The results are in for the Coach’s Christmas outfit fundraiser that was contested this past Saturday during the Atlantic vs Nodaway Valley basketball doubleheader. The Atlantic coaches won by a vote of 596-404. $400 was raised between the Fareway donation & the money raised at the game. The money will be donated to the Atlantic PD for the Family Dreams Christmas program.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell announced today that Reid Kagy (KEG-ee) will join the Cyclone staff as Director of Football Strength and Conditioning.
Kagy, a former Iowa State assistant strength coach, spent the last two seasons as Boise State’s Director of Sports Performance.
“Reid and I have a phenomenal relationship, having recruited him out of high school to college and watched his transition and journey to being a head strength coach,” Campbell said. “He knows what the core values and tenets of being a football program that has the ability to transform. I think he’ll have a huge impact on our program, not just on the field, but in a multitude of different ways.”
Kagy joined the staff at Boise State in January of 2021 and helped the Broncos to a pair of bowl games in his two seasons, including a spot in the Frisco Bowl in 2022.
The 2022 Broncos went 10-4 this season and won the Frisco Bowl, while also earning a spot in the Mountain West Championship game. Boise State outgained their opponents by more than 1,200 yards (102.2 ypg) and dominated the line of scrimmage with 27 sacks and just 14 allowed.
Prior to Boise State, Kagy spent two seasons at Oregon. In his role as assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Ducks, Kagy helped the team win back-to-back Pac-12 titles and the 2020 Rose Bowl, in addition to an appearance in the 2021 Fiesta Bowl where they faced Iowa State.
The Bloomville, Ohio, native, was an assistant for the Iowa State strength and conditioning program from 2016-18. The Cyclones won eight games in each of his final two seasons, winning the 2017 Liberty Bowl and reaching the 2018 Alamo Bowl.
Kagy spent two years as an assistant strength and conditioning coach and one as a graduate assistant coach at Cincinnati. He worked with baseball, football, women’s golf, men’s soccer, swimming and track and field.
He was also a strength and conditioning intern at Toledo (2013) and UAB (2012) prior to his arrival at Cincinnati.
Kagy is a 2012 Ohio State graduate. He transferred to Ohio State after playing football at Mount Union for two seasons (2007 and 2008). He was a member of Mount Union’s 2008 Division III national championship team.
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell announced the addition of 21 early signees from the high school ranks, as well as two four-year transfer student-athletes and 13 preferred walk-ons during the 2023 early signing period on Wednesday.
The high school class ranks 35th nationally according to Rivals, the second-highest ranking ever by the outlet, and features 10 offensive players and 11 defensive players joining Iowa State from 10 different states.
“We are very excited about this outstanding group of young men that will be joining our program,” Iowa State head coach Matt Campbell said. “This class is excited about joining this University and is a group that we believe will impact our program positively in many ways over the course of the next five years. It is important to our program to recruit high-character young men that take great pride in their academics and in playing the game of football. This class embraces our values and we look forward to the future with them.”
With a priority on recruiting players that come from winning programs, Campbell and his staff signed eight players that have competed in state championship games and another six that reached the quarterfinals in their high school careers.
The class features seven signees from the State of Iowa, including four-star quarterback and Cyclone legacy JJ Kohl. The Ankeny, Iowa, native, is the second-highest ranked recruit in the internet rankings era according to 247sports.com. Kohl, whose father Jamie was a kicker for the Cyclones in the 90s, is the ninth-ranked quarterback in Rivals rankings after passing for 42 touchdowns the last two seasons at Ankeny High School.
Kohl’s senior year teammate Jamison Patton, a three-star safety and a top-50 athlete nationally by Rivals, is the highest-rated defensive player in the class.
Another Iowan, Southeast Polk’s Abu Sama III was the Des Moines Register’s All-Iowa Player of the Year after helping the Rams to their second consecutive Class 5A title. Sama was the talk of the state after breaking the title game record with 372 rushing yards and six touchdowns. He rushed for 1,408 yards and 28 touchdowns as a senior.
The Cyclones added two four-year college transfers in this class. Former four-star running back Arlen Harris Jr. (Stanford), who joins the Cyclones as a redshirt freshman transfer, and redshirt sophomore linebacker Zach Lovett (Missouri).
The spring Signing Day will be February 1.
Iowa announced their 2023 football signing class on Wednesday amid National Signing Day nationwide.
Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. Hometown High School
Erick All TE 6-5 255 Sr. Fairfield, Ohio Fairfield/Michigan
Maddux Borcherding-Johnson DL 6-3 285 Fr. Norwalk, Iowa Norwalk
Chase Brackney DL 6-4 270 Fr. Greenwood Village, Colo. Cherry Creek
Jarriett Buie WR 6-3 185 Fr. Tampa. Fla. Jesuit
JAIR-ee-it BUOY
Teegan Davis DB 6-2 175 Fr. Princeton, Ill. Princeton
Aidan Hall LB 6-1 210 Fr. Harlan, Iowa Harlan
Dayton Howard WR 6-4 190 Fr. Kansas City, Mo. Park Hill
Leighton Jones OL 6-2 275 Fr. Brownsburg, Ind. Brownsburg
Ben Kueter (KEY-tur) LB 6-4 225 Fr. Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City
Marco Lainez (LIE-nez) QB 6-3 230 Fr. Princeton, N.J. The Hun School
Trevor Lauck (LAWCK) OL 6-5 295 Fr. Indianapolis, Ind. Roncalli
Cannon Leonard OL 6-8 270 Fr. Gilman, Ill. Iroquois West
Zach Lutmer (LUT-mur) DB 6-0 195 Fr. Rock Rapids, Iowa Central Lyon/GLR
Cade McNamara QB 6-1 206 Sr. Reno, Nev. Damonte Ranch/Michigan
Kenneth Merrieweather DL 6-4 240 Fr. Detroit, Mich. M.L. King
Alex Mota WR 6-1 175 Fr. Marion, Iowa Marion
Kamari Moulton RB 5-11 185 Fr. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Cardinal Gibbons
John Nestor DB 6-0 190 Fr. Chicago, Ill. Marist
Zach Ortwerth TE 6-4 225 Fr. St. Louis, Mo. University
Kade Pieper (PEEP-ur) OL 6-3 250 Fr. Norfolk, Neb. Catholic
Kahlil Tate DB 6-1 185 Fr. Chicago, Ill. Kenwood Academy
Anterio Thompson DL 6-3 290 So. Dubuque, Iowa Hempstead/Iowa Western
An-TAIR-ee-o
Terrell Washington, Jr. RB 5-11 195 Fr. Wylie, Texas Wylie East
Tuh-RELL
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State Head Coach Jamie Pinkerton announced the 2023 Cyclone softball schedule Tuesday. The Cyclones’ 2023 slate includes nine opponents that made an NCAA Regional last season. Iowa State will play 12 games against five teams that finished 2022 ranked inside the NFCA Coaches Poll Top 25 in No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 2 Texas, No. 4 Oklahoma State, No. 9 Arkansas and No. 25 Oregon.
Iowa State opens the year with 26 consecutive road games, including five tournaments on the road. The Cyclones will open the season at the Doc Halverson UNI-Dome Classic (Feb. 10-12) in Cedar Falls.
ISU will then travel to the west coast for a tournament in Fresno, Calif. for five games at the Fresno State Kickoff Classic (Feb. 17-19) before playing in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic (Feb. 24-26) in Palm Springs, Calif. Iowa State will then take part in the Wooo Pig Classic (March 3-5), hosted by Arkansas, followed by a trip to Hawaii for the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu (March 10-12).
The Cyclones will play at the Cyclone Sports Complex for the first time on March 17. The Cyclones will play a doubleheader against BYU on Friday (March 17) followed by a doubleheader with Omaha on Sunday (March 19).
Iowa State will travel to Lincoln to face the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Wednesday, March 22 before Big 12 competition begins. ISU hosts defending national champion Oklahoma (March 24-26) and will then travel to Texas Tech for its first road Big 12 series (March 31 – April 2). The Cyclones will step back out of conference play for their midweek contest at Northern Iowa on Tuesday, April 4.
Following the midweek matchup against UNI, Iowa State hosts four-straight home games against defending national runner-up Texas (April 6-8) and South Dakota State (April 11) before a weekend series against Oklahoma State in Stillwater (April 14-16), a team that advanced to the 2022 College World Series.
After the Oklahoma State series, Iowa State will have a week off before it hosts Colorado State at the Cyclone Sports Complex (April 21-22). The Cyclones will then travel to Iowa City to face off against in-state rival Iowa in the annual Iowa Corn Cy-Hawk Series on April 26.
Iowa State closes the month of April with a home series against Baylor (April 28-30) and hosts Drake in its final midweek contest of the season (May 3). The Cyclones conclude the regular season on the road against Kansas (May 5-7).
The Big 12 Softball Championship will take place from May 11-13 in Oklahoma City.
(Radio Iowa) – Des Moines police have made an arrest for a murder that happened nearly seven years ago.
Sixty-two-year-old Kirk Blunck, a prominent architect in Des Moines, was found injured in the stairwell of a six story building a few blocks from the Iowa Capitol on January 24, 2016. He died a short time later. Blunck had worked on the restoration of several historic structures in Des Moines, including the Teachout Building where he was found.
According to a news release from Des Moines Police, Zachary Allen Gaskill of Des Moines was seen in surveillance photos near the crime scene. Gaskill, who was in his mid-20s at the time of Blunck’s death, is now 32. He’s been charged with second degree murder.
In 2016, the county medical examiner concluded the architect had died of blunt force trauma after a fall from some height.
DES MOINES – Today, Governor Kim Reynolds signed an extension of the proclamation relating to the weight limits and transportation of grain, fertilizer, and manure. The proclamation is effective immediately and continues through January 20, 2023. The proclamation allows vehicles transporting corn, soybeans, hay, straw, silage, stover, fertilizer (dry, liquid, and gas), and manure (dry and liquid) to be overweight (not exceeding 90,000 pounds gross weight) without a permit for the duration of this proclamation.
This proclamation applies to loads transported on all highways within Iowa (excluding the interstate system) and those which do not exceed a maximum of 90,000 pounds gross weight, do not exceed the maximum axle weight limit determined under the non-primary highway maximum gross weight table in Iowa Code § 321.463 (6) (b), by more than 12.5 percent, do not exceed the legal maximum axle weight limit of 20,000 pounds, and comply with posted limits on roads and bridges.
See the proclamation here.
(Radio Iowa) – State, county and city snow plows are gassed up and ready to roll as a winter storm arrives. Hamilton County engineer Ryan Weidemann says their snow patrol is ready to tackle the roads, though the heavy snow and strong winds could create a challenge.
“It looks like a good chance for some blizzard conditions Thursday and Friday,” Weidemann says. “We have to take into account the safety of our operators and so if the visibility were to get to a point where it reduced to zero, there may be times where we’re not able to be out on the road.”
DOT Snowplow cam
Tim Zahn, the Hamilton County Emergency Management director, says Iowans need to heed the warnings and cancel or postpone their travel plans. “They really should stay home probably until Saturday,” Zahn says. “If you can’t stay home, check the weather, check the 511 app, and just go super slow. Part of the danger is, it’ll be white-out conditions and that bitter, extreme cold. You’re not gonna last long if you have to get out of your car.”
Make sure to have the appropriate winter gear in the car in the event of a roadside emergency. The kit should include things like: blankets, water and snacks, a flashlight with fresh batteries, tools, a shovel, an ice scraper, jumper cables, sand and a first aid kit.
(Radio Iowa) – Many Iowans try to combat the bone-chilling cold of winter with space heaters, but they can also bring an increased risk of house fires. Le Mars Fire and Rescue Chief Dave Schipper says space heaters can provide much-needed warmth to an icy room, however, they can also be very dangerous if they’re misused.
“We want those plugged directly into an outlet and not onto an extension cord, they draw a lot of juice,” Schipper says. “We want at least three feet of clearance around them of combustibles. A couple of the recent fires we’ve had, those space heaters were too close to bedding, blankets, combustible material.”
The more modern space heaters have been manufactured with better safety features, yet they’re not foolproof, especially if you set a load of laundry down next to one. “A lot of the newer ones have safety tip-over switches, meaning, if they get knocked over, they’ll shut themselves off,” he says, “however, even those, if they’re too close to combustibles, will ignite a fire.” 
A house fire in Mason City last month that killed four brothers, ranging in age from three to 12, is blamed on an overloaded power strip. Schipper says portable heaters can be a real hazard if they’re left unattended. “Space heaters should never be running when you’re not around,” he says. “So, whether you have it at home or work or wherever, the only time it should be operating is when you’re with it. Otherwise, those should be shut off.”
The chief strongly recommends smoke and carbon monoxide detectors in all homes.
(Radio Iowa) – State Ombudsman, Bernardo Granwehr, says while a majority of the complaints his office handled in the last fiscal year were from inmates in state prisons and local jails — there were a wide variety of other concerns. “Human services type complaints are probably the second most, but from a percentage standpoint, they’re really all over the board,” he says. “Anywhere from complaints about snow removal, or that kind of thing, or, it could be child welfare related type type stuff.” He says anything to do with state and local government agencies can end up generating complaints. Granwehr says his office does what it can to help.
“If it turns out that there’s something, you know, a process that could be potentially improved, that people are sticking on a little bit, or running into problems with, we can we can work with that agency,”Granwher says. He says Iowa’s Ombudsman is unique when it comes to others across the country. “There’s a variety of ombudsman offices across the nation, but Hawaii is the only office along with our office, they are only two in the nation that have such a broad jurisdiction,” he says.
Granwehr encourages you to be sure you’ve tried all your options for resolving your situation before calling his office.
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