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AURORA – The Colorado High School Activities Association has released the brackets for the Boys Volleyball State Championship. This season marks the first time the sport will crown champions in two classifications. Find the brackets here: Each classification will feature eight teams, which earner their state tournament bids […]
AURORA – The Colorado High School Activities Association has released the brackets for the Boys Volleyball State Championship. This season marks the first time the sport will crown champions in two classifications.
Find the brackets here:
Each classification will feature eight teams, which earner their state tournament bids by winning their respective regional tournaments this past week. They were seeded using the final Seeding Index data.
The tournaments are a double-elimination format through the semifinals, and then a winner-take-all match for the state championship final. The state championship tournament will be played at Overland High School on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
All matches will consist of up-to five 25-point sets, with the final deciding set being a 15-point set. The winner of the match will be the first team to win three sets.
A list of qualifiers for each classification is available on this link: Qualifiers
Bell, Myers, Haas spearhead State College boys PIAA 3A track and field team title
SHIPPENSBURG — Surrounded by his fellow maroon-clad state champions, Adam Bell was designated with the task of hoisting trophy No. 7. Understandably so. After all, Bell laid the foundation for it with a pole vault crown on Friday. But nonetheless, everyone among State College’s ranks got to share a moment with the coveted wood-polished hardware. […]
SHIPPENSBURG — Surrounded by his fellow maroon-clad state champions, Adam Bell was designated with the task of hoisting trophy No. 7.
Understandably so. After all, Bell laid the foundation for it with a pole vault crown on Friday. But nonetheless, everyone among State College’s ranks got to share a moment with the coveted wood-polished hardware. The Little Lions were crowned Class 3A boys champions during the PIAA track and field championships at Shippensburg University’s Seth Grove Stadium on Saturday.
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After Bell matched his personal record of 15-6, Florida signee Jesse Myers captured the 200-meter crown in 21.05 and Nathan Haas delivered a javelin title with his distance of 204-4. That trio rounded out State College’s individual gold medal winners while the rest of its roster dealt damage up and down its ranks for a best-in-show 53 points. Palmyra was the PIAA 3A runner-up with 28 points.
“These guys, man. I’ve been with these guys since freshman year when I started track. Even when I’m throwing, I’m just thinking about scoring points for the team,” Haas said. “It’s not really about me, it’s about the team. Obviously it’s nice to win a single title, but at the end of the day, you’re just hoping you’re getting enough points to propel your team through.”
In order to secure the seventh team state title in the Little Lions’ program history, Haas played a part in his final heave. Trailing runner-up Thomas Lloyd of Whitehall heading into his last attempt, Haas put forth a personal record of 204-4 on the final throw of his varsity career. It shattered his previous best of 200-1, which was established amid a three-peat of District 6 titles just over a week ago.
But the moment wasn’t about personal bests for Haas. He knew his tribe was well within reach of cementing the team title after coming up just 3 points short, 50-47 to Episcopal Academy in the PTFCA team title race this past winter.
“I was just thinking about everything,” Haas said. “I’m taking all my cues in practice, blocking everything out and go execute.”
On top of his crowning achievement, Haas also manifested a fourth-place discus medal with his clearance of 171-5.
Meanwhile, Myers had entered the 100 and 200-meter finals wielding the top seeds for each event. A fourth-place finish of the former in 10.63 didn’t sit well with Myers, who was firmly seeking state titles in both disciplines.
But the 200-meter is Myers’ bread and butter. A PIAA 3A title for the event his sophomore year, representing the United States for it in the U20 World Championships and being crowned PTFCA champion with a new meet record of 21.08 in the winter is all proof in the pudding.
Turning that letdown into pure fuel and motivation, Myers delivered to not only reclaim his 200-meter throne, but skyrocket State College’s team score with yet another gold-worthy performance.
“I’ve been looking for that 200 gold. Last year I fell short, so I’ve been looking forward to gold in really any event,” Myers said.
A two-time PennLive Track Athlete of the Year, Myers has made a career of shattering facility records across central Pennsylvania. Now he’s exiting with three individual state titles on his résumé between PIAA and PTFCA. And of course, a team title among the rest of his pack.
“It’s all my coaches’ doing,” Myers said. “They set it up so I can succeed in all my races. They prepare me.”
Landon Bassett was another major contributor in the field, putting forth a sixth-place long jump finish at 23-2.50.
In and around Bell, Haas and Myers, State College was buoyed by a remarkably deep distance crew. Luke Bradbury, Stephen Fowler, Kyle Fritzsche and Owen Coughlin clocked in at 7:50.19 during the 4×800 relay for a fifth-place finish, dialing up an additional 4 points in team standing.
Isaac Oppermann kicked off the morning by producing individual bronze in the 3,200-meter at 9:04.13, setting the tone for a day full of podium prizes for the Little Lions.
Oppermann also headlined a State College program that captured the PIAA 3A cross country team title this past fall — two team state championships in the same calendar year.
“It’s been great because I’ve been running with a lot of these guys since middle school,” Oppermann said. “After our cross country season it was kind of rough coming back into track. We ended up losing states to (Episcopal Academy), but coming into here today, we know we have the people to do it, we just need our distance people to do our part.”
While he didn’t make it onto the individual medal stand, sophomore Theo Opperman, younger brother of Isaac by two years, was a driving force in State College’s cross country crown this fall, and should be a major benefactor in the Little Lions’ future track affairs.
Being able to share a state title with teammates is always nice. But sharing it amongst brothers is something that isn’t lost on the Oppermanns.
“In cross country, he was only a few seconds behind me in every race,” Isaac Oppermann said of Theo. “He’s been struggling a little bit this season, but it’s really nice to have a younger brother pushing me along. We can hold each other accountable.”
And it’s that accountability among State College’s ranks that manufactured its latest piece of team state hardware.
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Homestead falls to Fishers in inaugural boys volleyball regional title match | High Schools
PERU – Homestead’s run in the inaugural IHSAA boys volleyball state tournament came to an end on Saturday evening as the Spartans fell to Fishers 3-0 in the Peru Regional championship match, 25-16, 25-19, 25-22. “This is a tough game. The team across the net is a strong team,” Homestead coach Jacob Allred said. “I […]
PERU – Homestead’s run in the inaugural IHSAA boys volleyball state tournament came to an end on Saturday evening as the Spartans fell to Fishers 3-0 in the Peru Regional championship match, 25-16, 25-19, 25-22.
“This is a tough game. The team across the net is a strong team,” Homestead coach Jacob Allred said. “I think they recognized how much we’ve progressed in the last three years. We played Fishers two years ago, and it was not even close. This year, we played them (twice), and we were neck-and-neck with them the entire time.”
The Spartans (30-6), who beat Carroll in the semifinals earlier Saturday, appeared to suffer from some championship jitters in the early moments of the title game. Tigers senior JT Guler served up an ace on the first point of the match and Fishers took a 5-0 lead before Homestead called timeout. The Spartans quickly settled in after the early break and cut the deficit to 10-7, but they never pulled any closer in the first set.
“Offensively, we were really strong,” Allred said. “We were tooling the block really well, we were finding our way around the block. Defensively, we were doing strong things as well. We were blocking some of their tall players, we were digging a lot of really strong hits.
“I think the thing that really held us back is that we would build momentum, and then we would miss a serve, so that we would drop back down to where we started. They did a great job of scoring points, but building momentum was hard for us today.”
Fishers led, though narrowly, for much of the second and third sets.
“I think we fought hard. It’s a great group of guys, and I’m super lucky to be able to fight alongside them,” senior setter Jesse Biedenbach said. “We put it all out there, it didn’t go our way.”
Fishers (31-4) is one of four teams to lift a regional trophy in boys volleyball’s first year as a fully-sanctioned IHSAA sport. The Tigers will play Roncalli (28-3) in one state finals semifinal next Saturday at Purdue’s Mackey Arena while Lake Central (29-6) and Cathedral (30-5) will play in the other. The inaugural state championship will be played at 6 p.m. next Saturday.
“It was awesome to be able to kickstart this. We had the non-sanctioned years the past two years and lost in the first round of regionals,” Biedenbach said. “It was super fun to be able to win one, especially the first year of it being sanctioned. It’s tough to see the trophy being handed to the other team, but they played well and they earned it.”
Homestead and Carroll (26-8) split two five-set matches during the regular season, and Saturday’s semifinal was similarly tightly contested with the Spartans winning 3-1 (25-22, 25-18, 23-25, 25-23).
“Every time we play Carroll, it’s always an intense matchup,” Allred said. “Being rivals, it’s always a mental battle. But a lot of the guys on our team know a lot of the guys on their team, so it’s really cool to see them be competitive with each other but also support each other, especially this late in the season, and respect each other’s growth across the season.”
Although Homestead’s season ended without lifting another trophy, Allred said he saw enormous growth from the program this spring. The Spartans won tournaments at Columbia City, Noblesville and Lawrence North as well as the South Side Sectional.
“We have a ton to be proud of across the season. We won a lot of really tough matchups,” Allred said. “They grew a ton across the season, and the things we were working on in practice they really tried to implement. They were great stewards of the sport and they all grew into incredible men.”
With a ‘closing statement,’ Missoula Loyola sweeps team titles
MISSOULA — It was nice to be home for the Missoula Loyola boys and girls track and field teams. Both squads pulled away for the team championships Saturday at the Class B state meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium. For the Breakers, it was redemption, as they won the title in 2023 and then […]
MISSOULA — It was nice to be home for the Missoula Loyola boys and girls track and field teams.
Both squads pulled away for the team championships Saturday at the Class B state meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium. For the Breakers, it was redemption, as they won the title in 2023 and then were the runners-up last spring.
“I think it’s definitely just some reassurance that even though we fell a little short last year, this year we come back stronger than ever,” said sophomore Sophia Berry, who won the 300-meter hurdles with a time of 45.05 seconds. “We wanted that win. It’s very reassuring to know that we’ve worked so hard to get here and that we did get it.”
Photos: 2025 Class B/C state track and field meet – Day 2
The Rams, meanwhile, won their first championship since 2005.
“It’s cool. I know the girls have had success in the past years, and we’ve kind of been right behind them,” said Ethan Stack, the boys winner in the triple jump with a mark of 43 feet, 3¾ inches. “Just for senior year, though, that’s cool to see, and to walk out with some of the girls in the senior team … we’ll always have that.”
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State B track: With a ‘closing statement,’ Missoula Loyola sweeps boys and girls team titles
Stack edged teammate Jack Clevenger for the triple jump title Saturday with Clevenger taking the lead on his final jump — a 43-10½ effort. Stack, though, popped off his championship-winning mark on his next and final attempt.
“I had to kind of one up him and stay competitive and just kind of compete with him,” Stack said. “But it’s an honor to do that with him.”
Stack also placed third in the high jump (6-4) on Saturday, and Loyola got another win from Jackson Kuiken in the 110-meter hurdles (15.36 seconds). As a team, the Rams scored 58 points to finish just ahead of rival Florence, which had 53. Columbus was third with 45 points, followed by Superior with 40 and Jefferson with 36. The Panthers had won the previous four team titles.
Superior got three event wins Saturday, with sophomore Landon Richards winning the high jump after clearing 6-6 and senior Trizten Avila winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes to go with his Friday win in the 400.
Avila was not the favorite in any of the sprints entering the meet, but he walked away with three gold medals and a Class B-record time of 22.0 seconds in the 200. He won the 100 in 11.24 seconds and the 400 in 50.05.
“Just sub-22, because I know our school record’s 22,” Avila said of his 200 goal. “And then after I heard that the Class B record was 22.07, I wanted it pretty bad.”
“It feels good. Lets me know that I can do it, and I’m able to perform,” he added.
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Superior’s Trizten Avila (center) wins the 100-meter dash at the Class B/C state track and field meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
Also on the boys track Saturday, Big Timber’s Caleb Stosich won the 300-meter hurdles in 39.55, and Joliet’s Auston Schellig added a win in the 1,600-meter run (4:24.35) after setting the Class B record in the 800 on Friday.
Columbus won the 400-meter relay in 43.43 seconds and Fairview closed the meet by winning the 1,600-meter relay in 3:25.01.
In the field, Luke Oxarart of Jefferson won the shot put with a throw of 48-07½ and Jesse Day of Eureka won the javelin with a personal-best throw of 180-11.
In addition to Berry’s win in the 300 hurdles, the Loyola girls swept the relays. They won the 400 with a time of 49.01 and the 1,600 with a 4:03.20.
“It’s like a closing statement, like it’s very secure and you know that the girls you just worked so hard with all season and what you’ve accomplished, it just showcases how hard you have worked together and appreciated being with each other,” said Berry, who ran the anchor leg of the meet-closing 1,600 relay.
Allison Gama gave the Breakers two more wins, earning first-place finishes in the 100-meter hurdles (14.8 seconds) and high jump (5-4).
Other winners in the field Saturday were Malta’s Denvyr Tuss in the shot put (37-8¼) and Huntley Project’s Avery Gerdes in the triple jump (37-0½).
Shepherd’s, meanwhile, swept the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
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Shepherd’s Kaimea Dalke (center) wins the 100-meter dash at the Class B/C state track and field meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
Dalke won the 100 in 12.4 seconds on Saturday, but the junior set the Class B record with a time of 12.24 seconds in Friday’s prelims.
“I low-key think that it was how I came out of my block starts,” Dalke said of the record-setting time. “I think I had a really strong start coming out of my blocks. I just don’t like losing, so I like to push myself to win, but I don’t know, it just happened.”
While the record was nice, Dalke said Saturday’s gold medal still meant more to her. And the increased competition at the state meet helped Dalke lower her times from the regular season.
She clocked a 25.33-second time in the 200.
“The nervousness that I get from it is definitely real, but I think that I run great off of adrenaline,” she said. “And having the girls that are just as fast as you around you, they push you to run faster. Actually, they’re a great support team, if that makes sense.”
Saturday’s other event winner was Natalie Hodgskiss of Choteau. The sophomore won the 1,600-meter run with a PR of 5:08.68, her second state championship in the event.
BVB5/25/2025 4:37 PM | By: Cal Athletics
Bear Pair Bring Home Hardware For Team USA
JUAN DOLIO, Dominican Republic – Third-seeded Portia Sherman and Emma Donley of the California beach volleyball team took home the gold medal this weekend at the U23 NORCECA Continental Tour in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. Representing […]
JUAN DOLIO, Dominican Republic – Third-seeded Portia Sherman and Emma Donley of the California beach volleyball team took home the gold medal this weekend at the U23 NORCECA Continental Tour in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. Representing Team USA, the two Golden Bears went 5-0 and did not lose a single set.
The tournament, which featured 15 pairs from 11 different countries, began on Friday with pool play. Sherman and Donley took down the host nation’s team of Zoe and Turdi in the opening match 21-8, 21-8 and followed with a 21-14, 21-12 win over Guatemala’s Aguilar and Monney to win the pool and advance to the quarterfinals.
On day two of the tournament, Cal’s court-one pair knocked off Rivera and Bruhier from Honduras 21-15, 21-9 to move on to the final four on Sunday.
On Sunday Sherman and Donley kicked off the morning with 21-12, 21-12 win over Silva and Brenes from Nicaragua to advance to the championship round where they would face the tournament’s top seed – Hancock and Cudmore of Canada. Pitted against the only other pair that had not lost a set all weekend, the Bears won in dominant fashion defeating the Canadian duo 21-14, 21-12 to claim the gold medal.
The Cal duo’s new hardware adds to an already historic 2025. During the collegiate season Sherman and Donley posted a 28-7 record on court one and became the first Bears in program history to be named AVCA First Team All-Americans. Their 28 wins were the most in a single season and both Bears reached the career milestone of 50 wins.
This was Sherman’s first international experience while Donley was named to the US Beach Collegiate National Team last season. The Bears were joined by assistant coach Dancer Styles.
Richey-Lambert girls, Manhattan Christian boys claim team titles
MISSOULA — If the University of Montana is looking for a jumper or sprinter to join its track and field program, consider this Montannah Piar’s pitch. “I’m going to attend the University of Montana as of right now, and I would love to do track and field there,” Piar said Saturday at the conclusion of […]
MISSOULA — If the University of Montana is looking for a jumper or sprinter to join its track and field program, consider this Montannah Piar’s pitch.
“I’m going to attend the University of Montana as of right now, and I would love to do track and field there,” Piar said Saturday at the conclusion of the Class C state track and field meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium, where she scored 30 points over the two-day event. “Hopefully my marks (Saturday) will push to get me on the team. If they don’t, then I’ll just come back stronger and prove to them that, yeah, I should have been on in the first place.
“And if, I mean, maybe if Montana State randomly comes out of nowhere, I’d go for that, too. But, I’d love to go run track for the Griz.”
Photos: 2025 Class B/C state track and field meet – Day 2
Piar got her first name from her parents’ love of the Treasure State — “I don’t know why it’s spelled like that, I’m going to be honest with you,” she quipped — and she moved here from Missouri when she was in middle school.
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If the Griz do end up reaching out to Piar, they’ll be contacting the Class C record-holder in the long jump. Piar, a senior at Granite County High School in Philipsburg, jumped 17-9½ on Friday to win the event.
On Saturday, she added second-place finishes in the triple jump (35-10¼) and 100-meter dash (12.73 seconds) and a fourth-place finish in the 200 (26.74 seconds). Piar’s performance helped Philipsburg, which had only four girls go out for track this spring, tie for second in the Class C team standings.
“It means a lot. We won (the Western C divisional meet) last weekend. We haven’t won divisionals in any sport in so very long — maybe football, but I don’t keep up with that,” Piar said. “I went into this week and also knowing that we have so much potential of placing, and I knew in order to get a plaque at the end of the weekend, I knew I’d have to finish higher than where I was ranked. … I mean, it’s a big thing for us to even go to state. It means a lot.”
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Philipsburg’s Montannah Piar competes in the triple jump at the Class C state track and field meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
Philipsburg also got points from Addi Lilyquist, who placed second in the 3,200-meter run and third in both the 800- and 1,600-meter runs. The Prospectors totaled 50 points, good enough to tie with Scobey for second and only two points behind team champion Richey-Lambert.
The Fusion got a big meet from Jolee Klempel, who won the 100-meter hurdles in 15.5 seconds and tied with Piar in the long jump. Klempel added a third-place finish in the shot put (35-11¼) and fourth-place effort in the triple jump (35-2½).
Brynne Hill won the triple for Richey-Lambert, marking a jump of 35-11¾ to edge Piar, and placed fourth in Friday’s long jump (16-6½). The Fusion also got an important third-place finish in the 400-meter relay, which Fort Benton won in a Class C-record time of 49.82 seconds.
Savage, which tied for the team championship last year, finished fourth with 40 points, 30 of which came from Cambry Conradsen on the track. The senior took the Warriors’ sprinting baton from former teammate Brooke Reuter, who won seven state championships in the 100 and 200 during her high school career from 2021 to 2024. Reuter is now competing at Montana State University.
Conradsen swept the 100- and 200-meter dashes Saturday, finishing in 12.64 and 25.64 seconds, respectively. She also won the 400 on Friday in 59.17 seconds.
“It’s just so great. I mean, I did not expect it, but I was hoping my year would be a little bit of a step up when (Reuter) would leave,” Conradsen said. “But she did so amazing, and she’s just a great sprinter, so I’m really proud of her. But I’m glad that I’m able to take over and just still take on what she put in and just be able to just keep going with it.”
“(Reuter) did a lot. She was my inspiration through track. She did amazing things and she helped me,” Conradsen added. “There’s just a lot she helped me with, just always being there and supporting me, and just making me feel like I’m a part of her team.
“I don’t know how to say it, but, like, she made me feel like I could do a lot more than I was putting in. And so coming into this year, I thought about that a lot, and just how Brooke would push me. Even if I did get second and she would get first, I was so proud of her. … She helped me want to do better and just be able to get to where she was at.”
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Savage’s Cambry Conradsen (center) wins the 100-meter dash at the Class C state track and field meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
Other girls winners on the track Saturday included Roberts’ TJ Chirrick in the 800 (2:19.18), Whitewater’s Shelbi LaBrie in the 3,200 (12:03.78) and Turner’s Ali Doyle in the 300 hurdles (45.26), while Belt won the 1,600-meter relay.
In the field, Seeley-Swan’s Lillian Boyd won the discus with a throw of 147 feet, 9 inches, and Kennedy Simonson of Whitewater won the javelin with a heave of 124-02.
On the boys side, Chester-Joplin-Inverness’ Dane Grammar picked up double gold medals in the throws. He won the shot put on Friday with a throw of 47-11 and followed it up with a discus win Saturday.
“It feels pretty good. That’s kind of been the goal all year,” Grammar said of winning both throwing events. “It started a little shaky, but it was kind of after later in the season I started realizing that I could probably do it, hopefully. And I ended up doing it, so it’s pretty cool.”
Grammar, who PR’d in the shot put on Friday, had some impressive discus throws in warmups but admitted he got in his head a little during competition. He still managed to mark a throw of 157-11, which was just four inches off his personal-best throw from a few weeks ago.
“I had a couple good ones. Some of them were kind of shaky, but, you know, they weren’t bad, so I can’t be mad about winning, I guess,” said Grammar, who is just a sophomore.
Another multiple-event winner for the boys was Johnslee Pierre of Lustre Christian. The junior won the long jump on Friday and then added a win in the triple jump on Saturday, just before he won the 300-meter hurdles.
“I’ve put in a lot of work before state — a lot of running, a lot of jumping during practice, and it shows,” said Pierre, who won the long jump with a mark of 21-11, the triple with a jump of 44-5¾ and the 300 hurdles in 39.55 seconds.
“It feels just like a 400, it hurts,” Pierre said of the grueling 300 hurdles, which he also won in 2023 as a freshman. “But I like the hurdles. Ever since I came (to Lustre Christian), my coach told me she thinks I should do the hurdles. Ever since then, I’ve been doing them.”
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Manhattan Christian’s Shaphan Hubner runs the anchor leg of the 1,600-meter relayat the Class C state track and field meet at Missoula County Public Schools Stadium on Saturday, May 24, 2025.
Manhattan Christian cruised to the boys team championship, scoring 75 points to outpace the field. Cascade was second with 57, and Valley Christian was third with 44.
The Eagles got another win from Shaphan Hubner on Saturday, as he took first in the 800-meter run after winning the 1,600 on Friday. Hubner clocked a time of 1:56.63 in the 800 and then ran a leg on Manhattan Christian’s winning 1,600-meter relay team. The Eagles finished in 3:26.93.
Plentywood’s Henry Kukowski swept the 100 and 200, winning in 11.29 and 22.29 seconds, respectively. Drummond’s Dawson Parke won the 3,200 in 10:11.40, Hot Springs’ David Chapman won the 110-meter hurdles in 14.8, and Valley Christian won the 400-meter relay in 43.98.
