Iowa State, University of Northern Iowa won tournaments last weekend. Iowa had four champions in Wisconsin. Competition for the boys’ high school season has started, while the girls’ season has hit full throttle, including the annual Dan Gable Donnybrook.All this and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
The hay is in the barn and all classes have reached the postseason. See what Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Scott Unash have to say about high school football in our last 4 Downs.
2024 defending shotput champion, Lydia Kriegel, finishes second with a throw of 40 feet, 4 inches
Jalen Adams has provided the consistent and steady presence to help the Hawkeyes to 35 regular-season wins and the No. 6 seed in the Big Ten Conference softball tournament, beginning Wednesday at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
Assignments for district singles and doubles tournament were released on Friday by Iowa High School Athletic Association
University of Iowa’s Drake Ayala was the runner-up at 125-pounds at last year’s national tournament. He will try to improve that finish as the No. 2 seed at 133 at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in Philadelphia, beginning Thursday.
Here is a class-by-class breakdown of the 2025 Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament, which begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Top-ranked Shayden Washburn was one of four Alburnett champions Saturday at the J-Hawk Invitational hosted by Cedar Rapids Jefferson. The Pirates won the team title by 81 points over Waukee Northwest.
The 2024 Iowa high school state softball tournament begins Monday at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge with 10 quarterfinal games. Find updated schedules, scores, brackets and live stream information here throughout the day.
Mount Vernon beat Fort Dodge 2-1 in a Linn-Mar/Alburnett softball tournament semifinal game Saturday at Oak Ridge Middle School in Marion.
With an 11-5 victory over Purdue’s Dustin Norris in his second match of the first session, Iowa’s Brody Teske qualified for Saturday night’s semifinals, which means he’ll finish as high as sixth in the Big Ten and automatically earn a spot for the Hawkeyes at the 2024 NCAA Championships. Overall, Iowa sent six wrestlers to the semifinals as the Hawkeyes stood in third place behind tournament-leading Penn State and Michigan.
Brody Teske’s college career has included three programs in two states. He has also earned three trips to the NCAA Championships. In his sixth and final season, Teske will represent Iowa at 133 pounds for the Big Ten Championships this weekend at Maryland.
Here is a class-by-class breakdown of the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament, which begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Iowa wrestling 125-pounder Drake Ayala has ascended the rankings and owns the No. 1 spot in three of four national polls. He has won four straight against ranked foes and will take on NCAA finalist Matt Ramos when Iowa hosts Purdue Friday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Iowa’s Drake Ayala stepped in as the 125-pound starter his first season. He qualified for the NCAA tournament and redshirted last year. He learned more about himself and is back as the Hawkeyes’ starting 125-pounder. He has a key matchup in the Iowa-Iowa State dual Sunday.
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