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AMES, Iowa – For the second time in his career, Iowa State wrestler David Carr has been named the Gary Thompson Iowa State Male Athlete of the Year. Carr is the seventh Cyclone to win the award at least twice in his career.

Carr posted a 27-1 record during the 2022-23 season and finished as the national runner-up at 165 pounds, becoming Iowa State's first multi-time finalist since 2010. Of his 27 wins, 12 came against wrestlers ranked in the top 15 of FloWrestling's final poll.

The Canton, Ohio native won his fourth Big 12 title in 2023, becoming the second Iowa State wrestler, and first since Cael Sanderson in 2002, to win four Big 12 titles. He is the 11th wrestler in league history to win four titles in the Big 12 era (1997-pres.).

Carr was named the Big 12 Championship's Most Outstanding Wrestler after going 3-0 in the tournament with two bonus-point wins, capped by a pin against No. 2 Keegan O'Toole in overtime of the finals. Carr was the first Cyclone to receive the honor since 2011.

At the NCAA Championships, Carr became Iowa State's 12th four-time All-American and led the Cyclones with 18.0 team points. He led Iowa State to its best team finish since 2013 (11th) and highest point total since 2010 (47.0 points).

Carr's bracket was loaded with three past NCAA champions, another returning NCAA finalist and five more returning All-Americans. Nevertheless, Carr navigated to the finals with four consecutive victories, including over Stanford's Shane Griffith, a 2021 national champion, in the quarterfinals and Princeton's Quincy Monday, a returning national finalist, in the semifinals. Awaiting him in the finals was his rival and defending national champion O'Toole who would hand Carr his only loss of the season.

In November, Carr made an appearance at the NWCA All-Star Classic where he defeated Monday, 2-1, to become the first Cyclone to win at the event since 2009.

Carr was as dominant as they come for much of the season. More than half of his wins (14) came with bonus points, including five pins, three tech falls and six major decisions. He allowed only five takedowns on the year and secured 93 for himself, his most in a season during his career.

Carr led Iowa State with 77 team points in dual action and he was one of two Cyclones not to miss a dual during the season, wrestling in all 19.

Off the mat, Carr logged 112 hours of community service in 2022-23, the third-most by a Cyclone student-athlete during the academic year. His community service work consisted of Courts for Kids in Costa Rica, Elementary Milage Club, Kate Mitchell Carnival, WBB Night with Special Olympians, Adopt-A-Family and Fields of Faith.

Carr posted a 3.86 GPA in the education graduate program and was a 2023 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America First Team member, CSC All-District At-Large team member, First Team Academic All-Big 12 selection and NWCA scholar All-American.

He owns a 93-3 (.969) career record entering his final season of eligibility.

Carr will be recognized at a football game this fall.

Gary Thompson Iowa State Male Athlete of the Year Winners
1947 - Ron Norman, Basketball
1948 - Glen Brand, Wrestling
1949 - Bob Peterson, Basketball
1950 - Bill Weeks Football
1951 - Jim Doran, Football
1952 - Mal Schmidt, Football & Swimming
1953 - Jack Erickson, Football & Wrestling
1954 - Max Burkett, Football
1955 - Chuck Duncan, Basketball
1956 - Gary Thompson, Baseball & Basketball
1957 - Gary Thompson, Baseball & Basketball
1958 - Frank Powell, Football & Wrestling
1959 - Ron Gray, Wrestling
1960 - Dwight Nichols, Football
1961 - Tom Watkins, Football
1962 - Dave Hoppman, Football
1963 - Marv Straw, Basketball
1964 - Gordon Hassman, Wrestling
1965 - Tom Vaughn, Football
1966 - Tom Peckham, Wrestling
1967 - Don Smith, Basketball
1968 - Don Smith, Basketball
1969 - Dan Gable, Wrestling
1970 - Dan Gable, Wrestling
1971 - Otto Stowe, Football
1972 - George Amundson, Football
1973 - Chris Taylor, Wrestling
1974 - Doug Fitzjarrell, Gymnastics
1975 - Al Nacin, Wrestling
1976 - Pete Galea, Wrestling
1977 - Wayne Stanley, Football
1978 - Mark Trippel, Gymnastics
1979 - Mike Land, Wrestling
1980 - Mike Schwartz, Football
1981 - Ron Galimore, Gymnastics
1982 - John Quinn, Football
1983 - Nate Carr, Wrestling
1984 - Bob Verbeeck, Track & Field
1985 - Barry Stevens, Basketball
1986 - Mark Diab, Gymnastics
1987 - Stewart Carter, Wrestling
1988 - Eric Hansen, Swimming
Jeff Grayer, Basketball
1989 - Tim Krieger, Wrestling
1990 - Mike Busch, Baseball & Football
1991 - John Nuttall, Cross Country and Track & Field
1992 - Obinna Eregbu, Track & Field
1993 - Jonah Koech, Track & Field
1994 - Eric Akin, Wrestling
1995 - Fred Hoiberg, Basketball
1996 - Dmitry Drozdov, Track & Field and Cross Country
1997 - Chris Bono, Wrestling
1998 - Dwight Hinson, Wrestling
1999 - Cael Sanderson, Wrestling
2000 - Marcus Fizer, Basketball
2001 - Jamaal Tinsley, Basketball
Cael Sanderson, Wrestling
2002 - Cael Sanderson, Wrestling
2003 - Seneca Wallace, Football
2004 - Zach Roberson, Wrestling
Jake Sullivan, Basketball
2005 - Ellis Hobbs, Football
2006 - Nate Gallick, Wrestling
2007 - Trent Paulson, Wrestling
2008 - Chris Baker, Golf
2009 - Jake Varner, Wrestling
2010 - Jake Varner, Wrestling
2011 - Jon Reader, Wrestling
2012 - Nate McCoy, Golf
2013 - Scott Fernandez, Golf
2014 - Melvin Ejim, Basketball
2015 - Edward Kemboi, Track & Field and Cross Country
Kyven Gadson, Wrestling
2016 - Georges Niang, Basketball
2017 - Monté Morris, Basketball
2018 - Joel Lanning, Football
2019 - Edwin Kurgat, Track & Field and Cross Country
2020 - Edwin Kurgat, Track & Field and Cross Country
2021 - David Carr, Wrestling
2022 - Breece Hall, Football
2023 - David Carr, Wrestling

Iowa State Media Relations

AMES, Iowa – For the second-straight year, Iowa State women’s basketball’s Ashley Joens has been named Iowa State Athletics’ 2022-23 Celia Barquin Arozamena Iowa State Female Athlete of the Year. Joens becomes the sixth Iowa State female athlete to earn the award multiple times and just the fourth to win in consecutive years.

Joens finished her Cyclone career as the program’s all-time leading scorer with 3,060 points and was just the 14th player in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball history to reach 3,000 points. She is the ninth all-time among NCAA Division I women’s basketball players. In her final season, Joens averaged 21.6 points per game and 9.7 rebounds per game.

She was named the Big 12 Player of the Year and was a four-time unanimous All-Big 12 First Team selection, a three-time recipient of the Cheryl Miller Award, and a two-time WBCA All-American. Last week, Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark announced Joens as the inaugural female recipient of the Bob Bowlsby award, the Conference’s most prestigious honor established by the Big 12 Board of Directors and voted on by member athletics directors.

In 2022-23, Joens led the Cyclones to a Big 12 Tournament Championship, their first since 2001, and an automatic berth to the 2023 NCAA Tournament. She was also named the Most Outstanding Player of the Championship after averaging 26.7 points and 11.0 rebounds in leading the Cyclones to the tournament title. She scored 30 points against Baylor, 22 against No. 14 Oklahoma, and 28 in the championship game against No. 15 Texas.

In April, Joens was drafted 19th overall in the WNBA Draft to the Dallas Wings, the fourth highest draft pick in school history.

Celia Barquin Arozamena Iowa State Female Athlete of the Year Winners
1980 – Mary Seybold – Track & Field
1981 – Debbie Vetter – Track & Field
1982 – Annette Ackerson – Swimming
1983 – Tanya Roach – Swimming
1984 – Diane Doles – Volleyball
1985 – Tonya Burns – Basketball
1986 – Jane Lobenstein – Basketball
1987 – Nawal El Moutawakel – Track & Field
1988 – Linda Evans – Volleyball
1989 – Carmen Jaspers – Basketball
1990 – Jennie Condon – Softball
1991 – Jennifer Adams-Keitges – Swimming
1992 – Edith Nakiyingi – Track & Field
1993 – Karen Glerum – Track & Field
1994 – Melanie Young – Basketball
1995 – Kary Law – Volleyball
1996 – Beth Bader – Golf
1997 – Kim Mazza – Gymnastics
1998 – Stacy Frese – Basketball
1999 – Stacy Frese – Basketball
2000 – Stacy Frese – Basketball
2001 – Megan Taylor – Basketball
2002 – Angie Welle – Basketball
Gina Curtis-Rickert – Track & Field
2003 – Gina Curtis-Rickert – Track & Field
2004 – Janet Anson – Gymnastics
2005 – Anne O'Neil – Basketball
2006 – Janet Anson – Gymnastics
2007 – Lyndsey Medders – Basketball
2008 – Lisa Koll – Track/Cross Country
2009 – Kaylee Manns – Volleyball
2010 – Lisa Koll – Track/Cross Country
2011 – Kelsey Bolte – Basketball
2012 – Betsy Saina – Track/Cross Country
2013 – Betsy Saina – Track/Cross Country
2014 – Christina Hillman – Track & Field
2015 – Chonlada Chayanun – Golf
2016 – Caitlin Nolan – Volleyball
2017 – Jhoanmy Luque – Track & Field
2018 – Celia Barquin Arozamena – Golf
2019 – Bridget Carleton – Basketball
2020 – Callie Logue – Track/Cross Country
2021 – Sami Williams – Softball
2022 – Ashley Joens – Basketball
2023 – Ashley Joens – Basketball

Pretty good payday.

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If you haven't subscribed to this guy, I suggest you do. He posts a lot of Iowa State sports related videos on youtube.

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This isn't quite following AD planes on flightaware.com, but some nerdboy sleuthing...

And if you are into dot connecting, Hunter Dekkers wikipedia page, on the side panel says he is now a QB for Northwestern College of Iowa. And if you check the edits on that page, the IP of the most recent change came from an internet provider in Hawarden.

Might be somebody just screwing around, might be real. Just passing it on for what it is worth. HERE is the linky.

The state of MO has a new law that just went into effect. It allows MO high schoolers who have signed an LOI to a Missouri college to take advantage of NIL and not lose their remaining HS eligibility. The MO high school athletic association has embraced it.

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Just announced he’ll be playing at Brewster Academy.

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I dropped my car off at the auto shop for an alignment today. For an oil change and other general repairs I usually wait in their lobby. But the alignment may take all morning or all day as not everyone in the shop does that job. The shop is on the opposite side of town. So I dropped it off last night and rode with the GF to her work today. She works in the NewBo area so I figured there will be plenty of things for me to do once the area comes to life. Little did I know until the drive down this morning that nothing in NewBo is open on Monday. Not even one of my favorites, Lu's Deli. I'm stuck here now in the 1st floor cafeteria. I can't contact her during the day because she on phone calls and meetings all day except 45 minutes at lunch.

Gone are the days where I could occupy a spare office in her new three or four story building. During COVID they allowed people to work from home and when allowed back in the office not many came back. So they downsized the office and instead of a nice office with chair, desk and monitor, I am in a sterile cafeteria with plastic chairs and no where else to go. I am indeed stranded in Iowa. And I'm not good at this.

Just read that Pat Fitzgerald was suspended at Northwestern. Hazing allegations that he turned a blind eye to.

Kind of like Iowa did to Ferentz when they almost killed several athletes due to exercise induced rhabdomyolysis. Oh, wait....

At Rucker Park

If these statements are accurate, CMC might not want any of them in his locker room!! https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ot...tp&cvid=d1e1308572a24d28ab3ac6656fc2c65b&ei=9

...but beating them will be great!!!

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This was a nail biter from start to finish. Just when you thought all was lost, we'd get a big turnover or a play went our way and we're right back in it. Conversely, just when you thought we had it in the bag, OSU comes up with a big play and it looks like all is lost again. I mean, we scored the final TD with 18 seconds left, but OSU drove right down the field after that and we had to bat down a hail Mary in the end zone to preserve the win. I got real tired of hearing the OSU PA announcer saying, "Heeeere comes Raaaaanger," as they trotted that damned horse out on the field after yet another score. OSU only scored 26 points, but they scored 6 times, 4 FGs and 2 TDs, so he was trotted out onto the field a lot.

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Excerpt from the KC Star...


“Former Kansas basketball star and Toronto Raptor guard Gradey Dick has signed an NBA marketing contract with Adidas Basketball, Dick announced via social media on Monday.

Along with fellow Adidas signee Jalen Hood-Schifino of the Los Angeles Lakers, Dick will star in a marketing campaign for the company’s “2023 Collection: Chapter 03” of premium lifestyle offerings, according to an Adidas news release.

Both rookies were previously part of Adidas’ first class of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) program for college athletes during the 2022-23 college basketball season.“

AAC got me thinking of big game wins and this is one that‘s most shocking to me. This is high quality video with the plays only, so it takes 30 minutes to watch. Love this game. Notice our favorite ref, Reggie, did a great job in this game.
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What types do we need in our 3 man front?

It seems to me we need a lot of flexible types. We need traditional run-stopping, blocker eating Nose play like Lee and Orange. Smith is likely in that mode as well.

We also need pressure nose play, big bodies that can rush from the inside. Oneyedim and Okoli seem to fit this type, although Orange is being discussed as a pressure guy as well from the inside.

Power Defensive Ends in the Ewazurike and Anderson mode to provide run-stopping first and pressure second. Singletary, Oneyedim, Okoli seem to fit this mode. And it feels like nose and power end are well stocked, at least on paper.

Rush End is that. A pass rusher first, but must be able to defend the rush. Joey Peterson is the sole experience and was a very solid backup. Is he ready for the next step up? Like Ezeogu (sp), Samuel Same, and Jefferson Adam are newcomers. Lots of bodies but limited experience. Not to mention huge shoes to fill.

My ace is, outside of Heacock himself, Rasheed is the coach I have the most confidence in.

“Go Your Own Way came on our Echo this morning. Always loved the guitar and stomp beat to this song and always though Mick Fleetwood on drums and Lindsay Buckingham on guitar were underrated as tte whole group musucalky. Read once where Fleetwood’s drum beat was “against tge grain” on this song but is the best part imo. I can name any 70’s song and who sang it instantly but have no musical talent whatsoever. So I looked for an explanation to Fleetwwod’s non-tradition drumming and found this article along with the song video:

I had forgotten or never knew that our football team was the 4th youngest in Power 5 football last year. I know it sounds like an excuse but experience matters a lot. Throw in some key injuries that make you even younger on game day and the 4-8 record shouldn’t have been all that surprising. That said, I get that we had other issues too.

I've been getting these weird phone calls. They're weird in two ways. First way is my phone never rings. I just find out I've had a phone call by looking at my "recents," then discovering I have a voicemail. I've gotten 5 of these calls so far in the last three or four weeks and the only time my phone ever rang, it was just a short blip, less than half a second.

Second way they are weird is the topic of the call. They say I can get up to $26,000 on payroll tax returns for employees I had on the payroll between 2020 and 2022. First of all, I never worked those years. I retired in 2019. Second of all, even when I worked, I never owned a business and never had to pay a payroll tax.

These voicemails all come from different phone numbers with different area codes and different voices. The first four times, it was a female voice and, I don't know, it could have been the same voice every time, I'm just not sure. This last time, it was a male voice. They all want me to call them back at a number they provide and I have no clue if it's the same number every time or not because I delete the voicemail as soon as I've listened to it.

If this is a scam, what's the end game? Are they just phishing, trying to get me to reveal some private information? Are they going to tell me that in order to claim the $26,000, I have to send them a finder's fee or processing fee? What does everyone think is going on here? Has anyone else received similar phone calls?

I was judging the dairy cattle show at the Franklin County Fair today (Hampton) and wore an Iowa State shirt and the ringman helping line up cattle for me was a fella that grew up in the area, but had attended Nebraska in Animal Science and was now a beef farmer. I asked him his impression of Nebraska being in the Big 10. He thought it was a mess, and that college athletics in general had all bowed to the almighty dollar. He also thought the portal was out of control and NIL was bad as well.

I told him I liked the old Big 8 and early Big 12 better. He agreed. He was in his early 50’s, I think, and we compared notes on our favorite football matchups over the years. I told him mine was the 23-23 tie my freshman year in 1972. Surprisingly, his was the Marv Seiler game where the Cornhuskers came in number 1 and should never have lost.

He gave Matt Campbell high praise.

Our discussion went to basketball and we both agreed Iowa State was on a much higher trajectory. He wasn’t sure Fred was going to get it done.

After I finished my judging chores he wished me well and left me with a “Go Huskers”.

I'm too lazy

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To start getting fired up?!

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Newly-offered 3-star WR talks Cyclones