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Feeney Named to CSC Academic All-District® At-Large Team

Story Links EASTON, Mass. (June 25, 2025) – Junior Bailey Feeney of the Stonehill College women’s ice hockey team has been named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® At-Large Team, as announced by the organization. The CSC Academic All-District® program recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in the classroom […]

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EASTON, Mass. (June 25, 2025) – Junior Bailey Feeney of the Stonehill College women’s ice hockey team has been named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® At-Large Team, as announced by the organization.

The CSC Academic All-District® program recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in the classroom and in competition. To be eligible, student-athletes must hold a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher in undergraduate and/or graduate coursework, be at least in their second year of collegiate competition, and meet specific sport-related participation requirements. For women’s ice hockey, nominees must have competed in at least 90% of their team’s games or started 66% of contests; goalies must have started at least 50% of games played.

Feeney earns Academic All-District® honors for the first time in her career following an exceptional junior campaign both academically and athletically. A Biology major with a 3.80 cumulative GPA, Feeney was also named to the All-NEWHA Second Team after recording a career-best 25 points on 11 goals and 14 assists.

She notched eight multi-point games on the year and finished second in the conference in total points, trailing only NEWHA Player of the Year Julia Wysocki of Post University. Feeney was also recognized as the NEWHA Player of the Week on January 28 and played a pivotal role on Stonehill’s top-ranked power-play unit, which converted 21.1% of its chances—first in the conference and 12th nationally.

The Skyhawks concluded the 2024-25 season with a 14-19-5 overall record, including a 13-10-5 mark in NEWHA play to earn the No. 4 seed in the conference tournament. Despite falling to Saint Anselm in the best-of-three quarterfinal series, Stonehill ranked among the top three in the NEWHA in several statistical categories, including shot attempts (1,225), power-play goals (20), saves (1,224), and penalty kill percentage (86.7%).

About College Sports Communicators

College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative, and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a member-wide vote on Aug. 31, 2022.
 
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
 
The name change signaled a significant step in a broader strategic plan to highlight the association’s evolution and growth. The move better aligns with the association’s membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital, and creative sports industry, regardless of position or title.
 
The organization, which celebrated its 65th anniversary during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second-oldest management association in all intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December 2008.

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Big 12 Commish Doubles Down On Preference For 5-11 Playoff Model If CFP Expands

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is doubling down on his preference to stay with only five automatic qualifiers if the College Football Playoff does expand from 12 to 16 teams as many expect after this season, instead of each of the four power conferences being guaranteed multiple bids. “We have the responsibility to do what’s […]

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Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is doubling down on his preference to stay with only five automatic qualifiers if the College Football Playoff does expand from 12 to 16 teams as many expect after this season, instead of each of the four power conferences being guaranteed multiple bids.

“We have the responsibility to do what’s right for college football … not what’s right for one or two or more conferences,” Yormark said Tuesday at Big 12 football media days. “I think 5-11 is fair. Earn it on the field, assuming we want to expand. I love the current format, but if we’re going to expand, let’s do it in a way that’s fair and equitable and gives everyone a chance.”

While the SEC and Big Ten will have more of a say on the playoff format starting in 2026, when ESPN’s $7.8 billion contract kicks in, Yormark believes the 5-11 format would be good for now and in the future. He said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips feels the same way, and is expected to express that during his league’s media days in two weeks.

“We do not need a professional model because we are not the NFL,” Yormark said. “We are college football and we must act like it.”

In the 12-team format still in place for this season, the five highest-ranked conference champions are guaranteed spots in the playoff. The difference this year is that the top four highest-ranked champions are no longer guaranteed the top four seeds that come with first-round byes.

Among potential 16-team formats would be four automatic qualifiers from both the SEC and Big Ten, and two each for the Big 12 and ACC. The Big 12 last season had only conference champion Arizona State make the playoff last season.

[Related: How 2024-25 CFP Would’ve Looked Under Proposed Expansion Formats]

“We want to earn it on the field,” Yormark said. “It might not be the best solution today for the Big 12, given your comments about (automatic qualifiers), but long term, knowing the progress we’re making, the investments we’re making, it’s the right format for us.”

Yormark, who is going into his fourth year as Big 12 commissioner, believes that the landmark NCAA House settlement will have a positive impact for all conferences, especially if the College Sports Commission works the way it is intended in enforcing the rules in the remade system.

“It will. I have a lot of faith in Bryan Seely,” Yormark said of the former Major League Baseball executive named CEO of the new CSC. “It should create a level playing field, and I’m not giving that up.”

The Big 12 was already in transition and still at 10 teams when Yormark arrived in 2022. BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF joined the league the following year.

Texas and Oklahoma, who won football national championships while in the Big 12, completed their long-planned move to the SEC last year. That is when Pac-12 schools Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah came into what is now a 16-team Big 12.

“I think parity matters, and I think ultimately over time, and that’s hopefully sooner than later, there’ll be a couple of our schools that will emerge, you know, as elite schools that are always part of the conversations at the highest levels. And that’s what we’re working towards,” Yormark said. “But it starts with parity and being competitive top to bottom. And I think we’re there.”

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Big 12 commissioner is ‘doubling down’ on support for new College Football Playoff format

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is “doubling down” on his support for a new College Football Playoff format dubbed the “5+11” model. The Big 12 and ACC have pushed the model, which would award automatic bids to the five highest-ranked conference champions, and 11 at-large bids determined by the CFP selection committee. The Big Ten, […]

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Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is “doubling down” on his support for a new College Football Playoff format dubbed the “5+11” model.

The Big 12 and ACC have pushed the model, which would award automatic bids to the five highest-ranked conference champions, and 11 at-large bids determined by the CFP selection committee. The Big Ten, however, has put more focus on a format that would award four automatic bids to Big Ten and SEC teams, and two to the Big 12 and ACC.

About a month after Utah athletic director Mark Harlan voiced his support for the 5+11 postseason model, Yormark reiterated where the Big 12 stands during the league’s media days in Orlando, Florida, this week.

“We continue to believe the 5+11 model proposed by the Big 12 and the ACC is the right playoff format for college football,” Yormark said. “We want to earn it on the field.”

“We do not need a professional model, because we are not the NFL,” Yormark said. “We are college football, and we must act like it.”

According to the latest projections from ESPN FPI, only one Big 12 team — Kansas State — has greater than a 22% chance of making the 12-team CFP next season. Yormark, though, expects the league to exceed expectations in 2025-26.

“I fully expect the Big 12 to earn multiple playoff bids this year and show once again, we can compete with anyone,” Yormark said.

The Big 12 comes off a 2024-25 campaign in which it struggled against the SEC and Big Ten, the two conferences that hold authority over any future postseason format. The Big 12 went 2-5 overall against the SEC, with its two victories coming over 2-10 Mississippi State and 7-6 Arkansas. Big 10 foes went 3-1 against the Big 12 in the regular season, though Kansas State earned the Big 12 a victory over the Big 10 in the postseason by taking down Rutgers, 44-41, in the Rate Bowl.

The Utes open their 2025 campaign against a Big Ten opponent on Aug. 30, when they take on UCLA at the Rose Bowl.

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Bowlers Marx, Moore Earn Academic All-America Status from College Sports Communicators

Story Links Youngstown, Ohio — Youngstown State bowling alumni Madyson Marx and Kirsten Moore each added one more tremendous accomplishment to their historic careers by earning Academic All-America status on the 2025 at-large teams. The teams were selected by members of College Sports Communicators and announced Tuesday. Marx earned second-team accolades on the […]

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Youngstown, Ohio — Youngstown State bowling alumni Madyson Marx and Kirsten Moore each added one more tremendous accomplishment to their historic careers by earning Academic All-America status on the 2025 at-large teams. The teams were selected by members of College Sports Communicators and announced Tuesday.

Marx earned second-team accolades on the prestigious list, while Moore was voted to the third team. The fifth-year seniors in 2024-25 are the 23rd and 24th student-athletes in Youngstown State history to earn Academic All-America status, and they are the first Penguins to receive the honor since their former teammate Sarah Florence, a second-team selection in 2021. They are also the first teammates in program history to earn Academic All-America honors in the same year.

The Academic All-America program celebrates student-athletes’ accomplishments in athletics and academics. It recognizes at-large honorees in four divisions – NCAA Division I, Division II, Division III and NAIA – in the sports of women’s beach volleyball, women’s bowling, women’s crew/rowing, men’s and women’s fencing, women’s field hockey, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s gymnastics, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s rifle, men’s and women’s skiing, men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s water polo, and men’s wrestling.

Marx adds another honor following the conclusion of her collegiate career, building on her selection as Conference USA’s Bowling Scholar-Athlete of the Year in June. She was named an All-American by the National Tenpin Coaches Association in each of her final three seasons, including first-team honors in 2024-25. A native of Maplewood, Minnesota, Marx was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Final Four after averaging a team-best 22.54 pins per frame and helping the Penguins win the national championship.

Academically, Marx was an Academic All-District selection by CSC in each of her final three seasons, and she was a two-time recipient of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal. She was also named to the Conference USA All-Academic Team in 2024 and was a three-time All-Academic Team selection in the Southland Bowling League. Marx graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in May 2024.

Moore was an NTCA All-American in 2022-23 and 2023-24, and she ranked second on YSU’s national title team in total frames in 2024-25. She was selected as the NCAA Elite 90 Award winner for the second straight season in 2024-25 for having the highest GPA at the finals site. She averaged 23.51 pins per frame in Baker play at the Final Four, the second-best average for a tournament in program history. She finished her career with the most tournament wins in school history (three) and also set program career records for matches bowled and total pinfall.

Moore, a native of Tallmadge, Ohio, is a three-time Academic All-District selection by CSC and a two-time member of the Conference USA All-Academic Team. She was also a three-time Southland Bowling League All-Academic selection and a two-time recipient of the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal. She graduated summa cum laude with her bachelor’s degree in English in 2023 and completed her master’s degree in English in May.



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McKenna, projected No. 1 pick in 2026, to make college decision tonight on ESPN

Gavin McKenna will be the prize in the 2026 NHL Draft, the 17-year-old forward already considered a future superstar. But another sweepstakes winner will be determined Tuesday when McKenna announces his NCAA commitment on ESPN’s 6 p.m. ET edition of “SportsCenter.” It is believed McKenna will choose between Michigan State and Penn State, each Big […]

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Gavin McKenna will be the prize in the 2026 NHL Draft, the 17-year-old forward already considered a future superstar.

But another sweepstakes winner will be determined Tuesday when McKenna announces his NCAA commitment on ESPN’s 6 p.m. ET edition of “SportsCenter.”

It is believed McKenna will choose between Michigan State and Penn State, each Big Ten school hoping to land the generational talent.

“McKenna is in a special category that you only come across every few years,” NHL Central Scouting vice president and director Dan Marr said. “His offensive instincts and playmaking game are truly exceptional and it’s his composure, compete and maturity that really sell you on his talent.”

McKenna (5-foot-11, 162 pounds) has been compared to two NHL greats who are small in stature.

“His game resembles the likes of Patrick Kane and Doug Gilmour, who both had slight builds and were able to utilize their talents to produce and use those same smarts and wits to protect themselves from hockey’s physical elements,” Marr said.

This will be the first season Canadian Hockey League players are eligible to play NCAA hockey after a rule change last year. Previously they had been considered professionals because some CHL players had signed NHL entry-level contracts.

McKenna was second in the Western Hockey League last season with 129 points (41 goals, 88 assists) in 56 games with Medicine Hat, and was third in the WHL playoffs with 38 points (nine goals, 29 assists) in 16 games to help Medicine Hat reach the Memorial Cup, the four-team CHL championship tournament.

He was third in scoring at the Memorial Cup with six points (three goals, three assists) in four games as Medicine Hat lost 4-1 to London in the championship game. McKenna scored his team’s only goal.

He won the Four Broncos Trophy as WHL Player of the Year and the CHL David Branch Player of the Year Award.

McKenna is the third-youngest player to win CHL player of the year award, after John Tavares (2006-07) and Sidney Crosby (2003-04), each of whom was 16 at the time.

He had a modern WHL-record 40-game regular-season point streak (100 points; 32 goals, 68 assists) that extended to 54 games (137 points; 40 goals; 97 assists) in the playoffs to set a modern CHL record (since 2000) for points in consecutive games (regular season, playoffs, Memorial Cup).

Penn State (22-14-4) reached the Frozen Four for the first time in program history last season after defeating Connecticut 3-2 in overtime to win its regional final. It lost 3-1 to Boston University in the national semifinals.

Defenseman Jackson Smith, selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets with the No. 14 pick of the 2025 NHL Draft, will play at Penn State this season. Among the returning players is expected to be forward Charlie Cerrato, who was second on the team with 42 points (15 goals, 27 assists) in 38 games and was chosen by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round (No. 49) of the 2025 NHL Draft. He’s the second-ever Penn State player to be chosen in the NHL draft, and first since Denis Smirnov by the Colorado Avalanche in the sixth round (No. 156) of the 2017 NHL Draft.

Michigan State (26-7-4) has finished first in the Big Ten during the regular season and won the conference tournament each of the past two seasons.

Among the returning players are forward Isaac Howard, a Tampa Bay Lightning prospect who won the Hobey Baker Trophy as the most outstanding men’s NCAA hockey player after leading Michigan State and finishing fifth among NCAA players with 52 points (26 goals, 26 assists) in 37 games.

Goalie Trey Augustine (Detroit Red Wings), who has been the starter the past two seasons and also helped the United States win the gold medal at the 2024 and 2025 World Juniors, also will return.

“His trajectory is generational because when you compare where he is at the same age to some of these other players to get to the NHL as 18-year-olds and have an impact, he’s on that same path,” Central Scouting associate director David Gregory said of McKenna. “When you think of the key skills you have to have in the NHL … you have to be smart, you have to be able to skate and you have to be able to compete. Those three important skills are maybe his three best skills, so we’re not even talking about how great his hands are.

“We don’t use the term ‘five-tool player’ in hockey as much as you hear it used in other sports, but McKenna’s one of those guys. He’s got it.”

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Negrete Named to CSC Academic All-America Women’s At-Large Second-Team

RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State gymnast Chloe Negrete has been named to the 2024-25 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large Second Team, as announced by the organization on Tuesday.   Negrete is one of just 46 NCAA Division I student-athletes to earn Academic All-America At-Large honors and is among only 19 honorees to […]

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RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State gymnast Chloe Negrete has been named to the 2024-25 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large Second Team, as announced by the organization on Tuesday.

 

Negrete is one of just 46 NCAA Division I student-athletes to earn Academic All-America At-Large honors and is among only 19 honorees to conclude the academic year with a perfect 4.00 GPA.

 

The 2025 Academic All-District® Women’s At-Large teams, selected by CSC, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in competition and in the classroom.

 

Negrete earns the honor following a standout final season with the Wolfpack, excelling both athletically and academically. A two-time ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, she capped her decorated career with another standout year in 2025, tallying 24 podium finishes, including 13 individual titles, and recorded 13 scores of 9.900 or better.

 

Negrete’s 2025 campaign was highlighted by a pair of career-high 9.975s on beam, as well as a 9.975 on floor in the Wolfpack’s meet against No. 23 Ohio State. She also earned a personal-best 9.900 on vault at the George Washington quad meet, a performance that secured her ACC Gymnast of the Week honors for Week 10.



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Brush, Moore Named to Gannon Fisher’s First Coaching Staff

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Michigan field hockey head coach Kristi Gannon Fisher announced Tuesday (July 8) the addition of Clare Brush and Erin Moore as U-M assistant coaches. The duo joins fellow assistant coach Ryan Langford, who enters his 17th season with U-M field hockey, to complete Fisher’s first coaching staff since rising […]

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Michigan field hockey head coach Kristi Gannon Fisher announced Tuesday (July 8) the addition of Clare Brush and Erin Moore as U-M assistant coaches.

The duo joins fellow assistant coach Ryan Langford, who enters his 17th season with U-M field hockey, to complete Fisher’s first coaching staff since rising to the helm of the program.

“We are thrilled to have Clare back with the program after a few years away,” said Gannon Fisher. “As a two-time captain for our team, she brings a wealth of leadership and field hockey knowledge to our coaching staff. Clare is an Ann Arbor native and knows what it means to be a Wolverine on the field, in the classroom and in the community. I’m excited to work with Clare and to see her influence on the team from the staff side of things after her impactful career as a Michigan student-athlete.”

“I’m very excited to join the Michigan field hockey staff,” said Brush. “I know what it takes to win championships at Michigan as an athlete, and I am looking forward to contributing to the culture of excellence as part of the coaching staff.”

Brush spent five seasons as a Michigan student-athlete (2016-20), twice serving as a Wolverine team captain and the team’s recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2019, ’20). She appeared in 64 games in maize and blue, starting 34 in the backfield over her final two seasons, and contributed to a defensive unit that allowed just 1.16 goals, 7.83 shots and 3.99 corners per game over a five-year span. During her tenure, Michigan captured three Big Ten regular-season titles and two tournament titles and twice advanced to the NCAA Final Four, earning national runner-up honors in the spring season of 2021.

A four-time NFHCA Collegiate National Academic Team and Academic All-Big Ten honoree, Brush earned her bachelor’s degree in economics, with a minor in sustainability, in 2020 and added a Masters of Management from the Ross School of Business in 2021.

An Ann Arbor native and Pioneer High School graduate, Brush was the 2015 MLive Michigan Field Hockey Player of the Year and a two-time All-State selection and helped lead the Pioneers to three state championships. She started playing field hockey in middle school with Pinnacle Field Hockey Club under former Michigan head coach Nancy Cox and has herself helped coach field hockey with Pinnacle over the last eight years.

Brush is currently the chairperson of Great Lakes Regional Field Hockey, a non-profit organization first established in 2019 to serve and support the growth of field hockey at the local level throughout the Great Lakes Region of the Midwest. She has been a field hockey umpire since 2021 and was elevated to NCAA Division I and Division III games last fall. Off the field, she has spent the last four years working in sales and account management for American Axle and Manufacturing in Detroit.

Clare Brush

“Erin brings a range of experience to our staff as a goalkeeper specialist,” said Gannon Fisher. “Her enthusiasm and passion for coaching is contagious, and I am thrilled to have her join our program. Erin’s on-field strengths as a technical coach and off-field strengths as a highly organized and motivated collaborator will be invaluable as we move into this new era of Michigan field hockey.”

“I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to Kristi and the University of Michigan for the incredible opportunity to be a part of the U-M field hockey program,” said Moore. “I also want to thank everyone who was a part of the journey to get here. Team 53 is going to be a memorable team, and I am thrilled to be joining the family. I eagerly anticipate the 2025 season alongside such a talented group of players and staff.”

Moore comes to Michigan with five years of collegiate coaching experience and an additional 11 years coaching and developing middle and high-school-aged athletes. She spent last season as an assistant at the University of Delaware, where she worked directly with goalkeeper Cecile van Eijck, who started all 22 games and posted five shutouts, a 1.37 goals-against average and a .758 save percentage. She helped the Blue Hens capture the 2024 CAA Tournament title and advance to the NCAA Tournament.

She participated in the “NFHCA to the Olympics Coach Tour” program last summer with stops in the Netherlands, Belgium and at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Prior to Delaware, Moore spent four seasons at Bentley University (2020-24), where she helped lead the Falcons program to three consecutive winning seasons. She was an integral part of the Falcons’ run to the 2021 NCAA Tournament, the first for Bentley field hockey since 2012. In 2023, she coached goalkeeper Mia Trottie to NFHCA All-America and Northeast 10 Conference Goalkeeper of the Year honors.

Moore holds her Level 2 Certification from USA Field Hockey and is FIH Level 1 Certified. A 2023 participant of the NCAA Women’s Coaching Academy, she has been involved as a goalkeepers coach with numerous camps and clinics across the East Coast, including Saint Michael College and the 3 Step Sports, Beyond Sticks, and Nike Field Hockey Camps organizations.

Moore was a four-year letterwinner as a goalkeeper for Regis College in Weston, Mass., where she helped the team to a 2016 New England Collegiate Conference championship. Originally from Rosedale, Md., Moore earned a bachelor’s degree in public health with a minor in biology in 2019. She added a Certificate in Foundations of Global Sport Management through NYU in 2023 and is currently pursuing an MBA with a concentration in leadership.

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