NEW ORLEANS – The University of New Orleans held its Spring 2025 Commencement Ceremony on Friday at the Lakefront Arena and 48 student-athletes and athletic staff received their degrees.
 

The baseball team, in lieu of their ability to attend because of a road series at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, had a special ceremony last weekend where the pending graduates were presented with their degrees by University President, Dr. Kathy Johnson.
 
The following list are the sports/departments, student-athletes/staff and their degrees received, forever making them Privateer alums.
 
BASEBALL
Brooks Byers (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Bryce Calloway (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Grant Edwards (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Matt Gonzalez (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Kai Hori (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Dalton Hurst (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Tristan Moore (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Jahlani Rogers (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Alexander Saunier (Biological Science)
Tyler Velino (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Diego Villescas (Interdisciplinary Studies)
 
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Ivana De Carvalho Peixe (Marketing)
Tristin Smith (Biological Science)
 
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Kerwin Prince (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Jamond Vincent (Interdisciplinary Studies)
James White (Interdisciplinary Studies)
 
GOLF
Britton Khalaf (Business Administration)
Matt Weber (Master’s Business Administration)
Maximilian Wojciechowski (Interdisciplinary Studies)
 
MEN’S TENNIS
Matthew Armbruster (Biological Science)
 
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Christopher Murphy (Interdisciplinary Studies)
Gary Sandrock (Chemistry)

POM

Abigail Truitt

Adeline Palmisano

Carli Malveaux

Joyce Horn

Olivia Monnerjahn

Valentina Mattos

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Syria Butler (Interdisciplinary Studies)

Alexis Calderon (Interdisciplinary Studies)

Sephora Kayolo (Interdisciplinary Studies)

 

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Anastassia Kouchnareva (Finance)

 

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Oxana Bonjorn-Giros (Civil Engineering)

 

VOLLEYBALL

Vera Beltrame (Master’s Business Administration)

Molly Kehoe (Business Administration)

Buse Kocakaya (Interdisciplinary Studies)

 

VOLLEYBALL/TRACK AND FIELD

Jamiryana Hall (Human Performance and Health Promotion)

 

STAFF

Gene Durand (Master’s Higher Education Administration)

Justin Montz (Master’s Business Administration)

 

FORMER STUDENT-ATHLETES

Michelle Folk (Master’s Business Administration)

Jannah Sharpe (Public Administration)

James Glisson III (Master’s Higher Education)

Connor Macip (Construction Management)

LANCASTER, Pa. – The Dickinson women’s outdoor track and field team continued to celebrate a successful season on Friday by having a eleven individuals earn places on the All-Centennial Conference Team.

First Team

A trio of Devils secured places on First Team by winning their respective events at the conference championship meet starting with Erin Olsavsky winning the 200m with a time of 25.22. The 3000m steeplechase was where Amiyah Priebe made her mark by topping the field with mark of 10:53.66. Annie Leder completed the trio thanks to a top long jump distance of 5.87m.

Second Team

Olsavsky earn her second recognition with a second place time at the conference meet of 12.51 for the 100m. Maddie Brown garnered her honor by stopping the clock in 57.84 during the 400m. Elizabeth Barbash was the final individual member of the Red and White to earn the award hitting the line at 17:50.51 in the 5000m. 

The 4x400m relay team of Abbe Kitchin, Marley Kurey, Lily Swain and Brown seized their spot with a time of 3:59.79.

Third Team

Maddie Garber took up third in the conference meet during the 5000m by hitting the line in 17:55.84. Jenna Deep rounded out the podium for the hammer throw with a mark of 42.72m. Leah Biwott earned her spot on the team with her performance in the long jump dropping in at 5.59m.

Sportsmanship Team

Catarina Acosta was the Devils honoree for the All-Sportsmanship Team.

Well that turned into a busy Thursday for TigerBlog. 

It was the good kind of busy, of course — the kind of busy you get when your team is heading into the postseason. 

The Princeton men’s lacrosse team will host Towson in the opening round of the NCAA tournament tomorrow at 2:30. The Tigers are the No. 3 seed, and the Tigers are unseeded.

Those are the kinds of sentences you can write when both teams have the same nickname. 

Princeton and Towson meet for the fourth time, with all of those meetings as NCAA tournament games. The first one was a famous one, back in 1991, when Towson defeated Princeton 14-13 in three overtimes at Palmer Stadium (TigerBlog was there).

After the game, Princeton goalie Scott Bacigalupo vowed that his team would never lose an overtime game again — and it didn’t, not on his watch. In fact, two of those OT wins would come in NCAA championship games in which Batch was in goal, in 1992 against Syracuse and 1994 against Virginia. 

The Princeton women, by the way, play UMass this afternoon at 5 at Johns Hopkins in their first NCAA game. It’s the third meeting between the two, and the first two were also NCAA games. That’s fairly interesting, at least to TigerBlog. 

Towson, meanwhile, is coached by one of TB’s favorite people he’s met in the lacrosse world, Shawn Nadelen, a former Princeton assistant under Bill Tierney from 2002-04. During that time, who was Nadelen’s roommate? 

TB gives you a few paragraphs to guess. 

The usual pregame writing gets a bit more extensive when it’s an NCAA tournament game. Then you can throw in a few other things that came up out of the blue. 

First, there was the selection of Princeton’s Coulter Mackesy as a Tewaaraton Award finalist, one of five, along with Army’s Jackson Eicher, Notre Dame’s Chris Kavanagh, Harvard’s Sam King and Cornell’s CJ Kirst. All five finalists are attackmen.

Then, just as TB was getting that under control, an email with the USA Lacrosse All-American team was sent. Princeton had seven honorees: Mackesy on first team, defenseman Colin Mulshine on second team, offensive middie Chad Palumbo and defensive middie Cooper Mueller on third team and goalie Ryan Croddick, defensive middie Jackson Green and offensive middie Tucker Wade as honorable mention. 

Wade’s father Ryan, by the way, was a first-team All-American at North Carolina. And Mueller’s dad? You know all about Kit Mueller. 

Cooper Mueller is the kind of player who is a hugely deserving All-American but who is often overlooked because of the position he plays. Mueller, though, put up extraordinary numbers this season, and yet his biggest impact isn’t really measurable. The same is true of Green who is a walk-on from the football team and now a lacrosse All-American.

As for the Princeton women, they had five USA Lacrosse All-Americans: McKenzie Blake (second team), Haven Dora (third team) and Dylan Allen, Amelia Hughes and Jami MacDonald (all honorable mention). 

Beyond all of that, TigerBlog also wrote a feature story about McKnight Pederson, a longstick midfielder/defenseman on the Princeton men’s team. McKnight is a senior whose career has unfortunately been defined by injuries. 

At the same time, it’s also been defined by his spirit, which is just incredible. He is, as TB calls him in the story, the “heart and soul” of the team. To fully appreciate it you have to watch him day after day. TB hopes he was able to capture that spirit. 

The story will be up today. It would have been up yesterday were it not for everything else going on.

In the world of lacrosse, this is the best time of year. It’s also the most unforgiving. 

Each weekend that comes by brings with it one goal for every team that has been fortunate enough to make it this far. And what is that? 

Everybody wants to have practice Monday. Not everybody will. 

And if you’re TigerBlog? You definitely want to have a busy week next week. 

If you feel differently, you’re in the wrong line of work. 

Trivia answer: Nadelen lived with John Mack, Princeton’s current Ford Family Director of Athletics.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After a regular season filled with record breaking and astonishing performances, Harvard track & field travels south to New Haven, Connecticut for the 2025 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Championships, hosted by Yale University on Saturday, May 10 and Sunday, May 11. Both days of competition will air live on ESPN+.

WHAT TO KNOW:

• Once again, Harvard is emerging as a contender for Ivy League titles for both the men’s and women’s teams.
• The Crimson wrapped the regular season at a pair of meets last weekend, highlighted by a record breaking showing at the Jim Green Invitational in Lexington, Kentucky from senior Izzy Goudros.
• An All-America Second Team honoree in the heptathlon last season, Goudros reset her Ivy League record in the heptathlon, collecting 5807 points to do so. In her run to breaking the Ivy League record, Goudros set personal-bests in the 200m (23.40) and the shot put (12.06m/39’7″). 
• With her mark last weekend, Goudros now ranks fifth nationally in the heptathlon.
• Along with Goudros, two other Crimson student-athletes broke conference records this season as well.
• The defending Ivy League champion in the women’s discus throw, sophomore Milina Wepiwé reset her Ivy League record in the discus with an attempt of 59.75m (196’0″) at the Penn Relays. An All-America First Team honoree last year, Wepiwé is ninth nationally in the discus this year.
• The 2025 NCAA women’s indoor 800m runner-up, senior Victoria Bossong is once again a national contender in the 800m. At the Tom Jones Invitational, Bossong posted a time of 1:59.48, breaking a 35-year-old Ivy League record held by Meredith L. Rainey ’90. A native of Cumberland Foreside, Maine, Bossong ranks third nationally in the women’s 800m this season.
• In all, the Crimson lead the Ivy League in eight events on the women’s side, while it also holds the No. 1 spot in three events on the men’s side.

UP NEXT:

The Crimson continue the postseason in Fairfax, Virginia next weekend, featuring at the 2025 ECAC/IC4A Outdoor Championships.

For complete coverage of Harvard Track & Field, follow us on Twitter (@HarvardTFXC) and Instagram (@harvardtfxc).

 

The Department of Athletics at Kutztown University invites applications for the position of Head Women’s Volleyball Coach. Kutztown University is an NCAA Division II member institution which competes in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). The Head Coach is responsible for all phases of the women’s volleyball program including recruitment of prospective student-athletes, academic success of student-athletes, game preparation and strategy, supervision of assistant coaches, scheduling, organizing camps and clinics in support of Kutztown athletics, fund raising, adherence to NCAA rules and regulations, and general administrative duties. In addition, the Head Coach will be responsible for supporting the philosophy, goals, and mission of the University and its Intercollegiate Athletics program as well as adherence to Departmental, University, Conference and NCAA policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications 

• At least 3 years of coaching experience in the sport of volleyball  

• Demonstrate ability in skill development, staff supervision, and general administrative duties 

• An understanding of NCAA rules compliance  

• Prior successful experience in recruiting qualified student-athletes 

• Fiscal management skills 

• Excellent organizational and communications skills 

• Candidate must complete a successful interview 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Coaching experience at the NCAA collegiate level 

• Coaching experience at NCAA DII institution