by Radio Iowa Contributor | May 19, 2014 | Human Interest, News
Athletes with intellectual disabilities from across Iowa will be heading to Ames later this week for the 30th straight year the city’s hosting the Special Olympics Summer Games. Shane Kiesner, spokesman for Special Olympics Iowa, says the three days of events...
by Todd Kimm | Jun 28, 2013 | Sports
Soccer fans can enjoy a tripleheader on Saturday at Valley Stadium in West Des Moines and it will be capped off by a Des Moines Menace game. Menace spokesman Adam Small says the action will begin with the Iowa high school girls and then boys all star contests. Small...
by Todd Kimm | Aug 15, 2012 | Sports
Drake men’s soccer coach Sean Holmes hopes a tough non conference schedule will have his team battle tested this season. The Bulldogs will face six teams that played in the NCAA Tournament a year ago. “We wanted to challenge our guys, we wanted to go out...
by Todd Kimm | Jul 12, 2012 | Sports
The biggest of three weekends of the Iowa Games begins Friday in Ames. Spokesman Cory Kennedy says more than 40 sports will be contested over the next three days with the track and field, soccer events being some of the largest. Friday’s activities will be...
by Todd Kimm | Jun 25, 2012 | Sports
Fifty of the sports offered by the Iowa Games this summer face a registration deadline today. Spokesman Cory Kennedy says it is the final registration deadline for 11 sports, including youth and adult basketball. He says many of the sports are team sports and it takes...
