The University of Iowa has agreed to pay one of its former track and field coaches $125,000 -- plus another $15,000 in attorneys’ fees -- as part of a settlement agreement that involved his voluntary resignation on July 22.
While it certainly wasn’t the most beautiful of mornings Monday in downtown Cedar Rapids, the runners who competed in the Fifth Season 8K and 5K were able to finish just before the rain and thunderstorms began around 8:45 a.m. Matt Lorenz won the men’s 8K, while Elaina Biechler was first on the women’s side.
Today, The Gazette reveals its 2022 finalists for Athlete of the Year.
HawkeyeReport's Tom Kakert joins the Hawk Off The Press podcast to discuss the latest updates in Iowa football recruiting and what's happening with an NIL collective. First, Iowa director of track and field and cross country Joey Woody recaps the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field championships.
Former Iowa City West Austin West prep owns Iowa’s decathlon school record and is seeded third entering the NCAA outdoor championships in Eugene, Ore.
Moment No. 27: Nan Doak-Davis became the first woman from the Iowa track and field program to win an NCAA championship in 1985.
Moment No. 29: Tracy Dahl became the first woman from the Iowa track and field program to win back-to-back NCAA titles.
As college athletes at Iowa and across the country face myriad mental health obstacles, here’s what Iowa athletes and staff are doing about it.
Moment No. 30: Kineke Alexander remembers “nobody expected me to win” the 400-meter race at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She proved them wrong, by one-hundredth of a second.
Moment No. 35: Laulauga Tausaga becomes Iowa track and field’s first NCAA champion in a throwing event in 2019.
State track and field, 4A girls: Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Gabby Cortez started her final meet with a win in the 400 meters.
Moment No. 37 in The Gazette’s 50 Iowa moments since Title IX series is Jenny Spangler and Loredana Zisu becoming the first women in their respective programs’ history to go to the Olympics.
The Iowa men’s track and field team enters this weekend’s Big Ten Championships in Minneapolis chasing a third straight outdoor title. But Joey Woody and the Hawkeyes want much more.
Former Iowa standout Erik Sowinski ran a sub-1:50 race in the 800 meters for the 200th time in his career Saturday at the Drake Relays. And even the winner of that special elite race was impressed by Sowinski’s milestone moment.
UNI All-American Darius King is intrigued by potential post-collegiate opportunities in track and field. He competed among the elites in the Drake Relays this year.
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