Category: Sports

UNI offense struggles against reigning Horizon League champions on the road. Panthers host Western Illinois next Sunday in home opener.

Balistreri scores the equalizer in 67th minute as Panthers draw in first match under Coach Place Thomas.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The 13th ranked University of Iowa women’s soccer team won its season opener, 3-2, over sixth ranked Arkansas. The win marked Arkansas’ first loss at home since 2021.

AMES – Iowa State and Portland State played to a 2-2 draw Thursday evening at the Cyclone Soccer Complex in each team’s 2025 season opener.

CEDAR FALLS – University of Northern Iowa Director of Athletics Megan Franklin on Monday announced an extension for head men’s basketball coach Ben Jacobson.

As the program prepares for its 125th anniversary season in 2025-26, the five-year rolling contract will keep the five-time Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Coach of the Year in Cedar Falls for the long term future.

Iowa State’s inclusion pushes its rankings streak to 16 consecutive coaches’ polls, the Conference’s longest active streak.

AMES – Iowa State quarterback Rocco Becht has been named to the 2025 Maxwell Award watch list. The Maxwell Award has been presented annually to the College Player of the Year since 1937 and is named in honor of Robert “Tiny” Maxwell who was a former standout at Swarthmore College and a renowned sportswriter and football official.

CEDAR FALLS — Main Street Madness is back – and bigger than ever. The fourth annual edition of the fan-favorite event will return to downtown Cedar Falls on Thursday, September 25, with an exciting new feature: wrestling.

AMES – Iowa State redshirt sophomore kicker Kyle Konrardy has been named to the watch list for the 2025 Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award.

Heading into the 2025 season, the Panthers are predicted to finish eighth in the conference race after finishing the 2024 season in 10th place. Defending FCS National Champions North Dakota State are favored to win the MVFC.

FORT WORTH, TEXAS – Colorado’s Travis Hunter and Texas Tech’s NiJaree Canady have been named the 2024-25 Big 12 Male and Female Athletes of the Year, respectively. Both are the first honorees from their universities to receive the prestigious award.

Three-time NCAA qualifier and 2025 All-American joins Doug Schwab’s staff following stellar Panther career.

AMES – Iowa State head football coach Matt Campbell was one of 26 coaches named to the 2025 Dodd Trophy preseason watch list. The annual award honors the FBS head football coach whose program represents the highest ideals on and off the field.

IRVING, TEXAS – The Big 12 Conference has announced its 2025 Preseason All-Big 12 Football Team as voted on by media members who cover the league. Arizona State, the defending Conference champion, led all schools with five players on the team.

Panthers to induct six individuals and the 1975 football team to the Hall of Fame in late August.

AMES – Cyclone softball coach Jamie Pinkerton announced the signing of Michigan State transfer Ava Mullen Thursday morning. Mullen, a right-handed pitcher who hails from New Buffalo, Michigan, joins Iowa State after…

AMES – Former Iowa State Cyclones Keshon Gilbert (Washington Wizards) and Curtis Jones (Denver Nuggets) have signed NBA contracts as undrafted free agents.

Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) has set upon college campuses across America, so that some “amateur” athletes can score tidy paydays, and Iowa State has joined the fray with a new cast of employees dedicated to doling out the cash.

AMES – Iowa State wrestling officially added a pair of 2025 All-American transfers, Stevo Poulin and Vinny Zerban, to the program, head coach Kevin Dresser announced Wednesday. Both Poulin and Zerban join the Cyclones from Northern Colorado and have one year of eligibility remaining.

AMES – Jayden Higgins and Jaylin Noel were arguably the nation’s best wide receiving duo. Then they were drafted by the same team, the Houston Texans, in the 2025 NFL Draft. On Wednesday, they became the first teammates to share the Gary Thompson Iowa State Male Athlete of the Year award.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — University of Iowa forward Hannah Stuelke was selected to join the 2025 USA Basketball Women’s Americup roster on Thursday. USA Basketball announced the roster following three days of trials in at the U.S. Olympic Training Center.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Iowa State women’s basketball center Audi Crooks has been named to the 12-person USA Basketball 2025 Women’s AmeriCup team following three days of trials. The team will compete at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup from June 28-July 6 in Santiago, Chile.

NEWARK, New Jersey – David Carr earned his spot on Team USA with two victories over Mitchell Mesenbrink Saturday afternoon at Final X. Carr won the best-of-three series over Mesenbrink, avenging a loss to the Nittany Lion in the US Open finals in April, to punch his ticket to the 2025 World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia where he will represent the United States at 74 kg.

CEDAR FALLS – Athletes from 118 teams across Iowa converged on the Iowa State Trapshooting Homegrounds, north of Cedar Falls, from June 2-8, for the 2025 Scholastic Clay Target Program State Trap…

IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa Athletics Department plans to continue renovating Duane Banks Field, the home of the University of Iowa baseball team, pending approval by Iowa’s Board of Regents. The second phase of a donor-funded project to improve the game-day experience would consist of reconstructing the press box, adding new seating, and other improvements, including an ADA-compliant restroom and ramp to connect the new clubhouse and the first base line grandstand.

CEDAR FALLS – The UNI men’s basketball team on Wednesday announced the addition of Levi Valdo to the 2025-26 roster. A six-foot, four-inch, 215 pound guard originally hailing from Cameroon, Valdo played this previous season with Foppiani Fulgor Fidenza in Serie B Italy.

Seth Tuttle, born on September 5, 1992, in Mason City, Iowa, is a former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Northern Iowa Panthers. After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA Draft, Tuttle joined the Miami Heat for the NBA Summer League.

IOWA CITY – In what has become an Hawkeye tradition, the son of the head coach shall join the team. Peyton McCollum will be joining the University of Iowa men’s basketball program this fall, it was announced Friday by his father, head coach Ben McCollum.

AMES – The Iowa State football program and head coach Matt Campbell have announced the addition of four transfers, two from the FBS Power-4 level and a pair from the junior college ranks, to the roster for the 2025 season.

AMES – Iowa State has announced its men’s basketball non-conference schedule for the 2025-26 season.  The schedule features eight regular season home games and one exhibition at Hilton Coliseum.

NIACC sophomore Bennett Berger was selected to the NJCAA Division II PING all-region North golf team.