Sports
West Des Moines Valley’s Peter Jok Is Headed to Iowa
Valley standout impressed Hawkeye basketball coach Fran McCaffery, and are some of the reasons why.
Iowa Elites, a Cedar Falls-based business that promotes high school sports and recrutiing exposure for the state’s top athletes, has been following West Des Moines Valley senior Peter Jok’s high school basketball career.
Peruse the Iowa Elites channel, and you’ll also find videos of other star athletes like Jok, who recently signed with Iowa to play basketball for the Hawkeyes. J
Jok, a 6-foot-6 forward, was born in Sudan and lost his father to the violence in the war-ravaged country before his mother moved the family to Des Moines when he was 9.
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