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NCAA track and field championships: BYU’s Corrigan advances to steeplechase final

PROVO — BYU’s rising star and Team USA Olympian will get another chance at a missed opportunity in Friday’s 3,000-meter men’s steeplechase final. Of course, to get there James Corrigan had to make it through Wednesday’s semifinals on the opening day of the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon. Check, and check. […]

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PROVO — BYU’s rising star and Team USA Olympian will get another chance at a missed opportunity in Friday’s 3,000-meter men’s steeplechase final.

Of course, to get there James Corrigan had to make it through Wednesday’s semifinals on the opening day of the NCAA outdoor track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Check, and check.

Corrigan strolled into the finals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase, finishing fourth in his heat and No. 4 overall with a qualifying time of 8:24.97.

The junior Browerton Award finalist and returning U.S. Olympian in the event opened his stride to stay well within in the top-five automatic qualifiers from each of two heats while Iowa State freshman Joash Ruto won the semifinal heats with a personal-best time of 8:22.94.

“Today was definitely a quicker one,” Corrigan said. “I was glad, if anything, to just be able to get through safe.”

Corrigan said he “left with a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth” after finishing ninth at last year’s NCAA championships for second-team All-American honors. He obviously made up for most disappointments with a third-place finish at last year’s USATF Olympic Team Trials that helped set him up for a spot on Team USA at the Paris Summer Games.

But it left Corrigan with one of his main goals: a chance to “put it together when it really matters” in collegiate competition.

“We planned it so we can peak at the right time,” Corrigan said in the post-race mixed zone. “The race you really care about is the NCAA finals, which I’m running in two days. I think I’ve hit my strides where it really matters.”

Weber State steeplechaser Peter Visser finished 17th in the event in 8:40.84.

In another qualifier, BYU’s 4×400-meter relay team of Eli Hazlett. Josh Taylor, Jonah Heimuli and Trey Jackson squeezed into Friday’s finals with a ninth-place time of 3:03.83. The Big 12 runners-up with the fifth-fastest time in program history took off down the stretch, securing qualification on time by .17 seconds over conference rival Arizona State.

Arkansas cleared the top time of the semifinals in 3:02.53, followed by USC (3:02.76) and Texas A&M (3:03.09).

“These guys set me up well,” said Jackson, who anchored BYU to its first 4×400-meter finals appearance in 10 years. “I just thought about them coming down the home stretch, how much they’ve put into the season, and I thought, I want to be able to do it again.”

Utah Valley’s 4×100-meter relay team of Gavin Stafford, Cameron Franklin, Kade Thompson and Gabe Remy clocked a season-best time of 38.90 — just .19 seconds behind USC for the final qualifying spot for Friday’s finals.

It was the first-ever 4×100-meter relay team to compete at the national meet in school history for the Wolverines, who earned second-team All-American honors with the 10th-place finish. Their 38.90 was the second-fastest among non-power conference relay teams in the semifinals, trailing only South Florida’s 38.12 that finished second only to Auburn (37.97).

In one of six men’s finals on the day — and the only one on the track — BYU’s Creed Thompson finished eighth in the 10,000 meters in 29:11.44. Teammate Joey Nokes was 14th in 29:19.76, both behind New Mexico freshman Ishmael Kipkurui, the collegiate record holder who finished first in 29:07.70.

Thompson, who holds the No. 2 mark in the 5,000 meter and No. 6 in the 10K in BYU history, earned first-team All-American honors for the first time in his collegiate outdoor career. Nokes, a senior from Riverton, added second-team All-American honors for the second time in his career after finishing 10th in the indoor 5K last y ear.

BYU senior Danny Bryant finished sixth in the shot put, hurling the stone 19.71 meters (64 feet, 8 inches) for first-team All-America honors, a mark that improved on his 13th-rated throw after the NCAA West regionals.

“I had a big breakout season last year, and I’m very happy to have another first-team All-American under my belt,” said Bryant, who departs BYU with the No. 3 mark in program history in the outdoor shot put in 20.02 meters (65-8.25). “That’s a really good way to finish my collegiate career. I’m really happy with it.”

Utah State’s Logan Hammer cleared a mark of 5.33 meters (17-5 3/4) to tie for 13th in the pole vault. The junior from Nampa, Idaho owns the Aggies’ program and Mountain West records in the event, and collected his third career All-American honors — the first for the program since Dillon Maggard and Clay Lambourne compiled their ninth and fifth, respectively, in 2018.

Records began falling early Wednesday when Mississippi State’s Peyton Bair, who served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona and Mexico, broke his own national record with a time of 10.25 seconds in the 100-meter portion of the decathlon.

The junior from Kimberly, Idaho, is going for a season multi-event sweep after winning the indoor championship in the winter, and leads all decathletes with 4,479 points after the first day.

Bair punctuated the first day of competition with a career-best time of 46.00 in the 400 meter — a time that would rank as the fifth-fastest time in world athletics.

BYU’s Ben Barton finished second in the 400-meter portion in 46.59, helping the Big 12 champion and Indoor school record-holder in the heptathlon to 4,190 points and third place.

BYU sophomore Jaden Roskelley was seventh in the decathlon with 4,062 points, paced by a fifth-place finish in the high jump with a leap of 2.04 meters (6 feet, 8 1/4 inches).

The NCAA women’s outdoor track and field championships begin Thursday, followed by Friday’s men’s finale and Saturday’s women’s championships in Eugene.

The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.





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SUMMER FUN: Young swimmers invited to Watford Water Polo’s summer camp

Watford Water Polo and Next Level Swimming Academy are inviting residents to their upcoming summer camp. Boys and girls are welcome to the five-day camp from August 4 to 8. The Cadets camp will take place at Habs’ Girls’ School between 8.45am and 12.30pm. Attendees must be at least nine years old. The U12 and […]

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Watford Water Polo and Next Level Swimming Academy are inviting residents to their upcoming summer camp.

Boys and girls are welcome to the five-day camp from August 4 to 8.

The Cadets camp will take place at Habs’ Girls’ School between 8.45am and 12.30pm. Attendees must be at least nine years old.

The U12 and U14 camp will take place at Habs’ Boys’ School from 12.45pm to 5pm. The minimum age is those starting secondary school in September 2025.

The camp costs £124. For more information, please email info@nextlevelswimming.co.uk or watfordwaterpolo123@gmail.com

 

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Louisiana Tech announces move to Sun Belt Conference – The Vicksburg Post

Louisiana Tech announces move to Sun Belt Conference Published 1:07 pm Tuesday, July 15, 2025 RUSTON, La. — Louisiana Tech announced Tuesday that it has accepted an invitation to leave Conference USA and join the Sun Belt Conference. The Sun Belt Board of Directors, which includes the presidents of the 13 conference member institutions, voted […]

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Published 1:07 pm Tuesday, July 15, 2025

RUSTON, La. — Louisiana Tech announced Tuesday that it has accepted an invitation to leave Conference USA and join the Sun Belt Conference.

The Sun Belt Board of Directors, which includes the presidents of the 13 conference member institutions, voted unanimously to invite Louisiana Tech to join no later than July 1, 2027.

Louisiana Tech and conference officials touted the move as a chance to renew regional rivalries with Sun Belt members like Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana-Lafayette and Southern Miss, reduce travel for its student-athletes, and strengthen regional recruiting and its alumni base.

Louisiana Tech will be the Sun Belt’s seventh member in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama. Conference USA currently sprawls across 11 states from New Mexico to Delaware following the past decade-plus of conference realignment.

“Through all the uncertainty surrounding college athletics, we are pleased that Louisiana Tech has found its rightful home as a member of the Sun Belt Conference,” Louisiana Tech Director of Athletics Ryan Ivey said in a statement. “The opportunity for more fan engagement, reduced travel burden, and the renewal of storied rivalries will allow our student-athletes to pursue excellence in sport and in the classroom.”

Louisiana Tech will become the Sun Belt’s 14th full-time member. It will replace Texas State, which is departing for the reformed Pac-12 in 2026.

The other Sun Belt members in 2027 will be App State, Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern, Georgia State, James Madison, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Marshall, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss and Troy.

Louisiana Tech sponsors 16 varsity sports. It participates in every sport sponsored by the Sun Belt except beach volleyball, men’s soccer, men’s tennis and women’s golf. The Sun Belt sponsors every sport in which the Bulldogs compete except women’s bowling.

Louisiana Tech was previously a member of the Sun Belt from 1991 to 2001. It joined the Western Athletic Conference from 2001-12, then joined Conference USA in 2013.

The Sun Belt last expanded by four teams in 2022, with Southern Miss, Marshall and Old Dominion leaving C-USA to join and James Madison moving from the Colonial Athletic Association. Louisiana Tech was left out then, but is being welcomed now as the college sports landscape continues to shift.

“The Sun Belt has remained steadfast in its commitment to regional rivalries, geographic alignment and competitive excellence,” said Georgia Southern and Sun Belt Board of Directors President Dr. Kyle Marrero. “When it came time to add a new member to the Sun Belt Conference, it became clear that Louisiana Tech was the right fit. This addition renews long-standing rivalries, enhances our divisional structure, strengthens the competitive profile of the league across multiple sports and eases travel for fans and teams.”

About Ernest Bowker

Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post’s sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post’s sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper’s 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.

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Stingers into Quarter Finals After Topping Group Stage

The Ord Minnett Australian Women’s Water Polo team has topped their group at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, with a dominant 15-6 win overnight against Trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand in the final preliminary match.  The Paris Olympic silver medalists remain undefeated in the opening stages of their 2025 World Aquatics Championships campaign with wins […]

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The Ord Minnett Australian Women’s Water Polo team has topped their group at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, with a dominant 15-6 win overnight against Trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand in the final preliminary match. 

The Paris Olympic silver medalists remain undefeated in the opening stages of their 2025 World Aquatics Championships campaign with wins over Italy, New Zealand and hosts Singapore.  

Finishing top of the group automatically qualifies the Ord Minnett Aussie Stingers through to the quarter finals which will be held on Saturday 19 July. 

The team will now wait to see who they meet in the quarter finals following Thursday’s cross over stages. 

Dual Olympian and New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS) scholarship holder Bronte Halligan has stepped into the role of captain, leading her team from the front.  She said her side will carry a lot of confidence into the quarter finals after topping the group stages. 

“It’s so exciting to top our group stage here in Singapore, it was our first goal coming into the World Championships,” Halligan said. “The girls put in really good efforts, it’s very hot here in Singapore but we just stuck to our game plans and came away with three from three wins… I’m really proud of the girls. 

“It’s tough here at the World Championships… it’s not like an Olympic Games where there are 10 teams, here there are 16 teams all vying for that spot on the podium. From the top eight through anything can happen so I’m excited to get to that part of the tournament and see what we can and hopefully get to that podium spot.”  

NSWIS athlete Sienna Hearn was named Player of the Match.

The team includes multiple NSWIS scholarship holders such as Hayley BallestySienna GreenBronte HalliganSienna HearnDani JackovichTilly KearnsAlexie LambertGen Longman, and Olivia Mitchell, as well as NSWIS staff – Senior Sports Physiotherapist Bernie Petzel and Sport Performance Analyst Joshua Dipple.

The Aussie Stingers now have a three day break while they wait to see who they’ll face off in Saturday’s quarter final. 

The Ord Minnett Australian Men’s Water Polo Team, the Aussie Sharks, continue their World Championships campaign tomorrow, Wednesday 16 July, in a must win match against Japan at 12:35pm AEST. 

The World Aquatics Championships are live and free on 9Now. 

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Group stage of Women's Euro 2025 sets attendance records

The group stage of Women’s Euro 2025 in Switzerland was the highest-attended in the tournament’s history, breaking the previous record from 2022. UEFA confirmed that a record-breaking 461,582 people attended the 24 games, surpassing the 357,993 that watched in England three years ago. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement The 24 matches were held across eight different cities, […]

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Group stage of Women's Euro 2025 sets attendance records

The group stage of Women’s Euro 2025 in Switzerland was the highest-attended in the tournament’s history, breaking the previous record from 2022.

UEFA confirmed that a record-breaking 461,582 people attended the 24 games, surpassing the 357,993 that watched in England three years ago.

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The 24 matches were held across eight different cities, with 22 of the games sold out, while the average attendance was 19,233 spectators per match.

UEFA confirmed some other records broken across the two weeks include:

  • Highest attendance at a group stage match not involving the host nation (broken twice): 29,520 Spain vs Portugal in Bern; 34,165 Germany vs Denmark in Basel.

  • Most fans at a women’s football match in Switzerland: 34,165 Germany vs Denmark in Basel.

  • Most away fans at a Women’s Euro match: More than 17,000 from Germany in the stands to see their team defeat Denmark.

  • Most fans at a Switzerland women’s national team match: Switzerland vs Norway in Basel on the opening day, 34,063.

On the pitch, the 89 goals scored was also the highest ever in the tournament’s group stage, surpassing the 78 scored in 2022.

Spain matched England’s group stage record of 14 goals, a feat the Lionesses achieved in 2022, where they went on to win the tournament.

Wales and Poland made their Euro 2025 tournament debuts, with Wales’ Jess Fishlock making more history in the process by becoming the oldest goalscorer in Women’s Euro finals history at 38 years and 176 days.

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UEFA’s women’s football director Nadine Kessler said: “If it was not clear before, it is undeniable now – women’s football is unstoppable and here to stay.

“Before a ball was even kicked, over 600,000 tickets were sold – a record-breaking milestone that speaks volumes about the growing passion for the women’s game.

“Nearly every match has been a sell-out, with electric atmospheres and fans turning out in unprecedented numbers. Millions more are following the action around the world through social media and live broadcasts.

“This is more than a tournament; it’s a movement, and the response from across Europe and beyond proves that women’s football is not only here to stay – it is setting the new standard.”

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Women's Volleyball 2025 Single Match Tickets on Sale Now

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Single match tickets for the 2025 Ohio State women’s volleyball season are now on sale and can be purchased HERE. Ohio State students can attend for free with a valid BuckID. Tickets for premier matches are $24 for adults and $21 for youth/seniors. Tickets for other matches are $21 for adults and $17 […]

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Women's Volleyball 2025 Single Match Tickets on Sale Now

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Single match tickets for the 2025 Ohio State women’s volleyball season are now on sale and can be purchased HERE. Ohio State students can attend for free with a valid BuckID.
 
Tickets for premier matches are $24 for adults and $21 for youth/seniors. Tickets for other matches are $21 for adults and $17 for youth/seniors. All fees are included in these prices as part of the new all-inclusive pricing.
 
Premier matches include Florida (Sept. 7), USC (Sept. 27), Michigan (Oct. 24), Penn State (Oct. 26) and Wisconsin (Nov. 2).
 
The remaining home matches include Virginia (Sept. 19), Troy (Sept. 21), UCLA (Sept. 26), Purdue (Oct. 9), Illinois (Oct. 17), Rutgers (Oct. 31), Northwestern (Nov. 21) and Michigan State (Nov. 23).
 
Single match tickets are now available HERE. Ohio State students are free with a valid BuckID. Fans with ticketing questions should call the Ohio State Ticket Office at 1-800-GO-BUCKS or email athletic.tix@osu.edu.
 
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