Best Iowa HS athlete of all time
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Dustin Avey running a 50.96 second 400 meter low hurdle was phenominal.
Probably mostly wrestlers. Iowa's best sport and I'm guessing most olympic medal output per capita.
Jeff McGinnis
Dan Gable
Barry Davis
probably a few dozen that could be argued, but I highly doubt any top 5 list of actual best Iowa hs athletes vs rest of the country/world wouldn't include some wrestlers
Jeff McGinnis
Dan Gable
Barry Davis
probably a few dozen that could be argued, but I highly doubt any top 5 list of actual best Iowa hs athletes vs rest of the country/world wouldn't include some wrestlers
Jeff Clement? No. There are other athletes just from Marshalltown that I'd list ahead of him but none worthy of this list
Natasha Kaiser-Brown was a big effing deal back in the day.
It depends if the question is:
(a) what they did in high school, or
(b) what they did in the entirety of their athletic career, but having come from an Iowa HS
(a) what they did in high school, or
(b) what they did in the entirety of their athletic career, but having come from an Iowa HS
Beat me to it
Kinnick could be on the list, but didn't he move out of state technically
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Jerry Moses probably the best running back ever to come out of the state of Iowa. He played for Iowa State in the early 70s and then got a knee injury in 1971 and had to get out of football
Curious why everybody unanimously thinks Iowa track and field athletes are more elite than wrestlers.
This is like if some Canadian province decided not to list any hockey players but focused on just on local track and field.
Running fast and jumping high/long aren't any more (or less) athletic than what the best boxers, wrestlers and UFC fighters do.
They're the two oldest human sports but ignore the one Iowa is legendary in and focus on the one that Iowa has comparatively little history with outside hosting the Drake relays.
A lot of our best football athletes are better because they're wrestlers as well.
This is like if some Canadian province decided not to list any hockey players but focused on just on local track and field.
Running fast and jumping high/long aren't any more (or less) athletic than what the best boxers, wrestlers and UFC fighters do.
They're the two oldest human sports but ignore the one Iowa is legendary in and focus on the one that Iowa has comparatively little history with outside hosting the Drake relays.
A lot of our best football athletes are better because they're wrestlers as well.
yeah, I was having trouble with this just thinking of the best wrestlers
I do think you can look at pro, college and olympic success to determine how good the overall level of competition is in Iowa vs other states.
As a former wrestler, I know I couldn't outrun/jump/throw an elite track star and would probably struggle beating them in wrestling. I know I can outrun most(maybe all) of the wrestlers mentioned.
