Women’s swimmers amend Title IX complaint
Austin Hanson, Sports Editor
October 19, 2020
After their initial Title IX complaint was filed on Sept. 25, Iowa swimmers' Sage Ohlensehlen, Christian Kaufman, Alexa Puccini, and Kelsey Drake filed an amended version of the same complaint Oct. 16. The amendment expands the swimmers' initial Sept. 25 demands that called for the reinstatement of th...
Save Iowa Sports group proposes moving four cut Hawkeye sports out of UI athletics department
Robert Read, Pregame Editor
October 11, 2020
The Save Iowa Sports group is making an ongoing effort to reverse the University of Iowa's decision to cut four Hawkeye sports after the 2020-21 academic year. To do that, it is proposing a new sustainable model outside of the UI athletics department. UI President Bruce Harreld and Athletic Direc...
Current, former Hawkeyes reflect on their experience in the men’s swimming program
Chloe Peterson, Sports Reporter
October 4, 2020
Junior freestyle/breaststroke swimmer Andrew Fierke is a walk-on recruit with the Iowa swim team. A native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, he is three hours away from home. Fierke said he had an interesting recruitment process to Iowa because the program didn’t notice him until his senior year of high schoo...
Local high school coaches reflect on losing UI’s swimming and diving program
Chloe Peterson, Sports Reporter
September 28, 2020
The loss of the Iowa men’s swimming and diving program marks the end of all such Division I programs in the state. Iowa State discontinued its men’s program in 2001 due to budget constraints, and the University of Northern Iowa cut its men’s and women’s programs in 2002 for the same reaso...
Title IX complaint filed by Iowa women’s swim and dive student-athletes
Austin Hanson, Sports Editor
September 25, 2020
Christina Kaufman, Sage Ohlensehlen, Alexa Puccini, and Kelsey Drake have filed a Title IX complaint regarding the University of Iowa's decision to discontinue its women's swimming and diving program at the end of the 2020-21 academic year. The complaint was submitted Friday morning by attorney Jared...
UI Athletics Department projects $40-60 million deficit despite football’s return, four cut sports remain eliminated
Robert Read, Pregame Editor
September 23, 2020
University of Iowa Athletic Director Gary Barta told the state Board of Regents in a meeting on Wednesday that the UI athletic department’s deficit is projected to be between $40-60 million, rather than the $74.7 million figure originally proposed. The reduction to the projected deficit comes after the Big Ten Council of Presidents and Chancellors unanimously voted to start the conference’s football season on...
Student-athletes comment on program cuts, history of sports at Iowa
Austin Hanson, Sports Editor
September 22, 2020
Since University of Iowa Athletics Director Gary Barta and President Bruce Harreld announced that men’s tennis, men’s gymnastics, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving would all be discontinued at Iowa at the end of the 2020-21 academic year, debate has raged on with regard to the valid...
Save Iowa Sports fundraising campaign hits $1.65 million in pledges
Austin Hanson, Sports Editor
September 22, 2020
In just under 24 hours, $1.65 million has been pledged to the Save Iowa Sports group. The group launched the pledge-based fundraising campaign Monday afternoon as part of a larger effort to revive Hawkeye men's and women's swim and dive, men's tennis, and men's gymnastics – all of which will be di...
Pledge campaign to save four discontinued Hawkeye sports started
Austin Hanson, Sports Editor
September 21, 2020
A pledge-based fundraising campaign to support the four sports that will be discontinued at Iowa at the end of the 2020-21 academic year officially launched online Monday afternoon. The pledge form can be found at saveiowasports.com. Above the pledge form is a statement urging those that have ...
Efforts to revive Iowa swim and dive continue
Austin Hanson, Sports Editor
September 20, 2020
The last month has certainly been challenging for all that are connected to Iowa swim and dive. UI Athletics Director Gary Barta and President Bruce Harreld announced on Aug. 21 that four sports programs would be discontinued at the end of the 2020-21 academic year to help make up for financial losse...
Despite Big Ten football returning this fall, Iowa’s sports cuts remain final
Robert Read, Pregame Editor
September 17, 2020
Football will be played in the Big Ten this fall, but the University of Iowa's decision to discontinue four sports programs at the end of the 2020-21 academic year remains final, Athletic Director Gary Barta said in a video conference Thursday. Barta and UI President Bruce Harreld announced i...
Iowa leaves behind state-of-the-art swimming pool
Chloe Peterson, Sports Reporter
September 14, 2020
Iowa athletics announced on Aug. 21 that both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs would be discontinued at the end of the 2020-21 season. The cut came after Iowa announced an anticipated $100 million loss in revenue and $60-75 million budget deficit in the coming fiscal year. Iowa Athletics also cut men’s gymnas...