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AMES, Iowa (July 12, 2023) – The 37th annual Summer Iowa Games presented by Grinnell Mutual is set to commence on Friday, July 14 at Reiman Plaza, just south of Jack Trice Stadium in Ames. The Athlete Tailgate is set to begin at 4:30pm followed by the Parade of Athletes and Opening Ceremony. A free athlete meal will be provided by the Iowa Food and Family Project (IFFP) while supplies last. Along with fruit from Capital City Fruit and drinks provided by Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Attendees are also encouraged to purchase food from food trucks that will be located on site. In addition to food trucks, the Athlete Tailgate will feature vendors from various local companies along the Reiman Plaza.
Entertainment available at the Athlete Tailgate includes inflatables, yard games, and live music from a DJ. All entertainment provided during the Athlete Tailgate is free of charge and all athletes and other attendees are permitted to participate.
Athlete Tailgate, Reiman Plaza. Ames Iowa
Following the Athlete Tailgate, the Opening Ceremony will begin with the annual Parade of Athletes. During the Parade of Athletes, Summer Iowa Games athletes and teams will have the opportunity to join together to walk the parade route and have their group’s name read aloud. The Parade of Athletes will start at 6:30 and will follow a trail along the perimeter of the Reiman Plaza.
At the conclusion of the Parade of Athletes, attendees will have the opportunity to watch the ceremonial lighting of the cauldron to represent the official beginning of the 2023 Summer Iowa Games. The lighting of the cauldron is an honor that is granted to the previous year’s Athletes of the Year. For 2023, the cauldron will be lit by 2022 Iowa Games Marty McHone Female Athlete of the Year, Callie Brendeland, representing the sport of Taekwondo.
For complete details and Iowa Games information, visit www.iowagames.org. Help us kick-off another year of Summer Iowa Games events at the Athlete Tailgate and Opening Ceremony on July 14.
LOS ANGELES — Junior guard from the University of Iowa, Caitlin Clark, was named the ESPY award winner for Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports on Tuesday night.
Clark was named the winner over fellow nominees Jordy Bahl (Oklahoma, softball), Izzy Scane (Northwestern, lacrosse), and Trinity Thomas (Florida, gymnastics). Clark was a finalist for the Female Breakthrough Athlete of the Year at the ESPYS.
Clark also won the 2023 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award, Honda Cup and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as by THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). She also won the 2023 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophies along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors.
She is also a two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award. She also won the Honda Sport Award for Basketball in April.
Clark led her team to its first-ever NCAA Championship game and helped post the Hawkeye’s most wins in a single season. During the NCAA Tournament, she posted the first 40-point triple-double in NCAA Tournament history (men’s or women’s) and broke the NCAA single-tournament records for most 3-point FG made (24) and most points scored (191). This season, she is the only player in the nation with 1,000 points, 240 rebounds, 310 assists and 45 steals.
Overall, Clark became the first player in Division I women’s basketball history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season and was fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons.
Off the court, she is a two-time First Team Academic All-American and was named the 2023 CSC Academic All-America of the Year.
Monday, July 17
Class 1A Quarterfinals
11:00–#1 Kingsley-Pierson vs. #8 South Winneshiek
1:30–#4 Notre Dame, Burlington vs. #5 Lisbon
4:30–#2 St. Mary’s, Remsen vs. #7 Saint Ansgar
7:00–#3 Lynnville-Sully vs. #6 Gehlen Catholic, LeMars
Tuesday, July 18
Class 2A Quarterfinals
11:00–#1 Beckman Catholic, Dyersville vs. #8 Pella Christian
1:30–#4 West Lyon, Inwood vs. #5 Van Buren County
4:30–#3 Cascade vs. #6 Woodward-Granger
7:00–#2 Underwood vs. #7 Williamsburg
Iowa City: 3A & 4A
Monday, July 17
Class 3A Quarterfinals
11:30- #2 North Polk, Alleman vs. #7 Spencer
2:00- #3 Marion vs. #6 Carlisle
5:00- #1 Epworth, Western Dubuque vs. #8 Harlan Community
7:30- #4 Wahlert Catholic, Dubuque vs. #5 Ballard
Tuesday, July 18
Class 4A Quarterfinals
11:30- #1 Johnston vs. # 8 Iowa City, Liberty
2:00- #4 Dowling Catholic, W.D.M. vs. #5 Dallas Center-Grimes
5:00- #3 Southeast Polk vs. #6 Cedar Falls
7:30- #2 Iowa City, City High vs. #7 Ames
Class 3A:
Substate 1:
Spencer 6 Sergeant Bluff-Luton, 4
Substate 2:
North Polk 7 Gilbert, 1
Substate 3:
Western Dubuque 4 Mount Vernon, 3
Substate 4:
Wahlert 7 Central DeWitt, 4
Substate 5:
Marion 4 Xavier, 2
Substate 6:
Ballard 9 Knoxville, 2
Substate 7:
Carlisle 5 Boone, 1
Substate 8:
Harlan 9 Lewis Central, 6
Class 4A
Substate 1:
Ames 5 Ankeny, 1
Substate 2:
Iowa City, Liberty 6 Prairie, 2
Substate 3:
Johnston 12 Valley, 4
Substate 4:
Cedar Falls 2 Cedar Rapids, Kennedy, 0
Substate 5:
Southeast Polk 16 Urbandale, 1
Substate 6:
Iowa City High 5 Pleasant Valley, 1
Substate 7:
Dowling 8 Ankeny, 0
Substate 8:
Dallas Center-Grimes 8 Waukee, Northwest, 5
Texas hopes a final season in the Big 12 ends with a championship. The Longhorns are the preseason favorite to their first league title since 2009 and coach Steve Sarkisian says that is the focus and not their move to the SEC.
The Longhorns are coming off an 8-5 record in 2022.
With Oklahoma heading to the SEC with Texas it will mean the Sooners will play in-state rival Oklahoma State for the final time this season. The Bedlam Series dates back to 1904.
That’s Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy who is not interested in playing Oklahoma in a nonconference series.
They made their comments during Big 12 Football Media Days in Dallas. Iowa State coach Matt Campbell will be at the podium Thursday morning.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The University of Iowa women’s tennis program had four Hawkeyes named Division I International Tennis Association Scholar-Athletes on Monday.
Daianne Hayashida, Michele Kranholdt, Samantha Mannix, Barbora Pokorna, and Marisa Schmidt were recognized by the ITA for their academic accomplishments in 2022. Individual honors are awarded to student-athletes with a GPA of 3.50 or above. Mannix is recognized for the fifth straight year. Pokorna and Schmidt also earned honors a season ago.
For the eighth year in a row, the women’s team was also named an ITA All-Academic Team with a GPA of 3.68 and the 14th time in program history. To earn the team honor, all varsity letterwinners must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or above.
(Radio Iowa) – Athletes from the three state colleges in Iowa will be the companion sculptures to the Iowa State Fair butter cow this year. Fair spokesperson, Mindy Williamson, says the three have each forged a legacy at their schools.
Putting Caitlin Clark in with the butter cow may be the only way to cool her off — as she has also become a national figure after leading the Hawkeye women to the runner-up finish in the national championship game.
Jack Trice was the first African-American athlete at Iowa State, and he died from injuries he received during a football game in 1923.
Kurt Warner is another Iowan who gained national fame after going from sacking butter and other groceries to become an N-F-L Hall of Famer.
Sarah Pratt of West Des Moines took over sculpting the butter cow in 2006 after serving as an apprentice to Norma Lyons for 15 years. Williams says visitors to the State Fair in August will get to see the athlete’s sculptures.
Sarah-Pratt-butter-cow.-)Iowa-State-Fair-photo)
Williamson says they always look for an Iowa connection for companion sculptures, and then can branch out to famous events. The 40th anniversary of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon for example, was the companion sculpture in 2009.
The athletes and butter cow will be on display when the 2023 Iowa State Fair opens on August 10th.
The youngest son of University of Iowa Basketball coach Fran McCaffery has been cited in a fatal accident. Radio Iowa’s Dar Danielson reports.
Court records show Iowa City police cited 16-year-old Jonathan McCaffery, of North Liberty, with failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Police say McCaffery struck 45-year-old Cory Hite of Cedar Rapids with his car not far from Iowa City West High School on May 22nd. Hite, who was a National Guard soldier, died from his injuries on June 4th. The citation is misdemeanor, which could include a one-thousand dollar fine, and a 180-day license suspension.
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark says the future of the conference is bright. The league enters a transition year which features new members Central Florida, Cincinatti, BYU and Houston and the final year before Texas and Oklahoma leave for the SEC.
Yormark made his comment at Big 12 Football Media Days in Dallas. It was a year ago that Yormark said the league was “open for business.”
A year ago TCU made a run to the national championship game and Yormark feels the Big 12 is poised for more success.
The league also announced it has extended its agreement with A-T&T Stadium in Dallas to host the Big 12 Championship game through 2030.
ROSEMONT, Ill. (July 12, 2023) – For the second consecutive year, the Big Ten Conference will lead an unparalleled educational journey for selected student-athletes, coaches, administrators and stakeholders. The “Big Life Series: Selma to Montgomery”, takes place Friday, July 14 through Sunday, July 16, 2023. This immersive and transformational experience will follow the steps of the United States civil rights movement during a trip to Alabama.
The “Big Life Series” is a cornerstone initiative led by the Big Ten Equality Coalition and highlights the conference’s ongoing commitment to examine and search for answers to the racial, social, religious and cultural challenges faced by our country. This year’s event will also feature participants from a handful of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), including Florida A&M University, Howard University and North Carolina A&T University. The centerpiece of the Alabama experience will be a march across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, site of the 1965 Bloody Sunday attack.
The trip begins on Friday, July 14 with visits to several local civil rights museums, including the Rosa Parks Museum, Freedom Riders Museum and Montgomery Interpretive Center, located on the campus of Alabama State University. Friday evening will include keynote speaker and civil rights activist Sheyann Webb-Christburg, known as the “smallest freedom fighter”. The evening will conclude with an empowering and educational panel featuring young civil rights leaders representing the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU.
The event continues Saturday, July 15 with a bus trip to Selma and a community service project. Attendees will pack back-to-school backpacks with school supplies and balls provided by Wilson Sporting Goods to promote a healthy and active lifestyle. This will be followed with a visit to the First Baptist Church, the site where the Dallas County Voters League mobilized hundreds of students to begin their landmark civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Attendees will hear from several local speakers including Mayor James Perkins Jr., Lynda Blackmon Lowery and Warren Billy Young. Participants in this year’s “Big Life Series” will then make their own walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge before the group returns to Montgomery. Community activist Doris Dozier Crenshaw will address the group at the Alabama Department of Archives and History. The final event on Saturday will be a visit to the award-winning Legacy Museum, which provides an immersive experience from enslavement to mass incarceration.
The 2023 “Big Life Series: Selma to Montgomery” trip is sponsored in part by the Capital One Orange Bowl and the Tournament of Roses Association and Rose Bowl Game.
The Big Ten Equality Coalition features student-athletes, coaches, athletic directors, chancellors, presidents, and other members of the Big Ten Conference family from all 14 member institutions. It has a stated goal of seeking tangible ways to combat racism and hate around the world, while also empowering student-athletes to express their rights to free speech and peaceful protest actively and constructively. Following the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, then-Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren wrote an open letter on June 1, 2020, officially announcing the formation of the Equality Coalition and the United States Library of Congress included the letter in its historic collection. An early product of the Equality Coalition was the creation of the Big Ten Voter Registration Initiative. The nonpartisan, conference-wide collaboration encourages student-athletes to take part in the electoral process and is led by a Voter Registration Committee that includes representatives from all 14 Big Ten Conference member institutions. The Big Life Series is one of the signature examples of the Big Ten Equality Coalition in action.
The Big Ten Conference (bigten.org) is an association of world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching, and public service. Founded in 1896, the Big Ten Conference has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in the lives of students competing in intercollegiate athletics and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness, and competitiveness. The broad-based programs of the 14 Big Ten Conference institutions will provide over $200 million in direct financial support to more than 9,800 students for more than 11,000 participation opportunities on 350 teams in 42 different sports. The Big Ten Conference sponsors 28 official conference sports, 14 for men and 14 for women, including the addition of men’s ice hockey and men’s and women’s lacrosse since 2013.
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