The Adel-Desoto-Minburn Tigers football community found out Thursday morning the district opponents they’ll face on the gridiron the next two seasons. The Iowa High School Athletic Association considers ADM a Class 3A school district and selected the Tigers for the District 9 grouping. Joining ADM in the district is the Creston Panthers, the Glenwood Rams, the Harlan Cyclones, the Lewis Central Titans, and the Winterset Huskies.

The two-year district schedule will provide ADM with one home and one away game with each school. Travel will exceed 100 miles round trip for four of ADM’s five road games inside the district. Trips to Lewis Central (226) and Glenwood (260) will take Tiger fans over 220 miles total. ADM Athletic Director Reece Satre isn’t worried about filling the stands for Tiger home football games because of great community support for ADM athletics across the board and believes the visitor side will have fans too. “Last year, we had a great crowd from Creston and people might not associate (Creston) being a good (crowd); the visitors side was pretty full and its not a terribly long trip on a Friday night.” Satre said, “Obviously, Winterset is always a pretty good crowd for us. It’s a budding rivalry potential there and it’s about a half hour down the road.”

Satre adds Harlan always travels well and is optimistic of Glenwood and Lewis Central fans making the two hour trip over to Adel because of their recent success on the gridiron. ADM now turns their attention to filling out the Tigers four nondistrict game. Satre tells Raccoon Valley Radio that each school can submit a list of up to seven schools they’d prefer to play with their remaining open dates to the IHSSAA by midnight on February 7.