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The tribunal accepted Sinner’s version of events as outlined above and, as such, ruled that he should not be banned but should lose his prize money, results and ranking points from Indian Wells.Speaking at the 2025 Australian Open just before CAS confirmed the date for the appeal hearing — at which point Sinner did not know when it would be — he admitted that waiting to know when the appeal would happen had weighed on him.The ITIA and Sinner’s team have said that Sinner’s case was heard quickly because everyone knew immediately the source of the clostebol contamination and had the ability to back up their statements with the necessary hard evidence. That Sinner, as world No. 1, could mobilize more effective legal resources more quickly than another player in this situation is not in doubt, but the process by which he did so does not fall outside of normal ITIA protocol.Nick Kyrgios, the outspoken Australian, said Sinner should have automatically been banned for two years. Others have questioned whether, as the world No. 1, Sinner received special treatment.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The UCLA Bruins have four players represented on the 2025 AVCA All-America teams, as announced by the AVCA, which unveiled its 13th annual Collegiate Beach All-America Teams today. This year, the first and second teams include 16 members each, and the 32 players honored represent 12 schools. UCLA has now produced 30 AVCA All-Americans. […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The UCLA Bruins have four players represented on the 2025 AVCA All-America teams, as announced by the AVCA, which unveiled its 13th annual Collegiate Beach All-America Teams today.
This year, the first and second teams include 16 members each, and the 32 players honored represent 12 schools. UCLA has now produced 30 AVCA All-Americans.
The Bruins’ court one pair of junior Maggie Boyd and freshman Sally Perez were both named AVCA First Team All-Americans. It marked the third-straight year that Boyd has made the First Team. Perez was the only freshman in the country to earn First Team accolades. The duo is 28-4 (all on court one) on the year entering the NCAA Championship.
Heading the list of 2025 honorees are a pair of players who become four-time All-Americans: Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno of TCU. Alvarez has been a first-team pick every season, and she becomes only the sixth beach player ever to earn AVCA first-team All-America honors four times.
UCLA’s court two pair of graduate Peri Brennan and senior Natalie Myszkowski landed on the Second Team. For Brennan, it was her third-straight Second Team All-America plaudits while it was the first for Myszkowski.
A quartet of schools each have four All-Americans. That group includes Cal Poly, Stanford, UCLA, and USC.
The awards selections were made by the AVCA Collegiate Beach All-America Committee: Beth Van Fleet of Georgia State (chair), Russell Brock, LSU, Andrew Fuller of Stanford, Hector Gutierrez of TCU, Kristina Hernandez of Stetson, Evan Silberstein, Hawai’i, Darin Van Horn of UT Chattanooga, Allison Voigt of Boise State, and Eyal Zimet of Tulane.
Story Links Previous Bonham Award Winners HONOLULU — The University of Hawai’i Athletics Department’s highest individual honor, the Jack Bonham Award, was presented to Lily Wahinekapu of women’s basketball, Jordan Wedderburn of women’s water polo, and Brayden Schager of football at the 12th annual […]
HONOLULU — The University of Hawai’i Athletics Department’s highest individual honor, the Jack Bonham Award, was presented to Lily Wahinekapu of women’s basketball, Jordan Wedderburn of women’s water polo, and Brayden Schager of football at the 12th annual H Awards on Wednesday night at SimpliFi Arena at Stan Sheriff Center.
Leadership on the court, in the pool, and on the field, along with excellence in the classroom and service in the community link the 2025 recipients of the award considered UH Athletics’ most prestigious honor.
The Jack Bonham Award is named for the late assistant athletics director who was killed in a plane crash in American Samoa in 1974. Bonham was returning to the islands from New Zealand where he was on a recruiting trip at the British Commonwealth Games.
Established in 1974, the Bonham Award is given annually to the top male and female senior student-athlete who “best exemplifies the ideals for which Jack Bonham stood for in the areas of athletic excellence, academic achievement, public service, leadership and character.”
Co-honorees received the women’s award for the second straight year and the fifth time overall. Wahinekapu is the 12th women’s basketball student-athlete to earn the award and third in the last four years, following Amy Atwell (2022) and Olivia Davies (2024). Wedderburn is the third water polo honoree and the second in the last three years, joining Andrea Nishioka (2001) and Emma van Rossum (2023).
Schager is the 17th football honoree and first since Kealoha Pilares was the male recipient in 2011. He is also the first quarterback to win the award since Colt Brennan in 2008.
Lily Wahinekapu, Women’s Basketball
‘Ohana has been at the core of Wahinekapu’s decorated three-year athletic and academic careers as a member of the Rainbow Wahine basketball program. Playing in front of family and friends in the arena and alongside her sister in the UH backcourt, Wahinekapu led the team in scoring each of her three seasons while helping the ‘Bows capture two Big West regular-season titles and a conference tournament championship on their way to three national postseason tournament appearances.
She was twice named to the All-Big West first team and in 2025 became just the third UH player to be named Big West Player of the Year. She became the 25th member of the program’s 1,000-point club and ended her career 17th on the all-time scoring list. She also ranks seventh in made 3-pointers.
A team captain as a senior, Wahinekapu received the Ah Chew Goo Award as the program’s “most valuable team player.” In the classroom, she earned Academic All-Big West honors each of her three years at UH and was twice named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team.
The product of Kāne’ohe, Wahinekapu also gave back to the Windward O’ahu community in service projects including cleanups at Waimānalo Beach and Punalu’u Lo’i. She also helped fundraise for the Hawai’i Foodbank as part of Maui wildfire relief efforts and has worked with special needs children with Team Impact.
“Lily Wahinekapu has been one of my favorite athletes to coach,” UH women’s basketball head coach Laura Beeman said. “She is passionate and an incredible teammate. She has represented the university and the state with pride.”
Jordan Wedderburn, Water Polo
Prioritizing team success over individual accolades, Jordan Wedderburn has exemplified selfless leadership while contributing to the most successful four-year stretch in UH water polo history.
Wedderburn served as a team captain for South Africa’s water polo team in the Tokyo Olympic Games before enrolling at UH and has ranked among the team’s scoring leaders each of her four years while thriving in varying roles within the lineup. She further elevated her production as a senior, posting a career-high 65 goals entering the NCAA Championship to join UH’s career top 10. She also tied program records with three Big West Player of the Week awards this season and four in her career.
She has helped UH claim three Big West regular-season titles with a 26-1 cumulative record in conference play, and back-to-back Big West Championship crowns. She helped UH ascend to No. 2 in the national polls in 2024 — the highest ranking in program history — and the ‘Bows have maintained a spot in the top three for much of this season.
“Jordan has always been the spirit of the team, providing energy in a positive manner whenever the team needs it,” UH water polo coach James Robinson said. “Jordan plays a role for this team that she never played before in her water polo career. Every year Jordan has had to make sacrifices and play a different role than she probably would like to, but she has never once complained.
“Jordan was a leader by example, and has always found ways to contribute in the biggest moments.”
Wedderburn holds a 3.78 grade-point average while majoring in kinesiology and entered her senior year as a two-time Academic All-Big West and ACWPC All-Academic honoree. She has served as a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative for two years and worked with Access Surf, helping those with physical or cognitive disabilities to swim or surf. She’s also participated in Kōkua Learning Farm work days and with the Child Life Program, spending time with children going through treatment for retinoblastoma (an eye cancer) and their families.
Brayden Schager, Football
On the field, Brayden Schager earned a place among UH’s storied line of quarterbacks over his career as a three-year starter. Off the field, his efforts to spread joy to young people with special needs — both in Hawai’i and his home state of Texas — drew national acclaim.
Schager made 37 starts at quarterback in his UH career, the second highest total in program history, including a record streak of 33 in a row. He picked up All-Mountain West honorable mention recognition in 2023 and closed his career ranked among the most prolific passers in program history at No. 4 in passing yards (9,096) and total offense (9,415). He’s also fifth in passing touchdowns (60) and touchdowns responsible for (68).
A three-time Academic All-Mountain West honoree, Schager was one of 11 FBS players nationally selected to the 2024 AFCA Good Works Team, which honored student-athletes for their unwavering commitment to community service and their “good works” off the field. He was also a semifinalist for the 2024 Wuerffel Award, considered college football’s premier honor for community service.
Throughout his stay in Hawai’i, he remained committed to organizing the Buddy Bowl, an event he founded with his sister in their hometown of Highland Park, Texas. The game gives athletes with physical and mental disabilities an opportunity to play with their peers with the support of fans, the Highland Park football team and cheerleaders. During his time in Hawai’i, he participated in the Unity Prom for special needs students and took part in the Night to Shine where he formed a close bond with a dear friend with special needs who he continues to call and text. He also helped develop the BraddahBall, with proceeds going to Maui relief efforts.
“He was a team captain for us and spent the last three years on our leadership committee,” UH football coach Timmy Chang said. “He has been a focal point of the program, not only on the field but off the field as well with his engagement within the community. … He is an exceptional individual and that was displayed during his time at the University of Hawai’i. Brayden Schager helped lay the foundation for the future of our program.”
No. 11 LSU beach volleyball soon heads to the national championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama starting Friday. For two members of the team, it’s the culmination of years of pushing each other in constructive competition as best friends. LSU redshirt sophomore Kate Baker and freshman Camryn Chatellier are childhood best friends who have fueled one […]
No. 11 LSU beach volleyball soon heads to the national championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama starting Friday. For two members of the team, it’s the culmination of years of pushing each other in constructive competition as best friends.
LSU redshirt sophomore Kate Baker and freshman Camryn Chatellier are childhood best friends who have fueled one another from their youth all the way to college.
Both from New Orleans, Chatellier and Baker have been training together since the ages of 15 and 13 years old and now compete side-by-side in the purple and gold uniform under head coach Russell Brock.
“I think it’s super lucky to actually have your best friend on the team,” Chatellier said. “Not that many people get that opportunity – to have someone you grew up with get to actually be on the team with you too.”
Graduating from St. Mary’s Dominican High School, both girls shared a career in basketball and indoor volleyball before jointly choosing to focus on beach volleyball.
While playing indoor volleyball, they played under Chatellier’s mother, St. Mary’s head volleyball coach Jessica Chatellier.
Chatellier’s mother said it was difficult to find the line between being a coach and being a mom to her daughter, but the two have grown to where they are now.
“I’ve never really got the chance to be like ‘mom,’” Jessica Chatellier said. “So this is awesome. It’s so great just to sit back and support her and watch her really live the dream that she’s been working for for so long.”
While Chatellier’s family played a large part in guiding her daughter to her athletic career, she always found that she had her best friend’s shoulder to lean on in times of need.
“A big part of my life here is making sure Cameron’s doing everything she needs to do and just pushing her to be better,” Baker said. “Obviously she has been super successful this season. So any part I can play in making her even better – that’s almost more rewarding for me.”
During her redshirt freshman season, Baker competed in five matches where she finished with a 2-3 overall record. Now that Chatellier has joined her this year at LSU, she has served as anchor for the freshman, who’s been named to the CCSA All-Freshman team.
“When we were really close in a game against Cal, I could hear her on the side,” Chatellier said. “So hearing what feels like my sister’s voice on the side, is just so calming and comforting in the most high pressure movements.”
Behind every player’s jersey number is a story. When Chatellier arrived at LSU, she took the No. 3 to honor her great grandmother. It’s the number she once wore when she played the sport.
Chatellier said she grew closer to her great grandmother during her time in high school. She never missed a match, even if she had to watch on Facebook Live.
“She’s got volleyball in her, in her blood, definitely,” Chatellier’s grandmother Debi Perdue said. “I just wish my mother could have seen her, she definitely knew she committed to LSU.”
Chatellier’s great grandmother passed – on the third day of February 2024, also adding to the meaning of the jersey number. Chatellier expressed how difficult the loss of her great grandmother was to her and how grateful she is for being able to continue her legacy through the No. 3.
“I like wearing that number because I want to spread what she gave to me,” Chatellier said. “Like all the good stuff that she passed to me.”
Baker’s jersey number, No. 7, is a nod to the football team’s annual tradition of giving out the No. 7 to the best playmaker.
“I want to make an impact here,” Baker said. “And I think it would be really special to kind of carry that tradition of football’s No. 7 into beach volleyball.”
In awe of her best friend, Chatellier commented on Baker’s work ethic and training definitely backs up the number.
Baker and Chatellier have competed side-by-side for as long as they can remember, but what led them to choose LSU?
For Baker it was a no-brainer, as she grew up being an LSU fan. Her father Gavin Baker attended the university for an undergraduate and graduate degree in nursing and anesthesiology.
“We can appreciate what it means to be a real Tiger fan,” Gavin Baker said. “She’s grown up as an LSU basketball, gymnastics and football fan, of course, just ever since she was born.”
Chatellier was just as eager to make her way to LSU and compete alongside Baker, but her parents made sure she kept her options open before fully committing to the university.
“We talked to a lot of other schools,” Jessica Chatellier said. “Being a coach’s kid, she knows what the word culture means. She loved the culture here. She could just really see that this is a family.”
There was also one other person ready to welcome Chatellier to the Tiger family: her older brother Quint Chatellier, a sophomore studying electrical engineering at LSU.
“I honestly think Cameron can achieve anything she puts her mind to,” Quint Chatellier said. “And I could never say it in front of her, but I’m extremely proud of her… I love the amazing human being she’s become.”
Chatellier praised her teammate for pushing her to be the best version of herself while balancing her own hard work.
“Kate has always been my role model, since I was six years old,” Chatellier said. “So just the fact that she’s just such a good one from the age of eight – and now she’s 21 – being that person consistently is a testament to the kind of person she is.”
Baker echoed the same idea, while also acknowledging how well Chatellier has balanced the lifestyle adjustment that comes with being a freshman in college.
“Seeing how she’s handled it, and how she’s been so successful this season does make me super proud,” Baker said about her teammate. “Especially since I’ve had a front row seat, watching each day how hard she works, seeing it all come to life and watching her dream come true does make me really proud.”
Evan Silberstein feels he did what he could, while he could with the Hawaii beach volleyball program. It’s now someone else’s turn to steward it. UH acting athletic director Lois Manin announced Wednesday that the school’s four-year head beach coach has not been retained. Silberstein, who had been on staff with the program for 11 […]
Evan Silberstein feels he did what he could, while he could with the Hawaii beach volleyball program.
It’s now someone else’s turn to steward it. UH acting athletic director Lois Manin announced Wednesday that the school’s four-year head beach coach has not been retained.
Silberstein, who had been on staff with the program for 11 of its 14 seasons of existence, led UH to the NCAA Tournament in each of his first three seasons as head coach. But the Rainbow Wahine just submitted their first losing season (14-21) in beach volleyball’s era as a fully sanctioned NCAA sport, since 2016.
It is the first head coaching change made under Manin, the former UH associate athletic director and Senior Woman Administrator who took over the department’s head position from the fired Craig Angelos on Dec. 1.
“We have decided to move in a different direction with our beach volleyball program,” Manin said in a statement. “We appreciate everything Evan has given to this program as both an assistant and head coach and we wish him well.”
In her five months heading up the athletic department, Manin has extended football coach Timmy Chang and women’s indoor volleyball coach Robyn Ah Mow. She gave a statement of confidence but no extension to men’s basketball coach Eran Ganot, who is entering the final year of his contract in 2025-26.
As of early Thursday morning, Manin had not responded to a Spectrum News question about beach volleyball program expectations.
Per UH, Silberstein’s three-year contract is set to expire on May 31. UH indoor assistant Nick Castello will serve as interim head coach until a full replacement is hired, UH said.
Silberstein, the fourth head coach in program history, was 89-59 in his four years. He was an assistant for seven years prior, serving under Jeff Hall for six and then Angelica Ljungqvist for one. When Ljungqvist left, he became interim head coach and then had then interim tag removed heading into the 2022 season.
Silberstein told Spectrum News in a phone interview that he felt good about helping build the program for more than a decade. UH went to the postseason tournament held annually in Gulf Shores, Ala., in eight of 10 seasons (not including the COVID-abbreviated 2020 campaign) while he was on staff.
UH won the Big West title as recently as 2024. The 2025 squad was young, he acknowledged, but it was a group he said he thought was on “a positive trajectory.” UH started off with a series of losses against a stacked field in the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Classic in February and was not able to become a Big West contender by April.
Evan Silberstein at the Outrigger Duke Kahanamoku Classic at Queen’s Beach in February. (Spectrum News/Brian McInnis)
“The track record is really just, I think, something to be very proud of,” Silberstein said. “So I’m grateful to all the athletes, other people that have come in and contributed, so many of the volunteers and people around the program that helped to make it what it is. I’m grateful to have been able to do everything I could for it. You know, I would have loved to do more, and was ready to do so. And those are decisions someone else gets to make about who’s next. So I wish them all the best.”
But, he cautioned, the new coach faces a much tougher competitive landscape than even five years ago as power programs have invested heavily, erasing the head start UH had on many of them — a gap that was especially large when beach was still known as sand volleyball for its first four years as an NCAA emerging sport from 2012 to 2015.
“What we’ve seen in the last few years is just a lot of facilities (investment),” Silberstein said. “So when you’re training on two courts (like at the Ching Complex) compared to five, same amount of athletes, that’s like a big factor right now.”
Many power conference beach programs have assembled three full-time staff members, he said. Keeping his own staff intact was more akin to playing in quicksand.
“Those are the hardest things about what my job was like, keeping it all up with what we got,” he said.
Silberstein, a Long Island, N.Y., native who had a past stop at Punahou School, said Hawaii can help its cause as a state by sanctioning beach volleyball as a high school sport. The UH program has tried to compensate for the lack of homegrown beach-focused players by hitting up the Wahine indoor program for crossover talent, but there have been diminishing returns with that approach, he said.
“We’re not anywhere near tapping the resource locally,” Silberstein said. “That’s where it really needs to get done. Maybe this will be my opportunity to teach people about what’s really needed in our community, which is high school and juniors beach volleyball everywhere.
“Then the University of Hawaii has a chance to compete, because we can pull a better resource locally. Right now, we just can’t, and that’s keeping Texas past us, Arizona past us, Florida past us, certainly California past us.”
Brian McInnis covers the state’s sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.
HUNTINGTON BEACH — The Huntington Beach boys volleyball team gained momentum in the middle of the first set against Newport Harbor in an opening-round, pool-play match in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Wednesday. The Oilers, the No. 2 seed, kept it up through the second set, faltered a bit in the third and then […]
HUNTINGTON BEACH — The Huntington Beach boys volleyball team gained momentum in the middle of the first set against Newport Harbor in an opening-round, pool-play match in the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs on Wednesday.
The Oilers, the No. 2 seed, kept it up through the second set, faltered a bit in the third and then took control back in the fourth, defeating the No. 6 Sailors, 25-14, 25-19, 20-25, 25-20, at Huntington Beach High School.
Huntington Beach (34-3), one of three Sunset League teams in the Division 1 bracket, will host Redondo on Tuesday, May 6. The Seahawks defeated No. 3 Loyola on Wednesday in three sets.
Newport Harbor (13-17) will take on the Cubs on Wednesday at Loyola.
“They’ve been hot as of late,” Huntington Beach coach Craig Pazanti said of the Sailors. “So, coming in I think we got off to a really good start. I don’t think we could do anything wrong in that first set. And then the second set kind of carried over. We took a lead at around 12-12 and kind of sustained it. And then they came out on fire in the third.
“That’s the thing: You can never stop playing. Anyone can come back at any time. All eight teams in Division 1 are great. So, credit to them that they didn’t give up after being down 2-0 and they came out and won that third set.”
The Oilers defeated the Sailors in their two Sunset League matches by scores of 3-1.
Huntington Beach got almost an equal number of points from its outside and opposite side hitters and from the middle hitter.
Logan Hutnick and Colin Choi had 17 kills and 14 kills, respectively, for the Oilers, mostly from the outside and Ben Arguello scored most of his 15 kills from the middle.
J.P. Wardy and Henry Koch had 11 kills each for the Sailors.
“We truly came out and wanted to win,” Hutnick said. “And they didn’t give up either, you know. They came back. They definitely put up a fight winning that third set, but I’m really happy with how we did today.”
The Oilers were leading 9-8 in the first set and then went on a 16-6 run to pull away and win the set.
Newport Harbor tried to keep it close in the second set and led 15-14 when the Oilers went on an 11-4 run to take a 2-0 lead.
The Sailors built a 10-4 lead in the third set and never looked back.
“We didn’t play very well,” Pazanti told his team after the third said. “We stopped passing the ball and that’s going to take us out of what we’re trying to do offensively. So, I said, let that one go. The cool part about volleyball is it’s 0-0 to start the fourth set. So, let’s just start over just like it’s the beginning of the match and let’s take it from here.
“Even though we’re pretty young, it’s a pretty experienced group as far as varsity experience and playing at a pretty high level. So, I’ve got faith in these guys. So hopefully we can just sustain a little run here.”
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