GENEVA – Nicole Tarpley and Jackie Tuzil of the Carthage women’s track & field team competed in the discus throw at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Thursday afternoon. Tarpley placed 12th, earning Second Team All-American honors, and Tuzil placed 21st.
 

Tarpley and Tuzil started day one of the championships for the Firebirds, competing in the discus throw. Tarpley’s furthest mark of 40.60 meters, first throw, placed Tarpley in 12th and earned Second Team All-American honors. Tuzil placed 21st with a mark of 37.01 meters. 

“A bit of a rough start to the weekend as it didn’t take anything amazing to make the final,” said assistant coach Greg Raimondi. “The weather was definitely a factor, but regardless, we didn’t execute at the level we are capable of in these conditions. Nicole still has the hammer throw on Saturday, and I am looking forward to seeing what she can do. This was Jackie’s first national meet, and having to compete with the conditions as a first timer adds another factor to deal with mentally. Jackie has grown a lot as a competitor this year, and this setback will hopefully push her to grow even more next year.”

Two Firebirds will compete tomorrow, Friday, May 23, at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Geneva, Ohio. For more information, visit athletics.carthage.edu.

HAMMOND, La. – A total of 65 members of the Southeastern Louisiana Athletics family had degrees conferred at the university’s Spring 2025 commencement exercises Saturday in the University Center.
 
The Southland Conference regular season champion Southeastern baseball team led the department with 12 graduates. The SLU football and track and field programs each saw 11 representatives of their respective programs graduate.
 
The two-time reigning SLC Tournament champion softball team graduated six student-athletes Saturday. The SLC champion indoor volleyball team and the national champion cheerleading squad each had four graduates apiece.
 
The Southland champion women’s basketball team was one of two SLU athletic programs with three graduates, along with women’s tennis. The Lady Lion soccer and beach volleyball programs had two graduates apiece, while men’s basketball had one graduate Saturday.
 
Along with the 59 student-athlete graduates, six members of the SLU Athletics support staff also received degrees Saturday. Among the 65 Southeastern Athletics graduates, six received master’s degrees.
 
Spring 2025 Southeastern Athletics Graduates
Name | Sport/Department | Major
Sara Bancevic | Soccer | Computer Science
Luke Barbier | Baseball | General Studies
Taylor Bell | Women’s Basketball | General Studies
India Bennett | Indoor Volleyball/Marketing Student Assistant | Industrial Technology
John Bilich | Marketing Student Assistant | Marketing
Halle Bouffard | Cheerleading | Nursing
Ryan Brome | Baseball | General Studies
Donroy Brown | Track and Field | General Studies
Allison Brunson | Softball | General Studies
Jakevion Buckley | Men’s Basketball | General Studies
Ethan Butler | Baseball | Kinesiology
Camryn Cangiolosi | Cheerleading | Health Sciences
Hailey Clayton | Athletics Student Assistant | Psychology
Kendall Cleveland | Track and Field | Information Technology
Jude Coats | KSLU Student Assistant | Communication
Parker Coley | Baseball | General Studies
Micah Crockett | Football | Criminal Justice
Michael Crockett | Football | General Studies
Bogi Csordas | Tennis | English and Communication
Cheyanne Daniels | Women’s Basketball | General Studies
Ryan Dawsey | Compliance Graduate Assistant | Business Administration*
Jacob Dobraska | Football | Kinesiology
Amanda Dos Santos | Women’s Tennis | Biological Sciences
Ainsley Driska | Indoor Volleyball | Human Sciences
Ivan Drobocky | Football | Business Administration*
Anna Ferrand | Track and Field | Communication
Keandre Fultz | Track and Field | General Studies
Dedrick Gant | Track and Field | Finance
Paige Gaubert | Cheerleading | Accounting
Ariel Gomez | Softball | General Studies
Lance Hamilton | Track and Field | Strategic Communication*
Makayla Hicks | Beach Volleyball | General Studies
Kibi Huggins | Indoor Volleyball/Marketing Student Assistant | Communication
Natalie Ioannou | Track and Field | Early Childhood Education Grades PK-3
Jayden Kirsh | Athletics Student Assistant | Communication Sciences and Disorders
Euan Lagan | Track and Field | Business Administration*
Britney Lewinski | Softball | General Studies
Darius Lewis | Football | General Studies
Shakespeare Louis | Football | General Studies
Tyler Mansfield | Football | General Studies
Leah Marshall | Softball | Biological Sciences
Haley Martin | Cheerleading/Marketing Student Assistant | Art
Mia Martin | Soccer | Criminal Justice
Blakey Miller | Football | Business Administration
Esther Nwanze | Track and Field | Biological Sciences
Kate Oborina | Tennis | Communication
Olufolabo Ogunyemi | Track and Field | Business Administration
Conner O’Neal | Baseball | General Studies
Arianna Patton | Women’s Basketball | Criminal Justice
Coryell Pierce | Football | Communication
Josh Randall | Football | Communication
TJ Salvaggio | Baseball | General Studies
Bailyn Sorensen | Baseball | Business Administration
Kennedi Steele | Beach Volleyball | Management
Damon Stewart | Football | General Studies
Cole Stromboe | Baseball | General Studies
Meghan Tilschner | Marketing Graduate Assistant | Business Administration*
Shenita Tucker | Softball | General Studies
Chance Vaught | Baseball | General Studies
Patrick Vienne | Baseball | General Studies
Aiden Vosburg | Baseball | General Studies
Logan Walters | Baseball | General Studies
Maddie Watson | Softball | Biological Sciences

Terrell Webb | Track and Field | Health & Kinesiology*
 
* – Master’s degree
 
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CLEAR BAG POLICY
Southeastern Athletics has instituted a clear bag policy for all ticketed events. For more information on the clear bag policy, visit www.LionSports.net/clear.
 
 

INDIANAPOLIS- The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross-Country Committee has announced the participants for the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships First Round competitions.
 
SIUE’s Grant Milbrath is set to compete in the first round of the Men’s West division for the hammer throw event. Earlier this season he had a PR hammer throw at the Ohio Valley Conference Championships, May15-17, with a distance of 62.07m (203-8). This puts him in third for the programs all-time performances.
 

The first-round competitions are scheduled for May 28 – 31. The University of North Florida, in Jacksonville, Florida will host the East First Round and Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas will host the West First Round. The qualifiers out of these two regions will compete in the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships held June 11-14 in Eugene, Oregon.
 
The complete list of participants is available on the following website.

For more information regarding the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and to purchase tickets, log on to NCAA.com/trackandfield.

 

Emmy Klika, a recent alum of the Pitt Panthers women’s volleyball team, has been selected to play for the women’s U23 national team.

The libero joins 17 other athletes who will be training for the NORCECA U23 Pan American Cup.

The tournament takes place in Leon, Mexico from July 25-Aug. 2.

Two other Panthers will be competing overseas this summer as well. Outside hitter Blaire Bayless (U21) and middle blocker Abbey Emch (U19) will embark on similar journeys to Klika.

Bayless will be training in Colorado Springs, Colo., where 12 athletes will be selected to represent Team USA in Costa Rica.

Bayless, a junior, played for the U21 team last summer and in 2023 was named tournament MVP at the U19 Pan American Cup.

Emch, a freshman who joined the Panthers as an early enrollee this spring, will also train in Colorado. Selected athletes will then head to the Netherlands for additional training before traveling to play in Croatia and Serbia over the summer.

Klika helped Pitt reach the NCAA semifinals the past four seasons. She holds the program record of 64 digs in the NCAA tournament in 2024.

She was a two-time All-ACC member and now competes in the PVF (Pro Volleyball Federation) with the Orlando Valkyries. Her performance helpd Orlando earn the organizations’s first title last weekend. Klika has experience in the international competition after competing in the U21 Pan American Cup.

Twelve of the 17 athletes training in Anaheim, Calif., will be added to the team’s U23 roster when they head to Mexico later this summer.

By: Maddie Omana

HANOVER, N.H. – Six Dartmouth men’s and women’s track and field athletes have qualified for the NCAA First Round at the University of North Florida, as announced by the NCAA selection committee on Thursday afternoon. 

Student-athletes must be in the top 48 of their respective events to qualify for the first round. Following the first round, the top 12 in each event will advance to the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which are being held in Eugene, Ore., from June 11-14.

Madeleine Locher, Jada Jones, and Andie Murray will be representing the Big Green in the Sunshine State. On the men’s side, J’Voughnn Blake, Max Klein, and Albert Velikonja will be competing. This is all six student-athletes’ first time qualifying for the NCAA First Round. 

Locher punched her ticket to Jacksonville with a 33:39.91 finish in the 10,000m, putting her at 30th in the region. Jones, the reigning 200m Ivy League Champion, ranks 30th regionally after she ran a 52.99 in the 400m. Murray put herself at 48th in the 800m with a time of 2:05.32. 

Blake qualified for the men’s 800m after ranking 30th in the east with his 1:47.72 mark. Klein ranks 34th in the shot put following his 18.28m throw at the Outdoor Ivy League Championships. Velikonja qualified for the 5000m with his 13:46.44 finish, putting him at 39th in the region. 

The NCAA First Round is slated to start in Jacksonville, Fla., next Wednesday at 6 p.m.