NEW YORK – The City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) has announced its Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll for the 2025 Spring semester, handing out 445 citations for academic excellence.
 

The CUNYAC Winter/Spring Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll is constructed with student-athletes across eight member campuses who participate in a varsity-level sport and own a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better on a 4.0 scale. The list includes sports that conducted their championship in the winter or spring (men’s & women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track & field, men’s volleyball, baseball, and softball) as well as varsity athletes competing in non-CUNYAC sports.
 
Hunter produced a conference-leading 104 honorees among the eight institutions, followed by Baruch (81) and John Jay (80).
 
16 student-athletes have compiled a perfect 4.0 cumulative GPA to date.

For the complete 2025 Winter/Spring Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll, please click here.

Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville (HCCA) is pleased to team with Explore Asheville, the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission to host  The Blue Ridge Volleyball Classic Presented by Ingles Markets.

The inaugural Asheville event of the Lightstrike Hard Refresher will take place on September 5-6, 2025. 

WHAT:    Blue Ridge Volleyball Classic Presented by Ingles Markets
WHEN:    September 5-6, 2025
WHERE: ExploreAsheville.com Arena at Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville
                    87 Haywood Street Asheville, NC

The team lineup includes women’s volleyball teams from:

•  Western Carolina
• Bradley University
• College of Charleston
• UNC at Charlotte, 

Each team plays three matches over two days.
Tickets are available for purchase via BlueRidgeVolleyballClassic.com or Ticketmaster.com and at the iHeart Media Asheville Box Office located at the venue.

New Event for Harrah’s and Asheville

This is the first collegiate volleyball event to be hosted at HCCA. It precedes the 2025 Ingles Southern Conference Women’s Volleyball Championship in November 2025

“Asheville, much like the rest of the country, is a volleyball community. Following the 2024 Ingles Southern Conference Volleyball Championship relocation due to Hurricane Helene’s damage in Western North Carolina, our venue partnered with AVL Hoppers, a local volleyball non-profit, to raise over $15,000 for local groups affected by the storm,” Christopher Corl, General Manager of Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville, said. “Xcel Volleyball continues to be the recognized leader in Western North Carolina’s elite club scene, and multiple local and regional high schools continue to win state championships. This tournament will continue to grow because of our community’s commitment to this sport and our commitment to bringing high-level volleyball events like this to our community.”  

Rich regional Tradition

This tournament is sure to draw crowds to our city, given the region’s rich highschool volleyball tradition.

“Western North Carolina has become a hotbed for quality high school volleyball. With Brevard, Polk County, and West Henderson claiming recent state championships and with the storied tradition netting a state record – 12 championships at Hendersonville High, there’s little doubt that our region can compete with the best that the state has to offer. The Blue Ridge Volleyball Classic will show those athletes and area fans firsthand what it takes to compete at the college level,” said Chris Smith, President, Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission. “This event will serve as a great precursor to the Ingle’s Southern Conference Volleyball Tournament at the same venue in November.”

Tickets on sale now, be sure to grab your courtside sets today.

OXFORD, Miss. – Fans have an additional chance to see the Ole Miss volleyball program in Oxford, as the Rebels have added a preseason exhibition against Southern Miss to the 2025 schedule.
 
The Rebels will face Southern Miss on Saturday, August 23 at 2 p.m. CT, at the Gillom Athletics Performance Center. Admission to the event will be free.
 
The exhibition will mark the 10th opportunity for fans to see the Rebels at home this season, joining previously scheduled home matches that begin with a September 12th clash with Louisiana.
 
Several stars from last season’s historic team return to Gillom, including AVCA All-Region honoree Mokihana Tufono, SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year Cammy Niesen and Shayla Meyer. Joining them are several talented newcomers, including All-Big Sky honoree Gabi Placide and Jordyn Towns.
 
The regular season is set to open on August 29th, as the Rebels face off against Arkansas State as part of the Georgia Tech Classic, in Atlanta. Ga.
 
Fans can continue to show support for the Rebels by joining the Ace Club. Funds from the Ace Club are a major component in helping the Ole Miss volleyball program compete at the highest level. For more information and to donate, click here.
 
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Keep up with all the latest news and information on the Rebels by following Ole Miss Volleyball on X at @OleMissVB, on Instagram at @olemissvb and on Facebook at Ole Miss Volleyball. See exclusive photo and video content from behind the scenes and connect in real time with everything Ole Miss.
 

Part of leading by example, Radamus’s elevated strength training comes with a purpose. 

Recently, Radamus’s status on the world stage has improved, the biggest moment coming in February 2024 on the FIS World Cup circuit. On home soil at Palisades Tahoe in California, Radamus had the best giant slalom run of his international career, clinching a podium spot in the giant slalom and finishing the race to the roar of cheering Americans. At the bottom of the slope, Radamus had a major reaction, letting out a few yells, a couple of fist pumps and spiking his ski pole like a touchdown celebration.

In the following 2024-25 World Cup campaign, Radamus characterized his season as full of change, including physical alterations, new coaches and skiing philosophies. Though Radamus did not land on the podium, he earned similar World Cup points from season to season, with the most coming from giant slalom events, followed by the super-G.

During the 2025 World Championships in Saalbach, Radamus became ill and lost around 10 pounds before the events. Still managing to ski through the physical and mental toll of the illness, he got sick again after worlds, losing a total of 30 pounds toward the end of the season.

“If you judge performance on that and judge yourself as falling short because of something that’s outside of your control, that takes a toll monumentally and keeps you from reaching high athletic performance,” Radamus said. “I think I take pride in the effort I gave.”

Between skiing in all the events from downhill to slalom and the two illnesses, Radamus’s body suffered a physical toll. Now, he has time to regain the weight; his current goal is to gain 20 pounds of muscle mass, which will help increase his base strength, a key factor in the change Radamus aims to make in his skiing philosophy. 

During the two spring camps the U.S. team had at Mammoth and Copper, Radamus emphasized a new method of approaching turns with a stronger base, letting his natural finesse do the rest of the work through the turns. He has been known as a skier with natural flow, usually letting the skis do the work by throwing them toward the fall line. Now, slowly is introducing this method to be stronger and more commanding during turns to increase speed and control from the start.

With this new methodology to his skiing applied, along with his rigorous physical transformation, Radamus is doing everything he can to be in a position to reach the Olympic podium in 2026. He hopes that the process of achieving personal and team goals will make the results fall into place. Like many U.S. skiers before him, Radamus believes in his abilities as a big-event skier to win, which he’s proven in his youth, the 2022 Winter Games and on the World Cup stage.

So while Radamus may not have a life at the moment, he uses his intense fear of failure as a motivator to keep him focused every day. Before training, Radamus had some time after the season to run youth ski camps organized by his ARCO foundation, which works to make the competitive sport more accessible to youth. Now, he’s back to the lab to accomplish his goals, and he is enjoying the process.

“I’ve really come into this summer thinking I cannot forgive myself if I don’t do everything I possibly can to put myself in the best position,” Radamus said. “It’s my absolute responsibility to myself to seek that out and see if I can accomplish it. I feel great about where I am.”

ESPN once again flexed its dominance across digital and social platforms in June, reaching a staggering 193.6 million unique fans, according to the latest data from Comscore. The network’s total digital reach equated to 69.1% of all U.S. adults—nearly 7 out of every 10—cementing ESPN as the top-performing sports media brand across digital for the month.

The total audience figure includes fans reached through ESPN Digital, YouTube, and social platforms. The continued surge in digital traffic marks another milestone in the network’s push to expand beyond traditional television and into the ever-evolving world of mobile and social content consumption.

In the mobile space, the ESPN app attracted 25.7 million unique fans in June, outpacing its closest competitor more than sevenfold and eclipsing the combined total of the next nine non-ESPN sports apps. ESPN Fantasy also performed strongly with 2.6 million unique fans, earning the No. 1 spot among all fantasy sports apps, up 8% year-over-year.

Social engagement was another major highlight, with ESPN Social notching 555 million fan interactions across platforms like Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok. That figure averages out to 18.5 million engagements per day, extending ESPN’s streak to 48 consecutive months as the top sports brand in social media interactions.

The continued strength in digital and social performance is a testament to ESPN’s evolving content strategy, which emphasizes real-time engagement, mobile-first experiences, and multi-platform storytelling.

As the network prepares for the upcoming NFL and college football seasons, its robust digital footprint puts it in a strong position to dominate fan engagement across every screen. Whether through breaking news, fantasy tools, or viral content, ESPN’s numbers show it remains the go-to source for sports fans in the digital era.

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