After a historic inaugural campaign, the awards continue to pile up for the Iowa women’s wrestling team. Head coach Clarissa Chun was named the USA Women’s Wrestling Coach of the Year on April 20. The announcement was made by the organization during the 2024 Olympic Team Trials in State College, Pennsylvania. This is Chun’s second
Colorado women’s basketball is adding a veteran forward with starting and winning experience. Nyamer Diew, who played the last three years at Iowa State, will play her final season of college basketball with the Buffaloes, according to a BuffZone source. A 6-foot-2 forward, Diew started 19 games for the Cyclones this past season, averaging 5.9 points and 3.1 rebounds while helping them reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Diew is the first transfer addition of the offseason for the...
Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark is projected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft. The top pick is held by the Indiana Fever, who have been posting on social media and teasing Clark’s arrival on the team since the point guard declared for the draft on Feb. 29. Clark, known
Women's rugby in the U.S. is going professional with the new Women's Elite Rugby competition. The league will officially launch next year with between 6 and 8 teams.
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, celebrated its 100th anniversary as the starting line for the marathon, sending off a field of nearly 30,000 runners.
Penn State wrestling head coach Cael Sanderson has built a dynasty and made
It was billed as a race that would be harder to win than the Olympic marathon gold in Paris and the London Marathon’s elite women’s race did not disappoint as reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won a hugely competitive race and set a new women’s-only world record. Jepchirchir, regarded as one of the greatest female distance runners of all time, raised her arms in jubilation as she crossed the tape in two hours, 16 minutes and 16 seconds. The Kenyan broke the women’s-only record – the...
Brock Purdy’s rise with the San Francisco 49ers over the last two seasons has been improbable to say the least, but he has gotten the team on the cusp of a Super Bowl title. Purdy, who was the "Mr. Irrelevant" of the 2022 draft, is entering the third year of his rookie deal and
Villanova transfer Lucy Olsen has officially committed to Iowa, potentially filling a gap left behind by seasoned seniors graduating from the program. A high-scorer who has been compared to Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Olsen averaged 23.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 3.8 assists per game last year. She was the third leading scorer in the country last
Iowa Senate lawmakers gave final approval to the governor’s K-12 literacy bill on Wednesday, sending the bill to the Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk for her signature. The bill, House File 2618, would require students at teacher prep programs around the state to take a test similar to the Massachusetts state “foundations of reading assessment”
The Iowa baseball team dropped its second straight Big Ten weekend series, this time on the road against the Ohio State Buckeyes. The first two games were tightly contested affairs, with each team winning a game. The Buckeyes rolled to an 11-1 victory in the rubber match on Sunday to clinch the series. Here are
Over-A-Cup offers Black women a safe space to discuss business future plans over a cup of coffee, teaching what has "not been taught."