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Princeton University

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June 18, 2025

Twelve Tigers from 10 programs have been recognized as Collegiate Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-District honorees for their outstanding academic and athletic accomplishments during the 2024-25 school year.

At-large honors are given by CSC for those sports sponsored by the NCAA that do not have their own CSC academic awards. Schools can select six men or six women for the at-large honors across all the eligible sports.

Here are the 12 Tigers recognized:

Men’s

William Huang, golf, senior, economics

A PING All-Region selection for the second year in a row, William Huang was named honorable mention All-Ivy this season to record his fourth career All-Ivy selection — just the 13th golfer in Ivy history to earn four career All-Ivy honors.

Nicholas Lawson, fencing, senior, physics

Lawson was an All-American at the NCAA Championships this season, finishing ninth in épée. He earned first-team All-Ivy honors after going 9-2 at the league meet, and he was also the team’s Academic All-Ivy selection.

Brandon Lee, fencing, junior, computer science

Lee won All-American honors, finishing third at the NCAA Championships this year. He was the NCAA regional foil champion and a first-team all-region honoree.

Gavin Molloy, water polo, senior, Public and International Affairs

Molloy was part of the Princeton squad that won its fourth straight Northeast Water Polo Conference title. The senior captain was named a All-NWPC honorable mention, NWPC All-tournament honorable mention and was part of the ACWPC All-Academic team.

Charlie Palmer, golf, sophomore, economics

A second-team All-Ivy selection this season, Palmer was also named PING All-Region to build off a 2024 year where he was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

Tucker Wade, lacrosse, sophomore, economics

Wade was Princeton’s first sophomore midfielder to earn first-team All-Ivy League honors in 13 years, as well as an honorable mention All-American. His five goals in the NCAA opening round win over Towson were one off the program record for an NCAA game.

Women’s

Rachael Carver, water polo, senior, Public and International Affairs

Carver was second-team all-conference who graduates as the program all-time leader in career assists (260). She started every game for the Tigers, leading the team with 60 assists along with 44 goals, 26 steals and 25 drawn ejections as the team made the CWPA Championship game.

Ella Cashman, field hockey, sophomore, molecular biology

A first-team All-Ivy League defender, Cashman also scored six goals to help Princeton to a 7-0 run through the Ivy League to win the championship and reach the NCAA quarterfinals. Cashman, a first-team All-Region selection as well, scored both goals, including the game-winner in OT, in Princeton’s win over Harvard that decided the league title. She was also an NFHCA All-Academic selection.

Sara Covin, open rowing, senior, psychology

Covin coxed the first varsity to Ivy League gold, taking down previously unbeaten Yale in the Grand Final. She earned first-team All-Ivy honors.

Hadley Husisian, fencing, sophomore, English

Husisian was an All-American honoree in 2025, finishing third at the NCAAs. She was also the NCAA regional épée champion, a first-team all-region honoree, and a first-team All-Ivy honoree, going 14-4 at the Ivy meet.

Victoria Liu, golf, senior, computer science

A first-team All-Ivy honoree in 2025, Liu finished her Princeton career as a three-time first-team All-Ivy selection. She recorded one victory this season, winning her home tournament at the Princeton Invitational for the third time.

Issy Wunder, hockey, junior, psychology

Wunder had a career year in which she was named a top-10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier award, the Ivy League Player of the Year, First-Team All-Ivy, All-ECAC First Team, ECAC Forward of the Year, finalist for ECAC Player of the Year and Academic All-Ivy. Wunder was third in Division I in goals per game (0.81) and fourth in points per game (1.56). She racked up 50 total points on. 26 goals and 24 assists to help lead the Tigers to the ECAC Quarterfinals.

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Craig Skinner, Addi Applegate represent Muncie in NCAA volleyball final

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December 21, 2025

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Dec. 21, 2025, 4:02 a.m. ET

The NCAA Volleyball National Championship features connections to Muncie, Indiana, on both competing teams.
Kentucky head coach Craig Skinner is a Muncie native and former Ball State player.
Texas A&M freshman defensive specialist Addi Applegate is a Yorktown High School graduate and played for Munciana Volleyball Club.
Kentucky’s roster also includes senior Eva Hudson, another product of the Munciana Volleyball Club.

No matter who wins Sunday’s NCAA Volleyball National Championship between Texas A&M and Kentucky, there will be a national champion from Muncie.

Should Kentucky win it all, Craig Skinner will become a two-time national champion as the Wildcats’ head coach after winning his — and the program’s — first national title in 2020. A 1988 graduate of Muncie Northside and former Ball State men’s volleyball player, Skinner began his coaching career as an assistant at Muncie Burris, where he helped the Owls go undefeated and win state and national championships in 1990.

Kentucky is coming off a thrilling five-set victory over Wisconsin in which Skinner got the better of Badgers head coach Kelly Sheffield, a fellow Muncie native and lifelong friend of Skinner’s. Sheffield coached with Skinner on the 1990 Burris team, and the duo coached the Owls’ junior varsity squad to an undefeated season as well.

Skinner also has a product of Munciana Volleyball Club on his roster in senior outside hitter Eva Hudson. A two-time AAU All-American for Munciana’s 18 Open Samurai team, Hudson had 29 kills in Kentucky’s semifinal win over Wisconsin.

If Texas A&M wins it all, then freshman defensive specialist Addi Applegate will become a national champion in her first season of college volleyball. A four-year varsity player for Yorktown, Applegate helped the Tigers finish as state runners-up as a sophomore in 2022 and again as a senior in 2024. She finished her Yorktown career as the program’s all-time leader in career digs with 2,015 and added more than 300 assists and 160 aces. She earned IHSVCA all-state honors her senior year.

Applegate also enjoyed a stellar club career with Munciana. She was named an AAU All-American twice (12 Open in 2019, 14 Open in 2021) and helped the Munciana Samurai win a Junior Volleyball Association national title in 2024.

As a freshman, Applegate has played in 114 out of 115 possible sets for the Aggies this season and recorded 116 digs and 31 assists with a 0.948 reception percentage. Through five NCAA Tournament matches, she has logged 24 digs and 10 assists.

No. 1-seed Kentucky and No. 3-seed Texas A&M will face off at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The match will be broadcast on ABC at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 21.

Whether it’s the Wildcats or the Aggies celebrating on Sunday night, someone is going to make Muncie proud.

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How to watch Kentucky vs. Texas A&M volleyball in NCAA championship

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December 21, 2025

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Dec. 21, 2025, 6:04 a.m. ET

The 2025 NCAA volleyball season comes down to Kentucky vs. Texas A&M. The conference rivals will meet in the first all-SEC national championship game on Sunday, Dec. 21 (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC) at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.

Texas A&M is vying for its first championship after upsetting No. 1 overall seed Nebraska and Pitt in the Elite Eight and Final Four, respectively. Meanwhile, Kentucky is looking to win its second title and first since 2020 after beating Wisconsin in a five-set semifinal thriller.

It will be the 28th all-time meeting between the teams. The Wildcats hold a 17-10 advantage in the series, but the Aggies are 2-0 when the team’s meet on a neutral court.

Kentucky beat Texas A&M on Oct. 8 in College Station. The Aggies won the first set, but Wildcats rallied to win the last three for the victory.

When is Kentucky vs. Texas A&M volleyball?

No. 1 Kentucky (29-2) faces No. 3 Texas A&M (28-4) on Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3:30 p.m. ET at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Kentucky vs. Texas A&M volleyball: Channel, streaming

Date: Sunday, Dec. 21
Time: 3:30 p.m ET (2:30 p.m. CT)
Location: T-Mobile Center (Kansas City, Missouri)
Channel: ABC
Stream: ESPN+, Fubo

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How to watch 2025 NCAA women’s volleyball championship: Texas A&M, Kentucky play for title

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December 21, 2025

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By now, almost everything that can be said about the NCAA women’s volleyball final has been said. The serve zones have been diagrammed. The rotations studied. Every star has been labeled and ranked and debated into exhaustion. What Sunday in Kansas City does is ask two teams that have spent the whole season proving themselves to do it again, once more, as if none of it counted yet.

It is No. 1 Kentucky vs. No. 3 Texas A&M, the first all-SEC championship match in Division I women’s volleyball history. Kentucky has been here before, winning the 2020 national title. Texas A&M has not.

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The Aggies bulldozed their way into the program’s first championship match by knocking out top overall seed Nebraska in five sets and then sweeping Pitt, another No. 1 seed, in the national semifinal. They arrive with a first-time finalist’s resume and are led by Jamie Morrison, who was just named the national coach of the year.

They’re also the harder team to know. You think you’ve seen their ceiling, and then they elevate. When the Aggies are in system, they can bury you before you’ve adjusted. When they’re not, they don’t panic. Texas A&M standout Logan Lednicky called the Aggies “the grittiest,” and they’ve played like it, especially during the late-set messiness that usually eats upstart teams. Clean volleyball doesn’t really exist in a title match, anyway.

Kentucky comes in with the steadier resume and scar tissue. The Wildcats survived Wisconsin in five sets in the semis. Kentucky’s Craig Skinner and Wisconsin’s Kelly Sheffield coached junior varsity volleyball together in Muncie, Ind., in 1990 and went undefeated. That history is part of how you get here. So is what happened Thursday, when Skinner’s team ended Sheffield’s season.

Here’s the boring truth of a championship: It usually comes down to first contact. If serve receive holds, the setter has options and the block can be manipulated. If serve receive cracks, the whole thing turns into emergency swings.

Notably, Kentucky beat Texas A&M 3-1 when they met during the regular season in early October. That matters as evidence that Kentucky can solve this puzzle. It does not matter as a prediction. Finals are their own species.

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UK Wildcats News: Kentucky Volleyball National Championship Gameday

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December 21, 2025

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Good morning, BBN! It’s game day!

The Kentucky Wildcats compete for a volleyball national championship this afternoon against Texas A&M. It’s Kentucky’s second appearance in the NCAA Volleyball National Championship and Texas A&M’s first appearance. It’s also the first time two SEC teams have competed for the national championship.

It’s been a fantastic postseason run for the Wildcats, going back to that thrilling win over Texas in the SEC Championship and all the way to that come-from-behind win over Wisconsin in the semifinals. Now, the Cats have a chance to top it off with a national championship.

Game time is set for 3:30 PM ET on ABC.

This will serve as today’s open thread, so make sure to come back here to talk about the game!

The SEC is stepping up its volleyball game.

She’s been a key piece for this team.

JQ wasted no time making his presence known.

Big performances from Quaintance and Lowe.

He certainly looks like a difference-maker moving forward.

Will Stein’s offense looked good last night.

Texas Tech vs Oregon is the most interesting to me. How about you?

Could you imagine how different things look?

Not a great Year 1 for Schottenheimer.

That’s a game Duke will wish they could have back.

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Lady Vols Announce Addition of Outside Hitter Nia Hall

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December 21, 2025

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee volleyball head coach Eve Rackham Watt announced the signing of outside hitter Nia Hall.

Hall spent the 2025 season at South Carolina after transferring from Cleveland State. At Cleveland State she was named a 2024 All-Horizon League First Team selection where she put up 397 kills and 143 digs. In her lone season with the Gamecocks, Hall recorded 273 kills and 89 digs during the 2025 campaign. Hall’s 273 led South Carolina in 2025 in both kills and kills per set (3.07).

The Lorain, Ohio native has played in 83 matches in her collegiate career, where she has posted 823 kills, 274 digs, 160 blocks over three seasons. Hall has reached double figure kills in 43 matches in her career. She owns five 20-plus kill performances in her career, and has racked up seven double-doubles.

Known for her defensive prowess as well, Hall has notched 80 or more digs in consecutive seasons. Hall set a career-high 143 in 2024 at Cleveland State, before helping solidify South Carolina’s backrow with 89 in 2025. Hall is also strong at the net, tallying 35-plus blocks in all three seasons. Hall totaled 35 blocks for South Carolina this past season, while setting a career-high in 2024 of 85.

In 2024, Hall helped lead Cleveland State to a Horizon League Championship and its first NCAA appearance since 2017. Before beginning her college career, Hall was a standout at Amherst Steele where she earned All-State, All-County, and All-Conference honors. Hall recorded 1,215 kills on a .365 hitting percentage.

Tennessee is coming off a 20-8 campaign in 2025 and its fifth-straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament. The 20-win season marked the 26th in program history, and fourth under head coach Eve Rackham Watt. The Lady Vols finished with a 10-5 record in the SEC, earning the fourth seed in the SEC Tournament. The Big Orange has totaled six 10-plus win seasons in conference play under Rackham Watt.

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Bucknam passes baton as Arkansas Razorback track coach with ‘last last’

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December 21, 2025

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FAYETTEVILLE — Since announcing his retirement as the University of Arkansas men’s track and field coach Nov. 5, Chris Bucknam has been on a farewell tour of sorts.

There was the last home meet, the last NCAA championship meet and the last day at the office on Dec. 12.

This week at the annual convention for the U.S. Track and Field & Cross Country Coaches Association near Dallas, Bucknam took the stage to accept the John McDonnell Program of the Year Award for the last time Monday. Then on Thursday, Bucknam was able to experience one more thrill of victory as the Razorbacks’ head coach when former Arkansas sprinter Jordan Anthony won The Bowerman as the year’s top college track and field athlete.

“It’s the end of the road,” Bucknam said afterward. “This is the last last. … It’s a great way to go out.”

In 18 cross country and 17 track and field seasons at Arkansas, Bucknam’s teams won 2 national championships, 34 SEC championships, 5 McDonnell Program of the Year Awards and 3 Bowerman trophies. Hundreds of Razorbacks earned All-SEC and All-America honors during his tenure.

“There are a lot of people to think and a lot of people to be thankful for,” Bucknam said. “I just appreciate everybody’s effort. I feel like our program does a great job of bringing the best out of people.”

That was a note hit by Anthony during his acceptance speech Thursday night.

“Coach Buck, your championship pedigree speaks for itself,” Anthony said, “and I’m very thankful to have learned under your guidance.”

Bucknam will be succeeded as Arkansas’ track and field head coach by Doug Case, his longtime assistant who was recruited by Bucknam to Northern Iowa in the early 1980s. Bucknam plans to continue living in Fayetteville.

“I’m excited to see what comes next with Coach Case in his coaching era,” Bucknam said. “This is a great stepping off the stage kind of event for me and (I am) passing the baton.”

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Matt Jones is the managing editor of WholeHogSports.com and hosts the WholeHogSports Daily Podcast. He is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, and voter for the Heisman Trophy. He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism from the University of Arkansas.

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