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Long Island woman celebrating 100th birthday shows off 'inspiring' fitness skills, 5
BAY SHORE, Long Island (WABC) — A woman from Long Island is celebrating her 100th birthday, but even more impressive than that milestone… she can do things that many 20-year-olds can’t manage. A typical aerobics fitness class is anything but typical for Geraldine “Jerry” Leo. “April 11th is my 100th birthday,” she said. It’s not […]

BAY SHORE, Long Island (WABC) — A woman from Long Island is celebrating her 100th birthday, but even more impressive than that milestone… she can do things that many 20-year-olds can’t manage.
A typical aerobics fitness class is anything but typical for Geraldine “Jerry” Leo.
“April 11th is my 100th birthday,” she said.
It’s not just her high tempo, pristine hearing and hand-eye and foot coordination. At the Great South Bay YMCA in Bay Shore, Long Island, it’s the ability of this great grandmother to do a five-minute plank.
The class quit at two minutes, but not Leo. She comfortably holds steady until three.
Her impressive stamina and form were carried out just three days before her 100th birthday.
“She’s a strong woman,” said Great South Bay YMCA Health and Wellness Director Despina Tenedorio.
Group fitness instructor Elizabeth Grant says Leo’s plank is “really unbelievable.”
“She definitely puts some of the class to shame, including me,” said Leo’s friend Marion Saturno.
“Her form is beautiful and she can teach people how to do it the right way,” Grant said.
Which is exactly what she did with Eyewitness News reporter Chantee Lans.

“The Y has been a big part of my life,” Leo said.
It started because of her late husband Dominick, who encouraged them to join the YMCA when it opened in 1991.
“Jerry is an inspiration to everyone who meets her,” Grant said.
“I tell her all the time. She’s my hero,” Saturno said.
The centenarian shared her secret to longevity.
“Be consistent, be positive, and keep moving in whatever you do. That’s very important,” Leo said.
It’s not just aerobics. Leo also takes a weightlifting class on Fridays, but this week for her birthday, both the YMCA and the mayor of Babylon are celebrating her.
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4×400 Relay Shatters School Record for Men’s Track and Field at FIRE Meet
Story Links Williamstown, Mass. – May 11, 2025 – Highlighted by another record breaking performance by the 4×400-meter relay squad, the Springfield College men’s track and field team competed at the Farley Inter-Regional Extravaganza (F.I.R.E.) Meet hosted by Williams College over the weekend. Springfield’s 4×400-meter relay of Tyler Fabbri (Andover, Mass.), Sam Polley (Feeding […]

Williamstown, Mass. – May 11, 2025 – Highlighted by another record breaking performance by the 4×400-meter relay squad, the Springfield College men’s track and field team competed at the Farley Inter-Regional Extravaganza (F.I.R.E.) Meet hosted by Williams College over the weekend.
Springfield’s 4×400-meter relay of Tyler Fabbri (Andover, Mass.), Sam Polley (Feeding Hills, Mass.), Michael Scott (Shoreview, Minn.) and Colin Hansen (Ipswich, Mass.) clocked a 3:13.04 to finish third overall in the event and smash the school record that they set a week ago. The time now currently sits 23rd nationally with just one meet remaining to better it to head to NCAA’s.
Giovanni Henrickson (Chelsea, Mass.) paced Springfield in the 100-meter dash clocking an 11.00 and the 200-meter dash clocking a 22.23, while Joe Wong (Brighton, Mas.) posted a 2:01.84 in the 800-meter run. In the distance events, Christopher Vayda (Southampton, Mass.) posted a 15:26.44 in the 5,000-meter run and Adam Mula (West Townsend, Mass.) clocked a 4:07.56 in the 1,500-meter run. Isaiah Hannah (Ballston Spa, N.Y.) rounded out the highlights on the track with a 15.77 in the 110-meter hurdles.
In the field events, Jamil Manu (Manchester, Conn.) took runner-up honors in the high jump clearing 1.97-meters, Martin Nyagilo (Randolph, Mass.) took seventh in the shot put with a mark of 13.68-meters and Patrick Dahm (Feeding Hills, Mass.) finished tenth in the long jump with a mark of 6.44-meters. Peyton Blanchard (Kennebunk, Maine) paced Springfield in the discus (39.41-meters) and the hammer (41.19-meters), while Cristian Roman-Koenig (Wallingford, Conn.) took sixth in the javelin with a mark of 48.55-meters.
Those who have qualified will compete at this week’s AARTFC Outdoor Championships at Williams College beginning on Wednesday.
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Indy Ignite falls in championship match to Orlando
Meet the co-founders of the Indy Ignite Co-founders of the Indy Ignite Don Hutchinson and Jim Schumacher talk about operations, their backgrounds in volleyball and starting the franchise. In its inaugural season, the Indy Ignite came up one win short of the Professional Volleyball Federation championship. On May 11, Indy fell in four sets (25-21, […]
Meet the co-founders of the Indy Ignite
Co-founders of the Indy Ignite Don Hutchinson and Jim Schumacher talk about operations, their backgrounds in volleyball and starting the franchise.
In its inaugural season, the Indy Ignite came up one win short of the Professional Volleyball Federation championship.
On May 11, Indy fell in four sets (25-21, 25-19, 19-25, 25-15) to the Orlando Valkyries. The Ignite, seeded fourth, advanced to the title match with a five-set upset over top-seeded Omaha on May 9.
Orlando’s Brittany Abercrombie, the 2025 PVF MVP, led the way with 32 total points. For Indy, Azhani Tealer had a team-high 16 points. Lydia Martyn had 12 points while Caroline Crawford and Nina Cajic contributed 11 points each.
With the championship win, Orlando, the No. 3 seed, won the grand prize of $1 million.
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Myers Reps Men’s T&F at Williams College’s FIRE Meet
Story Links WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College hosted its annual Farley Inter Regional Extravaganza (FIRE) Meet over the weekend, and freshman Sam Myers (Ponte Vedra Beach, Calif.) was the Coast Guard Academy men’s track & field team’s lone representative at the compeition. Myers competed in the 800 meters and ran 1:55.78. […]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College hosted its annual Farley Inter Regional Extravaganza (FIRE) Meet over the weekend, and freshman Sam Myers (Ponte Vedra Beach, Calif.) was the Coast Guard Academy men’s track & field team’s lone representative at the compeition.
Myers competed in the 800 meters and ran 1:55.78. The first-year mid-distance specialist secured a top-30 placement after his time stacked up as the 28th-best and tied for second with WPI senior Brendan May.
He finished less than a second away from putting up a new outdoor personal record in the event. His best time occurred in his last outing in the distance at the Trinity Invitational back in mid-April, where he was 10th after running 1:55.53
Bears men’s track & field is gearing up for the upcoming Last Chance Weekend, during which they’ll be competing at MIT’s Final Qualifier. The meet will be a one-day event held this Thursday, May 15th, with the start time expected to be around 10:00 AM.
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Dhalluin scores 3 goals, Stanford beats USC 11-7 to win NCAA women’s water polo title
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Juliette Dhalluin score three goals on Sunday and the Stanford defense allowed just one second-half goal to help the Cardinal beat Southern California 11-7 to claim its 10th NCAA women’s water polo championship and third in the last four seasons. No. 1 Stanford (25-1) finished the season on a 10-game win streak, […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Juliette Dhalluin score three goals on Sunday and the Stanford defense allowed just one second-half goal to help the Cardinal beat Southern California 11-7 to claim its 10th NCAA women’s water polo championship and third in the last four seasons.
No. 1 Stanford (25-1) finished the season on a 10-game win streak, dating to a 12-11 loss to the Trojans on March 29. The Cardinal beat USC 11-7 on April 27 in the semifinals of the MPSF Championship.
Dhalluin scored with a second left in the first half to make it 6-6 and again with 6:47 left in the third — the only goal of the quarter — gave Stanford the lead for good.
Serena Browne added a goal with 6:04 to play and another with 3:06 remaining to make it 9-6.
Ryann Neushul scored a goal to give her and has 228 — fifth most in program history — in her seven-year career (after winning the 2019 national championship, Neushul stepped away from the Cardinal for two years to train with the U.S. national team) and is the first four-time NCAA team champion in Stanford history.
Christine Carpenter had nine saves for the Cardinal.
Meghan McAninch led USC (29-5) with two goals and Anna Reed finished with 11 saves.
The Cardinal are the all-time leaders in NCAA team championship with 137 and have won at least one team title in each of the past 49 seasons.
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Track Set for SoCon Outdoor Championships
Story Links Meet: 2025 SoCon Outdoor Track & Field Championships When: Monday, May 12 – Tuesday, May 13 Start time (track): Monday – 11:00 a.m., Saturday – 1:00 p.m. Where: Birmingham, Ala. Stadium: Shauna Yelton Field at the Samford Track & Soccer Stadium Live Results | Schedule (PDF) *Due to the potential for inclement weather […]

Meet: 2025 SoCon Outdoor Track & Field Championships
When: Monday, May 12 – Tuesday, May 13
Start time (track): Monday – 11:00 a.m., Saturday – 1:00 p.m.
Where: Birmingham, Ala.
Stadium: Shauna Yelton Field at the Samford Track & Soccer Stadium
Live Results | Schedule (PDF)
*Due to the potential for inclement weather on Monday afternoon, the start time for day 1 has been moved to 9:00 a.m. for combined events, 10:00 a.m. for field events and 11:00 a.m. for track events. (updated as of May 11 at 8:30 p.m.)
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) men’s and women’s track teams will begin postseason competition with the 2025 Southern Conference (SoCon) Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Monday and Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama, at Samford Track & Soccer Stadium.
Tuesday’s action will air live on ESPN+ beginning at 12:05 p.m.
SoCon Outdoor Track & Field Championships Central
MEET/FACILITY HISTORY
- Last year, the championships were contested at Samford as well.
- The Bulldogs swept the men’s and women’s SoCon Championships last year for the fourth-straight year.
- This year marks the 100th championship for the men and the 38th for the women.
- Monday’s schedule gets under way with the start of the decathlon at 11 a.m., followed by the start of the heptathlon at 11:15. The women’s hammer throw final gets the field events started at 12:30 p.m., with the first track event, the preliminaries of the women’s 1,500-meter run, slated to begin at 4 p.m. In all, 12 champions will be crowned on the first day of competition – four on the track and eight in field events.
- Tuesday’s schedule opens with resumption of the decathlon at 9 a.m., with the heptathlon resuming at 9:15. Field events begin with the women’s shot put and women’s high jump finals at 11:15 a.m. and the women’s 4×100-meter relay gets the track events started at 1 p.m. The day concludes with the women’s and men’s 4×400-meter relays at 4:25 and 4:35, respectively, followed by the awards ceremony. Thirty events will crown champions on the final day of the meet.
- Record Book
Spartans at the Starting Line (subject to change):
MEN
800m – Samuel Barnard, Andrew Hamilton
1500m – Colin Keck, Lane Prochaska, Logan Ruffner
3000m steeplechase – Spencer Connick
5000m – Pierson Guerrant, Colin Keck, Evan Pena, Luke Ward
10000m – Evan Pena, Mason Rudel, Luke Ward
4x400m – Samuel Barnard, Andrew Hamilton, Glodi Mvovi, Lane Prochaska, Logan Ruffner
WOMEN
5000m – Emma Berrier, Lillian Douglass, Vicky Sosa
10000m – Tenley Douglass, Vicky Sosa
HOW THE MEN LINE UP AT THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Andrew Hamilton broke the UNCG school record in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:51.41 at the Charlotte Invitational this season. The previous school record was 1:51.63 held by Jeff Williams from April 8, 2006. Hamilton’s time is third on the SoCon Outdoor Performance List.
- Samuel Barnard continued to follow Hamilton this season and clocked in a personal best time in the 800-meter run at Charlotte Invitational 1:51.50. His time is fourth on the performance list.
- Spencer Connick had a personal best in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the Dennis Craddock Coaches Classic with a time of 9:57.28. This was 35 seconds faster than his previous time this season. His time is seventh on the SoCon Performance List.
- Pierson Guerrant ran a personal best time of 14:50.35 in the 5000-meter run at the Dennis Craddock Coaches Classic which was a minute faster than his previous time this season. Guerrant’s time is 13th on the SoCon Performance List.
- Colin Keck ran the 1500-meter run twice this season with a season-best time of 3:58.55 at the VertKlasse Meeting, which is .49 off his personal best time.
- He will also be running in the 5000-meter run, which he ran a time of 15:08.91 at the Duke Invitational.
- Evan Pena and Luke Ward will both double back, as they will run in the 5000-meter and 10000-meter events. Pena clocked in a personal best of 14:38.64 at the Charlotte Invitational in the 5000-meter which is eighth in the UNCG record book, while Ward ran his personal best time of 14:57.11 at the Duke Invitational this season.
- Pena’s time is 10th on the SoCon Performance List, while Ward’s time is 14th on the list.
- Lane Prochaska and Logan Ruffner will also compete in the 1500-meter run.
HOW THE WOMEN LINE UP AT THE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Vicky Sosa is looking to double back by running in the 5000-meter and 10000-meter events. Her 5000-meter time of 18:02.54 at the Duke Invitational this season is 19th on the SoCon Outdoor Performance List.
- Emma Berrier’s time of 18:13.06 from the Dennis Craddock Coaches Classic is 23rd on the SoCon Outdoor Performance List.
- Lillian Douglass will compete in the 5000-meter run at the championships, while Tenley Douglass will run in the 10000-meter run.
UP NEXT
Those that will qualify will go on to compete at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field East Region Championships set for May 28-31 in Jacksonville, Florida.
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