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Iowa Hawkeyes

The Iowa Hawkeyes are the athletic teams that represent the University of Iowa, located in Iowa City, Iowa. The Hawkeyes have varsity teams in 20 sports, 7 for men and 13 for women; The teams participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and are members of the Big Ten Conference. Currently, the school's interim athletic director is Beth Goetz.

Iowa Hawkeyes
UniversityUniversity of Iowa
ConferenceBig Ten
NCAADivision I (FBS)
Athletic directorBeth Goetz (interim)
LocationIowa City, Iowa
Varsity teams20 (7 men's, 13 women's)
Football stadiumKinnick Stadium
ArenaCarver Hawkeye Arena
Baseball stadiumDuane Banks Field
Wrestling arenaCarver Hawkeye Arena
Other venuesBeckwith Boathouse
Francis X. Cretzmeyer Track
Iowa Field House
Xtream Arena powered by Mediacom
MascotHerky the Hawk
NicknameHawkeyes
Fight song"Iowa Fight Song"
"On Iowa!"
"Roll Along Iowa"
"Iowa Victory Polka"
ColorsBlack and gold[1]
   
Websitehawkeyesports.com
Big Ten logo in Iowa's colors
Iowa's official wordmark logo

Historically, Iowa has been very successful in wrestling, with 37 team Big Ten championships and 24 team national championships. The Hawkeyes have also won national championships in five other sports: men's gymnastics, football, field hockey, rifle and women's track and field.[2][3][4][5][6] In basketball, Iowa has reached the NCAA Final Four on five occasions. The men's team has done this three times, most recently in 1980, while the women's team has done it twice, in 1993 and 2023. The baseball team has reached the College World Series once, in 1972. Iowa's softball team has played in the Women's College World Series on four occasions, most recently in 2001.

Football home games are played at Kinnick Stadium,[7] while basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, and wrestling events are held at Carver–Hawkeye Arena.[8] The school's baseball team plays at Duane Banks Field and the softball team plays at Bob Pearl Softball Field.

Sports sponsored edit

Men's sports Women's sports
Baseball Basketball
Basketball Cross country
Cross country Field hockey
Football Golf
Golf Gymnastics
Track & field Rowing
Wrestling Soccer
Softball
Swimming & diving
Tennis
Track & field
Volleyball
Wrestling
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.
* – Dropping after 2020-21 academic year.

The University of Iowa currently fields 20 varsity teams, competing in the Big Ten Conference. Three men's teams - gymnastics, swimming and diving, and tennis - were eliminated after the 2020–21 academic year to help address a projected $60–75 million deficit related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10]

Men's sports edit

Baseball edit

Iowa began playing baseball in 1890, when the Hawkeyes went a combined 2–1 (two wins and one loss) against two teams, Cornell and Vinton. To date, Iowa has won eight Big Ten titles, and in 1972 Iowa earned its way to the CWS at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha with a 13–3 Big Ten record, which is still the best Big Ten winning percentage in Iowa baseball history. That record included another school record that still stands, an 11-game Big Ten winning streak. It was Iowa's first outright Big Ten baseball title since 1939, and the last one since, although the Hawkeyes did earn ties for the conference championship in 1974 and 1990.

But that 1972 Iowa team fought its way to Omaha the hard way, losing its first game in the regional tournament, then winning doubleheaders on consecutive days on the campus of Bowling Green University in Ohio. Lose one of those four games, and Iowa goes home. In 1972, only conference champions competed for the eight World Series berths.

The Hawkeyes opened the 1972 CWS against #1-ranked Arizona State, who entered the game with an incredible record of 60 wins and only 4 losses. But Iowa, a huge underdog, outhit the Sun Devils 8–3 only to lose, 2–1. Iowa had the tying run thrown out at the plate in the 9th inning, and left another runner at third as the final out was made. Iowa had also threatened in the 7th with a lead-off double, but could not score. The Hawkeyes then played in the losers' bracket the next day against Temple. But after taking a 6–2 lead into the sixth inning, the Hawkeyes ended up being knocked out of the Series with a 12–8 loss. Arizona State lost the championship game that year to Southern Cal, while Temple finished 3rd. The Hawkeyes finished ranked No. 9 in the nation, still the highest national ranking in the history of Iowa Hawkeye baseball. Future Major Leaguer Jim Sundberg, catcher from Galesburg, Ill., was one of the team leaders. The Hawkeyes featured several Iowans in the starting lineup, including Tom Hurn (1B – Cedar Rapids), Mike Kielkopf (2B-Ottumwa), Brad Trickey (3B-Cedar Rapids), along with the top two starting pitchers, Mark Tschopp (Cedar Rapids) and Bill Heckroth (Dysart).[11] Iowa plays its home games at Duane Banks Field, whose namesake is the winningest baseball coach in school history.[12] Rick Heller replaced Jack Dahm as the Hawkeyes' head baseball coach in 2013.[13] In his first season in Iowa City, Heller helped guide the Hawkeyes to a 9–1 start—the program's best start since 1940—a Big Ten tournament berth and conference tournament win. Iowa finished the year with a 30–23 record for just the third 30-win season since 1993. The 30 victories are the most by a first-year coach in Iowa history.[13]

Basketball edit

 
The Hawkeyes celebrate a win in 2021

Men's basketball as a varsity sport at the University of Iowa began in 1902,[14] but it was on January 18, 1896, that Iowa played the University of Chicago in the first five-on-five college basketball game. The Maroons won that game, 15–12.[15] Six years later, men's basketball became a sanctioned varsity sport under head coach Ed Rule. Rule coached the Hawkeyes in four non-consecutive seasons until 1908, compiling a 37–15 record.[14]

Iowa began competing in Big Ten games in 1909, and since then the Hawkeyes have won eight regular season Big Ten championships, the last in 1979. Iowa's first Big Ten title came in 1923, under coach Sam Barry. Barry also led the Hawkeyes to their second conference championship in 1926. Following Rollie Williams' 13 seasons, which lasted until 1942, Pops Harrison became coach. Harrison coached at Iowa until 1951, leading the Hawkeyes to their first unshared Big Ten championship in 1945.[14]

Perhaps the most-successful time period in Iowa basketball came under head coach Bucky O'Connor, who coached at Iowa until his death in 1958. Under O'Connor, the Hawkeyes played in two Final Four events, while winning two unshared Big Ten championships.[14][16] Iowa played in the national championship game against San Francisco in 1956, but lost by 12 after taking an early double-digit lead.[17] The Hawkeyes played in a third Final Four in 1980, and have also won the Big Ten tournament thrice since its 1998 inception, in 2001, 2006, and 2022. Iowa's current coach is Fran McCaffery, who coached at Siena College before coming to Iowa in 2010.[18][19] The Hawkeyes have played their home games in Carver–Hawkeye Arena since 1983; the arena can currently hold up to 15,500 people.[8]

Cross country edit

The Hawkeyes' men's cross country team won team Big Ten titles in 1961 and 1966 and have also had nine individual Big Ten champions, most recently with Larry Wieczorek in 1967. Wieczorek's time in the 8,000 meter race still stands as the sixth-quickest time in school history.[20] To date, Deacon Jones is Iowa's lone national champion, having won the award in 1957. Both Jones and Wieczorek were all-Americans for the Hawkeyes, along with Kevin Herd, Stetson Steele, and Ted Wheeler.[21]

Football edit

 
Iowa's defense lines up against Syracuse on September 8, 2007.

Football at the University of Iowa dates back as far as November 27, 1872, when the Iowa Academics played a game against the University of Iowa College of Law. However, football was not officially recognized as a varsity sport until November 16, 1889, when the Hawkeyes played against and lost to Grinnell. The next year, Iowa got its first win against Iowa Wesleyan,[22] and since then, the Hawkeyes have won 11 Big Ten championships and have played in 30 post-season bowl games. The Hawkeyes are 18–16–1 in such games, having most recently won against Kentucky in the 2022 Music City Bowl. Iowa won the 2010 Orange Bowl vs Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 24–14. The Orange Bowl is a BCS bowl game. Iowa's first bowl game was the 1957 Rose Bowl, which ended in a 35–19 win over Oregon State.[23] The Hawkeyes' lone claim to a national championship came after winning the Rose Bowl following the 1958 season, when they were awarded the Grantland Rice trophy by the Football Writers Association of America.[3]

The Hawkeyes' current head coach is Kirk Ferentz. In nineteen seasons under Ferentz, the Hawkeyes have won a BCS bowl, two Big Ten titles and have played in fifteen bowl games. Ferentz is the all time Iowa football wins leader with 151 after surpassing his predecessor, Hayden Fry, during the 2018 football season. Fry, who coached the Hawkeyes for 20 seasons, had 143 wins, three Big Ten titles, and 14 bowl trips in his tenure at Iowa.[24] Fry also led the Hawkeyes to eight-straight bowl games from 1981–1988, the longest such streak in program history.[25] Fry was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.[26] In 2015, the Hawks made it to the Rose Bowl and lost to Stanford.

Since 1929, the Hawkeyes have played their home games in Kinnick Stadium. Renamed in 1972 in honor of Iowa's lone Heisman Trophy winner, Nile Kinnick,[24] the stadium can currently hold up to 70,585 fans.[7] Kinnick won the Heisman Award following the conclusion of the 1939 season, but died on June 2, 1943, in the Gulf of Paria during a World War II training flight. His face can still be seen today, on the coins that officials toss at the beginning of all Big Ten games.[24]

Golf edit

Since Iowa began competing in men's golf, the Hawkeyes have won the Big Ten team title once, in 1992. Brad Klapprott won an individual Big Ten championship that year, becoming only the second Iowa men's golfer to do so. He was preceded only by John Jacobs, who achieved the individual conference championship in 1946. Sean McCarty also added to the 1992 team's accolades in winning the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award. In 1995, McCarty became Iowa's first and only men's golf all-American.[27]

Gymnastics edit

Iowa's men's gymnastics team is credited with winning the first NCAA national championship in school history in 1969. This, in turn, allowed the University of Iowa to become the last of all the Big Ten schools to have won a national championship in an NCAA-sponsored sport.[2] The Hawkeyes have also won seven Big Ten team titles, the last coming in 1998. On the individual level, 12 Hawkeyes have won national championships. Michael Reavis is Iowa's most-recent national champion, having won on vault in 2005.[28]

Swimming and diving edit

Men's swimming became a sanctioned varsity sport at the University of Iowa in 1917, with David Armbruster as the team's coach. Coaching from 1917–1958, Armbruster led the Hawkeyes to one Big Ten championship, in 1936. He was followed by Robert Allen, who coached the Hawkeyes until 1975. Under Allen, Iowa's best finish in the Big Ten was fifth, on two occasions. Glenn Patton was next in the line of coaches, and during his tenure, the Hawkeyes won two Big Ten championships and finished as high as eighth on the national level.[29] Currently, Marc Long is Iowa's men's and women's swimming coach.[30]

On 19 occasions has a men's swimmer at Iowa won an individual national championship. Ray Walters was the Hawkeyes' first national champion, having won the 50 meter freestyle in 1936. Nine of Iowa's national championships in men's swimming, however, are credited to Artur Wojdat, who competed at the collegiate level from 1989–1992. Wojdat was an 18-time all-American, a 10-time Big Ten champion, and a four-time national champion in the 500 yard freestyle event. Wojdat also won the bronze medal in the 400 meter freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.[31] Receiving NCAA Swimmer of the Year in 2010 & 2011 while on the University of Florida swim team, Olympian Conor Dwyer swam with the Hawkeyes swim team on scholarship for his first two collegiate seasons: the Hawkeyes were the only university to offer Dwyer a scholarship after high school.[32][33][34]

Tennis edit

Men's tennis became a varsity sport at Iowa in 1939, and from that time to the present, the Hawkeyes have won the Big Ten championship once, in 1958. That year, the Hawkeyes recorded a 10–1 team record and finished third at the national level.[35] In 1998, Tyler Cleveland won the Big Ten Freshman of the Year Award. He later won the Big Ten Player of the Year Award twice, in 2000 and 2001. Cleveland and 14 other men's tennis players have named to an all-Big Ten team; Stuart Waters is the most-recent player to have accomplished this, doing so in 2002 and 2003.[36] The team is currently coached by Ross Wilson who is in his 7th year with the program.[37]

Track edit

In indoor track, the Hawkeyes have won three team Big Ten titles, the last coming in 1963. On the individual level, Iowa has had 64 Big Ten championships. Nine-time Big Ten champion Bashir Yamini won three of his Big Ten titles in indoor competitions. Named the 1996 Big Ten Indoor Freshman of the Year, Yamini won the indoor long jump every year from 1997 through 1999. 10 Iowa relays have also been named Big Ten champions, most-recently in 1989.[38]

In outdoor track competition, Iowa has won team Big Ten titles in 1963, 1967, 2011, 2019, and 2021. Their 2011 championship ended a 44-year drought. Iowa jumped Minnesota on the last day of the tournament by placing ahead of the Golden Gophers in the 4x400 – the last event of the tournament. Since 1902, the Hawkeyes have had 92 separate individual Big Ten championships. Yamini currently shares the Big Ten Outdoor Championships long jump record with Ohio State's Jesse Owens. Former Iowa football player Tim Dwight also competed in track. Dwight won the 100 meter Big Ten championship in 1999 with a time of 10.51 seconds.[38]

The men's and women's track teams have collectively produced 17 different Olympians including 6 medalists.

Wrestling edit

 
Mark Perry wrestles Michael Patrovich of Hofstra on March 16, 2007, in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Wrestling at the University of Iowa began with the 1910–1911 season. Under coach E. G. Schroeder, the Hawkeyes wrestled and lost to one opponent that season: Nebraska. The next year, Iowa got its first dual win, over Iowa State. Soon later, in 1914, Oscar Hobbet became the Hawkeyes' first individual Big Ten champion. Iowa's first all-American and national champion came in the 1927–1928 season, with Leslie Beers achieving these honors. Beers wrestled at the 158-pound weight class.[39]

Iowa's first Big Ten championship came in 1958, a year in which the Hawkeyes also had 10 dual wins for the first time. However, Iowa would not win another Big Ten title until 1974, under head coach Gary Kurdelmeier. Kurdelmeier led the Hawkeyes to their first national championship in 1975 and their second in 1976. Iowa lost only one dual match in those two seasons.[39]

Following the 1976 national championship, Dan Gable took over as coach. The Hawkeyes finished third on the national level in Gable's first year,[39] but with another national championship in 1978, Iowa began a streak that, at that time, was only matched by Yale's golf team and Southern California's track team. From 1978 through 1986, Iowa won nine consecutive national championships, a record which equals what Yale's golf team did from 1905–1913 and what Southern California's track team did from 1935 through 1943. In his career at Iowa, which lasted until 1997, Gable led the Hawkeyes to 15 national titles and 21 consecutive Big Ten championships. Gable's 355 dual wins at Iowa make him the university's all-time winningest wrestling coach.[40]

Gable was replaced as coach by Jim Zalesky. Under Zalesky, the Hawkeyes won three straight national titles from 1998–2000 and placed ten individual national champions. However, Zalesky was fired following the 2005–2006 season, as the Hawkeyes began to fade on the national level.[41] He was replaced by Tom Brands, who in 2008 led Iowa to its first team national title since 2000. Brent Metcalf and Mark Perry won individual national championships in 2008, with Perry becoming Iowa's 17th four-time all-American.[42] Brands' Hawkeyes also won team NCAA championships in 2009, 2010 and 2021.

Women's sports edit

Basketball edit

 
Members of Iowa's women's basketball team celebrate their 2008 regular season Big Ten championship on March 2, 2008.

Women's basketball at the University of Iowa began in 1974, under head coach Lark Birdsong. The Hawkeyes finished 5–16 that season, getting their first win over Big Ten rival, Minnesota. Birdsong would continue to coach Iowa until the 1978–1979 season, the first winning season in Iowa women's basketball history.[43] Judy McMullen replaced Birdsong, and after coaching at Iowa for four seasons, McMullen was replaced by C. Vivian Stringer in 1983.[43] Prior to her tenure at Iowa, Stringer coached at Cheyney University, and took the school to new heights when she led the Wolves to the national championship game in 1982.[44]

Beginning with the 1983–1984 season, Stringer coached at Iowa for 12 seasons. In that time, the Hawkeyes won six Big Ten championships, played in nine NCAA tournaments, and reached the Final Four in 1993. Unprecedented attention was shown to the Hawkeyes under Stringer,[44] as evidenced by the record-setting 22,157 fans that watched Iowa play Ohio State on February 3, 1985, in Carver–Hawkeye Arena.[45] Stringer, however, left Iowa to coach at Rutgers in 1995, following the death of her husband Bill.[46]

Angie Lee replaced Stringer, and led the Hawkeyes to a Big Ten championship in her first season. Under Lee, Iowa won another Big Ten title in 1998, but success began to wane soon thereafter. Lee's successor as head coach was Lisa Bluder, who remains Iowa's current women's basketball coach. Under Bluder, the Hawkeyes have won two regular season Big Ten championship and four Big Ten tournament championships, recently winning both titles in 2022 and the tournament championship in 2023 with a team led by superstar guard Caitlin Clark.[43] In 2023, the team advanced to the Final Four in Dallas, TX as a #2 seed after defeating Southeastern Louisiana (#15), Georgia (#10), Colorado (#6), and Louisville (#5). The 2022–23 season is Bluder's 23rd as head coach.

Rowing edit

Women's rowing became a varsity sport at the University of Iowa in 1994 at which time Mandi Kowal was hired as head coach.[47] In 1997 and 1998 the Hawkeyes' varsity 4 (V4+) was invited to the NCAA Championships; 1997 marked the first NCAA rowing championships.[48] The Hawkeyes made a whole team appearance at Nationals in 2001. With the combined novice and varsity teams, the Hawkeyes typically have 70–80 rowing athletes, making it the second-largest team on campus, second only to football.[47]

Fall 2009 brought the completion of a new state-of-the-art[vague] boathouse. Prior to that time the rowing Hawkeyes had no permanent home, but instead their boats were housed in an excess area of the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories. The new P. Sue Beckwith, M.D. Boathouse is named after the benefactor, a former University of Iowa basketball letter-winner, who gave the seed money that made the boathouse possible. The boathouse is 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) and designed to withstand flooding. The building has workout facilities, team locker rooms, boat bays, indoor rowing tanks, and meeting spaces.[49]

Softball edit

The Hawkeye softball team has appeared in four Women's College World Series, in 1995, 1996, 1997, and 2001.[50] The current head softball coach of the Hawkeyes is Renee Luers-Gillispie.[51]

Swimming and diving edit

Nancilea Underwood (now Foster) was a diver on the United States Olympic Team in 2008 after completing her career diving for the University of Iowa. She was a 4-time US National Champion in individual and synchronized springboard events. She placed 8th on the 3 meter springboard at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

Wrestling edit

On September 23, 2021, Iowa announced that it would add women's wrestling for the 2023–24 school year. The NCAA does not hold a championship in that sport, but recognizes it as part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program. Iowa will become the first Power Five school to sponsor varsity women's wrestling.[52]

Notable non-varsity sports edit

Ultimate edit

The Iowa Hawkeye Ultimate Club (IHUC) competes in the West Plains conference of the North Central Region. In 2010, the team tied for 9th at college nationals, while taking 3rd place in 2011.[53]

The Iowa Women's Ultimate team, Saucy Nancy, has also been very successful in years past. In 2011 the team tied for 5th at the College Championship in Boulder, Colorado. In 2012, they accomplished the same feat, tying for 5th again in Boulder, Colorado.[53] Then in 2013, Saucy made it back into the College Championship in Madison, Wisconsin, and this time tied for 3rd.[54]

Rugby edit

The University of Iowa Rugby Football Club plays college rugby in the Big Ten Universities conference of Division I-A. Iowa rugby has had some success in recent years, finishing second at the 2014 Big Ten 7s tournament, and the 2015 Big Ten West 7s tournament. After coming close to achieving a Top 25 ranking in 2011,[55] Iowa would be ranked as high as 17th in the nation after their final match of their 2014 season, and being ranked 20th in the final Canterbury D1A Poll of the 2014-15 season.[56] Iowa would go on to make the USA Rugby 7s National Championships in back-to-back years, 2015 and 2016,[57] moving on as runners-up in their group in 2015 before falling in the elimination round. Iowa plays its matches at the University of Iowa Rugby Fields on Hawkeye Park Road. Iowa is led by Head Coach Jim Estes.

Pageantry edit

The University of Iowa borrowed its nickname from the state of Iowa years ago. The term "Hawkeye" originally appeared in the novel, The Last of the Mohicans, written by James Fenimore Cooper. In the book, the protagonist Natty Bumppo is given the word "Hawkeye" as a nickname from the Delaware Indians. Twelve years following the publishing of the book, the nickname was also given to people in the territory of Iowa (the state is now known as the Hawkeye State). Two men, Judge David Rorer and James G. Edwards, sought out to popularize the nickname, and were rewarded when territorial officials gave their approval.[58]

 
School mascot Herky the Hawk waves a flag at an Iowa football game on September 16, 2006.

The nickname gained a palpable symbol in 1948 when a cartoon character was created. Later named Herky, it was created by Richard Spencer III. The mascot was instantly popular among fans and gained its name through a statewide contest. A man named John Franklin suggested the Herky name. Since the mid-1950s, Herky has been a fixture at Iowa football games and has played a prominent role in all Iowa athletic events.[58]

Iowa's primary school colors are black and old gold.[59] The school's fight songs are "On Iowa!," the "Iowa Fight Song," and "Roll Along Iowa." A fourth song, the "Hawkeye Victory Polka," commonly referred to as "The Beer Song" or "In Heaven There Is No Beer," is played specifically following Iowa football and basketball victories. The school's alma mater is "Alma Mater, Iowa."[60]

Athletic directors edit

Iowa has had 12 athletic directors in its history. They are:

Hall of fame edit

Championships edit

NCAA team championships edit

Iowa has won 26 NCAA national team Championships.[61]

Other national team championships edit

Below are seven national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA:[62]

  • Men's
    • Football (5): 1921, 1922, 1956, 1958, 1960
    • Rifle[6][63][64] (5): 1911, 1918, 1929, 1940, 1946
  • Women's
    • Track & Field[5] (1): 1924

Big Ten Conference championships edit

The University of Iowa has 128 Big Ten Conference Championships

  • Men
    • Basketball (11): 1923, 1926, 1945, 1955, 1956, 1968, 1970, 1979, 2001,[65] 2006,[66] 2022
    • Baseball (9): 1927, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1949, 1972, 1974, 1990, 2017[67]
    • Cross country (2): 1961, 1966
    • Football (11): 1900, 1921, 1922, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1981, 1985, 1990, 2002, 2004
    • Golf (1): 1992
    • Gymnastics (8): 1937, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2019[68]
    • Indoor track & field (5): 1926, 1929, 1963, 2021, 2022
    • Outdoor track & field (5): 1963, 1967, 2011, 2019, 2021
    • Swimming (3): 1936, 1981, 1982
    • Tennis (1): 1958
    • Wrestling (37): 1915, 1916, 1958, 1962, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2021[69]
  • Women
    • Basketball (14): 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997,[70] 1998, 2001,[71] 2008, 2019,[72] 2022,[73] 2023 [74]
    • Cross country (1): 1982
    • Field hockey (13): 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2019, 2021
    • Golf (1): 1991
    • Softball (3): 1997, 2000, 2003
    • Soccer (2): 2021, 2023
    • Gymnastics (1): 2021[75]
  • See also:

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The Iowa Hawkeyes are the athletic teams that represent the University of Iowa located in Iowa City Iowa The Hawkeyes have varsity teams in 20 sports 7 for men and 13 for women The teams participate in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA and are members of the Big Ten Conference Currently the school s interim athletic director is Beth Goetz Iowa HawkeyesUniversityUniversity of IowaConferenceBig TenNCAADivision I FBS Athletic directorBeth Goetz interim LocationIowa City IowaVarsity teams20 7 men s 13 women s Football stadiumKinnick StadiumArenaCarver Hawkeye ArenaBaseball stadiumDuane Banks FieldWrestling arenaCarver Hawkeye ArenaOther venuesBeckwith BoathouseFrancis X Cretzmeyer TrackIowa Field House Xtream Arena powered by MediacomMascotHerky the HawkNicknameHawkeyesFight song Iowa Fight Song On Iowa Roll Along Iowa Iowa Victory Polka ColorsBlack and gold 1 Websitehawkeyesports wbr comBig Ten logo in Iowa s colorsIowa s official wordmark logoHistorically Iowa has been very successful in wrestling with 37 team Big Ten championships and 24 team national championships The Hawkeyes have also won national championships in five other sports men s gymnastics football field hockey rifle and women s track and field 2 3 4 5 6 In basketball Iowa has reached the NCAA Final Four on five occasions The men s team has done this three times most recently in 1980 while the women s team has done it twice in 1993 and 2023 The baseball team has reached the College World Series once in 1972 Iowa s softball team has played in the Women s College World Series on four occasions most recently in 2001 Football home games are played at Kinnick Stadium 7 while basketball gymnastics volleyball and wrestling events are held at Carver Hawkeye Arena 8 The school s baseball team plays at Duane Banks Field and the softball team plays at Bob Pearl Softball Field Contents 1 Sports sponsored 1 1 Men s sports 1 1 1 Baseball 1 1 2 Basketball 1 1 3 Cross country 1 1 4 Football 1 1 5 Golf 1 1 6 Gymnastics 1 1 7 Swimming and diving 1 1 8 Tennis 1 1 9 Track 1 1 10 Wrestling 1 2 Women s sports 1 2 1 Basketball 1 2 2 Rowing 1 2 3 Softball 1 2 4 Swimming and diving 1 2 5 Wrestling 2 Notable non varsity sports 2 1 Ultimate 2 2 Rugby 3 Pageantry 4 Athletic directors 5 Hall of fame 6 Championships 6 1 NCAA team championships 6 2 Other national team championships 6 3 Big Ten Conference championships 7 References 8 External linksSports sponsored editMen s sports Women s sportsBaseball BasketballBasketball Cross countryCross country Field hockeyFootball GolfGolf GymnasticsTrack amp field RowingWrestling SoccerSoftballSwimming amp divingTennisTrack amp field VolleyballWrestling Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor Dropping after 2020 21 academic year The University of Iowa currently fields 20 varsity teams competing in the Big Ten Conference Three men s teams gymnastics swimming and diving and tennis were eliminated after the 2020 21 academic year to help address a projected 60 75 million deficit related to the COVID 19 pandemic 9 10 Men s sports edit Baseball edit Main article Iowa Hawkeyes baseball Iowa began playing baseball in 1890 when the Hawkeyes went a combined 2 1 two wins and one loss against two teams Cornell and Vinton To date Iowa has won eight Big Ten titles and in 1972 Iowa earned its way to the CWS at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha with a 13 3 Big Ten record which is still the best Big Ten winning percentage in Iowa baseball history That record included another school record that still stands an 11 game Big Ten winning streak It was Iowa s first outright Big Ten baseball title since 1939 and the last one since although the Hawkeyes did earn ties for the conference championship in 1974 and 1990 But that 1972 Iowa team fought its way to Omaha the hard way losing its first game in the regional tournament then winning doubleheaders on consecutive days on the campus of Bowling Green University in Ohio Lose one of those four games and Iowa goes home In 1972 only conference champions competed for the eight World Series berths The Hawkeyes opened the 1972 CWS against 1 ranked Arizona State who entered the game with an incredible record of 60 wins and only 4 losses But Iowa a huge underdog outhit the Sun Devils 8 3 only to lose 2 1 Iowa had the tying run thrown out at the plate in the 9th inning and left another runner at third as the final out was made Iowa had also threatened in the 7th with a lead off double but could not score The Hawkeyes then played in the losers bracket the next day against Temple But after taking a 6 2 lead into the sixth inning the Hawkeyes ended up being knocked out of the Series with a 12 8 loss Arizona State lost the championship game that year to Southern Cal while Temple finished 3rd The Hawkeyes finished ranked No 9 in the nation still the highest national ranking in the history of Iowa Hawkeye baseball Future Major Leaguer Jim Sundberg catcher from Galesburg Ill was one of the team leaders The Hawkeyes featured several Iowans in the starting lineup including Tom Hurn 1B Cedar Rapids Mike Kielkopf 2B Ottumwa Brad Trickey 3B Cedar Rapids along with the top two starting pitchers Mark Tschopp Cedar Rapids and Bill Heckroth Dysart 11 Iowa plays its home games at Duane Banks Field whose namesake is the winningest baseball coach in school history 12 Rick Heller replaced Jack Dahm as the Hawkeyes head baseball coach in 2013 13 In his first season in Iowa City Heller helped guide the Hawkeyes to a 9 1 start the program s best start since 1940 a Big Ten tournament berth and conference tournament win Iowa finished the year with a 30 23 record for just the third 30 win season since 1993 The 30 victories are the most by a first year coach in Iowa history 13 Basketball edit Main article Iowa Hawkeyes men s basketball nbsp The Hawkeyes celebrate a win in 2021Men s basketball as a varsity sport at the University of Iowa began in 1902 14 but it was on January 18 1896 that Iowa played the University of Chicago in the first five on five college basketball game The Maroons won that game 15 12 15 Six years later men s basketball became a sanctioned varsity sport under head coach Ed Rule Rule coached the Hawkeyes in four non consecutive seasons until 1908 compiling a 37 15 record 14 Iowa began competing in Big Ten games in 1909 and since then the Hawkeyes have won eight regular season Big Ten championships the last in 1979 Iowa s first Big Ten title came in 1923 under coach Sam Barry Barry also led the Hawkeyes to their second conference championship in 1926 Following Rollie Williams 13 seasons which lasted until 1942 Pops Harrison became coach Harrison coached at Iowa until 1951 leading the Hawkeyes to their first unshared Big Ten championship in 1945 14 Perhaps the most successful time period in Iowa basketball came under head coach Bucky O Connor who coached at Iowa until his death in 1958 Under O Connor the Hawkeyes played in two Final Four events while winning two unshared Big Ten championships 14 16 Iowa played in the national championship game against San Francisco in 1956 but lost by 12 after taking an early double digit lead 17 The Hawkeyes played in a third Final Four in 1980 and have also won the Big Ten tournament thrice since its 1998 inception in 2001 2006 and 2022 Iowa s current coach is Fran McCaffery who coached at Siena College before coming to Iowa in 2010 18 19 The Hawkeyes have played their home games in Carver Hawkeye Arena since 1983 the arena can currently hold up to 15 500 people 8 Cross country edit The Hawkeyes men s cross country team won team Big Ten titles in 1961 and 1966 and have also had nine individual Big Ten champions most recently with Larry Wieczorek in 1967 Wieczorek s time in the 8 000 meter race still stands as the sixth quickest time in school history 20 To date Deacon Jones is Iowa s lone national champion having won the award in 1957 Both Jones and Wieczorek were all Americans for the Hawkeyes along with Kevin Herd Stetson Steele and Ted Wheeler 21 Football edit nbsp Iowa s defense lines up against Syracuse on September 8 2007 Main article Iowa Hawkeyes football Football at the University of Iowa dates back as far as November 27 1872 when the Iowa Academics played a game against the University of Iowa College of Law However football was not officially recognized as a varsity sport until November 16 1889 when the Hawkeyes played against and lost to Grinnell The next year Iowa got its first win against Iowa Wesleyan 22 and since then the Hawkeyes have won 11 Big Ten championships and have played in 30 post season bowl games The Hawkeyes are 18 16 1 in such games having most recently won against Kentucky in the 2022 Music City Bowl Iowa won the 2010 Orange Bowl vs Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 24 14 The Orange Bowl is a BCS bowl game Iowa s first bowl game was the 1957 Rose Bowl which ended in a 35 19 win over Oregon State 23 The Hawkeyes lone claim to a national championship came after winning the Rose Bowl following the 1958 season when they were awarded the Grantland Rice trophy by the Football Writers Association of America 3 The Hawkeyes current head coach is Kirk Ferentz In nineteen seasons under Ferentz the Hawkeyes have won a BCS bowl two Big Ten titles and have played in fifteen bowl games Ferentz is the all time Iowa football wins leader with 151 after surpassing his predecessor Hayden Fry during the 2018 football season Fry who coached the Hawkeyes for 20 seasons had 143 wins three Big Ten titles and 14 bowl trips in his tenure at Iowa 24 Fry also led the Hawkeyes to eight straight bowl games from 1981 1988 the longest such streak in program history 25 Fry was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003 26 In 2015 the Hawks made it to the Rose Bowl and lost to Stanford Since 1929 the Hawkeyes have played their home games in Kinnick Stadium Renamed in 1972 in honor of Iowa s lone Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick 24 the stadium can currently hold up to 70 585 fans 7 Kinnick won the Heisman Award following the conclusion of the 1939 season but died on June 2 1943 in the Gulf of Paria during a World War II training flight His face can still be seen today on the coins that officials toss at the beginning of all Big Ten games 24 Golf edit Since Iowa began competing in men s golf the Hawkeyes have won the Big Ten team title once in 1992 Brad Klapprott won an individual Big Ten championship that year becoming only the second Iowa men s golfer to do so He was preceded only by John Jacobs who achieved the individual conference championship in 1946 Sean McCarty also added to the 1992 team s accolades in winning the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award In 1995 McCarty became Iowa s first and only men s golf all American 27 Gymnastics edit See also Carver Hawkeye Arena Iowa s men s gymnastics team is credited with winning the first NCAA national championship in school history in 1969 This in turn allowed the University of Iowa to become the last of all the Big Ten schools to have won a national championship in an NCAA sponsored sport 2 The Hawkeyes have also won seven Big Ten team titles the last coming in 1998 On the individual level 12 Hawkeyes have won national championships Michael Reavis is Iowa s most recent national champion having won on vault in 2005 28 Swimming and diving edit Main article Iowa Hawkeyes swimming and diving Men s swimming became a sanctioned varsity sport at the University of Iowa in 1917 with David Armbruster as the team s coach Coaching from 1917 1958 Armbruster led the Hawkeyes to one Big Ten championship in 1936 He was followed by Robert Allen who coached the Hawkeyes until 1975 Under Allen Iowa s best finish in the Big Ten was fifth on two occasions Glenn Patton was next in the line of coaches and during his tenure the Hawkeyes won two Big Ten championships and finished as high as eighth on the national level 29 Currently Marc Long is Iowa s men s and women s swimming coach 30 On 19 occasions has a men s swimmer at Iowa won an individual national championship Ray Walters was the Hawkeyes first national champion having won the 50 meter freestyle in 1936 Nine of Iowa s national championships in men s swimming however are credited to Artur Wojdat who competed at the collegiate level from 1989 1992 Wojdat was an 18 time all American a 10 time Big Ten champion and a four time national champion in the 500 yard freestyle event Wojdat also won the bronze medal in the 400 meter freestyle at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul South Korea 31 Receiving NCAA Swimmer of the Year in 2010 amp 2011 while on the University of Florida swim team Olympian Conor Dwyer swam with the Hawkeyes swim team on scholarship for his first two collegiate seasons the Hawkeyes were the only university to offer Dwyer a scholarship after high school 32 33 34 Tennis edit Men s tennis became a varsity sport at Iowa in 1939 and from that time to the present the Hawkeyes have won the Big Ten championship once in 1958 That year the Hawkeyes recorded a 10 1 team record and finished third at the national level 35 In 1998 Tyler Cleveland won the Big Ten Freshman of the Year Award He later won the Big Ten Player of the Year Award twice in 2000 and 2001 Cleveland and 14 other men s tennis players have named to an all Big Ten team Stuart Waters is the most recent player to have accomplished this doing so in 2002 and 2003 36 The team is currently coached by Ross Wilson who is in his 7th year with the program 37 Track edit In indoor track the Hawkeyes have won three team Big Ten titles the last coming in 1963 On the individual level Iowa has had 64 Big Ten championships Nine time Big Ten champion Bashir Yamini won three of his Big Ten titles in indoor competitions Named the 1996 Big Ten Indoor Freshman of the Year Yamini won the indoor long jump every year from 1997 through 1999 10 Iowa relays have also been named Big Ten champions most recently in 1989 38 In outdoor track competition Iowa has won team Big Ten titles in 1963 1967 2011 2019 and 2021 Their 2011 championship ended a 44 year drought Iowa jumped Minnesota on the last day of the tournament by placing ahead of the Golden Gophers in the 4x400 the last event of the tournament Since 1902 the Hawkeyes have had 92 separate individual Big Ten championships Yamini currently shares the Big Ten Outdoor Championships long jump record with Ohio State s Jesse Owens Former Iowa football player Tim Dwight also competed in track Dwight won the 100 meter Big Ten championship in 1999 with a time of 10 51 seconds 38 The men s and women s track teams have collectively produced 17 different Olympians including 6 medalists Wrestling edit nbsp Mark Perry wrestles Michael Patrovich of Hofstra on March 16 2007 in Auburn Hills Michigan Main article Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling Wrestling at the University of Iowa began with the 1910 1911 season Under coach E G Schroeder the Hawkeyes wrestled and lost to one opponent that season Nebraska The next year Iowa got its first dual win over Iowa State Soon later in 1914 Oscar Hobbet became the Hawkeyes first individual Big Ten champion Iowa s first all American and national champion came in the 1927 1928 season with Leslie Beers achieving these honors Beers wrestled at the 158 pound weight class 39 Iowa s first Big Ten championship came in 1958 a year in which the Hawkeyes also had 10 dual wins for the first time However Iowa would not win another Big Ten title until 1974 under head coach Gary Kurdelmeier Kurdelmeier led the Hawkeyes to their first national championship in 1975 and their second in 1976 Iowa lost only one dual match in those two seasons 39 Following the 1976 national championship Dan Gable took over as coach The Hawkeyes finished third on the national level in Gable s first year 39 but with another national championship in 1978 Iowa began a streak that at that time was only matched by Yale s golf team and Southern California s track team From 1978 through 1986 Iowa won nine consecutive national championships a record which equals what Yale s golf team did from 1905 1913 and what Southern California s track team did from 1935 through 1943 In his career at Iowa which lasted until 1997 Gable led the Hawkeyes to 15 national titles and 21 consecutive Big Ten championships Gable s 355 dual wins at Iowa make him the university s all time winningest wrestling coach 40 Gable was replaced as coach by Jim Zalesky Under Zalesky the Hawkeyes won three straight national titles from 1998 2000 and placed ten individual national champions However Zalesky was fired following the 2005 2006 season as the Hawkeyes began to fade on the national level 41 He was replaced by Tom Brands who in 2008 led Iowa to its first team national title since 2000 Brent Metcalf and Mark Perry won individual national championships in 2008 with Perry becoming Iowa s 17th four time all American 42 Brands Hawkeyes also won team NCAA championships in 2009 2010 and 2021 Women s sports edit Basketball edit Main article Iowa Hawkeyes women s basketball nbsp Members of Iowa s women s basketball team celebrate their 2008 regular season Big Ten championship on March 2 2008 Women s basketball at the University of Iowa began in 1974 under head coach Lark Birdsong The Hawkeyes finished 5 16 that season getting their first win over Big Ten rival Minnesota Birdsong would continue to coach Iowa until the 1978 1979 season the first winning season in Iowa women s basketball history 43 Judy McMullen replaced Birdsong and after coaching at Iowa for four seasons McMullen was replaced by C Vivian Stringer in 1983 43 Prior to her tenure at Iowa Stringer coached at Cheyney University and took the school to new heights when she led the Wolves to the national championship game in 1982 44 Beginning with the 1983 1984 season Stringer coached at Iowa for 12 seasons In that time the Hawkeyes won six Big Ten championships played in nine NCAA tournaments and reached the Final Four in 1993 Unprecedented attention was shown to the Hawkeyes under Stringer 44 as evidenced by the record setting 22 157 fans that watched Iowa play Ohio State on February 3 1985 in Carver Hawkeye Arena 45 Stringer however left Iowa to coach at Rutgers in 1995 following the death of her husband Bill 46 Angie Lee replaced Stringer and led the Hawkeyes to a Big Ten championship in her first season Under Lee Iowa won another Big Ten title in 1998 but success began to wane soon thereafter Lee s successor as head coach was Lisa Bluder who remains Iowa s current women s basketball coach Under Bluder the Hawkeyes have won two regular season Big Ten championship and four Big Ten tournament championships recently winning both titles in 2022 and the tournament championship in 2023 with a team led by superstar guard Caitlin Clark 43 In 2023 the team advanced to the Final Four in Dallas TX as a 2 seed after defeating Southeastern Louisiana 15 Georgia 10 Colorado 6 and Louisville 5 The 2022 23 season is Bluder s 23rd as head coach Rowing edit Women s rowing became a varsity sport at the University of Iowa in 1994 at which time Mandi Kowal was hired as head coach 47 In 1997 and 1998 the Hawkeyes varsity 4 V4 was invited to the NCAA Championships 1997 marked the first NCAA rowing championships 48 The Hawkeyes made a whole team appearance at Nationals in 2001 With the combined novice and varsity teams the Hawkeyes typically have 70 80 rowing athletes making it the second largest team on campus second only to football 47 Fall 2009 brought the completion of a new state of the art vague boathouse Prior to that time the rowing Hawkeyes had no permanent home but instead their boats were housed in an excess area of the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories The new P Sue Beckwith M D Boathouse is named after the benefactor a former University of Iowa basketball letter winner who gave the seed money that made the boathouse possible The boathouse is 20 000 square feet 1 900 m2 and designed to withstand flooding The building has workout facilities team locker rooms boat bays indoor rowing tanks and meeting spaces 49 Softball edit Main article Iowa Hawkeyes softball The Hawkeye softball team has appeared in four Women s College World Series in 1995 1996 1997 and 2001 50 The current head softball coach of the Hawkeyes is Renee Luers Gillispie 51 Swimming and diving edit Main article Iowa Hawkeyes Swimming and Diving Nancilea Underwood now Foster was a diver on the United States Olympic Team in 2008 after completing her career diving for the University of Iowa She was a 4 time US National Champion in individual and synchronized springboard events She placed 8th on the 3 meter springboard at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Wrestling edit On September 23 2021 Iowa announced that it would add women s wrestling for the 2023 24 school year The NCAA does not hold a championship in that sport but recognizes it as part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program Iowa will become the first Power Five school to sponsor varsity women s wrestling 52 Notable non varsity sports editUltimate edit The Iowa Hawkeye Ultimate Club IHUC competes in the West Plains conference of the North Central Region In 2010 the team tied for 9th at college nationals while taking 3rd place in 2011 53 The Iowa Women s Ultimate team Saucy Nancy has also been very successful in years past In 2011 the team tied for 5th at the College Championship in Boulder Colorado In 2012 they accomplished the same feat tying for 5th again in Boulder Colorado 53 Then in 2013 Saucy made it back into the College Championship in Madison Wisconsin and this time tied for 3rd 54 Rugby edit The University of Iowa Rugby Football Club plays college rugby in the Big Ten Universities conference of Division I A Iowa rugby has had some success in recent years finishing second at the 2014 Big Ten 7s tournament and the 2015 Big Ten West 7s tournament After coming close to achieving a Top 25 ranking in 2011 55 Iowa would be ranked as high as 17th in the nation after their final match of their 2014 season and being ranked 20th in the final Canterbury D1A Poll of the 2014 15 season 56 Iowa would go on to make the USA Rugby 7s National Championships in back to back years 2015 and 2016 57 moving on as runners up in their group in 2015 before falling in the elimination round Iowa plays its matches at the University of Iowa Rugby Fields on Hawkeye Park Road Iowa is led by Head Coach Jim Estes Pageantry editThe University of Iowa borrowed its nickname from the state of Iowa years ago The term Hawkeye originally appeared in the novel The Last of the Mohicans written by James Fenimore Cooper In the book the protagonist Natty Bumppo is given the word Hawkeye as a nickname from the Delaware Indians Twelve years following the publishing of the book the nickname was also given to people in the territory of Iowa the state is now known as the Hawkeye State Two men Judge David Rorer and James G Edwards sought out to popularize the nickname and were rewarded when territorial officials gave their approval 58 nbsp School mascot Herky the Hawk waves a flag at an Iowa football game on September 16 2006 The nickname gained a palpable symbol in 1948 when a cartoon character was created Later named Herky it was created by Richard Spencer III The mascot was instantly popular among fans and gained its name through a statewide contest A man named John Franklin suggested the Herky name Since the mid 1950s Herky has been a fixture at Iowa football games and has played a prominent role in all Iowa athletic events 58 Iowa s primary school colors are black and old gold 59 The school s fight songs are On Iowa the Iowa Fight Song and Roll Along Iowa A fourth song the Hawkeye Victory Polka commonly referred to as The Beer Song or In Heaven There Is No Beer is played specifically following Iowa football and basketball victories The school s alma mater is Alma Mater Iowa 60 Athletic directors editIowa has had 12 athletic directors in its history They are Nelson Kellogg 1910 1917 Howard Jones 1917 1924 Paul Belting 1924 1929 Edward Lauer 1929 1934 Ossie Solem 1934 1937 E G Schroeder 1937 1947 Paul Brechler 1947 1960 Forest Evashevski 1960 1970 Bump Elliott 1970 1990 Christine Grant 1973 2000 as women s athletic director Bob Bowlsby 1990 2006 Gary Barta 2006 2023 Beth Goetz Interim 2023 Hall of fame editMain article University of Iowa Athletics Hall of FameChampionships editNCAA team championships edit Iowa has won 26 NCAA national team Championships 61 Men s 25 Gymnastics 1 1969 Wrestling 24 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2008 2009 2010 2021 Women s 1 Field Hockey 1 1986 See also List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships Big Ten Conference NCAA national team championshipsOther national team championships edit Below are seven national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA 62 Men s Football 5 1921 1922 1956 1958 1960 Rifle 6 63 64 5 1911 1918 1929 1940 1946 Women s Track amp Field 5 1 1924Big Ten Conference championships edit The University of Iowa has 128 Big Ten Conference Championships Men Basketball 11 1923 1926 1945 1955 1956 1968 1970 1979 2001 65 2006 66 2022 Baseball 9 1927 1938 1939 1942 1949 1972 1974 1990 2017 67 Cross country 2 1961 1966 Football 11 1900 1921 1922 1956 1958 1960 1981 1985 1990 2002 2004 Golf 1 1992 Gymnastics 8 1937 1967 1968 1972 1974 1986 1998 2019 68 Indoor track amp field 5 1926 1929 1963 2021 2022 Outdoor track amp field 5 1963 1967 2011 2019 2021 Swimming 3 1936 1981 1982 Tennis 1 1958 Wrestling 37 1915 1916 1958 1962 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 2000 2004 2008 2009 2010 2015 2020 2021 69 Women Basketball 14 1987 1988 1989 1990 1992 1993 1996 1997 70 1998 2001 71 2008 2019 72 2022 73 2023 74 Cross country 1 1982 Field hockey 13 1981 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