Iowa forward Hannah Stuelke has returned to summer workouts to get ready for her senior season. The native of Cedar Rapids helped lead Team USA to a gold medal at the AmeriCup tournament in Chille this summer.

As a senior Stuelke is expectation to take on a bigger leadership role.

With sophomore Ava Heiden and freshman Layla Hays in the post, Stuelke expects to play exclusively at the power forward next season.

Stuelke averaged nearly 13 points and eight rebounds last season for an Iowa team that finished 23-11 and made it to the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

(Radio Iowa) – A northwest Iowa man played catch for 24 hours straight to help people with disabilities take part in sports and recreation. Kevin Negaard is the founder of the Miracle League in Sioux City. The league includes a playground, splash pad, and rubber-surfaced baseball field at Riverside Park. Negaard decided to throw and catch for one whole day to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the organization and to raise money to resurface the all-inclusive play area.

Negaard started his quest Monday afternoon and hoped to raise $50,000 to help refurbish the Miracle League sports complex. A couple of years ago, he spent a year playing catch with more than 2,000 people in five different counties and raised more than $370,000 for the league.

CHICAGO, Ill. – With 44 game broadcasts complemented by extensive studio programming and a full slate of coverage across all three time zones, the Big Ten Network’s on-air lineup features a collection of experienced voices and new additions.

Game Broadcasts:

BTN’s rotation of game analysts for this season will include Jake Butt, a former All-American tight end at the University of Michigan, accomplished analyst Yogi Roth and former Iowa Hawkeye team captain Anthony Herron. Four-time Super Bowl Champion Matt Millen, NFL veteran Brock Vereen, four-time Pro Bowler Marcel Reece, All-Big Ten quarterback Tanner Morgan, and former Northwestern offensive lineman Jared Thomas will also make appearances on the network.

They will work alongside a veteran roster of play-by-play talent, including Jeff Levering, Guy Haberman, Mark Followill, Jason Horowitz, Jason Ross Jr., Joe Beninati, A.J. Kanell and Jack Kizer.

On-field reporters, including Brooke Fletcher, Rhett Lewis, Dannie Rogers, Sydney Supple, Melanie Ricks, Michella Chester, Drea Avent, Kylen Mills, Alyssa Charlston and Caroline Hendershot, will provide updates and analysis from the sidelines. Additional on-air talent for BTN’s 44 football games will be added at a later date.

Former NFL Vice President of Officiating Mike Pereira and veteran college official Steve Strimling will serve as rules analysts on Big Ten Network broadcasts.

Studio Programming:

Throughout the month of August, all 18 schools will be featured in Football Training Camp, one-hour episodes previewing each program directly from campus. Dave Revsine, Ashley Adamson, Gerry DiNardo, Howard Griffith, Butt and Roth will travel to all 18 campuses from coast-to-coast, providing expert analysis and interviews with coaches and student-athletes at each stop. The first training camp show debuts on Friday, Aug. 1, at 8 p.m. ET from Nebraska, followed by Minnesota (Aug. 2, Midnight ET), Maryland (Aug. 4, 8 p.m. ET), Penn State (Aug. 5, 9 p.m. ET), Rutgers (Aug. 6, 8 p.m. ET) and Ohio State (Aug. 7, 8 p.m. ET). A full schedule for every stop on the training camp tour can be found at bigten.org/btn/btn-tv-schedule.

B1G Tailgate is back for its ninth season with new on-site host Camryn Irwin alongside former Ohio State safety Tyvis Powell, who will travel to a different Big Ten campus each week for interviews with a rotation of guests and on-site analysis. Adamson and Vereen will join the duo from Chicago, with B1G Tailgate airing weekly at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday mornings.

B1G Tailgate’s on-site locations for the first three weeks of the season have been confirmed:

Saturday, Aug. 30 (Noon ET)

FAU at Maryland

Saturday, Sept. 6 (Noon ET)

FIU at Penn State

Saturday, Sept. 13 (Noon ET)

Central Michigan at Michigan

Following B1G Tailgate, Rick Pizzo and DiNardo will host B1G Countdown to Kickoff, a 30-minute pre-game show to prep fans for the Big Ten games of the day. Revsine, Griffith and Reece will appear on The Final Drive, recapping the weekend in action every Saturday night.

Mike Hall, Revsine, Pizzo, Adamson, Mills, Butt, Vereen, Roth, Reece, Herron, Ross Dellenger, the Senior College Football Reporter for Yahoo Sports, and long-time NFL and NCAA coach Dave Wannstedt will also appear across The B1G Show, B1G Today, B1G Live: Football Game Break, B1G Live: Football Postgame and The Final Drive.

Urban Analysis, featuring Urban Meyer and DiNardo, will also return this fall.

Big Ten Network Originals:

The Emmy-nominated franchise The Journey: Big Ten Football 2025 will debut its 14th season this fall. Additional Big Ten Network Originals programming will be announced at a later date.

Digital Coverage of Big Ten Football:

On B1G+, BTN’s subscription streaming service, fans can access condensed game replays of Big Ten football games along with on-demand, full-length commercial free replays of televised football games from Big Ten television partners. Fans can subscribe to B1G+ with an annual pass for $89.99 per year or a monthly pass for $12.99 per month.

Digital coverage of Big Ten Football will be available all season via the Big Ten Network’s X, Facebook, YouTube, Bluesky and Instagram platforms. Fans can also follow the @B1GFootball accounts on X, Instagram, Bluesky and YouTube. All television programming on BTN can be streamed via the web, smartphones, tablets and connected devices on the FOX Sports App.

As he enters his fifth season as the Illinois coach expectations are high for Bret Bielema and the Illini. Illinois was 10-3 last season, including a win over South Carolina in the Citrus Bowl. It was the program’s first 10-win season since 2001 and Bielema says it has changed the perception of the program.

Bielema says it is a new season and a new challenge.

A key stretch in the schedule begins in week four against Indiana and concludes with a week seven game against Ohio State before the Illini have their bye week.

Bielema says the addition of USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington has completely changed the Big Ten Conference he played and coached in while at Iowa.

Bielema made his comments at Big Ten Media Days in Las Vegas. Illinois opens at home on August 29th against Western Illinois.

Class 2A Quarterfinals in Carroll

#1 Underwood – 3 vs #8 Cascade – 0

#4 Unity Christian – 5 vs #5 Mediapolis – 1

#6 Chariton – 7 vs #3 Van Meter – 6 (8 inn)

#2 Pleasantville – 5 vs #7 West Lyon – 4

4A Quarterfinals in Sioux City

#8 Bettendorf – 2 vs #1 Sioux City East – 1

#7 Prairie – 6 vs #2 Johnston – 0

#3 Iowa City High – 5 vs #6 Waukee – 3

#4 Waukee Northwest – 4 vs #5 Iowa City Liberty – 1

1A Quarterfinals 

#1 Wayne – 7 vs #8 Highland – 4

#4 Riverside – 14 vs #5 Newell-Fonda – 6

#2 Clarksville – 5 vs #7 Newman Catholic – 4 (8 inn)

#6 St. Edmond, Fort Dodge – 11 vs #3 Wapsie Valley – 2

Class 2A Quarterfinals 

#1 Van Meter – 11 vs #8 East Marshall – 3

#5 West Fork – 7 vs #4 Durant – 1

#2 Louisa-Muscatine – 5 vs #7 West Monona – 2

#3 West Lyon – 10 vs #6 Cascade – 8

3A Quarterfinals 

#2 Williamsburg – 7 vs #7 Washington – 2

#3 Albia – 2 vs #6 Estherville Lincoln Central – 0

Consolation

3A: Center Point-Urbana 5 West Liberty 4

4A: Xavier 2 Dallas Center-Grimes 0

4A: Norwalk 10 Western Dubuque 9

5A: WDM Valley 12 Dowling Catholic 3

5A: Pleasant Valley 11 Southeast Polk 9

Seventh ranked West Fork claimed its first ever win at the state softball tournament with a 7-1 victory over fifth ranked Durant in a class 2A quarterfinal. Preslee Dickman opened the scoring with a two run homer in the bottom of the third.

Jon Mohwinkle with the call on KLMJ. West Fork coach Sadie Winfrey says the Dickman homer provided momentum.

West Fork will play top ranked Van Meter in this (Wednesday) afternoon’s 2A semifinals. It is a rematch of a first round game last year won by Van Meter 10-0. Dickman on the rematch.

The bats were on display Tuesday night as the Riverside Bulldogs punched their ticket to the State Semi-final with a resounding 14-6 win in five innings over the Newell-Fonda Mustangs. After allowing the first run, Riverside responded with a five-run first inning. Throughout the next few frames, it was punch and counter-punch as the Mustangs always found a way to keep the game in reach. However, after scoring two more in the fourth, Peyton Schafer delivered her best inning in the fifth to put the bulldogs in control for good. When the opportunity came to close it out, they scored four more in the fifth to end the game and advance to the 1A semi-final. 

Playing in their first state tournament since 2009, it would be wild to suggest that nerves wouldn’t be a factor for the Bulldogs. Although seemingly calm and collected, they were there at the start, as it wasn’t an ideal start defensively. After allowing a leadoff base hit to Kinzee Hinders, a throwing error allowed her to score from first to give Newell-Fonda the early lead. However, Schafer settled in, retiring the next three batters to limit the damage to one. 

By the time Riverside reached the plate in the bottom of the first, all nerves were erased. The Bulldogs batted around the order, scoring five runs. Adeline Martens kicked things off with her first of three hits in the ballgame, which was quickly followed up by a Sophia Fenner RBI double. Schafer added an RBI before a trio of Mustang errors helped bring in three more before the inning finally came to an end. 

Over the next three innings, the teams would trade blows at the plate while neither pitcher seemed to be able to hit their stride. Each team scored one in the second. Newell-Fonda capitalized on back-to-back walks, while Riverside capitalized on a walk of their own with Schafer driving in her second run of the day, scoring Fenner. Every time Newell-Fonda seemed to grab momentum, Riverside grabbed it right back. The team would trade a pair of runs in each of the next two innings as Riverside maintained its four-run lead. 

Although not a perfect game for Schafer, she battled and consistently limited the damage. Then with an opportunity to take control of the game, she didn’t miss. Despite issuing a one-out walk, Fenner caught Camryn Puhrmann stealing (with the help of an excellent tag from Kayden Schnack), and Schafer went on to retire the batter, facing the minimum, leaving the door open for the offense to close out the game. 

In the fifth, Riverside’s patience shone through. After Martens led off with a double, the Bulldogs went on to earn four walks in the inning. After scoring two more on wild pitches, Elly Henderson picked up an RBI single to put the winning run at third. Following the fourth walk, Lilli Reed narrowly missed a grand slam to straight away center. Although Anna Mercer made the catch, it was more than enough to bring home Sydney Sommers to end the game and move Riverside to the state semi-final. 

The Bulldogs will face their toughest challenge yet in the semi-final as they will take on the top-seeded Wayne Falcons. Holding a 26-2 record, the Falcons have made a state tournament appearance in six of the last seven years and have made it to the semi-final in three out of the last five seasons. First pitch is scheduled for 7 pm Wednesday, and you can catch all the action on KJAN with coverage beginning at 6 pm.  

The first year of the new merger between Griswold and CAM ended with a 25-6 season, a conference tournament title and a perfect conference record. Head Coach Jody Rossell said the merger of the two schools began as smooth as possible.

Griswold/CAM began the year 13-0 featuring eight shutouts. CAM/Griswold was ranked as high as 12th in the weekly rankings after the win streak until they suffered their first pair of losses at the Underwood Tournament to Missouri Valley and Ogden. The winning picked up right after the two-game slide by winning four more in a row. In Griswold/CAM’s 17-2 start they had scored at least 14 runs in eight of those victories. Rossell says the team didn’t have any weak spots in the order.

To back up the .348 team batting average was a team earned run average of 2.47. Griswold/CAM was led by Corner Conference First Team member Ailey Wahlert who threw 147 innings and struck out 133 hitters in her freshman campaign. Behind her, Sadie Gohlinghorst who also maintained a sub three earned run average.

Wahlert was one of three players to achieve First Team All-Conference honors as she stood beside senior duo Marissa Askeland and Addison Adams. Two of which who left a lasting impact on the program.

In the postseason, Griswold/CAM beat Underwood in the second round 6-2 after a first-round bye. Eventually the season came to a close in the Class 2A – Region 6 semifinals to West Monona 6-0. Griswold/CAM completed its third 25+ win season in a row and first with the CAM players sharing a dugout. A special merger on the softball diamond seems to be in place for the near future