Downtown Waterloo Rotary Club
2021 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
Carter Gallagher, 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 15th, 2021
Honored Guests
Dr. Jane Lindaman, Superintendent of Schools
Dan Huff, District Athletic Director
Columbus Catholic High School - Tom Novotney, Chief Administrator - Nick Petaros, Activity Coordinator
East High School - Joseph Parker, Principal - Tim Moses, Athletic Director
West High School - Andy Miehe, Principal - Dr. Anthony Pappas, Athletic Director
2021 MVP Football Selections
East High School - Kjuan Owens
West High School - Tyree Gardner
Columbus High School
Ass’t Coaches: Dan Knipp, Mitch Rahm, Dan Westhoff, Jeff Westhoff, Scott Lockard
East High School
Dan Mast, Mike Sailor, Tyler Sorenson, Bill Tate, Derrick Turner,
Joshua Vogt, Wilmot Wellington
West High School
Witt Harberts, Jerred Johnston, Nick Lamphler, DeAngelo Newman,
Nick Pelffer, Nick Roe, Jackson Scott-Brown, Ben Thoma, Nate Persons
Special thanks to the 2021 Rotary Football Committee: Wade Itzen, Rick Morris, and Kevin Sonnenberg.
Thanks Mason Fromm for webpage and videography.