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Iowa’s Caitlin Clark wins AP Player of the Year – WTOP News
DALLAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has put collectively one of many biggest particular person seasons in NCAA historical past with eye-popping offensive…
DALLAS (AP) — Caitlin Clark has put collectively one of many biggest particular person seasons in NCAA historical past with eye-popping offensive numbers.
Iowa’s junior guard, although, saved her finest efficiency for the sport’s largest stage, recording the primary 40-point triple-double in NCAA historical past to get Iowa to the Closing 4 for the primary time in 30 years.
Clark was honored Thursday as The Related Press ladies’s basketball Participant of the 12 months. She acquired 20 votes from the 28-member nationwide media panel that votes on the AP Prime 25 every week. Voting was carried out earlier than March Insanity started.
“It’s an enormous honor,” Clark stated. “I picked a spot that I completely match into and that’s allowed me to indicate my talent set. I’d be mendacity if I stated it didn’t imply one thing. It’s not the explanation you play basketball, it’s simply one thing that comes together with attending to do what you’re keen on.”
The Iowa teaching employees stunned Clark by sharing that she gained the award whereas they had been visiting the Iowa Kids’s Hospital — a spot close to and pricey to her. It additionally has enormous ties to the Hawkeyes athletic department.
They put collectively a video of a number of the youngsters within the hospital congratulating Clark on an excellent season, and in the midst of it, Iowa coach Lisa Bluder popped on the display to inform her she gained.
“I’m there for uplifting the subsequent era and being there for the folks that are going via a tough time,” stated Clark, who grew up in Iowa. “With the ability to give pleasure to folks that watch you play and watch your staff play is superb.”
She averaged 27.0 factors, 8.3 assists and seven.5 rebounds throughout the season to assist Iowa go 26-6. Clark has 984 factors, the sixth-most in a season by any participant in Division I ladies’s historical past. She additionally has over 300 assists.
“She is spectacular. I don’t know the way else to explain what she does on the basketball court docket,” Bluder stated.
Subsequent up for the Hawkeyes is undefeated South Carolina within the nationwide semifinals. The Gamecocks are led by Aliyah Boston, final season’s winner of the award. She garnered the opposite eight votes this season.
“There’s so many nice gamers, extra than simply me and (Aliyah),” Clark instructed the AP. “You possibly can go on and on and record the super gamers. I feel that’s actually good for our sport when there’s loads of nice gamers. That’s what’s going to assist this sport develop greater than the rest.”
Whether or not it’s hitting deep 3s from the Hawkeye emblem at dwelling video games, hitting off-balance game-winning photographs or throwing pinpoint passes to teammates for straightforward baskets, Clark has excelled on the court docket this 12 months to get Iowa to a spot it hasn’t been in a very long time.
“It’s humorous, as a result of the higher the opponent, virtually the higher she performs,” Bluder stated. “It’s like she locks in on these, after we’re enjoying towards Prime 25 groups. That’s when her statistics even go up much more, towards nice opponents.”
Clark is the second Iowa participant to win the AP award prior to now few seasons, becoming a member of Megan Gustafson who gained it in 2019.
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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.
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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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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
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