strong start for the Lightning hasn’t gone unnoticed.

On Thursday Liberty High made its first ever appearance in the Class 5A rankings, entering at No. 14 in the most recent rankings put out by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

Liberty High (4-1) joins City High and the West High in the Class 5A rankings.

City High (2-0) moved up one spot to third in the most recent rankings while West High (3-0) jumped three spots to fourth in Thursday’s rankings.

Liberty High will host West High on Friday.

Solon (3-3) slipped two spots to No. 13 in the Class 4A rankings.

Top-ranked teams in the rankings remained unchanged this week with Johnson (5A), Glenwood (4A), Unity Christian (3A), Dike-New Hartford (2A) and Newell-Fonda (1A) retaining the top spots.

IGHSAU Girls Basketball Rankings

Class 5A

1. Johnston

2. Waterloo West

3. City High 

4. West High 

5. Ankeny Centennial

6. Southeast Polk

7. West Des Moines Dowling

8. Des Moines Roosevelt

9. Cedar Falls

10. Cedar Rapids Washington

11. West Des Moines Valley

12. Waukee Northwest

13. Pleasant Valley

14. Liberty High 

15. Linn-Mar

Class 4A

1. Glenwood

2. Sioux City Heelan

3. Central DeWitt

4. North Scott

5. Indianola

6. North Polk

7. Dallas Center-Grimes

8. Winterset

9. Grinnell

10. Waverly-Shell Rock

11. Cedar Rapids Xavier

12. Spencer

13. Solon 

14. Mason City

15. Council Bluffs Lewis Central

Class 3A

1. Unity Christian

2. West Lyon

3. Ballard

4. Estherville-Lincoln Central

5. Center Point-Urbana

6. Cherokee

7. Sergeant Bluff-Luton

8. Clear Lake

9. West Liberty

10. West Marshall

11. Vinton-Shellsburg

12. Roland-Story

13. Davenport Assumption

14. Shenandoah

15. Harlan

Class 2A

1. Dike New-Hartford

2. Grundy Center

3. Denver

4. Central Lyon

5. Panorama

6. Cascade

7. Sibley-Ocheyedan

8. West Hancock

9. South Central Calhoun

10. Nodaway Valley

11. Treynor

12. North Union

13. Jesup

14. Aplington-Parkersburg

15. Hinton

Class 1A

1. Newell-Fonda

2. Algona Garrigan

3. Exira-EHK

4. Springville

5. North Linn

6. MMCRU

7. Burlington Notre Dame

8. North Mahaska

9. Storm Lake St. Mary’s

10. Montezuma

11. East Buchanan

12. Stanton

13. Central Elkader

14.Westwood

15. Woodbine

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