"Oh, yeah," says Krieger Kittle when asked if her father will be a regular at Hawkeye volleyball matches. "Emma Krieger Kittle agrees with that sentiment: "A lot of my family members have gone here, so it's exciting to be part of something that has been passed down. But Kittle’s own high school career was not that. Kittle calls it “a family legacy.” They’d have a draft and play a dozen or so games over two days. Which is interesting because I was never really a bad kid until I hung out with them sometimes.”Receive a $20 gift card when you spend $150 at local Johnson County participating businesses!“We put the Indiana game up on a huge projector screen and we just had the most wonderful time watching it,” Settles said. '"Jay Hilgenberg runs a golf course he developed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while Bruce Kittle works for the Iowa Department of Corrections and is a parttime pastor and a line coach for the Iowa City West High School football team. To be Hawkeye fans and undefeated, let alone have two different first cousins and relatives and nephews on the team, it just keeps getting better and better.”“He was a prodigy at Winfield-Mount Union, and I sure as heck wasn’t,” Krieger Coble said.Bub Krieger passed away in 2011. While attending Iowa in the late 1990s, Settles frequently visited his aunt, Amy, who lived in Iowa City. Some of Jay shines through in her sometimes with that 'hit 'em in the mouth attitude. “He’s very outgoing and confident. “He’s much more mild-mannered now than he was.What’s all the more amazing is these top-flight tight ends are first cousins and as close as brothers.Unlike Krieger Coble, Kittle was a position tweener before settling in at tight end. Challenge“George has always been the life of the party,” Settles said. "I love representing the University of Iowa and I think it's great that basically my whole family went here. It’s unbelievable. Emma's father is Bruce, a letterman for the Hawkeyes from 1977 to '79 and also in '81. Anything close, it’s an automatic catch regardless of the degree of difficulty.Own iconic images of Kinnick Stadium from The Gazette's archive. “Let’s do it.”One stands thick and reserved. "Mara's feisty," Dingman says. His mom, Jan, is a former high school superstar in Iowa. He was the best athlete as a child.” He’s as fast as a wide receiver but also stonewalls defenders at the point of attack.Let's Rally! Through it all he remained a sports fan, and didn’t miss any of Settles’ Iowa games. If he made contact with the ball, it was a home run. George’s sister, Emma Krieger Kittle, played volleyball at both Iowa and Oklahoma.