Normally, graduating 13 seniors is a large enough challenge for any team. However, with a short spring season and strange summer and fall schedules, new leaders on the Iowa soccer team are facing plenty...
Iowa women’s soccer coach Dave DiIanni has overseen the program’s steady ascent in recent years, culminating in a historic season in 2019. The team set numerous records and clinched a berth in...
Of all the struggles brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the disruption of regular team training regimens may be the hardest of all challenges student-athletes have faced.
The Iowa women’s soccer...
Getting recruited to come play soccer at the University of Iowa was simple for junior Sara Wheaton. The same was true for fellow third-year Hailey Rydberg.
With COVID-19 halting recruiting, the...
Isaac Goffin, Assistant Sports Editor
• August 23, 2020
Typically, freshmen on the Iowa soccer team would have experienced their first college game by now.
Due to the Big Ten’s postponement of fall sports amid concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic, however,...
Isaac Goffin, Assistant Sports Editor
• August 11, 2020
The Big Ten Conference announced on Tuesday that it is postponing all fall sports for the 2020 season due to concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The decision includes regular-season competitions...
Along with its new 2020 football schedule, the Big Ten announced the conference's COVID-19 medical protocols Wednesday morning.
The protocols were jointly authored by the Big Ten Task Force for...
According to a letter that was reportedly sent to Big Ten athletic directors Thursday by Commissioner Kevin Warren and Dr. Chris Kratochvil, the chair of the conference's Task Force for Emerging Infectious...
Replacing a four-year starter is not easy, but redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Monica Wilhelm is ready to take that leap and replace Claire Graves.
The Antioch, Illinois, native said that the Iowa...
The NCAA Division I Council Coordination Committee announced Monday that it has granted a blanket waiver that reduces the current legislated minimum number of contests that teams in fall sports other...
While fall sports remain uncertain as concerns with COVID-19 continue, many University of Iowa coaches have come forward on social media to promote wearing a face covering to help prevent the spread...
Before the 2013 Iowa soccer season started, head coach Ron Rainey had his players go through “The Program.”
Run by a military member, it helped the Hawkeyes bond early in the season.
That...
