College basketball fans know about Audi Crooks, but it is time for the world to learn all about the 6-foot-3 center. Crooks plays for the Iowa University Cyclones. Her story is pretty special, and her roots in basketball go back to well before her childhood. As Crooks shared in a March 2025 interview during March Madness last year, she and her mom Michelle both attended the same high school - and her mom has a record at the school, so "walking through those halls and seeing her her name and her face on that record board was definitely inspirational and motivational for me.