– Team Member of the Year Loic Scomparin headlined five members of the Colorado School of Mines men’s cross country and track & field programs named to the College Sports Communicators’ Academic All-America teams on Wednesday.
Scomparin earned First-Team Academic All-America status alongside fellow distance runner Logan Bocovich, pole vaulter Hunter Potrykus, and hurdler Everett Delate, while distance runner Jeremiah Vaille earned third-team accolades. Scomparin becomes the 11th Academic All-America Team Member of the Year in Mines Athletics history, and the sixth for Mines track & field, which has had at least one in each of the past four seasons including Potrykus, who was the 2024 honoree.
Scomparin helped led Mines to the 2024 NCAA Division II national championship in cross country, finishing eighth nationally and second at the RMAC Championships to be named USTFCCCA All-America, First-Team All-RMAC, and the RMAC Academic Athlete of the Year in the fall. During the indoor season, Scomparin was the NCAA silver medalist in both the 3,000m and 5,000m and swept the RMAC Championships gold medals in those events, and he was again a double-qualifier to nationals outdoors in the 5K and 10K, earning Second-Team All-American status in the former event after he was the RMAC silver medalist in the 10K. Scomparin becomes only the fourth four-time Academic All-American for the Orediggers (joining Ben Schneiderman, Hannah Miller, and Zoe Baker), and he has three degrees from Mines, earning a master’s in hydrology this past May and also having a master’s in advanced energy systems and a bachelor’s in environmental engineering.
Bocovich was another key part of Mines’ national champion cross country team, finishing seventh nationally at the NCAA Championships after sixth-place NCAA regional and fourth-place RMAC Championships finishes. He was a USTFCCCA First-Team All-American in the fall, and went on to earn the RMAC indoor 5,000m bronze medal before ending his career as the NCAA bronze medalist in the outdoor 10,000m following all-RMAC runs at both long distances. Bocovich was also a Third-Team Academic All-American a year ago, and is working on a master’s in geochemistry at Mines. He holds a bachelor’s in chemistry from St. Olaf College.
Potrykus, now a three-time Academic All-American, was the RMAC’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year and RMAC Men’s Indoor Academic Athlete of the Year in 2025 after finishing his decorated vaulting career with a final season of indoor eligibility. Potrykus finished fourth at the NCAA Indoor Championships – his fourth career First-Team All-America finish – and was the RMAC silver medalist. He closed his career as Mines’ indoor and outdoor recordholder, and co-holds the RMAC all-venues record as well. Potrykus has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Mines in mechanical engineering.
Delate repeats as a First-Team Academic All-American after finishing his career as one of the RMAC’s all-time greatest hurdlers. Delate swept the RMAC 60m and 110m hurdle championships for a third consecutive year, resetting the RMAC Championships records in both, and he went on to earn the national silver medal in the 60m hurdles to earn First-Team All-America status. Delate graduates as Mines’ recordholder at both sprint hurdle distances. He earned a B.S. in economics from Mines in 2023 and a master’s in mineral and energy economics this past May.
Vaille, a first-time honoree, was a two-season all-American for the Orediggers in 2024-25. Vaille finished 37th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships to earn his first USTFCCCA All-America medal following a fourth-place NCAA Regional run, and after an abbreviated indoor season to compete at the World University Games, had an outstanding outdoor season winning the RMAC titles in both the 5,000m and 10,000m before going on to place eighth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10K. Vaille has a B.S. in civil engineering and M.S. in civil & environmental engineering from Mines.
Academic All-America honorees must have a 3.5 or above GPA while holding sophomore or higher academic standing. Academic All-America awards are voted on by the nation’s sports information directors.
Since 1972, Colorado School of Mines’ 216 Academic All-America recipients are the most by any NCAA Division II member. Mines men’s cross country/track & field leads all D-II programs, and is second among all divisions, with 48 all-time honorees.
Nebraska hosted Kansas State in the second round of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament on Saturday.The Huskers got on the board first thanks to Harper Murray.Virginia Adriano forced a Wildcat timeout after a solo block and a kill. Nebraska led 13-7.Check out this incredible play.Nebraska won set 1, 25-17.Kansas State got on the board first, but the Huskers bounced back quickly.The Huskers won set 2, 25-21.The Wildcats got out ahead of the Huskers, but Andi Jackson was able to tie things up at five apiece.Adriano with a kill made it 18-12 Nebraska.With a 25-16 set 3 win, the Husker swept Kansas State to advance to the Sweet 16 for the 41st time in program history.Nebraska will play Kansas in the next round of the tournament. The time and date have yet to be announced.Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |
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Nebraska hosted Kansas State in the second round of the NCAA Volleyball Tournament on Saturday.
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The Huskers got on the board first thanks to Harper Murray.
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Virginia Adriano forced a Wildcat timeout after a solo block and a kill. Nebraska led 13-7.
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Nebraska won set 1, 25-17.
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S1 | No. 1 Nebraska 25, K-State 17
Nebraska takes the first set. #Huskers hit .286 and held the Wildcats to .088.
Harper Murray led the way with 5 kills. Play of the set was Teraya Sigler’s insane hustle to make the one arm save that led to a Murray kill. @KETV
Kansas State got on the board first, but the Huskers bounced back quickly.
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I think Andi Jackson just put a hole through the floor with that kill. So much power in her swing.
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S2 | No. 1 Nebraska 25, K-State 21
The #Huskers take the 2nd despite 12 kills, 7 attacking errors. NU is hitting .197 for the match — KSU block has been lethal with 8 stuffs already.
Nebraska’s lowest hitting percentage this season came on Aug. 31 vs. Kentucky (.221). @KETV
The Wildcats got out ahead of the Huskers, but Andi Jackson was able to tie things up at five apiece.
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Adriano with a kill made it 18-12 Nebraska.
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With a 25-16 set 3 win, the Husker swept Kansas State to advance to the Sweet 16 for the 41st time in program history.
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Nebraska volleyball is headed to the Sweet Sixteen for the 41st time in program history. @KETV
The Nebraska volleyball team enters the second round of the NCAA tournament after sweeping Long Island on Friday. The Huskers now face the Kansas State Wildcats, who defeated San Diego in five sets.
Nebraska’s offense ranks first nationally with a .352 hitting percentage. The defense is equally impressive, ranking first nationally in opponent hitting percentage at .125.
Junior Harper Murray leads the team with 3.55 kills and 2.15 digs per set and a team high 28 aces. Setter Bergen Reilly runs the offense at an elite level with an average of 10.31 assists and 2.73 digs per set. Middle blocker Andi Jackson is averaging 2.75 kills per set on .467 hitting with 1.13 blocks per set.
Kansas State is in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2021. Lincoln native Shaylee Myers averages 4.76 kills per set, which led the Big 12 Conference.
Nebraska is 83-4 against Kansas State. The teams are 1-1 head-to-head in the NCAA Tournament.
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Nebraska-Kansas State volleyball in the second round of the NCAA tournament can be seen on ESPN+. Huskers Radio Network will have audio coverage of all Nebraska matches on Huskers Radio Network affiliates, Huskers.com and the Huskers app. John Baylor and Lauren Cook West will be on the call. Streaming options for the game include ESPN+.
Nebraska volleyball vs. Kansas State time today
Date: Saturday, Dec. 6
Start time: 7 p.m. CT
The second-round NCAA volleyball tournament contest between Nebraska and Kansas State starts at 7 p.m. CT from the Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Nebraska volleyball 2025 schedule (30-0, 20-0)
Aug. 22 – vs. Pittsburgh – WIN 3-1 (25-22, 25-11, 20-25, 25-23)
Aug. 24 – vs. Stanford – WIN 3-0 (25-13, 25-19, 25-14)
Aug. 29 – at Lipscomb – WIN 3-0 (25-13, 25-21, 25-15)
Aug. 31 – vs Kentucky – WIN 3-2 (24-26, 20-25, 25-19, 25-23, 15-8)
Sept. 5 – vs. Wright State – WIN 3-0 (25-16, 25-16, 25-20)
Sept. 7 – vs. California – WIN 3-0 (25-15, 25-18, 25-12)
Nov. 28 – vs. Penn State – WIN 3-0 (25-14, 25-11, 25-14)
Nov. 29 – vs. Ohio State – WIN 3-0 (25-16, 25-13, 25-20)
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BOSTON, Mass – Boston College Women’s Track & Field began the indoor season at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday. Sydney Segalla highlighted the meet with a facility and school record.
Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener
Ron-Niah Wright ran an 8.04 and Erin Finley ran an 8.47 in the 60m dash.
Segalla clocked a 37.40 to win the 300m event. Her time broke the BU Track & Tennis Center facility record by 0.04 seconds and the BC school record by nearly 2 seconds.
Gina Certo (38.65), Anna Sonsini (38.38), Anna Becker (39.19), and Ava Carter (40.22) also competed in the 300m, each setting top ten all-time marks.
Kyla Palmer and Yaroslava Yalysovetska competed in the 600m. Palmer finished sixth place overall, recording a new personal best of 1:33.13 and moving to second all-time in BC program history. Yalysovetska finished in eighth place at 1:35.52.
Iris Bergman ran a 4:52.06 in the mile for 13th place.
Imogen Gardiner torched her 5000m heat, taking first place with a time of 15:40.39. Her time placed her ninth overall and put her second on BC’s all-time top ten list.
Ella Fadil, Kyra Holland, and Molly FitzPatrick all set top ten program marks in the 5000m. Fadil ran a 15:53.04 for 26th place overall, while Holland finished 31st overall at 15:55.63, and Fitzpatrick finished 55th with a 16:08.26 mark.
Next Up: The Eagles return for the Suffolk Ice Breaker Challenge at the TRACK at New Balance on January 18.
AUSTIN, Texas. — The No. 3 Texas Volleyball team swept No. 25 Penn State (25-16, 25-9, 25-19). The Longhorns are now 25-3 on the season and will compete in the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the 20th-straight season.
Longhorns saw junior Torrey Stafford record a match-leading 21 kills, along with five digs and three blocks. It marks Stafford’s fourth game hitting over .500 this season with a .556 hitting percentage. Freshman Abby Vander Wal added 10 kills and two blocks while hitting .474. Fellow freshman Cari Spears totaled nine kills with three blocks and three digs. Spears recorded her seventh game over .400 (.467) hitting percentage tonight.
The Longhorns defense put up nine blocks, led by Nya Bunton and Ayden Ames, who each recorded four. It marks the fourth highest total for blocks in a three-set match for Texas. The Lions were limited to a .124 hitting percentage and finished 22 errors. Texas hit .452 as a team, its sixth time this season hitting over .400.
Set One: Penn State was held to a .167 hitting percentage with four service errors and eight attacking errors. Stafford led the set with six kills while hitting .455. Ramsey Gary added five digs for the Longhorns on defense.
Set Two: Texas dominated the second after extending the lead to 19-7 on an 11-0 run, with two consecutive block effort from Spears, Nya Bunton and Stafford. Texas took set two, 25-9. The Longhorns hit .700 while limiting the Lions at -.065. Spears notched six kills while Ella Swindle put up 10 assists. Texas totaled four blocks in the set, with Bunton contributing three.
Set Three: The Longhorns completed the sweep over Penn State, winning the third set 25-19. Stafford registered 11 kills while hitting .611, and Gary added six digs on defense. Saturday’s win marked the 11th-ranked win of the season for the Horns.
Texas will face off against No. 15 Indiana in the third round of the NCAA Tournament with the game time and date TBD.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Highlighted by nine top 10 finishes, Austin Peay State University’s track and field team concluded its first meet of the 2025-26 indoor season at Vanderbilt’s Winter Commodore Challenge, Saturday, at the David Williams II Recreation & Wellness Center.
Saturday’s events began with throws, as Emma Tucker highlighted Austin Peay’s performances in the weight throw with a sixth-place finish. The mark was Tucker’s first of two top 10 marks, as she also went on to finish eighth in the shot put later in the afternoon. Freshman China Giaimo paced the Govs in the shot put, recording an 11.98-meter toss in her first collegiate meet.
Madelyn Kocik also finished the day with a pair of top 10 performances, beginning with an eighth-place finish in the long jump with a 5.61-meter leap – her best mark since finishing second at the 2025 Atlantic Sun Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. A Portland, Texas native, Kocik later went on to finish fifth in the triple jump with an 11.97-meter mark – the second-best mark of her career and her longest jump since recording a 12.12-meter jump last season at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Challenge (Jan. 11).
Three Governors competed in the 600-meter for Austin Peay with all three finishing in the top 10. Sophomore Taylin Segree paced the trio with a 1:33.28 time and fifth-place finish, while Alexis Arnett (1:34.03) and Mia McGee (1:34.57) finished seventh and 10th, respectively. It was the first time that any of the Govs had competed in the 600 in their collegiate career.
Wrapping up the Govs’ events for the day, Taylah Upshaw placed fourth in the 1,000-meter, setting a personal best with a time of 3:01.03.
Up Next
Austin Peay returns to action in mid-January when it returns to Nashville to the Vanderbilt Invitational, Jan. 16-17, at the David Williams II Recreation & Wellness Center
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The UW-Oshkosh women’s volleyball team celebrates its semifinal win Thursday in the NCAA Division III Championship. Photo by Ashtin Elder of Kodiak Creative.
The University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh women’s volleyball team swept University of La Verne (California) Saturday to claim its first national title and the 51st for UW-Oshkosh.
The championship took place at Illinois Wesleyan University’s Shirk Center in Bloomington, Illinois, where a busload of Titan students and staff arrived Saturday to cheer on their team.
UWO did not drop a set across its six wins in the national tournament, which is a first in 21 years.
Izzy Coon, Lauren Grier, Callie Panasuk and Samantha Perlberg (Most Outstanding) were all named to the All-Tournament Team.
The team is coached by Jon Ellmann of Neenah, who was inducted into the Wisconsin Volleyball Coach’s Association Hall of Fame in 2021.
