AMES, Iowa – Ashley Joens made it three-for-three on making the major women’s basketball All-America teams for a second straight season, as the Iowa State star was named to the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Team on Thursday.

Joens made the 10-person team for the second-straight season, becoming the first player in ISU history to make the WBCA All-America squad multiple times. She earned four All-America nods from the WBCA in her career, adding honorable mention honors in 2019-20 and 2020-21 in addition to the past two seasons.

These honors are in addition to the previously announced honors from two weeks ago of being a USBWA Second Team All-American and an Associated Press Third Team All-American.

The Iowa State record books were rewritten by Joens, who will leave ISU as the career record holder for points (3,060), rebounds (1,391), games played and started (158), field goals (988), 3-pointers (344), free throws (740), double-doubles (65) and points per game (19.4). Her career points total ranks ninth in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball history, while games played and started are both Big 12 records.

DALLAS — University of Iowa junior Caitlin Clark is the recipient of the 2023 Wade Trophy. The announcement was made on Thursday by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA).

Clark is the first Hawkeye to earn the distinction, which is the oldest and most prestigious national player of the year honor in women’s basketball. She is the first Big Ten player to win the award since Purdue’s Stephanie White in 1999.

Additionally, Clark was included on the Coaches’ All-America team as chosen by Division I head coaches.

The Audubon Girls Early Bird Meet was held on Thursday. CAM, Exira-EHK, AHSTW, and Audubon were among the teams competing. Here is a look at the highlights.

Audubon picked up a win in the Distance Medley (Mattie Nielsen, Madi Steckler, Kade Sporrer, Stefi Beisswenger 4:41.16) and Stefi Beisswenger took the 1500M win in 5:30.27. The Wheelers also finished 2nd in the 4x400M Relay (Kade Sporrer, Madi Steckler, Addie Hocker, Mattie Nielsen 4:28.29).

CAM got a win from Emma Follmann in the High Jump with a best clearance of 4-10.

AHSTW had a 2nd place finish for Ava Paulsen in the 800M with a time of 2:41.27.

Exira-EHK got a 2nd place finish from Jaelynn Petersen in the High Jump at 4-08.

Check out the full results here: audubon-girls-early-bird-2023

Atlantic Girls Track & Field Twitter

The Atlantic girls track and field team came away with a team win at the Hawkeye Ten Conference North Meet at Denison on Thursday night and the boys team came in 2nd. The girls scored 137 points to outpace 2nd place Lewis Central who finished with 117.50. The Trojan boys scored 101 points and fell only below Lewis Central who won it with 164.5 points.

On the girls side Atlantic won the 4x800M Relay (Mariah Huffman, Abby Smith, Claire Pellett, and Ava Rush) and 4x400M Relay (Nicole Middents, Huffman, Chloe Mullenix, Rush). Jayci Reed won the 100M Hurdles and she went 2nd in the 100M. The Trojans also finished 2nd in the 4x100M Relay (Haley Huffman, Morgan Botos, Jersey Phippen, and Jayci Reed) and Shuttle Hurdle Relay (Avery Knuth, Adler Bruce, Makayla Atkinson, Aliyah Williams). Claire Pellett won the 400M and was 2nd in the 1500M. Ava Rush was 2nd in the 800M.

For the boys Jackson McLaren won the 100M Hurdles and Colton Rasmussen was runner-up. Atlantic also won the Shuttle Hurdles with Jackson McLaren, Colton Rasmissen, Alex Keiser, and Easton O’Brien. Devon Fields was 2nd in the 400M. Bennett Whetstone was third in the 800M. Jayden Proehl was 2nd in the High Jump and Colton Rasmussen was 3rd.

Girls Team Scores

1. Atlantic 137
2. Lewis Central 117.5
3. Denison-Schleswig 112
4. St. Albert 105
5. Harlan 70.5
6. Kuemper Catholic 28

Boys Team Scores

1. Lewis Central 164.50
2. Atlantic 101
3. Kuemper Catholic 90
4. Harlan 85
5. Denison-Schleswig 75
6. St. Albert 60.50

Full results here: Hawkeye10South2023