Northern Iowa offensive coordinator Luke Falk — who had yet to coach his first season with the Panthers — has departed the program due to a family health matter.
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Northern Iowa offensive coordinator Luke Falk — who had yet to coach his first season with the Panthers — has departed the program due to a family health matter.
After three seasons of waiting, Northern Iowa quarterback Aidan Dunne is making sure he’s as prepared as possible for the competition that awaits him this August.
After seven departures from last season’s roster via the transfer portal, Ben Jacobson and his assistants worked tirelessly this spring to sign four transfers and a walk-on to add to their duo of 2024 high school signees. That amount of roster turnover has led to summer workouts looking much different from a year ago.
Three busy weeks into her new job as Northern Iowa’s athletics director, Megan Franklin may not have all the detailed answers just yet that the most fervent Panthers fans are looking for.
Ben Kueter was a senior at Iowa City High when he won a U20 World Championship. The Hawkeyes’ heavyweight, who plays football, earned a shot at another world gold after claiming the age-level national title.
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.
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