Spencer Lee’s mother, Cathy, is a native of France. His Olympic debut will be in the country many of his maternal relatives still live. He will get to wrestle in front of his maternal grandmother for the first time when he opens against China’s Wanhao Zou Thursday in Paris.
Center Luka Garza is the University of Iowa’s all-time leading scorer. It’s been fits and starts in his three-year professional basketball career thus far, but a two-year guaranteed NBA contract he signed last month with the Minnesota Timberwolves provides some security and a reason to continue to work to improve.
Starting in 2025, college football teams will only be able to have 105 players on their rosters. Here’s how that change could affect the Hawkeyes.
After his final college season and a brief showing at the 2023 U.S. Open, Lee took a break from wrestling and traveled to Japan. He visited Tokyo and other places in the country, attempting to get the sport off his mind. He came back determined to compete and will contend for an Olympic gold, starting Thursday.
Former Hawkeye standout Brittany Brown earned the bronze medal in the 200-meter dash at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Wrestling began Monday but Spencer Lee will compete Thursday at 125.5 pounds (57 kilograms) in men’s freestyle at the Olympic Games in Paris. Lee is the 20th Hawkeye wrestler to wrestle in the Olympics.
An 11-time All-American at Iowa, she won her semifinal heat Monday and will race in the finals Tuesday in Paris
Five other Big Ten teams are ranked, but Hawkeyes face Ohio State and avoid the other four.
Iowa football will begin the 2024 season as the No. 25 team in the country in the preseason coaches poll. The preseason AP Poll will be released next Monday.
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Here’s your 8th look at how baseball players from the Gazette area and University of Iowa are doing in the major leagues and affiliated minor leagues.
A.J. Edds, 36, is “going to be a commissioner of a league,” Minnesota Coach P.J. Fleck believes.
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