The GoCardless Swim England Water Polo National Age Group Championships (U17/U19) finals weekend is taking place at Coventry’s Alan Higgs Centre on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 May.

Kicking off the action is the U17 female competition where Worthing, City of Liverpool, West London Penguin and Exeter will battle it out for a place in Sunday’s final.

This will be followed by the U17 Open competition, which sees Watford, Exeter, City of Manchester and Worthing all bidding to reach the gold medal match.

City of Sheffield, Cheltenham, City of Liverpool and City of Bristol are the sides in action in the U19s female competition. And in the U19s open event, Manchester, Watford, Penguin and Cheltenham are all in the last four fixtures.

The semi-finals victors will contest the gold medal matches on Sunday with the winners being crowned national champions.

Bronze medal matches will also be played on Sunday between the sides beaten in Saturday’s semi-finals.

You can follow the live scoreboard below, whilst Swim England and the BWPL are now providing additional live match reporting of results, goal scorers, match sheets and so much more.

MEDFORD, MA (April 30, 2025) – The Tufts University men’s track and field team picked up eight All-New England Small College Athletic Conference Awards following their solid showing at the NESCAC Championships last weekend.

Randy Hamilton earns the All-NESCAC honors after his second place finish in the javelin throw. His mark of 55.10m was just ahead of fellow All-NESCAC honoree Ross Miller who took third in the javelin with a 51.52m.

Luke Benson and Sahr Matturi each earned All-NESCAC honors for their second and third place finishes in the triple jump respectively. Benson took second with a 14.20m and Matturi was third with a 13.97m. Matturi earned a second All-NESCAC award for his second place finish in the long jump with a 7.00m flat.

Edward Kiboma earned All-NESCAC honors following a second place finish in the high jump, taking the silver medal with a mark of 1.93m.

The 4x100m relay team of Ethan Forde, Josh Wilkie, Brady Kamali and Noah Turner earned an All-NESCAC award for their third place finish in 42.11.

Jonah Reisner earned the final All-NESCAC award for Tufts following his second place finish in the 5000m run in 14:34.79.

The Jumbos will be back in action next weekend at the New England Division III Championships beginning on Friday at 11:00 am on the campus of the United States Coast Guard Academy.

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ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Lindenwood women’s volleyball announced on Friday their 2025 recruiting class. Head coach Will Condon will add four new players to their roster that is coming off their first Ohio Valley Conference Championship during the 2024 season with a 23-11 record.

“This is a great group of players we have joining our team,” said head coach Will Condon. “They have a great mix of size, athletic ability, experience, and skill. It will be fun to finally have them all on campus!  As a group they have the potential to impact our line up significantly over the next four years.”

Kylee Kay Ann Richey

Outside HItter / Middle Blocker

Versailles, Mo. | Versailles High School | 573 Missouri Juniors (Club)

• Was a three-time All-State Selection at Versailles High School
• Was a four-time Academic All-Conference Selection
• 2023 Nationals USA All-Tournament Team
• 2022 Nationals USA All-Tournament team 

Shannon Monahan
Outside Hitter
Champaign, Ill. | St. Thomas More High School | Illini Elite VBC (Club)

• St. Thomas More High School All-Time kills leader with 1,362
• Was a 2024 AVCA All-America Watch List selection
• Was a two-time 1st Team Illini Prairie All-Conference Team selection
• Three-time 1st Team News Gazette All-Conference team selection
• 2021 1A State Champion

Greta Shadewald 
Setter
Prairie du Sac, Wis. | Sauk Prairie High School | Madtown Volleyball (Club)

• Was a 2024 All-State honorable mention selection
• Named to the First-Team All-Conference team during the 2023 and 2024 seasons
• Was her team MVP during her senior season
• Over 1,000 career assists in high school

Blair Sitton
Middle Blocker
Farmington, Mo. | Central High School (Park Hills) | Rockwood (Club)

• Five-time Pizza Player of the game at her high school
• Two-time First team All-District
• Three-time First team All-Conference selection
• Two-time Parkland Athlete of the week selection
• Career stats: 1,053 kills, 347 blocks, 111 digs, 53 aces

The first spring championship of 2025 is here, and I’m here to cover it.

The LSU beach volleyball team has made the trip down to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for the 2025 NCAA National Collegiate Beach Volleyball Championship tournament, their eighth appearance in the nine years of the tournament’s history. The Tigers were the final at-large team into the 16-team tournament and earned the #11 overall seed. Today, they’ll face #6 overall seed Cal Poly in the final dual of the first round. The earliest time at which the game can start is 3:00, but it’s highly likely that other matches will push the start time back past 3:30. The match will be broadcast on ESPN2, but if you have ESPN+, I would suggest you use that to watch each court instead since the network does commercial breaks during the action. For information on the seven games that precede LSU’s match, check out this handy cheat sheet I made.

How does a game work?

Just so we’re all on the same page, here’s how a dual works. Each game, known as a dual, consists of five matches. These matches consist of a pair from one team against a pair from the other team. The first two sets of each match are played to 21 points, and a tiebreaking third set is played to 15 points (in both cases, a team must lead by two points to win a set). When a pair wins a match, they earn a point for their team towards the overall dual score. Duals end when one team scores three points. For the opening round, all five matches start at the same time to get through each one as quickly as possible.

#11 LSU vs #6 Cal Poly preview

Cal Poly enters this tournament after dropping the Big West Championship final to Long Beach State. The 29-7 Mustangs are 7-7 against tournament teams and 5-5 against tournament teams when excluding results against LBSU. Their most impressive wins came in early April when they beat UCLA 3-2 and then beat Loyola Marymount 3-2. UCLA and LMU are the #1 and #4 seeds in this tournament, respectively. Both of those teams beat Cal Poly in other matches, though.

LSU enters this tournament after an underwhelming showing at the CCSA Championship. After a 3-1 loss to Florida State, the Tigers struggled to beat South Carolina 3-1 to avoid elimination. The next day, FSU swept the Tigers 3-0. LSU has had some big wins this year, notably wins over Cal, USC and Long Beach State, though the latter two came at home. LSU has found some strange magic on the sand of Gulf Shores. Just last year, #11 LSU pulled off a shocking run to the semifinals by knocking off #6 TCU and #3 Stanford.

LSU has never been eliminated from the NCAA tournament without getting a win, and they are 3-0 all-time against Cal Poly. That said, LSU’s last dual against the Mustangs came back in 2019, a time when both programs were in different spots. The Tigers have a strong advantage on the 5s compared to most teams, but they are weaker on the 2s. That means it’s probably going to come down to some combination of courts 1, 3 and 4 to find an upset win.

There is about a 20-30% chance of rain all day today. Hopefully none of that rain messes with the schedule of the tournament today, because tomorrow is going to be a nightmare (thunderstorms all day).