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• Joey Woody’s second season as head coach of the UI’s men’s and
women’s track and field teams resulted in a record number of
performers advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. A
total of 15 Hawkeyes advanced to the national championships,
including Big Ten champions Briana Guillory (200 meters), Aaron
Mallett (110 meter hurdles), men’s 400-meter relay, and women’s
1,600-meter relay.
• The Iowa men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams both
tallied top-40 finishes at the NCAA Championships under head
coach Marc Long. The program had two student-athletes—
junior Emma Sougstad (100 breast) and senior Roman Trussov
(100 breast, 200 breast)—garner three All-America distinctions.
Ten student-athletes were named CSCAA Scholar All-Americans
and 35 earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition.
• Under third-year head coach Andrew Carter, the Iowa rowing
program continued to make significant strides forward. The
Hawkeyes were represented in the top-20 national rankings for
the first time in six seasons. The squad placed fifth in the Big
Ten Championships with 95 points, its highest championship
point total since 2009. Senior Beth Baustian earned secondteam
Pocock All-America accolades, becoming the fourth All-
American in program history and the second in the last three
seasons. The Hawkeyes excelled off the water with 20 Academic
All-Big Ten selections, the most for the program since 2009, and
five Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Scholar Athletes.
• Under second-year head coach Bond Shymansky, the UI
volleyball team compiled a 10-3 record in nonconference
action—the best overall start for the program since 2006 (11-
1). The Hawkeyes won eight straight matches from Sept. 6-19,
including a 3-1 victory over Iowa State -- Iowa’s first win over the
Cyclones since 1997 -- and a 3-1 win over No. 25 Texas A&M.
In October 2015, the NCAA reported that Iowa’s student-athletes
had tied the record set the previous year by posting a Graduation
Success Rate (GSR) score of 89 percent. That mark ranked six points
better than the national average.
The NCAA also noted the UI had posted a federal graduation
rate of 71 percent. This was also a record, three points better than
the national average—and tops the three State of Iowa Board of
Regents’ institutions.
Last May, the NCAA reported that all 24 of Iowa’s sports programs
were comfortably above the Academic Progress Rate (APR) threshold.
The NCAA also singled out the UI’s volleyball, men’s golf, and women’s
swimming and diving for APR scores that ranked in the top 10 percent
of their peer group. These three teams have each registered a perfect
score of 1,000 in each of the past four years.
Along with Uthoff and Disterhoft earning Academic All-American
of the Year accolades, the Hawkeyes also boasted Academic All-
Americans in football (senior defensive back Jordan Lomax) and
wrestling (senior Nathan Burak). In addition, 167 UI student-athletes
earned Academic All-Big Ten recognitions throughout the year, and
wrestler Alex Meyer earned academic recognition from the National
Wrestling coaches Association (NWCA).
“Doing it Right” for Barta and the more than 225 staff of the UI
Athletics Department is a charge that encompasses a long and varied
list of responsibilities, including maintaining the department’s status
as one of a handful of intercollegiate athletics programs nationally that
successfully operates its sports programs and auxiliary enterprises in a
fiscally responsible manner and without any institutional or taxpayer
financial support. The UI provides a superior experience for the more
than 650 talented student-athletes who participate in the program
annually and the more than one million friends and fans of the UI who
attend Hawkeye events on the UI campus while being responsible
and productive citizens of the greater Iowa City and University of
Iowa community.
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In 2016-17, Barta will be responsible for an annual operating
budget that will exceed $100 million for the first time, with 100
percent of the revenue side of that budget generated by the UI
Athletics Department. The majority of that revenue comes as a
result of success in traditional revenue sources: income as a result
of membership in the Big Ten Conference (including television), sales
of tickets to athletic events on the UI campus, and donations to the
National I-Club.
The National I-Club donations has grown into a critical piece of
the financial pie managed by Barta, exemplified by continued years
of outright fundraising support exceeding $26 million annually. That
philanthropic support has been critical to the long list of athletics
facilities that have either been built or renovated during Barta’s first
10 years on campus.
That list includes:
• Construction of the recently-completed $55 million Stew and
LeNore Hansen Football Performance Center
• $47 million revitalization of Carver-Hawkeye Arena
• Installation of a new video wall and video ribbon board at
Kinnick Stadium
• Installation of a new video scoreboard and playing surface at
Duane Banks Field
• Partnered in construction of a new indoor turf facility that
accommodates Olympic sports like baseball, softball, and soccer.
• Renovation of the practice space inside the UI Fieldhouse for the
men’s and women’s gymnastics teams
• Construction of the Hoak Family Golf Facility for the men’s and
women’s golf programs
• Turf replacement at Grant Field, the home of Iowa’s nationally
ranked field hockey program
• Resurfacing of the Klotz Tennis Center courts
• Installation of artificial turf on the outdoor football practice
fields, matching the playing surface of Kinnick Stadium
Providing the resources for UI student-athletes and coaches to be
successful is a priority for Barta and his senior management team.
That process includes providing state-of-the-art facilities, which is
why Barta continues to work closely with institutional leadership
on the finalization of a comprehensive master plan for the facilities
available to the Hawkeyes.
Additional facility projects on the horizon include:
• Center-hung videoboards in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, along with
new sound and lighting systems being installed this summer
• A north end zone project at Kinnick Stadium that will provide
additional premium seating options and additional upgrades
• Installation of a new banked track in the UI Recreation Building,
home of UI indoor track programs
• Renovations to the Gerdin Athletics Learning Center, home to
the UI’s Athletic Student Services staff
• Stadium upgrades to the baseball (Duane Banks Field) and
softball (Bob Pearl Field) facilities
• A new clubhouse at the UI’s Finkbine Golf Course
• Additional olympic sport improvements for soccer, gymnastics,
volleyball, and other teams.
Iowa’s contributions to the greater Iowa City community go far
beyond the multi-million dollars of economic impact generated
as a result of the staging of hundreds of annual regular season,
postseason, and special events annually. Barta and UI studentathletes,
coaches, and staff are also active citizens, logging thousands
of hours of community service and spearheading efforts to support
a wide variety of causes ranging from construction of the UI’s new
Children’s Hospital, to the UI’s extremely successful Dance Marathon,
to involvement with Coaches vs. Cancer.
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