Penn State women’s volleyball has earned another commit in the class of 2027.

Setter Molly Robertson announced her commitment to the Nittany Lions on Instagram, becoming the fourth recruit to join the blue and white’s 2027 class.

Robertson is a standout player for high school powerhouse North Allegheny, earning the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Girls Volleyball Player of the Year in 2024.

The Wexford, Pennsylvania, native has been a key piece to North Allegheny’s most recent two of its eight-straight state championships.

Robertson joins Nejari Crooks, Taylor Harrington and Olivia Henry as Penn State’s Class of 2027 commits.

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Swimming

An impressive 19 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) earned medals in swimming. The USA topped the table with 28 medals, including eight golds. Australia followed with 18 medals, including seven golds, six of them in women’s events.

Leon Marchand delivered four gold medals for France, becoming one of the standout performers of the Games. Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen became the nation’s first male Olympic swimming champion with victory in the 800m Freestyle. Tatjana Smith of South Africa won gold in the 100m Breaststroke, ensuring the Games concluded with swimming champions from all five continents – an astonishing display of the strength of aquatic sports worldwide.

Over nine days of competition at Paris La Défense Arena, 21 Olympic records, 19 continental records and four world records were set.

Diving

In a remarkable display of talent, Team China won gold in all eight diving events. Great Britain had its most successful Olympic diving campaign to date, with five medals – a national record. Divers from Great Britain and the People’s Republic of China cumulatively exceeded the 10,000-point mark with their scores in the eight diving events at the state-of-the-art Olympic Aquatics Centre. This serves as an illustration of the high level of diving consistently produced throughout the Games.

Mexico and Australia also performed strongly, scoring close to 9,000 and 7,500 points respectively across their events.

Artistic Swimming

Artistic swimming saw the widest spread of Olympic medalists in 20 years. For the first time in five Olympic Games, three continents were represented on the artistic swimming podium. 

Water Polo

In the women’s tournament, Spain won gold with a tournament-leading 94 goals from 224 shots (42% accuracy). Their top goal scorer, Bea Ortiz, recorded 19 goals from 34 shots. The tournament top goal scorer, Alice Williams, scored 21 goals from 48 shots, which accounted for more than 40 percent of Australia’s goals.

On the men’s side, Dušan Mandić of Serbia was the top goal scorer with 26 from 49 shots, a 53 percent accuracy rate that helped his team win gold.

Open Water Swimming

For the first time since 1923, Olympic competition returned to the River Seine. Open water swimmers raced in the heart of the French capital, marking the completion of a long-term project to return the river to swimmable condition.

Following Sharon van Rouwendaal’s success in the Women’s 10km, the Netherlands remain the most successful open water swimming nation at the Olympic Games. This was their fourth gold medal since the sport was added to the Olympic programme for Beijing 2008.

Hungary became the second nation to win multiple gold medals in open water swimming since its Olympic debut, with Kristof Rasovszky triumphing in the Men’s 10km.

Following the conclusion of the Games, the Seine has also since reopened to the public, establishing it as one of Paris 2024’s most enduring legacies. From 5 July and continuing through August, three designated sections of the city have transformed into “Paris Plages” – urban swimming sites complete with sandy beaches, bungalows, and palm trees. Read more here.

Digital Reach

The Paris 2024 Olympics delivered the strongest digital performance at an Olympic Games in World Aquatics history. Over the period of competition, World Aquatics platforms saw:

That represents an increase of more than 1,800% in social media impressions compared to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. For 24 consecutive days, video output averaged more than 1 million views per hour.

The World Aquatics website was the home for longer-form content and live results. Taking into account the World Aquatics Championships over the past year in Fukuoka (2023) and Doha (2024), where many athletes and National Olympic Committees qualified for the Paris 2024 Games, the website generated over 1.5 million unique visitors who recorded more than 34 million page views over the event period for these three events. During that time, the World Aquatics website has generated 48.2 million page views from 2.6 million active users who spend an average of 4 minutes and 52 seconds per session – making the year encompassing Paris 2024 the most followed period of aquatic sports ever.

One Year On

Paris 2024 was a true celebration of aquatic sports. Medal distribution reflected the strength of all the sports globally. National, World and Olympic records fell across the 24 days. New champions emerged.

As the post-Paris 2024 legacy continues, athletes are now competing at the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025, the next major step in the journey towards LA28. Keep up to date on all the action here!

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In the years past, the timing didn’t feel right for new Tri-County volleyball head coach Taylor McKinney to inherit her own program, but when an opening with the Cavaliers became available, the timing was perfect. “It felt like a meant to be situation when it happened,” McKinney said regarding her new position.

“It felt like the timing was right. I’ve had good experiences coaching and I felt like I was ready to be a varsity head coach. … We started summer practices and have had a little over a month now and the girls have hit the ground running, taken everything in stride. They’re a great group of girls who have been working hard to learn our systems.”

McKinney, who is a Benton Central grad, played for Indiana University East before recent coaching stops at BC and McCutcheon.

Throughout her post BC playing career, McKinney credits the coaches and mentors around her as she continued to learn how to approach the game of volleyball on several different levels.

“Some of the biggest things for me were just learning a different approach. It’s easy to be a player when someone has a practice plan, but my biggest thing was learning how to coach those skills to other kids. … The years I’ve spent learning under different people and understanding how to teach those skills were the biggest thing,” she said.

With a full offseason under her belt as Tri-County’s head coach, McKinney and Co. have already gone through two different camps and prep for their third next week before they play their first match on August 16.

During her coaching tenure, McKinney served as the JV head coach for McCutcheon’s boys volleyball team, an endeavor she says helped reshape how she approached teaching the game.

“They came with absolutely zero skills and that brought joy back into volleyball for me because I was teaching players who didn’t know anything about volleyball. There wasn’t a feeder program, so they had never touched a volleyball … It made it easier for me to learn how to coach the game. It helped when learning that they needed to have things broken down to the basic level,” McKinney said.

Now she moves forward with a squad that looks to reload after the graduation of key pieces and her first preview of the team she’ll work with is a close-knit one.

“They are a family through and through,” she said. “I think it goes back to the community and how they’re also that same way. … They care about each other, hold each other accountable, and they keep pushing.”

While continuing by saying that the sky is the limit for a team that potentially returns five seniors this year.

“I think we have the potential to go as far as the girls are willing to go. Whoever is the one who will lead the group, we have some kids who are willing to go to the ends of the earth to win and do whatever we need to do. That will be great. That will allow us to explore volleyball to new standards for them,” McKinney said.

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania’s head women’s rowing coach, Bill Manning, has announced the hiring of Josie Konopka as the Quakers’ assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Konopka replaces Kumari Lewis, who recently left the program to become the head coach at the University of Alabama.
 
The hiring marks a return to Boathouse Row for Konopka, who put together an All-America career wearing the Red and Blue singlet and then spent the 2023-24 season as an assistant coach for the Quakers.
 
“Josie and her teammates elevated Penn Women’s Rowing as determined, ambitious, and highly successful athletes,” said Manning, who recently finished his first year guiding the program. “She now returns to Penn and the Schuylkill River where she previously coached with great success to keep Penn moving forward. Our current team will benefit tremendously from her experiences doing what they aspire to do and her concern for their well-being. Potential student-athletes will hear first-hand that academic and rowing success go hand-in-hand with a supportive team culture at Penn.”
 
“I’m thrilled to return to my alma mater to work with Bill, Allyson, and this exceptional group of young women,” said Konopka, “I am incredibly grateful for my time as a student-athlete at Penn and am eager to continue to give back to the program.”
 
Konopka was an assistant coach at the University of Virginia last year, helping the Cavaliers to a tenth-place finish at the NCAA Championship following a runner-up finish at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Championship. Prior to that, Konopka spent the 2023-24 season on Penn’s staff as an assistant coach. That year, the Quakers continued to make history as they qualified for the NCAA Championships for the third straight year and had all three NCAA boats earn top-12 finishes for the first time (1V8 10th, 2V8 10th, V4A 11th) en route to a tenth-place team finish. At the Ivy League Championship, Penn took fourth in both the overall and NCAA point standings and the Red and Blue earned silver medals in the Varsity Eight, the Third Varsity Eight, and the Third Varsity Four.

Konopka was a two-year captain for the Quakers and earned first-team All-America honors from the College Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) and first-team All-Ivy two times. She helped lead the Quakers to their first full-team NCAA Championship appearance in 2022, when Penn finished 11th, and then was in the two-seat in 2023 as the Quakers’ Varsity Eight won silver at the Ivy League Championship and followed that up with a fourth-place finish at NCAAs. Overall, Penn took sixth as a team. Konopka then moved back into her usual spot in the stroke seat as Penn made its debut at both the Henley Women’s Regatta and Henley Royal Regatta, helping the Quakers advance to the final of the Royal’s Island Challenge Cup final where they were nipped at the finish by the reigning British University champion, Oxford Brookes.

Konopka’s return to the Penn women’s rowing coaching staff adds another chapter to one of the longest-standing relationships in the college rowing world. Her father, Bruce, was one of three Konopkas from that generation to row for the Quakers and led the Penn lightweights to the 1976 Eastern Sprints title and the Thames Challenge Cup semifinal round at Henley. Bruce later had coaching stints across all three of Penn’s rowing programs and was the 1984 ECAC Coach of the Year. Josie’s mother, Molly, also rowed for Penn and later was an assistant coach with the Quakers. And Josie’s older brother, James, rowed for Penn’s lightweights. Another brother, Will, currently rows at Yale and rowed with rising Penn senior Ian Holly in the lightweight double sculls at the 2025 World Rowing U23 Championships.

 

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