NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—CSUN Track & Field’s junior Jay Louison-Roe received Academic All-District Team honors by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) on June 24. 

The CSC academic awards programs recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The academic qualifications for the distinction are a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average. Nominated student-athletes must be ranked in the top-50 in the region in a single event (indoor or outdoor). Select Academic All-District honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees in four divisions – NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III and NAIA – will be announced in July. 

Originally from Heathcote, NSW, Australia, Louison-Roe had an outstanding first season with CSUN in 2025 after transferring from the University of Louisiana-Monroe. Louison-Roe would claim the triple jump title at the 2025 Big West Outdoor Championships, earning his first career conference crown of his career. His championship winning leap went for 15.67m (51-5), which set a personal record and ranked as the 10th-best in school history. Louison-Roe qualified for the NCAA West First Round for the first time in his collegiate career where he finished 31st overall with a leap of 15.37m (50-5.25). 

During the indoor season, Louison-Roe was fourth at the MPSF Indoor Championships in February with a leap of 14.72m (48-3.5). He would have a season-best leap in the triple of 15.32m (50-3.25), which ranked seventh-best in program history. 

An Economics major at CSUN, Louison-Roe claimed his first career CSC Academic All-District award this season. 

College Sports Communicators began the distinguished Academic All-America® program in 1952, and since then, has honored more than 38,000 deserving student-athletes from numerous sports across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – – Belmont University volleyball head coach Fritz Rosenberg released the program’s fall schedule Friday. 

The Bruins will face five Top 100 opponents from a year ago and have 14 regular season home matches at the Curb Event Center. 

“We’re thrilled to announce our fall schedule,” Rosenberg said. “There has been a great deal of anticipation surrounding the upcoming season and we cannot wait to embrace the challenge in front of us. Playing in Nashville three of the first four weeks of the season provides the opportunity to build momentum and confidence. Our non-conference schedule is designed to prepare us for the rigors of Missouri Valley Conference play – and peak come November. I’ve enjoyed building relationships with our players over the past few months and look forward to what lies ahead.” 

After an exhibition match at Chattanooga Aug. 23, Belmont will be part of college volleyball history Aug. 29 at Vanderbilt. It will mark the first volleyball match for Vanderbilt in 45 years. 

The match will be played outdoors on Wyatt Lawn at the Vanderbilt University campus. 

The Bruins then host five consecutive home matches – including Big East Conference member Seton Hall and former Ohio Valley Conference rivals UT Martin and Tennessee State. 

Belmont heads to the capital district of New York Sept. 12-13 for matches against Columbia, Stonehill, and host Siena. 

The Battle of the Boulevard series is renewed Sept. 19 as Belmont plays at Lipscomb. 

Belmont concludes non-conference play Sept. 20 vs. UC Irvine. 

The 16-match Missouri Valley Conference schedule commences Sept. 25 vs. Murray State. 

Other notable dates include a three-match homestand vs. Southern Illinois, Illinois State, and Indiana State Oct. 4-10 and the regular season finale Nov. 15 vs. defending conference champion and NCAA Round of 32 participant Northern Iowa. 

The 2025 MVC Tournament will take place Nov. 19-25. 

Belmont Volleyball season tickets, single-match tickets and group experiences are on sale now at 615-460-2255 and BelmontBruins.com. 

 

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Winners of its fifth consecutive WAC Commissioner’s Cup, Grand Canyon excelled outside of sports competition as well with 130 spring and freshman/transfer student-athletes honored on the Academic All-WAC list. 

This announcement follows the winter release, where 56 GCU student-athletes earned Academic All-WAC honors. That brings the university’s 2024-25 total to 275 recipients of academic honors. 

The spring sport All-WAC Academic list includes Lopes from baseball, softball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s outdoor track and field, women’s outdoor track and field, men’s golf and women’s golf. The freshman/transfer Academic All-WAC report includes all sports throughout the academic year. 

To qualify for the Academic All-WAC Team, student-athletes must have posted a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher, completed at least one academic year at the institution and participated in at least 50% of their teams’ competitions.

GCU’s spring Academic All-WAC honorees

Baseball (7)

• Emilio Barreras, junior
• Elijah Higginbottom, junior
• Chance Key, junior
• Isaac Lyon, junior
• Eli Paton, graduate
• Cannon Peery, sophomore
• Walter Quinn, senior

Softball (18)

• Taryn Batterton, junior
• Emily Darwin, senior
• Willa Ford, freshman
• Meghan Golden, senior
• Emily Gonzalez, junior
• Lovey Kepa’a, senior
• Savannah Kirk, sophomore
• Tinley Lucas, sophomore
• Sydney McCray, junior
• Mackenzie Nolan, sophomore
• Maggie Place, sophomore
• Alina Satcher, sophomore
• Macie Selfors, freshman
• Oakley Vickers, freshman
• Mia Weckel, graduate
• Briah Williams, freshman
• Haley Wolsky, sophomore
• Arianna Wright, junior

Men’s tennis (2)

• Andreas Loizas, freshman
• Paolo Rosati, junior

Women’s tennis (3)

• Gala Arangio, sophomore
• Dania Deaifi, junior
• Valentina Del Marco, senior

Men’s outdoor track and field (20)

• Strider Aston, freshman
• Rayan Belkheir, freshman
• Michael Conley, freshman
• Tristen Coyle, sophomore
• Michael Cunningham, junior
• Joshua Gittens, graduate
• Grant Hagaman, senior
• Matthew Hamilton, freshman
• Blayk Kelton, sophomore
• Conner Kittleson, junior
• Germaine Lemaitre, senior
• Francisco Marques, sophomore
• Daviciea McCartney, graduate
• Ben Moffett, junior
• Ryan Norton, junior
• Alex Rafferty, senior
• Miguel Rosario III, junior
• Jack Sindt, freshman
• Casey Tow, senior
• Cam Wilmington, graduate

Women’s outdoor track and field (21)

• Selah Akers, freshman
• Kennedy Benjamins, freshman
• Taliyah Booker, senior
• Camdyn Bruner, graduate
• Madison Gawthorp, graduate
• Madyson Goodman, freshman
• Taylor Hansen, freshman
• Eva Johnson, freshman
• Michaela Lewis, graduate
• Elli Ochoa, sophomore
• Madelyn Palmer, freshman
• Regan Parnell, sophomore
• Atena Rayson, senior
• Aaliya Rifort-Delem, graduate
• Treasure Rinaldi, junior
• Jazmine Scott, graduate
• Amanda Thrue, senior
• Hannah Watson, senior
• Jade Williams, freshman
• Megan Williams, junior

Men’s golf (4)

• Kiko Coelho, senior
• Matthew Diehl, freshman
• Gavin O’Neill, sophomore
• Tommaso Zorzetto, graduate

Women’s golf (5)

• Anci Dy, senior
• Jess Haines, sophomore
• Brenna Preap, sophomore
• Calynne Rosholt, senior
• Lena Tremouille, junior

GCU’s freshman/transfer Academic All-WAC honorees  

Women’s basketball (1)

• Ale’jah Douglas, graduate

Men’s indoor track and field (7)

• Rayan Belkheir, freshman
• Michael Conley, freshman
• Joshua Gittens, graduate
• Matthew Hamilton, freshman
• Justin Raines, senior
• Miguel Rosario III, junior
• Cam Wilmington, graduate

Women’s indoor track and field (9)

• Kennedy Benjamins, freshman
• Taliyah Booker, senior
• Taylor Hanson, freshman
• Michaela Lewis, graduate
• Aaliyah Rifort-Delem, graduate
• Maliyah Ross, junior
• Maria Sartin, graduate
• Hannah Watson, senior
• Jade Williams, freshman

Men’s swimming and diving (5)

• Alexander Edquid, freshman
• Omar El Sayed, freshman
• Dakota Kinder, sophomore
• Jasu Ovaskainen, sophomore
• Mario Perez Torrado, junior

Women’s swimming and diving (7)

• Hailey Bull, freshman
• Lauryn Caster, freshman
• Olivia Dolan, freshman
• Kaitlyn Logue, freshman
• Lacey Neighbor, sophomore
• Kate Van Zee, freshman
• Brooke Woeslaw, freshman

Men’s soccer (6)

• Ben Assane, graduate
• Nelson Gomez Rodriguez, junior
• Alan Hermitte, sophomore
• Hendrix Mota, freshman
• Bright Nutornutsi, junior
• Lalo Serrano, graduate

Women’s soccer (3)

• Samantha Amato, freshman
• Alex Sampson, graduate
• Mayu Yamamoto, senior

Volleyball (3)

• Aubrey Goodere, freshman
• Magdalena Juric, graduate
• Taylor Kubacak, freshman

Men’s cross country (4)

• Tristen Coyle, sophomore
• Matthew Hamilton, freshman
• Alex Saldamando, freshman
• Jack Sindt, freshman

Women’s cross country (5)

• Selah Akers, freshman
• Taylor Hansen, freshman
• Eva Johnson, freshman
• Madelyn Palmer, freshman
• Adria Wuerth, freshman

COSMO PREMIERES LGBTI ATHLETES: THE COURAGE TO BE VISIBLE

In the world of sports, where discipline and performance are everything, visibility remains an ongoing challenge. Breaking the silence is also a way of competing. As part of its social commitment, COSMO will premiere LGBTI Athletes: The Courage to Be Visible on Saturday, June 28 at 10:00 p.m. This special program features eight elite athletes and one journalist, all members of the LGBTI community, who share their personal and professional experiences and explain how we can all build a more inclusive sporting world.

In a direct and personal portrait, Víctor Gutiérrez (water polo player for the national team and Madrid MP), María Pérez (Olympic race walker and world and European champion), Javier Raya (Olympic figure skater), Patricia González “Peque” (women’s futsal Ballon d’Or winner), Alberto Lejárraga (first openly LGBTI  Spanish footballer), Xantal Giné (field hockey player), Daniel Naranjo (president and player of inclusive rugby team Madrid Titanes), Sara Peláez (basketball referee), and Raúl Granado (sports journalist) reflect on the importance of visibility and share what it means to be LGBTI  in environments that have often turned their backs on diversity.

“I came out, I chose to be myself, because I wanted my relationship with my partner to feel as normal as possible. I didn’t want to hide”, says Alberto Lejárraga, the first active professional footballer in Spain to come out as LGBTI. “I’ve been fortunate to live my life the way I want to, and that comes with responsibility”, he explains, speaking of his role as a public figure both in and out of sport.

In this original COSMO production, the athletes reveal why they chose to come out and what the process was like, from their immediate circles to the often unexpected media attention that tends to follow. They also discuss the reactions from fans, teammates, clubs, and federations; the fears and uncertainties they faced; and the support they received despite their doubts. They shed light on the barriers that still prevent many professionals from speaking openly about their identity or orientation, including online threats and the potential loss of sponsorships, particularly in high-profile sports like football.

The numbers show that there is still a long way to go before sport becomes a safe space for LGBTI individuals. Out of the 10,500 athletes who competed at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, only 193 publicly identified as LGBTI, a historic record but still a tiny fraction. In Spain, 64.5% of secondary school students have witnessed homophobic behaviour during Physical Education classes, and 33% have experienced it firsthand, even those who are not LGBTI. In fact, anti-LGBTI hate crimes are the most frequent hate crimes in the country. Between 2002 and 2021, 22.7% of such crimes, nearly one in five, were committed because of the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Many of these assaults occurred at sporting events.

“The first time I was called a fag I was eight years old. The last time? Today, on Twitter”, says water polo player Víctor Gutiérrez. “The violence that we LGBTI people experience is something we’ve unfortunately come to normalize, because we’ve lived with it our whole lives. But that doesn’t make it right and we shouldn’t tolerate it”, he adds.

For all these reasons, the protagonists of LGBTI Athletes: The Courage to Be Visible highlight the importance of visibility and representation, particularly for younger generations. They also advocate for sanctions against all forms of LGBTI hate, whether in professional or amateur sports, and across all levels. Finally, they call on society as a whole to be part of the change by speaking out against all forms of discrimination.

COSMO premieres LGBTI Athletes: The Courage to Be Visible on Saturday, June 28 at 10:00 p.m. The show will be available on COSMO ON, COSMO’s video-on-demand service. 

COSMO ON offers subscribers, at no additional cost, the best international series, entertainment shows and movies, as well as exclusive premieres, previews and special events. Available on all of Spain’s main paid TV operators, COSMO ON’s catalog includes an average of more than 500 on-demand titles per year. In addition, the service also offers a section dedicated to COSMO’s original productions where our award-winning original short films stand out along with the original COSMO shows It Moms and We love Tamara.

COSMO is a leading pay TV channel available on all major Spanish platforms. The channel is part of the Hearst Networks EMEA portfolio, a leading media group that delivers programming to more than 76 million households in 100 countries.
 

Warner Bros. Discovery’s partnership with NBA TV is coming to an end as TNT Sports will no longer produce content for the basketball league’s cable network, an individual familiar with the matter tells TheWrap.

After managing NBA TV’s operations for nearly two decades, TNT Sports chairman and CEO Luis Silberwasser said Warner and the NBA “mutually decided to part ways at the end of the 2024-25 season.”

“We made several proposals to continue to provide services and operate the NBA TV network and related digital assets. However, we were unable to agree on a path forward that recognized the value of our expertise, quality content and operational excellence that our fans and partners have come to expect from TNT Sports,” Silberwasser said in a memo to staff. “We will work closely with the NBA on a transition plan for the league to assume the responsibility of programming and operating NBA TV and NBA.com, which will be effective Oct. 1.”

A spokesperson for the NBA did not immediately return TheWrap’s request for comment.

The end of the collaboration, which first began in 2008, comes after the NBA struck new media rights deals with Amazon, NBCUniversal/Peacock and Disney’s ESPN/ABC last year. TNT Sports had been a national rights holder with the NBA since 1984.

However, the NBA’s relationship with TNT Sports will continue. After settling WBD’s rights dispute with the league, TNT Sports and its portfolio of brands were given a global license to create, produce and distribute new and existing NBA content across its platforms.

The agreement includes expanded global content and highlight rights for TNT Sports, Bleacher Report and House of Highlights, with the ability to produce and distribute NBA content across the WBD portfolio, along with promotion, sales and creative commitments across both NBA and WBD platforms. It also gives WBD international rights to NBA games in Northern Europe and Latin America, excluding Mexico and Brazil. Additionally, TNT is licensing its “Inside the NBA” show to ESPN.

The news also comes as Warner Bros. Discovery is gearing up to separate its global linear networks business from its streaming and studios business in 2026.

Global Networks will include CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., Discovery, top free-to-air channels across Europe, Discovery+ and Bleacher Report (B/R). It will retain a 20% stake in the studios and streaming business to help the company deleverage and is expected to take the majority of WBD’s roughly $37 billion in gross debt.

The Studios & Streaming business will include Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, HBO and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Games, Tours, Retail and Experiences, as well as studio production facilities in Burbank and Leavesden.

“The U.S. sports rights will reside at the Global Networks, and its management team will determine how best to monetize the streaming and digital rights over time,” WBD chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels told investors on a call earlier this month. “Internationally, sports will largely coexist, both on linear and streaming, as they do today.”

“Inside the U.S., sports have been less critical,” WBD CEO David Zaslav added. “It’s viewed, but it hasn’t been a real driver for us. So it will continue to be on HBO Max, but the Global Networks business will evaluate over time where the best place for that is.”

POSITION OBJECTIVES:

To serve as Assistant Coach for Cross Country and Track & Field

To develop and execute programming in specific event groups

To assist the Head Coach in all aspects of team and program development

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for the development and application of all components of designated event groups for both indoor and outdoor track and well as regularly assisting cross country in the training of the distance runners.

Responsibilities include assisting in the development of specific workouts for each athlete, possible oversight of the training at practice, as well as coaching and support of the group at competition.

Bachelor’s degree is required.  A Master’s Degree is preferred.  

Candidates will have 1-3 years of coaching experience, and collegiate competing experience is preferred.  Candidates need to demonstrate exceptional communication skills as well as the ability to balance multiple projects at the same time. Must have technical and tactical knowledge of cross country and/or track and field. 

USATF and/or USTFCCCA Certification in appropriate event groups preferred. 

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