Men's Basketball
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This PEO sister took a math class with Fred Hoiberg's mom around 25 years ago and has remained friends with her since then.
Who is Marilyn Krauss?
100
This new coach of the Iowa State Football team was hired on November 29th (his birthday). He is only 36 years old but has already been very successful as an NCAA Division 1 coach at Toledo. He grew up in Ohio and played college football at Mount Union. His dad was a high school football at a rival school. Matt's team won the conference championship three consecutive years while he was in high school beating his dad's team. His overall record as a college head coach is 35-15. He is married to Erica and has three children with another on the way this month.
Who is Matt Campbell?
100
The current coach of the Iowa State Cyclone volleyball team. She is married to Joe, a volunteer assistant for the Cyclones. She was an All-American setter at the Univeristy of Nebraska in 1994 and 1995. She grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and was an assistant at Wisconsin before coming to ISU. She has a record of 228-112 at Iowa State and in the past 11 years as coach has only missed making the NCAA tournament one time (her first season). She has a son named Jamison and a daughter named Addison.
Who is Christy Johnson Lynch?
100
Distance runner is a four-time NCAA Division One champion, current NCAA record holder in the 10,000 meters, and the sixth fastest American woman to ever cover that distance. She competed in the 10,000 meters in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She grew up in Fort Dodge and has run in and helped with the Firecracker 5K right here in Webster City.
Who is Lisa Koll Uhl?
100
Iowa State wrestler and 1972 gold medal Olympic star who went on to coach at the University of Iowa. While at Iowa State he only had one loss, his last match of his career there. At the University of Iowa he racked up 15 NCAA team championships. He grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, attended high school at Waterloo West and had a high school record of 64-0.
Who is Dan Gable?
200
This Roland, Iowa Native is nicknamed "The Roland Rocket" He was the first Iowa State basketball player to score over 1000 points and the first player to score 40 points in a game. He also played shortstop on the Iowa State baseball team and led the Cyclones to the 1957 Colege World Series. After his playing days were over, he started an Oil Company called the (his name) Oil Company. This business venture was made possible by his affiliation as an AAU player with the Bartlesville Phillips 66ers as it we through the Phillips Petroleum Company. He also embarked on a 34-year television broadcasting career - serving as color commentator for college basketball games on NBC and CBS, primarily for Big Eight and later Big 12 games.[2] He retired in 2006.
Who is Gary Thompson?
200
This running back attended Iowa State from 1993 to 1996. He set numerous Cyclone team records. He became the first running back in NCAA Division I-A history to gain 2,000 yards in two different seasons. He was coached by Jim Walden and Dan McCarney. He was inducted into the Iowa State Sports Hall of Fame in 2007 and the NCAA College Football Hall of Fame this past year. His brother also played for the Cyclones.
Who is Troy Davis?
200
This former Iowa State Univeristy volleyball player currently lives in Webster City and works for First State Bank. She grew up in Johnston, Iowa to an athletic family. Her brother, Jay, plays basketball at Loyola University in Chicago with former Cyclone, Clayton Custer. Her younger sister, Tory, just graduated from ISU where she played volleyball and her youngest sister, Taryn, has committed to play at Florida State next year. Her dad, Jim, played football at ISU and her mom, Dawn, played basketball at Drake.
Who is Taylor Knuth Peterson?
200
Webster City graduate who was on the Iowa State Univeristy track and field and cross country teams in the late 1990's.
Who is Jana Peterson Besse?
200
Undefeated ISU wrestler who went on to coach the Cyclones and now coaches at Penn State. This wrestler is from Utah and has a brother named CYler! He was on the cover of a Wheaties box because he was undefeated in his college career. His college career record was 159-0.
Who is Cael Sanderson?
300
This coach coached the Cyclones from 1980-1994. He came to Iowa State from Michigan in 1980. Iowa State's athletics director had called him to inquire about Michigan assistant Bill Frieder. When he learned of the salary Iowa State would offer Frieder, he negotiated the Iowa State head coaching job for himself. This man is is credited with building "Hilton Magic" and laying the foundation for Iowa State's success in men's basketball. He always walked out to the gym to the theme song of a nighttime talk show with his name in the title. His career record as the Cyclones Head coach was 218-200. There is a restaurant/hangout area on the east end of Hilton Coliseum named after this man. He passed away after a fall in his home in 2013 at the age of 86.
Who is Johnny Orr?
300
He became the first African American football player to play for Iowa State in 1922. He also participated in track at ISU. His major was animal husbandry with the desire to go to the South after graduation, and use his knowledge to help African-American farmers. His dream job was to eventually teach Southern black farmers about modern farming. In the summer after his freshman year at the age of 20, he married Cora Mae Starland, who was only 15. They both found jobs in order to support themselves through school. He died as a result of a football injury during a game against Minnesota in 1923. During the second play of the game his collarbone was broken. He insisted he was all right and returned to the game. In the third quarter, while attempting to tackle a University of Minnesota ball carrier by throwing a roll block, he was trampled by three Minnesota players. Although he claimed to be fine, he was removed from the game and sent to a Minneapolis hospital. The doctors declared him fit to travel and he returned by train to Ames with his teammates. On October 8, 1923, he died from hemorrhaged lungs and internal bleeding as a result of the injuries sustained during the game. The football stadium at Iowa State is named after him.
Who was Jack Trice?
300
Stephanie McCannon Weise played volleyball at Iowa State from 1992-1995 under coach Jackie Nunez. During this time she was a four year starter and led ISU in many categories and has some records that still stand today. She is a 2003 inductee into the Iowa Girls' High School Athletic Union Volleyball Hall of Fame and has a daughter who is a freshman this year at Tipton High School where she is the statistical leader on both the volleyball and basketball teams. Stephanie was coached her junior and senior years of high school by your PEO sister, Joylyn Cobb! Stephanie attended this high school in Southeast Iowa.
What is West Point Marquette (now Holy Trinity)?
300
The current coach of the Iowa State women's basketball team. He grew up in Davenport, Iowa and attended William Penn College in Oskaloosa where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Economics. He has two sons, Billy and Steven, who are both coaching college women's basketball. Billy is married to former Cyclone player Lyndsey Medders.
Who is Bill Fennelly?
300
This coach's ISU teams racked up six NCAA titles, seven Big Eight titles and produced 38 NCAA individual champions and 91 Big Eight titlists. His career record at Iowa State is an untouchable 456-75-11.
Who is Harold Nichols?
400
In the 1987 match up between No. 20 Iowa State and No. 7 Iowa, Iowa State won 102-100 in overtime. This was the first time in history that both teams were ranked when they played each other. This Iowa State player scored a school-record 54 points in this matchup.
Who is Lafester Rhoads?
400
These two coaches did a Bartles and Jaymes commercial in the early nineties advertising their football and basketball teams.
Who are Johnny Orr and Jim Walden?
400
In college volleyball teams play the best three out of five games to this many points with the fifth game to 15 points.
What is 25?
400
This former women's basketball player grew up in Vinton, Iowa where her dad was a driver's education teacher. She was a standout on the women's basketball team from 1996-1999. After graduation from Iowa State with a degree in horticulture, she lived in Webster City and worked for 7B Ranch. She also helped coach the Lynx 7th grade girls' basketball team. She currently lives in Boone.
Who is Monica Huelman Zaruba?
400
Iowa State's current wrestling coach.
Who is Kevin Jackson?
500
The Cyclones' Men's Basketball team made it to the Final Four in 1944. This is the only season they have made this deep of a run into the NCAA tournament. Their coach at the time was Louis Menze and the year before their record was only 7-9 and 2-8 in the Big Six Conference. This team defeated the Cyclones and went on to become National Champions that year.
Who is Utah?
500
The coach of the Iowa State football team from 1895-1899 had a record of 18-8 in his 4 1/3 years coaching the team. This coach brought many innovative playing mechanics to college football:the screen pass, spiral punt, single- and double-wing formations, and the use of shoulder and thigh pads. There is a non-profit organization that provides youth football and cheer & dance programs for participants in 42 states and several countries around the world named after this coach. Since 1929, the Programs Philosophy has been that athletics and scholastics go hand in hand. At every level, Pop Warner programs seek to develop well-rounded young men and women who learn not only the fundamentals of football, cheerleading, and dance but also the importance of education in an atmosphere conducive to developing sound character while having a good time.
Who Glenn "Pop" Warner?
500
In 2008 and 2011 Iowa State Volleyball had two of its best seasons ever. In both of these seasons the Cyclones made it to this round of the NCAA tournament.
What is The Elite Eight?
500
Iowa States original school colors were black, gold and silver. In 1899 they were changed to cardinal and gold for this reason.
What is they were easier to use as dyes?
500
The first NCAA wrestling championships were held in Ames, Iowa in 1928. ISU did not win that one (Oklahoma State did). Since then they have won this many NCAA wrestling team championships.
What is eight? (1933, 1965, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1987)
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