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12 Hoyas Named CSC At-Large Academic All-District

Story Links 2024-25 CSC Women’s At-Large Academic All-District Team 2024-25 CSC Men’s At-Large Academic All-District Team WASHINGTON – Twelve Georgetown University standouts were named College Sports Communicators (formerly College Sports Information Directors of America) At-Large Academic All-District®, as announced […]

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WASHINGTON – Twelve Georgetown University standouts were named College Sports Communicators (formerly College Sports Information Directors of America) At-Large Academic All-District®, as announced by the organization. Six female and six male student-athletes from six different sports were recognized for the 2024-25 season.
 
One the women’s side, field hockey’s Elena Perez Alejandro and Sophie Towne as well as women’s lacrosse’s Lily Athanas and Emma Gebhardt had two honorees each along with Georgia Ruffolo from women’s golf and Jordan Keene from women’s rowing.
 
Men’s lacrosse had five honorees with Fulton Bayman, Aidan Carroll, Joe Cesare, Anderson Moore and Jordan Wray while Barnes Blake from men’s golf was also recognized.
 
2024-25 College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-District®
Lily Athanas | Senior | Women’s Lacrosse
Fulton Bayman | Graduate Student | Men’s Lacrosse
Barnes Blake | Sophomore | Men’s Golf
Aidan Carroll | Graduate Student | Men’s Lacrosse
Joe Cesare | Junior | Men’s Lacrosse
Emma Gebhardt | Senior | Women’s Lacrosse
Jordan Keene | Senior | Women’s Rowing
Anderson Moore | Sophomore | Men’s Lacrosse
Elena Perez Alejandro | Sophomore | Field Hockey
Georgia Ruffolo | Senior | Women’s Golf
Sophie Towne | Senior | Field Hockey
Jordan Wray | Junior | Men’s Lacrosse
 
The 2025 Academic All-District® Men’s At-Large Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in the athletic realm and in the classroom. To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District® consideration, a student must be at least a sophomore with a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average and must have competed in 90% of the team’s total games played or have started 66% of the team’s total games.
 
Only student-athletes from the NCAA sponsored sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, water polo, men’s volleyball, women’s beach volleyball, women’s bowling, field hockey and women’s rowing are eligible for at-large consideration. A maximum of six men’s and six women’s student-athletes may be nominated total per institution.
 
Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced on July 9.
 



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Donothan Bailey Joins Cal Men’s Gymnastics Staff

Bailey returns to Cal to continue his successful coaching career, which follows several years as an elite gymnast with Team USA. MGYM7/29/2025 11:31 AM | By: Cal Athletics Former Golden Bear Team Captain, Team USA Member Returns To Berkeley Golden Bear alumnus and former Team USA member Donothan Bailey […]

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Bailey returns to Cal to continue his successful coaching career, which follows several years as an elite gymnast with Team USA.


Former Golden Bear Team Captain, Team USA Member Returns To Berkeley

Golden Bear alumnus and former Team USA member Donothan Bailey has joined the California men’s gymnastics staff as an assistant coach, head coach Bryan Del Castillo announced Tuesday. Bailey, a three-time All-American at Cal and a U.S. pommel horse champion, joins the Bears from Kinetic Gymnastics in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he has spent the past two-and-a-half years as team coach of its boys’ and girls’ programs.
 
“I’m incredibly excited to have Donothan on our coaching staff,” Del Castillo said. “He brings elite gymnastics experience, energy and the kind of leadership that will have a meaningful impact on our student-athletes and culture. As an alum of this program, Donothan understands and shares our values – he is ready to help guide our student-athletes toward success in both the gym and the classroom.”
 
Bailey’s tenure at Kinetic Gymnastics has resulted in his gymnasts collecting over 40 individual state titles, as well as eight individual regional championships and an individual national title. During that time, he also spent one year (April 2024-25) as an athlete fellow with the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), where he created five Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs for National Governing Bodies and was selected as the USOPC ambassador for the Chinese Olympic Committee’s Ninth Annual Youth Camp in Beijing. Bailey acted as interim head coach (and later assistant coach) for the USA Gymnastics Resident Team from 2021-22, with his gymnasts earning two national team berths, a national title and a Pan American title.
 
He competed as a professional gymnast through 2021, which included several international assignments for Team USA. In Bailey’s first post-collegiate season, he took bronze on pommel horse at the Winter Cup and went on to represent the United States at the FISU World University Games, earning gold on pommel horse while finishing fifth in the all-around, before taking pommel horse silver at the U.S. Championships. The next year, he improved his pommel horse finish at both the Winter Cup (silver) and the U.S. Championships (gold). He also medaled for Team USA at the 2017 World Championships, taking bronze on high bar, and claimed two runner-up finishes (parallel bars, high bar) at the 2018 U.S. Championships.
 
Bailey attended Cal from 2010-14 and helped the Bears to three consecutive top-five team finishes at the NCAA Championships (2010-12), also earning individual All-America honors in 2011 (pommel horse) and 2014 (all-around, pommel horse) while earning bronze with Team USA at the 2011 Pan American Games. He is the most recent Cal gymnast to win an MPSF title on pommel horse, doing so in 2012 and again in 2014. As a senior in 2014, he was named a finalist for the Nissen-Emery Award, which is presented each year to the nation’s finest senior collegiate gymnast. Prior to his collegiate career, Bailey was a member of the U.S. Junior National Team from 2007-09 and a three-time national champion on pommel horse (2006-08).
 
“I’m very excited for the opportunity to come back to Berkeley and work alongside a lifelong friend and teammate in Bryan,” Bailey said. “Bryan is someone I’ve looked up to and learned from since I was a junior gymnast, so it feels like I’ve come full circle to get to coach with and learn from him again. I think what this team is doing is special, and it is truly a privilege to be part of its story and witness its greatness. This sport gives me so much joy, and I hope to share that passion with the young men that come through this program.”
 
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Olivia Dunne Reveals Adorable Paul Skenes Coincidence: ‘Invisible Strings Are Real’

Olivia Dunne is convinced fate has been on her side all along. The former LSU gymnast and content creator shared an adorable TikTok with fans this week, recounting a coincidence that left her speechless. Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos/Getty Images “Invisible strings are real,” the 22-year-old began. “So right now I’m in Jersey, and my mom is […]

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Olivia Dunne is convinced fate has been on her side all along. The former LSU gymnast and content creator shared an adorable TikTok with fans this week, recounting a coincidence that left her speechless.

Olivia Dunne and Paul Skenes

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“Invisible strings are real,” the 22-year-old began. “So right now I’m in Jersey, and my mom is moving stuff out of my house in Louisiana for me. And as we know, I was in college for five years, I have a lot of stuff in my house, and then my mom finds this.”

She included a screenshot of a ticket to a baseball game she attended at LSU in Feb. 2021, more than two years before she and her boyfriend, MLB star Paul Skenes, began dating.

“It’s a ticket to the LSU versus Air Force baseball game, and Paul was on Air Force’s team, and that was my first college baseball game ever. And I didn’t know him. That is crazy,” she continued. “I always knew he played LSU, but I never thought I was at the game… I don’t know, it was meant to be.”

The sweet story ties back to the couple’s college roots. Dunne, who retired from NCAA athletics this year, helped lead the Tigers to their first NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championship title in 2024. She met Skenes through mutual friends on campus in 2023.

The Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher, who was drafted first overall in the 2023 MLB Draft and later named 2024 NL Rookie of the Year, quickly won her over. “Our first and second date, I was like, Oh, I really like him,” she recalled in a GQ article they were featured in together.

The pair was first romantically linked when the three-time SI Swimsuit model wore the 23-year-old’s jersey to the College World Series in June 2023, sparking relationship rumors online.

Their love story has only grown from there. Dunne frequently gushes over her boyfriend’s support, telling us earlier this year, “My boyfriend is probably one of the most confident people I know, and supportive. It helps me be confident. It’s just a very good dynamic that benefits me as well.”

Olivia Dunne and Paul Skenes poses side by side in Baton Rouge..

Olivia Dunne and Paul Skenes during the ROY 2024 National League Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award Announcement in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in November 2024. / Lucas Casel/MLB Photos/Getty Images

Beyond their relationship, both athletes have continued to dominate in their respective fields. Dunne landed a coveted SI Swimsuit annual issue cover after her 2025 photo shoot with Ben Watts in Bermuda, cementing her status as a cultural force in sports and media.

“This is my third time in the issue, and I feel like my confidence over the years has grown so much from my first shoot,” the New Jersey native said. “It’s so special to be back for year three.”

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Kai Trump makes joke about president in ad through NIL deal with Accelerator Active Energy

Already one of the biggest names in high school girls golf, Kai Trump is getting ready for her senior season at North Palm Beach (Fla.) The Benjamin School. From there, she will head to Miami, and she’s already cashing in on the NIL front with multiple deals. Trump – who has a $1.2 million On3 […]

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Already one of the biggest names in high school girls golf, Kai Trump is getting ready for her senior season at North Palm Beach (Fla.) The Benjamin School. From there, she will head to Miami, and she’s already cashing in on the NIL front with multiple deals.

Trump – who has a $1.2 million On3 NIL Valuation – recently announced a partnership with Accelerator Active Energy, adding to her growing portfolio. She released a new ad Tuesday as part of the NIL deal, and she made a joke about her father, President Donald Trump.

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The president is known for his love of Diet Coke, even putting a button on the resolute desk in the Oval Office to signal he wants one. That was part of the ad, when Kai Trump had to decide between an Accelerator drink or a Diet Coke.





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Field Hockey announces class of 2029

Story Links WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross field hockey head coach Lindsay Jackson is excited to announce the addition of six student-athletes that will comprise the class of 2028. The slate of new Crusaders includes Alexa Birch, Ainsley Clough, Rachel Egan, Martina di Gregorio Giralt, Maeve Kiernan, and Hadley Rand.   Take […]

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WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross field hockey head coach Lindsay Jackson is excited to announce the addition of six student-athletes that will comprise the class of 2028. The slate of new Crusaders includes Alexa Birch, Ainsley Clough, Rachel Egan, Martina di Gregorio Giralt, Maeve Kiernan, and Hadley Rand.
 
Take a closer look at the six newcomers below:
 
Alexa Birch | F/M | 5-6 | Upper Saddle River, N.J. | Northern Highlands

  • Played four seasons of varsity field hockey at Northern Highlands under head coach Ali Ege.
  • Served as a team captain as a senior.
  • Helped team to a State Sectional Championship in 2024 and four-straight County Championships (2021-2024), as well as a Team of the Year honor in 2022.
  • Finished Northern Highlands career with 145 points on 48 goals and 49 assists.
  • Was named to the NEFHL All-Division First Team, BCWCA All-Bergen County First Team in 2023 and 2024.
  • Also earned North Jersey All-Star Team Group III, Top Junior Field Hockey Player NJ, All-New Jersey Second Team in 2023, and First Team All-County, First Team NEFHL All-Division honors in 2022.
  • Also ran track at Northern Highlands.
  • Played club field hockey for the New Heights field hockey club under head coach Ali Good, helping the team to No. 9 on the USAFH U19 Club Team rankings.
  • Played in the national NIT in 2023 and 2025, and NCC in 2021 and 2024.
  • Was on the honor roll all four years at Vestal.

 
Ainsley Clough | M | 5-6 | New Canaan, Conn. | Sacred Heart Greenwich

  • Played four seasons of varsity field hockey at Sacred Heart Greenwich under head coach Alexandru Gheorghe.
  • Served as a team captain as a senior.
  • Earned team’s Most Improved Player Award as a sophomore and Honor Heart & Hustle Award as a senior.
  • Named 2023 Second Team FAA All-League and Western New England Prep School All-Star and 2024 First Team FAA All-League and Western New England Prep School All-Star.
  • Helped team to four FAA Regular Season Championships, two FAA Tournament Championships (2021 & 2024), a 2021 NEPSAC Regular Season Championship, and the NEPSAC Tournament finals in 2021.
  • Earned 2024 NFHCA High School Impact Senior Team, NFHCA Southern New England All-Region Team, Max Field Hockey All-Northeast Region Second Team, and 2023 & 2024 NFHCA Southern New England All-Region Team honors.
  • Also played three seasons of varsity lacrosse and four seasons of ice hockey at Sacred Heart.
  • Earned the 2024 and 2025 Fairchester Athletic Association Scholar-Athlete Award, the 2025 Upperclassman Athletic Award, and the 2025 Four Year Three Sport Award.
  • Played club field hockey for AGH under head coach Alexandru Gheorghe.
  • Helped team to first place at the 2023 Regional Club Championship and fifth place at the 2023 U16 National Club Championships.

 
Rachel Egan | F/M | 5-5 | Watertown, Mass. | Watertown

  • Played four seasons of varsity field hockey at Watertown under head coach Eileen Donahue.
  • Served as a team captain as a senior.
  • Helped team to a 92-0 record over the four years, winning four-straight MIAA D3 State Championships.
  • In 2023 and 2024, was named a Middlesex League All-Star, Middlesex League All-League honoree, MAX Field Hockey All-Region First Team, NFHCA Massachusetts All-Region First Team, Boston Globe All-Scholastic, and Boston Herald All-Scholastic.
  • Was also named the Middlesex League Most Valuable Player, Boston Globe D3 Player of the Year, and Massachusetts Field Hockey Coaches Association Best of 60 Senior All-Star in 2024.
  • Led Massachusetts and ranked fourth in the nation with 58 goals as a senior.
  • Finished Watertown career with 96 goals and 48 assists.
  • Also ran indoor and outdoor track at Watertown, serving as a team captain as a senior in both seasons.
  • Played club field hockey for Wizards Field Hockey under head coach Susan Caples.
  • Helped team qualify for NCC’s each year and placed second at RCC’s each year.

 
Martina di Gregorio Giralt | F | 5-5 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Colegio Santa Hilda

  • Played varsity field hockey at Colegio Santa Hilda.
  • Helped team to win the 2024 Interschool Tournament and place second in the ADE 11 Tournament.
  • Was selected for the 2018 and 2024 Norte Sur Tournament and the 2023 ADE Team that traveled to New Zealand.
  • Also ran track at Santa Hilda.
  • Played club field hockey for Hurling Club under head coach Ariel Montagnaro.
  • Helped team to win the Asociacion Amateur de Hockey Sobre Cesped de Buenos Aires league in 2024 and qualify for the playoffs in 2022.

     

Maeve Kiernan | M | 5-3 | East Greenwich, R.I. | East Greenwich

  • Played four seasons of varsity field hockey at East Greenwich High School under head coach Debra McMullen.
  • Served as a team captain as a senior.
  • Helped team to four Division I State Championships, winning twice (2021, 2023).
  • Finished East Greenwich career with 79 points on 24 goals and 31 assists.
  • Was named to the All-Tournament Team four times, and the
  • Named RIIL First Team All-Division, Providence Journal First Team All-State, Max Field Hockey Preseason Player to Watch, and Max Field Hockey All-Region in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
  • Also named to the NFHCA All-Region Team in 2023 and 2024 and Max Field Hockey Senior Impact Team in 2024.
  • Played in the Nexus National Championship and Nexus Region 3 Selection Camp in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, was an AAU Junior Olympic Selectant and silver medalist in 2022, and was named to the Max Field Hockey Top 150 Players to Watch Class of 2025 in 2022.
  • Also played four seasons of varsity lacrosse and three seasons of varsity basketball at East Greenwich.
  • Played club field hockey for Patriot Field Hockey under head coach Patti Bossio.

 
Hadley Rand | F/M | 5-5 | Mendham, N.J. | Oak Knoll School

  • Played three seasons of varsity field hockey at Oak Knoll under head coach Ali Good.
  • Helped team to the 2022 and 2023 state finals.
  • Won the 2024 State Championship and 2022, 2023, and 2024 Union County Championships.
  • Was named to the 2024 All-County Second Team and a 2023 All-County Honorable Mention, as well as the 2023 and 2024 NFHCA High School National Academic Squad.
  • Finished career at Oak Knoll with 40 points on 16 goals and eight assists.
  • Also played for the New Heights Field Hockey Club under head coaches Ali Good, Jackie Fusco, and Tarek Kouta.
  • Helped team qualify for the National Indoor Tournament and National Club Championships from 2022-2025.

 
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Atlanta Gladiators Sign Forward Isak Walther | National

The Atlanta Gladiators announced Tuesday that the ECHL ice hockey club has signed forward Isak Walther for the 2025-26 season. Walther, a native of Södertälje, Sweden, was selected by the Nashville Predators in the 6th round (179th overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft. The 23-year-old forward joins the Gladiators after four seasons playing NCAA Division […]

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The Atlanta Gladiators announced Tuesday that the ECHL ice hockey club has signed forward Isak Walther for the 2025-26 season.

Walther, a native of Södertälje, Sweden, was selected by the Nashville Predators in the 6th round (179th overall) of the 2019 NHL Draft. The 23-year-old forward joins the Gladiators after four seasons playing NCAA Division I hockey at the University of Vermont, where he scored 23 goals and 33 assists for 56 points in 128 career games with the Catamounts.

The 6-foot-4, 205-pound forward scored 6 goals and 11 assists for 17 points in 33 games with the University of Vermont last season and is now entering his first season of professional hockey.

“Isak is a big body coming off a successful college career at Vermont,” Gladiators director of hockey operations and head coach Matt Ginn said. “He has very good hands and a good shot. Isak uses his size and strength effectively to get to the dirty areas on the ice. He is a very driven player, and we are excited to work with Isak this season.”



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Hagens continuing to put in work despite hectic schedule

MINNEAPOLIS — James Hagens has had quite a year. The 18-year-old helped the United States win its second straight gold medal as the top-line center at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in January before following that up with a workmanlike performance as the No. 1 pivot at Boston College as a freshman last season. […]

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MINNEAPOLIS — James Hagens has had quite a year.

The 18-year-old helped the United States win its second straight gold medal as the top-line center at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship in January before following that up with a workmanlike performance as the No. 1 pivot at Boston College as a freshman last season.

He was starry-eyed watching actor Adam Sandler announce him as the No. 7 pick to the Boston Bruins during the 2025 NHL Draft at L.A. Live’s Peacock Theater on June 27, gained great experience at Bruins development camp earlier in July, and then attended the premier of Sandler’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” where he met and conversed with the famed actor at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on July 21.

Whew!

“You’re going from place to place, state to state, so it’s crazy but it’s just something you have to let soak in because it only happens once,” Hagens said.

He’s one of 42 U.S. players attending the World Junior Summer Showcase this week at Ridder Arena, looking to lead and make a difference as the Americans prepare for a possible three-peat at the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship in St. Paul and Minneapolis from Dec. 26-Jan. 5.

“To have the whole thing behind him probably feels good and then to be drafted by Boston, in the same city that he’s playing college hockey, was probably exciting for him,” said Boston College coach Greg Brown, who is also serving as the assistant coach for the U.S. “I know it just seemed to be a lot … you’d see all the interviews he went through for the draft, and he’s trying to play well and do as well as he can for BC.

“I think now that the whole draft is behind him, he knows where he’ll be to start his pro career. He can concentrate on just playing hockey and that’ll probably be much easier.”

He looks laser focused on helping the U.S. win a third straight gold and do it on home ice for the first time. He has four assists in two exhibition games, playing center on a line with BC teammate Teddy Stiga (Nashville Predators) and right wing Brodie Ziemer (Buffalo Sabres).

“Creating culture is a huge part of this, you don’t want a divided locker room,” Hagens said. “Everyone here knows each other well. I think that’s something that really is helpful. It carries over a ton when you’re able to trust the guy off the ice, when you’re able to just go out there and play freely.”

Hagens tied for the U.S. lead with five goals in seven games to help his country win the championship at the 2025 WJC as the top center between Gabe Perreault (New York Rangers) and Ryan Leonard (Washington Capitals).

He also centered Perreault and Leonard at Boston College, where he had 37 points (11 goals, 26 assists) in 37 games.

“James had an unreal year. I can’t speak to the pressure he faced as a top pick in the draft, but I know it’s got to be a lot,” Stiga said. “I was his roommate, so I know what he was going through. It’s hard but I think he handled it well.

“He was a point per game player in college, and that’s hard to do playing with guys like Perreault and Leonard, who are really high skilled. Sometimes you saw him deferring to ‘Lenny,’ but you know he can score with the puck, he can pass the puck, do everything.”



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