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AUSTIN, Texas – North Dakota State University track & field athletes Merrideth Spiers, Sam Roller, and Zach McGlynn have been named to the CSC Academic All-America second team for Division I, the College Sports Communicators announced Wednesday.
 

This is the first Academic All-America honor of Spiers’ career, and the first for the NDSU women since 2022. The Bison women have now earned 21 Academic All-America honors in track & field and cross country since the Division I transition.
 
Spiers (Grant City, Mo.) owns a 4.0 GPA pursuing a Ph.D. in criminal justice after earning her undergrad degree with a 4.0 majoring in psychology. She ranked 45th nationally in the weight throw for the indoor season and qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds in the hammer throw outdoor.
 
Previously this season, Spiers was voted Academic All-League for the Summit League indoor and outdoor seasons, as well as being named the 2025 Summit League Outdoor Scholar of the Championship.

 Both McGlynn and Roller were named to the Academic All-America second team. The NDSU men’s track & field program has now claimed 18 Academic All-America honors since the school’s Division I transition.

 

McGlynn (Stephen, Minn.) earned a degree in agricultural economics with a 4.0 GPA and is pursuing an MBA with a 4.0 as well. He broke the NDSU school record in the decathlon with an NCAA-qualifying 7,697 points this spring, but was forced to miss the NCAA Championships due to injury.

 

McGlynn also recorded marks this season that rank him fifth in NDSU outdoor history for the high jump and seventh for the pole vault.

 

Roller (Thompson, N.D.) recorded a 4.0 GPA to earn his degree in biological sciences. He qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships, was named the NCAA Elite 90 Award winner for outdoor track & field, and won the Summit League title in the javelin this season.

 

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South Dakota State’s Hunter Wallster was selected to College Sports Communicator’s (CSC) Academic All-America Second Team as announced by the CSC Wednesday afternoon.

The honor recognizes student-athletes for outstanding performances in both the classroom and competition. This marks the second time Wallster has been named to the Academic All-America Second Team, as the Canadian clinched a spot on second team last year. 

Wallster takes this honor following an outstanding year of competition, as he recorded two conference titles between the outdoor and indoor seasons. Wallster first won the weight throw during the Summit League Indoor Championships with a personal record mark of 68-00.50 (20.74m) before taking the hammer throw title with a throw of 200-08.00 (61.17m) at the Outdoor Conference Championships.

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Next up in our series of All-21st Century Syracuse Orange teams is women’s volleyball. We’ll pick two players at both outside hitter and middle blocker, along with an outside hitter, setter and libero.

Outside Hitter:

Polina Shemanova: Two-time AVCA Honorable Mention All-American. Three-time First-Team All-ACC selection. Holds Syracuse record for kills in a career (1,845).

Marina Markova: AVCA Honorable Mention All-American in 2021 when she recorded 492 kills

Right-side Hitter:

Kelly Duan– 2005 AVCA Honorable Mention All-American. Two-time First-Team All-Big East selection. Syracuse career record holder for kills in a single-season (537 in 2005)

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Middle Blocker:

Santita Ebangwese- 2018 AVCA Honorable Mention All-American. Two time All-ACC. Holds Syracuse records for single-season hitting percentage (.425) and career hitting percentage (.351)

Sarah Morton– holds the single-season record for solo blocks (72). Averaged the most blocks per set in both the 25 and 30 point scoring systems.

Setter:

Aila Dommestrup- third all-time in assists and fourth in assists per set

Libero:

Joscie Kaup- led the Orange in digs all four seasons. Holds the Syracuse record for most digs per set and is fourth in career service aces.

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The Orange will start the 2025 season on August 29th hoping to bounce back from a 3-17 ACC record last year.

AUSTIN, Texas – UIndy student-athlete Alex Meyer was voted to the 2025 Academic All-America® Division II Track & Field Team, as selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) and announced Tuesday. Meyer was selected to the second-team, becoming the first Greyhound track and field athlete to be honored on the Academic All-American list since Keeton Adams was selected to the third team in 2023. The annual list recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the track and in the classroom.

Meyer had an excellent 2024-25 academic and athletic year. He carried a 3.57 grade point average studying exercise science, while also becoming an outdoor NCAA Division II national champion in long jump. Along with his national championship, he also added his second career GLVC title, an indoor All-America honors in long jump at the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships meet in March, and All-American honors for his national championship winning outdoor season. In just two seasons with the Greyhounds, Meyer has already begun stockpiling awards both on the track and in the classroom. 

The head coach of the Penn State women’s volleyball team will be awarded the 2025 Jimmy V Award at the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards this evening.

Katie Schumacher-Cawley took over as head coach of Penn State’s women’s volleyball team in 2022.

She publicly shared she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer last October. That same year, she led the team to be the 2024 NCAA national champions.

The Jimmy V Award for Perseverance is named after the late Jim Valvano, a college basketball coach and ESPN broadcaster.

The award is presented at the ESPYS by the V Foundation for Cancer Research, a non-profit founded by Valvano. It’s awarded to “a deserving member of the sporting world who has overcome great obstacles through perseverance and determination.”

The V Foundation posted a video of Schumacher-Cawley reacting to being chosen for the award.

“I’m speechless,” she said. “I’m totally honored. What a… what an honor that is. And, thank you guys. That’s super special.”

The award will be presented at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC, ESPN+ and Disney+.

SINGAPORE – For as long as he can remember, sport has been a part of Vince Vigvari’s life.

Coming from a sporting family, the support of their household is what drove the 22-year-old and his brother, Vendel, who is a year older, to excel with Hungary’s men’s water polo team.

“It all comes from them, because if it weren’t for the whole family, 100 per cent we wouldn’t be here.

“My parents both were active athletes, and they kind of decided that we are going to play water polo. And from when I was eight years old, they were supporting us, like crazy.

“The whole family was driving us one hour every day to bring us to practice, and it’s this kind of mentality and support that we received from them that followed us throughout our whole career,” said the 1.88m Vince.

The duo are in Singapore with the Hungarian team vying to reclaim the World Aquatics Championships title which they won at the 2023 edition in Fukuoka, Japan.

The Vigvari brothers have a strong sporting lineage. Their maternal grandparents are Pal Schmitt, a two-time Olympic fencing champion (1968 and 1972) and former Hungarian President from 2010 to 2012, and gymnast Katalin Makray, the 1964 Olympic silver medallist.

Their mother Petra Schmitt is a former tennis player and dad Csaba Vigvari is a former water polo player.

When asked if the brothers had a choice in selecting their sport when they were younger, Vince said: “My parents discussed before they had their first child, and they decided that if it was going to be a girl, then she’s going to play tennis.

“And if it’s going to be a boy, they are going to go to the pool and learn to swim and then move to water polo.

“But obviously we had a choice and we wanted to do it. We admired our parents and our grandparents, and we (knew) we wanted to do sports.”

Being in the national team with his brother also gave Vince the push to reach greater heights.

“It means (everything to play together)… we are brothers, we grew up together in a super competitive environment, working, competing against each other,” added Vince.

“That’s the other thing that I think helped us to get here to this level… The biggest plan together is to compete at the Olympic Games, and we just aspire to be our best selves and help each other where we can.”

Despite scoring twice, Vince could not help Hungary get a win on July 16 as they faltered late in the 10-9 loss to Spain in their final Group B game.

Vendel, who suffered a stomach bug after their first game win over Australia, is expected to recover in time for Hungary’s play-off against Romania for a quarter-final spot.

Vince admitted they lost to Spain after running out of steam in the final quarter.

“It’s a bit sour in the end, but we will have to deal with it. We played an amazing three quarters… but we didn’t have any energy left in the fourth quarter to make proper decisions and to close the game.”

Spain, who qualified automatically to the quarter-finals, are joined by Italy, who finished top of Group A, Group C winners the United States, and Croatia, the winners of Group D.

Those who finished second and third in their groups advanced to the July 18 crossover matches for spots in the quarter-finals.

Those who finished bottom of their groups enter the classification matches.

Hosts Singapore, who slumped to their biggest defeat of the competition in the 26-6 defeat by the United States in Group C, will face China, who finished bottom of Group D, in the 13th-16th classification match on July 18.

Despite their heavy defeats, Singapore coach Kan Aoyagi saw some positives in the Republic men’s maiden world championship run.

He said: “The US is one of the best teams in the world and I told the boys that we have nothing to lose and we must continue to fight. I think they did quite well and feel a bit more confident.

“We are teaching them now what the world standard is like, because previously they couldn’t imagine (the level), because they never played with them before.”

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When Kai Trump took the stage at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee last July, she spoke from the heart about her grandfather, then-former President Donald Trump, who survived an assassination attempt earlier that month. 

What Trump didn’t expect was that her social media platforms exploded from her speech, and in turn, her content-creator dream blossomed.

Today, Trump sports over 6 million followers across her TikTok, Instagram and YouTube channels. YouTube, specifically, has been a place where she peels back the curtain on her life, from playing rounds of golf with Rory McIlroy and famous YouTube golfers, to walking out to UFC 314 with her grandfather. 

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Donald Trump Jr.’s daughter Kai Madison Trump speaks during the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum. The third day of the RNC focused on foreign policy and threats. (IMAGN)

While Trump is an avid golfer, who just signed an NIL partnership with Accelerator Active Energy ahead of enrolling at the University of Miami in 2026, she has a deep passion for content creation and has loved watching her platform grow.

“It’s been very fun growing it, especially after the RNC and how everything fell into place and I finally had more time to do content creation,” she said. “And I always wanted to do it in my life, so it was really cool to have an opportunity to do it. But it’s been amazing to build a fan base, be a role model for people to look up to as well – younger kids in general. It’s been really cool.”

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Every content creator will say they simply have to take a leap of faith when it comes to posting videos. It requires a certain kind of confidence, which Trump showed on that RNC stage.

Some may have been terrified by speaking to thousands while millions at home were also watching, but not Trump, who has taken that confidence into her content-creation journey.

“The RNC, to be honest with you, I wasn’t really nervous,” she said. “I don’t know why, but speaking from the heart, it was very easy to go up there and talk about the situation that happened and talk about my grandpa. Speaking in public and content creation is very similar. 

Kai Trump says her love for the game of golf has been influenced by her grandfather, President Donald Trump. (Accelerator)

“You have to talk in front of a camera, you’ve got to learn how to engage with the audience and you to do that through your camera or with public speaking.”

Trump gets millions of views on her videos, whether it’s short ones for TikToks or long day-in-the-life posts on YouTube. No matter the length, she’s received a ton of engagement, and her fans have liked how candid she is about her life. 

“My whole life, I’ve just always kind of been around just a lot – a lot of things going on and moving [around],” she said. “I love content creation just because I can share the inside of my life, but I can also interact with the base I’ve built and my community. I think that’s really cool, and obviously I’m very, very thankful for my supporters and all those people who watch my videos. 

Kai Madison Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, Jr., speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon)

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“I’m extremely grateful for everyone supporting me. I fell in love with it just because it’s really cool to film video and all of a sudden edit it, go through that process, post it and see the end result. It’s really cool, especially when you have people interacting with it.”

Trump will be heading to Miami in 2026, where she said her golf career will be “my first priority.” However, as long as she has the time, content creation will always be something she wants to pursue.

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