Jeff Linder

Prep track & field: Blue Standard qualifiers for the Drake Relays, through March 31.

Track and field: Mount Vernon girls, Denver boys are team champions at the Benton Early Bird meet.

Women’s basketball: Aaliyah Guyton will enter the transfer portal after one year at Iowa.

Boys’ track and field: Clear Creek Amana believes it has ‘all the pieces’ for a run at the Class 3A state championship. Ten state placewinners are back, led by long jump champ Aren Schlemme.

Top area teams and individuals to watch for the 2025 boys’ high school track and field season.

Girls’ track and field: Linn-Mar’s Abby Mecklenburg became the first Iowa girl to hit 20 feet in the long jump (unofficially) earlier this spring. The reigning Class 4A state champion pursues Drake and state-meet records, plus the all-time Iowa best.

Top area teams and individuals to watch for the 2025 girls’ high school track and field season.

Girls’ basketball: P.J. Sweeney, who led Clear Creek Amana to the Class 4A state championship in 2024, has announced his resignation.

Hawkeyes finished 23-11 after a second-round NCAA loss to Oklahoma in Year 1 of the Jan Jensen coaching era.

NCAA women’s basketball: Intentional-foul call on Hannah Stuelke leads to an Oklahoma five-point possession. The Sooners went on to rout Iowa, 96-62, in a second-round game.

Women’s basketball: Oklahoma torches Iowa on the glass, advances to the Sweet 16, 96-62. Sooners rule the glass by a 64-33 margin, snagging 24 offensive boards.

The sixth-seeded Hawkeyes will face third-seeded Oklahoma — coached by Iowa alum and Lisa Bluder era player Jennie Baranczyk — on Monday in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Follow The Gazette’s live blog below for score updates, highlights and analysis.

NCAA women’s basketball: Sweet 16 is at stake when Iowa meets Oklahoma on Monday, and guarding the Sooners, according to Coach Jan Jensen, is a ‘10’ in degree of difficulty.

NCAA women’s basketball: As an assistant coach and a hard-nosed player, Jan Jensen and Jennie (Lillis) Baranczyk teamed to lift the Hawkeyes in the early years of the Lisa Bluder era.

What to know about Monday’s NCAA women’s basketball game between Iowa and Oklahoma. Game time, TV schedule, game notes.