State News

Diving clinic at the Univerity of Iowa

USA Diving, in association with the USA Diving Winter Nationals January 30-Feb. 6 in Iowa City, will be hosting a coaches clinic Jan. 29 at 8 a.m. at the University of Iowa Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.
 
Cost of the clinic is $25 for USA Diving members and $50 for non-members.
 
Jason Baumann, Director of Education for USA Diving, will be the presenter.  Topics included will be technique, mechanics and judging.
 
To learn more information about the clinic, click here.
 
To learn more about obtaining information and tickets to USA Diving's Winter Championships Jan. 30, click here.

No. 2 SC East toppled by 2A club

SIOUX CITY -- Sioux City East, ranked second in Class 4A, was upset Saturday (Jan. 8) by defending Class 2A state champion Hull Western Christian, 54-50, in the fifth annual CNOS Foundation Basketball Classic.

The loss was the first for East, which has been ranked No. 2 since the start of the season.

Read the story at the Sioux City Journal.

Former 'Mr. Basketball' Gaines dies

Chris Gaines, Iowa's Mr. Basketball as a prep senior at Waterloo West in 1986, has died of an apparent heart attack. He died Dec. 25 after being stricken at his home in Orlando, Fla. He was 42.

Here is a link to the story that ran in the Des Moines Register.