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Budweiser and Miller’s bygone stake in Eph athletics – The Williams Record

Miller and Budweiser competed for space on the sports page. (Photo courtesy of Henry Hilton.) The year is 1982 and the old Lasell pool stands are packed. It seems like the entirety of campus has decided to show up for the club water polo game against Amherst. Why? Certainly not to watch high-level water polo. […]

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Miller and Budweiser competed for space on the sports page. (Photo courtesy of Henry Hilton.)

The year is 1982 and the old Lasell pool stands are packed. It seems like the entirety of campus has decided to show up for the club water polo game against Amherst. Why? Certainly not to watch high-level water polo. According to Will Andrew ’86, one of the day’s starters, almost none of the team members had ever played the sport before joining the team.

The reason was simple: alcohol. “[The team] put a keg up in the stands of the little old pool that they had at the time and everybody told everybody,” Andrew said. “So there were probably 50 people, but it looked like the place was rocking.”

According to Andrew, the team went on to win with 17 goals, nine of which he scored.

A four-inch by four-inch box in the following week’s Record commemorates both Andrew’s performance and the widespread hangovers the next morning. The box featured a picture of Andrew surrounded by the Budweiser crest and the message “Will, this bud’s for you.”

The “Budweiser ‘King of Beers’ Athlete of the Week” was an institution at the Record during the 1980s, highlighting the exceptional play of one student athlete each week. For every issue, a new athlete would be selected by the sports editors and a short blurb would highlight their success.

“It was actually a fairly easy process,” recalled John Clayton ’85, a former sports editor and later the editor-in-chief of the Record. “If someone scores three touchdowns or 30 points in a basketball game or a couple of hat tricks, that person is sort of the MVP.”

While the overt marketing of alcohol to 18 to 22-year-olds may seem unusual today, it was a product of its time, Clayton explained. “Alcohol was a much bigger factor in campus life than I think it is now,” he said.

In Clayton’s opinion, the social importance of alcohol was driven by a number of factors. “Marijuana was illegal, so in terms of party aides, alcohol was really it,” he said. Also, because the drinking age at the time was 20, juniors and seniors were of age. “Because it was a sort of half-and-half thing, there was a lot more tolerance of, for example, advertising alcohol in the paper,” Clayton said.

Alcohol companies knew about beer’s hold on the College. “With beer being such a big factor in student life, the beer companies wanted to harness that,” Clayton said.

Two companies made a hoppy splash on the pages of the Record: Miller and Budweiser. “I mean, it was sort of a duopoly with these two huge companies,” Clayton said.

The two firms competed fiercely. Budweiser and Miller fought tooth and nail to promote their product to the student body. To accomplish this goal, they waged a war of soft power from the inside out.

“They hired these campus reps … who tended to be big partiers on campus who would always be drinking Budweiser, and so it was sort of cool to be drinking Budweiser,” Clayton said.

If Budweiser had campus representatives, you can bet that Miller had them too. John Schafer ’87, Clayton’s colleague at the Record, had a Junior Advisor who was one of these representatives. “My JA [Paul Meeks ’85], was the Miller rep on campus,” Schafer said. “He had an illuminated Miller [sign] they put on this window that you’d see [from] a long way away.”

These representatives were staples of the community. “[Meeks was a] big time athlete: charming, he played football and lacrosse,” Schafer said. “He was funny and he was charismatic and that’s why Miller tapped him to be [their] rep.”

Despite having Meeks in its corner, Miller was up against tough competition. As Clayton recalled, Budweiser was generally considered to be the cooler beer.

A key way that the Budweiser reps sustained this reputation was the “Budweiser Athlete of the Week” title. Schafer recalls that the Budweiser reps pitched the concept to the Record and were responsible for making it work. “They passed a little bit of money [to the Record] to run it,” he explained.

“In Budweiser’s mind, the ‘Athlete of the Week’ ad was part of that victory [over Miller], because it was an incredibly popular feature in the paper,” Clayton said.

This designation meant something to the athletes, too. “You’d be sitting with the other folks on the team and say, ‘Well I’m the ‘Athlete of the Week’ … I get to sit at the head of the table,’” Andrew remembered.

Andrew is not the only athlete who recalled the pride associated with winning the title. “The [‘Athlete of the Week’] distinction came the same time that I was featured in the April 1988 edition of Sports Illustrated for being the first Black All-American in squash,” Wendell Chestnut ’88 said. “It was sort of like that 15 minutes of fame scenario.”

Faced with such a strong form of advertisement, Miller tried to strike back on the same page of the paper. “Miller was really jealous of [Budweiser’s dominance],” Clayton said. “And, during my time, Miller actually started a competing ad campaign … the Miller High Life scoreboard.”

The scoreboard was similar to the scores the Record currently features at the top of the sports page, except it almost exclusively highlighted wins for the College. This warm and fuzzy feeling that Miller was trying to evoke was meant to distract from Budweiser’s sponsorship of the “Athlete of the Week” column.

Despite the aggressive move, the Miller reps’ efforts were not enough to oust the “King of Beers” from its on-campus throne. “Because it was a scoreboard, [and because] it wasn’t focused on individuals, it didn’t seem to me that it was really drawing the same appeal that the ‘Athlete of the Week’ did,” Clayton said.

As the 1980s came to a close and the real Cold War fizzled out, the College’s cold beer war also went the way of the dinosaur. “In the late 1980s, when the drinking age went up to 21, those policies [of tolerance towards drinking] really changed,” Clayton said.

While alcohol is by no means gone from the College, its institutionalization in columns such as the Miller Scoreboard and the “Budweiser Athlete of the Week,” has been lost to time. By the 1990s, the title had been officially changed to simply “Athlete of the Week.”

As the influence of Miller and Budweiser has faded, the true meaning of the “Athlete of the Week” still shines through. “You knew Budweiser was a beer and Miller was a beer, but it was more the fact that it was the athlete of the week … You were more focused on the person and the sport,” Chestnut said.

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CIF-SS Track & Field Championships 2025 – The562.org

Tyler Hendrickson Tyler Hendrickson was born and raised in Long Beach, and started covering sports in his hometown in 2010. After five years as a sportswriter, Tyler joined the athletic department at Long Beach State University in 2015. He spent more than four years in the athletic communications department, working primarily with the Dirtbags baseball […]

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Tyler Hendrickson was born and raised in Long Beach, and started covering sports in his hometown in 2010. After five years as a sportswriter, Tyler joined the athletic department at Long Beach State University in 2015. He spent more than four years in the athletic communications department, working primarily with the Dirtbags baseball program. Tyler also co-authored of The History of Long Beach Poly: Scholars & Champions.

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Santa Barbara High Boys Volleyball Defeated in Five Sets by Sage Hill in CIF-SS Division Four Championship Match

With the CIF Southern Section Division 4 Championship Plaque at its fingertips the Santa Barbara High boys’ volleyball team had no answer for Sage Hill and its superstar outside hitter Jackson Cryst. The visiting Lightning took control in the decisive fifth set behind Cryst’s dominance and captured a 15-25, 25-14, 18-25, 25-20, 15-8 victory on […]

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The visiting Lightning took control in the decisive fifth set behind Cryst’s dominance and captured a 15-25, 25-14, 18-25, 25-20, 15-8 victory on Saturday afternoon at J.R. Richards Gymnasium.

“To get here is quite an accomplishment, but to win it is even harder,” said Santa Barbara High coach Chad Arneson. “Give our boys a lot of credit they played hard. Unfortunately it wasn’t one of our best overall team performances, but I’m so proud of these boys.”

The Dons advanced to the CIF-SS Division 4 Championship games despite finishing third in the Channel League. Santa Barbara has thrived in the playoffs as a balanced unit with nearly equal contributions coming from everyone on the floor.

Senior Benicio Duarte sophomore Hayes Costner led the way for Santa Barbara offensively with 12 kills apiece.

“I’m proud of our guys. We did not look this good at the start of the season,” said Santa Barbara High senior defensive specialist Jack Goligoski, who finished with a team-high three aces . “This whole playoff run, we’ve kind of found our lineup and everyone’s just stepped up and played great team volleyball. We don’t have any real standouts, but we always play really well together.”

Santa Barbara was dominant in the opening set, including a 5-1 run capped off by a Costner kill for the final point. However, Sage Hill flipped the script in set 2, jumping out to a 17-7 lead and evened the match at one set apiece after an electric ace serve by Cryst.

Sage Hill humped out to a 4-0 lead in set three after a Santa Barbara hitting error, but the Dons quickly recovered and tied the set at 6-6 on a kill by Kristian Dybdahl.

The momentum shift was evident as a Luke Zuffelato kill increased the Santa Barbara lead to 19-13. A dump by Santa Barbara setter Chase Holdren brought the Dons to set point at 24-18 and Santa Barbara clinched the set on a Sage Hill hitting error.

Set four was tight throughout as a solo block by Zuffelato cut the Santa Barbara deficit to 22-20 and forced a Sage Hill timeout.

Luke Zuffelato and Jackson Cryst meet at the net. Photo Credit: Gary Kim

Cryst delivered a powerful spike out of the timeout to give Sage Hill a 23-20 lead and the Lightning went on to force a fifth and final set after an ace serve by Ethan McNutt.

In set five, a kill by Costner cut the Santa Barbara deficit to 7-6, but a Cryst kill gave Sage Hill a 9-7 lead and forced a Santa Barbara time out.

After the break Sage Hill closed the match on a 6-1 run, including three powerful kills by Cryst and a solo block that gave the lightning a 14-8 lead. Sage Hill clinched set five and the CIF-SS Championship on a Santa Barbara hitting error.

Cryst, who is committed to play college volleyball for reigning NCAA Division 1 National Champions Long Beach State, had six kills in the fifth set.

“We definitely rely on him, but the others that contributed absolutely made an impact and made his job easier,” said Sage Hill coach Jordan Hoppe of Cryst. “Obviously he is very talented and has incredible gifts, but without the other guys we don’t win a title.”

The victory clinched back-to-back CIF-SS Championships for Sage Hill as the Lightning won in Division 5 last season.

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El Toro boys volleyball completes hard climb by winning Division 6 title – Orange County Register

NORWALK — Just two years removed from a 1-23 season, the El Toro boys volleyball team reached the summit and made school history in the process. The Chargers capped a sensational turnaround Saturday with a victory over Quartz Hill in four sets, 17-25, 28-26, 25-21, 25-19, in the Division 6 final at Cerritos College. It is […]

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NORWALK — Just two years removed from a 1-23 season, the El Toro boys volleyball team reached the summit and made school history in the process.

The Chargers capped a sensational turnaround Saturday with a victory over Quartz Hill in four sets, 17-25, 28-26, 25-21, 25-19, in the Division 6 final at Cerritos College.

It is the first CIF-SS boys volleyball championship for El Toro.

El Toro coach Sean Dixon, in his third-year at the helm, reflected on the journey that saw his team go from nearly worst to first.

““To be the first program to do it at El Toro and really to be a program that started at the bottom and made it to the top,” Dixon said, “obviously we have state next week, but, you know, they’re going to remember this for the rest of their lives. And it’s going to be such a good experience that they look back on fondly.”

Senior outside hitter Ryan Lim collected a match-high 24 kills and 14 digs for El Toro (18-15), which was the No. 2 seed in Division 6.

Senior Jeremy Gould finished with 12 kills,12 digs and three aces and Ziyuan Liu added 10 kills. Senior setter Moses Kim had 52 assists while controlling the action while Ben Earnsahw and Colin Fletcher provided key plays in crucial moments.

The Royals (27-13) took the opening set thanks to their middle blocker, Joseph Bonner, who had four kills in the set. Quartz Hill also tallied six total blocks at the net.

“I think we were all a little bit nervous and to be fair, I think that is a good thing,” Dixon said. “But it was really nothing new for us. This is, I want to say, the fourth match in a row where we’ve been down a set at a certain point.”

Lim shared his thoughts on the pregame and opening-set jitters as well.

“I was feeling it myself, the entire bus ride here, to be honest,” Lim said. “Yeah, I was walking here, and my hands were shaking and everything. First set, my chest was tight and everything, and I guarantee you, the other guys were feeling it too. But, you know, once we get in our rhythm, we ball out.”

“I give credit to our two captains, Moses Kim and Ben Earnshaw, for really just keeping the guys calm on the court,” Dixon said. “Li bringing everyone in after every point. I think that was just the biggest difference.”

The Chargers fought off a set-point opportunity for the Royals in the second set, on a swing by Earnshaw, then after a service error , found themselves in danger of going down 2-0 in the match once again.

Lim’s kill and Fletcher’s ace gave El Toro a chance at their own set point, which Gould helped win, 28-26, after a long rally and a tough swing at the pin.

“We just kind of got fired up after that (first set),” Gould said. “We’re like, ‘We can’t let this be our last play, you know? We gotta just bring all we have.”

Dixon praised Lim’s play, especially as the match progressed. Lim had eight kills in the second set, five in the third and six in the fourth.

“He’s just one of those guys that gets stronger as the game goes on,” Dixon said.

Dixon took one final introspective glance at his team’s journey and described the joy it brought him.

“I’m more happy for the guys because it’s really tough to win only one match (in 2023) and really just to stay positive after you’re basically losing every game,” he said. “I’m just so happy for them. You know, they really worked hard. I just remember them being young sophomores who really just got their first taste of varsity. A lot of them didn’t play JV, it’s just incredible.”

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John Burroughs’ Shaan Patel finishes as Class 3 singles champ to cap reclaimed season

By Bill Hester, Special to the Post-Dispatch Eureka senior Rocco Regnier had two words to describe his opponent in the Class 3 singles championship match of the Missouri boys tennis state championships. “Too good,” Regnier said Saturday after falling 6-0, 6-1 to John Burroughs junior Shaan Patel at Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield. Patel has shown the […]

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By Bill Hester, Special to the Post-Dispatch

Eureka senior Rocco Regnier had two words to describe his opponent in the Class 3 singles championship match of the Missouri boys tennis state championships.

“Too good,” Regnier said Saturday after falling 6-0, 6-1 to John Burroughs junior Shaan Patel at Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield.

Patel has shown the country his abilities, as he reached the No. 1 position nationally in the boys 16 division of the United States Tennis Association (USTA).

It appeared for much of the season that the southpaw would not be able to show off his skills in his own state as he was originally declared ineligible by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA).

“I got a call on a Tuesday afternoon about two or three weeks before districts that I was eligible,” said Patel, who recently committed to play at Columbia University in New York City. “I was super surprised and super happy.”

Patel lost just six games in his four matches this weekend in winning his second state singles title. He won as a freshman in 2023 before playing golf last fall.

“I thought this match was my best one for sure here,” said Patel of his win against Regnier, who had given him his biggest challenge two years ago. “I struggled with the wind a little earlier. Today I felt I was able to dictate the points more, and I didn’t have too many unforced errors.”

Regnier played well overall and had some highlight-level points, but he was only able to capture the second game of the second set. The match ended on a service winner by Patel which Regnier barely got his racket on.

“It was good to come back and win again,” Patel said. “But one of the big reasons I wanted to come back was to win as a team. The hardest part of tennis is that it is just you against your opponent. Being on a team is another aspect of tennis that I like. We have a very good team which has a chance to do well next weekend.”

The state team tournament will be played next Friday and Saturday in Springfield.

John Burroughs had a pair of doubles teams which medaled at state. Evan Tang and Jerry Chang finished second while Jasper Schmidt and Avi Patel were fourth.

Both teams lost to eventual champions Bobby King and Henry Stevens of Rockhurst. The win by King, who won state singles last year, and Stevens prevented a St. Louis sweep at individual state this year.

Clayton won both the singles and doubles titles Friday in Class 1. MICDS did the same in Class 2.

Marquette had medalists in both singles and doubles. Arnab Chakraborty was sixth in singles while Sreeyash Peyyeti and Ryan Prys were fifth in doubles.

Two doubles teams from the Gateway Athletic Conference found themselves on the podium Saturday.

Fort Zumwalt West’s Tanner Reese and Tristan Vaughan were seventh, and Francis Howell’s Wesley Troyer and Aaron Burzynski were eighth.

Francis Howell North’s Kai Gustafson and Jace Jameson was the only team to win a set against doubles champions King and Stevens.

Area state medalists

1. Shaan Patel, John Burroughs

6. Arnab Chakraborty, Marquette

2. Evan Tang-Jerry Chang, John Burroughs

4. Jasper Schmidt-Avi Patel, John Burroughs

5. Sreeyash Peyyeti-Ryan Prys, Marquette

7. Tanner Reese-Tristan Vaughan, Fort Zumwalt West

8. Wesley Troyer-Aaron Burzynski, Francis Howell

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Connor Koski lifts El Camino Real to City Section boys’ volleyball title

It was fitting Connor Koski clinched El Camino Real’s championship with a block on match point in Saturday night’s City Section Open Division boys volleyball final at Birmingham High in Lake Balboa. “I timed my jump and I thought it was going out but I guess it hit [an opposing player’s] foot on the way […]

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“I timed my jump and I thought it was going out but I guess it hit [an opposing player’s] foot on the way down,” said an exuberant Koski, who moved from middle blocker to opposite hitter before the playoffs. “I asked [coach Alyssa Lee] to switch me and it worked.”

El Camino Real’s triumph culminated in a 25-21, 25-20, 20-25, 25-21 victory over top-seeded Venice, but the title was four years in the making. Eleven of the Royals’ 12 players are seniors.

“We’re all friends, we all trust each other, and it’s a dream come true to win a championship in one of our last matches together,” said Tyler Lee, who paced the squad with 14 kills. “We’ve lost our share of five setters, so we wanted to end this thing in four.”

Connor Koski hammers a kill over Venice's Sam Engelen in boys volleyball.

Koski, El Camino Real’s lone junior, had eight kills, including one to end the second set. Dev Vunnam and Christian Romero also each had eight kills, Jackson Riepe had seven and Nicolas Gerola served four aces, the first of which gave El Camino Real the first set.

The third-seeded Royals (27-13) got hot at the right time and avenged a pair of West Valley League losses to Chatsworth by ending the Chancellors’ bid for a third straight Open title with a shocking 25-23, 25-16, 25-22 semifinal upset Tuesday.

“I’ve known this group since their freshman year and I’ve push them hard in practice to prepare them for those situations,” said Lee, who understands the intensity of every match in the West Valley League, having played libero for Granada Hills before graduating in 2009. “The physical talent is there but the mental training is so important. You have to stay focused and can’t let up.”

Lee coached the boys to the Division I title in 2016 (the Open Division debuted in 2018) and guided the girls to the Open championship in 2023. She also has coached the girls to two beach volleyball crowns.

El Camino Real’s (left to right) Christian Romero, Connor Koski and Jackson Riepe celebrate a match point.

“The first two times we played Chatsworth I just let the boys play but I game-planned a lot for the semifinals,” Lee said. “We needed a big guy on the right like Connor to block and get some kills.”

Trailing by four points early in the third set and in danger of being swept, the Gondoliers (36-6) used an 8-0 run to surge into the lead and finished it on Nathan Hoggatt’s emphatic kill. Noah Smith had 10 kills for Venice, last year’s Division I champion.

Something had to give as Venice entered on an 11-match winning streak dating back to April 21 (dropping only one set in the process) while El Camino Real had won five consecutive matches and 15 straight sets since April 9.

In Saturday’s Division II final, hitter Izac Garcia helped Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences take home its first City title after a 20-25, 25-22, 25-21, 25-15 triumph over Mendez, which was seeking its first crown since back-to-back Division III championships in 2021-22.

Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences players celebrate after defeating Mendez.

Hamilton, last year’s Division V champion, moved up to Division IV and beat Port of LA for the championship. In Division V, Wilson downed Harbor Teacher for its first-ever title.

On the same floor Friday, top-seeded Taft captured its seventh section crown, sixth in Division I and first since 2015 with its 25-10, 25-20, 25-17 sweep of No. 2 Carson. Arman Mercado, who took over the girls’ program in 2000 and the boys two years later, coached the girls to their first Open Division title in the fall and has guided the Toreadors to 22 finals appearances.

East Valley swept Maywood CES for the Division III title — the Falcons’ first in boys volleyball.

Also on Friday, Mira Costa outlasted Huntington Beach in five sets in a South Bay showdown for the Southern Section Division 1 championship at Cerritos College. The top-seeded Mustangs prevailed, 25-19, 22-25, 25-19, 29-31, 15-11, behind 25 kills from Grayson Bradford — the last from the right side to end the match.

Mateo Fuerbringer added 17 kills for Mira Costa, which fell in three sets to Loyola in the finals last spring. Logan Hutnick led the charge for the second-seeded Oilers, who staved off four championship points in a wild fourth set. It was the Mustangs’ ninth section title and first since 2021.

Mater Dei rallied to beat Peninsula 20-25, 25-17, 25-13, 25-19 in Division 2.

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Women's Golf Completes Round Two at NCAA Championships

CARLSBAD, Calif. – The No. 14 Ole Miss women’s golf team shot a 303 (+15) Saturday during the second round of the NCAA Championships and sits in 25th place after 36 holes at Omni La Costa’s North Course. The Rebels are 28-over (604) through the first two rounds of play in Carlsbad, California. Following Sunday’s third round, […]

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Women's Golf Completes Round Two at NCAA Championships

CARLSBAD, Calif. – The No. 14 Ole Miss women’s golf team shot a 303 (+15) Saturday during the second round of the NCAA Championships and sits in 25th place after 36 holes at Omni La Costa’s North Course.

The Rebels are 28-over (604) through the first two rounds of play in Carlsbad, California.

Following Sunday’s third round, the field will be cut to the top 15 teams and the top nine individuals of non-advancing teams for Monday. Monday’s fourth round of stroke play will take place, at which point the 2025 individual national champion will be crowned. Following the fourth round, the field will be cut to the top eight teams who will move on to match play beginning Tuesday morning, which will be seeded in order of finish in stroke play.

Kajsalotta Svarvar once again led the way for the Rebels, shooting a second round 1-over (73) and is tied for 24th place at 1-over (145) through two rounds. The freshman from Halmstad, Sweden, made par on the first five holes before making birdie at the par-5, No. 6. After a bogey on No. 9, Svarvar rebounded with a birdie right after the turn at No. 10. Svarvar stumbled on halfway through the back nine with a bogey and double bogey, but finished her round with a birdie at No. 18. All three of Svarvar’s birdie during round two came on par-5s.

Sophie Linder and Nicole Gal both shot 5-over (77) on Saturday during second round of action for the Rebels. Linder is 6-over (150) for the tournament and is in 80th place. Linder was superb thru the first nine holes on Saturday, sitting at 2-under at the turn. Linder would go on to make bogey on seven of her final eight holes to finish the day with a 77. Gal is currently in 129th place at 11-over (155).

Caitlyn Macnab was another counting score for the Rebels with a second round 76 (+4). Macnab is tied for 137th 156 (+12) headed into Sunday’s third round.

Rounding out the Rebel lineup in California was Filippa Sundquist. Sundquist ended her day with an 83 (+11) to sit tied for 148th overall.

The Rebels’ third round from Carlsbad is set to tee off beginning at 3:07 p.m. CT Sunday morning on hole 10.

For all Ole Miss women’s golf latest news and information, follow the Rebels on Twitter at @OleMissWGolf, on Instagram at OleMissWGolf and on Facebook at Ole Miss Women’s Golf. General athletic news can also be found at @OleMissSports on Twitter, Ole Miss Sports on Facebook, and OleMissAthletics on Instagram.

THE REBELS
T24. Kajsalotta Svarvar: 72-73—145 (+1)
T80. Sophie Linder: 73-77—150 (+6)
T129. Nicole Gal: 78-77—155 (+11)
T137. Caitlyn Macnab: 80-76—156 (+12)
T148. Filippa Sundquist: 78-83—161 (+17)

TEAM LEADERBOARD
1. #1 Stanford: 293-278—571 (-5)
2. #11 Northwestern: 291-285—576 (E)
3. #5 Oregon: 288-289—577 (+1)
T4. #9 USC: 292-287—579 (+3)
T4. #4 Florida State: 295-284—579 (+3)
6. #18 Mississippi State: 294-286—580 (+4)
T7. #6 Texas: 288-293—581 (+5)
T7. #25 Oklahoma State: 284-297—581 (+5)
9. #8 Arizona State: 288-294—582 (+6)
10. #3 South Carolina: 297-286—583 (+7)
T11. #10 Virginia: 294-293—587 (+11)
T11. #2 Arkansas: 297-290—587 (+11)
T13. #24 Vanderbilt: 282-306—588 (+12)
T13. #31 Tennessee: 291-297—588 (+12)
T15. #22 Florida: 288-301—589 (+13)
T15. #28 UCLA: 295-294—589 (+13)
T17. #12 LSU: 293-297—590 (+14)
T17. #27 Kansas State: 289-301—590 (+14)
19. #13 Ohio State: 295-297—592 (+16)
20. #23 Michigan State: 294-303—597 (+21)
21. #33 Oklahoma: 302-297—599 (+23)
22. #29 Iowa State: 306-294—600 (+24)
23. #21 Kansas: 297-304—601 (+25)
24. #7 Wake Forest: 304-298—602 (+26)
25. #14 Ole Miss: 301-303—604 (+28)
T26. #37 Baylor: 296-311—607 (+31)
T26. #41 Purdue: 303-304—607 (+31)
28. #32 Georgia Southern: 295-313—608 (+32)
29. CSU Fullerton: 308-301—609 (+33)
30. #35 UNLV: 310-301—611 (+35)