2025 Football

Downtown Waterloo Rotary Club

2025 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.

2025 Glen "Doc" Miller Most Valuable Football Player

Carson Nielsen, West High School

(accepting in Carson's absence, Coach Lonnie Moore)

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 17th, 2025

Honored Guests

Dr. Jared Smith, Superintendent of Schools

Josh Payton, Director of Secondary Schools and Athletics

Curtis Wright, District Athletics Coordinator

Columbus Catholic High School - Tom Novotney, Principal - Julie Girsch, Athletic Director - Katie Fiedley, Assistant Principal
East High School - Byron Phillips, Principal - Tim Moses, Athletic Director
Cedar Ridge Christian School - Brian Jo, Principal
West High School - Andy Miehe, Principal - Tom Ulses, Athletic Director
Don Bosco High School - Shelby Douglas, Principal - Collin Arndt, Activities Director

2025 MVP Football Selections

Columbus High School

East High School

 

Jailen Coleman, Brayden Card, Tamarius Jenkins,

Kenya Joseph, Jayvion Joshua-Higham, Mileek Micou,

Junior Guzman, Chris Pierce, Emanuel Ortiz,

Quayshon Harrington-Johnson, German Rodriquez-Balbuena

 

Head Coach: De’Carlos Anderson                 

Assistant Coaches: Corey (Will) Muhammad, Mike Sailor, DeAngelo Newman, Dan Mast, Tim Gillam, Anthony Nai, AJ Harmon, Tyus Phillips

 

 

Cedar Ridge Christian School

 

 

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West High School

 

Torian Doss, Michael Moeller, Gavin Nash,

Kavan Bennett, Deztin McMurrin, Brett McGovern,

Felix Annan, Tucker Satterlee, Jaedyn Cunningham,

Braiden Riggle, Cody Osborne, Melakhi Hickey,

Aden Knight, Isaiah Staley, Jaheim Jenkins,
Kay ne Vaughn, Kimberly St Jean, Blayze Goldberg,
L’mar Burt, Carson Nielsen
 

Head Coach: Lonnie Moore

Assistant Coaches: Nick Roe, Eric Harbaugh, Andy Payton, Devon Moore, John Dunford,
Ryan Dabney, Donterrious Porter, Eddie Lanier, Jonthan Jackson,
Blake Langenwalter, Luke Moore, Steward Rickert, Adam Johnson

 

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Don Bosco High School

 

Tucker Youngblut, Camden Schmit, Ty Christensen,

Alex Belew, Vincent Pranger, Zach Knepper, Kaiser Bovy

Head Coach: Colby Yoder

Assistant Coaches: Cole Hinders, Cory Christensen, Jake Hogan, Jake Thome

 

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Special thanks to the 2025 Rotary Football Committee: Wade Itzen, Rick Morris, and Ryan Cose.  

Thanks Mason Fromm for webpage and photography.

If you have more photos you'd like to share, please email them to Mason

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