Skip to Main Content
The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Floor hockey adds variety to IC camps

TAYLOR AXELSON June 19, 2012

It's not basketball, football or soccer. It's not a usual summer-camp sport. Seven boys between the ages of 6 and 12 are participating in a camp this week that is based on a game that most people only...

Iowa City High pitcher leads young team

TOM GOLDHAMMER June 19, 2012

City High junior Sam Mrstik's all-around performance paved the way for an 8-5 Little Hawk victory over Cedar Rapids Xavier on Monday. A slight yet consistent breeze aided two rare Mercer Park home runs,...

Rydze, Freeman make Olympic diving finals

DI STAFF June 18, 2012

Two former Hawkeyes, Veronica Rydze and Deidre Freeman, are one step closer to London after advancing past the preliminaries and semifinals of the Olympic diving trials. The pair traveled to Weyerhaeuser...

Dwight continues football camp

BEN SCHUFF June 18, 2012

Tim Dwight hopes to teach kids at his football camp how to run the correct route — both on the football field and in life. "I'm more than just a football guy," he said. "I want to teach...

Young skateboarder learns in IC

MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD June 18, 2012

Max Salemink was 3 when he saw a skateboard for the first time. He sat in his grandparents' lawn and stared at the object on the sidewalk. Six years later, he got his first skateboard of his own — just...

Why Iowa’s players run into drug trouble

MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD June 18, 2012

Derrell Johnson-Koulianos was released from a football team. Again. Big surprise. DJK had planned on playing for the Montréal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League, but the team announced in...

Men’s softball strikes competitive edge

CARLOS SOSA June 15, 2012

The Dirt Ball Bags and Team Christensen competed for that ever so valuable victory on Thursday. Team Christensen led, 14-13, with five minutes left at the Hawkeye Softball Complex. The high stakes gave...

Injuries influence Game Time League draft

MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD June 15, 2012

Iowa's sophomore-to-be Sam Logic was the Game Time League's first draft pick on Thursday night, selected by head coach Brendan Unkrich. But that was a no-brainer. Morgan Johnson was the only other...

Logic, Dolittle, Johnson, Nesbitt go first

MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD June 15, 2012

No. 1 — Sam Logic Logic, a sophomore-to-be at Iowa, finished out her freshman year with an average of 9.4 points per game and a .418 field goal percentage. Logic started in all 30 games on the season,...

Starting skateboarding young

MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD June 14, 2012

Six-year-old Cristian Filerio's uncle gave him a skateboard, which made mother Maria Cossio nervous, but she let him try it because he was so enthusiastic about it. Cristian didn't know how to skateboard...

Players drafted for Prime Time League

TOM CLOS June 14, 2012

Incoming Iowa transfer Jarrod Uthoff was selected as the top overall pick in the 2012 Prime Time League draft on Wednesday. The Wisconsin redshirt freshman went first in a draft, in which eight of the...

Taking a closer look at Prime Time’s first round picks

MOLLY IRENE OLMSTEAD June 14, 2012

No. 1 — Jarrod Uthoff Uthoff is new to the Hawkeye crowd. The 2011 Cedar Rapids Jefferson graduate signed with Wisconsin, but after redshirting for the Badgers in 2012, he announced that he's decided...