No. 2 seed Louisville volleyball fell to No. 3 seed Texas A&M in five sets Friday night at Bob Devaney Sports Center in Lincoln, Nebraska, ending the Cardinals’ season.

The Cardinals finished Dan Meske’s inaugural campaign as head coach 26-7 in Lincoln, where Meske’s collegiate coaching career began as a graduate assistant for the Cornhuskers 18 years ago.

Louisville earned several American Volleyball Coaches Association awards for its performance in the tournament’s first weekend. Four Cardinals made the All-South Region first team: Kalyssa Blackshear (OPP), Nayelis Cabello (S), Chloe Chicoine (OH) and Cara Cresse (MB). Outside hitter Payton Petersen received an honorable mention.

Coverage from the match:

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Southeast Missouri track and field teams opened their season winning eight events at the John Gartland Invitational hosted by Indiana State Friday night. 

Included in the event wins was Brianna Dixon who set a new SEMO indoor record in the high jump reaching 5-10 to take the title. 

Event Winners

Marshall Swadley won the weight throw with a personal-best mark of 65-9.5 and later captured the shot-put title with another PR of 60-10.5.

John Hartmann claimed first place in the high jump after clearing a personal-best height of 6-9.5.

Clara Billing earned the pole vault victory with a height of 12-11.75.

Kale Clements won the 800 meters in 2:26.4 during her first collegiate meet.

Sydney Burdine captured the 400-meter title with a time of 56.09.

Madelyn Gray won the mile with a time of 5:04.6.

 

Top Three Finishers

Sullivan Gleason placed third in the pole vault with a clearance of 16-2.75.

Dixon followed up her win with a second-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles, running 8.72.

The women’s 4×400-meter relay team of Burdine, Jasmine McClelland, Clements, and Gray finished second in 4:10.1.

The men’s 4×400-meter relay team of Marcus Gordon, Jon’David White, Jackson Witvoet, and Connor Moore placed third with a time of 3:31.4.

Byron Sowerby earned a runner-up finish in the 3,000 meters, clocking 9:02.7.

Jonas Davis finished third in the 200 meters with a time of 22.54.

McClelland placed second in the women’s 200 meters, running 25.77.

Moore finished second in the 400 meters with a time of 50.93.

Trenton Braswell placed second in the weight throw with a mark of 65-4.75.

Liberty Blackburn earned second place in the high jump with a clearance of 5-4.25.

Luke Busateri finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 46-11.

Andreese Ortiz finished in third in the shot put reaching 45-10 for a new personal best throw.

 

Other Notable Performances 

Ortiz placed fourth in the weight throw with a personal-best mark of 58-3.25.

Alyssa Repke finished fifth in the weight throw with a mark of 55-5 while competing in her first collegiate meet.

Colin Beers earned a fifth-place finish in the pole vault after clearing 15-11.

Aarion Jackson placed fifth in the long jump with a leap of 22-3.5.

Matt Pluff recorded a mark of 22-1 in the long jump during his first collegiate competition.

White placed sixth in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.33. Marcus Gordon Jr. followed closely with a seventh-place finish in the 60-meter hurdles at 8.35.

Jackson Witvoet finished sixth in the 200 meters with a time of 22.8 and also placed sixth in the 60 meters at 7.11.

Micah Grawer earned fifth place in the mile with a time of 4:26.12.

McClelland also finished sixth in the 60 meters with a time of 7.75 and Burdine placed seventh in 7.83.

Zavier Winton finished eighth in the weight throw with a mark of 55-5.

Bailie Hux placed seventh in the weight throw with a throw of 53-11.

Elliana Rhinehart finished ninth in the weight throw with a mark of 51-5.75.

Braswell added a fifth-place finish in the shot put with a mark of 52-2.5.

Mark Goldman placed eighth in the shot put with a throw of 47-11.75.

Quinton rounded out the shot put with a ninth-place finish at 46-2.

 

The meet will wrap up Saturday starting at 11 a.m. The Redhawks will have Luis Schadlich and Kannon Harlow finishing up the men’s heptathlon. Anna Thomason will compete in the women’s pentathlon.

 

Two former Big 12 rivals meet with a spot in the regional final on the line, as the Nebraska Cornhuskers play host to the Kansas Jayhawks in the third round of the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Tournament.

The Cornhuskers rolled toward another Big Ten championship. Nebraska has been dominant. Not only are they undefeated, but they have also been nearly untouchable. For two months, the team did not lose a set. The team then went on to win its final five matches in straight sets, clinching a third consecutive Big Ten Championship.

Now, the program that has played in every national tournament since the AIAW days has its sights set on advancing to the final four for the fourth time in the past five seasons. Nebraska looks to avenge last year’s disappointing semifinal exit at the hands of the eventual national champions, Penn State.

Nebraska has yet to lose a set, hammering Long Island and Kansas State in straight sets.

The Jayhawks had a little bit of a tougher time getting to the Sweet 16. After beating High Point in the First Round, Kansas needed four sets to get by Miami last weekend. The J-Birds finished second in the Big 12 during the regular season, four games back of conference champion Arizona State.

NCAA WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT

Third Round

Kansas Jayhawks vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers

When: Friday, December 12

Time: 9:30 p.m. ET

Where: Bob Devaney Sports Center (Lincoln, Neb.)

Channel: ESPN2

LINCOLN, Neb. — Kansas City completed their final meets of 2025, showcasing positive signs for the indoor season moving forward at the Husker Holiday Open and ISU Holiday Invitational on Friday afternoon. Last weekend, Kansas City broke school records in the men’s 60 and 300-meter dashes, the men’s 600-yard dash and the women’s shot put at the Crimson and Gold Invitational. This weekend didn’t go by without a record being broken as KC’s All-American Tory Lanham delivered his third indoor school record, darting a 47.62 second time in the 400-meter dash to take first in the race and break fellow sprinter Jayden Henry’s 47.71 time set in last year’s holiday meet. Lanham continues to cement a historic legacy at Kansas City as the junior sprinter is KC’s school record holder in the indoor 200, 300 and 400-meter dashes, breaking each previous record in the calendar year of 2025.

Elsewhere in Lincoln, several other Roos put forth a great effort on the track, ending 2025 of a positive note heading into the New Year. Notably, distance runner Dalton Heller set a career-best in the mile, running a 4:18.52 and finishing third in the event. Right behind Heller was Luke Swarts, running a 4:20.68 to give the sophomore a new career-best time in the mile. Connor Jacober finished first in the 800-meter dash among several competitors, finishing with a 1:59.45 time. In the field, Hunter Roos earned himself a first place finish, cracking a triple jump mark of 14.32 meters. Brant Wilson finished as Kansas City’s best long jumper, leaping a mark of 6.84 meters which was good for third in the event. 

On the women’s side, Jacky-Perez Vela nearly notched a program record in the 300-meter dash, recording a time of 39.86 seconds, finishing under a tenth of a second shy of the Roos all-time record at 39.79 set back in 2024. Naomi Eyanagho clocked a 60-meter hurdles time of 9.21 seconds, finishing fourth in the race and coming close to her career-best. In the women’s 60-meter dash, Tonique Fleming sprinted a third place time of 7.87 seconds while Sarah Wulfert came in sixth with a time of 7.92 seconds. Additionally, Wulfert and Fleming came in the top five finishers in the 200-meter dash, leaving the meet with times of 25.21 and 25.55 respectively.  

In Ames, Kansas City put together a nice performance with Stephen Clunis getting a time of 6.68 in the 60-meter dash and Junior Powell notching a time of 6.91 in the same event. Kai White and M.J. Foster got times of 2:28.84 and 2:29.60 in the 1000-meter dash to close out Kansas City’s day at Iowa State. Kansas City takes a break for the holidays before hitting the ground running on January 10 for the Alexis Jarrett Invitational at Missouri.