Hawkeye Cohesion Careers

Full speed ahead for Hawkeyes' Alvis

IOWA CITY - Dominic Alvis knows only one speed on the football field - full speed.

The Iowa sophomore brings a high-octane approach to the defensive tackle position, one reason he played his way to the top of the Hawkeyes depth chart at the onset of fall camp.

"I play the game the only way I know how, and that is to play hard and play fast," Alvis said.

Mostly, he thrives because of an appreciation he has for the chance to play in the Big Ten.

Iowa was the only Division I Football Bowl Subdivision program to offer the

6-foot-4, 255-pound Alvis a scholarship after he suffered a season-ending injury three games into his senior year at Logan-Magnolia High School in west-central Iowa.

A dominant player at the Class 1A level and a two-time state discus champion, Alvis chose between scholarship offers from Northern Iowa and South Dakota and the chance to attend Iowa as a grayshirt recruit.

He opted for the Hawkeyes, and when a scholarship opened up, Alvis was offered the chance to begin his career at Iowa in the fall of 2009 on scholarship. He hasn't looked back since.

"I was willing to pay my way that first fall and join the team the following spring, but once they offered, I jumped at it," Alvis said. "I don't know why they offered me when nobody else (at the FBS level) did. I come from a pretty small school, a place where a lot of schools probably don't look for players, but there are guys at that level who can play."

Alvis has proven that. He saw action in three games for Iowa a year ago as a redshirt freshman before being sidelined by an injury.

Since returning in the spring, he has displayed the intensity that Hawkeyes coaches are looking for in the defensive line.

"He's a lot like Karl Klug in many ways, always approaching things head on and with the type of energy you look for in a good lineman," Iowa defensive line coach Rich Kaczenski said. "He raises the tempo of everybody around him, and he has since the first day he stepped on campus. He gives you everything he has.

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