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The 2025 graduating class is full of champions, Olympians, and stellar athletes who have left their mark on the sport of gymnastics. These are some of the brightest stars the sport has seen in recent memory, they’ll be leaving behind enormous legacies and big shoes to fill. Oklahoma Sooners 2025 All-Around National Champion Jordan Bowers and […]

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The 2025 graduating class is full of champions, Olympians, and stellar athletes who have left their mark on the sport of gymnastics. These are some of the brightest stars the sport has seen in recent memory, they’ll be leaving behind enormous legacies and big shoes to fill.

Oklahoma Sooners

2025 All-Around National Champion Jordan Bowers and her teammate Audrey Davis graduate with three team national titles from Oklahoma.

Florida Gators

Two-time Olympic alternate and NCAA standout Leanne Wong graduates from Florida on her way to med school.

Missouri Tigers

Fan favorite Helen Hu is retiring from gymnastics for real this time, after retiring in 2023, taking the 2024 season off, and coming back to win a national balance beam title in 2025.  

Jade Carey performing a leap on the balance beam in an Oregon State Beavers leotard

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Oregon State Beavers

Olympic medalist Jade Carey had an incredibly impressive senior season, earning four perfect 10s (three on floor, one on balance beam) to bring her career total to 16. Across her four years as a Beaver, Carey won 168 event titles, 51 this season alone. Carey was named the winner of the 2025 American Athlete, Inc. Award, which recognizes the top female senior gymnast nationwide. She is also a finalist for the prestigious Honda award, recognizing the top NCAA athlete in each sport, along with Oklahoma’s Bowers and Davis and LSU’s Aleah Finnegan. 

UCLA Bruins

UCLA’s Brooklyn Moors, Emma Malabuyo, and Chae Campbell have left an indelible impact on the program, bringing it back to its former glory and ending their careers as National Runner-Ups. Campbell won the Big 10 All-Around Title, Moors won the national floor title, and Malabuyo helped clinch the team’s advance to the finals with a second-place finish of her own on the balance beam.

Utah Utes

Olympian and Utah cornerstone Grace McCallum will return as a student coach next year, after claiming four individual runner-up finishes at NCAAs this year. LSU graduates a shocking 10 athletes, including Olympian Aleah Finnegan and last year’s American Athlete, Inc. winner and All-Around national champion Haleigh Bryant. In her career, Bryant owns at least one perfect 10 on each event, what is referred to as a “Gym Slam” in the sport.

Who are the rising stars in gymnastics, ready to take over from these legends?

Faith Torrez performing for Oklahoma Gymnastics at the 2025 Seattle Regional

Faith Torrez competing for Oklahoma Gymnastics at the 2025 NCAA Gymnastics Seattle Regional | Ali Gradischer/GettyImages

Oklahoma Sooners

Oklahoma rising senior Faith Torrez is the heir apparent to the void left by the graduates, already having a long list of accolades to her name, including multiple individual conference and national titles the past two seasons. This year, she took silver on the floor exercise and bronze in the all-around and on balance beam at NCAAs after sharing the balance beam national title with her teammate Audrey Davis last year. Torrez is the reigning SEC champion on the floor exercise and shares the conference honor on balance beam. 

OU also has a dangerous trio of rising sophomores — Addison Fatta, Lily Pederson, and Elle Mueller. Pederson is a Level 10 National Champion, while Mueller won the 2024 Nastia Liukin Cup. Fatta has Olympic Trials and international experience with Team USA as a senior elite gymnast. Fatta and Pederson both competed in the All-Around multiple times this season, with Fatta being named a first-team All-American in the All-Around after NCAAs. Mueller consistently made vault and floor lineups, breaking 9.900 in both events. 

LSU Tigers

Last year’s national champions, the LSU Tigers, boast the reigning SEC Freshman of the Year and NCAA Vault champion, Kailin Chio, and former USA Gymnastics Winter Cup All-Around Champion, Lexi Zeiss. Chio hit a 39.800 in the All-Around this season and won the national vault title. Zeiss and Chio’s teammate, Kaliya Lincoln, had a limited season due to injuries, but the Olympic alternate and Pan American champion is a powerhouse and will likely become a staple in the Tigers’ All-Around lineup and especially in the floor exercise.

Utah Utes

For much of the year, the Freshman of the Year race was neck and neck between two athletes — the aforementioned Chio and Utah’s Avery Neff, who was the number 1 recruit in the class of 2024. Neff’s season took a pause after she sprained both of her ankles during her floor routine on Jan. 17 in a home meet, but she miraculously returned to competition just three weeks later after working closely with the team’s training staff. By the end of the season, she was back in the All-Around, winning the All-Around title at Utah’s regional semifinal appearance with a 39.650. She ended her freshman season as a four-time All-American and the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.

Joscelyn Roberson competing on the balance beam in an Arkansas Razorbacks leotard

Joscelyn Roberson competing for Arkansas Gymnastics | Stew Milne/GettyImages

Arkansas Razorbacks

Arkansas’s Joscelyn Roberson is another SEC gymnast to be reckoned with, breaking multiple program records for the Razorbacks this year. She had a nonstop year, from traveling to Paris as an Olympic alternate, touring with Simone Biles and other members of Team USA on the Gold Over America Tour, and hopping right into competition as a regular All-Around competitor for Arkansas this spring. Roberson was lights out on balance beam and floor, bringing energy and experience to the Gymbacks. She qualified to NCAAs as an individual All-Around competitor after Arkansas fell in the regional finals. She earned All-American honors on the balance beam, both at National Championships and for the regular season, and is returning to elite training during the NCAA offseason. 

Florida Gators

2026 should see comebacks from Florida’s Kayla DiCello and Skye Blakely, who should join their teammate Selena Harris-Miranda as huge contenders in the 2026 season. Blakely returned to limited competition during the 2025 season, but DiCello was sidelined the whole season after rupturing her Achilles at 2024 Olympic Trials and later requiring foot surgery. Both DiCello and Blakely were considered top prospects for the 2024 Olympic Team before their untimely injuries and have the skills and consistency to be major factors for Florida next season. DiCello’s return to the vault lineup would be a huge asset for the Gators, who struggled on the event at this year’s national semi-finals.

Transfer portal

eMjae Frazier, previously at Cal, and former Georgia Bulldog Naya Howard are both currently in the transfer portal but depending on where they land next year, could make a big splash. Frazierbroke the single season NCAA scoring record as a sophomore in 2024. (This record has since been broken by Oklahoma’s Jordan Bowers and Faith Torrez.) She’s a rockstar in the classroom too, graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in three years, and will be pursuing a master’s degree at her next program. Howard will have one year of eligibility for her new program and can make an immediate impact on any program, with a career high of at least a 9.900 on all four events.  

Big 10

The Big Ten should see a lot of stellar gymnastics from MSU’s Sage Kellerman, OSU’s Tory Vetter, Washington’s Mary McDonough, and Illinois’s Chloe Cho. This season, Kellerman earned All-American honors on both events she competed at NCAAs- vault and uneven bars. Vetter recently announced that she will return to Ohio State for her fifth year after being named to the First Team All Big Ten Gymnastics Team this year. Cho was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and McDonough advanced all the way to the National Championships as an individual All-Around competitor, despite Washington failing to qualify to regional competition.

Smaller programs

From smaller programs, expect a splash from Towson’s Isabella Minervini, a regional individual All-Around competitor, and Fisk’s Morgan Price, who has broken a score of records, including sweeping all five individual national titles at this year’s Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics National Invitational Championships, defending her All-Around title from last year. She also became the first HBCU gymnast to ever earn a 10.0 with an uneven bars routine earlier this season. 

Despite a large graduating class of gymnasts, NCAA gymnastics has a bright future. Between rising upperclassmen, this year’s exceptional freshmen class, and a new class of recruits, the 2026 season will be star-studded and full of exciting routines. Whether you’re a gymnastics die-hard, new to the sport, or somewhere in between, each conference has plenty of new and returning gymnasts to root for. Gymnasts will begin training with their teams this summer, and competition will start again in January 2026.



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Longtime Ohio State football SID Jerry Emig to retire after ’25 season

Ohio State sports information director Jerry Emig will retire after the 2025 season, the school has announced. Emig, 64, has been the primary spokesman for the Buckeyes football program since 2011. He served in a similar capacity in 1998 and ’99. In all, Emig has worked for OSU for 23 years. “When you get into […]

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Ohio State sports information director Jerry Emig will retire after the 2025 season, the school has announced.

Emig, 64, has been the primary spokesman for the Buckeyes football program since 2011. He served in a similar capacity in 1998 and ’99. In all, Emig has worked for OSU for 23 years.

“When you get into your 60s, you realize, or at least I did, that life is short,” Emig told The Dispatch. “There are things I want to do. Nothing crazy, but there are things I want to do. I feel great, and I’m thrilled about the 33-year career I had in sports information.”

Ohio State also announced the retirement of senior deputy director of athletics Janine Oman. She oversees OSU’s lacrosse and volleyball programs, as well as women’s soccer, women’s ice hockey and rowing.

Emig will retire at the end of February 2026. Emig is regarded as one of the premier SIDs in college football, handling one of the largest beats in American sports at any level. In 2017, Ohio State’s football sports information staff received the Super 11 Award from the Football Writers Association of America for SID excellence.

“He is a great man,” former OSU football coach Urban Meyer said. “I love the guy. He was great to work with and I’ll always appreciate the behind-the-scenes effort he gave to myself, our staff, and most importantly, our players.”

In a statement, athletic director Ross Bjork said, “As the leader of our communications team, Jerry has been a consistent and passionate advocate for our student-athletes, ensuring their stories are shared with authenticity and pride. His dedication to preserving and promoting the history of Buckeye athletics is truly commendable.”

A Minnesota native, Emig graduated from Murray State in Kentucky before beginning his SID career at Southern Illinois-Carbondale for three years. He spent six years at Temple University in Philadelphia before coming to Ohio State in 2007. Emig worked at a private public relations firm for seven years before returning to OSU.

Emig and his wife, Jody, have three children – daughter Shelby and sons Roman and A.J.

“I thank her for support all these years,” Emig said of Jody. “She has been a terrific wife and mother, and this wouldn’t have happened without her.”

Ohio State has been among college football’s elite during Emig’s time as SID. He listed as highlights the win over Alabama on the way to the 2014 College Football Playoff championship, last year’s playoff run to the national title, the win over Clemson in the 2019 CFP, as well as having five Heisman Trophy finalists and numerous All-Americans.

“We have worked together to try to make our very competitive, very populated environment as professional as possible for our players and coaches and also for (the media),” Emig said. “That’s been rewarding.”

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Sarah Nurse | Ice Hockey, Olympics, Age, Parents, & College

Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask the Chatbot Top Questions What Olympic medals has Sarah Nurse won? Sarah Nurse won a silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and a gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. What record did Sarah Nurse set during the 2022 Beijing Olympics? During the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Sarah […]

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Sarah Nurse (born January 4, 1995, Burlington, Ontario, Canada) is a professional Canadian ice hockey forward who plays in the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL). She was a member of the Toronto Sceptres (2024–25) and joined a new expansion team in Vancouver starting with the 2025–26 season. Nurse has also been a leading member of her country’s national women’s team, helping Canada take home the silver medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and the gold medal at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. During the latter tournament, she recorded 18 points (five goals and 13 assists), which set a single-tournament scoring record, and she became the first Black athlete to win an Olympic gold in women’s hockey.

Early life and family

Nurse is the eldest of three children born to Michelle and Roger Nurse. Her father and his family immigrated to Canada from Trinidad in 1970, when he was a child. Sarah Nurse was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, where she learned to ice skate at age three and began playing hockey two years later. In 2002, when she was seven years old, Nurse watched the Canadian women’s ice hockey team, led by Hayley Wickenheiser, win gold at the Salt Lake City Winter Games and told her family that she would play in the Olympics one day.

Another source of inspiration for Nurse were the numerous accomplished athletes in her family tree. Her father was a national-level lacrosse player and then a middle-school teacher and coach; her uncle Richard Nurse was a wide receiver for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, a professional Canadian football team, and is married to Cathy Doucette Nurse, who was a star basketball player at McMaster University; and her aunt Raquel-Ann (“Roxi”) Nurse McNabb was a point guard on Syracuse University’s women’s basketball team and is married to former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. Moreover, Sarah Nurse’s cousins include Kia Nurse, a WNBA All-Star and three-time Olympian, and Darnell Nurse, a defenseman for the Edmonton Oilers.

Amateur and college career

In 2004 Nurse began playing organized hockey on a youth team in the Hamilton City Hub League. Later she developed into a promising athlete on the Stoney Creek Junior Sabres of the Provincial Women’s Hockey League, leading that league in goals during the 2012–13 season.

Nurse elected to play college ice hockey at the University of Wisconsin. She led the Badgers to the NCAA Frozen Four (the hockey equivalent of March Madness’s Final Four) four years in a row (2014–17) and helped the team win three consecutive Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) championships (2015–17). In addition, she was named to the All-WCHA Rookie Team her freshman year. She graduated in 2018 with a degree in business administration.

Canadian national teams

Nurse has also played for Canada’s national ice hockey teams. She made her first international appearance with Team Canada at the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) U18 (Under-18) Women’s World Championship, helping the squad secure the gold medal. Two years later she was a member of the U22 National Women’s Development Team, which won the gold medal at the Nations Cup. Also in 2015 she made her debut with the main national team, which took the silver medal at the Four Nations Cup. Nurse was also on the teams that captured silvers at the Four Nations Cups in 2017 and 2018.

In 2018 Nurse was named to the Canadian Olympic team at the Pyeongchang Games. She scored a game-winning goal that helped put Canada through to the semifinals, and they went on to secure the silver medal, although that result was nevertheless considered a disappointment, as it was the first time the Canadian women’s team had not won gold at the Olympics since 1998. Nurse then participated with Team Canada at the senior IIHF Women’s World Championships, which won bronze in 2019 and gold in 2021 and 2022.

Nurse rejoined the Canadian Olympic squad at the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing. Among her starring performances were a hat trick (scoring three goals) in a 11–1 defeat of Finland in a preliminary round and a goal and an assist in the gold medal final 3–2 victory over the United States. Nurse’s run, during which she broke the single-Olympics points record and became the first Black woman to win an ice hockey gold medal, was all the more remarkable because she had suffered a knee injury leading up to the competition and had been unable to practice with the team until less than two months before it began.

Professional career

Concurrent with her national team career, Nurse has also participated in professional ice hockey. After graduating from Wisconsin in 2018, she was drafted second overall by the Toronto Furies of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL). In her debut season (2018–19), she earned 26 points (14 goals and 12 assists) over 26 games. However, the CWHL—which did not pay players full-time salaries—collapsed at the end of the season because of a lack of funds. Nurse then joined with other players to form the nonprofit Professional Women’s Hockey Player’s Association (PWHPA) to protest the lack of adequate pay and other working conditions in existing leagues and to advocate for the creation of a viable, economically secure future for the sport.

Over the next several years, Nurse competed with other prominent hockey players in PWHPA-organized exhibition tournaments in Canada and the United States to build support for the establishment of a new professional league. That goal was realized in 2023, when the PWHL was formed. Nurse was a founding member of the PWHL Players’ Association and a key voice in the negotiation process with the new league, which led to a collective bargaining agreement ensuring adequate pay and benefits for players.

Nurse was among the first 18 players to sign to the league, inking a three-year contract with the Toronto Sceptres. During the inaugural season, held January–May 2024, she played in all 24 regular season games and accumulated 23 points (11 goals and 12 assists). Her production dipped to 14 points (6 goals and 8 assists) in the second season, held November 2024–May 2025. In the offseason Nurse was signed by the new PWHL team in Vancouver that will join the league in the 2025–26 season.

Advocacy and other ventures

In addition to her work organizing and promoting women’s ice hockey, Nurse has been a vocal advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the sport. These efforts include initiating a program to mentor young Black female ice hockey players. In 2020 Mattel, Inc., released a limited-edition Barbie doll in her likeness, and all proceeds were donated to a nonprofit that advocates for girls’ participation in youth hockey.

Nurse has also become a prominent public figure through her appearance in advertisements and endorsement deals. In 2022 she became the first woman to be featured on the cover of an EA Sports hockey video game, NHL 23.

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CC Releases 2025-26 Hockey Schedule

Story Links 2025-26 Hockey Schedule (web) 2025-26 Hockey Schedule (pdf) Colorado College has released its 2025-26 hockey schedule, again playing one of the most demanding slates in the country. The Tigers will play 10 games this upcoming season against teams […]

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Colorado College has released its 2025-26 hockey schedule, again playing one of the most demanding slates in the country. The Tigers will play 10 games this upcoming season against teams that competed in the 2025 NCAA Tournament and 17 against teams that were ranked in the final 2024-25 USCHO Top-20 poll. 
 
The Tigers open the regular season by hosting NCAA tournament teams UConn, Oct. 3-4, and Bentley, Oct. 10, at Ed Robson Arena. 
 
The Pikes Peak Trophy, housed at CC since 2018, will be contested in a one-game series against Air Force on Oct. 11 at Cadet Ice Arena.
 
The Tigers travel to Northern Michigan (Oct. 17-18) before opening play in the NCHC against Omaha on Oct. 31-Nov. 1, at Robson Arena. Following a weekend series at Arizona State (Nov. 7-8), the first two games in the Battle for the Gold Pan against 2025 national semifinalist Denver will take place on Nov. 14, at Magness Arena and Nov. 15, at Robson Arena.
 
Back-to-back home series’ against Minnesota Duluth (Nov. 21-22) and NCAA tournament qualifier Providence (Nov. 28-29) precede the final weekend of the calendar year at Miami on Dec. 12-13.  

Following the final non-conference series of the season at Augustana on Jan. 2-3, Colorado College plays 14 league games, starting with a series at home against North Dakota (Jan. 9-10), followed by a pair of games at Omaha on Jan. 23-24. In between those weekends is an exhibition game against Simon Fraser (Canada) on Saturday, Jan. 17, at Robson Arena.

 

During the second half of the season, CC will also host Arizona State (Jan. 30-31) and defending national champion Western Michigan (Feb. 20-21), and travel to St. Cloud State (Feb. 13-14) and Minnesota Duluth (Feb. 27-28).

 

For the first time since 2017-18, the Gold Pan series will not conclude on the final weekend of the regular season. CC and DU will face off at Robson Arena on Feb. 6 and Magness Arena on Feb. 7.

Colorado College will not host St. Cloud State and Miami or travel to North Dakota and Western Michigan in ’25-26.

 

Following the regular season, the new NCHC playoff format will take place over three weeks entirely on campus sites. Like in 2025, only the top eight teams in the final standings will make the NCHC Tournament, with best-of-three quarterfinal series set for March 6-8, 2026, at the four highest seeds.

 

The four quarterfinal series winners are then re-seeded with the two highest remaining seeds hosting single-game semifinals the following Saturday (March 14). The NCHC championship game will then be held the following Friday or Saturday (March 20 or 21) at the highest remaining seed, with the exact date still to be determined. 

 

The 2026 NCAA Tournament begins on March 26, while the NCAA Frozen Four will be held in Las Vegas, Nev., April 9-11. The NCHC has produced the national champion in seven of the last nine seasons.

 

Colorado College has sold out every home game at Robson Arena since opening in October 2021. If interested in CC Hockey Season Tickets for the 2025-26 season, go to www.cctigers.com/tickets to get on the official season ticket waitlist.  

The 2025-26 television schedule will be announced at a later date.

 



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Cornell Hockey Schedule Tracker: What We Know About the Men’s and Women’s Hockey 2025-2026 Schedules

Though men’s and women’s hockey’s full schedules will not be released until later on this summer, other teams around the NCAA have announced their 2025-2026 slates, giving us a better idea of what next season will look like for both teams. This article tracks the status of next season’s schedules for Cornell men’s and women’s […]

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Though men’s and women’s hockey’s full schedules will not be released until later on this summer, other teams around the NCAA have announced their 2025-2026 slates, giving us a better idea of what next season will look like for both teams.

This article tracks the status of next season’s schedules for Cornell men’s and women’s hockey. It will be updated as new information is released and when the final schedules are ultimately made public.

On Tuesday, June 11 and Wednesday, June 12, the ECAC released the entire women’s and men’s hockey schedules. The remaining out of conference matchups for both teams will be confirmed by Cornell Athletics later this summer.

Men’s Hockey

Oct. 31-Nov. 1: at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nov. 7-Nov. 8: at Harvard, at Dartmouth

Nov. 14-Nov. 15: vs. Brown, vs. Yale

Nov. 21-Nov. 22: vs. Union, vs. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Nov. 29: vs. Boston University (at Madison Square Garden)

Dec. 5-Dec. 6: at Clarkson, at St. Lawrence

Jan. 2-Jan. 3: vs. University of Nebraska Omaha

Jan. 16-Jan. 17: vs. Princeton, vs. Quinnipiac

Jan. 23-Jan. 24: vs. Dartmouth, vs. Harvard

Jan. 30-Jan. 31: at Yale, at Brown

Feb. 6-Feb. 7: at Colgate, vs. Colgate

Feb. 13-Feb. 14: at RPI, at Union

Feb. 20-Feb. 21: at Quinnipiac, at Princeton

Feb. 27-Feb. 28: vs. St. Lawrence, vs. Clarkson

Women’s Hockey 

Oct. 17-Oct. 18: vs. Boston College

Oct. 24-Oct. 25: at Harvard, at Dartmouth 

Oct. 31-Nov. 1: vs. Yale, vs. Brown

Nov. 14-Nov. 15: at Colgate, vs. Colgate

Nov. 21-Nov. 22: at Union, at RPI

Dec. 5-Dec. 6: vs. Quinnipiac, vs. Princeton

Dec. 30: at Penn State

Jan. 9-Jan. 10: vs. Clarkson, vs. St. Lawrence

Jan. 16-Jan. 17: at Brown, at Yale

Jan. 20: vs. Penn State

Jan. 23-Jan. 24: at Princeton, at Quinnipiac

Jan. 30-Jan 31: vs. Dartmouth, vs. Harvard

Feb. 6-Feb 7: vs. RPI, vs. Union

Feb. 13-Feb. 14: at St. Lawrence, at Clarkson


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Jane McNally is a senior editor on the 143rd editorial board and was the sports editor on the 142nd editorial board. She is a member of the Class of 2026 in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. You can follow her on X @JaneMcNally_ and reach her at jmcnally@cornellsun.com.


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Eli Fastiff is a senior editor on the 143rd editorial board and a member of the class of 2026 in the College of Arts and Sciences. You can follow him on X @Eli_Fastiff and reach him at efastiff@cornellsun.com.


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Ballston Spa High School student-athletes were honored during the school’s annual college athlete recognition ceremony on June 3. Photo by Jonathon Norcross. BALLSTON SPA — Dozens of Ballston Spa High School student-athletes were honored during an annual college athlete recognition ceremony on June 3, including state wrestling champion Mia Collins.  34 students were recognized in […]

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Ballston Spa High School student-athletes were honored during the school’s annual college athlete recognition ceremony on June 3. Photo by Jonathon Norcross.

BALLSTON SPA — Dozens of Ballston Spa High School student-athletes were honored during an annual college athlete recognition ceremony on June 3, including state wrestling champion Mia Collins. 

34 students were recognized in total, including athletes headed to Division I, II, and III schools. Six of them were three-sport athletes and 13 were two-sport athletes. Collectively, the group had a cumulative grade point average of 92%.

During the ceremony, State Senator Jim Tedisco and Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh honored Collins, the New York State 132-pound division wrestling champ. Collins is currently ranked eighth nationally in her weight class.

“Mia Collins is a trailblazer and a tremendous student scholar athlete whose state championship victory capped off an undefeated regular season record of 10-0, along with being the first New York State Girls Wrestling Champion from Ballston Spa High School,” Tedisco said. “With Mia being only a junior, I have a feeling her already incredible athletic career is just getting started.”

“I’m incredibly proud to see Mia reach yet another milestone in her athletic career,” added Walsh. “Maintaining a 98 grade point average as a senior and excelling at a sport as she has is an amazing accomplishment. I can’t wait to see what other glass ceilings Mia will shatter as she furthers her education at Columbia over the next four years. Who knows, maybe we’ll see her on ESPN or at the Olympics before her college career is done.”

Below is a list of the student-athletes honored at the ceremony, as well as the higher education institutions they’ll be attending:

Declan Bain — SUNY New Paltz, soccer

Jessica Bowens — Hartwick College, basketball

Gabrielle Bozeth — Marist College, track & field

Kaleigh Capasso — Vermont State University at Castleton,         volleyball

Mia Collins — Columbia University, wrestling

Nicholas Commisso — Hudson Valley Community College,                           
        baseball

Matthew Cook — SUNY Brockport, lacrosse

Brayson Cornick — Southern Connecticut State University,
        football

Emily Dierna — Loyola University of Maryland, crew

Kyle Fives — Mount St. Mary College, baseball

Kate Fletcher — Westfield State University, lacrosse

Ayla Hathaway — Lasell University, soccer

James Haughton — University of Rhode Island, baseball

Devin Hemraj — University of Buffalo, track & field

Nathan Hill — Stevens Institute of Technology, baseball

Kala’i Leahey-Makanani — University of Buffalo, track & field

Mariana Lefco — Massachusetts Maritime Academy, soccer

Nicholas Leonard — Pace University, football

Matthew Meerdink — Worcester Polytech Institute,
        track/cross country

Mariah Nowicki — SUNY Plattsburgh, soccer

William O’Connor — Hartwick College, football

Anthony O’Leary — SUNY Brockport, swimming

Isabella O’Leary — SUNY Oneonta, lacrosse

Madelyn Perrone — Mercy University, softball

Caleigh Richards — Hartwick College, basketball

Aidan Ryan — Utica College, football

Nicholas Sorbera — Barton College, baseball

Mallory Sprissler — Alfred State College, basketball

McKenna Szmarz — Fredonia State University, soccer

Ally Teitsch — Norwich University, cross country

Livia Wiltsie — Marist College, softball

Petrina Zborovszky — University of Buffalo, track & field

Anna Zito — Endicott College, soccer

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Replacement Of Aging Chiller At Herb Brooks Hockey Center

St. Cloud State University received $12.8 Million from the State to replace the chiller at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center when the State Budget was approved during Monday’s Special Session.  SCSU Interim President Larry Dietz joined me on WJON.  Dietz says the chiller in the arena has out used its usefulness by about 20 years.  […]

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St. Cloud State University received $12.8 Million from the State to replace the chiller at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center when the State Budget was approved during Monday’s Special Session.  SCSU Interim President Larry Dietz joined me on WJON.  Dietz says the chiller in the arena has out used its usefulness by about 20 years.  He says parts aren’t even made for the chiller currently in operation at SCSU.  Dietz says if you don’t have a chiller, you don’t have a hockey rink.  He says SCSU has been lobbying for this for quite some time.

Chiller Install Process

Dietz explains the the process to replace the chiller is underway but construction to replace it won’t likely happen until the summer of 2026.  He says they hope the current chiller can make it one more season.  Dietz isn’t sure

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Money Going State Colleges/Universities

Of the $60 Million the state appropriated to Universities and College in the State College and University system, $14 Million is coming to St. Cloud.  St. Cloud Technical and Community College received $1.2 Million to roof work.

Performing Arts Center (1968), exterior, St. Cloud State University, 1980-1989

Performing Arts Center (1968), exterior, St. Cloud State University, 1980-1989

No Demo Money

SCSU did not receive any requested money to demolish unused buildings.  Dietz says the cost to demo a building is approximately $3 to $4 Million.  Dietz has indicated in the past the Performing Arts Center would be the first to be demolished with the Education Building likely to be next.

SCSU’s Lemonade Concert and Art Fair

SCSU will host the Lemonade Concert and Art Fair again this season as part of Granite City Days.  This year’s Lemonade Concert and Art Fair will take place

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on Thursday June 26.  SCSU’s Molly McCann says there will be shuttle buses from K lot on the south side of campus near the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.

If you’d like to listen to my conversation with Larry Dietz and Molly McCann, click below.

 

 

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