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Felicity Taylor wins U23 title; Slade, Biscoglia lead Iowa at Cadet world team trials
USA Wrestling’s ladies’s freestyle nationwide championships started Friday and Saturday at The Podium in Spokane, Washington, with the Cadet world group trials and U23 nationwide championships.
A set of Iowa excessive schoolers and a handful of Iowa collegiate ladies’s wrestlers participated in each competitions, which assist determine plenty of USA Wrestling’s age-level world groups for the upcoming summer time.
Within the U23 division, Iowa’s Felicity Taylor and Iowa Wesleyan’s Adaugo Nwachukwu each received their respective weights. Within the Cadet division, Southeast Polk’s Skylar Slade and Raccoon River-Northwest’s Katie Biscoglia led the Iowa highschool contingent.
Extra: Iowa ladies’s, ladies wrestlers to comply with on the wrestling nationwide championships this weekend
Right here’s a rundown of what occurred:
Iowa’s Felicity Taylor, Iowa Wesleyan’s Adaugo Nwachukwu win U23 titles
Each Felicity Taylor and Adaugo Nwachukwu ripped by way of their respective weights to win U23 nationwide titles on Friday and Saturday.
Taylor went 5-0 to win at 53 kilograms (116 kilos). She outscored her 5 opponents by a mixed 49-0. In Saturday’s best-of-three finals, she swept Colorado’s Estrella Dorado Marin, successful the primary match 13-0 and the second match 10-0. That is Taylor’s third U23 nationwide title. She beforehand received in 2019 and 2022.
Nwachukwu, a two-time NAIA nationwide champion for Iowa Wesleyan, dominated in related style en path to first at 62 kilos (136). She went 4-0 with two pins and two technical falls, outscoring her opponents 41-0. In Saturday’s finals sequence, she swept North Carolina’s Marisol Nugent by an identical 10-0 scores.
In contrast to the Cadet and Junior competitions this weekend in Spokane, the U23 nationwide championship competitors shouldn’t be solely a world group trials occasion, regardless of a best-of-three finals sequence for all U23 weights. USA Wrestling modified its U23 world group course of final 12 months and saved the identical course of in place this 12 months.
Taylor and Nwachukwu did place themselves for a possible U23 world group spot by successful the occasion this weekend.
Southeast Polk’s Skylar Slade, Raccoon River’s Katie Biscoglia lead Iowa excessive schoolers at Cadet world group trials
Seven of Iowa’s prime highschool wrestlers competed within the Cadet world group trials in Spokane between Friday and Saturday. 4 reached the quarterfinals at their weights, however solely two, freshmen Katie Biscoglia and Skylar Slade, completed on the rostrum.
Biscoglia, a state champ this previous season for Raccoon River-Northwest, completed fourth at 43 kilograms (94.6 kilos). She reached the semifinal spherical and completed with a 2-2 file.
Slade, a state champ for Southeast Polk in February, additionally took fourth, at 65 kilos (143). After a loss within the quarters, Slade rattled off three consecutive wins within the wrestlebacks to earn a spot within the prime 4. She completed 5-2 general.
Behind them, it was a tricky weekend for a few of Iowa’s most proficient ladies wrestlers:
- Sigourney-Keota’s Reanah Utterback, a previous ladies state champ and a state medalist on the boys event this previous season, was one of many 4 to achieve the quarterfinals, however finally completed 2-2 at 49 kilos (108);
- Waverly-Shell Rock’s Kiara Djoumessi, one other state champion in February, was the fourth quarterfinalist, however she additionally completed 2-2 at 61 kilos (134);
- Riverside’s Molly Allen, a two-time state champ and returning 16U nationwide champ final summer time, really dropped her first match of the event, then received 4 in a row within the wrestlebacks earlier than shedding once more to complete 4-2 at 53 kilos (116).
There have been many encouraging moments all through the event for these Iowa ladies, however a world group trials occasion is, by definition, speculated to be the nation’s hardest event — more durable even than the nationwide championships.
The teachings discovered from this weekend will assist these Iowa ladies as they proceed to progress.
UP NEXT: Iowa ladies’s wrestlers on the U20 world group trials
Members of the Iowa ladies’s wrestling group and extra of Iowa’s prime high-school ladies wrestlers will compete on the U20/Junior world group trials, which run all day Saturday and can wrap up Sunday afternoon. You possibly can watch the motion on Flowrestling.
Cody Goodwin covers wrestling and highschool sports activities for the Des Moines Register. Comply with him on Twitter at @codygoodwin.
Iowa State women’s basketball star Emily Ryan released a video Thursday in which she discusses her battle with an eating disorder.
Ryan, a senior from Claflin, Kansas, has been one of the Big 12 Conference’s best point guards for the past few seasons. She was a first-team all-conference pick in 2022, and a second-team selection in 2023.
“By sharing my story, I hope to build awareness and provide hope to everyone else fighting an invisible battle,” Ryan said in the video.
Ryan said her sense of self-worth was dependent on Iowa State’s success and her individual performance. That led to increased time spent in the weight room in an effort to get stronger and faster. When Ryan didn’t see the results that she desired, she began to focus on her diet.
Ryan said the Iowa State medical staff expressed their concern about Ryan’s eating habits and what it was doing to her body. Ryan said she was in “complete denial” about having an eating disorder, but her health continued to worsen.
Ryan missed the first nine games of the 2023-24 season due to the eating disorder. When she returned, she said, “off the court I was really struggling. By the end of the season, I was physically and mentally hanging on by a thread.”
During the offseason, Ryan spent 88 days at a treatment center in Denver.
“It took a long time but I finally came to the understanding that being sick wasn’t my fault, and eating disorders are real, complex illnesses,” she said.
How to get help
For resources on disordered eating, call the National Eating Disorders Helpline at 800-931-2237 or text NEDA to 741741.
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
- FAQ: SBLive High School Football Computer Rankings
Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
CLASS 8 MAN
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