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Appalachian State Volleyball Announces 2025 Schedule
App State Volleyball head coach Chad Sutton announced the schedule for the 2025 season, his first in charge of the Mountaineers. This fall’s slate will feature a nonconference tournament, a pair of nonconference midweek matches and eight home conference matchups. The Mountaineers’ nonconference slate will feature clashes with a trio of ACC opponents and a […]
App State Volleyball head coach Chad Sutton announced the schedule for the 2025 season, his first in charge of the Mountaineers.
This fall’s slate will feature a nonconference tournament, a pair of nonconference midweek matches and eight home conference matchups. The Mountaineers’ nonconference slate will feature clashes with a trio of ACC opponents and a clash with Big 10 contender Michigan State.
Season tickets are available to purchase and renew for $65. App State faculty and staff have the opportunity to redeem a discount for a $35 season ticket by calling the ticket office at 828-262-7733. Fans interested in courtside seats may also call the ticket office for availability.
”I am really excited for this schedule,” Sutton said. “We have a strong non conference slate composed of P4’s and high RPI mid-major opponents. I believe this will be critical to our development and help prepare us to compete in the Sun Belt, while pursuing our goal of reaching the NCAA Tournament.”
The Mountaineers will open non conference play at the College of Charleston Classic. App State will take on Mercer in that event on Aug. 29 before challenging the College of Charleston and Eastern Kentucky on Aug. 30.
The Black and Gold will open its home slate with a midweek clash against Elon on Sept. 2 in the Holmes Convocation Center. App State will take on VCU and Virginia in the Cavalier Classic in Charlottesville, Va. (Sept. 5-6) before heading down to Kennesaw, Ga., for the Kennesaw State Invitational (Sept. 12-13) to clash with Michigan State and Kennesaw State. On Sept. 16, App State will head to Chapel Hill for a midweek clash against North Carolina before hosting the Mountaineer Classic on Sept. 19-21 in Holmes. The tournament will feature a clash with Duke on Sept. 19 and a match against Davidson on Sept. 21.
App State’s conference slate will feature eight home matches, beginning with a pair of matches against James Madison on Sept. 26 and 27. The Mountaineers will travel to Lafayette, La., to challenge Louisiana on Oct. 3 and 4 before returning to the High Country to host Old Dominion on Oct. 10 and 11. After stops in Statesboro, Ga., and Conway, S.C., to take on Georgia Southern (Oct. 16 and 17) and Coastal Carolina (Oct. 24 and 25), the Mountaineers will return to Boone to host Georgia State on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. The regular season slate will wrap up with a pair of road matches against Marshall (Nov. 6 and 7) and a weekend in Boone against Troy (Nov. 14 and 15).
The Sun Belt Tournament is scheduled for Nov. 20-23 in Foley, Ala.
{Information provided by Appalachian State Athletics}
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Schedule, all results, scores and standings
Men’s Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2025 – schedule, results and scores All start times listed in local time Preliminary round week 1 (11 – 15 June) 11 June 2025 Pool 1 in Quebec City, Canada (EDT, GMT-4) 11:00 – Bulgaria vs Italy 16:30 – Argentina vs France 20:00 – Germany vs Canada Pool 2 in […]
Men’s Volleyball Nations League (VNL) 2025 – schedule, results and scores
All start times listed in local time
Preliminary round week 1 (11 – 15 June)
11 June 2025
Pool 1 in Quebec City, Canada (EDT, GMT-4)
- 11:00 – Bulgaria vs Italy
- 16:30 – Argentina vs France
- 20:00 – Germany vs Canada
Pool 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BRT, GMT-3)
- 14:00 – Ukraine vs USA
- 17:30 – Brazil vs Islamic Republic of Iran
- 21:00 – Slovenia vs Cuba
Pool 3 in Xi’an, People’s Republic of China (CST, GMT+8)
- 13:30 – Poland vs Netherlands
- 17:00 – People’s Republic of China vs Japan
- 20:30 – Serbia vs Türkiye
12 June 2025
Pool 1 in Quebec City, Canada (EDT, GMT-4)
- 16:30 – Germany vs Italy
- 20:00 – Argentina vs Canada
Pool 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BRT, GMT-3)
- 17:30 – Brazil vs Cuba
- 21:00 – USA vs Islamic Republic of Iran
Pool 3 in Xi’an, People’s Republic of China (CST, GMT+8)
- 17:00 – People’s Republic of China vs Serbia
- 20:30 – Poland vs Japan
13 June 2025
Pool 1 in Quebec City, Canada (EDT, GMT-4)
- 16:30 – Bulgaria vs Argentina
- 20:00 – France vs Italy
Pool 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BRT, GMT-3)
- 17:30 – Ukraine vs Cuba
- 21:00 – Islamic Republic of Iran vs Slovenia
Pool 3 in Xi’an, People’s Republic of China (CST, GMT+8)
- 17:00 – Japan vs Serbia
- 20:30 – Netherlands vs Türkiye
14 June 2025
Pool 1 in Quebec City, Canada (EDT, GMT-4)
- 16:30 – Canada vs France
- 20:00 – Bulgaria vs Germany
Pool 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BRT, GMT-3)
- 10:00 – Ukraine vs Brazil
- 13:30 – USA vs Slovenia
Pool 3 in Xi’an, People’s Republic of China (CST, GMT+8)
- 15:00 – People’s Republic of China vs Netherlands
- 19:00 – Türkiye vs Poland
15 June 2025
Pool 1 in Quebec City, Canada (EDT, GMT-4)
- 11:00 – Argentina vs Italy
- 14:30 – Germany vs France
- 18:00 – Bulgaria vs Canada
Pool 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (BRT, GMT-3)
- 10:00 – Brazil vs Slovenia
- 13:30 – Ukraine vs Islamic Republic of Iran
- 17:00 – Cuba vs USA
Pool 3 in Xi’an, People’s Republic of China (CST, GMT+8)
- 11:30 – Netherlands vs Japan
- 15:00 – People’s Republic of CHina vs Türkiye
- 19:00 – Poland vs Serbia
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UCLA’s Ryder Dodd Wins 2025 Men’s Cutino Award
Courtesy: UCLA Athletics SAN FRANCISCO — The Olympic Club announced late Saturday night that UCLA freshman attacker Ryder Dodd (Long Beach, Calif./JSerra Catholic HS) has been named the 2025 Peter J. Cutino Award winner. The Cutino Award is an iconic honor in NCAA water polo that recognizes the best men’s and women’s players each year. Dodd became the first Bruin to […]
Courtesy: UCLA Athletics
SAN FRANCISCO — The Olympic Club announced late Saturday night that UCLA freshman attacker Ryder Dodd (Long Beach, Calif./JSerra Catholic HS) has been named the 2025 Peter J. Cutino Award winner. The Cutino Award is an iconic honor in NCAA water polo that recognizes the best men’s and women’s players each year.
Dodd became the first Bruin to claim the prize since attacker Nicolas Saveljic was awarded the trophy in 2021 for the 2020 season, which like the 2024 campaign, culminated with a National Championship win over USC. He is also just the fourth different Bruin and the fifth overall winner on the UCLA men’s side, joining Garret Danner who won the award in 2016, and Sean Kern, who claimed the title in 1998 and 1999, the first two Cutino Awards ever presented.
Dodd helped the Bruins (26-2) win the 2024 NCAA Men’s Water Polo Championship, the 13th in UCLA’s storied history. Named a First-Team All-American in 2024, he scored twice in the NCAA Championship game, the Bruins’ fourth win of the season over the Trojans.
The win also marked the fifth NCAA Championship for UCLA Head Coach Adam Wright while in charge of the Men’s Water Polo team, with all five titles coming against USC. It is Wright’s ninth NCAA title overall, as he also won two as a player at UCLA (1999 and 2000), one last year with the women’s program (2024), and one more as an assistant coach with the women’s team in 2009.
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Dodd wrote himself into the MPSF record books this past season when he scored a league-record 102 goals. It was also a UCLA freshman record and the second-most goals scored in school history. He also added 32 assists to lead the MPSF in scoring with 134 points. He also led the MPSF in sprints won (46) while finishing second on the Bruin squad in steals (32) and field blocks (11), and third in drawn exclusions (30). Named the ACWPC National Player of the Year, he also was chosen as the MPSF Player and Newcomer of the Year, the first person in league history to earn both honors in the same season.
Dodd, who was named the MVP of the NCAA Championship, scored in all 28 games of his rookie season, with multiple goals in all but one. A four-time MPSF weekly award honoree, earning Delfina MPSF West Player of the Week and S&R Sport Newcomer of the Week twice each, he scored a career-best eight goals in an 18-12 win at then-No. 7 Pepperdine (Oct. 12). Dodd, the only freshman on the Delfina All-MPSF First Team, is UCLA’s sixth all-time MPSF Player of the Year recipient (Rafael Real Vergara-2023, Garrett Danner-2015-16, Scott Davidson-2009, Sean Kern-2000) and is the fourth Bruin to earn MPSF Newcomer of the Year (Ben Liechty-2023, Makoto Kenney-2020, Garrett Danner-2013).
The other two finalists on the men’s side included Max Miller (USC) and Mihailo Vukazic (Pacific).
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Vanderbilt Ready to Lead in New Model for College Sports
On June 6, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the House v. NCAA settlement—launching a new era for college athletics. This ruling creates a foundation for greater stability, fairness, and opportunity for student-athletes—and affirms what we at Vanderbilt have long believed: transformation, when grounded in mission and […]
On June 6, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the House v. NCAA settlement—launching a new era for college athletics.
This ruling creates a foundation for greater stability, fairness, and opportunity for student-athletes—and affirms what we at Vanderbilt have long believed: transformation, when grounded in mission and values, creates opportunity.
As we continue to build the great university of the 21st century, we remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a championship-caliber student-athlete experience that integrates academic and athletic excellence and strengthens our One Vanderbilt community.
The newly formed College Sports Commission, led by Bryan Seeley—former MLB executive and a respected voice in sports law—and its partners, Deloitte and LBi Software, will be responsible for ensuring compliance and supporting institutions through this transition.
While the settlement offers a clearer, more structured path forward, we will continue to work with our legislative partners on potential federal solutions that can bring long-term stability and consistency to the college athletics landscape.
Key pillars of the new model include:
Revenue sharing: Beginning with the 2025–26 academic year, SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten institutions may share up to 22 percent of defined athletics revenue with student-athletes—estimated at up to $20.5 million per school.
Scholarship expansion: With scholarship limits removed, universities now have more flexibility to offer educational opportunities to a broader range of student-athletes across sports. Removing scholarship limits gives schools the flexibility to better support student-athletes and their education, while supporting the long-term success of broad-based sports programs. Current and immediately incoming student-athletes who may have been adversely impacted by roster limits will still have the opportunity to earn a roster spot.
NIL conditions: The new NIL Go platform, managed by the College Sports Commission and its partners, Deloitte and LBi Software, will streamline the reporting and approval process for third-party NIL agreements—enhancing transparency while protecting student-athletes’ eligibility.
Our recent launch of Vanderbilt Enterprises and the appointment of Markus Schreyer as CEO underscore our readiness to embrace innovative models that support excellence in education, research, and athletics.
We are also preparing for the financial responsibility that comes with this new model and remain focused on driving strategic initiatives like Vandy United and advancing the mission of Vanderbilt Athletics. With your support, we will continue to set the standard in this new era.
This is a defining time for college sports. Though much is changing, the essence of what athletics represent—community, growth, discipline, excellence—remains firmly intact.
We are ready to lead. And together, we will succeed.
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The growth of esports at UW–Madison
Students compete in Valorant, a multiplayer video game, in the Esport Lounge at the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center, Photo by Xiaomeng Shen/UW–Madison While esports isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think of athletics, there are a lot of skills that you need to be a good esports athlete. “There […]
Students compete in Valorant, a multiplayer video game, in the Esport Lounge at the Bakke Recreation & Wellbeing Center, Photo by Xiaomeng Shen/UW–Madison
While esports isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think of athletics, there are a lot of skills that you need to be a good esports athlete.
“There is a big mental aspect of esports, but part of it is just mechanical skills, like how well you aim and stuff,” says UW sophomore Arsalan Ahmad, an officer for the Madison eSports Club. “Genetics plays a huge role in other sports, a lot of times it’s just ‘oh are you tall enough to play basketball.’ With esports there is a lot of adaptation, it’s not only that you have to grind, but you also have to adapt to changing metas (most effective tactics available) like traditional sports.”
Ahmad, who’s studying computer science and data science, competes on the club’s top team for Valorant.
Esports, or playing video games competitively, has grown rapidly into a global industry. Games like League of Legends, Valorant, Apex Legends and Counter-Strike have become some of the most popular, with their top athletes being treated like celebrities, complete with dedicated training facilities and top tier sponsorship deals.
UW–Madison has also started providing more opportunities and spaces for esports on campus. While UW doesn’t have a varsity-level esports team like some universities, student-led groups such as the Madison Esports Club offer competition across multiple games.
The Madison Esports Club first started off as a group of students who gathered to play popular games such as DOTA, Starcraft and Hearthstone. In early 2020 the organization was adopted under the University Recreation and Wellbeing as a Sports Club, bringing it more funding and opportunities to compete against other teams.
The organization hosts teams for specific games, such as League of Legends, Valorant and Call of Duty. But students in the club don’t have to compete on a team — they can just find groups of other students to play games for fun.
Esports, or playing video games competitively, has grown rapidly into a global industry. Games like League of Legends, Valorant, Apex Legends and Counter-Strike have become some of the most popular. Photo by Xiaomeng Shen/UW–Madison
Since COVID, gaming and video games has become one of the largest entertainment industries in the world,” said club president Eddie Kustner. “It’s good to have more opportunities for people who enjoy video games to go out and meet other people who enjoy video games.”
The Madison Esports Club competes in a variety of collegiate competitions locally and on a more national scale, including the Big Ten league and the Wisconsin Esports Conference, which includes other colleges in Wisconsin. The Big Ten is offering competitions in Super Smash Bros and Overwatch for the Spring 2025 semester, and the Madison Esports team is competing in both.
Outside of the team itself, the Bakke Recreation and Wellbeing Center has opened up a dedicated Esports lounge fitted with computers optimized for gaming. Esports has also been offered as a part of intramural sports, with semester-long competitions and shorter tournaments.
“Fostering local competition is really good. Also just connecting with other students on campus,” says Arsalan Ahmad. “It’s a great way to socialize with other students, just like it is with other intramural sports.”
Kustner would like to see esports grow here. “We have an esports room and it’s great that we have that, that’s a great first step,” he says.
It can be difficult to convince up-and-coming esports athletes to compete on a collegiate level because the prime age for gaming is on the younger side. Most talented players make their professional debut before they even graduate from high school.
“The long-term goals are to support the team and to provide more opportunities for the community to grow. The most successful esports communities in college have a very strong social scene and they have physical areas where people want to come, which fosters community” Kustner says.
Written by Serena Wang
Link to original story: https://news.wisc.edu/the-growth-of-esports-at-uw-madison/
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For-Profit College Sports Commission Gives Nonprofit Web Impression
What’s in a (domain) name? Within an hour of Judge Claudia Wilken having granted final approval of the House v. NCAA settlement, the newly established College Sports Commission’s website went live, featuring a homepage headline declaring “a new day in college sports” beside a picture of female water polo players. The commission, which was established […]
What’s in a (domain) name?
Within an hour of Judge Claudia Wilken having granted final approval of the House v. NCAA settlement, the newly established College Sports Commission’s website went live, featuring a homepage headline declaring “a new day in college sports” beside a picture of female water polo players.
The commission, which was established by the NCAA’s Power Five conferences—the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC and Pac-12—to police college athlete NIL transactions, registered as a Delaware limited liability company in April, as Sportico was first to report.
This sets the College Sports Commission (CSC) apart from the numerous nationally recognized “commissions,” many of which are government agencies—such as the FEC, FTC, FCC and the other SEC—or federally recognized nonprofit organizations exempt from income tax.
Aside from a small number of postseason football bowl games, the CSC is also unique in being the only for-profit governing body, association or multi-school organization in college sports. That means unlike the NCAA, its member intuitions and major conferences—all of which are federally registered 501(c)(3) organizations—the commission is not legally bound to operate for exclusively charitable purposes; does not have to publicly disclose its annual tax return (that includes financial details such as its annual legal expenditures or the compensation of its new CEO, Bryan Seeley); and faces no restrictions on its involvement in political campaigns.
However, the CSC’s website lends a different impression, starting with its URL: www.CollegeSportsCommission.org. Although any entity can register or use dot-org domain extensions, they typically and historically are associated with nonprofits. Notably, if paradoxically, all but one of the P5 conferences (BigTen.org) now employ dot-com domains for their official sites (SECSports.com, Big12Sports.com, theACC.com and Pac-12.com) even though each of the leagues are 501(c)(3) charities.
In an email, a commission spokesperson told Sportico that despite its legal structure, it is “not intended to be a for-profit company.”
The CSC obtained its website’s URL on April 2—a week-and-a-half before its Delaware LLC was formed. Simultaneously, as confirmed by the spokesperson, it also obtained a dot-com version. Nevertheless, CollegeSportsCommission.com is currently a parked domain that does not redirect to the active, dot-org site.
On its FAQ page, the CSC describes itself as “the organization overseeing the new system that allows schools to share revenue directly with student-athletes and ensures that NIL deals made with student-athletes are fair and comply with the rules.” While it distinguishes itself from the NCAA, the current version of the site offers little clarity about who controls the commission or how it is structured. Notably, its official legal name—College Sports Commission LLC—does not appear anywhere on the site, including in the “Terms of Service” or “Privacy Policy.”
Meanwhile, the website for the NIL Go system, managed by Deloitte, uses a dot-com domain name. According to the CSC spokesperson, the domain was initially purchased by Deloitte on behalf of the joint NCAA/P5 settlement implementation committee, and is now in the process of transferring ownership to the commission. Meanwhile, the dot-com website for the College Athlete Payments (CAP) platform, developed by LBi Software and “overseen” by the commission, is owned by LBi.
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