IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa senior setter Claire Ammeraal was named to the 2025 American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Central Region First Team, the organization announced on Tuesday morning.

Ammeraal is the first Hawkeye to land on an AVCA All-Region team since 2021, when Courtney Buzzerio represented the program on the All-North Region team. Overall, Ammeraal is the seventh Hawkeye to earn AVCA All-Region recognition.

The Central Region consists of programs from the following states: Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma.

The second-team All-Big Ten selection tallied 1,190 assists, which were the second-most in the league and 15^th nationally. Ammeraal led the region in assists. She finished third in the conference with 12 double-doubles. Ammeraal added to Iowa’s offense 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. As a result, she was the most offensive setter in the Big Ten, 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.

Iowa State basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger says even in the midst of a hot streak his team is still looking to improve. The fourth ranked Cyclones are 9-0 and have played as well as anybody in the country the past couple of weeks. They are coming off a stunning road blowout on Saturday with an 81-58 win at then top ranked Purdue.

In the last three games the Cyclones have shot a sizzling 57 percent from three point range but Otzelberger says their success begins on the defensive end of the court.

Otzelberger says another key for this team has been the players accepting their role.

Senior guard Tamin Lipsey says a consistent approach does not changed based on the opponent or the results.

The Cyclones host Iowa Thursday night

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Five University of Iowa football student-athletes —Logan Jones, Beau Stephens, Kaden Wetjen, Gennings Dunker and Aaron Graves — have been named Associated Press All-Big Ten selections, it was announced Tuesday by the AP.

Jones, Stephens and Wetjen were first team selections, while Dunker and Graves were recognized on the second team by the voting panel of 24 media members who cover the conference. Iowa was the only school with three offensive linemen honored.

Wetjen (5-foot-9, 196 pounds) earned AP All-Big Ten First Team honors for a second straight year as the all-purpose selection. The native of Williamsburg, Iowa, became the first two-time recipient of the Big Ten’s Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year Award since the award was introduced in 2015. Wetjen also earned first-team all-conference accolades by both the league coaches and media.

The Jet Award finalist leads the nation with 965 combined kick return yards (by 260 yards), while also ranking first in punt return yards (28.3). He was a three-time Big Ten Special Teams Player of the Week in 2025. Wetjen is the only Big Ten player to record at least three punt returns and one kickoff return for a score in the same season. Hereturned a 100-yard kickoff for a touchdown at Rutgers, and had punt return scores of 95 yards (UMass), 62 yards (Michigan State) and 50 yards (Minnesota) this season. His 28.3 punt return average is currently tops in Big Ten history and the three punt return scores are tied for third-most in a single season in league annals.

Jones (6-foot-3, 302 pounds) anchors Iowa’s offensive line, which is a Joe Moore Award finalist.  The Council Bluffs, Iowa, native is an Outland Trophy and Rimington Trophy finalist and he earned first-team All-Big Ten laurels by the league coaches and media. Jones, who has started 50 career games and has served as a game captain all 12 games this season, is the top-rated center in the country by Pro Football Focus and has not been flagged for an offensive holding penalty in 2025.

Jones’ protection, along with the rest of the line, has helped quarterback Mark Gronowski break school single-season records for rushing yards (491) and rushing touchdowns (15) by a quarterback. Jones, who was honored on the AP All-Big Ten Second Team a year ago, was the Outland Trophy National Player of the Week on the weekend of Oct. 25 following Iowa’s 41-3 victory over Minnesota.

Stephens (6-foot-5, 315 pounds) has started 17 straight games, dating back to last season, and 33 contests overall at left guard. He was a first-team all-conference selection by league coaches and named to the second team by the media last week.

Dunker (6-foot-5, 315 pounds) started all 12 games in 2025 and 37 overall at right tackle. This marks the second consecutive season that the native of Lena, Illinois, was an AP Second Team All-Big Ten selection.

Graves (6-foot-5, 295 pounds) has been a dominant defensive force and exceptional scholar-athlete, recording 36 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, five sacks and an interception in 12 starts in 2025. The team captain and William V. Campbell Trophy finalist graduated with highest distinction in 2024 after completing his bachelor’s degree in exercise science in just two years with a 4.03 GPA, and is on track to complete his master’s degree in sport and recreation management in December. Graves was also a second team all-conference honoree by league coaches and media last week.

The 23rd-ranked Hawkeyes (8-4) face No. 14 Vanderbilt (10-2) at the ReliaQuest Bowl in Tampa, Florida, on Dec. 31. Fans can book travel packages to Tampa through Destinations Unlimited.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – University of Iowa sprinters Chioma Nwachukwu and Kalen Walker were tabbed as the program’s Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Athletes to Watch, the conference announced on Tuesday afternoon.

Nwachukwu, a sophomore from Asaba, Nigeria, enters her second collegiate season as Iowa’s leader in the 400 meters. She posted the team’s top time at the Big Ten Championships a season ago, earning third place in 52.07.

Nwachukwu is a strong presence for Iowa’s relays and ran on the program’s top three 4×400 relays last year. She ran the second leg of the school-record breaking relay (3:30.42) at the New Mexico College Classic last season. Additionally, Nwachukwu earned second-team All-Big Ten honors at the conference meet after helping the relay place second in 3:31.04. She is also a part of Iowa’s third-fastest 4×400 relay time that ran a 3:31.62 at the 2025 Tyson Invite.

Highlighting her indoor season, Nwachukwu was named to the All-Big Ten Freshman team and was a two-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week.

Walker redshirted the 2025 indoor season and returns to round out his career in 2026. The senior from Eddyville, Iowa, was a first-team All-American and national runner-up in the 60 meters during his last full indoor season in 2024. He was also the Big Ten’s runner up in the event that year. Walker’s decorated career also includes a second-team All-America honor in the 60 meters during his first season as a Hawkeye in 2022. He finished 13th overall at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Walker holds Iowa’s school record in the 60 meters, racing 6.51 at the 2024 Jarvis Scott Open in Lubbock, Texas. Walker was twice named the Big Ten Men’s Track Athlete of the Week during the 2024 campaign after performances at the Jarvis Scott Open and Jimmy Grant Invitational.

Iowa track and field opens its 2025-26 season with the Jimmy Grant Invite on Dec. 12-13 inside the Hawkeye Indoor Track Facility.

Rolling Valley Conference 

Ar-We-Va – 48 vs Boyer Valley – 36

Non-Conference 

Southwest Valley – 75 vs Stanton – 18

Nodaway Valley – 69 vs Griswold – 34

Audubon – 70 vs Greene County – 58

Tri-Center – 76 vs Paton-Churdan – 50 

Rolling Valley Conference 

Boyer Valley – 74 vs Ar-We-Va – 23

Non-Conference 

Southwest Valley – 69 vs Stanton – 25

Tri-Center – 44 vs Paton-Churdan – 32

Red Oak – 52 vs Essex – 17

Creston – 55 vs Murray – 22

Martensdale-St. Marys – 51 vs GMG – 28

At Nodaway Valley

Nodaway Valley – 57 vs East Union – 18

Nodaway Valley – 51 vs Mount Ayr – 29

Nodaway Valley – 54 vs Wayne – 20

Nodaway Valley – 48 vs Martensdale-St. Marys – 23

Martensdale-St. Marys – 34 vs Mount Ayr – 29

Martensdale-St. Marys – 36 vs Wayne – 29

Wayne – 36 vs East Union – 30

Wayne – 33 vs Mount Ayr – 24

East Union – 32 vs Martensdale-St. Marys – 30

Mount Ayr – 33 vs East Union – 28

Nodaway Valley winners: Josh Nelson – 3, Thomas Herrick – 4, Ty Strode – 4, Kevin Steeve – 2, Mason Johnson – 2, Matthew Nelson – 2, Derek Raasch – 2, Clay Raasch, Caleb Christensen – 4, Ashton Honnold – 4, Jett Christensen – 3, Zach Nelson, Trevyn Colton – 2, Silas Pielken

At Thomas Jefferson

Logan-Magnolia – 59 vs Thomas Jefferson – 22

Logan-Magnolia – 53 vs Woodbine – 26

Logan-Magnolia – 50 vs Missouri Valley – 27 

Woodbine – 44 vs Missouri Valley – 36 

Woodbine – 39 vs Thomas Jefferson – 24 

Missouri Valley – 53 vs Thomas Jefferson – 24

Logan-Magnolia winners: Landon Thayer – 3 Brodie Johnsen – 2, Noah Archibald, Zach Diggins – 3, Crosby Yoder – 3, Ben Burnett, Max Wingert – 3, Robert Bothwell – 2, Tyson Jenkins – 2, Carson Edney – 3, Hunter Hussing, Charles Brown, Aaron Cordell – 2, Liam Jenkins, Izaac Sailors

Thomas Jefferson winners: Huxley Bentzinger – 2, Mayson Kramer – 2, Kaeleb Myers – 3, Trayton Boland, Jacob Acosta, Coleton Townsend, Isaiah Walling

Missouri Valley winners: Hunter Hussing – 2, Owen Becerra – 3, Luke Schroeder – 3, Luke Cleaver – 3, Draeson Allen, Giacorrie Bartalini – 2, Louis Waite – 2, Toben Lasater – 2, Matthew Cliffe, Wayne Larson, Noah Cox

Woodbine winners: Quinton Heistand – 3, Brenner Sullivan – 3, Layne Thomas – 3, Connor Murdock – 3, Lucas Olson – 3, Lawson Bendgen – 2, Jacob Cogdill – 2,  Glenn Promnitz, Brogen Arocho 

IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa senior Logan Jones is one of three finalists for the 2025 Rimington Trophy, it was announced on Monday. The Rimington Trophy is presented annually to the nation’s most outstanding center.

Joining Jones as finalists are Jake Slaughter (Florida) and Iapani Laloulu (Oregon).

Jones (6-foot-3, 302 pounds) anchors Iowa’s offensive line, which is a Joe Moore Award semifinalist.  The first-team All-Big Ten honoree has started 50 career games and has served as a game captain all 12 games this season. He is the top-rated center in the country by Pro Football Focus and has not been flagged for an offensive holding penalty in 2025. Jones’ protection, along with the rest of the line, has helped quarterback Mark Gronowski break school single-season records for rushing yards (491) and rushing touchdowns (15) by a quarterback.

Jones and the Hawkeyes have out-rushed their opponents nine times in 2025, compiling 245 yards in the victory over Penn State on Oct. 18 and rushing for 310 yards in the season-opening win over UAlbany. The unit helped Iowa gain more than 200 yards in four games and the line surrendered just 16 sacks. Jones was the Outland Trophy National Player of the Week on the weekend of Oct. 25 following Iowa’s 41-3 convincing victory over Minnesota.

The Rimington Trophy winner will be announced on Friday, Dec. 12 on the ESPN College Football Awards Show. Since its inception, the award has raised over $5.2 million for the Boomer Esiason Foundation.

The center with the most first team votes on three prestigious All-America teams (Walter Camp Foundation, Sporting News, and Football Writers Association of America) will determine the winner of the Rimington Trophy.

Former Hawkeye Tyler Linderbaum won the 2021 Rimington Trophy, while Austin Blythe and Bruce Nelson were finalists for the trophy in 2015 and 2002, respectively.

No. 23 Iowa will face No. 14 Vanderbilt in the ReliaQuest Bowl on Dec. 31, in Tampa, Florida.

LOGAN JONES HONORS – 2025
Outland Trophy Finalist
Rimington Trophy Finalist
First Team All-Big Ten (coaches; media)
Outland Trophy National Player of the Week (Oct. 28)

IOWA CITY, Iowa – The University of Iowa women’s soccer team has signed, Léa Larouche, head coach Dave DiIanni announced on Monday. Larouche, a transfer, will be a junior in the 2026-27 season after spending her first two seasons at Butler University.

Larouche is coming off a sophomore campaign in which she was selected to the All-Big East Third team after starting in all 17 matches for the Bulldogs. The Quebec, Canada native totaled five assists on the season including three in a game against Providence. Larouche was named to the Big East Weekly Honor roll in September while also being named CSC Academic All-District. In her freshman season, Larouche started in all 19 matches finishing with a pair of goals and assists.

Larouche also spent time on the U-20 Canadian National Team where they won the U-20 CONCACAF Championship in 2025. Her game winning goal against USYNT pushed them to the championship match.

HEAR FROM HEAD COACH DAVE DIIANNI
“Lea is a versatile soccer player whose athleticism and technical ability allows her to excel in multiple roles across the field. Her composure, intelligence, and competitiveness elevates her play. The national team experience brings maturity, competitiveness and leadership to our Hawkeye program.”

Matt Campbell was introduced as the new football coach at Penn State. Campbell spent the past 10 years at Iowa State and led the Cyclones to a pair of trips to the Big 12 Championship game.

Campbell says his meeting Friday night with the Cyclone team was one of the hardest things. He led ISU to seven bowl games in 10 years and left as the school’s all-time leader in wins.

Campbell says Penn State is the right program at the right time.

Campbell says Derek Hoodjer will serve as GM for Penn State as they seek to rebuild the roster. Hoodjer served as director of player personnel at Iowa State.