Sports
- Bob Harlan, Green Bay Packers CEO 1989-2007
- Anthony Parker, NBA player
- Steve Bartkowski, former NFL quarterback
- Ross Verba, NFL lineman, played for Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines.
- Bobby Hansen, Professional NBA Basketball Player, played for Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines, and the University of Iowa.
- Scott Clemmensen, National Hockey League player
- Shawn Johnson, Gymnast, 2007 World All-Around Champion, 2007 U.S. National All-Around Champion, 2008 Olympic Champion in the balance beam, Winner of Season 8 Dancing with the Stars.
- Lolo Jones, American track and field athlete
- Kevin Love - NASCAR driver
- Matt Macri, 3rd baseman for the Minnesota Twins, played his high school ball at Dowling Catholic High School in West Des Moines.
- Shawna Robinson, NASCAR driver
- Matt Snider, former NFL football player
- Kevin Tapani, Major League Baseball player
- Kurt Warner, NFL Quarterback, 1993 Gateway Football Conference(University of Northern Iowa) Player of the Year, 1999 Super Bowl XXXIV MVP/Champion, 3 time Pro Bowl Selection ('99,'00,'01), 2 time AP NFL MVP ('99,'01), Played for the Iowa Barnstormers in Des Moines ('95-'97)
- Deene Ehlis, The Voice of the Iowa Cubs; Broadcaster and longest tenured PCL Broadcaster
- Kyle Orton, NFL player for the Denver Broncos; Quarterback
- Casey Blake, MLB third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Jeremy Hellickson, a pitcher currently on the Tampa Bay Rays, attended Hoover High School.
- Joel Hanrahan, MLB closer, currently on the Pittsburgh Pirates
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)