CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The Clarksville Christian Centurions volleyball team hosted the Pleasant View Christian Warriors at CCS for their first match of the season on Tuesday. Despite barely pulling out the second set, which needed extra points to decide, the Centurions swept the Warriors three sets to none to start the season 1-0.

The Centurions came out of the gates swinging, building a quick lead in the first set. Pleasant View tied the set at 11 all, but a 7-0 Clarksville run, highlighted by some thunderous kills from Junior Marley Spires, led to a Warrior timeout, and the Centurions took set one 25-15.  In set two, it was back and forth, and neither team got out in front by more than four at any point. Even though they needed a few extra rallies, the Centurions pulled out set two 28-26, finished off by a kill from freshman Khloe Blount.

“Volleyball can have a huge momentum shift with just one play, and you saw that on display tonight,” said Centurions head coach Martha Sheffield. “We’ve been teaching them to have a next point mentality, and to have it in their mind that every point is a game point. Nobody makes an error by themselves, so instead of individualizing things, we want our girls to know that their teammates have their backs.”

Clarksville Christian took that second set win and ran with it. Led by junior Kinsey Blount getting her hands on nearly every ball, the Centurions jumped out to a 13-3 lead in the third set, and eventually won it 25-9 to sweep the Warriors and start their season with a win.

For Sheffield, she’s happy with a win, but knows that there’s a lot of room to grow over these next few weeks.

“We have a tougher schedule this year than these girls have had in the past,” said Sheffield. “It doesn’t matter where you are right now; it matters how good you are in the postseason. This is a great way to start, but we don’t want to get complacent. This game was great, but we’re going to get better tomorrow when we step in the gym.”

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The Mira Costa and Redondo girls volleyball teams will start a new season Thursday in Hawaii at the Ann Kang Invitational.

The annual tournament brings together several of the top teams from the U.S. for a weekend tournament.

Redondo finished second last year, losing to Byron Nelson of Texas. The last time Redondo won the tournament was 2019.

Mira Costa has won the tournament eight times, including back-to-back in 2022 and 2023.

This year Mira Costa is in Pool A and will open against Huntington Beach. The Mustangs will also face Hawaii Baptist Academy and Byron Nelson on first day of pool play.

Redondo is in Pool B and will face Mililani, Kalaheo and Bishop Gorman.

On Day 2 of the tournament Friday, Mira Costa will play Cardinal Newman, Iolani and Cornerstone Christian, and Redondo will face Punahou, Stratford and JSerra.

The playoff matches are Saturday.

This year’s field includes seven teams from California: Mira Costa, Redondo, Cardinal Newman, Huntington Beach, JSerra, Los Alamitos and Sierra Canyon.

Three teams are from Texas: Byron Nelson, Cornerstone Christian Schools and Stratford. Five teams are from Hawaii: Hawai‘i Baptist Academy, ‘Iolani School, Kalaheo, Mililani and Punahou. One team is from Nevada: Bishop Gorman.

By: Bill Morgal, sports information director

SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Shippensburg University head cross country coach Steve Spence has confirmed the recruitment of seven student-athletes who will be a part of the women’s cross country team in the 2025 season.
 
The incoming class features seven first-year collegians: six from Pennsylvania and one from Maryland.
 
SU Cross Country reports for the preseason this Sunday.
 
The recruits are as follows (in alphabetical order):
 
• Sophie Baylis
State College, Pa./State College Area
 
State College Area High School: Totaled 12 varsity letters spanning track & field and cross country for the Little Lions under coaches Artie Gilkes and Rebecca Donaghue…contributed to teams that won four consecutive Mid-Penn Conference Cross Country Championships and finished among the Top 10 teams in the state, including second in her sophomore season…posted a 19th-place individual finish at the Mid-Penn Conference Cross Country Championships as a sophomore…was a PIAA ‘AAA’ State Track & Field Championships qualifier in the 3,200 meters…won two Big Valley Invitational Championships…served as a team captain as a senior…compiled PRs of 5:36 at 1,600 meters, 12:06 at 3,200 meters and 19:55 over 5,000 meters of cross country…was a member of the National Honor Society…selected to the High Honor Roll in all four years of high school…earned an advanced score on the Early Childhood Education National (NOCTI) exam…graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
 
About Baylis: Full name is Sophie Baylis…is the daughter of Steven and Megan Baylis…has two sisters: Kaitlyn and Evie, and a brother: Eli.
 
• Abby Gehris
Reading, Pa./Tulpehocken
 
Tulpehocken High School: Totaled eight varsity letters spanning track & field and cross country for the Trojans under coaches Joel Jackson, Desiree Frantz and Logan Jacoby…finished as a two-time PIAA State Cross Country Championships qualifier, posting a 26th-place finish in the ‘A’ Championships as a freshman and competing in the ‘AA’ Championships as a senior…was the 2021 PIAA District 3 ‘1A’ Cross Country runner-up as a freshman with a 5K time of 20:44…won two PIAA District 3 Cross Country Championships medals overall, posting a 15th-place finish in the ‘2A’ championships as a senior…amassed six District 3 Championship medals in track & field…won seven consecutive cross country races during her junior season…achieved All-Berks County Interscholastic Athletic Association (BCIAA) honorable mention, two All-Division honors in cross country and an All-Division classification with her team’s 4×800-meter relay…compiled PRs of 2:31 at 800 meters, 5:26 at 1,600 meters, 12:03 at 3,200 meters and 20:16 in 5,000 meters of cross country…selected to the Principal Honor Roll in all four years of high school…graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
 
About Gehris: Full name is Abigail Lauryn Gehris…is the daughter of Ryan and Laura Gehris…has three brothers: Camden, Jordan and Chase.
 
• Ashlyn Krajewski
Walkersville, Md./Walkersville
 
Walkersville High School: Totaled five varsity letters spanning track & field and cross country for the Lions under coach Paul Fagnano…posted an 11th-place finish in the ‘2A’ State Cross Country Championships…earned All-Central Maryland Conference (CMC) First Team honors in cross country as a senior…served as a distance team captain as a senior…compiled PRs of 5:40 at 1,600 meters, 12:08 at 3,200 meters and 19:48 over 5,000 meters of cross country…earned an additional four varsity letters spanning participation in volleyball and flag football…achieved an associate’s degree in exercise science from Frederick Community College (FCC) while enrolled in high school…received an Academic Excellence Award from FCC’s Department of Exercise Science…was a four-year member of the honor roll…ranked fourth in her high school graduating class with a 4.86 GPA.
 
About Krajewski: Full name is Ashlyn Krajewski…is the daughter of Justin and Cathy Krajewski…has two siblings: Maddie and Jackson.
 
• Anna Schaeffer
Schuylkill Haven, Pa./Schuylkill Haven Area
 
Schuylkill Haven Area High School: Totaled eight varsity letters spanning cross country and track & field for the Hurricanes under coaches Bob Girvin, Laura Schaeffer and Stacey McClusky…finished as a four-time PIAA ‘A’ State Cross Country Championships qualifier…recorded a 31st-place finish in the state championships as a senior…won the 2024 PIAA District 11 ‘1A’ Cross Country Championships as a senior with a time of 20:37.5…claimed four career PIAA District 11 Cross Country medals, posting sixth-place finishes in each of her first three seasons…won three Schuylkill League championships in cross country and was a four-time Schuylkill League All Star…was a six-time PIAA ‘AA’ State Track & Field Championships qualifier, including individual qualification in the 1,600 and 3,200 as a senior…amassed five District 11 championships and six Schuylkill League championships in track & field…compiled PRs of 1:01 at 400 meters, 2:22 at 800 meters, 5:17 at 1,600 meters, 11:37 at 3,200 meters and 19:23 over 5,000 meters of cross country…also earned four varsity letters in basketball…selected as the top Female Scholar Athlete…was an Advanced Placement (AP) Scholar…graduated as the valedictorian of her high school class.
 
About Schaeffer: Full name is Anna Claire Schaeffer…is the daughter of Jeffrey and Laura Schaeffer…has two brothers: Brandon and Ryan…mother Laura was a collegiate runner at Kent State…brother Brandon was a collegiate pitcher at UNC and was drafted in the 18th round of the 2022 MLB Draft by the Seattle Mariners.
 
• Mary Stoltz
Altoona, Pa./Altoona Area
 
Altoona Area High School: Totaled 12 varsity letters spanning track & field and cross country for the Mountain Lions under coaches Tabitha Quinn, Paula Foreman, Michael Adams and Trevor Palfey…was a two-time PIAA ‘3A’ State Outdoor Track & Field Championships qualifier in the 800 meters and a state qualifier with her school’s 4×800-meter relay…won the PIAA District 6 ‘3A’ championship in the 800 meters and the 4×800-meter relay as a junior…set her school’s indoor record in the 800 meters and outdoor record with the 4×400-meter relay…placed at the indoor state championships with her school’s distance medley relay (DMR)…posted four Top 30 (three Top 20) finishes at the PIAA District 6 ‘3A’ Cross Country Championships, including a 14th-place finish as a freshman and a 17th-place finish as a senior…earned All-Altoona Mirror First Team honors as a junior and Second Team honors as a freshman, sophomore and senior…compiled PRs of 2:14 at 800 meters, 5:17 at 1,600 meters, 11:59 at 3,200 meters and 20:13 over 5,000 meters of cross country…graduated with a 3.9 GPA and among the Top 75 students of her senior class.
 
About Stoltz: Full name is Mary Elizabeth Stoltz…is the daughter of Nicholas and Darla Stoltz…has a brother: Ethan.
 
• Mya Trotty
Parkesburg, Pa./Octorara Area
 
Octorara Area High School: Totaled multiple varsity letters in track & field and cross country for the Braves under coaches David Thaler and Rachel McGinnis…was a two-time PIAA ‘AA’ State Cross Country Championships qualifier, finishing 24th as a senior and 31st as a junior…posted four Top 40 (three Top 25) finishes at the District 3 ‘AA’ Cross Country Championships, including a runner-up finish as a senior and a seventh-place finish as a junior…completed her prep career as a three-time Lancaster-Lebanon (LL) League First Team All Star…also earned varsity letters in basketball…was the salutatorian of her high school graduating class…compiled PRs of 5:15 at 1,600 meters, 11:33 at 3,200 meters and 18:55 over 5,000 meters of cross country.
 
About Trotty: Full name is Mya Jane Trotty…is the daughter of Alexander and Jamie Trotty…has two brothers: Dylan and Harrison.
 
• Emrie Watts
Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone
 
Daniel Boone High School: Totaled four varsity letters for the Blazers…served as a cross country team captain as a junior and senior…competed at the PIAA District 3 ‘AAA’ Cross Country Championships in each of her four seasons…achieved an All-Berks County Interscholastic Athletic Association (BCIAA) classification in cross country as a senior…received honorable mention in cross country as a freshman and sophomore…was the recipient of a sportsmanship award as a sophomore and senior.
 
About Watts: Full name is Emrie Watts…her parents graduated from Shippensburg in 2000.
 

LOGAN, Utah – Utah State volleyball was picked to finish first in the Mountain West preseason coaches poll, the conference announced on Wednesday, while senior middle blocker Tierney Barlow and sophomore setter Kaylie Kofe were each named to the all-MW preseason team. 
 
USU received seven of 12 first-place votes and 114 total points, finishing ahead of second-place Colorado State with 106 points and three first-place votes. San Diego State received the final two first-place votes and placed third with 96 points. Fresno State was picked to finish fourth with 86 points and Boise State placed fifth with 73 total points. UNLV and Wyoming tied for sixth with 72 points each, while Grand Canyon (61 points), New Mexico (37), Nevada (32), San Jose State (31) and Air Force (12) rounded out the remainder of the poll.
 
This is the second time in the past three seasons the Aggies have been picked to win the conference after also entering the 2023 season as preseason favorites. It is also the fourth-straight year USU has been picked in the top-two entering the season after heading into 2022 and 2024 picked second in the preseason poll.
 
Barlow enters her senior season after being named to the all-MW Team after her first season in Logan. Barlow led the team last year and ranked third in the Mountain West with a .383 hitting percentage while recording 220 kills, averaging 1.85 per set. Barlow also tied for the team lead with 101.0 total blocks, second with 0.85 blocks per set and fourth with 26 service aces. Prior to USU at Wyoming, Barlow was named all-Mountain West in 2023, while she was the 2022 MW Freshman of the Year and was an honorable mention all-MW honoree.
 
Kofe received all-MW honorable mention as a freshman last season after leading the team with 958 total assists and an 8.33 assist-per-set average, both of which ranked fourth in the MW. She ranked second during league play with 727 total assists and 10.10 assists per set. Kofe recorded 41 assists against Fresno State, 52 assists against New Mexico, and a career-high 57 assists against UNLV, ranking as the most assists for a three-, four- and five-set match, respectively, among MW players during conference play. 
 
The Aggies open the season with a three-match weekend at the Rainbow Wahine Volleyball Classic in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The team will open the season versus San Diego on Friday, Aug. 29, before facing tournament-host Hawaii on Saturday, Aug. 30, and closing the weekend against Marquette on Sunday, Aug. 31. All three opponents received votes in the AVCA/TARAFLEX Top 25 Preseason Poll.
 
Season tickets, mini-plans, and single-game tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here or by contacting the USU Ticket Office at 435-797-0305.
 
Fans can follow the Aggie volleyball program on Twitter, @USUVolleyball, on Facebook at /USUVolleyball or on Instagram, @usuvolleyball. Aggie fans can also follow the Utah State athletic program on Twitter, @USUAthletics, Facebook at /USUAthletics and on Instagram, @USUAthletics.
 
 – USU – 

Group hosts showing of student uprising movie Aug. 17

Published 9:01 am Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The organization Northcoast Ceasefire Now will host a screening of the film “The Encampments: Inside America’s Student Uprising” at the Anita Building at 1312 Commercial St., in Astoria Aug. 17.

Doors open at 6 p.m. and the film starts at 6:30 p.m.

Admission is by a suggested donation of $10. Money raised goes to support Gaza relief.

Returning for a 17th year, the Terrier Twelve recognizes the top achievements of Boston University teams and student-athletes from the previous year. Check back each Monday and Wednesday this summer as we unveil this year’s Terrier Twelve on GoTerriers.com.’
 

Claiming the top spot in this year’s Terrier Twelve is women’s track & field, which won its third Patriot League indoor title and was represented on the national stage in each of the NCAA cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field championships by Vera Sjöberg.
 
BU had a historic season as the team set 10 school records, finished second or first in each of the three championships, claimed five major Patriot League awards, three Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors and two USTFCCCA regional awards.
 
Beginning in the cross country season, the Terriers finished as runners-up at the Patriot League Championships with 36 points, the best mark in program history. Sjöberg won the Patriot League title with a time of 19:45.9 and was joined on the First Team All-Patriot League by sophomore Ola Szulska (fifth place) and senior Daisy Liljegren (seventh place).
 
The Terriers then went to the NCAA Northeast Regionals and Sjöberg took seventh, earning her All-Northeast Region team honors and qualifying her for the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Madison, Wisconsin. The Terriers had their best team finish since 2008 as they picked up eighth place. At the national meet, Sjöberg earned 42^nd place, just two spots out from an All-America honor. She was BU’s first representative at the meet since 2021 and the only Patriot League representative.
 

At the Patriot League Indoor Championships, the Terriers scored 166 points to win its first title since 2016, the second-most points scored indoors in program history. Director of Track & Field Grant Cartwright was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year while Sjöberg picked up Highest Point Scorer and Track Athlete of the Meet honors and junior Peace Omonzane took home Field Athlete of the Meet honors.
 
Sjöberg won the mile, 3000m and 5000m titles, becoming the first athlete in League history to win all three of those events in back-to-back years and. She set a meet record in the mile with a 4:40.71 time. Omonzane won both the long and triple jump and set a school and meet record in the long jump with a 6.20m leap.
 
Also taking home gold medals were junior Ellie Roan (weight throw) and freshman Olivia Hughes (pentathlon) as BU earned seven golds and 12 total medals, including a sweep of the triple jump podium.
 
Sjöberg, the Stockholm, Sweden native, continued on to run at her first NCAA Indoor Championships in Virgina Beach, Virginia and finished eighth in the mile, capturing First Team All-America status — BU’s first recipient of the award indoors since 2014.
 
At the Outdoor Championships, the Terriers earned a second-place finish, once again relying on Sjöberg (Track Athlete of the Meet) and Omonzane (Field Athlete of the Meet), who helped bring in five of the team’s six gold medals as BU finished with 167 points. BU finished with 30 medals total.
 
Omonzane continued her horizontal jumps dominance as she swept the long and triple jump gold medals again and set meet records in both events, including a school record in the long jump (6.44m). She became the first Patriot League athlete to win all four horizontal jumps gold medals since 2012. Sjöberg won three gold medals, taking crowns in the 1500m, 5000m and 4x800m. In all three of those events, she set meet records with times of 4:14.37, 16:11.40 and 8:39.22, respectively.
 
Roan once again won a gold medal, taking the crown in the hammer throw for the second straight year, and BU concluded with 17 total medals. Both horizontal jumps podiums were swept by the Terriers for the first time since BU joined the Patriot League in 2014.
 
Five student-athletes went on to compete at the NCAA East First Rounds in Jacksonville, Florida: Sjöberg (1500m, 5000m), Omonzane (long jump, triple jump), Roan (hammer throw), freshman Caroline Collins (1500m) and senior Asia Hamilton (long jump). From there, Sjöberg advanced to the NCAA Championships in the 1500m and the 5000m, marking the first time in program or Patriot League history that a woman would compete in two events at the same NCAA Outdoor Championships.
 
Against a stacked field and in front of a roaring crowd Eugene, Oregon, Sjöberg put on a historic performance as she finished second nationally in the 5000m — the best finish by a Patriot League or BU athlete ever at the NCAA Outdoor Championships — and earned First Team All-America honors. She also took 11^th in the 1500m and was named a Second Team All-American.
 

Following the season, Sjöberg was named the USTFCCCA Northeast Region Track Athlete of the Year. At the 2025 Scarlet & White Awards, the now-graduate was named the recipient of the Mildred Barnes Award and BU’s Woman of the Year.

2024-25 Terrier Twelve

#2 – Men’s Ice Hockey Wins Beanpot, Advances to National Title Game

#3 – Women’s Ice Hockey Wins First Hockey East Title in Ten Years

#4 – Softball Overcomes Inexperience to Reach Third Straight NCAA Tournament

#5 – Women’s Soccer Secures 2025 Patriot League Championship

#6 – Women’s Tennis Claims 29th Conference Title

#7 – Women’s Rowing Repeats as Patriot League Champions

#8 – Lightweight Rowing Fills Trophy Case in Historic Spring Slate

#9 – Men’s Track & Field and Cross Country Stays Consistent Near Top of PL

#10 – Terriers Set GPA Records

#11 – Men’s Soccer Repeats as PL Regular Season Champions  

#12 – Men’s Lacrosse Advances to PL Title Game for Second Straight Season