Track & Field Teams Set For 2025 SCAC Championships This Weekend
Seguin, Texas – The Centenary men’s and women’s track and field teams will compete in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships this weekend beginning on Friday and concluding on Sunday at Bulldog Stadium. The three-day event, hosted by SCAC member Texas Lutheran University, features the Ladies and Gents along with the host Bulldogs, Concordia University, […]
Seguin, Texas – The Centenary men’s and women’s track and field teams will compete in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships this weekend beginning on Friday and concluding on Sunday at Bulldog Stadium.
The three-day event, hosted by SCAC member Texas Lutheran University, features the Ladies and Gents along with the host Bulldogs, Concordia University, Colorado College, the University of Dallas, LeTourneau University, McMurry University, University of the Ozarks, Schreiner University, Southwestern University, the University of St. Thomas, and Trinity University.
Live results and live video are available for the meet and links can be found in the “Championship Central”.
Sophomore Christian Cormier (Lafayette, La.) has been one of the top competitors in the conference all season as he has been named the SCAC Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (April 22) and Co-Track Athlete of the Week on March 18. Cormier has the 12th fastest time all season in the conference in the 100 meters (10.75) and 13th fastest in the 200 meters (22.00).
Freshman Phillip Hughes (Bossier City, La.) ran a time of 51.68 in the 400 meters at the Jim Mize Invitational on April 19 which is the 24th fastest time in the event all season in the league while freshman Clayton Hancock (Buna, Texas) has the 25th fastest time (51.82) which he ran in the Carl Knight Invitational on April 12.
The Gents’ team of Cormier, junior Obadiah Butler (Crowley, La.), freshman Dwayne Mills Jr. (Slidell, La.), and freshman Jay Scott (Slidell, La.) own the eighth-fastest time (42.44) in the 4 x 100 relay which they ran in the Belhaven University Invitational on March 22. Hancock, sophomore Herman Pride (Baton Rouge, La.), Scott, and sophomore Bryan Washington (Wylie, Texas) ran the ninth-fastest time this season in the league in the 4 x 400 relay (3:37.90) recorded in the Carl Knight Invitational.
Scott is 12th in the long jump (6.37m) in the conference this season which he accomplished at the Jim Mize Invitational and Pride is 24th (5.97m) which he tallied at the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet in March and Scott’s 12.97m in the triple jump recorded at the Belhaven Invitational ranks ninth in the conference.
On the women’s side, freshman Gabrielle Malagarie (Lafayette, La.)posted the conference’s 13th-best mark this season in the high jump (1.40m) in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet in March – the Ladies’ opening meet of the season. The rookie also has the 21st-best score in the long jump (4.66m) in that same meet.
Freshman Grayson Shugart (McKinney, Texas) ranks 18th in the long jump (4.79m) set at the Cowboy Relays Bob Hayes Louisiana Challenge hosted by McNeese State University last month, the Ladies’ top score of the season in the event. Shugart also posted the 10th-best score in the triple jump in the conference this season, with a mark of 9.90m in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet.
Sophomore Mackenzie Haley (Orange, Texas) is 22nd in the long jump (4.62m), right behind Malagarie, which she recorded in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet. Sophomore Ella Walton (Lafayette, La.) is 22nd in the discus (27.31m) after throwing that distance at the Jim Mize Invitational on April 19.
See where the Ladies and Gents rank within the conference and nationally at the links below:
MEN: TFRRS | 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Qualifying List
WOMEN: TFRRS | 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Qualifying List
See the complete Gents’ season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/mtrack/2024-25/schedule
See the complete Ladies’ season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/wtrack/2024-25/schedule
Texas UIL 5A 200 Freestyle State Champion Commits To South Carolina’s Class of 2029
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UIL 5A 200 freestyle state champion Bexon Harrison has announced his commitment to the University of South Carolina’s class of 2029.
“I am thrilled to announce my commitment to further my academic and athletic career at the University of South Carolina. I’m grateful to my coaches, Coach Aaron and Coach Scott as well as my family and friends for supporting me along the way. I would also like to thank Coach Jason and all of the coaching staff at South Carolina for this incredible opportunity. Spurs Up!”
Harrison told SwimSwam that in addition to the coaches and the team culture making him feel at home, “the program is going in a great direction and I want to be part of it!”
When he is not racing for his high school, Harrison competes for Streamline Aquatics. But though his mother swam at Yale and he learned to swim at a young age, it was only recently that he began to concentrate on competitive swimming. In addition to racing club, Harrison also did water polo, helping his high school team to the Texas State Championship tournament three years in a row and earning a First Team All-America award. Harrison cited the “limited number of water polo programs” as a factor in his decision to focus on swimming.
He made rapid improvements after that choice, qualifying for Winter and Summer Junior Nationals. To cap off his high school career, he won the 200 freestyle at the Texas UIL 5A State Championships in a record 1:35.67 and was the runner-up in the 100 freestyle (43.99). He has since bettered his 100 freestyle time, dropping to a 43.69 at the April 2025 ST SASA Championships.
Best Times (SCY):
100 freestyle: 43.69
200 freestyle: 1:35.67
100 breaststroke: 54.97
100 butterfly: 48.50
As Harrison has only recently focused on swimming, it’s likely he could continue to make big jumps in his events as a college athlete. He is already a valuable recruit for the South Carolina men. His 100 freestyle would have been the fastest on the 2024-25 team, and his 200 freestyle would have been second. The Gamecocks had one swimmer under 1:37 last season, so Harrison carrying a 1:35 into college is important for the team, which finished 11th at the 2025 SEC Championships.
As for his non-freestyle events, one of the South Carolina men’s strengths is breaststroke, and Harrison’s best would rank third on last season’s roster. Focusing on either the 100 breaststroke or 100 butterfly would give him a double on Day 3 of an NCAA Championship schedule; though notably, not the SEC Championship schedule, which runs the extended five-day swimming format.
Harrison joins Einar Agustsson, Merlin Ficher, Pierre Lageron, and Sam Brown in the South Carolina men’s class of 2026
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2025 Frontier Conference Track and Field Championships Day 2 Recap | Frontier Conference
The Frontier Conference concluded its 2025 Track and Field Championships on Monday in Helena. The Carroll College men and Montana Tech women took home team championships. Jack Marshall SWX Local Sports Reporter
HELENA- The Frontier Conference concluded its 2025 Track and Field Championships on Monday in Helena. The Carroll College men and […]
The Frontier Conference concluded its 2025 Track and Field Championships on Monday in Helena. The Carroll College men and Montana Tech women took home team championships.
Jack Marshall
SWX Local Sports Reporter
HELENA- The Frontier Conference concluded its 2025 Track and Field Championships on Monday in Helena. The Carroll College men and Montana Tech women took home team championships.
Day 1 Recap:
HELENA- The Frontier Conference Track and Field Championships are underway at Vigilante Stadium in Helena.
Jack Marshall
SWX Local Sports Reporter
Day 2 Winners:
Women’s Coach of the Year: Chuck Merrifield (Tech)
Men’s Coach of the Year: Harry Clark (Carroll)
Women’s Field Athlete of the Year: Abby Clark (Tech)
Women’s Track Athlete of the Year: Alyssa Jany (Tech)
Men’s Field Athlete of the Year: Cade VanVleet (Tech)
Men’s Track Athlete of the Year: Brycen Gardner (Carroll)
Track & field star Schwartz ’26 eclipses 40 meters in women’s javelin throw
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ITHACA, N.Y. – Hamilton College’s Dana Schwartz ’26 broke her team record again in the women’s javelin throw at the multi-divisional, non-team scoring Big Red Invitational at Cornell University’s Robert J. Kane Sports Complex on Sunday, May 4. In what seems like a weekly occurrence, Schwartz eclipsed her […]
ITHACA, N.Y. – Hamilton College’s Dana Schwartz ’26 broke her team record again in the women’s javelin throw at the multi-divisional, non-team scoring Big Red Invitational at Cornell University’s Robert J. Kane Sports Complex on Sunday, May 4.
In what seems like a weekly occurrence, Schwartz eclipsed her own record with a distance of 40.42 meters, which is currently the 19th-best performance in NCAA Division III.
Tatiana McCray ’28 (100-meter dash) and Olivia Waruch ’28 (400-meter hurdles) recorded personal-best times in their respective events.
The Continentals compete in the 2025 All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference Outdoor Championships at Williams College on May 14 and 15.
TOP PERFORMANCES
100-Meter Dash (11 runners)
7. Tatiana McCray ’28, 12.60 (PR)
1500-Meter Run (9 runners)
1. Keira Rogan ’28, 4:35.05
400-Meter Hurdles (5 runners)
1. Olivia Waruch ’28, 1:05.31 (PR)
Javelin Throw (4 athletes)
1. Dana Schwartz ’26, 40.42m (132 feet, 7 inches; SR)
Former LTC stars shine at America East Championships – Scranton Times-Tribune
Former Lackawanna Track Conference stars excelled in NCAA Division I track and field as the season winds down. Tatum Norris, a former Times-Tribune Female Athlete of the Year and a graduate of Susquehanna, helped Binghamton University achieve a fourth-place team finish at the America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend at the […]
Former Lackawanna Track Conference stars excelled in NCAA Division I track and field as the season winds down.
Tatum Norris, a former Times-Tribune Female Athlete of the Year and a graduate of Susquehanna, helped Binghamton University achieve a fourth-place team finish at the America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships this past weekend at the University of New Hampshire.
Norris, a sophomore, placed third in the pole vault with a height of 12 feet, 1.5 inches to earn all-conference honors; finished fourth in the 400-meter sprint with a time of 55.44 seconds; and was sixth in the 200 with a time of 24.78. She also contributed to the 1,600 relay team that finished second and earned all-conference honors and to the 400 relay team that finished fifth.
Former Riverside distance running standout Daniel Danilovitz also competed at the America East Championships. The University of Maryland Baltimore County freshman placed fifth in the 10,000 with a time of 30:14.82. He also raced in the 5,000 and finished 11th with a time of 14:33.63.
Patriot League Championships
A pair of former Times-Tribune All-Region athletes finished in the top eight at the Patriot League Championships.
Lafayette College senior Jack Lynett, a Scranton Prep graduate, placed eighth in the pole vault. He had a height of 15-3.5 at the event. His career-best mark is 15-9, which he achieved this spring in a dual meet against rival Lehigh.
Lehigh University also had an eighth-place finish. Riverside graduate Nathan Oliphant, a sophomore, scored in the 110 hurdles at the Patriot League Championships with a time of 14.91. He ran a time of 14.74 to qualify for the final. Oliphant had a career-best time of 14.58 in March at the Shippensburg University Keystone State Challenge this spring.
Holy Cross freshman Mary Zabielski launched the javelin 125-8 and finished 10th at her first Patriot League Championship meet. This season, the former Valley View standout had a season-best distance of 128-4 in April at the UMass Flagship Opener.
Bucknell University junior Avery Rebar, a Mid Valley graduate, had a career-best mark of 42-11.75 in the shot put and finished 13th at the Patriot League Championships. She also finished 20th in the discus with a throw of 117-6.
Making a mark
Former Delaware Valley star and Times-Tribune Female Track and Field Performer of the Year Taliyah Booker is having a breakout junior season at Grand Canyon University after transferring from Purdue University.
Last Saturday, Booker ran a season- and career-best time of 53.72 in the 400 at the Desert Heat Classic. That equaled her previous best time of 53.72 she had when she finished fourth at the Battle at the Beach in April.
This season, Booker’s 400-meter time ranks second in the Western Athletic Conference. Grand Canyon teammate Aaliyah Rifort-Delem has the fastest time (53.60) this season in the conference.
Booker also has a season-best time of 24.07 in the 200 this season.
The WAC Championships will be held at the University of Texas Arlington at Maverick Stadium from Thursday, May 15, through Saturday, May 17.
Getting ready
Colin Kravitz, a North Pocono graduate and former Times-Tribune Athlete of the Year, had a third-place finish in the 200 at the Larry Ellis Invitational last weekend. The sophomore ran a personal-best time of 21.19 in the event to rank 25th in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season.
Kravitz has an outstanding spring season with personal-best times of 47.21 in the 400 at the Virginia Challenge and 10.73 in the 100 at the UConn Dog Fight in early April. His time in the 400 is ranked 18th in the ACC this season. He also ranks third all-time at Boston College in the 400.
The ACC Championships are May 15-17 at Wake Forest.
Chicago Cubs Have the Best Outfield in Major League Baseball
Cubs Video No team in baseball features a better trio on the outfield grass than the Chicago Cubs. There isn’t a whole lot of room for debate here, either. As a group, the Cubs’ outfield ranks first in fWAR (5.0), well ahead of the New York Yankees (4.2) and even farther ahead of the Boston Red […]
No team in baseball features a better trio on the outfield grass than the Chicago Cubs. There isn’t a whole lot of room for debate here, either.
As a group, the Cubs’ outfield ranks first in fWAR (5.0), well ahead of the New York Yankees (4.2) and even farther ahead of the Boston Red Sox (3.0). While it would be an oversimplification to attribute the team’s early success specifically and solely to that group (given the success of Michael Busch and the tandem of Miguel Amaya and Carson Kelly behind the plate), it’s certainly been the outfield leading the way. This was always possible, but it was far from guaranteed, so seeing it come to fruition is as encouraging as it is satisfying.
The acquisition of Kyle Tucker was obviously a boon. With such little positional flexibility when the offseason began, moving Cody Bellinger out of town and finding a suitable replacement for Seiya Suzuki‘s glove in right represented one of the only paths toward legitimate addition within the lineup. Tucker has been crucial to the team’s early run to the top of the National League Central, but it’s been far from the only element driving the offensive (and defensive, for that matter) pace thus far.
In addition to pacing the league in fWAR, the Cubs’ outfield leads the league in isolated slugging (.236) and strikeout rate (16.5%), while sitting top five in batting average (.291), on-base percentage (.367), and stolen bases (21). Their 22 home runs are tied with the Yankees atop the leaderboard, as well. To say that it’s a potent group would be an understatement.
Tucker has been as advertised. Plenty of ink is still to be spilt over the team’s efforts to retain their new-ish superstar, but even with a little bit of a recent “cold” streak, he’s still a top-10 position player in most categories. His 168 wRC+ ranks seventh, while his walk rate (15.3%) continues to outpace his strikeout rate (11.7%).
While Tucker had the ability to raise the floor of what this group could produce, it’s been Pete Crow-Armstrong who has pushed the ceiling upward. Not all of the stats look great. He’s still reaching base at a barely a .300 clip, but he’s tamped down the strikeouts on his way to producing a 139 wRC+. That’s all despite a very cold start. The power has really manifested, to the tune of a .287 ISO that even narrowly surpasses that of Tucker (.285). We knew the speed would be there, and lo: 12 steals.
The mildly ironic thing is that the star-level play we see from each of Tucker and Crow-Armstrong on a daily basis has overshadowed the contributions of Ian Happ atop the lineup. He’s running a 120 wRC+, with virtually no power to speak of (.102 ISO). Generally a slow starter, that Happ is already a worthy contributor without the power (which we don’t typically see until May, anyway) really gets moving speaks to the actual ceiling of this group.
Then there’s the defensive component. The Cubs lead the league with 10 Defensive Runs Saved in the outfield, even with Tucker rating a bit below average. It helps that Crow-Armstrong is jumping his way to covering more ground than almost any individual outfielder in baseball, but Happ’s defense looks legitimately good in the face of metrics that have soured on him throughout his Gold Glove run.
It’s the combination of offense and defense that has given the Cubs two of the nine most valuable players in baseball—and we’re not just talking outfielders. There are 162 qualifying position players in the league. Crow-Armstrong ranks third in FanGraphs WAR, and Tucker sits ninth. Happ’s farther down the list, at 63rd, but it’s nearly impossible to overstate the level at which this outfield has performed.
They’ve been much-needed, too. While catcher (Amaya/Kelly) and first base (Busch) both sit in the top seven in positional value, the middle infield spots have both been middle-of-the-road. Third base is near the bottom of the league (28th). Seiya Suzuki’s phenomenal production as the DH is vital, but since his defensive homes are in the outfield, he feels like an extension of that corps.
Consider some of the groups that were projected to be among the best in the league on the grass in the National League alone. Arizona. San Diego. Milwaukee. FanGraphs’s preseason positional power rankings had the Cubs eighth in left field, 12th in center, and fifth in right. They’ve blown them all away. And then you get into the value of pushing Suzuki into a full-time role as the designated hitter.
It’s this group that has not only made the Cubs into a legitimate NL contender, but a singularly watchable winner. After a handful of years of middle-tier, outright boring baseball, the Cubs have become one of the most exciting teams in the sport on the strength of their outfield.
