CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – A total of 127 student-athletes and relay teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference have advanced to the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which are scheduled for June 11-14 in Eugene, Oregon.
 

Of the 18 ACC Track & Field programs, 16 schools qualified at least one student-athlete for the national meet. The Florida State and Louisville women led the way with eight qualifiers each, while the FSU men qualified six individuals. 
 
The participants in individual and relay events qualified through competition at first round sites held May 28-31 in Jacksonville, Florida, and College Station, Texas. Heptathlon and decathlon participants will compete for the first time at the finals site.
 
On the men’s side, Wake Forest qualified three individuals for the 5,000-meter run, marking the most of any ACC program in a single event. Among the women, Virginia Tech qualified three pole vaulters, while California will be represented by three hammer throwers, both marking the most of any ACC program.
 

In May, the Duke men’s and Virginia’s women’s teams won the 2025 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Blue Devils and Cavaliers join the rest of the ACC contingent looking to claim the ACC’s first national championship since 2008.
 
In 2024, the ACC saw two individual national championships as Virginia’s Shane Cohen won the men’s 800-meter run and North Carolina’s Parker Wolfe won the men’s 5,000-meter run. Powered by Cohen, the Virginia men led ACC schools last year with an eighth-place finish, logging 26 points. Among the current 18 ACC schools, the Stanford women led the way in 2024, finishing in 13th-place and earning 24 points.
 

Every event throughout the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be streamed on ESPN+. Additionally, select portions of each day will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2. Televised coverage will air on ESPN, beginning at 7 p.m. ET on both Wednesday, June 11, and Thursday, June 12. On Friday, June 13, coverage will begin at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2, while the final day of competition on Saturday, June 14, will be televised on ESPN2, beginning at 9 p.m. ET.
 

For additional information regarding the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships, including a schedule of events, start lists and more, click here. Live results throughout the event can also be found on Flash Results by clicking here.
 

INDIANAPOLIS – UIndy volleyball first-year head coach Haley Case (Kindall) announced the program’s 2025 schedule on Tuesday afternoon.
 
Encompassing 29 regular-season matches, the Greyhounds have 21 in-region opponents on the docket, including 13 GLVC contests. Notably, UIndy hosts one of its three tournaments before traveling to Cedarville, Ohio, and St. Petersburg, Fla., prior to conference play opening on Sept. 26. Outside of their six GLVC matches in Ruth Lilly Fitness Center, the Hounds host Ursuline and Kentucky State in out-of-conference bouts in September.
 
UIndy welcomes nine-time national champion Concordia-St. Paul and 2024 DII tournament selection West Virginia State in the first weekend, while also battling in-region Parkside to open the season on Sept. 4.
 
This year’s Midwest Region Crossover is slated for Oct. 17-18 in Hammond, Ind., with the GLVC Championship Tournament returning to Williamsville, Ill., from Nov. 21-23.
 
The complete schedule can be found here.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) – In what school officials called a “difficult decision, Stephen F. Austin State University dropped three of its NCAA sports programs. SFA Athletics announced they were removing men’s and women’s golf, bowling, and beach volleyball on May 22. News that came as a shock to some student athletes.

SFA student athlete Cameron Hubbard has played competitive golf for 10 years. He played golf at Blinn College for two years before arriving at SFA. He has played for the SFA men’s golf team for the past two years.

“It’s so much fun to compete. Go out there every day and try to get better,” said Hubbard.

As of Monday, Hubbard and his teammates are now the last group of the SFA’s men’s golf team. Hubbard said they were only notified of a virtual meeting with the SFA Athletics before the announcement.

He missed the meeting and said he found out through social media shortly after.

“We don’t know why all of this is happening,” said Hubbard. “I was upset, obviously. It’s very disappointing to hear news like that. You never expect to hear it.”

Hubbard reached out to the rest of his teammates, he said they also expressed sadness and confusion.

SFA’s men’s golf finished in eighth place out of 11 schools for the 2025 Southland Conference in April. It being the last game together.

“Our emotions are all over the place but all we can do is move on go on about our lives with it,” said Hubbard.

Hubbard hopes SFA Athletics considers bringing back all three sports one day.

“That’s something I believe the university deserves to have. I think that we’ve represented them well while we were here. I think we deserve our spot back on campus,” he said.

For student athletes affected by the cut, SFA will honor all scholarships of student-athletes who choose to stay at the university, or they can transfer to a different institution to continue their athletic and academic career.

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“CHAMPIONS WEAR TURQUOISE”
It was 2011 when UNM first donned turquoise at NCAA Championships, an idea hatched by former UNM Head Coach Joe Franklin at the time. In their first iteration, the uniforms were originally white and dip-dyed by hand — three times, to be exact— in order to reach the proper turquoise color. The Lobos didn’t get officially printed turquoise uniforms for nationals until after they won their first women’s NCAA team Championship in 2015.

More than a decade later, wearing turquoise has become both a privilege and a tradition that honors the state of New Mexico that the Lobos represent. Only UNM athletes that reach the NCAA Championship race in cross country or qualify for NCAA Indoor or Outdoor Championships wear turquoise — the color is meant to be earned and worn with pride.

THE RISE OF HABTOM SAMUEL
Read more about the unrelenting will — and obstacle-laden journey — that has taken sophomore Habtom Samuel to new heights ahead of his second NCAA Outdoor Championship appearance.

GAUSON INKS FIVE-YEAR EXTENSION AFTER BIG SECOND YEAR
University of New Mexico Vice President/Director of Athletics Fernando Lovo has announced that Head Cross Country/Track & Field Coach Darren Gauson has received a five-year contract that will keep Gauson at the helm of UNM’s nationally ranked programs through the 2029-30 season.

“Darren has elevated every aspect of our program,” said Lovo. “In just two years, he’s built a championship culture and a team that consistently performs on the national stage. His leadership, vision, and ability to develop talent are exactly what we look for. Securing Coach Gauson was a top priority. He embodies what we’re about: excellence and championships.”

Gauson in just two seasons at UNM has won five Mountain West Coach of the Year Awards, being named Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year in both 2023 and 2024, Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2024 and both Women’s Indoor and Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2025.  In that span, his teams have won five Mountain West titles, four of which have come this year.

That included UNM’s first Mountain West title in women’s outdoor track and field, a win which clinched the first sweep of all three women’s titles in UNM history.

“I am very appreciative of President Stokes, the Board of Regents, and Athletic Director Fernando Lovo for their amazing support of Lobo Cross Country and Track & Field,” said Gauson. “Sustained excellence is only possible when there is clear alignment and strong support—qualities that are firmly in place at the University of New Mexico. It is a tremendous honor to serve this program and I am eager to bring future championships to our great state. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to Amy Beggin and my dedicated staff for their invaluable contributions. I look forward to continuing to build championship-caliber teams alongside them.”

In his two seasons with UNM, Gauson has coached eight All-Americans in cross country including three runner-up finishes, along with 11 All-Americans in indoor and outdoor track and field to go with one national champion and one runner-up. That number will likely increase as UNM heads to the NCAA Outdoor National Championships next week.  UNM qualified 11 student-athletes into the field, second only to Harvard among non-P4 institutions, and tied for the second-most all-time at UNM.  UNM ranks tied for 28th among the 68 Power-4 conference schools in terms of total qualifying student-athletes.

The 11 qualifiers came after sending a whopping 27 to the NCAA West Regionals, up from 12 a year ago. In the 2024-25 academic year alone, New Mexico athletes set 22 new program records with 58 performances that rank among the Top 10 in program history – among them, eight performances ranked among the Top 5 in collegiate history.

In 2024-25, the Lobo cross country teams both finished in the national Top 10 for the first time in school history, with the women’s team finishing seventh and the men’s team finishing ninth. In both the men’s and women’s races, UNM had the national runner-up, including a miraculous finish by Habtom Samuel, who ran much of the race in Wisconsin on a frozen track with just one shoe after losing it halfway through the race.

UNM’s men’s point total of 272 in that 2024 race was the lowest in program history.

The Lobos’ sweep of the men’s and women’s cross country titles were the first for UNM – and in the Mountain West – since 2014.  UNM’s Pamela Kosgei was a finalist for the Honda Sports Award, recognizing the best student-athlete in cross country.  At different points this season, Kosgei, Habtom Samuel and Ishmael Kipkurui have all been named to the Bowerman Watch List, awarded to the top track & field athlete in the country.

LOBO TRIO RANKED AMONG TOP 25 NCAA TRACK STARS
In NCAA Track & Field’s Top 25 D-I Both-Genders All-Events rankings released three weeks ago from Stan Becton, Habtom Samuel (No. 5), Ishmael Kipkurui (No. 6) and Pamela Kosgei (No. 8) all cracked the Top 10.

LOBOS VS. THE WORLD
Entering this week, the Lobos have seen three different athletes post world-leading marks in three events – Pamela Kosgei (9:15.63) and Matthew Kosgei (8:22.13) led the world in women’s and men’s steeplechase, with Ishmael Kipkurui’s 26:50.21 NCAA-record performance at Sound Running’s THE TEN leading the world in the men’s 10,000m. Behind Kipkurui, Habtom Samuel’s 26:51.06 clocking at THE TEN – the No. 2 performance in NCAA history – also ranked No. 2 in the world.