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CARBONDALE, Ill. – Southern Illinois track and field will kick off 2025 with its second meet of the indoor season. The Salukis will head to Bloomington, Ind., and compete in the Indiana Invitational Friday, Dec. 17 at 3 p.m.A full schedule can be found here, and you can follow the meeting with Live Results.Day one will begin with […]

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CARBONDALE, Ill. – Southern Illinois track and field will kick off 2025 with its second meet of the indoor season. The Salukis will head to Bloomington, Ind., and compete in the Indiana Invitational Friday, Dec. 17 at 3 p.m.A full schedule can be found here, and you can follow the meeting with Live Results.Day one will begin with the heptathlon starting at 3 p.m., field events at 3:30 p.m., and track events at 5 p.m.Day two will kick off with the pentathlon at 9 a.m., and the conclusion of the heptathlon at 9:10 a.m. Field events will start at 9:45 a.m., and the track events will close the show at 12:30 p.m.FOLLOW THE SALUKIS
For the latest updates on the Salukis, follow the team on Twitter (@SIUTrackXC), Instagram (@SIUTrackXC) and Facebook (@SalukiTrackAndField).
 Southern Illinois is returning to action after the winter break. It last competed in the Saluki Fast Start on Dec. 6, 2024. The Salukis will face off against Indiana, Dayton, and Windsor. Indiana will be the Salukis’ first high-major competition of the season.

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Outdoor Track & Field Championship

Susquehanna, Pa. – The Gophers will be traveling to Susquehanna University to compete in the Outdoor Track & Field Championship. The meet will take place May 3rd and 4th with tickets available at the link below. Tickets will need to be purchased for each day of the track meet. Admission will be $10 for adults […]

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Susquehanna, Pa. – The Gophers will be traveling to Susquehanna University to compete in the Outdoor Track & Field Championship. The meet will take place May 3rd and 4th with tickets available at the link below. Tickets will need to be purchased for each day of the track meet. Admission will be $10 for adults 18+ and $5 for anyone 10-17 years old. Multiple field events and prelims will be on Satruday. Many of the  finals and award presentation will take place on Sunday. We hope to you there supporting the Gophers this weekend!

Tickets: https://landmarkconference.org/sports/2022/4/25/championships-tickets.aspx?path=champs

Schedule: https://landmarkconference.org/documents/2025/4/7//25_OTF_Champ_Schedule.pdf?id=2639

Live Stream: https://www.flocollege.com/signup?redirect=%2Flive%2F161792&utm_campaign=704376landmarkoutdoor&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=multiple&utm_content=signup&contract_id=0063m00000u4k10aaa&coverage_id=14039369&sp=&sp=conf-partner

 

 



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Assistant Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Coach in Longview, TX for LeTourneau University

Details Posted: 29-Apr-25 Location: Longview, Texas Type: Full-time Categories: Coaching Coaching – Track & Field Sector: Collegiate Sports Preferred Education: Masters To Apply: Send a cover letter, a current résumé, and a statement of faith to:   Dr. Tim Sceggel, timsceggel@letu.edu DUTIES: Responsible for the leadership and development of student athletes including: Discipleship […]

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Posted: 29-Apr-25

Location: Longview, Texas

Type: Full-time

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Coaching – Track & Field

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To Apply: Send a cover letter, a current résumé, and a statement of faith to:   Dr. Tim Sceggel, timsceggel@letu.edu


DUTIES: Responsible for the leadership and development of student athletes including:


Discipleship


Striving to ensure the development of the spiritual, academic and athletic aspects of all student-athletes


Counseling team members in disciplinary, academic, or personal matters while consulting with LETU administration on matters requiring resolution of problems.


Recruiting


Achieving assigned roster numbers


Recruiting and retaining highly skilled student-athletes consistent with the LETU philosophy and standards


Excellence


Work to ensure we are the most effective and most successful athletic department in the American Southwest Conference in all facets


Preparing the student-athletes in the analyses of specific sport analyses and planning strategies accordingly


Preparing student-athletes physically by instructing proper strength and conditioning


Service


Regularly serve in the department in any area needed, including spiritual development, home events oversight, and fundraising activities


Providing academic support and tutoring to student athletes in the program


Providing and working with student-athletes in opportunities to serve the community


Administrative Effectiveness


Ensuring compliance with the University, ASC Conference and NCAA policies and regulations


Assist the Director in determining fiscal requirements and budgetary recommendations for the team, while monitoring, verifying, and reconciling expenditures of budgeted funds


Coordinating the scheduling, planning and management of home and away contests with the Director of T/F


Monitoring academic progress and act as a liaison to the program


Performing other duties as requested by the Director of T/F or VP for Athletics

QUALIFICATIONS:

LeTourneau University seeks a person with an enthusiastic and contagious Christian faith committed to a Christian higher education that integrates Christian faith with learning.  

  • Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree preferred. 
  • 1-2 years of related experience, preferably in the coaching of athletic programs at the collegiate level. 
  • Ability to be a dynamic leader within the athletic department 
  • Strong organizational ability 
  • Ability to work cooperatively with other administrators, coaches, students, and faculty members. 
  • Good written and oral communication skills. 
  • A strong understanding of and commitment to NCAA Division III. 
  • An acceptance of and commitment to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. 

SALARY AND BENEFITS

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and other qualifications.  LeTourneau University offers an innovative healthcare package with many options, personal budget, telemedicine, year-round support, and more.  LeTourneau University also provides life insurance, contribution to a retirement program, and tuition assistance. 

To apply: Send a cover letter, a current résumé, and a statement of faith to:  

Dr. Tim Sceggel

timsceggel@letu.edu

 

 

 

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About LeTourneau University

Claiming every workplace in every nation as their mission field, LeTourneau University graduates are professionals of ingenuity and Christ-like character who see life’s work as a holy calling with eternal impact.

LeTourneau University is an interdenominational Christ-centered university offering more than 140 programs that prepare students for success in areas including aviation, biblical studies, business, criminal justice, education, engineering, health science, kinesiology, liberal arts, nursing, psychology and science.

Graduate degree offerings include business administration, counseling, education, engineering, psychology and strategic leadership.

In addition to its residential campus in Longview, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs online and at our educational center in Plano.

The university’s 3,175 students represent nearly all 50 states, 35 countries and 50 different denominational groups.


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App State’s Guest & Arkansas State’s Isaia Earn Sun Belt Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Weekly Honors

Story Links NEW ORLEANS – App State’s Calbert Guest and Arkansas State’s Noa Isaia have earned recognition as Sun Belt Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week after their performances last week.  Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week Carlbert Guest, App State (R-Sr. | Distance | Fort Collins, Colo.) […]

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NEW ORLEANS – App State’s Calbert Guest and Arkansas State’s Noa Isaia have earned recognition as Sun Belt Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week after their performances last week. 

Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week

Carlbert Guest, App State

(R-Sr. | Distance | Fort Collins, Colo.)

App State redshirt senior Calbert Guest broke the App State men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase record with a personal best of 8:41.01 at the Penn Relays (April 24-26). He surpassed the previous program record of 8:51.28, which was set in 2022 and finished sixth overall in Thursday’s race. Additionally, the Fort Collins, Colo. native became the first App State men’s distance athlete to qualify for the USATF Championships with his time. Guest leads the Sun Belt, ranks seventh in the NCAA Southeast Region, 15th in the NCAA East Preliminary Qualifying List, and 40th nationally in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase category. Guest also ranks third in the league and 21st in the NCAA Southeast Region in the men’s 10,000-meter category.

Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week

Noa Isaia, Arkansas State

(So. | Throws | Imperial, Mo.)

Arkansas State’s Noa Isaia moved up to third in program history in the hammer throw, winning the event with a toss of 66.22m/217-3 – nearly 11 feet better than the runner-up finisher. Not only that, but he also put together a spectacular series, with four of his six throws besting his previous career-best mark entering the day. His throw is No. 7 in this week’s Top-10 Marks of the Week published by USTFCCCA, and ups his lead in the Sun Belt Conference to 15 feet in the event. He enters the week ranked 18th in the NCAA West Region and 31st in the NCAA regardless of region.

2025 Sun Belt Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week

Week 1 – Drew Donley, Texas State

Week 2 – Jacob Pyeatt, Arkansas State

Week 3 – Kelsey Singleton, Southern Miss

Week 4 – Lawson Jacobs, Louisiana

Week 5 – Drew Donley, Texas State

Week 6 – Calbert Guest, App State

2025 Sun Belt Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Week

Week 1 – Reuben Booysen, South Alabama

Week 2 – Bradley Jelmert, Arkansas State

Week 3 – Nelvin Appiah, Louisiana

Week 4 – Chris Preddie, Texas State

Week 5 – Colby Eddowes, Arkansas State

Week 6 – Noa Isaia, Arkansas State



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Most Americans oppose trans women competing in female sports, including 2 of 3 in Gen Z

For 22-year-old Alex Ann, conversations about transgender women are black and white. “Trans women are women,” said Ann, who identifies as a nonbinary trans person. And when it comes to trans women competing in female sports — an issue that the Trump administration has made part of its policy agenda since Inauguration Day — Ann […]

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For 22-year-old Alex Ann, conversations about transgender women are black and white.

“Trans women are women,” said Ann, who identifies as a nonbinary trans person.

And when it comes to trans women competing in female sports — an issue that the Trump administration has made part of its policy agenda since Inauguration Day — Ann said that trans women should have all the same rights as cisgender women.

“When you are talking about what a woman is, well now you’re talking about checking to see if you’re really a woman,” said Ann, a South Florida resident. “And the kind of violation that in and of itself poses” goes too far, Ann continued.

Ann represents the views of just over a third of Gen Z, or 36%, that trans women should be allowed to participate in female sports, according to the new NBC News Stay Tuned Poll, powered by SurveyMonkey. That level of support, from respondents ages 18-29, was the highest of any generation in the poll of 19,682 American adults.

Overall, 1 in 4 respondents, or 25%, said they supported trans women participating in female sports in a yes/no question. The other 75% of American adults said they do not believe trans women should be permitted to participate in female sports.

Cecilia Pogue, a 21-year-old college student from Virginia, said she believes that allowing trans women to compete in female sports comes at the expense of cisgender women.

“We want people to feel comfortable in their skin, and we want them to have opportunities, but we also need to make sure we’re not taking opportunities away from the majority to please the minority,” Pogue said.

Many Gen Zers who spoke with NBC News about the topic discussed the complexity and nuances around it, such as how going through male puberty or taking hormone suppressants could affect a trans woman’s physical development.

“A lot could be fixed by having a separate column for trans sports,” said Julian Miller, 22, from Texas. “Just like how we separate male and females, we should separate trans males and trans females to compete against each other. I know there might not be a lot of competition at first, but as the sport grows, so will the competition.”

The poll found a significant gender gap between young men and women on the issue. About 3 in 4 Gen Z men (72%) say transgender women should not be allowed to play female sports, compared with about half of young women (56%).

Advocates of trans women competing in female sports say that the marginal number of trans women competing at an elite level makes the topic a nonissue. In December, NCAA President Charlie Baker testified that he was aware of fewer than 10 transgender athletes out of more than 500,000 total NCAA college student-athletes, which would equal 0.002% of this college student-athlete population.

“This is really a distraction,” Ann said. “It matters, but it’s not what is most important right now.”

Jay Baca, a 26-year-old who identifies as nonbinary, noted that when trans men compete in men’s sports “nobody bats an eye about it.” 

“It still comes down to patriarchy, sexism and transphobia,” the Colorado native said.

But despite the criticism and the relatively low numbers of people involved, it has undeniably become a hot-button political issue in recent years.

Critics of trans women in female sports say trans women have an unfair advantage past puberty due to their body composition. Differences in body mass, bone density and height that trans women may have, Pogue said, can create a “dangerous” environment.

“I don’t really want to play soccer against a 6-[foot]-2 person who already went through puberty and then changed late high school or in early college,” she said.

Vito Milino, 22, of California, said trans women should not compete in “full-contact or highly physical sports alongside cisgender women” but sees no problem in other sports.

San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball program became a flashpoint in the national conversation over trans women and women’s sports recently, as has swimming, a noncontact sport. In 2022, Lia Thomas made history when she became the first openly trans woman to win an NCAA championship while competing for the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team. Thomas had spent the first two years of her collegiate career on Penn’s men’s team. 

The NCAA in February changed its rules following an executive order from President Donald Trump, with the collegiate athletics organization instituting a new policy that “limits competition in women’s sports to student-athletes assigned female at birth only.”

Then, on Monday, the Trump administration said that Penn violated laws that guaranteed equal protections for women in sports by allowing a trans swimmer to compete on the school’s women’s team and into team facilities. The Education Department previously announced an investigation of San Jose State.

Still, some medical experts caution against misconceptions that fuel much of the dialogue around trans women in female sports.

“Trans women are people who want to participate in society as the gender they identify as being — women,” said Bradley Anawalt, an endocrinologist and professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, who rejects the notion that trans women are changing for athletic advantages.

“They are not undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy to attempt to have greater success in sports,” he said. “Gender-affirming therapy, hormone therapy is not easy. It requires doctor visits, blood tests and frequent doses of medications that might include shots.”

When it comes to body composition, he added, “The competitive advantage of elite male athletes starts with puberty when blood testosterone concentrations increase to adult male levels.”

Alithia Zamantakis, an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, sees the higher Gen Z poll numbers in support of trans women competing in female sports as compared with older demographics as an indicator of a shift in “society at large.”

“We can expect greater and greater support for transgender rights as the myths and anti-trans” rhetoric are demystified, she said. 

Missing from the conversation is a “balancing of equities,” according to Lanae Erickson, senior vice president for social policy, education and politics at Third Way, a Democratic-aligned Washington, D.C., think tank.

“Sports are fabulous ways to learn all kinds of values — teamwork, persistence and healthy habits,” she said. “And just saying that an entire class of people can’t participate in any sport at any level, it really goes against those values and is a real detriment to that group of people.” 

“We also do need rules about participation in sports,” Erickson added.

“But I think those rules should be made based on fairness and safety, not based on animus towards a certain group of people,” she continued.

This NBC News Stay Tuned poll was powered by SurveyMonkey, the fast, intuitive feedback management platform where 20 million questions are answered daily. It was conducted online April 11-20 among a national sample of 19,682 adults ages 18 and over. Reported percentages exclude item nonresponse and round to the nearest percentage point. The estimated margin of error for this survey among all adults is plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.



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Track & Field records two first place finishes at U Mary Tune Up

Story Links BISMARCK, N.D. – Valley City State University had three athletes compete in the U Mary Tune Up on Wednesday, April 30. Viking Tayshaun Robinson recorded a first-place finish in 110-meter hurdles while Sadie Hanson took first in the javelin with a 35.20-meter throw.   Viking freshman Tayshaun Robinson took […]

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BISMARCK, N.D. – Valley City State University had three athletes compete in the U Mary Tune Up on Wednesday, April 30. Viking Tayshaun Robinson recorded a first-place finish in 110-meter hurdles while Sadie Hanson took first in the javelin with a 35.20-meter throw.
 
Viking freshman Tayshaun Robinson took first place in the 110-meter hurdles running a 14.79. His time is currently the 26th fastest time recorded in the NAIA this spring. Robinson looking to nationally qualify will need to run a 14.50 to guarantee a spot at nationals.
 
Viking senior Sadie Hansen took first place in the javelin throwing a 35.20-meter throw. Hansen qualified for nationals in the javelin in her junior season. She is looking for a 40.34-meter throw to earn an automatic bid to nationals.
 
VCSU’s sophomore Olivia Backus tied her personal best and was just four centimeters away from a national qualifying jump recording a 1.62-meter successful attempt at the U Mary tune up. She earned fourth in the high jump.
 
UP NEXT: Viking Track & Field is off to the Cobber Open on Saturday, May 3.
 



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Rowan men’s outdoor track and field sets DIII record at Penn Relays – The Whit

Rowan men’s outdoor track and field team had a record-breaking weekend at The Penn Relays in Philadelphia, while the rest of the squad displayed an impressive showing at the TCNJ Lions Invitational in Ewing, NJ, on April 25 and 26.  While there was no team scoring at the meets, the Profs put together top times […]

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Rowan men’s outdoor track and field team had a record-breaking weekend at The Penn Relays in Philadelphia, while the rest of the squad displayed an impressive showing at the TCNJ Lions Invitational in Ewing, NJ, on April 25 and 26. 

While there was no team scoring at the meets, the Profs put together top times over the weekend. Head coach Dustin Dimit was extremely pleased with the performance from both meets. 

“ We’re really happy with it,” said Dimit. “We had great weather the first day and then a lot of rain the second, but still a lot of season bests, a national record, and some national performances. Excited to see what we do now that we’re here in championship season.” 

The highlight of the weekend for the Profs was setting the Division III outdoor record in the 4×200 (1:25.04) as freshmen Julian Conigliaro and Rajahn Dixon, sophomore Elijah Hendricks, and senior Robert McKinney broke the record held by Dubuque in 2022 (1:25.74). McKinney knew the foursome was going to break the record, as they have broken the indoor record as well. 

“ It was a good feeling we went into it,” said McKinney. “We were kind of expecting that we’re gonna break it, knowing that we just broke the indoor record. We kinda had a feeling we were going do it. We just had to go out and execute. But it was still a good feeling to do.” 

Dimit stated that he wanted to see them break the record for the outdoor season since they broke the record for the indoor season. 

“ That was their goal since breaking it indoors,” said Dimit. “We were excited to be able to go out there and do that and get the outdoor record as well.” 

Another highlight of the weekend was fifth-year student Shamar Love’s performance in the 100 meters (10.62) at the TCNJ Lions Invitational. The Bridgeton native was excited to run this past weekend, knowing that it would be his last time running track. 

“ Not having the indoor season, knowing that outdoor is gonna be my last time running track, I’m pretty excited,” said Love.

Dimit has stated that he is proud of his team for overcoming all of the adversity that has been placed in the way of the team this season. 

“ We’re really proud of all the guys,” said Dimit. “They’ve bought in from day one and it’s sometimes hard in those early season meets. When it’s cold and we’re going out there, it’s just as much of a workout as is a race and they’ve persevered through that.” 

The Profs will be back in action this weekend as the team aims to win its 10th consecutive NJAC title as they return to TCNJ in Ewing, NJ, on May 3 and 4. McKinney, who will be competing in his last NJAC championship meet, is determined to win. 

“ This is my last NJAC, so I just go out there and just win it,” said McKinney.

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