MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – West Fowler, a 16-year-old trampoline gymnast from Gulf Breeze, Florida, is officially headed to Spain this fall as a member of Team USA. He’s been selected to compete at the 2025 Trampoline Gymnastics World Championships, taking place November 6 through 9 in Pamplona. West will represent the U.S. in the Double Mini Trampoline event, where he’s already recognized as one of the top athletes in the world. He’ll also serve as the alternate for the tumbling competition.

West began gymnastics at just one year old, growing up in the sport thanks to his parents, Blain and Alie Fowler, who own a gym. He currently trains at Panhandle Perfection Gymnastics in Gulf Breeze and on the Pensacola State College campus. In addition to his trampoline success, West is also a standout in artistic gymnastics. He was the regional Level 10 All-Around champion this season and took home individual titles on pommel horse and vault.

A student at Florida Virtual School, West balances intense training and travel with his education. His goal is to compete at the highest level in both trampoline and artistic gymnastics, and with his upcoming appearance at the World Championships, he’s well on his way.

Good luck, West!

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HANOVER, N.H.—Reid Cashman, the Koenig Family Head Coach of Dartmouth Men’s Hockey announced the full schedule for the 2025-26 Dartmouth men’s hockey season on Tuesday.

The Big Green start the season with a scrimmage against Norwich University (NCAA DII) on Sunday, Oct. 26 at Thompson Arena.  

Dartmouth kicks off the regular season on the road against Stonehill on Saturday, Nov. 1 at Warrior Ice Arena in Boston, Mass.

The following day the Big Green take on Yale in a non-conference game at Thompson Arena which is the first of three straight games at home. Faceoff is slated for 5 PM against the Bulldogs.

ECAC play opens on Friday, Nov. 7 at Thompson Arena as Colgate travels to Hanover. The Big Green close out the early three game homestand the following day against Cornell, both faceoffs are scheduled for 7 PM.

Dartmouth travels to the North Country for a pair of games against St. Lawrence and Clarkson the following weekend. The Big Green and Saints play on Friday, Nov. 14 at 7 PM while Clarkson and the Big Green square off the next day at 4 PM.

Following a weekend off, the Big Green play a pair of home non-conference games starting on Friday, Nov. 28 against former ECAC rival Vermont. Merrimack travels to Hanover on Saturday, Nov. 29 to take on the Big Green for the second straight season.

Dartmouth plays six games in the month of December with five of them coming at Thompson Arena. The Big Green open the month against Brown on Friday, Dec. 5 at home before hosting Yale on Saturday, Dec. 6 in the final ECAC game of 2025.

The Big Green play a pair of non-conference games before the holiday break. Dartmouth hosts Army for the first time since the 2018-19 season on Friday, Dec. 12. Dartmouth then travels to Durham to take on UNH on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 4 PM.

Following the holiday break, the Big Green welcome Arizona State to Thompson Arena for the 36^th Annual Ledyard Classic. The first game of the two-game series is on Saturday, Dec. 27 with the second game coming against the Sun Devils on Sunday, Dec. 28.

Dartmouth opens the new year with a road trip to Princeton on Friday, Jan. 2 before taking on Quinnipiac on Saturday, Jan. 3 in Hamden, Conn.

Following the road trip, the Big Green return to Hanover for three straight ECAC games starting on Friday, Feb. 9 against Harvard at 7 PM. Dartmouth then closes out season series’ against Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Friday, Jan. 16 and Saturday, Jan. 17.

Seven of the final 11 regular season games are road games for the Big Green, starting on Friday, Jan. 23 at Cornell. Dartmouth takes on Colgate on Saturday, Jan. 24.

Dartmouth closes the month of January at home to take on New York State capital region foes Union and RPI at Thompson Arena. Dartmouth faces on the Garnet Chargers on Friday, Jan. 30 before taking on RPI on Saturday, Jan. 31.

The Big Green open February with five straight road games beginning on Friday, Feb. 6 at Harvard. Dartmouth travels to Yale and Brown to close out the season series’ against the Bulldogs and Bears on Feb. 13-14.

For the final road trip of the regular season, Dartmouth takes on RPI on Friday, Feb. 20 and Union on Saturday, Feb. 21.

The Big Green close out the regular season at home against Quinnipiac and Princeton on Friday, Feb. 27 and Saturday, Feb. 28. The last time Dartmouth and Princeton squared off in the regular season finale was on Mar. 4, 1995, in which the Big Green won 3-2 at Thompson Arena.

Dartmouth is coming off an historic 2024-25 season in which it won the outright Ivy League Championship for the first time since the 1979-80 season. It was the first Ivy League title since 2007. The Big Green return three of their top five scorers from a season ago including leading scorers CJ Foley and Nikita Nikora who each had 30 points in 33 games last season.

Season ticket deposits are open for Dartmouth men’s hockey and can be purchased by clicking here.

According to SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, despite Donald Trump‘s involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, the president apparently still has time to butt into college sports’ name, image, and likeness legislation.

During a recent round of golf with the president, Sankey says Trump reaffirmed his goals to implement what Sankey dubbed “real boundaries” on the polarizing new system.

“It’s not a secret. I had a chance to visit with the President, along with Pete Bevacqua, the athletics director at Notre Dame,” Sankey bragged, via ESPN. “We met and played golf at Bedminster, and his interest is real. My takeaway: he wants to be supportive of college athletics, make sure that it’s sustainable, the Olympic program, and the Olympic development.”

He added: “Work that’s done on college campuses was on his mind. The support of women’s athletics was on his mind, but having some kind of real boundaries, and we’ve been in active conversations.”

The proposed executive order aims to create national standards for NIL, address athlete compensation, and provide clarity on the employment status of college athletes, according to WIBC. It also seeks to grant antitrust exemptions to the NCAA and other governing bodies to provide more stability.

Since July 2021, college players have controlled how their identities are used in marketing and promotional activities, and in some cases, earned large sums of money, essentially making them professionals who play on college courts and fields.

The NCAA’s prior restrictions on student-athletes being paid for their likeness led to legal challenges, culminating in the Supreme Court’s 2021 ruling, which found that these restrictions violated antitrust laws.

This paved the way for the NCAA to adopt an NIL policy and for states to enact legislation allowing student-athletes to monetize their NIL.

While the system is imperfect and has irked old school coaches — like seven-time national champion coach Nick Saban, who left the University of Alabama in Jan. 2024 due to NIL — some feel players deserve at least some of the immense revenue spawned by the thrills they provide.

Nonetheless, NIL has sparked an ethical debate surrounding its free-agent nature, and lack of leverage coaches have versus paid players, who can transfer as many times as they please for bigger paychecks. And Trump appears to have found way to leverage it all.

Rian Chudzinski signed with Moncton in the QMJHL. (Dave Arnold/NEHJ)

In Part 1 of the boys’ prep coaches survey, we focused on the players and teams of this past season. Part 2 looked ahead to next season.

But a large cloud of uncertainty hangs over prep entering this coming season, and that’s what Part 3 is focused on.

The CHL ruling.

Beginning last November, CHL players became eligible to play NCAA Division 1 hockey. This means many things.

For starters, NCAA programs have brought in quite a few current CHL players to begin this fall. They have also committed future CHL talent. There are, at least for now, fewer spots in Division 1 college hockey. More on that in a separate story.

But where this could really impact prep is that players now have the option of going to the CHL for junior hockey. Around here, the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League has regional rights to New England players.

The CHL also includes the Ontario Hockey League, which has rights to players from states like New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the Western Hockey League.

So, we asked prep coaches what they think the fallout will be. All coaches were granted anonymity.

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) announced its annual list of Krampade Division II/III All-American Scholars. Across the country, 664 men’s hockey players were recognized, with 16 of them representing the Norwich Men’s Ice Hockey team.

The honor is awarded to student-athletes who achieved a minimum 3.75 GPA during both semesters and participated in at least 40 percent of their team’s games with exceptions for backup goaltenders and injured players including:

• Cooper Bertrand (Caledon, On.)
• Jed Brazo (Homer, N.Y.)
• Nick Cordeiro (Mississauga, On.)
• Holden Doggett (Oakville, On.)
• Colin Elliott (Peterborough, On.)
• Owen Hains (Lebanon, Pa.)
• Matt Harvey (Fort Covington, N.Y.)
• Hayden Heinrich (Richmond Hill, On.)
• Harris Hilfiker (Middletown, N.J.)
• Clark Kerner (Kansas City, Kan.)
• Sami Molu (Toronto, On.)
• Zach Ophoven (Burlington, On.)
• Adam Schuchart (Marietta, Ga.)
• Devon Thibodeau (Pelham, On.)
• Ben van Waterschoot (Whitby, On.)
• Jared Weisert (Southlake, Texas)

The AHCA Krampade All-American Scholar program, now in its ninth year, celebrates academic achievement among student-athletes from all NCAA divisions. Krampade, a performance drink company, sponsors the award as part of its mission to promote athletic success and recovery.

Fourteen of the sixteen representatives were also given New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) All-Academic team recognition for their stellar performance in the classroom.