Chaisilprungruang, the AAC Golfer of the Year and Freshman of the Year, finished the season ranked as the 46th individual golfer in the national D1 Player Rankings. She collected three AAC Golfer of the Week awards and was named AAC Golfer of the Month for September. She has finished in the top 10 in every event this season leading up to the NCAA Regionals including six top five finishes. Her 203 (-13) at the Daniel Island Invitational set a program record for 54 holes and tied the school’s single-round low score with a 66. She recorded the best single-season stroke average in program history at 71.31 and now becomes the first Niner to be named to the All-American team.

The Women’s Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women’s collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 750 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.  

WGCA All-American First Team

Carla Bernat, Kansas State University

Carolina Chacarra, Wake Forest University

Megha Ganne, Stanford University

Eila Galitsky, University of South Carolina

Jasmine Koo, University of Southern California

Maria José Marin, University of Arkansas

Paula Martín Sampedro, Stanford University

Meja Örtengren, Stanford University

Andrea Revuelta, Stanford University

Kiara Romero, University of Oregon

Mirabel Ting, Florida State University

Lottie Woad, Florida State University

 

Second Team

Hannah Darling, University of South Carolina

Anna Davis, Auburn University

Kary Hollenbaugh, The Ohio State University

Lauren Kim, University of Texas

Marie Eline Madsen, North Carolina State University

Farah O’Keefe, University of Texas

Catherine Park, University of Southern California

Patience Rhodes, Arizona State University

Louise Rydqvist, University of South Carolina

Amanda Sambach, University of Virginia

Rocío Tejedo, Louisiana State University

Kendall Todd, University of Arkansas

Suvichaya Vinijchaitham, University of Oregon

Kelly Xu, Stanford University

Honorable Mention Team

Brooke Biermann, Michigan State University

Vanessa Borovilos, Texas A&M University

Pinky Chaisilprungruang, Charlotte

Lauren Clark, University of Kansas

Beth Coulter, Arizona State University

Cayetana Fernández García-Poggio, Texas A&M University

Cindy Hsu, University of Texas

Grace Kilcrease, Oklahoma State University

 

Naya Howard will spend the remainder of her college gymnastics career at Michigan State after three stellar years at Georgia. She took a parting shot at her former program and first-year head coach Cecile Canqueteau-Landi on the way to East Lansing.

It is unclear as to what exactly she was trying to say with the cryptic statement but it does not reflect well on the Bulldogs!

Howard, a certified star in college gym, immediately burst onto the scene as the top freshman overall finisher at the SEC Championship in 2023. The 5-foot-6 all-around competitor was limited as a sophomore due to injury but she rallied back as Georgia’s highest vault scorer at Regionals in 2024.

Michigan State hockey has seen a meteoric rise over the past couple of years and that’s all thanks to Adam Nightingale and the fact that he is taking this job seriously and has national title aspirations.

Since taking over at Michigan State, Nightingale is 69-35-9 which may not seem all that impressive, but when you consider he went 18-18-2 in his first season with the program, it’s that much more eye-opening. He’s 51-17-7 over the past two seasons with back-to-back Big Ten regular-season and tournament titles. The Spartans are 31-11-6 in the Big Ten in that span.

And it feels like the Spartans are only getting better each offseason.

In fact, Michigan State may have been bounced way earlier than expected in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, but it will return arguably the best goaltender in college ice hockey (Trey Augustine) as well as the Hobey Baker Award winner, Isaac Howard.

On top of that, the Spartans have added plenty of pro-caliber talent to the roster this offseason and both Howard and Nightingale are coming off a gold medal at the IIHF World Championships.

The momentum is on Michigan State’s side.

Don’t believe me? Just check out these “never too early” top 25 projections that were posted on Twitter and have been gaining some traction this week.

U.S. gymnastics legend Mary Lou Retton faces a DUI charge after being arrested earlier this month in Marion County, W.Va.

According to Magistrate Court of Marion County records, Retton was arrested May 17 and charged with a misdemeanor count of driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs. She was released after posting a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, the court records show.

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Retton’s attorney declined to comment on the matter when reached by The Times.

Born in Fairmont, W.Va., Retton, 57, rose to household-name status during the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, when she became the first U.S. gymnast to win Olympic gold in the all-around competition, edging Romania’s Simona Pauca by five-tenths of a point.

Read more: Mary Lou Retton was 4 feet, 9 inches of muscle and grit, claiming the ’84 Games as her own

Retton sealed the gold medal by earning perfect scores on her final two exercises, floor and vault, much to the delight of the crowd at Pauley Pavilion and millions of TV viewers around the country. During those Games, she won five medals, also including silvers for team all-around and vault, and bronzes for floor and uneven bars.

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On Oct. 10, 2023, Retton’s daughter, McKenna Kelley, revealed that her mother had “a very rare form of pneumonia” and was “fighting for her life” in intensive care without being covered by medical insurance.

“She is not able to breathe on her own,” Kelley wrote in the description of a fundraiser that has raised nearly $500,000 to help cover Retton’s medical costs.

Read more: Mary Lou Retton explains why she couldn’t afford health insurance during pneumonia scare

On Oct. 23, 2023, Kelley wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post that Retton was “HOME & in recovery mode.”

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Retton said she was “not great yet” when she spoke about her ordeal and ongoing recovery with NBC News’ Hoda Kotb in January 2024.

“I don’t know how long I’ll indefinitely need the oxygen,” Retton said while gesturing toward her nasal tube, “but you have no idea how blessed and how grateful I was for this holiday season.”

Read more: Jordan Chiles once thought she was ‘ugly.’ Now she’s proud to be SI Swimsuit cover model

Retton also addressed why she didn’t have health insurance at the time of her medical emergency.

“When COVID hit after my divorce, and all my preexisting — I mean, I’ve had over 30 operations, orthopedic stuff — I couldn’t afford it,” she said.

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Former St. Cloud State softball player Jamie Trachsel has led Ole Miss to its first Women’s College World Series. Ole Miss beat fourth-ranked Arkansas 7-4 on Sunday, May 25.

Sunday’s win gave the Rebels a best-of-three series win over Arkansas to win the Fayetteville Super Regional.

The Rebels (42-19) play 12th-ranked Texas Tech (50-12) at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 29 (ESPN2) in the opening round of the eight-team, double elimination tournament being held at OGE Energy Field at Devon Park in Oklahoma City.

Trachsel is in her fifth season at Ole Miss and has led the Rebels to a 182-115 record. In 2023, she became the fastest Ole Miss softball coach to earn her 100th victory (159 games).

Trachsel became the sixth head coach at Ole Miss after three seasons as the head coach at the University of Minnesota. She led the Golden Gophers to a 102-40-1 record and to the 2019 Women’s College World Series.

Before she coached the Gophers, Trachsel was the head coach at Iowa State (2017) and 14 seasons on the coaching staff at North Dakota State, including six as head coach (221-109).

Trachsel played third base and catcher for St. Cloud State from 1998-2001, earning NCAA Division II North Central Region All-Tournament Team honors in 1999 and earned NFCA Academic Award honors in 1999 and 2000. She helped the Huskies win 127 games in her college career.

Trachsel earned a bachelor’s degree in sports management with minors in coaching and human relations from St. Cloud State in 2001. She added a Master of Education degree in athletics administration from North Dakota State in 2006.

Before getting to SCSU, she earned seven varsity letters in four sports at Duluth Central High School. She is also a nine-time national champion in racquetball (1988-93 and 2003-05).

ANDERSON, S.C. – The Adrian College bass fishing team competed in the 2025 Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship presented by Bass Pro Shops over the weekend. The Bulldogs’ top performance came from the duo of Derek Rodriguez and Brady Osborn, who secured a sixth-place finish.

Rodriguez and Osborn posted a total weight of 29.46 pounds over two days. Their impressive day-one total of 17.96 pounds led the 188-boat field.

Other Adrian teams also had strong showings. Nick Seitz and Nick Owens placed 55th with a total weight of 22.71 pounds. Braylon Eggerding and Brady Pinwar finished 60th with 22.51 pounds, followed closely by Mitchell Straffon and Quade Lobo, who landed 21.20 pounds to place 69th. Jerry Brumbaugh Jr. and Paxton Giem rounded out the Adrian boats with a total of 17.34 pounds, earning them 132nd place.

The Bulldogs return to action May 30–31 for the third Lunkers Division competition of the season in Dayton, Tennessee.