Football home games are played at Kinnick Stadium,[7] while basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, and wrestling events are held at Carver–Hawkeye Arena.

Three men's teams – gymnastics, swimming and diving, and tennis – were eliminated after the 2020–21 academic year to help address a projected $60–75 million deficit related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[9][10] Iowa began playing baseball in 1890, when the Hawkeyes went a combined 2–1 (two wins and one loss) against two teams, Cornell and Vinton.

It was Iowa's first outright Big Ten baseball title since 1939, and the last one since, although the Hawkeyes did earn ties for the conference championship in 1974 and 1990.

But that 1972 Iowa team fought its way to Omaha the hard way, losing its first game in the regional tournament, then winning doubleheaders on consecutive days on the campus of Bowling Green University in Ohio.

The Hawkeyes opened the 1972 CWS against #1-ranked Arizona State, who entered the game with an incredible record of 60 wins and only 4 losses.

[11] Iowa plays its home games at Duane Banks Field, whose namesake is the winningest baseball coach in school history.

[14][16] Iowa played in the national championship game against San Francisco in 1956, but lost by 12 after taking an early double-digit lead.

[23] The Hawkeyes' lone claim to a national championship came after winning the Rose Bowl following the 1958 season, when they were awarded the Grantland Rice trophy by the Football Writers Association of America.

Fry, who coached the Hawkeyes for 20 seasons, had 143 wins, three Big Ten titles, and 14 bowl trips in his tenure at Iowa.

Renamed in 1972 in honor of Iowa's lone Heisman Trophy winner, Nile Kinnick,[24] the stadium can currently hold up to 70,585 fans.

[7] Kinnick won the Heisman Award following the conclusion of the 1939 season, but died on June 2, 1943, in the Gulf of Paria during a World War II training flight.

Brad Klapprott won an individual Big Ten championship that year, becoming only the second Iowa men's golfer to do so.

This, in turn, allowed the University of Iowa to become the last of all the Big Ten schools to have won a national championship in an NCAA-sponsored sport.

[28] Men's swimming became a sanctioned varsity sport at the University of Iowa in 1917, with David Armbruster as the team's coach.

Glenn Patton was next in the line of coaches, and during his tenure, the Hawkeyes won two Big Ten championships and finished as high as eighth on the national level.

[31] Receiving NCAA Swimmer of the Year in 2010 & 2011 while on the University of Florida swim team, Olympian Conor Dwyer swam with the Hawkeyes swim team on scholarship for his first two collegiate seasons: the Hawkeyes were the only university to offer Dwyer a scholarship after high school.

[32][33][34] Men's tennis became a varsity sport at Iowa in 1939, and from that time to the present, the Hawkeyes have won the Big Ten championship once, in 1958.

Yamini currently shares the Big Ten Outdoor Championships long jump record with Ohio State's Jesse Owens.

In his career at Iowa, which lasted until 1997, Gable led the Hawkeyes to 15 national titles and 21 consecutive Big Ten championships.

[46] Prior to her tenure at Iowa, Stringer coached at Cheyney University, and took the school to new heights when she led the Wolves to the national championship game in 1982.

Unprecedented attention was shown to the Hawkeyes under Stringer,[47] as evidenced by the record-setting 22,157 fans that watched Iowa play Ohio State on February 3, 1985, in Carver–Hawkeye Arena.

[46] In 2023, the team advanced to the Final Four in Dallas, TX as a #2 seed after defeating Southeastern Louisiana (#15), Georgia (#10), Colorado (#6), and Louisville (#5).

[50] Women's rowing became a varsity sport at the University of Iowa in 1994 at which time Mandi Kowal was hired as head coach.

Prior to that time the rowing Hawkeyes had no permanent home, but instead their boats were housed in an excess area of the Iowa Advanced Technology Laboratories.

The building has workout facilities, team locker rooms, boat bays, indoor rowing tanks, and meeting spaces.

[55] Nancilea Underwood (now Foster) was a diver on the United States Olympic Team in 2008 after completing her career diving for the University of Iowa.

[56] The Iowa Hawkeye Ultimate Club (IHUC) competes in the West Plains conference of the North Central Region.

[60] Iowa would go on to make the USA Rugby 7s National Championships in back-to-back years, 2015 and 2016,[61] moving on as runners-up in their group in 2015 before falling in the elimination round.

Two men, Judge David Rorer and James G. Edwards, sought out to popularize the nickname, and were rewarded when territorial officials gave their approval.