Former Hawkeye Ahron Ulis among new athletes charged in Iowa-Iowa State gambling scandal

Extra names have surfaced within the Iowa sports activities playing probe, which entails each the College of Iowa and Iowa State University student-athletes. 

The high-profile gamers are Iowa State beginning quarterback Hunter Dekkers and ex-Hawkeyes basketball participant Ahron Ulis. 

However Johnson County on-line courtroom data have Iowa baseball participant Gehrig Christensen and Iowa kicker Aaron Blom additionally dealing with prices of tampering with data relation to the Iowa Legal Division investigation into sports activities playing. 

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Iowa State Cyclones quarterback Hunter Dekkers (#12) runs up subject in the course of the faculty soccer recreation between the Iowa State Cyclones and TCU Horned Frogs on November 26, 2022 at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Price, TX. (Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)

Dekkers was among the many group of student-athletes that had been charged with the identical tampering with data in Story County, which additionally consists of Cyclones soccer participant Dodge Sauser, wrestler Paniro Johnson and former soccer participant Eyioma Uwazurike, who was suspended indefinitely from the NFL after putting wagers on his Denver Broncos squad throughout his rookie season in 2022. 

“Since changing into conscious of potential NCAA eligibility points associated to sports activities wagering by a number of of our student-athletes in Might, Iowa State College has been actively working to handle these points with the concerned student-athletes,” Iowa State Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard mentioned in a press release to Fox Information Digital. “This course of is ongoing and can take time earlier than being utterly resolved. 

“Iowa State can not touch upon any student-athletes’ circumstance or eligibility standing. We’ll, nevertheless, proceed to help our student-athletes as our compliance workers works with the NCAA to kind out questions surrounding their future eligibility for intercollegiate athletics competitors.

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“Iowa State Athletics educates its student-athletes, coaches and workers on NCAA guidelines and State of Iowa regulation surrounding sports activities wagering and can proceed to emphasise the significance of understanding and adhering to those rules transferring ahead.”

The prison grievance, filed in Iowa District Court, alleges Dekkers used a DraftKings account to make cellular or on-line sports activities bets that totaled “over $2,799.” A kind of wagers was on a 2021 soccer recreation in opposition to Oklahoma State when he was the Cyclones’ backup quarterback. 

Dekkers, like the remainder of the gamers who’re presently in faculty, might be completely banned from NCAA eligibility if discovered responsible of the accusations. Guidelines strictly prohibit student-athletes from wagering on different sports activities at their very own faculties, not to mention their very own video games. 

Quarterback Hunter Dekkers #12 of the Iowa State Cyclones carries the ball in opposition to the TCU Horned Frogs at Amon G. Carter Stadium on November 26, 2022 in Fort Price, Texas. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Photographs)

Ulis, who transferred to Nebraska after beginning 27 video games for the Hawkeyes final season, is accused of utilizing a FanDuel account arrange below his brother, his grievance states. He was not 21 years outdated when he was playing, which is in opposition to Iowa’s playing legal guidelines. His alleged bets, made between February 2021 to December 2022, totaled $34,800 with at the very least one positioned on an Iowa sporting occasion. 

As for Christensen, he’s alleged to utilizing a DraftKings account on his telephone that totaled $2,400 over 559 wagers from final November to February. 23 of these wagers had been allegedly on Iowa sporting occasions. 

Blom’s alleged complete wagers reached over $4,400 on his DraftKings account between January 2021 and February 2022, the place he, like Ulis, was underage utilizing an account below his mom’s identify. Eight of his wagers had been allegedly on Iowa sporting occasions, certainly one of which being the 2021 soccer recreation between Iowa and Iowa State. 

Ahron Ulis #1 of the Iowa Hawkeyes motions down courtroom in opposition to the Auburn Tigers in the course of the second half within the first spherical of the NCAA Males’s Basketball Match at Legacy Area on the BJCC on March 16, 2023 in Birmingham, Alabama. (Alex Slitz/Getty Photographs)

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Although these are prices, it’s customary for NCAA athletic departments in any respect ranges to carry student-athletes out of competitors if there are allegations that might make them ineligible to take part in sporting occasions if discovered responsible.