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2018–19 Iowa Hawkeyes Women's Basketball Team
The 2018–19 Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team represented the University of Iowa during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Hawkeyes, led by 19th year head coach Lisa Bluder, played their home games at Carver–Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, Iowa City, IA as members of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 29–7, 14–4 in Big Ten play to finish in second place. Iowa won the Big Ten Conference tournament championship game over 2018–19 Maryland Terrapins women's basketball team, Maryland, 90–76. They received an automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, NCAA women's tournament as the No. 2 seed in the Greensboro region where they defeated Mercer and Missouri in the first and second rounds, NC State in the Sweet Sixteen to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1993. They lost to eventual national champion Baylor in the Elite Eight. Off-season Departures Recruits Roster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Bluder
Lisa Marie Bluder (, born April 16, 1961) is the former head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball, Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball program. Formerly, she served as coach of St. Ambrose University and the Drake Bulldogs women's basketball, Drake Bulldogs. Bluder notably led Iowa to two NCAA national championship games, in 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game, 2023 and 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game, 2024. During this time, Bluder led the program through the Caitlin Clark era, which was characterized with an intense and explosive rise in popularity for women's basketball, NCAA Division I Women's Basketball, particularly Caitlin Clark effect, due to Clark's play. The Hawkeyes lost to 2022–23 LSU Tigers women's basketball team, LSU in the former year and 2023–24 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team, South Carolina in the latter. On May 13, 2024, Bluder announced her retirement. Early life Bluder attended Linn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mason City, Iowa
Mason City is a city and the county seat of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, United States. The population was 27,338 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Mason City is known for its musical heritage, a significant collection of renowned Prairie School style architecture, and a close connection with nearby Clear Lake, Iowa, Clear Lake. The Mason City Mason City micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Cerro Gordo and Worth County, Iowa, Worth counties. Local institutions of higher education include North Iowa Area Community College. The Winnebago River traverses the community to the southeast. History The region around what would later be first called Shibboleth was a summer home to the Sioux and Ho-Chunk, Winnebago nations. The first settlement that became Shibboleth was established in 1853 at the confluence of the Winnebago River and Calmus Creek. The town had several freemasonic influenced names: Shibboleth, Masonic Grove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iowa City West High School
Iowa City West High School is a public high school in Iowa City, Iowa. It serves grades 9–12 for the Iowa City Community School District. Athletics The Trojans compete in the Mississippi Valley Conference in the following sports: *Cross Country ** Boys' 1988 Class 3A State Champions ** Girls' 5-time State Champions (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004) *Volleyball ** 2-time Class 4A State Champions (2010, 2011) *Football ** 3-time Class 4A State Champions (1995, 1998, 1999) *Basketball ** Boys' 7-time State Champions (1977, 1998, 2000, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017) ** Girls' 2012 Class 5A State Champions **Girls’ 2018 Class 5A State Champions *Wrestling ** 2-time Class 3A State Champions (2006, 2007) *Swimming ** Boys 3-time State Champions (2014, 2015, 2020) 1/sup> * Diego Lasansky (2012), painter and printmaker * Jeremy Morgan (2013), basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League. * Patrick McCaffery (2019), basketball player * Dasia Taylor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benet Academy
Benet Academy ( ) is a private, highly competitive, co-educational, college-preparatory, Benedictine high school in Lisle, Illinois, United States, overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois, Diocese of Joliet. Founded in 1886, the school was initially established in Chicago as the all-boys St. Procopius College and Academy by Benedictine monks, who also operated the St. Joseph Bohemian Orphanage. In 1898, the orphanage moved to Lisle, about west of Chicago, to be joined by St. Procopius three years later. In 1926, Benedictine nuns constructed the all-girls Sacred Heart Academy near the orphanage and school in Lisle. The orphanage closed in 1956 to make room for St. Procopius Academy, which separated from the college in 1969. Due to rising costs and waning enrollment, Sacred Heart merged with St. Procopius Academy in 1967 to form Benet Academy on the St. Procopius campus. Since then, numerous building projects have been undertaken to expand Benet's athletics, mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaGrange Park, Illinois
La Grange Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, about west-southwest of Chicago. According to the 2020 census, the population was 13,475. Geography La Grange Park is located at (41.829831, -87.869233). According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, La Grange Park has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the 2020 census there were 13,475 people, 4,917 households, and 3,576 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 5,398 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 80.82% White, 4.33% African American, 0.54% Native American, 2.37% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 3.50% from other races, and 8.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 11.80% of the population. There were 4,917 households, out of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.48% were married couples living together, 10.33% had a female householder with no husband p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Ryan High School
Bishop Ryan Catholic School is a PK–12 private, Roman Catholic, co-educational school in Minot, North Dakota, United States. Established in 1958, it is within the Diocese of Bismarck, and named for Vincent James Ryan, the second bishop of the diocese. The campus in north Minot is directly east of Minot State University. After the 2011 Souris River flood and the flooding of the Little Flower Elementary campus, the preschool and elementary students were moved to Bishop Ryan, resulting in North Dakota's first Catholic PK-12 school. Athletics Bishop Ryan's mascot is a lion, with the girls' teams referred to as the Lady Lions. The school has sports programs in football, golf, volleyball, cheerleading, track and field, baseball, softball, basketball, cross-country, and wrestling. The school competes in the Class B division, except for football in Class A. Bishop Ryan's head coach in basketball from 1959 to 1964 was 24-year-old Dale Brown, later the head coach at LSU for 25 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minot, North Dakota
Minot ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Ward County, North Dakota, United States, in the state's north-central region. It is most widely known for the Air Force base approximately north of the city. With a population of 48,377 at the 2020 census, Minot is the state's fourth-most populous city and a trading center for a large part of northern North Dakota, southwestern Manitoba, and southeastern Saskatchewan. Founded in 1886 during the construction of James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway, Minot is also known as "Magic City", commemorating its remarkable growth in size over a short time, in contrast to an extremely unremarkable city in an unremarkable state. Minot is the principal city of the Minot metropolitan area, a metropolitan area that covers McHenry, Renville, and Ward counties and had a combined population of 77,546 at the 2020 census. History Minot came into existence in 1886, after the Great Northern Railway laid track through the area. A tent town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardsville High School
Edwardsville Senior High School is a public high school located in Edwardsville, Illinois. History Edwardsville High School was first located on North Kansas Street in downtown Edwardsville. Due to the expansion of the town, a new high school was commissioned in 1921. Today, the first building is Columbus Elementary School. The second Edwardsville High School was completed in 1925, on 145 West Street. Rather than rebuild a bigger school, it was expanded over the years to meet the demands of the growing school district. In 1993, Edwardsville High school was unable to be expanded any longer, and a motion was passed to turn the old High School into a middle school, and build a new state of the art High School at 6161 Center Grove Road. The current Edwardsville High School complex was completed in 1996 by the Korte Company and began regular use in 1997 Features Edwardsville High School's Chuck Fruit aquatic center is home to the only Olympic size swimming pool in the Metro East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwardsville, Illinois
Edwardsville is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 26,808 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city was named in honor of Ninian Edwards, former governor of the Illinois Territory. Edwardsville is a part of Southern Illinois and the Metro East region within Greater St. Louis, located northeast of downtown St. Louis. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the Edwardsville Arts Center, the ''Edwardsville Journal'', the ''Madison County Record'', and the ''Edwardsville Intelligencer'' are based in Edwardsville. Edwardsville High School and Metro-East Lutheran High School serve students in the area. Edwardsville also serves as the headquarters for Prairie Farms Dairy, one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States and ranked in the top 10 of the largest privately held companies in the St. Louis region. The city is part of the Edwardsville School District, which also includes the villages of Glen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Blanc, Michigan
Grand Blanc is a city in Genesee County, Michigan, Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint, Michigan, Flint. The population was 7,784 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 US Census. It is part of the Flint metropolitan area. The city is surrounded by Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, Grand Blanc Township but is administratively autonomous. History The unincorporated village of Grand Blanc, or Grumlaw, was a former Indian campground first settled by Jacob Stevens in spring 1822. Several years later, settlers improved the Indian trail to Saginaw; they laid out and staked it in 1829 as Saginaw Road. Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, Grand Blanc Township was formed in 1833 with area that would become the city. The township center began to boom in 1864 with the arrival of the railroad (now known as the CSX Saginaw Subdivision). With the post office there, the village was called Grand Blanc Centre by 1873, with the former Grand Blanc assuming the name Gibs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Shore School District
South Shore School District is located in Port Wing, Wisconsin and serves students in grades Pre-K through 12. It is located on School Road and Washington Avenue. The name South Shore was suggested in 1942 by Alice Okkonen, an elementary school teacher from Herbster, Wisconsin.South Shore Schools, "The Torch, " 1942 History South Shore School District was originally one of the many “township schools” in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, when Port Wing Township was still part of Bayfield Township. Over the years five schools have been built - in 1893, 1894, 1898, 1903, 1978 and 1990. The first “schoolhouse” was built in 1893 by Irving Herrick as a small log structure near Larson Creek and Twin Falls. There were about seven students. The second school was built in 1894 by the Town of Bayfield and was a one-room school with a belfry. Because of growing enrollment in the town of Port Wing, the Town of Bayfield constructed a second schoolho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Wing, Wisconsin
Port Wing (also Portwing) is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Port Wing, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The community is along Wisconsin Highway 13 and Bayfield County Highway A. It is west of Bayfield. The Flag River enters Lake Superior at Port Wing's harbor. Population and area As of the 2020 census, its population is 156, which is a decrease of 164 at the 2010 census. Port Wing has an area of , all of it land. Education Port Wing is the site of South Shore School District. Notable people * Jolene Anderson, former WNBA player, Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year in 2007-08 and the all-time leading scorer for the University of Wisconsin women's basketball team, grew up in Port Wing. * Megan Gustafson, 2019 Naismith Award winner and two-time Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year at the University of Iowa, was raised from infancy in Port Wing (though born in a Duluth, Minnesota Duluth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
