COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – USA Volleyball announced on Monday that TCU senior Hailey Hamlett will be a member of the 2025 Beach Collegiate National Team.
 
The selection marks the second straight year Hamlett has been named to the prestigious team. The elite group of 17 women will participate in a 10-day training block running until Thursday, June 19, in Hermosa Beach, California. 
 
The Beach Collegiate/U26 National Team will train alongside USA Volleyball’s Beach A2 National Team, gaining valuable experience in a high-performance environment. The training block will conclude with the NORCECA Playoff on June 18-19, where BCNT/U26 and Beach National Team athletes will compete for the chance to represent the United States at upcoming NORCECA international events.

Throughout the training block, athletes will also take part in classroom sessions led by members of USA Volleyball’s Beach National Team performance staff.

 

A maximum of four females on the BCNT/U26 may be selected to represent the U.S. on the U23 and/or U26 Beach Age Group National Teams following the training block.

 

In 2025, Hamlett competed in 34 matches for TCU and posted a record of 25-7. She competed alongside Daniela Alvarez at the No. 1 position, and the pair posted an 11-1 record. The senior also saw action with Maria Gonzalez at the No. 2 spot with the duo going 10-4. She began her season with Anhelina Khmil at No. 2, going 4-2.

 

One of the highlights of her season came at the TCU Invitational, when she compiled a 4-0 record with Gonzalez to earn the duo Big 12 Pair of the Week honors. She also picked up All-Big 12 Team and Second Team AVCA All-America accolades as a result of her strong season.

 

BCNT/U26 Women’s Roster

Gella Andrew (6-4, Newport Beach, Calif., FSU, Lone Star)

Gabrielle Bailey (6-1, Canton, Ohio, LSU, New England)

Kelly Belardi (5-9 (Torrance, Calif., Stanford, Southern California)

Charlotta Bell (6-3 Moraga, Calif., Stanford, Northern California)

Maggie Boyd (5-11, Lewisville, Texas, UCLA, North Texas)

Kennedy Coakley (6-2, Tampa, Fla., USC, Florida)

Ella Connor (6-1, Kihei, Hawaii, Cal Poly, Aloha)

Emma Donley (6-4, Arlington Heights, Ill., Cal, Northern California)

Alexis Durish (5-10, Sarasota, Fla., FSU, Florida)

Piper Ferch (5-10, Aurora, Colo., Cal Poly, Southern California)

Malia Gementera (5-6, Chula Vista, Calif., Long Beach State, Southern California)

Taylor Hagenah (5-11, Oceanside, Calif., Long Beach State, Southern California)

Hailey Hamlett (5-11, Bulverde, Texas, TCU, Lone Star)

Erin Inskeep (5-9, Hermosa Beach, Calif., Cal Poly, Southern California)

Audrey Koenig (6-3, Wesley Chapel, Fla., FSU, Florida)

Izzy Martinez (5-9, Winnetka, Calif., Cal Poly, Southern California)

Natalie Myszkowski (5-11, Manhattan Beach, Calif., UCLA, Southern California)

Michelle Shaffer (5-10, West Hills, Calif., Loyola Marymount, Southern California)

Portia Sherman (5-9, Ventura, Calif., Cal, Southern California)

Logan Walters (6-0, San Mateo, Calif., Cal Poly, Northern California)

Holl, a graduate of Greenwich High School and a senior water polo player at Pennsylvania State University-Behrend, was recently announced as the newest member of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation Student-Athlete Advocate Program for spring 2025.

Caitlin Collins, a freshman lacrosse player from Rutgers University, was also named as a member.

John Daniel Marshall, who was best friends going back to childhood with Holl’s father, John, and served as best man at John’s wedding, was an FDNY firefighter with Ladder 23. He died on 9/11 at the age of 35.

“He’s been our family role model,” Holl said of Marshall. “My dad definitely always talked about John growing up.”

Holl credits his father with instilling in him a respect for all first responders and members of the armed forces. His family visits the 9/11 reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each year to pay respects to the victims.

Holl’s grandfather also served in the New York City Police Department for a number of years, so when he found out about the Tunnel to Towers Student-Advocate Program in 2021, he jumped at the opportunity to apply.

Holl believes there’s a growing responsibility to ensure that younger generations not only understand what happened on 9/11, but to understand what came out of that day: selflessness, courage and unity.

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The 2025 NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships take place from Wednesday, June 11 to Saturday, June 14 in Eugene, Oregon. Here’s your full guide on how to watch the championships every single day.

2025 DI NCAA Track & Field Championships TV Schedule

All times listed in ET

Wednesday, June 11: 7-11 p.m. | ESPN | STREAM

Thursday, June 12: 7-11 p.m. | ESPN | STREAM

Friday, June 13: 8-10:30 p.m. | ESPN2 | STREAM

Saturday, June 14: 9-11:30 p.m. | ESPN2 | STREAM

How to watch 2025 DI NCAA Track & Field Championships

There’s multiple ways to view the Track and Field Championships. If you have cable, ESPN will have the main broadcast on Wednesday and Thursday night, and that’ll transition to ESPN2 on Friday and Saturday night.

If you’re looking to stream the event, there’s multiple ways to do so for free. DirecTV and fuboTV both have access to ESPN and ESPN2, each of which offer free trials.

ESPN+ does not offer a free trial, but has the most broadcasts for the event. Along with access to the main broadcasts each day, ESPN+ offers individual event streams Wednesday through Saturday. They’re the ideal streaming service for those who want as much track and field access as possible.

Streaming services such as Sling and Hulu + Live TV are other viable streaming options to watch this week’s track and field events.

Other things to know

The event takes place at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, which is on the University of Oregon’s campus. You can find tickets for the event on Vivid Seats.

For information on the daily event schedules, parking and shuttles you can find that on the NCAA website.

Here’s a recent NCAA sports story from the Associated Press:

Sydney Moore and Sabrina Ootsburg were surrounded by hundreds of college athletes at a convention in Charlotte when news broke that the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement had been approved by a federal judge. In a room full of college athletes, they felt like the only two people who understood the gravity of the situation.

“I’m about to get paid,” Moore said a Division I football player told her.

“Yes, you are about to get paid, and a lot of your women athlete friends are about to get cut,” she responded.

Moore acknowledged that her response might be a stretch, but while the sprawling House settlement clears the way for college athletes to get a share of revenue directly from their schools and provides a lucky few a shot at long-term financial stability, it raises genuine concerns for others.

Schools that opt in will be able to share up to $20.5 million with their athletes over the next year starting July 1. The majority is expected to be spent on high-revenue generating sports, with most projections estimating 75% of funds will go toward football.

So what happens to the non-revenue-generating sports which, outside of football and basketball, is pretty much all of them?

It’s a query that’s top of mind for Ootsburg as she enters her senior year at Belmont, where she competes on the track and field team.

“My initial thought was, is this good or bad? What does this mean for me? How does this affect me? But more importantly, in the bigger picture, how does it affect athletes as a whole?” Ootsburg said.

“You look at the numbers where it says most of the revenue, up to 75% to 85%, will go toward football players. You understand it’s coming from the TV deals, but then it’s like, how does that affect you on the back end?” Ootsburg asked. “Let’s say $800K goes toward other athletes. Will they be able to afford other things like care, facilities, resources or even just snacks?”

Moore has similar concerns. She just completed her fifth and final year of eligibility at Syracuse University, where she was a key member of the volleyball team. Like Ootsburg, she’s become a pioneer in the NIL space and an advocate for college athletes, even though her on-court ventures are behind her.

Moore says most female athletes aren’t worried about how much – if any – money they’ll receive. They fear how changes could impact the student-athlete experience.

“A lot of us would much rather know that our resources and our experience as a student-athlete is going to stay the same, or possibly get better, rather than be given $3,000, but now I have to cover my meals, I have to pay for my insurance, I have to buy ankle braces because we don’t have any, and the athletic training room isn’t stocked,” Moore said over the weekend as news of Friday night’s settlement approval spread.

One of the biggest problems, Ootsburg and Moore said, is that athletes aren’t familiar with the changes. At AthleteCon in Charlotte, North Carolina, they said, perhaps the biggest change in college sports history was a push notification generally shrugged off by those directly impacted.

“Athletes do not know what’s happening,” Ootsburg said. “Talking to my teammates, it’s so new, and they see the headlines and they’re like, ‘OK, cool, but is someone going to explain this?’ because they can read it, but then there’s so many underlying factors that go into this. This is a complex problem that you have to understand the nuances behind, and not every athlete truly does.”

Some coaches, too, are still trying to understand what’s coming.

Mike White, coach of the national champion Texas softball team, called it “the great unknown right now.”

“My athletic director, Chris Del Conte, said it’s like sailing out on a flat world and coming off the edge; we just don’t know what’s going to be out there yet, especially the way the landscape is changing,” he said at the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. “Who knows what it’s going to be?”

What about the walk-ons?

Jake Rimmel got a crash course on the settlement in the fall of 2024, when he said he was cut from the Virginia Tech cross-country team alongside several other walk-ons. The topic held up the House case for weeks as the judge basically forced schools to give athletes cut in anticipation of approval a chance to play — they have to earn the spot, no guarantees — without counting against roster limits.

Rimmel packed up and moved back to his parents’ house in Purcellville, Virginia. For the past six months, he’s held on to a glimmer of hope that maybe he could return.

“The past six months have been very tough,” he said. “I’ve felt so alone through this, even though I wasn’t. I just felt like the whole world was out there – I would see teammates of mine and other people I knew just doing all of these things and still being part of a team. I felt like I was sidelined and on pause, while they’re continuing to do all these things.”

News that the settlement had been approved sent Rimmel looking for details.

“I didn’t see much about roster limits,” he said. “Everyone wants to talk about NIL and the revenue-sharing and I mean, that’s definitely a big piece of it, but I just didn’t see anything about the roster limits, and that’s obviously my biggest concern.”

The answer only presents more questions for Rimmel.

“We were hoping for more of a forced decision with the grandfathering, which now it’s only voluntary, so I’m a little skeptical of things because I have zero clue how schools are going to react to that,” Rimmel told The Associated Press.

Rimmel is still deciding what’s best for him, but echoed Moore and Ootsburg in saying that answers are not obvious: “I’m just hoping the schools can make the right decisions with things and have the best interest of the people who were cut.”

Stuttgart’s inaugural volleyball season gets underway this afternoon when the junior high and senior high teams hold their first official practices. Head Coach Hannah Work says she is excited and ready to see her teams take the floor.

“I was surprised at how much raw talent came to try out,” said Work. “Over the three days of skills and drills before tryouts, the girls picked up on some stuff and improved tremendously, so I’m ready to see how much we can learn this summer.”

Both the senior high and junior high teams will practice four days a week throughout the summer. The Junior Birds will practice each afternoon from 2 to 3 p.m., while the Senior Birds will practice from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday’s practice is scheduled in the George Burke Fieldhouse, and Thursday’s practice will be held in Ricebird Arena.

Working on a schedule

Because Stuttgart is starting its program in the middle of a two-year Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) athletic cycle, the team faces challenges in building a full schedule. That, however, is not stopping Work from doing her best.

“We’ve got some games scheduled right now, and we might even have the junior high team in a tournament,” said Work. “Most teams already have their schedules made, so we’re trying to fit in where we can.”

Work said Stuttgart may have several scrimmage-style dates this fall.

“We’ll get as many games as possible. We might scrimmage a lot. I know Watson Chapel is beginning a program this fall too, so we might play them several times.”

Volleyball on the AAA calendar

High school volleyball in Arkansas runs parallel to football on the AAA’s athletic calendar.

This means that volleyball benefit games begin during week seven (Aug. 17–23), while official games begin during week eight (Aug. 24–30).

According to Coach Work, the volleyball season runs through the end of October and sometimes overlaps with the start of basketball.

Helping Work lead Stuttgart’s program is newly hired assistant coach Savannah Shandy, who graduated from Arkansas Tech in May of this year.

Shandy is a Cabot High School graduate who played both softball and volleyball. She will teach fourth grade at Park Avenue Elementary and played softball during her time at Arkansas Tech.

By: Jonathon Zenk, Assistant Director of Communications

EUGENE, Oregon—Ever since she was a little girl, track and field has been in Maygan Shaw’s blood.

In a long line of athletes in her family, the Northwestern State sprinter has not only proved to be the best in her family, but also arguably the best women’s sprinter the school has ever produced.

Shaw, a native of Pineville, has a chance to do what other family members couldn’t—become an All-American in an open event.

In 2024, she earned her way to a Second Team All-American spot as a member of the 4×400 relay team after finishing 16^th in the relay finals.

Shaw made the nationals after running a 51.68 in the 400-meter dash at the NCAA East First Round in which she finished eighth to earn a spot in Oregon. She is one of 12 in the event to go to nationals from the East regional, which includes fellow Southland Conference runner Onyah Onyinye Favour of Southeastern Louisiana.

“It feels good to be able to go back,” Shaw said. “Eugene is such a beautiful city. And they have such a nice facility, so I’m excited to be able to run on such a quality track.”

She has the opportunity to become an All-American at the NCAA nationals on the campus of the University of Oregon in the 400, as the women’s time at nationals begins Thursday.

The semifinals in the 400 start at 7:41 p.m. Shaw is in the third heat out of three with each heat having eight runners, and it can be viewed on ESPN.

It did not take long for associate head coach Adam Pennington to see greatness in her as a freshman.

“Early on in her career, I knew how special she would be,” he said. “She won a conference title in her first ever championship. But I’d say this year I seen something different.  It’s been the first year she hasn’t been overshadowed by other ladies. From the beginning of the fall you could just see she was on a mission.”

Growing up in a family with so many track athletes, she was able to forge her own path, but her love for the sport started with her parents, Rickey and Maggie Sanders.

Rickey (high jump) and Maggie (hurdles) each helped Maygan reach this point, especially Rickey, who helped her train in high school.

“I love my dad, and I appreciate how far I’ve been able to come with his help, especially since he helped me train a lot in high school,” Shaw said.

While her parents had a giant impact on her career in track and field, she held a special relationship with her grandfather.

Maygan’s grandfather, Larry Shaw, ran track when he was in high school, clocking in the 51s in the 400.

“My grandpa and I were really close,” Shaw said. “We used to visit him often and he would babysit us all the time growing up. I really loved spending time with him and I’m glad he got to see some of my races in middle school.”

One of Maygan’s goals was to run in the 51s, just like her departed grandfather.

Mission accomplished.

Going into her home meet, the Leon Johnson NSU Invitational, she had a month—or as it turned out, two months—remaining in her collegiate career.

It turns out the elder Shaw was with her that day, as she ran a blistering personal best time of 51.87. Not only did she run a personal record, school record, meet record and Walter P. Ledet Track and Field Complex record, she also accomplished that elusive goal of running in the 51s—just like her grandfather.

“It felt rewarding,” Shaw said. “It felt great to be able to reach a goal that seemed impossible for my circumstances growing up. I’m glad I got to meet that goal, and I know he’s really proud of me.

“At first, it didn’t feel real. It was mind-boggling. And to this day, it feels surreal. I just really want to do it again.”

And then she did it again, just two weeks later, smashing that previous best with a new personal record, clocking a blistering 51.19 on April 26 at the LSU Alumni Gold.

If her grandfather were here right now, he would be excited for how much his granddaughter has accomplished and will be right with her every step of the way, both on the track and off. On the track, she has one more goal in mind—to become a first team All-American.

“Being an All-American would be huge,” Pennington said. “I believe if she became an All-American, it would be the first lady sprinter ever in an open event for NSU. We didn’t just come this far to come this far. So that would be huge for her and every lady to ever wear a Demon uniform.”

Going to college in Natchitoches made sense for the Pineville High standout, as she could compete and go to school near her family.

It also didn’t hurt that Pennington is from the area.

“When recruiting her. what stood out most was her just being from central Louisiana,” he said. “We are from the same area and for her to have some success in high school in that area, we knew she had upside.”

As she prepares for her final collegiate meet, what Shaw will miss the most is not what happened on the track, but the relationships built off it.

“I think what I remember most are at the relationships that I formed while going to this school,” Shaw said. “I’ve said it countless times, but the team is really close and I really feel like it’s a home away from home when I step on the track. I’m sure I’ll see a bunch of them at my wedding.”

TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona Volleyball has announced the addition of opposite Britt Carlson, a transfer from UCF, to the 2025 roster.
 
“We are very excited to welcome Britt to Tucson,” head coach Charita Stubbs said. “She will bring experience and size to the right side for us. She is a great competitor and she will make an immediate impact on the team.”
 
Carlson comes to Arizona after two seasons at UCF and one season at Washington State. During her two years at UCF, she appeared in 39 matches and tallied 244 kills, 61 blocks, and 51 digs as a pin player. In 2024, Carlson ranked third on UCF’s team with 49 blocks and fourth with 202 kills. She averaged 2.10 kills per set during the season and recorded a career high of 16 kills with a .522 hitting percentage against Florida Atlantic.
 
In 2023, Carlson played in 12 matches and tallied 42 kills and 12 blocks in her first season as a Knight. Carlson did not play in a match during her season at Washington State in 2022.
 
Carlson will join freshmen Maya Flemister, Chloe Giehtbrock, Brookelyn Hatton, Renee Jones, Paige Thies, and Shea Davis in the fall.