It’s been a slower-than-anticipated start to the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, but there’s the potential for things to pick up in a hurry during the third finals session.
For one thing, the men’s 100 backstroke final goes this evening. The men’s 200 freestyle final has earned its reputation as the “must-see” race at any British Championships, but the men’s 100 backstroke fight has leapt forward in the past year as Oliver Morgan and Jonny Marshall have both reached new heights. Morgan owns the British record from last year’s British Trials for the Olympics and owns a season-best of 52.71 that’s now fifth in the world after a blistering Russian Championships.
Morgan was under the Aquatics GB consideration time with a 53.14, putting him ahead of Matthew Ward (53.60) and fellow Olympian Marshall (53.76). Ward’s effort this morning was a personal best while Marshall, who is fresh off a second-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke at the NCAA Championships, owns a lifetime best of 53.03.
On the women’s side, there’s the potential for Angharad Evans to unleash something special in the 200 breaststroke. She sits over five seconds ahead of the field after prelims with a solid 2:25.36. This certainly won’t be the closest race of the evening, but Evans brings a season-best of 2:22.64 to London, which is just four-hundredths off the fastest time in the world this year.
18-year-old Eva Okaro will look to do similar damage in the women’s 50 freestyle. She’s the SCM world junior record holder after ripping 23.66 for fourth at the Short Course World Championships last December. This morning, Okaro was the only swimmer in the field to break 25 seconds, missing the lifetime best she swam last month by .10 with a 24.80.
The session caps with the men’s 100 freestyle, another exciting races as individual qualification and relay spots are on the line. Olympian and British record holder Matt Richards swam a season-best 48.07 in prelims that secured him lane four for the final. 17-year-old Jacob Mills is right behind him after swimming 48.11 in his first sub-49 second effort. The swim is a new 17-year-old British age-group record and ties the overall British junior record Jacob Whittle set in 2021.
Whittle is in the British Open final as well. It’s a final stacked with Olympians; even without Duncan Scott, there’s Richards, Whittle, Alex Cohoon, Tom Dean, and Jack McMillan.
Women’s 50-Meter Backstroke
Junior Final
British Record: 27.19 — Kathleen Dawson (2021)
British Junior Record: 28.02 — Lauren Quigley (2013)
Top 3:
Raya Harrand, York/Isabelle Price, Birmingham — 29.52
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Halle Harris, Poole — 29.59
We got a tie in the first final of the evening, as York’s Raya Harrand and Birmingham’s Isabelle Price hit the wall together in the junior final of the 50 backstroke. They stopped the clock at 29.52, which marks a lifetime best for both swimmers.
Price hadn’t broken 30 seconds before the meet began. She swam 29.83 this morning to break that barrier for the first time, then logged 29.52 to tie for the win this evening. Harrand came into the meet with a lifetime best 29.89, so this is a substantial drop for her as well.
Multi-Class Para Final
S3 British Record: 1:59.47 — Ellie Challis (2024)
S4 British Record: 2:09.32 — Suzanne Warren (2017)
S5 British Record: 1:46.61 — Tully Kearney (2024)
Top 3:
Ellie Challis, Manchester (S3) — 56.25 (863 points)
Paralympic champion Ellie Challis earned another British title tonight, claiming the win in the multi-class para final of the women’s 50 backstroke. She’s the British record holder in this event and scored 863 points to win the race. As she did this morning, she got under the Aquatics GB consideration time for the 2025 Para World Championships, which will take place in Singapore after the 2025 World Aquatic Championships.
Loughborough’s Tully Kearney touched the wall first in 43.05, earning 640 points for the bronze medal behind Claire Connon‘s 54.11 for 713 points.
British Open Final
World Record: 26.86 — Kaylee McKeown, Australia (2023)
European Record: 27.10 — Kira Toussaint, Netherlands (2021)
British Record: 27.19 — Kathleen Dawson (2021)
2025 Aquatics GB Worlds Consideration Time: —
Top 3:
Lauren Cox, Loughborough — 27.72
Blythe Kinsman, Mt. Kelly — 27.93
Kathleen Dawson, Stirling — 28.48
After a disappointing 100 backstroke yesterday, Lauren Cox rallied by winning the 50. The 2023 Worlds bronze medalist in this event, Cox charged to the event win in 27.72, .21 seconds ahead of teenager Blythe Kinsman. Cox was slightly off her season-best of 27.60 with the swim.
Kinsman had a breakout swim this morning, blasting a 28.09 to lead the field into the final. She backed that up tonight, dipping under 28 seconds for the first time in her career with a lifetime best 27.93. She was the only swimmer to join Cox under 28 seconds in the final as the British and Scottish record holder Kathleen Dawson earned bronze in 28.48 as she continues her return to racing post-injury.
Men’s 1500-Meter Freestyle
British Open — Fastest Heat
World Record: 14:30.67 — Bobby Finke, United States (2024)
European Record: 14:32.80 — Gregorio Paltrinieri, Italy (2022)
Alex Sargeant led the race for the first 350 meters, but by the 400 mark, the Arizona-State trained Reece Grady inched into the lead. The two swimmers in the middle of the pool had pulled slightly ahead of the rest of the field, though two lanes over from Grady, Luke Hornsey wasn’t letting the pair get too far ahead.
At the halfway mark, Grady held about a 1.3 second lead over Sargeant. Grady continued to extend his lead as the race continued, pulling more than two seconds ahead by the 1000-mark. Hornsey almost completely closed the gap to Sargeant. The Swansea swimmer kicked into gear at the 1000-mark.
It looked for a moment like he may be able to run down Grady, but Grady found another level as well. He closed strong over the final few lengths, once again widening the cap. He stopped the clock at 15:21.54, undercutting his lifetime best by about four-tenths to win his first British title.
Sargeant won the silver in 15:25.47, almost four seconds behind Grady at the final touch. The 19-year-old Hornsey swam a big lifetime best of 15:26.14 to win bronze.
Women’s 200-Meter Breaststroke
Junior Final
British Record: 2:20.89 — Molly Renshaw (2021)
British Junior Record: 2:23.82 — Molly Renshaw (2014)
Top 3:
Amalie Smith, RTW Monson — 2:28.61
Theodora Taylor, Torfaen — 2:29.87
Mabli Collyer, Repton — 2:32.38
Team GB will have two swimmers in the 200 breaststroke at this summer’s European Junior Championships. Amalie Smith had an excellent swim in the finals, beating the reigning European Junior silver medalist, Theodora Taylor, by over a second. Smith earned the win 2:28.61, bettering the lifetime best of 2:29.77 that she swam in February.
Taylor took second in 2:29.87, safely under the European Juniors consideration time of 2:30.97. She owns a lifetime best of 2:28.71, which she swam to win that silver medal in Vilnius last summer.
British Open Final
World Record: 2:17.55 — Evgeniia Chikunova, Russia (2023)
European Record: 2:17.55 — Evgeniia Chikunova, Russia (2023)
Angharad Evans punched her ticket to the 2025 World Championships by swimming a lifetime best 2:21.86 to get well under the qualification time for Singapore. Evans was on Molly Renshaw‘s British record pace for much of the race, turning at the 100-mark in 1:07.95.
She fell off the record pace over the final 50 meters but still hit a lifetime best by about eight-tenths of a second. The time makes her the third British woman to break 2:22 in the event and she moves from fifth to third among British women in the event’s all-time rankings. Evans best event is the 100 breast but she’s making rapid improvements in the 200 breast and now takes over as the fastest swimmer in the world this season.
50 breaststroke winner Kara Hanlon hit a lifetime best in this final as well. She swam a 2:24.07 to earn the silver medal, improving from the 2:24.59 she swam this time last year. She also moves up the event’s all-time ranking, passing Sophie Taylor for seventh.
Men’s 100-Meter Backstroke
Junior Final
British Record: 52.70 — Oliver Morgan (2024)
British Junior Record: 54.10 — Matthew Ward (2024)
Top 3:
Daniel Ransom, Leeds — 55.30
Rio Daodu, Mt. Kelly — 55.91
Toby Godsell, Millfield — 56.00
The top three swimmers all cracked the European Juniors consideration time. It was Mt. Kelly’s Rio Daodu who led the race around at the halfway point, splitting 26.69. Daniel Ransom, the top seed in the junior final, was a tenth behind him. Ransom had a strong second 50 meters, splitting 28.5 to get ahead of Daodu and stop the clock first.
Daodu held on for silver in 55.91, .61 seconds behind Ransom’s 55.30.
Multi-Class Para Final
S8 British Record: 1:04.46 — Oliver Hynd (2016)
S14 British Record: 58.77 — Mark Tompsett (2025)
Top 3:
Mark Tompsett, Bolton Metro (S14) — 58.28 (912 points) S14 European Record
William Ellard, Norwich (S14) — 59.48 (858 points)
Louis Lawlor, Glasgow (S14) — 1:01.37 (781 points)
Mark Tompsett set his second 100 backstroke S14 European record of the day to win the multi-class para final of the men’s 100 backstroke. Tompsett won bronze in this event at the Paris Paralympic Games. He was out fast tonight, making the turn in 28.06. His Paralympic teammate William Ellard followed four-tenths behind him.
After the fast start, Tompsett held on down the stretch, stopping the clock in 58.28. That chopped .49 seconds off the S14 European record he swam during the prelims. He was well under the Para Worlds Consideration time as was Ellard, who clipped that standard by .01 seconds with a 59.48.
British Open Final
World Record: 51.60 — Thomas Ceccon, Italy (2022)
European Record: 51.60 — Thomas Ceccon, Italy (2022)
After a 52.71 in-season a couple of months ago, it seemed clear that Ollie Morgan was on strong form this season after a breakout 2024 where he broke the super-suited British record in the 100 backstroke. He affirmed that this evening, ripping a 52.12 that destroys the British record he swam last season and earns him a ticket to the 2025 World Championships.
Morgan was out fast, turning in 25.24, well under his British record pace. He came back in 26.88, leaving the rest of the field behind. His final time ties David Plummer as the 13th fastest performer in history. He moves back up the world’s season-rankings to second behind only Kliment Kolesnikov.
Jonny Marshall earned the silver medal over a second behind Morgan. He swam a 53.21, which leaves him just a hundredth off the Aquatics GB Worlds Consideration time. The organizing body does have discretionary picks at their disposal, so they will have the option to add Marshall to the Worlds squad later if they choose.
Bath’s Matthew Ward won bronze in 53.52. It was his second lifetime best of the day as he dropped another eight-hundredths from the 53.60 standard he swam this morning.
Women’s 50 Freestyle
Junior Final
British Record: 23.96 — Francesca Halsall (2014)
British Junior Record: 24.53 — Francesca Halsall (2009)
Top 3:
Annabelle Compton, Wycombe — 25.66
Phoebe Cooper, Sheffield — 25.81
Meghan Higgs, Millfield — 25.86
Multi-Class Para Final
S7 British Record: 33.26 — Susannah Rodgers (2016)
S9 British Record: 29.21 — Louise Watkin (2009)
S10 British Record: 28.22 — Zara Mullooly (2019)
S11 British Record: 30.64 — Scarlett Humphrey (2024)
Scarlett Humphrey was just two-hundredths off her own 50 freestyle S11 British record tonight. She earned the win by swimming a 30.66, which translated to 842 para points. It was just enough to win her the gold ahead of her Paralympic teammate Callie-Ann Warrington, who earned 841 points after a 28.71 swim of her own.
The entire podium was made up of Paralympians as Rebecca Redfern rounded out the podium, swimming 28.77 to score 786 points.
British Open Final
World Record: 23.61 — Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2023)
European Record: 23.61 — Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden (2023)
British Record: 23.96 — Francesca Halsall (2014)
2025 Aquatics GB Worlds Consideration Time: 24.61
Top 3:
Eva Okaro, Repton — 24.48 *Worlds Consideration Time*
18-year-old Eva Okaro earned her ticket to the 2025 World Aquatic Championships in the 50 freestyle. She was only a tenth off the lifetime best she swam earlier this year in the heats and crushed her personal standard tonight. Her winning time of 24.48 a best by over two-tenths and .13 seconds under the Worlds Consideration time.
Okaro’s time ties Milou Van Wijk for fifth-fastest in the world this season. She’s also now the third-fastest British woman in history, behind Francesca Halsall and Anna Hopkin.
She was the only swimmer in the final to break 25 seconds, as the 32-year-old Rebecca Guy clocked 25.02 for the silver medal. Skye Carter and Darcy Revitt tied for third in 25.19. Revitt is another swimmer who made the trip after closing out the NCAA season in the United States; she swims for Washington State.
Men’s 100 Freestyle
Junior Final
Top 3:
Gabriel Shepherd, Leeds – 49.34
Jack Brown, Plymouth – 49.62
Rio Daodu, Mt. Kelly – 49.95
The top three boys in the 100 freestyle junior final all cracked 50 seconds, with the top two under the European Juniors consideration time. Leeds’ Gabriel Shepherd touched first, powering to a 49.34. He won the race by .28 seconds ahead of Plymouth’s Jack Brown.
After taking second in the 100 backstroke junior final earlier this sesson, Daodu was back on the blocks for the 100 freestyle junior final. He ended his double with another top three finish, swimming 49.95 to break the 50-second barrier for the first time.
Multi-Class Para Final
S4 British Record: 1:33.30 — Lyndon Longhorne (2021)
S6 British Record: 1:09.83 — Sascha Kindred (2014)
S8 British Record: 58.19 — Josef Craig (2016)
S9 British Record: 56.29 — Lewis White (2018)
S10 British Record: 54.40 — Robert Welbourn (2008)
S13 British Record: 25.25 — Matthew Redfern (2023)
Top 3:
Tomas Navarro-Barber, Portsmouth (S9) — 57.52 (748 points)
Kieran Williams, Manchester (S10) — 56.05 (737 points)
Roan Brennan, Basildon (S10) — 56.11 (735 points)
Tomas Navarro-Barber swam a lifetime best 57.52 to win his second title of these championships. He won the 400 freestyle on the first night of competition and showcased his range tonight by winning the 100 freestyle with 748 para points. Navarro-Barber said he’d tapered a bit for this meet, but his main focus are the championships in June, which are another Para World Swimming Championships qualification opportunity for the British para swimmers.
Manchester’s Kieran Williams earned silver with 737 points, edging out Basildon’s Roan Brennan by just two points.
British Open Final
World Record: 46.40 — Pan Zhanle, China (2024)
European Record: 46.86 — David Popovici, Romania (2022)
British Record: 47.45 — Matt Richards (2023)
2025 Aquatics GB Worlds Consideration Time: 48.06
Top 4:
Matt Richards, Manchester — 47.92 *Worlds Consideration Time*
Matt Richards got the job done in the open final of the men’s 100 freestyle. He’s preselected to the World Championship team in the 200 freestyle but added the 100 freestyle to his program by winning tonight in 47.92. He lead from start-to-finish, making the turn at 22.86 and coming home in 25.06.
It’s a season-best for Richards, improving on the 48.07 he swam in prelims. His prelims time ranked him fifth in the world this year, but he now leapfrogs Kim Youngbeom‘s 47.96 for fourth.
Jacob Mills continued to impress this evening, taking silver in 48.03. It’s his second lifetime best of the day as he shaved eight-hundredths off the 48.11 he swam this morning. In addition to getting under the Worlds consideration time, Mills now owns the overall British Junior record outright. His 48.11 tied him with Jacob Whittle‘s 2021 effort, but Mills has full control of the record now as he approaches the 48-second barrier.
Alex Painter had a strong start out of lane 1. He’s coming off a breakout in yards during the NCAA season, where he trains at Florida with Marshall. He was second at the turn (22.96) but Olympians Tom Dean and Whittle were able to just pip him at the wall. In his sole event at these championships, Dean touched third with a 48.40, booking a spot on the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay. Whittle took fourth in 48.45, getting the better of Painter by two-hundredths.
2025 Worlds Qualifiers Through Day 3
Pre-Selected
Ben Proud – men’s 50m free
Matt Richards – men’s 200m free, men’s 4x200m free relay
Duncan Scott – men’s 200m IM, men’s 4x200m free relay
Libero/Defensive Specialist: Ava Bessette, Iola, sr.
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The 2025 Marion County girls volleyball season was one to remember. We saw breakout performances from outside hitters all over the Ocala area. The Trinity Catholic Celtics went undefeated in the county while fielding one of the program’s most talented rosters. Forest made history with its ninth county title in a row under head coach Jim Collins.
The season was much more than those leading lines. We saw scores of volleyball players give their all in hopes of having the best season of their careers. Now that the ball is no longer in play, the Star-Banner is ready to unveil the latest edition of all-Marion County volleyball players.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – It’s not uncommon for athletes to transfer schools in this era of collegiate sports.
However, for new University of Hawaii middle blocker Trevell Jordan, it wasn’t a move he was expecting to make.
Jordan — who has U.S. National team experience — had a stellar freshman season at Grand Canyon University, playing in all 21 of the Lopes’ matches as a freshman, amassing 111 kills and 67 blocks.
In April, the GCU team was blindsided when the school announced that it would no longer sponsor the sport.
“None of us saw it coming, like it was out of the blue,” Jordan said. “Went into this meeting thinking it was just gonna be how like next year was gonna go, and then that’s what they dropped the bomb, and like the meeting was like five minutes before they left.”
It was reclassified as a club sport with GCU putting out a release saying that the move was to stay competitive with other NCAA Division I programs.
Grand Canyon just joined the Mountain West Conference, a league that does not carry men’s volleyball.
With the abrupt shutdown, it left the entire Lopes roster looking for a new home, with many players catching the eyes of coaches around the country.
Jordan found his way to Manoa.
“He had offers to go to every top program in the country and ironically they were pushing him to make a fast decision,” UH head coach Charlie Wade said. “They pushed him towards us because I was the one saying, ‘hey, I’m in for the long haul, I want you here, take your time to figure it out.’”
Jordan is now getting accustomed to volleyball in the islands as he joins a squad with big aspirations in 2026.
UH ended last season one game shy of the National Championship.
“The difference in commitment here with the fans, the program, the school, as at GCU, we didn’t get as much love as we did like any other sport,” Jordan said. “It’s been really cool, the team and squad has been really inviting, so they’ve been working with me to get more like accommodated to here.”
Jordan and the ‘Bows open the 2026 season on Friday, the first of two home matches against the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
First serve is set for 7 p.m. Hawaii time.
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At a specialist treatment centre in Ukraine, as other amputees play volleyball nearby, Vladislav shows a video on his phone of how he lost his left leg. He found the footage – of a drone closing in rapidly on a buggy, Vladislav standing exposed at its rear – on a Russian military social media channel.
The 31-year-old, an arbitration lawyer before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, makes a double whistling noise to describe the drone’s ominous progress. “That’s me,” he says, pointing at the video, filmed from a fibre optic drone, chasing him down with terrifying ease as the vehicle slows for a corner. Then the screen goes blank.
Vladislav was driving between positions somewhere near Lyman, in the north-east of Ukraine, on 21 August when his life changed for ever. An explosion “bam on the left ear” threw him and the driver to the ground. Still conscious, he could see the injury to his left leg was obviously very serious. But this was not his immediate priority.
“To be honest, I checked my crotch, if everything’s in the right place,” he says, grinning. The check was affirmative and so in that moment, the stricken soldier says, he reasoned life was worth still living. “Only after that, I turned my tourniquet.” That choked off the blood supply to his left leg, giving himself a chance of survival.
Video purports to show moment Vladislav was struck by Russian drone – video
The respite was short. Once rescued, Vladislav was soon losing consciousness. “I don’t know if it’s real or a common trope, but pictured in my memory I saw a white tunnel with a light at the end.” But it was not the end. “My comrade fell on me with his elbow on my wounded leg and I opened my eyes with every curse I knew.”
Dozens of seriously wounded Ukrainians such as Vladislav, who have had or need to have amputations, come to this specialist treatment centre every month. No one will say exactly how many are being treated here, but across Ukraine crude estimates suggest the total number of amputees runs well into the tens of thousands.
Providing help, support and advice to Ukrainian staff at the centre are a small number of British military personnel – doctors, physiotherapists and occupational therapists from the UK’s defence medical services, part of Project Renovator. The Guardian observed some of their work during a day visit, including sessions where British practitioners discussed their use of temporary prosthetics with Ukrainian counterparts.
“The numbers here are truly humbling,” says Mike, a British rehab consultant and an army lieutenant colonel, who is part of the UK team helping out. Mike worked in Afghanistan, where the British military was present until 2014, and says professionals like himself can contribute “an understanding of complex amputee rehabilitation” and “can help move their patients on to new legs quicker”.
Vladislav was an arbitration lawyer before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian
He is keen to emphasise that the British presence works both ways, in that there are opportunities for him and his colleagues to learn. Thanks to a combination of innovative surgery, electrical stimulation and rehab, the Ukrainians “are managing to fix nerve injuries faster than I’ve previously seen”, he says.
Britain has only minimally acknowledged a wider military presence in Ukraine, beyond its staffing at the embassy in Kyiv. Security measures around the medical crew remain tight, with only Mike able to be identified.
“I’m proud that the UK is stepping up to ensure wounded Ukrainian soldiers get the best possible treatment,” said John Healey, the defence secretary, praising their work. He said their goal was to work alongside Ukrainian teams “to deliver care and rehabilitation”, an effort that will have to continue long after the war finally ends.
Mike, a British rehab consultant helping at the centre, says he and his colleagues can ‘help move their patients on to new legs quicker’. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian
There are a wide range of classes, and family and friends are able to visit unless the staff believe it would be unhelpful to an individual’s recovery. Part of the approach is to have “psychologically aware clinicians”, according to Mike, who can identify when patients run into mental problems. But a key part, as the volleyball shows, is being part of a group so the wounded can motivate each other.
Vladislav’s case is one of the simpler. He hopes to have a final prosthetic leg ready soon and to be discharged earlythis year. He says his mental state is strong, though at some point after two or four weeks, when he was on his own, he admits, “I cried a lot”. It was “like a divorce” until he eventually thought: “Let it be.”
What helped, the former lawyer says, was having his family nearby, including baby son Adam. However, he says: “I did not tell my wife about my injury for around a month and a half because she was pregnant.” Two weeks after Adam’s birth he told her what had happened, though by then she had “suspected something”, he admits.
Injured veterans playing volleyball at the rehabilitation centre in Kyiv region. Photograph: Julia Kochetova/The Guardian
Oleksandr, 48, is a former fitness teacher and swimming instructor who had both his legs amputated below the knee after an artillery shell landed close to him on 18 October 2024. After he arrived at the treatment centre, a succession of further surgeries proved necessary. One was to stabilise his wound, which had become infected; later, a metal brace was attached to the bone so the prosthetics would fit.
It has been a long, gruelling treatment, including a month in intensive care, and at one point Oleksandr wells up in tears at the thought of it. “In the beginning it was hard for me just to sit in the wheelchair. I was sweating immediately,” he says. But gradually, going to the gym with rehabilitation experts helped, and at some point as his exercising gradually improved, “I knew then I would get through,” he says.
There is a brightness and purpose in his eyes now but the future is uncertain. He wants to leave this year, when his legs are ready. “I hope I will be able to get back to my job as a fitness trainer,” he says. “But I just don’t know. I just need to understand what my abilities will be on the prostheses, how long I can walk. When I will learn walking, I will understand what my abilities are.”
Pictured is one of the groups of participants in the recent Chautauqua Lake Central School Alumni Volleyball Tournament.
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MAYVILLE — Recently, Chautauqua Lake Central School hosted its first ever Alumni Volleyball Tournament, welcoming volleyball alumni back to the court for a day of friendly competition, shared memories, and community connection.
Varsity Volleyball coach Joanne Meadows came up with the idea a few months ago with the help of her brothers, David Sturm, who coaches Junior Varsity, and Eric Sturm who is the assistant coach for both teams. The goal was to create an opportunity for both former and current players to reconnect, play for fun, and celebrate the tradition of volleyball at Chautauqua Lake Central School.
Meadows said the tournament did just that, adding that it not only celebrated the tradition of the program but also strengthened the sense of community among players across generations.
“It was a great day for past and present Mayville and Chautauqua Lake Volleyball players and shows why this program has been so special for so many years,” Meadows said. “The camaraderie in the gym was amazing to see.”
To get the tournament going and gather interest, Eric Sturm created a Facebook page for the event and invited alumni from across the years through it. Some alumni responded with full teams already, while others reached out individually and were placed on rosters, with five teams of about nine players formed overall.
Participants ranged from alumni dating back to the Class of 1993 to current students. Participants were both men and women, and Chautauqua Lake officials said it served to create a unique mix of experience, camaraderie and fun.
“We are so blessed to have the Meadows family coaching at Chautauqua Lake,” Chautauqua Lake Superintendent Josh Liddell said. “Their leadership, and the incredible support of all the alumni who returned to play and reconnect, helped make an event that truly celebrated the impressive volleyball tradition and community they’ve built over the past three decades.”
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