University of Iowa Alumni

ALT 2025: Lisa Bluder Led Iowa women’s basketball to back-to-back NCAA championship game appearances and five Big Ten Tournament titles. Bluder compiled 884 career victories during a coaching career spanning more than 40 years.

ALT 2024: Chuck Long Former Iowa quarterback who led the Hawkeyes to a No. 1 national ranking and a Big Ten title in 1985. Long finished second in the 1985 Heisman Trophy voting and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.

ALT 2023: Caitlin Clark Led Iowa women’s basketball to back-to-back Big Ten Tournament titles and finished her collegiate career as the NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer.

ALT 2023: Spencer Lee Iowa wrestler who won three NCAA Division I championships and compiled a 98-6 collegiate record. Internationally, Lee earned a silver medal in men’s freestyle wrestling at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

ALT Four Hawkeye fans pose on a snowy Antarctic shoreline, bundled in red expedition jackets, winter hats, and sunglasses while holding a black-and-gold Iowa Hawkeyes flag featuring the Tigerhawk logo. A colony of penguins gathers along the shore behind them, with icy blue water, snow-covered mountains, and an expedition cruise ship in the distance.

ALT Wide view of the empty basketball court inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena at the University of Iowa. The hardwood floor features a large black-and-gold Tigerhawk logo at center court, with “IOWA HAWKEYES” lettering along both sidelines. Rows of empty black seats surround the court, while retired jerseys, championship banners, and an American flag hang from the rafters above the center-hung scoreboard.

ALT Hawkeye fans react to a loss from the stands at Kinnick Stadium, with many holding their hands on their heads or covering their faces in disappointment. Dressed in black and gold, the crowd captures the tension and heartbreak of a close football game.

ALT The Mill bar and restaurant was an Iowa City institution from 1962 until it closed in 2020. “There is no other answer. From my first beer on my first night in Iowa City as a freshman, to using it as a meeting venue for campus and town projects, to coming back to watch bands play and have vegetarian lasagna. It represented all that Iowa City and the University of Iowa was all about.” —Sarah Jones (79BGS)

ALT Playwright Samuel D. Hunter, the University of Iowa’s 2026 Homecoming grand marshal and writer of The Whale, poses for a portrait wearing glasses and a black jacket. A gold 2026 Iowa Homecoming pin featuring a ghost in a No. 31 football jersey appears beside him.

ALT Members of the Clark family stand on the field at Kinnick Stadium after accepting the University of Iowa Family Spirit Award. Wearing black-and-gold Hawkeye scarves, family members of several generations wave alongside a young girl as thousands of fans in the packed stadium perform the Iowa Wave behind them.

ALT Former Iowa tight end George Kittle (16BA) celebrates during a game at Kinnick Stadium, wearing a black No. 46 Hawkeye jersey and gold pants. Kittle stretches both arms wide with a football in one hand as a packed crowd of cheering Hawkeye fans fills the background.

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ALT Matthew Monson (03BA) at Mount Kilimanjaro with the Tigerhawk flag.

ALT Alumni pose with the Tigerhawk flag in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.

ALT Craig Nichols (84MA) and his wife visited the Fjallsjokull Glacier and Fjallsarlon Lagoon in Iceland, and posed by the lagoon with a large Tigerhawk flag.

ALT Carolyn Lyon James (89BA), left, is one of three replay operators who have only a few seconds to find the best view to show fans on the video boards after a play. The pressure ramps up when a play is under review as they try to quickly determine what aspect of the play is in question and find the camera angle that confirms or contradicts the head official’s initial call.

ALT Major network camera operators use gyroscopically stabilized sport lenses to keep a designated subject, like the quarterback, in focus as they zoom in or out or pan across the field. They share their camera feeds with HawkVision to use in its own video board production. This operator uses a handwritten cheat sheet attached to his camera with key player names, positions, and numbers to help him quickly find his next subject after receiving a new assignment via headset from the TV production truck.

ALT UI Athletics Creative Media photographers like Stephen Mally typically shoot with two to three cameras during a Hawkeye football game day. This allows them to quickly switch between subjects that are near and far. Says videographer Matt Little (19BA, 19BBA): “That in itself is its own skill set—being able to swing between one or the other and knowing when to bail and when to go to the next focal length.”