JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After four seasons at the helm of North Florida Beach Volleyball, Doug Wright has stepped down from the program. 
 
“It has been an honor and privilege to lead this program and represent the University of North Florida,” Wright said. “The championship culture we built and the milestones we reached are a direct result of our student-athletes’ hard work and our staff’s dedication. This was an extremely difficult decision, but it is the right one as I prioritize what is best for my family. While the timing is not ideal, I believe there is never a wrong time to do what is right. I am deeply grateful to Nick Morrow for the opportunity to lead this program and for all the moments I was able to experience along the way. I care deeply about the coaches and players in this program, and I am confident they will continue elevating it to new heights.”
 
“Doug Wright has been an incredible coach for the North Florida Beach Volleyball program, and his impact on our student-athletes and the entire Osprey community cannot be overstated,” Vice President of Intercollegiate Athletics Nick Morrow added. “While we are saddened by his decision to step down, we respect his choice and are deeply grateful for the difference he has made in our program. Doug leaves behind a new standard of excellence that will continue to guide us. We wish him nothing but the best in his next chapter.”
 
Wright compiled a 100-48 record at North Florida, the fastest to reach the 100-win milestone in program history. 
 
Wright led North Florida to a program-record 26 wins in 2025 that culminated in the program’s second-ever appearance in the NCAA Championship, which have both occurred in the last two seasons under Wright, after it added its sixth and second-straight Atlantic Sun Conference Championship title. North Florida earned a program-best No. 12 seed after it secured the No. 16 seed in 2024. ?
 
For three-straight seasons under Wright, North Florida secured the most combined selections between the ASUN Conference First and Second Team in 2025. With the six selections in 2025, North Florida collected 26 honorees under Wright and the most in the conference in his tenure. North Florida was a top-three seed at the ASUN Championship each season under Wright. He coached four Ospreys to All-Freshman team honors, including 2023 ASUN Freshman of the Year Madison Espy. 
 
In addition to a program-record win total, North Florida earned its highest ranking in program history at No. 14 in the final AVCA Collegiate Beach Coaches Poll in 2025. The Ospreys were ranked in each installment of the poll in 2025 for the first time in program history.
 
Wright recorded the program’s first-ever win at the NCAA Championship against No. 17 seed Chattanooga on May 3, 2024. In 2024, North Florida became the first team in ASUN Conference history to sweep the entirety of the ASUN Championship without giving up a single match point. 
 
Wright coached two pairs in Mariana Feliciano Sanchez and Madison Espy in 2025 and Iris Fletcher and Katie Camp in 2024 to ASUN Pair of the Tournament. He developed six pairs to ASUN All-Tournament Team honors. North Florida had two ASUN Scholar Athlete of the Year honorees under Wright. 
 
Wright guided Presley Murray and Mackenzie Murphy to AVCA Top Flight Pair 1 honors in 2025. He coached four AVCA Top Flight pairs at the helm of North Florida. 
 
Wright was named 2023 ASUN Coach of the Year and won at least 24 matches each of his four seasons.
 
A national search for a new head coach will begin immediately.

RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University men’s and women’s track and field teams took four of the first six ASUN Performer of the Week honors in the 2025-26 indoor track and field season as announced by the conference office on Wednesday.
 
On the track, Taha Er Raouy and Edna Chelulei earned the men’s and women’s weekly honors, with Daroyce Flemons and Kristan Simmons taking the honors in the field after all four broke school records in their respective events to open the indoor season.
 
Er Raouy took the men’s track honors after breaking the school record in the invite section of the 3,000 meters with a time of 7:40.56, finishing 6th in a mixed field of top collegiate athletes and professionals at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener last Saturday.
 
At the same meet, Chelulei set the EKU indoor record in the women’s 5,000 meters with a time of 15:42.14.
 
Back in the Commonwealth, Flemons and Simmons set new program records in the men’s and women’s weight throw at the KTCCCA Commonwealth College Opener in Louisville to earn Field Performer of the Week honors.
 
Flemons’ record-breaking throw went 17.81m (58.05.25) in his Colonel debut to take first in the men’s event, while Simmons threw 17.28m (56-08.50) to take first on the women’s side.
 
The Colonels will next compete in the new year at the Bellarmine Open on January 16.
 

CHICAGO – DePaul women’s basketball head coach Jill M. Pizzotti announced Wednesday the addition of volleyball student-athlete Katelynn Oxley to the roster for the remainder of the 2025-26 campaign. Oxley concluded her four-year volleyball career with the Blue Demons in November and is available to compete with basketball immediately.

“We’re excited about the opportunity to bring a 6-4 player like Katelynn to our roster. It’s a rare occasion when you can add someone with size, who you know well, who you’re genuinely excited about, and who has competed at a high level,” said Pizzotti. “Katelynn is a great fit for our program, and we’re thrilled for her to continue her Blue Demon career with our team.”

In four seasons as a volleyball letterwinner, Oxley appeared in 106 matches for the Blue Demons and totaled 483 kills and 318 blocks. In her senior campaign, the Lincoln, Neb. native ranked sixth in the BIG EAST with 1.12 blocks per set while her .318 hitting percentage ranked eighth.

In her prep career, Oxley played two seasons of varsity basketball at Lincoln Lutheran and led her squad in points, blocks and rebounds her junior and senior campaigns. Her teams went 45-7 in two seasons and finished top three in C1 State championship in back-to-back seasons. Oxley won multiple all-city, all-conference and all-state accolades in her time on the hardwood.

Oxley earned her undergraduate degree in Finance in June of 2025 and is currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration in Business Analytics. She has been named to the BIG EAST All-Academic Team on three occasions and compiled a 4.0 GPA throughout her time in Chicago.

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The Blue Demons return home to host UMass Lowell Thursday, Dec. 11. Tipoff from Wintrust Arena is scheduled for 6 p.m. 

 

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MINNEAPOLIS — For the first time this indoor season the University of Minnesota women’s track and field team has earned weekly honors from the Big Ten Conference. Anthonett Nabwe earned the Field Athlete of the Week honor, the conference office announced on Wednesday. 

Nabwe returned to the college indoor scene at the M City Classic where she tossed a season-opening 23.74m (77-10 3/4) in the weight throw to sit at No. 1 in the NCAA. The toss for Nabwe was over four feet further than her 2024 opening weight throw of 22.45m (73-8) at the same meet. Nabwe’s winning throw of 16.40m (53-9 3/4) in the shot put was also an improvement from last year’s opening indoor competition by nearly two feet (15.95m | 52-4). Nabwe’s shot put mark from the M City Classic is ranked No. 3 in the nation and the No. 1 in the Big Ten after last weekend’s action. 

The weekly honor for Nabwe is the seventh the redshirt junior has earned between the indoor and the outdoor season. Last indoor season Nabwe became the first Big Ten weight thrower in nine years to repeat as champion at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and was just the fifth Big Ten women’s weight thrower all-time to defend their conference title. According to the USTFCCCA, Nabwe ranks No. 8 all-time with her lifetime best weight throw mark of 24.22m (79-5 1/2) – which she set at last year’s Big Ten Indoor Championships.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the fourth time in the last five seasons, St. Cloud State Volleyball had at least three student-athletes named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division II All-America teams as announced by the organizations on Wednesday. Junior outside hitter Shelby Kimm (North Liberty, Iowa), sophomore setter Braya LaPlant (Grand Rapids, Minn.) and redshirt senior middle blocker Ella Thompson (Lakeville, Minn.) were each named to the second team.
 
This is the sixth straight season that the Huskies have had at least two players named to the AVCA All-America teams and the fourth time in program history that SCSU has had three or more All-America selections in a season which have all come in the last four seasons (four in 2021, three in 2022, three in 2024).
 
Thompson becomes the fifth player in program history to become a multi-time All-American after Lindsey Rachel ’22 (3x; 2019, 21, 22), Phebie Rossi ’22 (2x; 2021, 22), former teammate Kenzie Foley ’24 (4x; 2021, 22, 23, 24) and current teammate Emma Berran (2x; 2023, 24). Last season Thompson was also named to the second team. Kimm and LaPlant are the 12^th and 13^th players in program history to earn All-America honors.
 
The redshirt senior middle blocker was named a first team All-Central Region performer by the AVCA and Division-II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) after being named a second teamer by the AVCA in 2024. Thompson was also named to the All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) First Team, to the NCAA Central Region All-Tournament Team, the NSIC All-Tournament Team all for the second consecutive season and was also the NSIC Preseason Player of the Year this season. The Lakeville, Minnesota native averaged 3.89 points, 3.37 kills and 0.96 blocks per set this season on .331 hitting this season.

 
Kimm earned her first all-region and all-conference honors this season after being named to the AVCA All-Central Region First Team and the D2CCA All-Central Region Second team and the All-NSIC First Team. The North Liberty, Iowa native was also named to the to the NCAA Central Region All-Tournament Team, the NSIC All-Tournament Team (second consecutive season). The junior outside hitter averaged 3.88 points, 3.47 digs, 3.40 kills and 0.46 blocks per set this season.

 
LaPlant also earned the first all-region and all-conference honors of her career this season after being named to the AVCA All-Central Region First Team and the D2CCA All-Central Region Second team and the All-NSIC First Team. The sophomore setter was also named to the to the NCAA Central Region All-Tournament Team, the NSIC All-Tournament Team. She also became just the fifth player in program history to be named AVCA DII Player of the Week and was the lone Husky to earn weekly NSIC honors this season after being named Setter of the Week twice (her first career weekly awards). The Grand Rapids, Minnesota native averaged 11.69 assists, 2.21 digs, 1.23 points, 0.62 kills and 0.49 blocks per set this season.

 
This season, the Huskies won their second consecutive and fourth overall NSIC Tournament Championship (all in the last five seasons) after taking down the No. 13, No. 2 and No. 5 teams in the country and advanced to the NCAA Central Region Championship/Sweet 16 for the second consecutive season, tying the program record for NCAA Tournament wins in a season, with two (4x; 1995, 2022, 2024, 2025). En route to the region championship, the Huskies beat the No. 17 team in the nation before taking down the No. 2 team and tournament host, Nebraska Kearney, on their home court.
 
AVCA All-America
Second Team:
Shelby Kimm
Braya LaPlant
Ella Thompson
    
AVCA RELEASE
 
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WALTHAM, Mass. – The 2025 Bentley volleyball team continues to make history. Elizabeth Blinn is the first player in program history to be named to an All-America team, as she landed on the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-America Third Team, the AVCA announced Wednesday morning.

Sophia Poehlein, Tory Vitko, and Lulu Pavan each received All-American Honorable Mention from the AVCA.

Prior to 2025, only two players in Bentley history earned AVCA All-American honors. Christiana Sadowski is a three-time All-American Honorable Mention (2005, 2006, 2007), and Alyssa Carter was an All-American Honorable Mention in 2003.

Heading into Thursday’s NCAA Quarterfinal match, Blinn leads the country in blocks per set (1.67). She is the Northeast 10 Defensive Player of the Year in 2025, and she was named the Most Outstanding Player during the NE10 Tournament.

Poehlein is Bentley’s leading outside hitter, averaging 3.74 kills per set. Three times this year she reached at least 20 kills, each in just four sets. She had a career-high 23 kills in Bentley’s 2025 home-opener against Post.

Vitko  is the 2025 NE10 Setter of the Year. She enters the NCAA Quarterfinals averaging 9.37 assists per set, and she has 10 double-doubles this season. Two of those double-doubles were during the NE10 Tournament.

Pavan’s 2.87 kills per set rank second on the team, and she has reached double-digit kills 12 times this season. Pavan’s collegiate career began with 10+ kills in each of her first four matches.

Bentley won the NCAA East Regional title for the third consecutive year. The Falcons are the only program in the country to reach the NCAA DII Championship Quarterfinals in each of the past three seasons.

The Falcons enter the NCAA DII Quarterfinals as the #6 seed, which is the highest seed ever for a team from the East Region. Thursday’s game time against #3 Point Loma is at 12 p.m. (EST).