Athletics

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Hankins has Iowa golf at new heights

Wednesday, September 11, 2013
When Mark Hankins was hired as the head men’s golf coach at the University of Iowa in 2008, the program was ranked 155th in the nation. It didn’t take Hankins long to elevate the program into a national presence.

Adult tennis clinics start this month

Monday, September 9, 2013
University of Iowa Recreational Services offers beginner and intermediate adult tennis clinics in September and October.

UI offers bootcamp classes

Friday, September 6, 2013
University of Iowa Recreational Services is offering Bootcamp, a fitness class that combines functional sports training exercises, metabolic conditioning, and partner and group training exercises.
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Ankeny teen is Kid Captain when Hawkeyes host Missouri State

Friday, September 6, 2013
Michaela Inman had just made a competitive gymnastics team. She was spending more time in the gym and running frequently. So when she began complaining of pain in her right ankle in May 2011, Michaela’s parents and local pediatrician thought it was nothing more than a sprain.
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Focus is on the world

Thursday, September 5, 2013
Nearly seven months after the International Olympic Committee delivered a once perceived death sentence, wrestling is now just four days away from learning its fate in the Olympic Games.
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Washington, Iowa, boy is Kid Captain for Hawkeye season opener

Friday, August 30, 2013
Carson Thomas, 14, kicks off the fifth year of the Kid Captain program, a collaboration between UI Children's Hospital and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Johnson County I-Club Breakfast signals football is near

Friday, August 30, 2013
The signs that football season is inching closer and closer in Iowa City are appearing everywhere. One staple for die-hard University of Iowa football fans is the first Johnson County I-Club breakfast, held every Friday morning before home games at the Sheraton hotel.
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UI offers Hawkeye football fans tips, guidelines ahead of season start

Wednesday, August 28, 2013
With the 2013 football season approaching, Iowa Now would like to remind fans about important policies and procedures, parking and traffic updates, safety guidelines, and information regarding access to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
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Guardian of history

Fifty years ago, George Raveling was a 26-year-old former college basketball star who was not only one of a quarter-million people to witness Martin Luther King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech—as a last—minute volunteer, he had a coveted spot near the podium.

Rudock named starting quarterback for season-opener

Friday, August 23, 2013
When the University of Iowa football team takes the field for the first time this season on Aug. 31 against Northern Illinois, sophomore Jake Rudock will be under center for the Hawkeyes.

Kids Day scores big with little fans

Monday, August 19, 2013
Hawkeye football fans young and old spent a lovely late summer afternoon watching the 2013 squad run through practice at the annual Kids Day at Kinnick on Saturday, Aug. 17.
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Hawkeyes at the Iowa State Fair

Monday, August 12, 2013
Everyone knows Iowa is the Hawkeye State. That could not be more noticeable than at the Iowa State Fair, where Hawkeye sightings are almost as common as food on a stick and large farm animals.