New UNI AD Megan Franklin’s description of what she’s calling the “legacy era” included typical pillars of athletic department leadership — student-athlete wellness, graduation, positioning coaches to succeed and community engagement and service — but it also included less common priorities such as teaching student-athletes philanthropy and working with administrative staff on their passions and professional development.
After having an unprecedented seven players leave via the transfer portal after this past season, UNI men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson enters his 19th season recruiting like never before between the months of March and May.
Dubuque Wahlert graduate Cael Schmitt started four seasons at point guard for Coe College, helping the Kohawks reach back-to-back NCAA Division III national basketball tournaments. He entered the transfer portal for his graduate season and has committed to Northern Iowa as a rare kid going from D-III to Division I.
The University of Northern Iowa’s five-month search for its next Director of Athletics ended Monday afternoon when President Mark Nook announced the hiring of Megan Franklin. Franklin arrives at UNI after 12 years at Drake as Senior Associate Athletics Director for Strategic Initiatives and External Operations.
The transfer portal, and the player movement phenomenon created by it, finally made its presence felt in the UNI men’s basketball program this spring. Ben Jacobson’s team had an unprecedented seven players enter the portal since the end of the 2023-24 season.
Noah Shannon is among the players from the state of Iowa to have a relatively favorable landing spot as an undrafted free agent.
“Teams” are loose affiliations of players who are here today, gone tomorrow in college sports. Or even before tomorrow gets here.
Four Iowa prospects, one Iowa State prospect and one Northern Iowa prospect heard their names called during the 2024 NFL Draft.
Northern Iowa defensive lineman Khristian Boyd was the No. 199 overall pick in the sixth round of the 2024 NFL Draft on Saturday.
Iowa’s Cooper DeJean is a projected first-round pick, and Iowa State’s T.J. Tampa is a projected second-rounder. After that, there is little consensus about prospects from Iowa, Iowa State and UNI.
More function than flash was present from Northern Iowa’s new “air raid” offense at Friday night’s annual spring game.
It sounds like Northern Iowa football fans will be treated to something closely resembling an actual game Friday night at the UNI-Dome. For the first time since the 2018 spring game, the Panthers will have officials overseeing their intrasquad scrimmage.
A former quarterback at Washington State and in the NFL, he said he has ‘really good stuff’ to work with in Cedar Falls in first year as an offensive coordinator
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