As part of the new partnership announced earlier this year, Iowa PBS will produce special IHSAA programs highlighting stories of student-athletes, their sports, and communities.
In this first entry of Iowa PBS coverage, Bedford’s Eli Johnson is featured ahead of his senior season as a wheelchair cross country competitor. Johnson is a multi-sport athlete who also shows livestock, and has won three state championships in both cross country (2022-24) and track and field (shot put in 2023, 800 meters in both 2023 and 2025).
Watch more of his story in this special feature from Iowa PBS Sports!
ABOUT THE IHSAA
The Iowa High School Athletic Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that offers free membership to all high schools in Iowa that are recognized by the Department of Education. The IHSAA works to coordinate, develop, direct, and promote boys’ high school and junior high sports and activities across the state of Iowa.
ABOUT IOWA PBS
As Iowa’s only statewide television network, Iowa PBS’s mission to educate, inform, enrich and inspire Iowans guides its quality, noncommercial programming that tells Iowa’s stories like no one else can. Four statewide, public channels offer programs of lasting value to Iowans, regardless of where they live or what they can afford: Iowa PBS .1, Iowa PBS KIDS .2, Iowa PBS WORLD .3 and Iowa PBS Create .4 on Channel 11, Des Moines; Channel 12, Iowa City; Channel 21, Fort Dodge; Channel 24, Mason City; Channel 27, Sioux City; Channel 32, Waterloo; Channel 32, Council Bluffs; Channel 36, Davenport; Channel 36, Red Oak. More information can be found at iowapbs.org.