LYNCHBURG, Va. – Junior Bailey Hedgemon of the Washington and Lee University women’s track and field team reset her own hammer throw program record on Tuesday evening at the Liberty University Twilight.

Hegemony highlighted the group on Tuesday evening, turning in a third place finish in the hammer throw while resetting her own program record with a new personal best toss of 49.13m (161′-02.25″). Her mark was the top division III mark and only finished behind Annika Kelly of the University of Virginia and Sydney Freeman of NC State.

Emily Jackson posted a pair of top five finishes in the shot put and discus this evening. In the shot put, Jackson finished in fourth place after recording a mark of 11.87m (38′-11.25″), finishing behind three Division I student-athletes. She then posted a mark of 34.10m (111′-10.50″) to finish in fifth place.

Camille Gillum turned in a fifth place finish in the high jump this afternoon, clearing a height of 1.59m (5′-02.50″). Ashley D’Ambrosia was the top Division III competitor in the pole vault, finishing in tenth place with a height of 3.72m (12′-02.25″). Emily Sansbury rounded out the action in the 1,500m, finishing in 24th place with a time of 4:56.89.

MEET RESULTS

The Generals will have one last chance to post qualifying marks for the 2025 NCAA Divison III Outdoor National Championships on Monday, May 12 as they head to Chester, Pa. for the Widener Final Qualifier.

Nestled in the mountains of Virginia, Washington and Lee University is a proud member of NCAA Division III and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Founded in 1749, W&L is the ninth-oldest college in the United States and a top-ranked liberal arts university. With over 500 student-athletes in 24 varsity sports, the Generals have celebrated over 265 conference championships. Learn more about the Blue and White by visiting www.generalssports.com or on social media at @WLUGenerals.

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LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Washington and Lee University men’s track and field team sent five student-athletes to Lynchburg to compete at the Liberty University Twilight on Tuesday.

George Marable paced the group with a second place finish in the 400m hurdles, clocking in a time of 54.82s. Ryan McKenna competed alongside Marable, crossing the finish line in 56.39s to finish in fifth place.

Robert Cooper and Will DeLoach both competed in the 1,500m this evening. Cooper paced the duo with a 15th place finish and the top Division III finisher after clocking in a time of 3:58.44. DeLoach crossed the finish line in 4:06.97 to finish in 28th place. Leo Avigliano posted a mark of 43.09m (141′-04.25″) to finish in tenth place in the discus this afternoon.

MEET RESULTS

The Generals will have one last chance to post qualifying marks for the 2025 NCAA Divison III Outdoor National Championships on Monday, May 12 as they head to Chester, Pa. for the Widener Final Qualifier.

Nestled in the mountains of Virginia, Washington and Lee University is a proud member of NCAA Division III and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Founded in 1749, W&L is the ninth-oldest college in the United States and a top-ranked liberal arts university. With over 500 student-athletes in 24 varsity sports, the Generals have celebrated over 265 conference championships. Learn more about the Blue and White by visiting www.generalssports.com or on social media at @WLUGenerals.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — WKU Volleyball is excited to announce their schedule for the 2025 season and new courtside seats at E. A. Diddle Arena.

New For 2025

Want to watch high-level volleyball up close like never before? Courtside seats make their debut at Diddle Arena for the 2025 volleyball season. For just $200 each, catch the action up close for all 15 home matches this season. Courtside seats can only be purchased by calling the WKU Ticket Office at 1.800.5.BIGRED.

Season ticket packages return and continue to offer the flexibility to attend every match, or mix and match during the season. Season ticket packages are $75 and provide fans with 15 vouchers to use throughout the season – that’s just $5 per ticket!

If you prefer to go game by game, single game tickets will go on sale closer to the beginning of the season. Season ticket prices will be $10 for adults, $7 for youth (under 12) and $5 for groups of 10+.

2025 Schedule

The 30-match slate includes 15 matches at E. A. Diddle Arena as well as matchups with four NCAA Tournament teams. Three of those four teams made it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament, while Louisville made it to the national championship match.

WKU opens its 44th season at home in the WKU Invitational. That tournament, held Aug. 29 and 30, will feature three matches for the Hilltoppers against Wright State, Loyola-Chicago, and Drake.

Hilltopper Volleyball will then go on a six-match road trip to play Drake, Marquette, and Buffalo at the Marquette tournament in Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 5-6. After returning from Milwaukee, WKU will travel to Johnson City, Tenn. To take on High Point, East Tennessee
State, and Virgina Commonwealth University on Sept. 12-13.

On Sept. 16, WKU is excited to host Vanderbilt Volleyball at E. A. Diddle Arena in the Commodores’ first indoor volleyball season since 1980. Later that same week, WKU Volleyball will host its eighth-annual Alyssa Cavanaugh Classic Sept. 19-20, featuring Bradley, Indiana, and Austin Peay.

After hosting Vanderbilt and the Alyssa Cavanaugh Classic, the Hilltoppers will travel to Louisville, Ky. on Sept. 22 to take on the national runner-up Cardinals.

Completing a preseason schedule that includes three AVCA Top 50 teams, WKU will open its Conference USA slate against Jacksonville State, Sept. 26-27.

New to Conference USA in the fall of 2025 is Missouri State. WKU will travel to Springfield, Mo. to take on the Bears, Oct 3-4. Continuing their road trip, the Hilltoppers head to Ruston, La. to play LA Tech Oct 10-11. After their four-match road swing, WKU returns to Bowling Green, Ky. to host Sam Houston Oct. 17-18, and UTEP Oct. 24-25.

In their 76th and 77th all-time matchup. WKU will travel to Murfreesboro, Tenn. for the 100 Miles of Hate rivalry against Middle Tennessee Oct 31- Nov. 1.

On Nov. 7-8, WKU welcomes new CUSA opponent, Delaware, to Bowling Green for their final two home matches of the season. Much like last season, WKU will round out its CUSA regular season schedule against Liberty on Nov. 14-15 in Lynchburg, Va.

The 2025 Conference USA Championship will take place at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center in Miami, Fla. from Nov. 21-23.

WKU returns eight returners—Callahan Wiegandt, Callie Bauer, Gabby Weihe, Izzy Van De Wiele, Faith Young, Alivia Skidmore, Camila Adams, and Abby Schaefer–and welcomes six new faces to the WKU Volleyball program. Four of those six are freshman, Kaira Knox, Kennedy Cherry, Kate Rush, and Sonja Laaksonen, while the Hilltoppers also welcome Austin Peay transfer Taylor Baron, and Colorado
transfer Kendall Meller.

The Hilltoppers are coming off a 28-7 overall record and a perfect 18-0 in Conference USA. WKU also claimed its 10th regular season title and seventh CUSA Tournament title.

Headlined by Long Beach State senior Charlie Forster, the 2024-25 All-Big West Men’s Golf Teams have been announced, as voted on by the league’s 12 head coaches. 

Forster, a native of Winchester, England, claimed The Big West’s top honor after an impressive campaign for the league-champion Beach. Forster enters the national postseason with an individual rank of 31st, carding two victories this season at the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Wyoming Cowboy Classic. Forster averages 70.1 strokes per round and has posted five Top 5 finishes on the season, including a fourth-place effort at The Big West Championship after a 26-spot leap up the leaderboard with a final-round 9-under 63. Forster becomes the fourth LBSU golfer to take home top conference honors.  

The All-Big West first team sees four from the Beach in the six-man makeup, as Forster is joined by senior Clay Seeber with back-to-back first-team honors. Seeber, a product of Newport Beach, Calif., averages 71.8 strokes per round and finished the spring regular-season strong with Top 10 marks at the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate. This is Seeber’s third career selection to the All-Big West first team, also earning acclaim in 2021.  

LBSU junior Alejandro de Castro Piera heads into regional action averaging 70.5 strokes per round with five Top 10 showings on the year. DeCastro Piera finished in runner-up position to Forster at both the Lake Las Vegas Invitational and Wyoming Cowboy Classic this spring. The native of Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Spain, played one season at Anderson before transferring to the Beach.  

With an impressive performance from the No. 5 spot in the Long Beach State lineup, Big West individual medalist Krishnav Nikhil Chopraa can also add first-team All-Big West honors to his resume. Chopraa fired off a Big West record-tying performance of 16-under 200 for the wire-to-wire win. The sophomore from New Delhi, India, got a first career victory at La Quinta Country Club punctuated by a first-round 63 to help the Beach to their third team title in as many years.  

Also making the first-team listings are seniors Tegan Andrews of Cal State Fullerton and Cal Poly’s Baron Szeto. Both former Big West individual medalists will be competing in NCAA regional action after impressive seasons.  

Szeto, a senior from Moraga, Calif., posted six top 10 finishes and two medalist performances in 2024-25, winning at the Lyons Links Invitational hosted by Wake Forest back in September and taking the top spot at the Rober Kepler Invitational in Columbus, Ohio. A two-time second team honoree in 2022 and ’24 and an honorable mention recipient in 2023, this marks Szeto’s first appearance on the All-Big West first team.   

Andrews, a redshirt senior from Agoura Hills, Calif., earned consecutive first-team nods and will be making consecutive appearances at NCAA Regionals. The 2024 Big West medalist closed in a tie for fifth in 2025 as the Titans finished as runners-up in the team standings. Andrews finished in the top 10 in five events this season and claimed the individual victory at the GCU Invitational back in March. 

Freshman of the Year Hartej Grewal of UC Riverside becomes the Highlanders’ first student-athlete to pick up an individual honor in program history. Hailing from Pleasanton, Calif., Grewal played to four Top 10 finishes, indluding a third-place effort at the SeattleU Redhawk Invitational. Averaging 71.9 strokes per round after a successful freshman campaign for UCR, Grewal is one of five golfers on the All-Big West second team. 

Grewal is joined by fellow first-year player Nolan Kuszyk of Cal Poly, whose year was highlighted by a fifth-place finish at the Mesquite Desert Classic in February. A trio of juniors in Jack Cantlay of LBSU, UC Irvine’s Rei Harashima and Nathan Tseng of UC San Diego round out the second team. Tseng posted two Top 5 finishes on the season with Cantlay landing in fourth at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate in February. For Harashima, this marks consecutive selections to the second team after tying for eighth at The Big West Championship.