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Peterson: Former Northern Iowa AD Troy Dannen details life in middle of coronavirus hotspot

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I checked in with a friend last weekend. I called Troy Dannen.

A former Marshalltown resident and formerly the athletics director at Northern Iowa and former executive secretary of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, Dannen runs sports at Tulane.

Tulane is in New Orleans.

New Orleans has become the fastest-rising coronavirus hotspot in the United States.

“Health-wise, we’re not impacted,” Dannen said last weekend, referring not only to himself, but his family. “I can’t go into the office.