Articles Tagged: Hawkeye field hockey

Gary Barta did not need to make any hires for football, women’s basketball, men’s wrestling or women’s gymnastics in his 17 years at Iowa.

Iowa field hockey is preparing to go “back to the drawing board” after coming up just short of a trip to the NCAA semifinals. It would have been the third trip in the last two years.

Scott Dochterman of The Athletic joins the Hawk Off The Press podcast to discuss Big Ten football scheduling news, what Iowa's future schedules might look like and where the Hawkeyes’ offense goes from here.

Iowa soccer coach Dave DiIanni and Iowa field hockey coach Lisa Cellucci talk about what to expect from their teams this fall on this episode of the Hawk Off The Press podcast.

Adding to a growing slate of updated or new facilities University of Iowa Athletics is pursuing – or has in recent years – is a new field hockey building the department wants to start planning.

Moment No. 3: Iowa’s 1986 field hockey team became the first Iowa women’s team to win an NCAA championship.

Moment No. 4: The University of Iowa, under leadership of then-president Sandy Boyd, elevated 12 women’s teams to intercollegiate status and hired Christine Grant as the women’s athletics director.

From the “front lines” of the fight to keep Title IX’s implementation in sports alive to the focus on women’s athletes’ well-being, Christine Grant left quite the legacy both at Iowa and across the country.

Moment No. 5: For the first time ever, an Iowa women’s team went to a Final Four in 1984.

Moment No. 9: After Judith Davidson helped Iowa field hockey win a national title in the 1980s, Beth Beglin made the Hawkeyes a consistent Final Four team in the 1990s.

Moment No. 20: With “a lot of really positive things brewing,” Iowa filed hockey returned to the Final Four in 2008.

Moment No. 22: For the first time in program history, Iowa field hockey rose to No. 1 in the country. That led to a memorable showdown between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams a few weeks later with Lisa Bluder and others rushing the field at the end.

Moment No. 23: After a 2019 season that left Hawkeyes “so frustrated,” Iowa field hockey found redemption in Chapel Hill, N.C., almost 18 months later.

Dan Schleisman decided to celebrate his 50th year as a University of Iowa graduate by attending 2021-22 Hawkeyes sporting events in Iowa City. All of them.

Moment No. 26: The Iowa City Community School District names its North Liberty elementary school after Title IX pioneer and former Iowa women’s athletics director Christine Grant.