Articles Tagged: Hawkeye volleyball

Photos from the Iowa volleyball team’s 4-set loss to Purdue at Xtream Arena.

Six-foot-7 Delaney McSweeney is one of nine new faces for the Iowa volleyball team in 2022. Jim Barnes is the newest coach to take a crack at Big Ten relevance.

The Iowa volleyball team hosted its annual media day at Xtream Arena.

As The Gazette counts down the top 50 moments in Iowa women’s athletics history ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX, No. 43 is Barb (Willis) Randall becoming the first Iowa volleyball alumna to compete on the U.S. national team in 1990.

As The Gazette counts down the top 50 moments in Iowa women’s athletics history ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX, No. 48 is then-Iowa volleyball assistant coach Patty Dowdell’s multiple hall-of-fame-inductions in 1994.

New Iowa volleyball head coach Jim Barnes’ contract will start at $210,000 per year with academic and athletic incentives.

New head coach Jim Barnes is confident he can turn Iowa volleyball into a consistent Top 25 program. The athletics department is giving him a seven-year contract to do just that.

Jim Barnes, who has been a head coach for 24 years at four different programs, will take over the Iowa volleyball program.

Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta indicated volleyball coach Vicki Brown’s mid-season firing was for a lackluster win-loss record. A program review that preceded the decision involved human resources and faculty reps meeting with players and staff individually.

Iowa terminated Vicki Brown without cause Thursday, less than three years after she was named head coach