College Sports

Luka Garza and Ryan Kriener are co-winners of the Chris Street Award for the 2019-20 University of Iowa men’s basketball season. The duo are two of eight players who garnered team recognition. The Chris Street Award is presented annually to a Hawkeye player, or players, who best exemplify the spirit, enthusiasm, and intensity of Chris Street. Street was an Iowa basketball player who died in an auto accident in 1993, midway through his junior year...

Iowa Lakes women's basketball player Safiyer Coleman signed her letter of intent to continue her collegiate career at Mount Mercy University, a NAIA level institution located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.   Coleman helped the Lakers to a 40-21 record in her two years. She earned Third Team All-Region her freshman year and Second Team All-Region her sophomore year...

Carissa Doran, a 2020 Okoboji High School graduate, recently signed her National Letter of Intent to play basketball at Morningside College in Sioux City. Doran was a co-captain of the 2019-20 Pioneer team that finished the season with a 22-2 record, won a Siouxland Conference Championship and made a regional final appearance. ...

Iowa Lakes sophomore point guard Justin Brookens has signed a national letter of intent to play at Western Illinois University. Western Illinois is an NCAA Division 1 school out of Macomb, Illinois. They are coached by first-year head coach Rob Jeter...

Head Iowa Lakes baseball coach Joey Pavlovich will be leaving for NAIA Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee. He will serve as the pitching coach for the program. Pavlovich has coached at Iowa Lakes for the past seven years. His first two years he served as graduate assistant and the past five years head coach...

Iowa Lakes wrestling coach Cody Alesch recently announced the addition of three-time NCAA qualifier Cash Wilcke to the staff as a graduate-assistant coach pending board approval. "We couldn't be more excited about Cash joining our staff," Alesch said. ...

Iowa Lakes basketball player Justin Brookens has been named First Team All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association. Brookens also earned Iowa Community College Athletic Conference Co-Player of the Year and was Player of the Week for the conference three times this season. ...

Iowa Lakes freshman wrestler Matt Jordan has been named Second Team All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association.  During the season, Jordan won the Auggie Open, placed second at the RCTC Open, placed third at the Dave Edmunds Open, placed fourth at the Grandview Open, and placed third at the regional meet...

Iowa Lakes Community College recently announced the signing of Hailey Miranda of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Miranda earned first team all-conference honors at Ronald Regan High School. She became the first player in school history to reach 1,000 career points. During her senior year she averaged 14 points per game and shot 82% from the free throw line...

Iowa Lakes softball player, Tianna Soto, recently signed to continue her athletic and academic careers at NAIA William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Soto will study athletic training in the hopes of becoming an athletic trainer in the future. "It was awesome getting to watch the growth Tianna has made from the time she walked onto campus until the moment she walked off the field for the last time," Iowa Lakes softball coach Katie Larson said. ...