WALTHAM, Mass. – For the second time in her career, Brandeis University first-year track and field student-athlete Sarai Sealy of New York, New York, has been named the University Athletic Association Women’s Field Athlete of the Week, earning the honor for the week ending May 4^th.
 
Sealy won the New England Division III Outdoor Track and Field title in the triple jump, posting a distance of 12.73 meters (41 feet, 9 ¼ inches) on her third attempt of the day. The distance set a new meet and facility record at the United States Coast Guard Academy. Sealy also improved upon the school record that she had set a week earlier at the University Athletic Association championships.
 
Sealy improved her spot in the NCAA Division III standings this season to second overall. Sealy, whose jump at UAAs of 12.46 meters is ranked 22^nd all-time in Division III, would have improved into the All-Time Top 10, but her performance was wind-aided.  
 
In addition to her triple jump title, Sealy also earned All-New England honors in the 4×100- and 4×400-meter relays. She ran the second leg in the former as the Judges finished in fourth place and the lead leg in the latter, when they finished third.
 
Sealy helped Brandeis finish eighth of 39 squads in the team standings at the New England Division III Championships with 34.5 points.
 
The Judges return to action on Friday, May 9^th, at the FIRE Invitational at Williams College.
 
Sealy is a 2024 graduate of Ursuline School.
 
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Eleven non-conference matches against schools from seven different leagues, including a home match against B1G 10 power and 2024 Sweet Sixteen participant Oregon highlight the 2025 Montana State Volleyball schedule, announced head coach Matt Houk on Tuesday afternoon.

Along with Oregon, the Bobcats face two additional schools- South Dakota, Sacramento State- that advanced to the NCAA Volleyball Tournament, last fall.

“This year’s schedule will be another tough one,” Houk said. “Schools like Oregon, South Dakota, and Oregon State will provide some good early season tests for us. My hope in the preseason is to always find out where we stand. What are our strengths and weaknesses.”

Montana State hosts two tournaments in non-conference action. The 2025 EVEN Hotel Invite, Aug. 29-31, features MSU, UO, USD and Prairie View A&M. The EVEN Hotel Classic, Sept. 18-20, welcomes Nevada and Santa Clara. The Bobcats will also see action in two road tournaments at Gonzaga, Sept. 4-6, and Oregon State, Sept. 11-13.

“I like that we are home to start and finish the preseason slate before conference kicks off,” Houk said. “The Big Sky should be strong again. I am looking forward to battle each and every night during Big Sky play, and I am excited to see what kind of a run our team can make.”

The Bobcats open Big Sky play at Eastern Washington, Sept. 24 in Cheney. MSU hosts Portland State, Sept. 27, in its league home opener. Big Sky Conference volleyball features 16 regular season matches. The Bobcats face Sacramento State and Idaho once this fall, while playing home/away contests against the other Big Sky schools.

The annual Cat-Griz matches are Oct. 11 in Missoula, and Nov. 7 in Bozeman’s Brick Breeden Fieldhouse.

2025 Montana State Volleyball Schedule

August

29                           Prairie View A&M^                                         BOZEMAN

30                           South Dakota^                                                 BOZEMAN

31                           Oregon^                                                              BOZEMAN

September

4                             vs. Maryland Eastern Shore%                   Spokane, Wash.

5                             vs. UC Bakersfield%                                     Spokane, Wash.

6                             at Gonzaga%                                                    Spokane, Wash.

11                           at Oregon State#                                            Corvallis, Ore.

12                           vs. UNLV#                                                          Corvallis, Ore.

13                           vs. UC Irvine#                                                   Corvallis, Ore.

18                           Nevada&                                                            BOZEMAN

20                           Santa Clara&                                                    BOZEMAN

24                           at Eastern Washington*                              Cheney, Wash.

27                           Portland State*                                               BOZEMAN

October

2                             Northern Arizona*                                          BOZEMAN

4                             Northern Colorado*                                      BOZEMAN

11                           at Montana*                                                      Missoula, Mont.

16                           at Portland State*                                          Portland, Ore.

18                           at Sacramento State*                                  Sacramento, Calif.

23                           Weber State*                                                    BOZEMAN

25                           Idaho State*                                                     BOZEMAN

30                           at Northern Colorado*                                 Greeley, Colo.

November

1                             at Northern Arizona*                                     Flagstaff, Ariz.

7                             Montana*                                                           BOZEMAN

13                           Eastern Washington*                                   BOZEMAN

15                           Idaho*                                                                  BOZEMAN

19                           at Idaho State*                                                Pocatello, Idaho

21                           at Weber State*                                              Ogden, Utah

25-26                    at Big Sky Tournament                                 Greeley, Colo. 

 

^= 2025 EVEN Hotel Bobcat Invite

%= Gonzaga Tournament

#= Oregon State Tournament

&= 2025 EVEN Hotel Bobcat Classic

*= Big Sky Conference match

 

Wheeling, W. Va. – With the first week of May in full swing, the Wheeling University Outdoor Track & Field team is making their final push for the 2025 NCAA DII Outdoor Track & Field National Championships. The Men’s team kicked off their schedule on Saturday at the Jesse Owens Classic and now the Women get their run kicked off on Wednesday. Keala McCurry will head to the Hillsdale Invitational where she will compete in the Women’s Pole Vault.  

The Cardinal Women’s Track team had several strong individual performances at the 2025 Mountain East Conference (MEC) Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The Cardinals would finish with six top five finishers across the three days of competition, and had two athletes compete in the finals of their event on the third day of competition. Things started out strong in the field on the opening day of competition, with the Cardinals getting their first two top five finishers. The Cardinals would also have their first finals qualifier in the 400-Meter Hurdles as they started the event strong. The two top five finishers would turn into a trend, with the team having two on each day of competition. In the end, they had one runner in the finals of her event and one MEC Champion to round out the event. 

That lone individual championship would go to Keala McCurry, who competed in both the Women’s Pole Vault and the 400-Merer Hurdles across the three days of competition. Her individual title would come in the pole vault, where she won her third straight title with a height of 3.35 meters. She was the only competitor to clear the 3.35 meter mark and attempted 3.63 meters, but was unable to clear. She would also start the event strong on day one, qualifying for the finals of the 400-Meter Hurdles with a time of 1:06.46. it was the third straight PR in the event for McCurry and as she headed into day two, she would improve on that time even further. She finished fourth overall at 1:04.80, and set a new PR for the fourth straight time in the event. She looks to continue building on both events at Hillsdale.  

The other Cardinal top five finishes both came in the field, with Trinity Ortiz in the Javelin and Tara Perry in the High Jump. Ortiz would be the first top five finisher for the Cardinals on Day one, as she continues her success in the Javelin. Ortiz would take fifth overall in the event, throwing a distance of 31.69 meters. It was just over two meters shy of her PR for the event, and was the start of a strong event. The final top five finish came in the field on the final day as Tara Perry took on the High Jump. Perry would jump to a height of 1.50 meters, needing two jumps to clear the height. It was good enough for a fifth place finish in the field as she finished out a strong career with the Cardinals as a leader for the jumping group.  

Wednesday will be one of two Last Chance Meets for McCurry, who has a current season best mark of 3.74 meters in the Pole Vault. It is just one meter shy of her PR at 1.75 meters and has her sitting Just . 04 meters shy of the NCAA Provo Mark. Throughout the season, McCurry has hit a height of 3.50 Meters twice this season and has gone over the 3.40 Meter mark on three different occasions. She hit her current season best in the final event of the regular season at the Otterbein Twilight Invitational, when she hit the height of 3.74 meters. She would hit her current PR of 3.75 meters at last season’s outdoor Track & Field Championships, where she also set the meet record. Those are the only two times in her career that she has eclipsed the 3.70 meter mark and she will have two more chances this week to do just that.  

Event Details 

Wednesday’s Hillsdale Last Chance Meet will be held at the Outdoor Track at Hayden Park with first events beginning at 11 AM. The Men’s and Women’s Hammer Throw will get the event started in the pit while McCurry will be up first in the pole vault at 11 AM. She will be competing against some of the best in the region, who are all looking to qualify for the 2025 NCAA DII Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She was the MEC’s top pole vaulter during both indoor and outdoor season and is looking to qualify for the National Championships for the first time in her career.  

Event Info 

First events begin at the Hillsdale College Last Chance Meet at 11 AM. You can follow along with Live Results by clicking HERE.  

The California Lutheran University men’s volleyball team made it to the Final Four of the NCAA DIII Tournament, where their season ended on a three-set loss to Springfield College, the eventual runner-up to first-time national champion Southern Virginia University.

This is the second season in a row, and in program history, that the Kingsmen have earned a bid into the NCAA Tournament, after winning it all last year.

Head Men’s Volleyball Coach Kevin Judd said the Kingsmen have persevered through the challenge of distance,  in regards to how often they have to travel to face teams.

“To travel, to do everything that we needed to do to qualify and get into this tournament, certainly says a lot, and to then be flown 2,800 miles out to New York City was pretty wild,” Judd said.

The Kingsmen earned their spot in the tournament following a five-set victory over the No. 18 University of California, Santa Cruz Banana Slugs in both teams’ last regular season match of the year.

The Kingsmen flew to New York for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, hosted by the No. 1 New York University Violets. Judd said he was not expecting to hear that the team was headed to NYU.

“[I was] shocked that we were going to NYU. I think watching that show, we were just like, ‘Whoa,’ you know, taken aback for a moment,” Judd said.

In the first round of the tournament, the Kingsmen faced Vassar College, the team they beat in the NCAA finals last year. Judd said he was shocked and nervous to find out that Vassar would be the Kingsmen’s opponent in the first round.

“We see that it’s Vassar, and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is the team that we faced in the finals last year,’ which makes it scary because those guys wanted redemption,” Judd said.

The Kingsmen defeated Vassar in four sets. While Vassar took the first set 25-19, the Kingsmen took the following three sets (25-17, 25-15, and 25-20) to secure the victory and advance to the second round.

“I just knew that Vassar was gonna come out and play us tough, and they certainly did in that first set,” Judd said.

The Kingsmen advanced to the second round of the tournament to face the undefeated Violets. Senior opposite hitter Michael Stahl said the Kingsmen went into that match as the underdogs.

“We had a lot of doubters going in,” Stahl said. “One of the volleyball accounts, whatever, that runs DIII, they said we had, like, a 25% chance of winning.”

The Kingsmen handed the Violets their first loss in over a year as they came out on top in four sets (25-18 L, 25-22 W, 28-26 W, and 25-20 W). Graduate outside hitter Jordan Cooper ended the fourth set with a service ace. Judd said Cooper’s match-ending service ace against NYU was reminiscent of the one he recorded against Stevens Institute of Technology in the Final Four of last year’s NCAA Tournament.

“He happens to just nail that back corner like he did against Stevens, and the celebration as soon as we walked out on the court, that’s the first thing he said to me, ‘Just like Stevens, Coach,’” Judd said.

After returning home for a few days the following week, the Kingsmen flew back east to Salem, Virginia, where they faced Springfield College in the NCAA Final Four. Stahl said a lot of hard work and preparation went into that match.

“A lot of film, watching the team practice and preparing for that game, taking care of our bodies, getting good sleep, eating right, but just really watching the team play and seeing if we can pick up on any tendencies they may have, and just practicing that with our practice times that we had there in Salem,” Stahl said.

The Kingsmen fell to the Pride in three sets (25-19, 25-16, and 25-17), marking the end of their season. Stahl said he did not feel as though the Kingsmen played their best in that match, but remains proud of the team’s season as a whole.

“Definitely could have played better, in my opinion, me personally, and then as a team, I think we all feel the same way,” Stahl said. “Not how, obviously, you want to end a year, but still proud of our season.”

By the end of the NCAA Tournament, the Kingsmen finished out the 2025 season 23-7 overall. Judd said he is proud of his team for reaching this point again.

“Just so proud of the resiliency and the fight that the boys had in them to get the job done and give us another opportunity to get back to the National Championship tournament,” Judd said.

UCLA’s NCAA Academic Progress Rates (APR) remained at high levels for the 2020-21 through 2023-24 period, with three teams recognized as having rates in the top 10 percent of their sport. A total of 16 Bruin teams recorded scores above the national four-year rate of 984, and UCLA’s average multi-year rate for its 23 teams was 986. 

Each academic year, every Division I sports team’s APR is calculated using a simple and consistent formula. Scholarship student-athletes can earn points for staying on course for a degree in their chosen major and points for being retained (or graduating) at the end of each academic term. 

Three UCLA teams received recognition for having rates in the Top 10 percent of their sports. Beach volleyball, women’s cross country and women’s golf all earned perfect scores of 1,000 – beach volleyball for the eighth consecutive year and women’s cross country for the fourth straight year.

A total of 11 UCLA teams earned single-year perfect marks of 1,000 for the 2023-24 academic year – women’s basketball, beach volleyball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s soccer, softball, women’s tennis, women’s track & field and women’s volleyball.

UCLA’s multi-year APR by sport (2020-21 through 2023-24):

Baseball – 988

Men’s Basketball – 969

Women’s Basketball – 989

Women’s Beach Volleyball – 1,000 (Top 10%)

Men’s Cross Country – 988

Women’s Cross Country – 1,000 (Top 10%)

Football – 967

Men’s Golf – 994

Women’s Golf – 1,000 (Top 10%)

Women’s Gymnastics – 975

Women’s Rowing – 986

Men’s Soccer – 989

Women’s Soccer – 988

Softball – 989

Women’s Swimming & Diving – 995

Men’s Tennis – 971

Women’s Tennis – 992

Men’s Track & Field – 981

Women’s Track & Field – 978

Men’s Volleyball – 970

Women’s Volleyball – 997

Men’s Water Polo – 993

Women’s Water Polo – 986