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3 Mustangs Head to Eugene for NCAA Championships

EUGENE, Ore. — Cal Poly’s three NCAA qualifiers are all set to take center stage this week at one of the world’s most prestigious track and field facilities to compete in the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Action for the Mustangs from University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene starts at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when senior […]

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Action for the Mustangs from University of Oregon’s Hayward Field in Eugene starts at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday when senior Travis Martin and junior Rory Devaney take part in the final of the men’s hammer throw, with redshirt junior Aidan McCarthy hitting the track in the semifinals of the men’s 800-meter at 5:58 p.m. Wednesday. The two top finishers in each of the three 800 semifinal heats along with the next three fastest times ran across the three heats will advance to the 800 final at 6:14 p.m. Friday.

Live coverage on the first day of the meet Wednesday is available on ESPNstarting at 4 p.m., while a stream of the men’s hammer throw competition at 1:30 p.m. can be found on ESPN+. Live coverage of the final day of the men’s events at the NCAA Championships is available on ESPN2 starting at 5 p.m. Friday.

The field for the NCAA Championships is comprised of the 24 best times and marks in the country with the top 12 finishers in each event at the NCAA West Prelims and NCAA East Prelims respectively earning a ticket to the coveted meet less than two weeks ago.

The three NCAA qualifiers for the Mustangs are the most by the program in a single season since Cal Poly sent three athletes to nationals in 2005 (two women, one man) and are tied for the most individual qualifiers ever by the Cal Poly men’s team, joining the 1979 squad. This also marks the first time since 2015 (Danielle Bryan, Ashley Windsor) that Cal Poly has qualified multiple athletes for the NCAA Championships.

By qualifying for the NCAA Championships, Devaney, Martin and McCarthy have all earned the chance to grab All-American honors. At the NCAA Championships, the top eight finishers in an event secure First Team All-American status, ninth through 16th place garner Second Team All-American praise and 17th through 24th place receive Honorable Mention All-American recognition.

If Devaney and Martin record a mark at the NCAA Championship meet, they would officially become the second and third All-Americans in the Division I history of the men’s track and field program in the hammer throw, joining Tom Pagani who won the 1961 Division I national championship in the event while Cal Poly was still competing in Division II. Prior to 1983, the NCAA allowed student-athletes from all divisions to qualify for the Division I championships. Devaney and Martin both earning a spot at NCAAs marks the first time in the Division I history of the men’s track & field program that the Mustangs have had more than one NCAA qualifier in an event during a season.

Devaney and Martin rightfully earned their tickets to their first NCAA Championship meet. Martin placed fifth in the West Prelims (222 feet, 6 inches) and Devaney took 10th (216 feet, 4 inches) to secure their spots at NCAAs. Entering the meet, Martin and Devaney are seeded seventh and eighth respectively out of the 24 competitors. Martin owns the No. 10 mark recorded in the NCAA this season (232 feet, 3 inches; 70.80 meters) while Devaney is right behind him with the 11th best mark in the nation (230 feet, 9 inches, 70.33 meters).

Martin and Devaney have broken the school record a combined four times this season, with Martin currently owning the program record and Devaney sitting at No. 2 all-time. Martin broke the school record en route to finishing runner-up at the Big West Championships for the second straight year, while Devaney captured third at the conference meet for the third consecutive season to become a four-time All-Big West honoree across his career.

Devaney is in Flight 1 of the men’s hammer throw at the NCAA Championships while Martin is in Flight 2. Each of the 24 competitors across the two flights will get three throws, with the top nine marks advancing to the final and earning three more attempts.

The national stage is no stranger to McCarthy who is set to compete in his second NCAA Outdoor Championship meet and first since 2023 after missing the 2024 outdoor season due to injury. McCarthy is looking to cap off a sensational season that’s seen him already secure First Team All-American honors by placing third in the 800-meter at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in March. McCarthy is the first Cal Poly men’s track and field athlete to secure Division I First Team All-American honors in an event on the track indoors and just the third overall, joining Mohinder Gill and Reynaldo Brown.

At the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, McCarthy became the first Mustang in program history to secure First Team All-American honors in the men’s 800 by finishing seventh at the national meet (1:46.78). He also became the first Mustang in 12 years to earn First Team All-American status.

McCarthy is the current school record holder in the outdoor 800, indoor 800, indoor 1,000 and mile. The Pleasanton, Calif. native won the Big West title in the men’s 800 for the third time to become just the second athlete ever to do so and claimed his first conference title in the men’s 1,500 with a meet record time (3:39.35) to become just the fifth athlete in Big West history to sweep the men’s 800 and 1,500. During this year’s indoor season, McCarthy also ran the fastest indoor 800 by an American in collegiate history (1:45.19).

McCarthy placed fifth in the NCAA West Prelims (1:47.01) to qualify for nationals and enters the meet with the eighth-fastest time ran in the nation this season (1:45.53). McCarthy is in the second of three heats in the men’s 800 semifinals and will have to contend with the likes of 2025 NCAA indoor runner-up Abdullahi Hassan and 2024 NCAA outdoor runner-up Sam Whitmarsh in his heat. At NCAAs in 2023, McCarthy won his semifinal heat and had the second fastest time across the three heats.

Follow Cal Poly track and field on Twitter/X and Instagram for live updates on all three Mustangs throughout the NCAA Championships.

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Ava Stryker Scores 8 Goals for Team USA in Group Play at World Championships | Sports

San Marcos alum Ava Stryker poured in a game-high six goals to lead the U.S. Women’s National Water Polo Team to a 26-3 rout of Argentina in its final group-play match Monday at the World Aquatics World Championship in Singapore. The six goals was a career best for Stryker as a senior national team member. […]

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The six goals was a career best for Stryker as a senior national team member. She had two goals in an earlier group-play win over China.

Team USA went 3-0 in the group and advanced to the quarterfinals on Saturday against either Great Britain or Japan at 2:35 a.m. PT. Live streaming of all USA matches will be available on Peacock (login required).

In their other pool-play games, Team USA defeated China, 15-7, and Netherlands, 11-9. Santa Barbara’s Ryann Neushul scored two goals against each opponent.

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World Aquatics Championships: E. coli bacteria to blame for postponed Sentosa open water race

Hours before the event was due to begin on Tuesday, it was announced that the race would be postponed as water quality levels failed to meet “acceptable thresholds”, organisers said. In a press release in the early hours of Tuesday, World Aquatics announced that the decision was made in the “utmost interest of athlete safety”. […]

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Hours before the event was due to begin on Tuesday, it was announced that the race would be postponed as water quality levels failed to meet “acceptable thresholds”, organisers said.

In a press release in the early hours of Tuesday, World Aquatics announced that the decision was made in the “utmost interest of athlete safety”.

The race, which was planned for 8am on Tuesday, is now scheduled for 10.15am on Wednesday. Singapore Olympian Chantal Liew and youngster Kate Ona were scheduled to compete in the race.

The decision followed a review involving representatives from World Aquatics, the Singapore 2025 Organising Committee, the World Aquatics Sports Medicine Committee and the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming Technical Committee, said World Aquatics.

“While testing in recent days has consistently shown water quality at the venue to meet World Aquatics’ acceptable thresholds, analysis of samples taken on Jul 13 surpassed these thresholds,” said the sport’s governing body in a press release.

“The decision to postpone racing was made in the best interests of athlete health and safety, which remains World Aquatics and the Singapore 2025 Organising Committee’s top priority.”

National head coach Gary Tan said he and his athletes were informed of the postponement at about 11.45pm on Monday.

“Our team promptly communicated the update to the affected athletes and worked with them on next steps,” he said.

Mr Tan, who is also the performance director of swimming at Singapore Aquatics, said postponements were not uncommon in international open water swimming competitions.

“Our athletes are well accustomed to managing such changes. They remain in good spirits, and while the race will now take place at a later time slot, they have trained under similar conditions and are well prepared to adapt.”

At last year’s Paris Olympics, pollution in the Seine after heavy rains caused the men’s triathlon race to be postponed for a day, after swimming practice sessions were cancelled two days in a row.

There are plans in place should contamination levels continue to exceed acceptable standards, said Mr Nowicki.

“We have a variety of different options that we can use in so far as locations that we’ll look at. It could be in Sentosa, it could not be in Sentosa. It’s not something that we’re planning right now,” he added.

“So it’s bit premature to talk about alternative sites on or off Sentosa.”

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World Aquatics Championships: sea races back on in Singapore after water quality delays

The men’s and women’s 10km open water swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships will finally get under way on Wednesday after multiple delays owing to unacceptable levels of E coli bacteria in Singapore’s seas. Initially scheduled for Tuesday, the women’s 10km was called off hours before the expected start after water samples drawn at […]

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Initially scheduled for Tuesday, the women’s 10km was called off hours before the expected start after water samples drawn at the race site off Sentosa island, on the southern coast of the city state, showed “exceeding levels” of the Escherichia coli (E coli) bacteria.

The race was then moved to Wednesday morning, hours after the scheduled start of the men’s race, but both were delayed again late on Tuesday after the water quality levels exceeded the “acceptable thresholds outlined in the World Aquatics competition regulation”.

On Wednesday, World Aquatics and the Singapore 2025 Organising Committee said races could proceed at 1pm for the men’s 10km race and 4pm for the women’s.

Water samples showed a significant improvement, organisers said, with levels of E coli falling between the ranges of “good” to “excellent” according to World Aquatics and the World Health Organization (WHO) regulations.

Action from the women’s Group C water polo clash between Croatia and Hungary at the OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore. Photo: Reuters

They added that the regular water quality monitoring and testing would continue throughout the competition period.

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Garrett Scantling – Assistant Coach – Staff Directory

Director of Illinois track, field and cross country Petros Kyprianou has announced the hiring of Olympian Garrett Scantling as an assistant coach on Tuesday (July 15). Scantling will primarily assist Kyprianou with coaching the jumps and combined events crews. Scantling finished fourth in the decathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a score of […]

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Scantling finished fourth in the decathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games with a score of 8,611 points. He recorded personal bests in the 400m (48.25) and 1500m (4:35.54) as part of that decathlon. To qualify to the Olympics, he won the U.S. Olympic decathlon trials in Eugene, Ore. with a score of 8,647 points.

In 2022 he won two national titles: first in the indoor season at the 2022 US Indoor Championships in the heptathlon with 6,382 points and then later that summer in the decathlon at the 2022 USA Combined Events Championships with 8,867 points. Both point totals are his personal-best scores in their respective disciplines.

Scantling saw great success at the NCAA level competing for the Georgia Bulldogs under Kyprianou. Highlighted by being the national runner-up in the heptathlon at the 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships scoring 6,068 points. In his senior year he earned bronze in the heptathlon at the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships (5,951 points). His first NCAA medal came in his freshman year where he was the bronze medalist in the heptathlon at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships (6,017 points).

In the fall of 2019, Scantling returned to Georgia to work as an assistant coach with Kyprianou on the track and field team, where he stayed until 2021. In 2022 he returned to Episcopal School of Jacksonville where he was the strength and conditioning coach while coaching three sports: football, girls weightlifting and track and field.

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Pair of Beavs Earn Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year

CORVALLIS, Ore. – 54 Oregon State athletes across baseball and track & field were named to the 2025 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll. Earning the title of 2025 Pac-12 Women’s Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the conference’s Women’s Top Performer of the Year, Oregon State’s Sara Sanders capped off her season […]

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – 54 Oregon State athletes across baseball and track & field were named to the 2025 Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Earning the title of 2025 Pac-12 Women’s Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the conference’s Women’s Top Performer of the Year, Oregon State’s Sara Sanders capped off her season with an Honorable Mention All-America finish in the javelin. In her first-ever NCAA Championship appearance, the senior placed 18th overall with a mark of 48.47m/159-0 after missing two seasons due to injury. Earning her undergraduate degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Chemistry, Sanders was named to the Pac-12 Spring Academic Honor Roll each year since 2022.

Earning the title of 2025 Pac-12 Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Wilson Weber was named an All-American and First-Team Academic All-American in 2025, his last year with the Beavers. A catcher, he batted .326 with 15 doubles, 12 home runs and 58 RBI. He earned his degree in business administration while the Beavers were competing in the Men’s College World Series in Omaha.

To be eligible for the Academic Honor Roll, a student-athlete must be on their respective roster with a cumulative GPA of at 3.3 and have served at least one year in residence at the institution.

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James DeCremer, Political Science
AJ, Hutcheson, Finance
Bryce Johnson, Business Administration
Nelson Keljo, Digital Communication Arts
Jacob Krieg, Psychology
Dallas Macias, Digital Communication Arts
Laif Palmer, Finance
Tyce Peterson, Human Development & Family Science
Chase Reynolds, Animal Sciences
Eric Segura, Business Administration
Andrew Talavs, Communication Studies
Easton Talt, Business Administration
Gavin Turley, Business Administration
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Maryann Ackerman, Forestry
Maya Baechler, Pre-Apparel
Delaney Bahn, Sociology & Psychology
Audrey Biggerstaff, Chemistry
Ruby Broadbent, BioHealth Sciences
Sage Brooks, Mathematics
Gracie Buzzell, Teaching
Erin Cosgrove, Public Health
Erika Cunniam, Nutrition
Eliza Eckman, Environmental Arts & Humanities
Isabelle Esler, Business Information Systems
Mia Fowler, Public Health
Katie Gelston, Mechanical Engineering
Jamie Hamlin, Political Science
Hannah Hernandez, Construction Engineering Management
Ainsley Herron, Public Health
Ellie Hull, Psychology
Lexi Hunt, Sociology
Jada Hurley, BioHealth Sciences
Molly Latincsics, Women, Gender & Sexuality
Kate Laurent, Human Development & Family Science
Claire Lee, Human Development & Family Science
Ruby Lorenz, Animal Sciences
Meagen Lowe, Non-Degree Graduate
Noemi Lundgren, Marketing
Eimy Martinez, Kinesiology
Ava McKee, Teaching
Lilia Montiel, Animal Sciences
Reese Morkert, Kinesiology
Delaney Neufeld-Griffin, Public Health
Riley Patera, Psychology
Abigail Pradere, Environmental Engineering
Grace Proudfoot, BioHealth Sciences
Ellie Quintana, Business Administration
Grace Rubio, English
Sara Sanders, Business Administration – Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Track and Field Performer of the Year
Payton Smith, Kinesiology
Sophia Stubblefield, Business Administration
Sydney van der Zee, Microbiology
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MLB trying to work out 'logistics' for players to participate in 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles

Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday that Major League Baseball is “trying to iron through (the) logistics” that would allow MLB players to participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. MLB officials met with Olympic representatives earlier this week and both the league and players have interest in Olympic participation. Here’s what Manfred said about the […]

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MLB trying to work out 'logistics' for players to participate in 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles

Here’s what Manfred said about the 2028 Olympics on Tuesday (via MLB.com):

“I think that the idea of playing in L.A. in ’28, regardless of the merits of the possibility of ongoing Olympic participation in another location, that there’s some merit to it,” Manfred said Tuesday during a Q&A session with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “I think it is an opportunity to market the game on a really global stage.”

Tony Clark, director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, similarly said his team is trying to work out a plan.

“We do know players are interested in playing, whether it’s for Team USA or for any number of other teams around the world,” he said. “We’ve got the WBC, which players are telling us they’re interested in playing in, as well. There’s just a lot of conversation that needs to be had sooner rather than later to see how viable this is, but we’re hopeful that we can figure out a way to do it.”

Currently, only amateurs and professional players not on the 40-man roster are allowed to participate in the Olympics. Team USA’s roster in 2020 featured minor-league journeymen, a few top prospects, and several unsigned free agent veterans. Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization halted their regular seasons so professionals could play in the 2020 Olympics, during which Japan beat USA in the gold medal game.

The schedule and insurance would likely be the biggest logistical issue. The 2028 schedule, released Monday, set games for July 15-20 at Dodger Stadium, which would likely fall around the All-Star break but stretch longer than the typical Midsummer Classic.

The NHL has paused its season for the Olympics in the past and their players will participate in the 2026 Olympics for the first time since 2014. The hiatus was related to insurance, among other things. The NHL wanted the International Olympic Committee to cover the salary of any injured players, the IOC refused, so on and so forth. MLB may also have to work through similar insurance issues.

“There’s nothing more worldwide than the Olympics,” Phillies star Bryce Harper said about the Olympics last year. “I watch the most random sports in the Olympics because it’s the Olympics, and that’s really cool. I love hockey. It’s one of my favorite sports to watch. To see (the NHL) take that three-week break and let those guys go play, that’s another big goal that we should have as Major League Baseball.”

Baseball was a full-time Olympic sport from 1992-2008. Cuba has won three gold medals (1992, 1996, 2004) and South Korea (2008), Japan (2020), and USA (2000) have one gold medal apiece. As a minor leaguer, former Milwaukee Brewers ace Ben Sheets threw a complete game shutout against heavily favored Cuba in the 2000 gold medal game.