By: Nathan Bloechl — sports@kilj.com
Prep Golf; Mount Pleasant Announces Girls’ Golf Awards:
It was a terrific year for Mount Pleasant girls’ golf and the program has released their final awards.
MVP – Elli Liechty
- All District, 1st Team All Conference, Academic All State and Conference, 16th Class 3A Individual State Tournament, 5th State Coed
Panther Award – Ryann Davidson
Most Improved – Sami Wibben
Kylie Walderbach and Izabell Yoder both lettered.
The team ended this year with a record of 44-15.
Prep Baseball: IHSAA Releases Class 3A Substate Assignments:
The state association has released Class 3A and 4A postseason assignments, with area teams in competing in Class 3A-Substate 4.
Included in Substate 4 will be:
- Davenport Assumption
- Central DeWitt
- Clear Creek-Amana
- Fairfield
- Fort Madison
- Keokuk
- Mount Pleasant
- Washington
The substate remains largely unchanged from last year’s bracket that saw Clear Creek-Amana advance out to the state tournament.
First round substate games for 3A are scheduled for Friday, July 16.
Class 3A’s state tournament will be played this year at Duane Banks Field in Iowa City, with quarterfinal play beginning July 28th.
Prep Softball: Reanalyzing Area Playoff Matchups:
The IGHSAU has released their regional playoff pairings for the upcoming playoff season.
Once again, here are the pairings in full for area programs:
Class 1A
Hillcrest Academy at New London (July 6th, 7:00 p.m.)
- Winner gets No. 13 Winfield-Mount Union (July 7th, 7:00 p.m.)
Lone Tree at Holy Trinity (July 6th, 7:00 p.m.)
Class 2A
Mediapolis at Cardinal (July 6th, 7:00 p.m.)
- Winner gets Wapello (July 7th, 7:00 p.m.)
Danville at Van Buren County (July 7th, 7:00 p.m.)
West Branch OR North Cedar at No. 3 Louisa-Muscatine (July 7th, 7:00 p.m.)
Class 3A
Columbus at West Burlington (July 6th, 7:00 p.m.)
Central Lee at Davis County (July 6th, 7:00 p.m.)
Class 4A
Mount Pleasant at Keokuk (July 8th, 7:00 p.m.)
- Winner gets Fairfield (July 10th, 7:00 p.m.)
College Sports; Iowa Launces NIL Program:
The University of Iowa athletic department announced its comprehensive Name, Image and Likeness program – FLIGHT – on Friday.
FLIGHT is a cross-departmental effort that creates and oversees NIL educational programming for Hawkeye student-athletes.
The program equips Iowa student-athletes with the tools necessary to strengthen their NIL potential.
With the new pilot program, all Iowa student-athletes will have access to tools that will help them excel in the N-I-L era. Those tools include educational training in the areas of branding, social media, entrepreneurship, networking,
Earlier this week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of student-athletes to be able to profit off their own name, image and likeness prompting institutions to act swiftly to put together programs like Iowa’s to aid the new era of college sports.