Iowa football coach Kirk Ferentz plans to return for his 28th season as Hawkeye coach. Iowa just completed an 8-4 season and will find out Sunday where it will be headed for a bowl game. Ferentz is the Big Ten’s all-time leader of wins and led the Hawkeyes to eight wins or more in 10 straight full seasons.

Ferentz has led the program through rapid changes in the college football landscape which includes N-I-L, revenue sharing and the transfer portal.

Ferentz announced an incoming recruiting class of 22 players. The transfer portal opens in January.

Ferentz says 14 of the incoming recruits will enroll early in January.

2025 ALL-BIG TEN (DEFENSE & SPECIAL TEAMS)

FIRST TEAM
RS Kaden Wetjen (coaches; media)

SECOND TEAM
DT Aaron Graves (coaches; media)
DB Zach Lutmer (coaches)

THIRD TEAM
DB TJ Hall (coaches; media)
DB Zach Lutmer (media)
DB Xavier Nwankpa (coaches)
PK Drew Stevens (media)

HONORABLE MENTION
SS Koen Entringer (coaches); P Rhys Dakin (media); CB Deshaun Lee (media); DE Max Llewellyn (coaches; media); FS Xavier Nwankpa (media); DT Jonah Pace (media); LB Karson Sharar (coaches; media); PK Drew Stevens (coaches)

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Three members of the University of Iowa women’s soccer team – junior Sofia Bush, junior Millie Greer, and sophomore Iba Oching – earned United Soccer Coaches All-North Region honors, it was announced Tuesday by the United Soccer Coaches.

Bush and Greer earned third-team honors, while Oching was a fourth-team selection. The trio of Hawkeyes become the 16^th, 17^th, and 18^th players to earn all-region honors in program history. Bush and Greer became one of five Hawkeyes to earn All-Region second team and the first since Natalie Winters in 2019.

Bush and Greer earn the honors after being named second team All-Big Ten this season as well as CSC Academic All-District. Bush started in 20 games scoring a goal and adding six assists. Greer started in every game for the Hawkeyes, leading the team with 1,827 minutes. The Scottsdale, Ariz. native scored three goals while anchoring the Hawkeye defense that posted 10 shutouts this season.

Oching started in all 21 games for the Hawkeyes while dishing out three assists.

The Hawkeyes finished the 2025 campaign in the NCAA tournament second round. They became one of 11 teams to advance to the Round of 32 each of the past three seasons.

Iowa State football coach Matt Campbell announced a recruiting class of 26 players. It is part of a busy month that will see the Cyclones get ready for a bowl game as well as prepare for next month’s opening of the transfer portal.

Campbell feels the transfer portal window in early January is a positive step.

Iowa State finished the regular season 8-4 and will discover its bowl destination on Sunday.

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Clarinda – 45 vs Red Oak – 38

Corner Conference 

Fremont-Mills – 69 vs Griswold – 27

Bedford – 58 vs Stanton – 32

Sidney – 46 vs Essex – 36

Western Iowa Conference 

Riverside – 76 vs Missouri Valley – 54

Underwood – 62 vs Audubon – 48

Tri-Center – 78 vs IKM-Manning – 46

Treynor – 84 vs Logan-Magnolia – 22

Rolling Valley Conference 

Ar-We-Va – 63 vs Exira-EHK – 42

Woodbine – 75 vs Glidden-Ralston – 41

Boyer Valley – 52 vs Paton-Churdan – 35

Pride of Iowa Conference 

Mount Ayr – 69 vs Nodaway Valley – 44

Southwest Valley – 72 vs East Union – 36

Martensdale-St. Marys – 43 vs Southeast Warren – 33

West Central Activities Conference 

West Central Valley – 69 vs ACGC – 61

Woodward-Granger – 78 vs Panorama – 72

Non-Conference 

Earlham – 64 vs CAM – 29

OABCIG – 59 vs Denison-Schleswig – 40

Lewis Central – 78 vs Thomas Jefferson – 37

Madrid – 54 vs Southeast Valley – 53

Le Mars – 78 vs Spirit Lake – 59

Sioux City East – 59 vs Spencer – 53

Storm Lake – 78 vs Sioux City North – 34

Sergeant Bluff-Luton – 74 vs Western Christian – 51

Centerville – 69 vs Moravia – 52

Ankeny Christian – 56 vs Pleasantville – 43

Interstate-35 – 74 vs Clarke – 53

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Clarinda – 64 vs Red Oak 36

St. Albert – 47 vs Harlan – 31

Corner Conference 

Fremont-Mills – 61 vs Griswold – 34

Bedford – 65 vs Stanton – 26

Sidney – 57 vs Essex – 34

Western Iowa Conference 

Riverside – 49 vs Missouri Valley – 20

IKM-Manning – 58 vs Tri-Center – 27

Treynor – 81 vs Logan-Magnolia – 25

Rolling Valley Conference 

Exira-EHK-Audubon – 70 vs Ar-We—Va – 29

Boyer Valley – vs 70 Paton-Churdan – 11

Glidden-Ralston – 52 vs Woodbine – 30

Pride of Iowa Conference 

Mount Ayr – 58 vs Nodaway Valley – 48

Southwest Valley – 75 vs East Union – 23

Martensdale-St. Marys – 44 vs Southeast Warren – 36

West Central Activities Conference 

ACGC – 58 vs West Central Valley – 20

Woodward-Granger – 57 vs Panorama – 43

Non-Conference 

Earlham – 55 vs CAM – 49

OABCIG – 59 vs Denison-Schleswig – 31

Abraham Lincoln – 58 vs Glenwood – 39

Carroll – 41 vs Kuemper Catholic – 36 (OT )

Van Meter – 80 vs Knoxville – 15

Hamburg – 38 vs Iowa School for the Deaf – 5

Spirit Lake – 69 vs Le Mars – 26

Sioux City East – 63 vs Spencer – 51

Interstate-35 – 46 vs Clarke – 35

Sergeant Bluff-Luton – 71 vs Western Christian 4 – 9

Centerville – 61 vs Moravia – 17

Pleasantville – 57 vs Ankeny Christian – 42

Madrid – 50 vs Southeast Valley – 19

Iowa was no match for seventh ranked Michigan State. The Spartans used a 17-1 first half run to take control and cruised to a 71-52 win in East Lansing in the Big Ten opener for both. The Hawkeyes shot only 38 percent, were out-rebounded 37-18 and the Spartans connected on 22-of-25 free throws.

That’s Iowa coach Ben McCollum. Bennett Stirtz had 14 points but he was the only Hawkeye in double figures.

It was Iowa’s first loss after opening the season with seven wins.

The Northern Iowa women get an early start to the Missouri Valley Conference race on Wednesday night by hosting Illinois State. The Panthers are 2-4 after splitting two games at a tournament in Las Vegas.

That’s UNI coach Tanya Warren who says the Panthers need to become more consistent.

Illinois State enters the Valley race with a record of 4-4.

Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger says senior point guard Tamin Lipsey remains day-to-day as the 10th ranked Cyclones get ready to host Alcorn State Wednesday night. Lipsey missed the last two games of a tournament in Las Vegas after suffering a leg injury in a win over St. John’s.

Otzelberger says there is no target date for his return.

Otzelberger feels as a senior, Lipsey will know when he is ready.

Alcorn State is 1-8 but Otzelberger is convinced the Cyclones won’t be looking ahead to Saturday’s game at top ranked Purdue.

Otzelberger says the approach does not change depending on the opponent.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa seniors Claire Ammeraal and Milana Moisio earned All-Big Ten recognition following the 2025 season, the league announced on Tuesday.

Both Hawkeyes were named to the All-Big Ten Second Team.

Ammeraal, a setter from Madison, Wisconsin, concluded her career with her best season yet. Her 1,190 assists were the second-most in the Big Ten. She had 12 double-doubles, which were good for third-most in the Big Ten. Ammeraal brought her own offensive firepower with 179 kills and 1.43 kills per set. She finished third on the team with a .317 hitting percentage. All three marks were career bests. She was the most offensive setter in the league, finishing as the only setter with more than 100 kills and with more than one kill per set on average.

In her final season, Ammeraal added two triple-doubles, including one in Iowa’s win over Northwestern. She averaged a career-best 9.52 assists per set during her senior campaign. While running Iowa’s offense, Ammeraal guided the Hawkeyes’ attack to its best hitting percentage since 2016. Iowa finished the year hitting .243.

Ammeraal was drafted with the sixth pick in the third round and 22^nd overall in the 2025 MLV Draft to the Omaha Supernovas.

Moisio, a libero from Waukegan, Illinois, spent her final year of eligibility with the Hawkeyes and produced the best season of her career. Moisio started every match at libero and finished second in the Big Ten with 451 digs. She was sixth in the league with 3.52 digs per set. Both were career highs.

Moisio finished with 10+ digs in 26 matches this season and surpassed 15 digs in 14 contests. She posted her career high against Michigan, where she dug 26 attacks. Moisio went on an impressive stretch of defense in early November, recording an average of 20 digs per match against No. 18 Indiana, No. 9 Purdue, Northwestern and No. 20 Minnesota. Additionally, Moisio added 115 assists and neared a double-double with 14 digs and nine assists against No. 25 Penn State.

Moisio also earned the Big Ten’s Sportsmanship Award as Iowa’s honoree.

This is the first time since 2021 that a Hawkeye has received All-Big Ten postseason recognition when Courtney Buzzerio was named to the second team.

The Hawkeyes finished the 2025 season with a 15-17 record and were 6-14 in the Big Ten.