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Local trio lands on all-ISC South

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The chase pack behind Collins-Maxwell in the Iowa Star Conference’s South Division was led this year by the BCLUW girls’ basketball team, and the Comets’ pursuit of the Spartans used an inside-out strategy. At the center of it all was Comet sophomore Grace Farnsworth. Farnsworth ...

Drake’s Dinnebier named MVC’s MVP

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DAVENPORT — Drake junior point guard Katie Dinnebier has been named the 2024 Jackie Stiles Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year after helping lead the Bulldogs to the league crown. Dinnebier is the ninth player in Drake history to win the award and the first since current staff ...

Clark named a Wooden Award finalist

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IOWA CITY — University of Iowa senior guard Caitlin Clark was named a John R. Wooden Award Finalist after winning the award last season. Clark is once again a finalist for every major national player of the year award, most recently being named a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award as ...

ISU’s Lipsey a Naismith Defensive semifinalist

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ATLANTA — Iowa State sophomore Tamin Lipsey has been named a semifinalist for the 2024 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Presented by AXIA Time. Of the 11 players named as semifinalist, three of them are from the Big 12. Lipsey is the only underclassmen to be named a ...

Bobcats’ Long nets all-Alliance

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The Marshalltown girls’ basketball program had its best season in a decade, and the coaches around the conference took notice. Bobcat freshman center Frankie Long was voted to the all-Iowa Alliance Conference North Division first team — the only freshman to earn top honors in the brief two ...

GMG’s Woodbury a four-time all-conference honoree

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The Iowa Star Conference’s South Division won’t look the same next season without GMG senior Jabari Woodbury in it. Woodbury was named all-conference for the fourth time in a vote of the league’s coaches, representing the GMG boys basketball team on the first team for the second year in ...