Jeff Linder

Moustafa Tiea opened the running portion of the Forwald-Coleman Relays with a record-setting relay anchor, and he closed it with an improbable comeback in the finale. He did plenty in between, too.

Instrumental in the state’s rapid growth of girls’ high school wrestling, Erin Gerlich was announced Thursday as the next executive director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

Lucy Olsen, a three-year player at Villanova and 2024 Associated Press honorable-mention All-American, has committed to play her final women’s basketball season at the University of Iowa, The Gazette has learned.

Track and field: Area Super Ten for April 17, 2024. Solon girls, Iowa City West boys remain at No. 1.

Prep track and field: Drake Relays 2024 form chart, as of April 17.

Kate Martin was selected by the Las Vegas Aces with the 18th overall pick in the second round of the WNBA Draft on Monday, far earlier than projected.

Women’s basketball: Iowa’s incomparable ‘22,’ Caitlin Clark is the No. 1 selection in the WNBA Draft. She heads to Indiana with a mission to reheat the Fever.

As expected, Caitlin Clark was the Indiana Fever’s selection as the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft on Monday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Prep track and field: Drake Relays 2024 form chart, as of April 15.

Women’s basketball: Indiana Fever expected to snag Caitlin Clark with WNBA Draft No. 1 pick.

Prep track and field: Williamsburg’s Derek Weisskopf competes in three field events, and wins two, at Thursday’s Bobcat Invitational.

Track and field: Area Super Ten for April 10, 2024. Solon girls, Iowa City West boys open at No. 1.

After the second of two consecutive NCAA runner-up finishes, Iowa loses nearly 65 percent of its scoring and will turn to Sydney Affolter and Hannah Stuelke — plus a blue-chip recruiting class — to keep things rolling.

NCAA women’s basketball: Iowa’s Caitlin Clark attracted huge crowds, put up huge numbers and lifted the Hawkeyes higher than anyone could have imagined.

NCAA women’s basketball: South Carolina proves its No. 1 ranking and upholds its unbeaten record, topping No. 2 Iowa, 87-75, in the championship game.