University of Wyoming Athletics

Before Wyoming: Alex Conn played the 2023 season at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa.  Iowa Western won its second consecutive National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Championship in 2023.  Iowa Western entered the NJCAA National Playoffs as the No. 2 seed and defeated the No. 3 seed Kilgore (Texas), 47-7, in the semifinals.  Iowa Western then defeated No. 4 seed East Mississippi, 61-14, in the NJCAA National Championship Game.  Conn began his college career at the University of Nebraska in the COVID season of 2020.  He redshirted the 2021 season and did not play in any games during his redshirt freshman season of 2022 before transferring to Iowa Western for the 2023 season.  He did earn Nebraska Scholar-Athlete honors in the spring of 2021 and again in 2022.  Coming out of high school at Derby High School in Derby, Kan., Conn was rated as a three-star prospect by both Rivals and 247Sports.  Rivals ranked Conn as the No. 6 overall recruit in Kansas, while 247Sports rated Conn as one of the nation’s top 60 offensive tackle recruits.  He was an All-State Class 6A player his senior season and helped lead Derby High to back-to-back undefeated Class 6A State Championships.  Class 6A is the largest classification in Kansas.  He chose Nebraska over scholarship offers from: Arizona, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State and TCU.