Kerri Walsh Jennings, a five-time Olympian (and three-time gold medalist) from California, will be in town this week to give a youth volleyball clinic at East Hampton High School Monday morning that is to be followed by a pro-am beach volleyball tournament Tuesday at Kirk Park in Montauk.

Josh Brussell, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys varsity team and has worked as well with the girls varsity, said during a recent conversation at The Star that it was Jen Brabant who had persuaded Walsh Jennings, “one of the best beach volleyball players in the world, she’s absolutely incredible,” to come here. “I’m super excited — I never thought this would happen. This will be her first time here. . . . It’s a dream come true.”

“It will be a two-day thing,” he added. “The clinic” — for ages 11 to 18 — “will be a fund-raiser for her p1440 Foundation, and the pro-am tournament at Kirk Park on Tuesday will also have the Hampton Lifeguard Association as a beneficiary. . . . We’re setting up four courts on the grass next to the high school’s turf field for the clinic. If it rains, we’ll probably move into the gym, we’re saying ‘no rain.’ ” The cost is $350, though some scholarships may be available. Registration is at p1440.org.

At the 9 a.m. to noon clinic, “she’ll do volleyball training exercises and she’ll give a motivational talk about what it takes to be a champion. . . . She wants to bring the sport of volleyball up. . . . Her mission is to make volleyball be seen all the time.”

Brussell took his 14-year-old daughter, Rori, to a recent professional beach volleyball tournament at East Hampton Point, “the best-attended weekend event they’ve had to date, and she was thrilled — she loved it. She told me, ‘If Kerri can get me to serve the ball over the net, I’ll definitely do volleyball when I get to the high school this fall.’ My son, Kai, who’s 12 and has never been particularly into sports, asked after that tournament if he could start playing volleyball. . . . I’ve never seen anyone watch a volleyball game and not say ‘this is the greatest sport to watch.’ ”

“There will be a pro and a lifeguard on every team in Tuesday’s tournament. It will begin at 11 and go until 4 or 5. We’ll do 6-on-6, rather than 4-on-4, which will be kinder to the people who don’t play all the time.” Attendance is free, but donations will be accepted for the two beneficiaries.

Asked for names of some of the amateurs who will play in the pro-am, Brussell listed Kim Valverde, a former two-time collegiate all-American, Chris Botta, Clark Miller, Alex Lombardo, Melina Sarlo, Aaron Torres, Marcus Oransky, and Wyatt Zeledon, the latter three being players whom Brussell is coaching at the high school now.

Thursday through Sunday pickup beach volleyball games have been played at Atlantic Avenue Beach for years, said Brussell, who’s been in them since he was 15, “since Oceans first put a net up 30 years ago.”

PHILADELPHIA – College Sports Communicators (CSC) named University of Pennsylvania junior Kampton Kam to the Academic All-America Second Team for the 2024-25 men’s cross country / track & field seasons.

Kam is the only Penn student-athlete to earn Academic All-America recognition from CSC this year. 

Kam placed first in the men’s high jump at the 2025 Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Championships clearing a personal-best height of 2.21m (7’3″), breaking the Singapore indoor national record. He then finished 12th at the NCAA Indoor Championships earning second team All-America honors. Kam set the outdoor Singapore national record clearing 2.25m (7′ 4.5″) at the South Florida Invitational. He became the first Quaker in history to win the high jump at the Penn Relays. He went on to place second at the Ivy League Outdoor Championships. Kam closed out the season earning first team All-America honors at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships placing eighth in high jump.  

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The FISU World University Games 2025, one of the world’s largest multi-sport events, takes place in Germany from 16 to 27 July across five cities in the Rhine-Ruhr region – Bochum, Duisburg, Essen, Hagen, and Mülheim an der Ruhr – as well as the capital, Berlin.

Approximately 8,500 athletes from over 150 nations are competing for medals in 18 sports. The basic requirement for participation is that the athletes are enrolled at a university.

Scroll down for the results and all the medal winners from the FISU World University Games Rhine-Ruhr 2025.

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Now that the Olympic Winter Games 2026 medal designs have been revealed, who is going to win them?

The true answer is no one knows just yet, but a clue as to the spread of medals and placings at the Milan Cortina 2026 Games can be taken from compiling the 2025 world championships results in the eight sports and 116 events to be held next year.

So, here it is!

The Sports Examiner reviewed each of the winter-sport worlds held in 2025, compiling the medal winners in 114 of the 116 events held (can you guess two that weren’t; check the end of the story). The compilation showed that 25 countries won the 342 medals in 2026 Winter Olympic events, shown in order of total medals (gold-silver-bronze):

● 41 ~ 17-13-11: Norway
● 35 ~ 8-15-12: Germany
● 33 ~ 15-10-8: United States
● 31 ~ 12-9-10: Switzerland
● 27 ~ 9-9-9: Canada

● 22 ~ 4-10-8: Japan
● 21 ~ 9-5-7: Netherlands
● 18 ~ 8-4-6: France
● 17 ~ 8-6-3: Italy
● 16 ~ 7-3-6: Sweden

● 16 ~ 3-7-6: Austria
● 9 ~ 3-4-2: Great Britain
● 8 ~ 0-4-4: China
● 7 ~ 1-1-5: South Korea
● 7 ~ 0-3-4: Finland

● 6 ~ 1-2-3: Czech Rep.
● 6 ~ 0-2-4: Poland
● 4 ~ 3-1-0: New Zealand
● 4 ~ 3-1-0: Slovenia
● 4 ~ 1-1-2: Australia

● 3 ~ 1-1-1: Belgium
● 3 ~ 0-2-1: Kazakhstan
● 2 ~ 1-1-0: Spain
● 1 ~ 0-1-0: Latvia
● 1 ~ 0-1-0: Ukraine

Seventeen of these are European countries, with four from Asia and two each from the Americas and Oceania. No Russians or Belarusians are shown in the medal counts and some of them could be in Milan Cortina, depending on the International Olympic Committee’s decision on the issue and the International Federations; that’s a wild card in these results.

There’s a lot of similarity in this list to the results of the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing (CHN), contested during a Covid-19 lockdown:

● 37: Norway
● 27: Germany
● 25: United States
● 18: Sweden
● 18: Austria

In 2018 in PyeongChang (KOR):

● 39: Norway
● 31: Germany
● 29: Canada
● 23: United States
● 20: Netherlands

Beyond the 2025 World Championships medal winners, what about the countries with fourth- and fifth-place finishers this year, right behind the Worlds medalists this year? The U.S. came out well here:

● 32: United States
● 22: Italy
● 18: Canada
● 18: Norway
● 17: Austria
● 17: Switzerland

● 16: France
● 13: Sweden
● 11: Germany
● 9: Japan
● 9: China

Is this what will happen? Of course not. But it offers a backdrop to the competitions to come, and a guide to who will the nations to watch in Italy in 2026.

One more thing: a salute to long-time friend Luciano Barra, the chief operating officer of the Turin 2006 Winter Games organizing committee (among many important posts), who created these compilations in past years.

Rich Perelman
Editor

(What about those events for 2026 for which no Worlds event was held in 2025: the new men’s Team Sprint in Nordic Combined and the new men’s Super Team in Ski Jumping. The Figure Skating Team Event standings – not a Worlds event – were compiled from the scores of the four individual events.)

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An affinity with water flowed through William Owen Lambson’s life, from his childhood in Lexington, Ky., to his death July 7, 2025, at his home near the edge of Flathead Lake.

He was born Oct. 13, 1962, in New Orleans to Theodora and Roger Lambson, the youngest of three children. His siblings and parents were serious, high achievers. “He taught us to play,” says his mom.

She recalls that by the time he was old enough to take swimming lessons, he headed for the diving board. For him, swimming was just a means to reach the side of the pool and dive in again.

He competed in diving and swimming in his early years, and diving and water polo throughout high school and at the University of Kentucky. While attending UK, he also discovered a second passion: business and the intricacies of financial management.

After working at the Bank of Missouri, he earned a master’s degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix and began a career in international business, working first for Cadence Design Systems as senior treasury manager, and then with Adobe, as the software giant’s director of global payments and treasury. 

The family settled in San Jose, Calif., but his employment with Adobe gave them the opportunity to live in Amsterdam and Dublin, where they immersed themselves in European culture, history and, in Holland, Dutch family connections. They eventually settled in Lake Oswego, Ore., where he was employed for two years at Vesta Corporation as treasurer and director of payments.

He and Anne Cox married in 1996, and had two children: Ben, born in 1999, and Claire in 2003. They later divorced, and William moved to Polson in 2020, following nearly a decade of health challenges that eventually led to a diagnosis of epilepsy.

Although he stepped away from corporate finance, he continued to provide advice and support to young entrepreneurs and start-ups. He also began to reinvent himself, turning to such creative endeavors as building furniture and lamps, taking photographs and creating jewelry. He was a masterful chef and wine connoisseur, and his warm, generous personality made him the family’s favorite host.

It was in Polson, near family and the big lake, that he returned to his love of all things aquatic and found a new love with Shelley Sullivan. Together, they explored Montana and the world, from swimming in Lake Koocanusa to snorkeling in the Caribbean, Puerto Rico and Honduras, or immersing themselves in the cityscapes of New York and Amsterdam. They always sought places, food and experiences that were off the beaten path.

They also found plenty of fun locally, dancing at KwaTaqNuk and the annual Cowboy Ball and boating on Flathead Lake.

For five years, William coached the Lake Monsters swim team at the Mission Valley Aquatic Center, where kids responded to his kind, supportive tutelage, and playful yet competitive spirit.

He also spread his passion for skateboarding – a sport he first embraced in the 1970s and later shared with son Ben. He worked with Jesse Vargas, local businesses and other organizations to expand the Polson Skatepark and organize the annual Skate Jam.  

Collaborating with the Boys and Girls Club, he launched a project aimed at getting skateboards and gear into the hands of kids who couldn’t afford them. He recruited area art teachers, who encouraged students to paint skateboard decks as art projects, which they could either keep or donate. Local artists also pitched in, painting decks that were displayed locally and sold to raise money to purchase more boards.

William (also known as Coach Will to his swimmers, and Wim to childhood friends and cousins) was a vibrant soul – playful and lighthearted, calm and confident, curious and charming. He took his responsibilities seriously, yet still found time to enjoy life and master new skills.  

He was also courageous – especially in confronting the challenges brought by epilepsy, restless leg syndrome and, in the last 10 months of his life, the devastating diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. He was gracious and generous, kind and loving to the very end of his life. Too ill to attend his daughter’s graduation from Seattle University in June, he was able to watch from afar as Claire accepted her diploma, thanks to his mom and her cell phone.

William leaves behind his children, Ben and Claire; wife Shelley and her children, Shay and Jasmine; his mother, Theodora, and her partner, Roger Norgaard; siblings Scott Lambson (Naviya) and Michelle Lambson (Art Soukkala); and nephews Perry and Lindey Lambson. 

The family will gather for a small memorial this month and hopes to hold a celebration of William’s life this fall.

Donations honoring his dedication to youth may be made to Mission Valley Aquatic Center or Polson Skatepark.

Griffin Media, the parent company of CBS and CW affiliates in Tulsa, and the CBS affiliate and an independent in Oklahoma City, is ushering in a new era of local news delivery with the launch of a dedicated digital streaming desk using Marshall Electronics cameras.

In response to the growing demand for digital content across multiple platforms, Griffin Media has repurposed a former prompter operator station into a streaming hub, located adjacent to the on-air control room in its Tulsa facility. This marks the company’s first structured and focused move into expanding its streaming and video-on-demand footprint.

The streaming desk features one Marshall CV568 Miniature Camera with a 12-millimeter lens, which was previously used for the company’s radio division. Known for its image quality and compact design, the Marshall camera provides Griffin Media with a cost-effective and professional-grade solution for live streaming and recorded content.

“It’s pretty unbelievable when you look at how physically small the Marshall camera is and the quality images it’s capturing,” says John Quesnel, statewide director of broadcast automation at News on 6, Tulsa CW, News 9 and KSBI.  “The cameras have SDI output and controls that make setup easy. They’ve allowed us to get into this space economically and effectively. This setup gives us the tools we need to look sharp.”

The digital streaming desk will support breaking news updates, weather coverage and franchise programming including weekly financial and sports segments. The content is streamed across Griffin Media’s news and weather apps, websites, YouTube, Facebook and connected TV platforms. In addition, audio from the sessions will be repurposed as podcasts. “This is our first organized foray into this space,” says Quesnel. “If this proves successful in Tulsa, we’ll look at expanding into our Oklahoma City operations as well.”

With a soft launch that occurred in early May, Griffin Media trained talent and producers to deliver consistent, engaging digital content. This initiative is another example of the company’s commitment to keeping Oklahomans safe, informed and entertained, and forward-thinking approach to keeping pace with changing viewer habits and leveraging innovative tools to reach their audience anytime, anywhere. “The Marshall camera and lens configuration overall is a great fit for this project,” adds Quesnel.

Griffin Media is an Oklahoma-based media company with a long-standing commitment to local journalism. With more than 117 years serving Oklahomans, Griffin Media is recognized for its deep investment in news, weather and sports coverage across TV, radio, outdoor and digital platforms.