CEDAR RAPIDS — It might not be the best softball team Bob Timmons has coached, though it’s close. It is, without a doubt, the most surprising. “We had a lot of holes to fill,” said Timmons, in his 16th season at Coe College. “To be honest, when we went to Florida at the beginning of [...]
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Greg Stokes has heard the rumors about his daughter. Wednesday, he shot them down. “Kiah is not looking to go anywhere else,” Stokes said. “She wants to succeed at UConn.” A 2011 graduate at Linn-Mar High School — she was the Gazette Female Athlete of the Year that year — Kiah Stokes is a member [...]
continue »IOWA CITY – The Iowa Hawkeyes gathered at Lisa Bluder’s house for a team meal Saturday night. Bluder wasn’t cooking, but said that chicken and lasagna would be on the menu. The Hawkeyes are hopeful that it wasn’t their Last Supper as a team. “I hope we come out and win this first one so we [...]
continue »IOWA CITY – Notre Dame has the best point guard in the country. Tennessee-Martin has an uncommon scoring tandem. The difference, in the eyes of UTM coach Kevin McMillan, lies in the paint. “They have an inside game and we don’t,” McMillan said as the 16th-seeded Skyhawks (19-14) prepared to meet top-seeded, No. 2-ranked Notre Dame [...]
continue »IOWA CITY – When the NCAA brackets were announced and Notre Dame’s destination was revealed, it was met largely with a collective shrug from the Fighting Irish. Except from Markisha Wright. “Everybody looked up at the screen and was like, ‘Eh, OK,’ ” said Wright, a sophomore for the second-ranked Irish and a native of Des [...]
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Thumbnails on the teams participating in the Iowa City subregional for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament: TENNESSEE-MARTIN (19-14) Norfolk Region seed: 16th Final AP ranking: Unranked Nickname: Skyhawks How it qualified: Earned an automatic berth by winning the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. Brings an eight-game win streak to Iowa City. Coach: Kevin McMillan (4th year at [...]
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IOWA CITY – The way Katie Meier sees it, the Miami Hurricanes take a double-digit deficit to Carver-Hawkeye Arena this weekend. “Unfortunately, we have to have the mentality of playing on someone’s home court,” the Hurricanes’ head coach said to the Miami Herald after the NCAA women’s basketball tournament pairings were released Monday night. “That [...]
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IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa coaching staff began advance scouting on a cluster of about eight teams last week, in preparation for the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. “Miami wasn’t one of them,” head coach Lisa Bluder said. The Hawkeyes (20-12) earned a No. 9 seed and will face the eighth-seeded Hurricanes (21-10) in [...]
continue »IOWA CITY — Lisa Bluder isn’t sweating. “I feel good about our chances (of making the NCAA tournament), I really do,” the University of Iowa women’s basketball coach said Thursday. The NCAA field of 64 teams will be announced Monday (6 p.m., ESPN), and Bluder is confident that her team will be called for the [...]
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IOWA CITY — Jaime Printy surprised her teammates, her family and herself during a Senior Night postgame speech. No tears. “I’m a huge crier,” she said. “And I’m sure I will be very emotional when the season is over. “But that night, I wasn’t saying good bye. Not yet.” The Iowa Hawkeyes expect to make [...]
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