Former Memphis point guard Tyler Harris has committed to continue his career at Iowa State.
Harris played two seasons at Memphis and would have to sit out a season before his final two years of eligibility.
He averaged 9 points per game this past season as a role player off the bench.
Nodaway Valley has hired a new softball and football coach. Activities director Michael Dale announced the hiring of Abbey Queck as head softball coach and Duane Matthess as head football coach.
Queck has worked as an assistant at Lenox and with the elite club team Iowa Premier. Queck is a native of Orient and graduate of Earlham. She played college ball at South Dakota State. She takes over for Carol Baudler.
Matthess comes to Nodaway Valley from Clarke where he spent the past three seasons as head coach. He played college football at Iowa Central Community College and also played in the Indoor Football League. Matthess takes over the job from Flynn Heald who moved on to take an assistant job at Des Moines Lincoln.
A large fire and explosion has occurred at gas station at the end of Main Street in Earling. Video and pictures from the scene show a pickup truck on fire, and a building completely obliterated. Two people were sent to the hospital. Authorities are asking you to “Please avoid this area as crews are still actively working.” (Update 9:53-a.m.)
(Video courtesy Emily Mahlberg via KNOD)
(Video courtesy Jason Anastasi via KNOD)
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office photo
Photos courtesy of Heather Richards via KNOD.
(KJAN/Radio Iowa) — With Iowa’s K-through-12 public schools sealed off through the end of the school year by the pandemic, an effort is gaining momentum to show support for graduating seniors through social media. In our area, Adopt A 2020 Highschool SW IA Senior formed on Facebook April 19th, with the goal of having people “Adopt” a High School Senior or 2, then sending them a letter, card, gift, gift card, snack, anything they might like, “to let them know we’re all rooting for them, in light of cancelled proms and graduations being postponed. Over 4,000 members have helped to brighten the lives of countless High School Seniors, thus far.
An example of an “Adopt a High School Senior” gift lack assembled for a S.W. IA High School grad.
In northern Iowa, Sarah Olthoff of Webster City helped organize a Facebook page called “Adopt A Grad in Hamilton County,” and many other communities are launching similar pages. Olthoff says, “Families, parents and friends of grads post pictures and a brief description about their grad, why they’re proud, some of their accomplishments, just a little about them so we can all get to know them, and maybe their future plans.” Iowans can show their recognition for the students by requesting to become a part of the private online community. “The rest of us join in by joining the group and seeing these grads and choosing to ‘adopt’ one by sending a card, doing something that you know would recognize them and know that they’re celebrated,” Olthoff says, “despite the fact that we aren’t able to come together like we traditionally do with commencements and the normal types of receptions.”
Olthoff hopes people will use these groups as a way to inspire each other with their creative ideas for honoring these soon-to-be high school grads. “If you know of something already being done to celebrate, share it on that group page,” Olthoff says. “If there’s some campaign out there or something people are promoting to do, maybe that’s something you can do for a senior that you adopt. It’s just a way of coming together during this really unusual, different time and making a difference for these kids.”
Olthoff says there’s a positive response to the project in Hamilton County and she hopes communities across Iowa can create their own ways to recognize the young grads.
PEGGY ROLAND, 74, of Atlantic, died Monday, April 27th, at Atlantic Specialty Care. An open visitation PEGGY ROLAND will be held from 10-a.m. until 6-p.m. Thursday, April 30th, at the Roland Funeral Service in Atlantic.
A drive through visitation will be held at the Washington Elementary School in Atlantic, when the school bell rings at 11-a.m. Friday, May 1st. You are asked to approach the school from the east, using Olive and 14th Streets. You will enter the first driveway and proceed west in the same flow of traffic that is observed during normal school pick-up and drop-off. Please DO NOT leave your vehicle. The family will be outside to greet you from a proper distance. When exiting the school, turn right heading west onto 14th Street. You may sign the Guest Register at the open visitation on Thursday, or at www.rolandfuneralservice.com.
In honor of Peggy’s 40-years of teaching, the family asks you to consider a donation of school supplies. The supplies may be brought to either the open or drive-thru visitation.
A private family burial will take place in the Atlantic Cemetery.
PEGGY ROLAND is survived by:
Her daughter – Darci RaNae (Jeff Myers) Young, of Atlantic.
Her son – Boyd (Karmen) Roland, of Atlantic.
7 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ daily press conference on COVID-19. We plan on having live audio of the presser on KJAN as well at approximately 11:00 a.m.
AMES, Iowa – Five Iowa State football players signed NFL free agent contracts after the 2020 NFL Draft ended Saturday evening.
The following Cyclones will enter NFL rookie camps when practice resumes: Steve Wirtel (Detroit Lions), Marcel Spears Jr. (Cincinnati Bengals), Julian Good-Jones (Philadelphia Eagles), Josh Knipfel (Cincinnati Bengals) and Ray Lima (Miami Dolphins).
These five seniors were instrumental in helping the Cyclones leap into the national spotlight during their time in Ames. Iowa State went to three bowl games and appeared in the national rankings in each of the last three seasons. ISU’s 23 victories since 2017 is the second-best three-year winning stretch in school history.
Wirtel, an Orland Park, Ill., native, was a model of consistency in his four years as a Cyclone. He took over long snapping duties as a true freshman in 2016 and graded out annually as one of the best.
He played in all 51 games the last four seasons, taking care of deep snaps on punts in 2016 and 2017. He added snaps for field goals and PATs beginning in 2018. The senior was perfect throughout his career.
Wirtel, who played in the Reese’s Senior Bowl and competed at the NFL Combine, was one of three finalists for the Patrick Mannelly Award, an award given to the nation’s best long snapper.
Spears, a native of Olathe, Kan., was a centerpiece in Iowa State’s resurgence on defense the last three seasons, starting 39-straight games at linebacker.
A three-time All-Big 12 selection, Spears recorded 272 tackles, 24.5 TFL, 13 pass breakups, 6.0 sacks, four interceptions, two pick-sixes and two forced fumbles in his career. The co-captain capped off his senior season by ranking eighth in the Big 12 in tackles with 92.
Spears, who was a co-captain as a senior in 2019, played in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl after the season ended.
Good-Jones was a First Team All-Big 12 offensive lineman in 2019 and a three-time All-Big 12 recipient during his four-year career as a Cyclone.
The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, native set a school record for most starts in a career with 49 and was a key player in the Cyclones’ record-setting offense in 2019. The Cyclones broke team records in total offense (444.3), touchdowns (53), passing yards (4,047) and yards per play (6.4) this past season.
Good-Jones played in the East-West Shrine Bowl in January.
Knipfel was a co-captain as a senior and started all 39 games of his Cyclone career on the offensive line. The Hampton, Iowa native was a two-time honorable mention All-Big 12 selection and was a key contributor in the Cyclones’ record-setting offense in 2019.
The heart and soul of ISU’s defensive front the last three seasons, Lima was a three-time All-Big 12 recipient, including earning second-team accolades in 2018 and 2019.
The two-time team captain from Los Angeles, Calif., registered 33 starts, 87 tackles and 10.5 TFL in his outstanding career.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — The National Wrestling Media Association announced Friday that the University of Iowa wrestling program set an NCAA record and led the nation in average and total attendance for the 14th straight season.
The Hawkeyes averaged a record 12,568 fans in seven home dates, seeing a total of 87,979 fans enter the gates of Carver-Hawkeye Arena to watch college wrestling. It marks the first time in NCAA history that a program put more than 10,000 fans in the building for every home dual. The previous average dual attendance record was 12,166, set by Iowa in 2015-16, the season that opened with the “Grapple on the Gridiron” at Kinnick Stadium.
Iowa has led the nation in attendance in each of head coach Tom Brands’ 14 seasons. This year was the 12th straight the Hawkeyes averaged more than 8,000 fans.
The NCAA Division I Wrestling Attendance Top 25 for 2019-20
| Rank | School | Dates | Total | Average | Best | Top Draw |
| 1 | Iowa | 7 | 87,979 | 12,568.4 | 14,905 | Penn State |
| 2 | Penn State | 8 | 60,833 | 7,604.1 | 15,995 | Ohio State |
| 3 | Iowa State | 7 | 33,562 | 4,794.6 | 11,238 | Iowa |
| 4 | Rutgers | 7 | 29,091 | 4,155.9 | 5,405 | Maryland |
| 5 | Ohio State | 8 | 32,940 | 4,117.5 | 4,657 | Northwestern |
| 6 | Oklahoma State | 9 | 33,328 | 3,703.1 | 7,070 | Oklahoma |
| 7 | Minnesota | 6 | 17,730 | 2,955.0 | 4,025 | Wisconsin |
| 8 | Arizona State | 6 | 17,171 | 2,861.8 | 8,522 | Penn State |
| 9 | Fresno State | 6 | 15,577 | 2,596.2 | 3,584 | Rutgers |
| 10 | Lehigh | 6 | 15,135 | 2,522.5 | 6,047 | Penn State |
| 11 | Virginia Tech | 6 | 14,899 | 2,483.2 | 4,235 | North Carolina |
| 12 | Nebraska | 7 | 16,776 | 2,396.6 | 5,960 | Penn State |
| 13 | Northern Iowa | 6 | 13,006 | 2,167.7 | 4,006 | Oklahoma State |
| 14 | NC State* | 5 | 10,669 | 2,133.8 | 4,383 | North Carolina |
| 15 | Wisconsin | 7 | 13,784 | 1,969.1 | 3,073 | Penn State |
| 16 | Michigan | 7 | 13,403 | 1,914.7 | 3,909 | Iowa |
| 17 | Indiana | 7 | 11,414 | 1,630.6 | 1,914 | Iowa |
| 18 | Princeton* | 4 | 6,151 | 1,537.8 | 2,284 | Iowa |
| 19 | Cornell | 6 | 7,846 | 1,307.7 | 2,000 | NC State |
| 20 | Missouri | 5 | 6,327 | 1,265.4 | 2,464 | Iowa State |
| 21 | South Dakota State | 7 | 7,901 | 1,128.7 | 1,679 | North Dakota State |
| 22 | Binghamton | 5 | 5,556 | 1,111.2 | 2,705 | NC State |
| 23 | Lock Haven | 6 | 6,379 | 1,063.2 | 2,218 | Central Michigan |
| 24 | Utah Valley | 7 | 7,415 | 1,059.3 | 1,411 | Wisconsin |
| 25 | West Virginia | 7 | 6,936 | 990.9 | 2,250 | Utah Valley |
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