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Top ranked Williamsburg opens the 3A state softball quarterfinals on Monday night against Albia. Williamsburg is 30-9 and making its fourth straight appearance at the tournament. Senior first baseman Elle Ridgeway.
Ridgeway says several young players have stepped up to provide depth.
Ridgeway says the Raiders are confident heading into the tournament.
Iowa quarterback Cade McNamara likes the potential of the Hawkeyes for next season. McNamara transferred from Michigan and takes the helm of an offense that was one of the worst in the country last season.
McNamara has been impressed with the culture of the Iowa program.
The Hawkeyes open at home on September second against Utah State.
The following are statements from University of Iowa Head Men’s Basketball Coach Fran McCaffery and P. Sue Beckwith, MD, Head Women’s Basketball Coach Lisa Bluder on the passing of Randy Larson.
Larson was the founder and director of the summer Prime Time and Game Time leagues in Eastern Iowa and was a longtime supporter of both basketball programs.
Head Men’s Basketball Coach Fran McCaffery
“Randy was a great friend of our program and to me from the day I arrived in Iowa City. He was incredibly kind and supportive of our student-athletes, including devoting his heart and soul into the Prime Time League. He was an Iowa City legend and will be dearly missed.”
Sue Beckwith, MD, Head Women’s Basketball Coach Lisa Bluder
“Randy was a tremendous supporter of women’s basketball. He included us in the summer league as soon as we arrived on campus. Randy was a fixture at our games and loved supporting our team.”
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head coach T.J. Otzelberger announced Friday the signing of JT Rock. Originally a member of the 2024 recruiting class, Rock has reclassified and will join the Cyclones this fall as a member of the 2023 recruiting class.
“We are thrilled that JT decided to join our 2023 recruiting class,” Otzelberger said. “He’s a high character young man that prides himself on doing the right thing. The offensive skill set that he possesses is truly unique for someone north of 7-feet tall. He will be someone Cyclone fans love watching for years to come.”
Rock joins a 2023 recruiting class that was ranked No. 10 by Rivals and No. 11 by 247Sports and ESPN. In the 2024 recruiting rankings, Rock was ranked No. 68 by ESPN, No. 79 by Rivals and No. 99 by 247Sports. He was a four-star recruit by all three services.
At 7-1, Rock will be the eighth seven-footer in Cyclone men’s basketball history. This summer, Rock has participated in the National Basketball Players Association Top 100 camp and the Under Armour Future 60 camp. Rock led his Sioux Falls Lincoln squad to a fourth-place finish at the 2023 South Dakota AA State Tournament. Rock was the South Dakota AA Player of the Year, averaging 18 points, 10 rebounds and 4.5 blocked shots per game.
Rock will join four Cyclones that signed in November 2022 in the 2023 recruiting class. The Cyclones signed Omaha Biliew (6-8 | Forward | Waukee, Iowa | Waukee HS), Kayden Fish (6-6 | Forward | Kansas City, Mo. | Staley HS), Jelani Hamilton (6-5 | Guard | Marietta, Ga. | Wheeler HS) and Milan Momcilovic (6-8 | Forward | Pewaukee, Wis. | Pewaukee HS).
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Five University of Iowa student-athletes are set to travel to Selma, Alabama, as part of the Big Ten Equality Coalition. The conference announced that for the second consecutive year a group comprised of 100 student-athletes, coaches, administrators, conference staff, and other key stakeholders from across the conference will participate in the Big Life Series: Selma to Montgomery, July 14-16. The trip is a journey to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, for an immersive and educational experience at a key center of the civil rights movement.
The five Hawkeye student-athletes attending are Harper Dunne (field hockey), Alli Bookin-Nosbisch (track & field), MJ McNary (field hockey), Myah Lugar (rowing) and Leif Schroder (wrestling).
The group, which 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 will participate in a variety of activities, including marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 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 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.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (July 14, 2023) – Tom Keating, executive director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association (IHSAA), is the new president of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) for 2023-24. Keating, the 64th president of the NFHS, began his one-year term July 2 following the NFHS Summer Meeting, which was held this year in Seattle, Washington.
Bob Lombardi, executive director of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA), was elected by the NFHS Board of Directors to the position of president-elect for the upcoming year.
The following individuals were approved by the NFHS National Council for four-year terms on the NFHS Board of Directors: Jeff Collins, executive director, New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA), Section 1; Lance Taylor, executive director, Arkansas Activities Association (AAA), Section 6; and Michael Sye, director of athletics, Baltimore (Maryland) County Public Schools System, at large, Sections 2 and 6.
Tom Keating joined the IHSAA staff as executive director July 1, 2019, after 15 years at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was president of Xavier High during the 2018-19 school year after 14 years as the school’s principal. He served 24 years at Wahlert Catholic High School in Dubuque, Iowa, prior to arriving at Xavier in 2004.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Keating began his career as a teacher and coach at Maxwell High School in 1977 before starting an award-winning run as a teacher, coach and activities director at Wahlert in 1980. Keating led Wahlert to 11 state volleyball championships, and he was named NFHS National Coach of the Year for volleyball in 2003.
Keating served on the IHSAA’s Board of Control from 2008 to 2018 and was chairperson in 2014-15. In 2010, he was named the National Catholic Educational Association’s Educator of the Year. He was a 2003 inductee in the National High School Athletic Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame, and he has been an adjunct instructor and authored five graduate-level courses for Drake University.
Nationally, Keating joined the NFHS Board of Directors as the Section 4 representative at the start of the 2020-21 school year.
The dream of a new Little League stadium in the town of Garner and a local company is a major reason. Mayor Tim Schmidt says Zinpro Corporation has offices in Garner.
Schmidt says the hope is to have an irrigation system, new concession stands, new seating, better dugouts and lighting systems installed for next season.
EMERSON, IA — The Iowa High School Sports Network (IHSSN) will broadcast all 28
Iowa High School Athletic Association State Baseball Tournament games from Duane
Banks Field in Iowa City and Merchants Park in Carroll July 17-21. Complete broadcast
schedule.
All games will be aired on IHSSN Cable Network affiliates, including Mediacom (MC22),
Aureon, Premier Communications and The Community Agency (TCA). The
championship games on July 17 th will also be aired on WQAD (Quad Cities), KFXA
(Cedar Rapids) and H&I (Channel 10.3 Mason City). Check local cable and TV listings
for details.
In addition, all games can be streamed at IHSSN.com and the Watch IHSSN App by
purchasing either a Game Pass or Tournament Pass. Both passes include viewing of
two concurrent devices and up to a 30-day rental. Please refer to our FAQ page for
details.
(Radio Iowa) – It’s a sport many Iowans only know from television, but a polo match between teams from Iowa and Minnesota is being staged this weekend as a fundraiser for Variety, the Children’s Charity of Iowa. Variety’s Alison Hanner says this is the agency’s 27th annual Polo on the Green event and yes, it’s a real polo match with riders on horseback swinging those long mallets. “It is so fun! It’s very unique. No one else can really duplicate it,” Hanner says. “We have a fully air conditioned tent and it’s just a beautiful polo field. The views are spectacular and being able to watch the horses and the players, it’s very cool.”
The event is being held Saturday at Powder River Ranch in Cumming, just southwest of Des Moines. Hanner says one popular part of the outing is “divot stomping” at half time. “It helps keep the field level for the horses, so they take time to make sure that the divots are stomped down, so you get to go out and participate in the event,” Hanner says. “It’s kind of a highlight as you get to go out on the actual field and everyone really enjoys that.”
After the match, there will be a catered dinner with an open bar, live music, live and silent auctions, and fireworks. Last year’s event raised 250-thousand dollars for the charity and this year’s goal is to beat the previous haul. Hanner says money raised will support Variety’s mission to improve the lives of children who are at-risk, underprivileged, critically ill, or living with special needs.
Screenshot from PoloOnthegreen.com
Hanner says, “We have our specialized mobility program where we provide specialized bikes, gait trainers, walkers, any piece of mobility equipment that is going to get a child moving and out in the community and help build strength in their legs and core and coordination to help them be more mobile.” Since 1975, Variety has raised more than $134 million to support children in need throughout the state. Learn more and buy tickets at: poloonthegreen.com
(Iowa DNR News) – Fishing for catfish is a fun summer tradition for many Iowa families. Invite someone new to fishing to come along to share the fun and memories. “Catfish will bite most of the time, no matter what the water temperature,” explains Daniel Vogeler, Iowa DNR fisheries technician. “They are biting in most lakes, ponds, rivers and streams across Iowa.” Bring along two coolers with ice, one to keep your bait firm and fresh and another to keep your catch cold and preserve that great taste. Catfish have a great sense of smell and taste. Try prepared dip baits, chicken livers, minnows or chubs, green sunfish, bluegill, crawdads, frogs, nightcrawlers or dead, but fresh, goldeye or gizzard shad.
Lakes stratify, or form layers, this time of year, with cool, oxygen-deprived waters sinking to the bottom. Don’t fish in water deeper than 8 to 10 feet on most lakes. Look for areas with vegetation, brush piles or rock. Use the DNR interactive fishing atlas to help you quickly find these spots. Fish the upper ends of the larger reservoirs where the water is shallower and baitfish like gizzard shad gather. Use baits fished on the bottom or suspended off the bottom with a bobber and let current or breeze move the bait to find active catfish.
A blue catfish (NOAA Fisheries photo)
Iowa rivers are loaded with catfish. Look for fish around downed trees and brush piles, but don’t overlook rock piles or other objects that deflect water and form a current seam. Position your bait just upstream of brush piles so the scent of the bait is carried downstream into the structure to draw the catfish out. Anchor the bait with a heavy weight so it doesn’t drift into snags. If fishing the big rivers, try upstream and on the tips of wing dykes and wing dams on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
Find more tips for catching, cleaning and cooking catfish on the DNR website at www.iowadnr.gov/Fishing/Fishing-Tips-How-Tos/How-to-Fish-For-/Channel-Catfish-Fishing.
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