NAPERVILLE – The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) will be represented by 36 qualifiers in 15 different events at the NCAA Division III Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championship, scheduled to begin Thursday at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
 
Selections were released by the NCAA last Friday. Qualifying marks from Saturday, March 1, to Friday, May 16, were considered. CCIW champion Elmhurst joined Augustana and Carthage with seven different entries overall. The Bluejays will have the top-seeded 4×100 relay team at the championship.
 
The CCIW earned multiple entries in 12 events, including four of the top 10 seeds in the 200 meter dash. There will also be four participants from the CCIW in the discus and shot put.
 
The Championship will conclude on Saturday in Geneva.
 
CCIW Women’s Qualifiers 
100 Meter Dash
4. Alyssa Busker, Elmhurst
21. Lauren Marshall, Elmhurst
 
200 Meter Dash
2. Alyssa Busker, Elmhurst
4. De’Andranay Chism, Millikin
7. Lindsey Novak, North Central
10. McKenzie Reser, Augustana
 
400 Meter Dash
3. Lindsey Novak, North Central
13. McKenzie Reser, Augustana
 
800 Meter Run
3. Lina Maatouk, Augustana
 
100 Meter Hurdles
21. Nakala Nadeau, Elmhurst
 
3000 Meter Steeplechase
10. Emma Odle, Augustana
20. Adriana Crabtree, Illinois Wesleyan
 
4×100 Meter Relay
1. Elmhurst (Grady, Marshall, Schwarz, Busker)
14. North Park (Costa, Hayes, Ring, Lindberg)
 
Discus
1. Charlotte Frere, Augustana
4. Vanessa Uitenbroek, Carroll
6. Jackie Tuzil, Carthage
17. Nicole Tarpley, Carthage
 
Javelin
3. Faith Ladin, North Central
6. Heather Michalski, Augustana
10. Laina Nelson, Augustana
 
Shot Put
2. Maria Falk, Carroll
11. Vanessa Uitenbroek, Carroll
16. Madison Payne, Carthage
18. Mikayla Wright, Carthage
 
Triple Jump
4. Imani Ogunribido, Illinois Wesleyan
16. Abigail Calhoun, Carthage
 
Long Jump
16. Chloe Selmer, Elmhurst
16. Paulina Tinajero, Elmhurst
 
Hammer Throw
5. Alexis Mattox, Carthage
11. Carlyssa King, Illinois Wesleyan
16. Nicole Tarpley, Carthage
 
Pole Vault
4. Gwen Berenyi, North Central
 
Heptathlon
4. Faith Ladin, North Central
10. Thea Ring, North Park
11. Lauren Huber, Illinois Wesleyan
 

It’s time for our high school boys volleyball athlete of the week voting.

The 2024-25 Sarasota-Manatee High School Sports Awards, Presented by Sarasota Ford, is proud to announce player of the year nominees for the spring sports season.

M-A’s Service Learning Center is introducing a new civic engagement class and the California State Seal of Civic Engagement this coming fall. 

The new Community Service Leadership class is designed to strengthen service at M-A by devoting class time to develop service projects. The seal will be awarded to students who show exemplary commitment to service for their community. 

“We think that more schools could have service learning,” SLC advisor and future Community Service Leadership teacher Andrew Stuart said. “It can do a lot of good for resilience, wellness, and connection—things that teenagers are struggling with.” 

Currently, the SLC organizes service events at M-A. These events are often held outside of school and coordinated through weekly lunchtime meetings between Stuart and participating students, which can be limiting. 

Some of the events put on this year include service days for water polo, football, basketball, and flag football, as well as Belle Haven community garden volunteering.

Stuart hopes that creating a new service class will help further the SLC’s current programs. “The class gives us the space and the time to really think through what we’re doing,” Stuart said. 

“We realized that a 30 minute lunchtime meeting every week isn’t enough,” junior Audrey Majzun, who is taking the class next year, said.

“It’s hard to have field trips off-campus to do service. This class will give us the resources to get creative about how to get more kids involved,” Stuart said. 

Mazjun hopes that the class will provide a solid foundation for expanding service learning in the future. “If we have a class and people can get credit for their participation, it gives us more time for organizing events, formal education, and working on specific service learning projects,” Mazjun said. 

Many students joining the class next year have already been heavily involved in service learning at M-A and will play an influential role in shaping the direction of the class. “I will guide the class, but there will be a student-led aspect of the class, just like Leadership,” Stuart said. 

Stuart also hopes the class will improve outreach to other M-A students. “This class will integrate us into the school more,” Stuart said. “More and more kids are going to come up with projects that need assistance, so we need to meet the structure.”

In addition to hands-on planning time, the class will include discussion and research on ethics to help students make a more mindful impact. “To ‘do good well,’ you have to analyze what you’re doing, and make sure you’re doing it right and not causing harm,” Stuart said. 

Students who take Community Service Leadership will be provided with support for obtaining the Civic Engagement Seal, though it is not limited to students in the class.

To receive the seal, students must meet a list of requirements—currently being finalized by the school board—including creating a meaningful service project. 

Many students already have exciting ideas. “I’m really interested in education,” Mazjun said. “Something we had talked about this year is doing a service learning project with a local middle school.”

“My idea would be to have the middle schoolers do a project, educate them on their impact, and then connect it to the principles of ethical service learning, which is one of our core tenets,” Mazjun added. “It’s planting that seed.” 

“I’ve made so many close relationships through service,” junior Brealyn Trujillo, who is taking the class next year, said. “I just want to continue that. It has a big impact on your life.”

Stuart hopes the seal will help bring service learning more recognition and create an incentive for students to participate. “Service learning is very underestimated,” Stuart said. “Colleges understand the power of service learning. Why can’t we deliver that curriculum in high school?”

Unlike many other local schools, M-A does not directly track service hours or provide awards for it. The Civic Engagement Seal will help bring more recognition to students who dedicate time and effort to service. 

“With service, people sometimes don’t want to see a reward attached to doing this type of work. They want it to be all from the heart. But there can be some combination of both,” Stuart said.  

“Connecting with people and doing something positive is what kids are really craving,” Stuart said. “And that’s why we get so many kids that want to do service.”

WALTHAM, Mass. – For the second time this year, Brandeis track and field first-years Sarai Sealy of New York, New York, and Peterly Leroy of Malden, Massachusetts, will be representing the Judges at the NCAA Championships, with both qualifying for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field meet at the SPIRE Center in Geneva, Ohio, later this week.
 
Sealy will be competing in the triple jump for the second meet in a row. She enters the championships as the overall second seed, having recorded a season-best and school-record of 12.73 meters (41 feet, 9 ¼ inches) on May 2 at the New England Division III Championships. Sealy, who was the runner-up in the event at the 2025 University Athletic Association championships, trails only league champion Ebun Opata, a senior from Washington University in the national rankings. Sealy finished fifth in the triple jump at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in Rochester, New York, to earn her first career All-America honor.
 
Leroy will compete in the 400-meter dash for the second time as well. She will be the fourth seed in the championships, having run a school-record 54.11 seconds at the Midwest Twilight Final Qualifier on May 14 at Augustana College in Illinois. Sealy will be the top UAA and New England competitor at the meet, having run 0.11 seconds faster than Emory’s Eva Carchidi, the meet’s fifth seed. Leroy placed 14^th in the 400 meters indoors, earning second-team All-America honors.
 
The NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships will be held from May 22-24. Leroy’s 400-meter preliminaries will be run on Friday, May 23, at 3:15 p.m., with the finals on Saturday, May 24 at 2:20 p.m. The triple jump will also be held on Saturday, starting at 1:45 p.m. Live results from the meet are available at https://results.leonetiming.com/?mid=7852, while a live video stream is available at https://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule/.
 
Sealy is a 2024 graduate of The Ursuline School.
 
Leroy is a 2024 graduate of Prospect Hill Academy Charter School.
 
For more information on Brandeis University women’s track and field, visit our home page at https://brandeisjudges.com/sports/wtrack.
 
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Lindenwood student-athletes had a break-out campaign during the Spring 2025 semester with a new semester high 3.45 GPA. Student-athletes across Lindenwood’s 22 NCAA Division I sports broke the semester GPA record in back-to-back terms after reaching a 3.44 GPA mark during the Fall.

“Our student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom, and I couldn’t be more proud of the discipline and dedication they’ve shown in their pursuit of academic excellence,” said Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Jason Coomer.

Twenty-one programs posted at least a 3.00 GPA with 10 programs reaching at least a 3.50 GPA. Across campus, 144 student-athletes posted an outstanding 4.0 GPA during the spring semester. A total of 260 student-athletes achieved a 3.50 GPA or higher.

Lindenwood had six programs post double-digit student-athletes with 4.0 GPAs including women’s ice hockey who had a team-high 17 athletes achieve this goal. Football had 16 players achieve a 4.0 GPA during the spring semester while women’s soccer had 14.

For the second consecutive semester, women’s soccer set the bench at Lindenwood with a spring semester-high with a 3.84 GPA. This also set a new program high for a semester. Lindenwood women’s ice hockey (3.83 GPA) and women’s tennis (3.78 GPA) rounded out the top three for women’s sports during the spring semester.

Men’s soccer led the way on the men’s side with a 3.62 GPA while posting 18 student-athletes with at least a 3.50 GPA and nine with a 4.00 GPA. Baseball finished right behind men’s ice hockey with a team GPA of 3.59 while men’s cross country had a 3.47.

The following are the top ten teams with the highest GPA in the Spring 2025 semester: Women’s Soccer (3.84), Women’s Ice Hockey (3.83), Women’s Tennis (3.78), Softball (3.76), Women’s Lacrosse (3.74), Women’s Golf (3.71), Women’s Cross Country (3.65), Men’s Soccer (3.62), Baseball (3.59), and Beach Volleyball (3.53).

“We are incredibly fortunate to have outstanding faculty guiding our young men and women, alongside coaches and staff who consistently prioritize academic achievement,” said Coomer. “At Lindenwood, our goal is to develop champions—not just in competition, but in the classroom as well.”

Congratulations to all of our student-athletes success in and outside the classroom. For more information on Lindenwood Athletics go to lindenwoodlions.com.