Lyndsey DuBose, of Bandera, may never have entertained coming to the University of Iowa if it weren’t for a coach acting as a de facto ambassador for the university. DuBose was a scholarship rower at the University of Texas when she learned about the Hawkeye State from Amy Smith, a volunteer rowing coach who had graduated from Iowa in 2009, a news release from the university said. “She always said ‘Iowa is the most magical place in the world,’” DuBose says of Smith, who rowed at Iowa. Sometime later, DuBose was considering graduate degree programs. She remembered what her coach from Iowa had ...