2023 Football Honors
Downtown Waterloo Rotary Club
2023 Athletic Awards
Since 1946 the Waterloo Rotary Club has enjoyed the honor each year to celebrate outstanding performance by high school athletes in the city of Waterloo and surrounding areas. Football coaching staffs at each school in the city nominate a senior MVP from their team. In a secret ballot, area sportswriters make the citywide selection. The winner receives the Glen "Doc" Miller traveling trophy as top player in his sport. The winner is entitled to display the trophy at his school for the next twelve months.
Glen "Doc" Miller Most Valuable Football Player
Mason Knipp, Columbus High School
The regulation-size gold football, mounted on a base, is a travelling trophy given each year by the Downtown Waterloo Rotary to the outstanding player in football in the Waterloo Schools. It is given in memory of an outstanding Rotarian, Glen "Doc" Miller, a great athlete and president of the Waterloo Rotary Club in 1954. "Doc" was captain of the University of Iowa football team in 1923, and a player on the great Iowa teams of 1921-22 which beat Yale.
Awards are presented at a luncheon attended by Rotarians, the senior players from each of the area teams, their coaches, parents, and honored guests. Scroll down to see pictures of the MVP picks from each school.
Presented November 13th, 2023
Honored Guests
Dr. Jared Smith, Superintendent of Schools
Dan Huff, District Athletic Director
Columbus Catholic High School - Tom Novotney, Principal - Julie Girsch, Athletic Director
East High School - Byron Phillips, Principal - Tim Moses, Athletic Director
Waterloo Christian School - Ryan Hall, Head of School - Brian Jo, Athletic Director
West High School - Andy Miehe, Principal - Tom Ulses, Athletic Director
2023 MVP Football Selections
Columbus High School - Mason Knipp
East High School - Ahdan Muhammad
West High School - Andrew Kline
Columbus High School
Nick Bellamy, Dru Robinson, Kaden Ludwig, Donald Patnode
East High School
Assistant Coaches: Corey (Will) Muhammad, Mike Sailor,
DeAngelo Newman, Dan Mast, Tim Gillam, Anthony Nai
Waterloo Christian School
West High School
Andy Payton, John Dunford, Joe Davis, Devon Moore,
Ryan Dabney, Jarred Johnston, Ryan Smiley,
Eddie Lanier, Stewart Rickert,
Special thanks to the 2023 Rotary Football Committee: Wade Itzen and Rick Morris.
Thanks Mason Fromm for webpage and videography.
If you have more photos you'd like to share, please email them to Mason