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U.S. Men’s Sitting Team Wins Silver at 2025 PVPA Zonal

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 28, 2025) – The eighth-ranked U.S. Men’s Sitting National Team qualified for the 2026 ParaVolley World Championship with a silver-medal finish Wednesday at the 2025 ParaVolley Pan America Zonal Championship. In an outstanding match by both teams in the final, fifth-ranked Brazil won the gold with a 3-2 (25-9, 19-25, 15-25, […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 28, 2025) – The eighth-ranked U.S. Men’s Sitting National Team qualified for the 2026 ParaVolley World Championship with a silver-medal finish Wednesday at the 2025 ParaVolley Pan America Zonal Championship. In an outstanding match by both teams in the final, fifth-ranked Brazil won the gold with a 3-2 (25-9, 19-25, 15-25, 25-22, 25-18) win.

James Stuck was named Best Receiver for the tournament. Zach Upp earned Best Attacker honors; he also led all competitors with 17 aces, including 11 in the final.

Head coach Greg Walker shared his emotions about the progress of the U.S. Men and the athletes’ performances against Brazil, one of the best teams in the world over the last two quads.

“I think the biggest shift for us has been seen since the Last Chance Qualifier (for the 2024 Paralympics),” he said. “This is the best team that I’ve had with this USA squad. We brought some new guys in, and they’ve made such a contributing cultural shift for us. Everybody has just been really selfless in playing for each other versus playing for individuals. That’s helping us get where went to be.”

After being dominated by Brazil in the opening set, the U.S. regrouped to take the next two, bolstered by a crowd of fans from the USA Volleyball Open National Championship. Brazil won set four, and the fifth was a nailbiter, with Brazil only pulling away at the end.

Upp was on fire throughout the match, finishing with 30 points on 19 kills and 11 aces. Overall, he scored 95 points in the tournament, 30 more than Canada’s Douglas Learoyd in second place.

Eric Duda scored 13, collecting six kills, two aces and five blocks. Rod Green and Stuck each scored 12; Green had six kills, four blocks and two aces, and Stuck had 11 kills and one block. Ben Aman had two kills and two blocks. Alex Wilson had two kills and a block, and setter John Kremer and Nick Dadgostar were outstanding at setter and libero, respectively.

Brazil led in kills (48-46) and blocks (15-13), but the U.S. led in aces (15-7).

Next up for the U.S. Men is the Dutch Tournament, July 3-6, in the Netherlands. The ParaVolley World Cup will be hosted in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Oct. 12-18.

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Men’s Roster

No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown)
2 Dan Regan (OH, 6-0, St. Louis, Mo.)
3 Nick Dadgostar (L, 6-0, Sidney, Neb.)
4 Ben Aman (OH, 6-5, Edmond, Okla.)
5 Eric Duda (S/OH, 6-5, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
6 Alex Wilson (OPP/OH, 6-6, Saugerties, N.Y.)
7 Robbie Gaupp(OH, 6-4, Gatesville, Texas)
8 James Stuck (S/OH, 6-5, New Kensington, Pa.)
10 Robbie Onusko(OH, 6-0, Daytona Beach, Fla.)
11 Roderick Green (MB, 6-3, West Monroe, La.)
14 John Kremer (L, 5-9, Buford, Ga.)
17 Zach Upp (OH, 6-5, Bartlett, Ill.)
20 Jason Roberts (OH, 6-3, Moncks Corner, S.C.)
22 Brett Parks(OH, 6-0, Miami, Fla.)
23 Will Curtis (S/L, 6-0, Cumberland, Maine)

Schedule/Results

May 24
Men: USA def. Argentina, 3-1 (23-25, 25-15, 25-14, 25-19)

May 25
Men: USA def. Canada, 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 33-35, 25-16)

May 26
Men: Brazil def. USA, 3-0 (25-23, 27-25, 25-23)

May 27
Men’s Semifinal: USA def. Canada, 3-2 (20-25, 25-23, 25-20, 20-25, 15-12)

May 28
Men’s gold medal match: Brazil def. USA, 3-2 (25-9, 19-25, 15-25, 25-22, 25-18)

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Why We Didn’t Have a DIY Beach Wedding

Welcome to Beach Week, our annual celebration of the best place on Earth. Before my fiancé became my husband—in fact, even before he became my fiancé—we spent a lot of time on and around an 18,600-acre Missouri reservoir known as Mark Twain Lake. We invited friends to join us on the pontoon boat for charcuterie […]

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Welcome to Beach Week, our annual celebration of the best place on Earth.

Before my fiancé became my husband—in fact, even before he became my fiancé—we spent a lot of time on and around an 18,600-acre Missouri reservoir known as Mark Twain Lake. We invited friends to join us on the pontoon boat for charcuterie and cocktails, we took the kayak and the stand-up paddleboard into coves, and we spent many hours enjoying both the sand and the not-quite-surf at John F. Spalding Beach.

Which is why, as soon as we knew we were planning a wedding, we asked ourselves what it would take to host it there.

“Imagine the two of us,” Larry said, “saying our vows on the beach at sunset.”

The iconic cliché of the sunset ceremony—and you’ll have to forgive us, we were newly engaged—quickly expanded into what we hoped would become an extended beach party. Having the event at Mark Twain Lake would make it a destination wedding, in the sense that the lake is far enough away from everything else that even our local guests would have to set aside the entire day to attend, and so we began thinking of activities that would make the trip worthwhile.

“We could rent a few extra kayaks,” I said, “or play beach volleyball.”

“And we can get a bunch of stuff going on the grill!” Larry was very enthusiastic about the possibilities. “Our beach wedding would be about bringing the people we love to this place that we love, so they can love it too.”

My mother, who probably loves us more than anybody, was less enthusiastic about the possibility of spending her oldest daughter’s wedding day playing beach volleyball. She suggested that, since we were still very early in the planning process, we might want to consider having a more traditional kind of beach wedding with a ceremony and dinner and dancing because that’s what has been proved to be the most enjoyable for everyone involved. In fact, we might even want to go back to our original plan, which was to have our wedding in our backyard garden. Hadn’t we been talking about that ever since we bought the house?

The truth is that my mother is right about most things—and we did in fact have our wedding in the backyard, but not before we figured out all of the reasons why a beach wedding was wrong for us.

Here’s what we learned.

Not everybody loves the beach

Some of the people we loved thought that a day full of swimming and kayaking and grilling was a great idea, but those were the people who had been coming to the lake with us for years.

The rest of the people we loved were perfectly willing to come to this place that we loved, if that was where we wanted to have our wedding, but they very quickly let us know that they probably wouldn’t love the beach as much as we did—especially if they were required to participate in sports and activities.

“Can we just come for the sunset ceremony?” they asked.

“Sure,” I said, reassuringly. “Come whenever you like.”

Some people may want formal wedding photos

Once we agreed that none of our guests would have to get into a kayak unless they really wanted to, and that anybody who wanted to come just for the sunset ceremony was welcome to do so, my mother asked the next important question: “Are you going to be wearing a swimsuit in your wedding photos?”

I told her that I probably would end up wearing my swimsuit during the ceremony if it came at the end of a daylong beach party, since it wasn’t like Larry and I were going to be able to shower and change and style our hair. Then my mother asked me if there weren’t any showers at the beach and I said of course there were, but they were beach showers.

It quickly became clear that many members of my family wanted to use the wedding as an opportunity to take the kinds of photos that could only be taken when everyone is gathered together. The various family groupings, all of the siblings together, the big picture with everyone in it and so on. From there it made sense that Larry and I should think about how we might look presentable, in the sense that whatever photos we took would live on various mantels for decades, and that we should make sure that everyone else had the opportunity to look their best as well.

“I have this white eyelet lace sundress that I wore when Larry and I bought our house,” I said, “and I told him I wouldn’t wear it again until we got married in the backyard, but I could wear it on the beach instead and we could do the more traditional kind of wedding with a dinner and a ceremony and dancing.”

Beach wedding logistics are difficult

As Larry and I put our minds toward having a traditional wedding on a Midwestern beach, the logistics of how everyone would enjoy the day became more and more complicated. “We still need to confirm whether we need a permit,” I said, “and if we’re having a formal dinner we’ll probably want to rent a shelter house, and we may want to do the thing where you rent a bunch of chairs and tie ribbons around them and arrange them in rows on the sand.”

“Can we get by without renting chairs if we keep the ceremony short and get everybody back to the shelter house for dinner as quickly as possible?” Larry asked.

“Probably,” I said, optimistically. “We’ll also want to rent the shelter house for at least one day before the wedding, because I want to power wash the entire thing beforehand. Those places are full of spiders. Does that mean we’ll need to rent a power washer?”

And suddenly we were talking about budgets and bunting and staple guns and Pinterest boards and whether we’d need to give each guest a pocket-size thing of bug spray with a ribbon tied around it; how we would keep the food at a safe temperature and whether we’d need to assign one of our guests the job of remaining at the shelter house during the ceremony to keep the squirrels off the crudités.

Then we started thinking seriously about the logistics involved in getting people from the shelter house to the beach, including the difficulties that might come up for guests who have specific mobility needs, and then I said the sentence that ended the entire project:

“Larry, when they come back from the ceremony, they’re going to have sand in their shoes.”

“What do you mean?”

“If we want to do a formal beach wedding at sunset and then dinner and dancing afterward, people are either going to have to wear their dress shoes onto the beach and then back up to the shelter house, or they’re going to have to leave their shoes at the shelter house and make their way across the parking lot barefoot, or maybe they’ll carry their shoes, who knows, but either way they’re going to get sand on their feet, and that means they’ll be uncomfortable during the dinner and dancing.”

So we had our backyard wedding instead—which was exactly the kind of wedding Larry and I had been talking about ever since we first bought our house. We had been so enamored of the beach-wedding-at-sunset image that we forgot what should have been obvious. We kept the parts of the beach wedding that we liked, including the part where my sister brought over a bunch of lawn games for the kids to play, and added the parts that my mother knew would be best for everyone, such as formal photos with the extended family.

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Congratulations to the USA Men’s Junior National Team from USA water polo!!

133 For silver medal on Zagreb. USA water polo. HUGE congratulations to the USA Men’s Junior National Team on winning silver at the World Aquatics U20 World Championship this weekend in Croatia. It’s the best finish ever for a USA Men’s program at any level in World Championship play. Ryder Dodd was named MVP as […]

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For silver medal on Zagreb.

USA water polo.

HUGE congratulations to the USA Men’s Junior National Team on winning silver at the World Aquatics U20 World Championship this weekend in Croatia. It’s the best finish ever for a USA Men’s program at any level in World Championship play. Ryder Dodd was named MVP as Team USA rallied from a slow start to reach the gold medal match, falling to Spain 14-11.

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Lottery.com Names New CEO to Drive Global Gaming and Sports Media Expansion

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FORT WORTH, Texas, June 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lottery.com Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY, LTRYW) (“Lottery.com” or “the Company”), a leading technology company transforming the intersection of gaming, sports and entertainment, today announced the appointment of Tim Scoffham as Chief Executive Officer of Sports.com Media Group Limited (“Sports.com Media”) and Lottery.com International Limited (“Lottery.com International”), effective immediately. The appointment follows a successful consultancy period beginning in May 2024, during which Tim helped shape the Company’s global growth strategy across iGaming and digital sports media.

With more than 20 years of leadership in gaming, media, and entertainment, Tim is widely recognized as a veteran operator in media, sports entertainment and gaming sectors. His international experience and ability to execute high-growth, regulated strategies across emerging markets make him an ideal fit to lead these businesses into their next chapter.

Tim will oversee the strategic integration and international expansion of Sports.com Media, a premium digital sports content and engagement platform, and Lottery.com International, the Company’s iGaming and international lottery division focused on delivering secure, compliant, and entertaining lottery experiences across key global markets. His leadership will focus on aligning commercial, media, and technology platforms, bolstering regulatory partnerships, and unlocking scalable, revenue-generating opportunities in high-growth jurisdictions.

“Our Company is delighted with this appointment,” said Matthew McGahan, CEO and Chairman of Lottery.com. “Tim brings energy, credibility, and international expertise. His bold, entrepreneurial leadership style and deep experience in both gaming and media are precisely what we need at this inflection point. We are seeing strong forward momentum in the business and the markets, and Tim’s appointment gives us further confidence in our global roadmap. He is fully aligned with our vision to build Lottery.com and Sports.com into powerhouse global brands.”

Tim Scoffham added: “It’s an incredibly exciting time to join Lottery.com in a full-time leadership capacity at Sports.com Media and Lottery.com International, both of which represent unique global opportunities. The Sports.com and Lottery.com brands sit at the intersection of sports, gaming, and immersive content, and I believe we’re only scratching the surface of what they can become. With outstanding teams already in place and a unified international strategy underway, I’m looking forward to accelerating growth, strengthening partnership, and delivering long-term value to Lottery.com shareholders.”

About Sports.com Media
Sports.com Media Group Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lottery.com Inc., is a next-generation digital platform delivering premium sports content, immersive fan experiences, and real-time engagement to a global audience. Focused on innovation, original formats, and media-rights partnerships, Sports.com is shaping the future of sports storytelling and digital fan engagement.

About Lottery.com International
Lottery.com International Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lottery.com Inc., provides a secure and compliant iGaming and global lottery platform that enables users to participate in international lottery games through digital channels. The platform is focused on regulated market expansion, localized offerings, and sustainable, high-margin growth.

Under Tim Scoffham’s leadership, both businesses will continue the expansion of Sports.com and Lottery.com into globally recognized brands—driven by innovation, strategic execution, and an unwavering commitment to compliance and user experience.

About Lottery.com
The Lottery.com Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY, LTRYW) family of brands — including Sports.com, Tinbu and WinTogether, comprise a unified ecosystem that integrates gaming, entertainment, and sports. Follow the Company on X, Instagram and Facebook.

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Fey Shines as Multiple Jayhawks Compete at USATF U20 Nationals

EUGENE, ORE. – The Kansas Track & Field team had athletes compete at the USATF U20 Nationals. “We had a talented group of freshmen led by Maddie Fey to represent KU in a great way at the US Under-20 Championship (U20). As they mature, they should be major contributors for KU in the years to […]

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EUGENE, ORE. – The Kansas Track & Field team had athletes compete at the USATF U20 Nationals.

“We had a talented group of freshmen led by Maddie Fey to represent KU in a great way at the US Under-20 Championship (U20). As they mature, they should be major contributors for KU in the years to come. Maddie would have been selected to represent the USA in the discus and shot at the World U20 Championship if the competition was contested. The competition was a great experience for them to end the freshman year and leading into their sophomore year,” Said Kansas Head Coach Stanley Redwine.

The week started with Madeleine Fey winning the Women’s Discus with a throw of 53.22m(174’7″). The Kansas Freshman took Runner-Up in the Women’s Shot Put when she threw a mark of 15.67m(51’5″).

Mia Murray placed 4th in the 3000m Steeplechase, running a new Personal Best time of 10:51.45. The Lincoln, Nebraska, native also runs with the cross country team in the fall.

Blake Wohler ran in the Men’s 5000m, where he placed 7th in the event, running a time of 15:17.32. The Lawrence native won the Rock Chalk Classic this past season in that event.

Oliver Duffy took 5th place in the Men’s Decathlon with a point total of 6286. The Freshman, who is a New Hampshire native, won 3 events inside the decathlon: 100m, Discus & Long Jump.

Topeka, Kansas native, Aaron Merritt competed in two events during the week, placing 13th in the Men’s 100m, and taking 16th in the Men’s 100m Hurdles.

Freshman Ryan Whittlesey ran in the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase, where he placed 14th overall. Whittlesey, who is coached by his father, ran a new PR with a time of 9:46.42 in the event.

Madi Snody also competed this week in the Women’s Pole Vault.

UP NEXT:

The Kansas Track & Field Team will have athletes compete at USATF Outdoor Nationals July 31st-August 3rd, in Eugene, Oregon.

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George Washington University

WASHINGTON – Head Coach Katie Reifert is pleased to announce the addition of Jacob Paige as an assistant coach on the volleyball staff ahead of the 2025 slate. Paige arrives in Foggy Bottom after serving as the head coach of the men’s team at Lawrence Tech for four seasons, where he oversaw all aspects of […]

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WASHINGTON – Head Coach Katie Reifert is pleased to announce the addition of Jacob Paige as an assistant coach on the volleyball staff ahead of the 2025 slate.

Paige arrives in Foggy Bottom after serving as the head coach of the men’s team at Lawrence Tech for four seasons, where he oversaw all aspects of the NAIA program: recruiting, budgeting, academics, practice planning, skill development, film analysis, travel and social media.

Throughout his tenure, Paige guided multiple student-athletes to earn All-Conference selections and led the Blue Devils to numerous WHAC Tournament appearances and victories.

In 2025 alone, Paige led the Blue Devils to a 27-3 program-setting record, guiding the program to earn both the WHAC regular season and conference tournament titles, in addition to finishing 5^th in the nation at the NAIA National Tournament. Paige earned WHAC Coach of the Year and coached three conference award winners in WHAC’s Player of the Year, Setter of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

In addition to his work at Lawrence Tech, Paige has overseen the girl’s volleyball program at Bloomfield Hills High School for nearly eight years, amassing an 83-44 career record, while emphasizing the importance of academic excellence and college recruiting readiness.

Beginning his career in coaching, Paige served as the graduate assistant coach for Lawrence Tech in 2021, assisting in recruiting efforts to build a strong roster alongside overseeing logistics including apparel design, scheduling and film sessions.

Paige arrives in the District having earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Lawrence Tech in 2020 as a five-year setter and team captain for the Blue Devils and went on to earn his M.B.A. with a Project Management Concentration from Lawrence Tech in 2024.

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Meet the 2025 All-Metro girls track and field team

The 2025 Post-Dispatch All-Metro spring series continues with girls track and field. Read more about girls track and field, and other high school sports, at STLhighschoolsports.com. All-Metro girls track and field first team Sprints: Delaney Brinker, senior, Ladue A Kansas State signee, Brinker capped her high school career with Class 5 state championships in […]

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Cardinal Ritter’s Kyndall Spain is the All-Metro girls track and field athlete of the year

The 2025 Post-Dispatch All-Metro spring series continues with girls track and field.

Read more about girls track and field, and other high school sports, at STLhighschoolsports.com.

All-Metro girls track and field first team

Sprints: Delaney Brinker, senior, Ladue

A Kansas State signee, Brinker capped her high school career with Class 5 state championships in the 200- and 400-meter runs and ran a leg on the Rams state champion 1600 relay, which won in a Class 5 state meet record of 3 minutes, 45.85 seconds. She also was state runner-up in the 100, helping Ladue win its second consecutive team state championship. Brinker’s personal best times in the 200 (23.68 seconds) and 400 (53.10) were fastest among area athletes. Brinker’s season best of 11.74 in the 100 was fourth-fastest in the area. Swept district and sectional titles in 100, 200 and 400.

Middle: Elena Rybak, senior, Father McGivney

The Notre Dame signee cemented her Griffins legacy with Class 1A state championships in the 800- and 1600-meter runs with performances that were the fastest in the St. Louis area this season. The 1600 title in 4 minutes, 54.02 seconds, was the fourth successive of Rybak’s career, the first time an Illinois athlete accomplished the feat since Effingham St. Anthony’s Anna Sophia Keller did it from 2014-17. Rybak’s state-winning time of 2:08.3 in the 800 set an Illinois Class 1A state meet record and was the fastest time this season for all classes in Illinois. She was undefeated in the 800 in five races and collected five individual championships in the 1600.

Distance: Maleah Eggers, senior, Marquette

University of Missouri recruit posted the fastest time among area athletes in the 3200 meters (10 minutes, 48.53 seconds) to finish as the Class 5 state meet runner-up. Broke 11-minute barrier for first time to win sectional title and also was district champ. In the 1600, finished third at state in season-best 4:58.17 and also was conference and sectional champion.

Hurdles: Alexa Adams, junior, Timberland

Ran to seven individual championships in the 100-meter hurdles, including conference, district and sectionals before a runner-up finish in the Class 5 state meet in a personal-best time of 13.71. Ran to three championships in the 300 hurdles including a sectional title with time of 42.33 seconds that is second-fastest this season among area athletes. Finished third at state in 300 hurdles. Her personal bests both rank among the fastest on the area’s all-time honor roll.

Vertical jumps: Rebecca McGuire, junior, Francis Howell North

Won the Class 5 state championship and set a program record with a vault of 3.81 meters (12 feet, 6 inches) in her first state meet. The performance is tied for the area’s best this season and tied for third-best in area history. McGuire also won conference, district and sectional titles, and the only meet she didn’t win was against an elite field at the Kansas Relays, where she finished fifth.

Horizontal jumps: Chloe Tabb, junior, Marquette

Class 5 state runner-up in both triple jump and long jump. Claimed conference championships in both events, including a mark of 12.44 meters (40 feet, and 9.75 inches) in the triple jump that is a personal best, the No. 1 mark in the area this season and fourth all-time in area history. Her best mark of 5.83 meters (19 feet, 1.5 inches) in the long jump was the Class 5 state runner-up and a program record.

Throws: McKenna Lay, junior, Pacific

Consistently one of area’s best throwers. Won Class 4 state title in shot put with personal-best and school-record throw of 13.4 meters (43 feet, 11.75 inches). Won 10 titles in the javelin, including personal-best 47.75 meters (156 feet, 8 inches) to win Henle Holmes Invitational, which is ninth-best throw in nation. Fifth at state in javelin and fifth at state in discus with personal-best throw of 38.73 meters (127 feet).

Multi-events: Bailey Hensgens, sophomore, Incarnate Word

Unbeaten in high jump and triple jump this season, winning Class 4 state championships in both. Her personal-best mark in the high jump was 1.78 meters (5 feet, 10 inches), which was area’s best this season and tied for second in area history. Her best triple jump mark was 12 meters (39 feet, 4.25 inches) to win GISL title. Also state runner-up in long jump with season-best mark of 5.76 meters (18 feet, 10.75 inches).

All-Metro girls track and field second team

Sprints: Rayna Raglin, junior, Alton

Ran area-best time of 11.58 seconds in 100 meters and personal best of 24.09 seconds in 200 to sweep sectional titles. Finished third in 100 and fifth in 200 at Class 3A state meet. Won five titles each in the 100 and 200, including a sweep in the Southwestern Conference meet.

Middle: Grace Coppel, senior, MICDS

Will continue running career at Army-West Point after finishing second in 800 meters at Class 4 state meet in program record of 2 minutes, 10.17 seconds. Ran anchor leg on Rams’ winning 1600 relay at state. District and sectional champ in 800. Third team All-Metro swimming selection.

Distance: Brooke Samuelson, junior, Eureka

In first season running on the track for the Wildcats, Samuelson finished fifth in the Class 5 state meet in both the 800- and 1600-meter races with personal-best times in each event. Ran 2:14.26 in the 800 and 5:01.61 in the 1600. Ran a leg on Eureka’s seventh-place 3200 relay at state.

Hurdles: Amelia Ward, junior, Francis Howell

All-around standout was a four-event Class 5 state meet qualifier, finishing as runner-up in the 300 hurdles in 42.56 seconds, the area’s third-best time this season. She also was sixth in the 100 hurdles in 14.78, finished fifth in the triple jump and ran on Howell’s qualifying 400 relay. Ward swept the GAC South titles in both hurdles races.

Vertical jumps: Avery Foster, junior, Fort Zumwalt East

Won the Class 4 pole vault state championship for second successive season, clearing 3.66 meters (12 feet). Her personal-best vault of 3.81 meters (12 feet and 6 inches), which won the sectional meet title, is tied for the best among area athletes this season. Also won district title and never finished lower than second. Ran on Lions 800-meter relay throughout season and helped it qualify for sectional meet.

Horizontal jumps: Brooke Lunsford, senior, Grandview

Multi-sport athlete concluded high school career with Class 2 championship in long jump with a personal-best leap of 5.49 meters (18 feet and 0.25 inches). She never finished outside top five in 10 meets in the long jump, with five individual championships. Collected titles in the triple jump, including at conference and district meets.

Throws: Joi Story, junior, Edwardsville

Had the area’s best discus throw of 42.35 meters (138 feet, 11 inches) to finish third in the Class 3A state meet. Also finished fifth at state in shot put with a season-best effort of 12.33 meters (40 feet, 5.5 inches). Southwestern Conference champion in shot put, sectional runner-up in both throwing events.

Multi-events: Laila Murray, junior, Ladue

Helped Rams win second successive team championship in variety of ways. Picked up Class 5 state meet runner-up finishes in the 200- and 400-meter runs to teammate Delaney Brinker. Anchored state champion 800 relay (1:39.13) and also ran on 400 relay that finished fifth. Ran personal-best 55.23 in 400 at state and 24.21 in 200 at sectional meet.

All-Metro girls track and field third team

Sprints: Justyce Sanders, sophomore, MICDS

Claimed Class 4 state championship in the 200 meters with a personal-best time of 23.82 seconds that ranked second in the area. Also posted area’s second-fastest time in the 400 (54.0) in state runner-up finish. Ran leg on Rams’ state title-winning 1600 relay. Collected 14 individual titles between the 100, 200 and 400.

Middle: Bella Navarro-Sanchez, sophomore, Liberty

Posted the area’s third-fastest time in the 800 meters (2 minutes, 11.74 seconds), which was good for a Class 5 state meet runner-up finish. Won district and sectional titles in the 800. Finished 13th at state in the 1600. Won Class 5 cross country championship in the fall.

Distance: Lucy Rines, sophomore, St. Joseph’s

Class 4 state runner-up in 3200 meters in 11:00.16, just off personal best (10:58.65) she ran to win GISL title. Won 3200 titles in district and sectional meets. Sixth at state in 1600 in personal-best 5:06.20. Won 1600 at district, runner-up at sectional. Ran on state runner-up 3200 relay.

Hurdles: Sophia Shapiro, sophomore, Edwardsville

Claimed eight successive titles in the 100-meter hurdles, including conference and sectionals, before a fourth-place finish in Class 3A state meet. Also claimed six titles in the 300 hurdles, before finishing fourth at state meet. Her personal best times this season were 14.04 seconds in the 100s and 42.83 in the 300s.

Vertical jumps: Ayla Bishop, senior, Eureka

Signed with Missouri Southern State. Finished second in the Class 5 state meet, her best showing in three state appearances, with personal-best vault of 3.81 meters (12 feet, 6 inches). Matched winning height but placed as runner-up because of misses during competition. Also cleared 12 feet to win district and sectional titles.

Horizontal jumps: Uyoyoghene Omunu, junior, Parkway North

A repeat selection on the third team, Omunu never finished outside of the top 10 in either the long jump or triple jump. She finished third in the Class 4 state meet in the long jump with personal best of 5.69 meters (18 feet, 8 inches), and also was eighth in the triple jump. Swept long jump and triple jump at district.

Throws: Adelle Metz, sophomore, Francis Howell

One of the best pure javelin throwers in the area. She won eight championships of the 10 meets she competed in and concluded her season with the Class 5 state championship with a personal-best and school-record throw of 44.21 meters (145 feet). Also a standout softball player.

Multi-events: Lilly Gilbertson, senior, Father McGivney

Did a little bit of everything for the Griffins the last four years, helping program to the school’s first team state championship last year and a third-place finish this year. Picked up two top five finishes at the Class 1A state meet in the 100- and 200-meter runs before a runner-up finish in the 400.

Cardinal Ritter senior Kyndall Spain is the 2025 All-Metro girls track and field athlete of the year.