Ready or not, the new academic and athletic year has arrived. Teachers are busy preparing to meet the needs of their students and coaches in fall sports are already deep into their respective seasons with competitions coming soon. As we kick off the 2018-2019 there are some fantastic things going on within the IATC. President
Welcome back to all our members. I am ready to watch another great fall of cross country competition. I myself spend my Friday nights on the football field, but my Saturdays are spent watching cross country, high school and college meets. I would like to thank all those that volunteer their time to help the
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The Iowa Association of Track Coaches and the Hall of Fame Committee are proud to present the class of 2018 inductees. 2018 IATC Hall of Fame Inductees Athlete - Aaron Stockstell, Mid Prairie. Aaron was a highly decorated track athlete from Mid Prairie Iowa. His marks include: 800M AT Best-1:50.18. 2A state meet record: 1:51.17.
D1 NCAA Qualifiers-Eugene, Oregon June 6-9 MEN Decathlon-Will Dougherty-Moville Woodbury Central/U of Iowa and Derek Jacobus-CR Kennedy/Arkansas 400M-Mar'yea Harris-U of Iowa 800M-Jaymes Dennison-Iowa State, Matt Manternach-Monticello/U of Iowa 5,000-Edwin Kurgat-Iowa State 110HH-Chris Douglas-U of Iowa 400H-Jacob Smith-WB-ND/UNI, Eric Fogltanz-Iowa State, Chris Douglas-U of Iowa 4x100-U of Iowa 4x400-U of Iowa, Iowa State Shot Put-Reno Tuufuli-U of
Well over 100 Iowa preps are on this list of athletes moving on to the next level of competition. While we have compiled a nice list we are sure we are missing some. If you are aware of any that are missing from this list please email mikejay59@gmail.com with the information so we can add them.
Here is the updated Blue Standards list as of April 19, 2018.
I hope the indoor season is off to a great start for all of you. I have seen some impressive performances already from several different indoor meets. Keep up the great work with your student athletes. I want to encourage all of you to get your memberships current with the IATC. This enables Cross Country
I hope this finds all of you ready to roll for the start of our 2018 track and field season! As I write this we are only 50 days away from the start of the Drake Relays and 72 days away from the state track and field meet. I really appreciate having the opportunity to
