As announced by Swimming Canada on Thursday (June 12) night, University of Toronto Varsity Blues swimming alumna Kylie Masse and current Varsity Blues swimming coach Linda Kiefer have been named members of the Canadian national team roster set to compete at the World Aquatic Championships this summer in Singapore.

A five-time Olympic medalist and three-time World Aquatics champion, Masse will be making her fifth appearance at the world championships. The U of T kinesiology grad and backstroke specialist holds a streak of medals at every major championships or Games since her first appearance with the national team in 2015.

“It’s always an incredible honour to represent Canada,” said Masse. “For this to be my 10th year on the national team is something I’m really proud of. It feels really special to come back after another Olympics and be able to continue to perform.”

The national team roster was selected based on performances from this past week at the Bell Canadian Swimming Trials held at Saanich Commonwealth Place in Victoria. Masse captured gold in both the 50 and 100 metre backstroke events at the national showcase event.

Joining Masse once again with the national team as an assistant coach will be Kiefer. Set to begin her 36th season with the Varsity Blues swimming program this coming fall, Kiefer has been a consistent presence among Canadian national teams for several years. Regarded as Canada’s highest-ranked female coach, she has been a part of FISU Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Olympic Games.

“Linda has made herself an invaluable piece to the high performance puzzle for Canada’s national swim team,” said Varsity Blues swimming head coach Byron MacDonald. “Her swim knowledge combined with her incredible interpersonal skills with these elite athletes in such highly stressful situations makes her a very welcome member to the Canadian staff.” 

The World Aquatic Championships is scheduled to take place from July 11 – August 3. Over 2,500 athletes will converge on Singapore to determine world champions in swimming, water polo, diving, artistic swimming, open water swimming, and high diving.

Eden Prairie will forever hold the title of the state’s first MSHSL state boys volleyball champion.

The top-seeded Eagles earned that distinction by rallying from a two-set deficit to edge third-seeded Rogers 21-25, 19-25, 27-25, 25-20,15-9 in the state championship bout on Thursday at the University of St. Thomas.

Eden Prairie had to fight off a pair of championship points in the third set before emerging with the set victory and taking control of the final two sets.

The Eagles hit .400 to put the match away in the fifth set after struggling offensively for much of the match. Rogers had seven blocked shots to Eden Prairie’s zero. But Eden Prairie committed just 46 errors to Rogers’ 57.

Hardhik Kommalapati had 19 kills for Eden Prairie (27-2), while Gabriel Hernandez added 16.

Grant Anderson had 25 kills to pace Rogers (27-2). Ghauthamasank Padmanaban had 18 digs for Eden Prairie.

Eastview beat Spring Lake Park in four sets in the third-place match, while Central out-lasted North St. Paul in five sets to win the consolation crown.

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina volleyball team will play 11 non-conference matches in the fall in addition to its previously announced 16-match American Athletic Conference schedule.
 

The Pirates begin the campaign with an exhibition match at Old Dominion Aug. 20th before opening the regular season in Virginia with three contests against Florida A&M (Aug. 29), Maryland Eastern Shore (Aug. 29) and host Hampton (Aug. 30). ECU then heads west to the mountains Sept. 4-5 for a trio of games versus Furman, UNC Asheville and West Georgia.
 

Non-league action continues Sept. 12-13 when the Pirates travel to Williamsburg to face off with William & Mary and Liberty. A midweek affair with Wake Forest Sept. 16 marks the squad’s 2025 home opener while two subsequent matchups with Kansas State (Sept. 20) and North Carolina (Sept. 21) in Chapel Hill provide two final tests before East Carolina heads to the Sunshine State for its first two conference matches at South Florida (Sept. 26) and Florida Atlantic (Sept. 28).
 
The Pirates return eight players from a 2024 team that produced a 19-10 overall record and 11-5 AAC mark before serving as a National Invitational Volleyball Championship First Round and Super 16 host for the second consecutive season. ECU finished third in the league standings – its best placement since joining the conference in 2014.
 
Full 2025 Non-Conference Schedule
Aug. 20 – at Old Dominion (Exhibition)

Aug. 29 – vs. Florida A&M (Hampton, Va.)
Aug. 29 – vs. Maryland Eastern Shore (Hampton, Va.)
Aug. 30 – at Hampton
Sept. 4 – vs. Furman (Asheville, N.C.)
Sept. 4 – at UNC Asheville
Sept. 5 – vs. West Georgia (Asheville, N.C.)

Sept. 12 – at William & Mary
Sept. 13 – vs. Liberty (Williamsburg, Va.)
Sept. 16 – Wake Forest (Greenville, N.C.)
Sept. 20 – vs. Kansas State (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Sept. 21 – at North Carolina
 

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The UNI volleyball team on Friday announced its 28-match schedule for the upcoming 2025 season, with non-conference tournament trips to Dallas, Omaha and Green Bay on tap.

Coming off their third consecutive Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) regular season and tournament championships, plus the program’s 26th NCAA Tournament berth, the Panthers will seek their fourth straight titles for both conference crowns for the first time since 1998-2002

Season ticket renewals for the 2025 season are now on-going through June 30, while new season tickets will launch on July 1 with $75 tickets available arena wide. Single-match tickets will go on sale at a later date.

Young alumni season tickets can now be purchased for any UNI graduate within the past five years for $100. Additional young alumni ticket information can be found HERE.

Tickets can be renewed online at unipanthers.com/tickets, or by calling the UNI Ticket Office at 319-273-4849. Click HERE for a McLeod Center seating chart for volleyball.

To learn more about the Panther Scholarship Club (PSC) or to make a donation, visit supportthepanthers.com/psc or contact the PSC office by phone at (319) 273-2471 or by email at PSC@uni.edu.

Northern Iowa’s 2025 schedule features six NCAA Tournament teams from a year ago (SMU, Creighton, Washington, Louisville, South Dakota State, Arizona State), including two reigning conference regular season champions.

UNI will hold its annual Purple and Gold intrasquad scrimmage inside the McLeod Center on a date still to be determined, and play a preseason exhibition at South Dakota on Aug. 23. The 2025 regular season will begin a week later as the Panthers host the reigning Big 12 champion Arizona State Sun Devils on Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. CT before taking on the defending Summit League regular season champion South Dakota State Jackrabbits the following day. As part of the short two-day tournament, Illinois will also attend for a neutral site match with ASU. 

Northern Iowa hits the road following the Labor Day holiday in Texas for the SMU Tournament, which will begin with a Sept. 4 matchup against Stony Brook, coached by former Panther setter Kristin Belzung. The Panthers will also face SMU on Sept. 5 and Washington on Sept. 6 in Dallas.

For the first time since 2021, UNI will face off at home against in-state rival Iowa State on Sept. 9 in the first matchup between the programs since 2022. The Panthers will return to the road for the second year of its current rotating tournament, taking on Creighton, Louisville and Rice during the weekend of Sept. 12-14. In addition to a battle among former MVC rivals with Creighton, the Saturday, Sept. 13 match against Louisville will be a highly anticipated rematch of last year’s NCAA Tournament second round, where the Panthers took the Cardinals to the brink in a five-set battle against the eventual NCAA runners-up.

The Panthers will close out non-conference action Sept. 18-20 in Wisconsin as they take on Tennessee Tech, Western Michigan and Green Bay at the Green Bay Tournament.

MVC play will commence on Sept. 26 as Northern Iowa opens league action with a road rematch of the 2024 MVC Tournament championship at UIC, paired with a match at Valparaiso (Sept. 27). Following a midweek contest at Drake on Sept. 30, UNI returns home for three straight conference battles with Murray State for homecoming (Oct. 4), Evansville (Oct. 10) and Bradley (Oct. 11).

The Panthers make the first of two southern swings through the MVC at Indiana State (Oct. 17) and Evansville (Oct. 18) before another three-match homestand with Illinois State (Oct. 24), Indiana State (Oct. 25) and Belmont (Oct. 30) coming to town ahead of a Nov. 1 contest at Southern Illinois. UNI will close out the regular season with its final two home matches against Drake (Nov. 4) and UIC (Nov. 7) and return south to take on Murray State (Nov. 15) and Belmont (Nov. 16) on the road.

This year’s MVC Tournament will feature a new format with the league’s top-six teams qualifying for postseason play. Dates and locations, which will all be held at on-campus sites and hosted by higher seeds, will be announced at a later date.

Additional match times will be announced as they are set.

UNI, which begins its 52nd season of play and 26th year under the leadership of nine-time MVC Coach of the Year Bobbi Petersen, returns 11 athletes from the 2024 roster, including Second Team All-MVC performers Lily Dykstra and Cassidy Hartman, along with senior setter Sydney Golden and senior opposite Calia Clubb. The Panthers added six new freshmen in the offseason, as well as one transfer in senior middle blocker Lindsay Oldendorf from San Francisco.

2025 UNI VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE

• TBD – Purple & Gold Scrimmage – TBA
• Aug. 23 at South Dakota (Exhibition) – TBA
• Aug. 29 vs. Arizona State – 6 p.m. CT (UNI Tournament)
• Aug. 30 vs. South Dakota State – 5 p.m. CT (UNI Tournament)
• Sept. 4 vs. Stony Brook – 4 p.m. CT (SMU Tournament)
• Sept. 5 at SMU – 7 p.m. CT (SMU Tournament)
• Sept. 6 vs. Washington – 11 a.m. CT (SMU Tournament)
• Sept. 9 vs. Iowa State – 6:30 p.m. CT
• Sept. 12 vs. Rice – 4:30 p.m. CT (Creighton Tournament)
• Sept. 13 vs. Louisville – 6:30 p.m. CT (Creighton Tournament)
• Sept. 14 at Creighton – 3 p.m. CT (Creighton Tournament)
• Sept. 18 vs. Tennessee Tech – 3 p.m. CT (Green Bay Tournament)
• Sept. 19 vs. Western Michigan – 3 p.m. CT (Green Bay Tournament)
• Sept. 20 at Green Bay – 2 p.m. CT (Green Bay Tournament)
• Sept. 26 at UIC * – 6 p.m. CT
• Sept. 27 at Valparaiso * – 5 p.m. CT
• Sept. 30 at Drake * – 6 p.m. CT
• Oct. 4 vs. Murray State * – TBA
• Oct. 10 vs. Evansville * – 6 p.m. CT
• Oct. 11 vs. Bradley * – 5 p.m. CT
• Oct. 17 at Indiana State * – 5 p.m. CT
• Oct. 18 at Evansville * – 5 p.m. CT
• Oct. 24 vs. Illinois State * – 6 p.m. CT
• Oct. 25 vs. Indiana State * – 5 p.m. CT
• Oct. 30 vs. Belmont – 6 p.m. CT
• Nov. 1 at Southern Illinois * – 5 p.m. CT
• Nov. 4 vs. Drake * – 6 p.m. CT
• Nov. 7 vs. UIC * – 6 p.m. CT
• Nov. 14 at Murray State * – 6 p.m. CT
• Nov. 15 at Belmont * – 5 p.m. CT
• TBD – MVC Tournament – TBA

                * MVC match | Home matches in BOLD

UNI volleyball action can be followed all season long on social media on Facebook (UNI Volleyball), X (@UNIVolleyball) and on Instagram (@univolleyball). The full 2025 schedule and roster, along with the latest Panther news and information can be found online at UNIpanthers.com.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Coming off its 10th consecutive season with 20+ wins, Harvard men’s water polo is set to begin the 2025 campaign at Blodgett Pool on Aug. 30 with the Bruno Classic as part of its 30-game schedule this upcoming fall.

Ted Minnis sits just six wins away from his 300^th career victory as head coach of the men’s program as the Crimson enter the 2025 season. 

Highlights this year include hosting the Bruno Classic and Harvard Invitational, and two trips to California to compete against the reigning national champion UCLA Bruins, Long Beach State, before returning later in the season for the Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament.

Offensive threats Dean Strauser and Jack Burgardt are set to return this season, with the goalkeeping duo of Tanner Furtak and Oliver Price also back between the pipes, while Mason Hunt and Jake Tsotadze will lead the Crimson in 2025. 

Harvard opens the year with a four-game weekend at home, facing Bucknell and Fordham on Saturday, Aug. 30, before returning Sunday to meet Gannon and Wagner. The Crimson are 8-3 at the Bruno Classic over the last three seasons. Harvard played Wagner in the season opener last season and cruised to a 17-8 win after Dean Strauser, Jack Burghardt, and Mason Hunt led the offense.

The following weekend, Harvard heads south to Princeton, N.J., for the Princeton Invitational from Sept. 6–7, with opponents and game times yet to be announced.

The Crimson then embarks on its first California road trip of the season from Friday, Sept. 12, through Sunday, Sept. 14, visiting national powers UCLA and Long Beach State, before finishing the weekend with Cal State Fullerton and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps across three days in Southern California.

Harvard is set to play the reigning national champions for just the fourth time in program history and the first time since 2022. Harvard is also set to face Long Beach for the first time since the Bruno Classic in 2022, where it fell in a heavily competitive battle to open the season.

After a brief break, Harvard returns to the East Coast for conference play, traveling to New York and New Jersey for a trio of games on Oct. 4–5, taking on LIU, Iona, and reigning NWPC champions, the Princeton Tigers.

Since 2021, Harvard has only lost one regular-season game against a conference opponent who was not the Princeton Tigers. Boasting a 35–6 conference record over the last four seasons, Harvard has not lost to Iona or LIU in that span.

A marquee matchup with rival Brown awaits on Saturday, Oct. 11, in Providence before the Crimson return to Blodgett on Sunday, Oct. 12, to host MIT in their conference home opener. A much-anticipated rematch from the NWPC semifinals will see Harvard look to avenge a hard-fought loss to Brown in its last meeting against its Ivy rival.

Harvard will then host the annual Harvard Invitational from Saturday, Oct. 18, to Sunday, Oct. 19, welcoming Wagner, Salem, and George Washington to Cambridge for a three-game weekend.

The Crimson will make their second trip west from Friday, Oct. 24, through Sunday, Oct. 26, for the Julian Fraser Memorial Tournament in Santa Clara, Calif., squaring off with Pacific, Pepperdine, Air Force, and host Santa Clara over three days before returning home to finish out the conference slate.

Back on the East Coast, Harvard closes out the regular season with six games in November. The team travels to MIT on Saturday, Nov. 1, before returning to Blodgett that evening to close out the season series with Brown at 7:00 p.m.

The final homestand of the year includes back-to-back matchups with LIU and Iona on Saturday, Nov. 8, followed by a final showdown against Princeton on Sunday, Nov. 9, before the playoffs begin.

The 2025 NWPC Championships are set for Friday, Nov. 21, through Sunday, Nov. 23, at Brown University’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center in Providence, R.I., where the Crimson will look to claim their first conference crown since 2019.

 

 

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