The two-day event begins on Saturday and finishes on Sunday. Both days will feature live coverage on ESPN+.

The Golden Griffins head into the postseason coming off a successful outing in the Cardinal Classic at the Polisseni Track & Field Complex on the campus of St. John Fisher in Pittsford, N.Y. back on April 26.

Seniors Pat Garland and Kayla Schmidt won their respective 10,000-meter races to highlight a day at the track that saw the Golden Griffins record a combined 10 results in the top 10.

Junior Jacqueline Appenheimer recorded a pair of top-10 finishes as she took fourth in the women’s 1500-meter final and placed ninth in the women’s 800-meter race. Appenheimer was one of two racers to place in the top 10 of the women’s 800m as senior Taylor Heschke claimed fourth.

Canisius had five runners place within the top 15 of the men’s 5000-meter race as freshman Ryan Giglia took sixth, sophomore Brody Jones placed seventh, graduate student Max Chew claimed 11th, senior Kevin Board finished 13th and freshman Nathaniel Fisher took 15th.

In the 2024 MAAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, the Golden Griffins earned three medals (two silver, one bronze) and had five student-athletes athletes qualify for the finals in their respective events.

Appenheimer and senior Kayla Schmidt placed fifth and seventh, respectively, in the women’s 1500-meter final. Graduate student Jules Jones placed sixth in the 800m final, while Schmidt (17:40.38) took fourth in the women’s 5000-meter race.

MAAC ALL-ACADEMIC TEAMS ANNOUNCED

The MAAC announced the Outdoor Track & Field All-Academic Teams on Friday. Canisius had a total of 25- student-athletes, 14 women and 12 men, recognized for their efforts on the track and in the classroom.

 

To be eligible for the MAAC All-Academic Team, a student-athlete must complete two semesters at their institution and hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.0 scale.

The complete list of honorees can be found below.

2025 Men’s MAAC Outdoor Track & Field All-Academic Team

We are officially 112 days away from the start of the Tom Mendoza Era of Marquette volleyball. How do we know this? Because Mendoza and the Golden Eagles announced their 2025 non-conference schedule on Friday afternoon.

Let me tell you what: It’s on par with the schedule that we’ve seen for the last decade or so for Marquette.

Six of Marquette’s opponents qualified for the NCAA tournament last season, led by Wisconsin, which reached the Elite Eight. All but one team finished .500 or better last season with eight foes winning at least 20 games. We’ll be nice to San Diego and point out that nine of the 12 opponents won at least 19 games.

The upside of the level of difficulty? All but 3 matches will be in Milwaukee and eight of the nine home games will be at the McGuire Center. The lone exception there is the yearly contest against Wisconsin, which returns to Fiserv Forum this fall.

Let’s go to a quote from new head coach Tom Mendoza on his first ever non-conference schedule at Marquette:

“Elite student-athletes choose Marquette because they get the experience and education Marquette provides while competing at the top level nationally,” Mendoza said. “Our non-conference schedule not only gives our team the opportunity to compete to win at the highest level but also brings great volleyball to Milwaukee at both the Al and Fiserv.”

Let’s go in order real quick like!

Marquette will start off the 2025 season with their only road trip of non-conference action, and it’ll be a real team bonding trip as they travel all the way out to Hawaii for the 2025 Rainbow Wahine Classic. MU will open up the campaign and the Classic against host Hawaii. That’s an NCAA tournament test out of the gate, but Marquette is 2-0 all time against Hawaii. That match is on Friday, August 29, and they will stay in Honolulu to take on San Diego and Utah State on the next two days. Marquette is 0-1 all time against USD after facing them in an event hosted by Hawaii in 2017, and this will be the first ever meeting against USU.

From there on out, it’s nothing but home dates. The first six come as Friday/Saturday/Sunday events at the McGuire Center. First up starting on September 5th is Western Kentucky, and they will be followed by Dayton and Buffalo the next two days. This is the 3rd straight year that Marquette has faced both WKU and Dayton, as the trio have rotated on who is hosting the event. Both the Hilltoppers and the Flyers went to the NCAA tournament last season, with Dayton getting to the Sweet 16 after defeating Tom Mendoza’s South Carolina team in the first round. Much like the previous weekend, Marquette will round things out on Sunday with a match against a Bulls team that they have never played before.

The next weekend is a little bit lighter fare for the Golden Eagles. The Friday/Saturday/Sunday schedule is Ball State, James Madison, and Milwaukee. JMU is the only team on the slate that was under .500 last season. Marquette last faced Ball State in 2022 in an NCAA tournament match at the McGuire Center, and the Golden Eagles have won 14 straight contests against Milwaukee after a victory at the Al last season.

The final three non-con battles of the season will be doozies, and all right in a row, just about. First it’s Wisconsin at Fiserv Forum on Wednesday, September 17th, then Florida Gators and new head coach Ryan Theis returning to the McGuire Center on Friday, and then Minnesota on Sunday. All three teams won at least one NCAA tournament match last season with UW going to the Elite 8 and the Gators getting to the Sweet 16.

Is it a tough schedule, considering that Marquette returns just one starter from last year in Hattie Bray and only one every night rotation player in Natalie Ring behind her? Yeah, probably. It’s not as insanely tough as the schedule the last two years when Ryan Theis was trying to challenge his loaded roster, but it’s enough to give MU chances to 1) get wins and 2) build their RPI up. Remember: The Big East is as wide open as it has been in years, given that Creighton has changed their head coach just like Marquette has and the Bluejays return just two of the women who started at least 17 matches for them last season.

By the way, since it’s in the press release: Season tickets are $75 and go on sale starting on Monday, May 12th. That does not include a ticket to the Wisconsin match at Fiserv Forum, but it does get you early access to buy those tickets, which go on sale to the general public on Thursday, June 26th.

Here’s the full schedule and most of the start times.

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PITMAN, NJ — Rowan University junior Jason Agyemang (North Plainfield, NJ/North Plainfield) has been selected as the NJAC’s Thomas M. Gerrity Most Outstanding Athlete to highlight the 2025 NJAC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field All-Conference Team.
 
Additionally, The College of New Jersey freshman Maxim Rychkov (Robbinsville, NJ/Robbinsville) was named Outstanding Track Athlete; Stockton University sophomore Ahmad Fogg (Egg Harbor Twp., NJ/Egg Harbor Twp.) was named Outstanding Field Athlete; and Rowan freshman Jamir Brown (Riverside, NJ/Riverside) was named Rookie of the Year. Rowan head coach Dustin Dimit and his staff were voted the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year by their peers.
 

All-Conference honors were determined by finish at the recent NJAC Outdoor Track & Field Championship and major awards were voted on by the league’s nine head coaches.
 
Agyemang swept the hurdles over the weekend, hitting personal bests and NCAA top-10 times in both the 110 and 400 hurdles events. He ran the second-fastest 110 hurdles time in NCAA Division III this season with a time of 13.74 seconds. That ranks as the third-fastest all-time in D3 history. His winning time of 52.69 seconds in the 400 hurdles ranks as the sixth-fastest in D3 this year. Agyemang was a Week 6 NJAC Track Athlete of the Week.
 
Rychkov completes the sweep of the indoor and outdoor Outstanding Track Athlete honors in just his rookie season. He swept the sprints, cracking 21 seconds in the 200 meters with a 20.98. That time is a personal best, TCNJ school record, and currently the fifth-fastest in NCAA Division III this season. He posted a winning time of 10.51 seconds in the 100 meters and currently sits 21^st nationally in that event. The two-time NJAC Rookie of the Week also ran a leg of the Lions’ 4×100 meter relay squad that posted a 41.77 for second place.
 
Fogg also sweeps the season honors as both the indoor and outdoor Outstanding Field Athlete. He won the long jump with a season-best 7.34 meter leap, which ranks eighth in D3 this season as he seeks a nationals qualification. He also posted a season-best mark of 14.54 meters in the triple jump, finishing third in a tough field as all three top placers were within the NCAA top 20. Fogg was a Week 5 NJAC Field Athlete of the Week honoree.
 
Brown adds to the sweeps, taking home the outdoor Rookie of the Year honor to add to his indoor top rookie honor. The freshman hurdles sensation clocked a 13.60 in the 110 hurdles preliminary, setting a new NCAA D3 record, conference meet record, and Rowan program record. That time was also the best by a freshman among all NCAA divisions this year. He came in under the old NJAC championship meet record of 13.64 that stood for nearly 25 years, set by Glassboro State’s Garry Moore in 1981. In addition to his top D3 time in the 110 hurdles, he also currently owns the #11 time in the 400 hurdles.
 
Dimit and his staff are named the Bill Fritz Coaching Staff of the Year for the tenth consecutive season as he guided Rowan to its tenth straight outdoor title. Their 2025 Profs garnered 10 event wins, nine second-place finishes, and 10 third-place finishes en route to 313 points, which included four podium sweeps. They guided two major award winners in Most Outstanding Athlete Jason Agyemang and Rookie of the Year Jamir Brown, coaching the duo to top all-time D3 times in the 110 hurdles.
 

ESPN mainstay Around the Horn is in its last shows after an incredible run on the network. And on Thursday, the program welcomed back two former panelists in Kate Fagan and Jemele Hill.

Both individuals had not been on ESPN or Around the Horn in multiple years but made one last cameo as ATH welcomes back some of its favorite former panelists to say goodbye.

Fagan, who worked at ESPN as a writer for much of the 2010s and appeared as a panelist on Around the Horn and Outside the Lines, was triumphant in her final appearance. She used her Facetime segment at the end of the show to talk about a topic that was important to her – standing up for the rights of trans kids playing sports.

“Trans kids deserve to play sports”

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“Being on this show has been a privilege and a platform and I know it’s my last time on it and I want to say something worthy of that privilege and platform and that is this, trans kids deserve to play sports,” Fagan declared.

“Think about what you remember from your time playing sports. Like 99% of it is finding that jersey for the first time, your favorite number, community, joy, those high fives. It’s that moment when you have a great play with a teammate, it’s the feeling of belonging and it does not know gender. And trans kids deserve that the same as everybody else does.”

Given Fagan’s work as an author and advocate it was no surprise to see her take what has become a politically sensitive and hot button issue head on. In fact, the ability to talk about such subjects honestly and openly is what has separated Around the Horn from other programs on ESPN and elsewhere in the sports world.

In closing, Kate Fagan gave a special shoutout to Around the Horn and host Tony Reali for allowing writers and sports media personalities from all different kinds of backgrounds and perspectives to appear on the program over the years and have a platform to share these messages.

“And Tony, this space on Around the Horn has been about diversity and inclusion, lifting up new voices, because sports is joy. And sports is humanity. And the more people who have that, the better. And Tony, I love you. So thanks for having me back on,” Fagan concluded.

Although it originally started as a place to hear from veteran sportswriters around the country, one of the things that has made Around the Horn unique is its ability to showcase a sea of diverse voices. Hopefully Fagan’s plea for the joy and humanity of sports being available to all people will be heard over a sea of incoming criticism for Around the Horn and ESPN going “woke” once again.

COMMERCE – East Texas A&M University department of athletics celebrates 65 student-athletes that are participating in May commencement activities this weekend, which is a new record for the department in the Division I era.
 
Fifty-four student-athletes received their undergraduate degrees this weekend, while 11 received graduate degrees.
 
The student-athletes were honored at a reception on Friday morning, followed by the graduate commencement ceremony on Friday afternoon, while the undergraduates take part in the commencement ceremony on Saturday.
 
The following list of current or former student-athletes are participating in May commencement activities.
 

 

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