GENEVA, OH – The Johns Hopkins women’s outdoor track and field team had a strong showing on Day Two of the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, with all three Blue Jays competing advancing to their respective event finals.
 
Mirra Klimov punched her ticket to the 100-meter dash final with a time of 11.87 seconds in the preliminaries. Lauren Phillips will vie for a national title in the 400-meter dash, after posting a 55.04-second finish, while Annie Huang made a solid run in the 800-meter run, clocking in at 2:09.83 in her prelim.
 
The action continues tomorrow with seven Blue Jays returning to the track for the championship’s final day. Phillips will compete in the 400-meter dash at 2:20 p.m., followed by Klimov in the 100-meter dash at 2:40 p.m. Huang will race in the 800-meter final at 3:00 p.m. To wrap up the track events, Adriana Catalano and Carter Brotherton will race in the 5000-meter final at 4:25 p.m., both hoping to claim a podium finish.
 
In field events, Erika Ezumba will compete for a national title in the hammer throw at 11:00 a.m., while Sara Bartlett will aim for a medal in the triple jump at 1:45 p.m.
 

Arthur H. Bryant, the prominent Title IX attorney known for representing college athletes in high-profile sex discrimination cases, is launching his own Bay Area-based practice next week—a move he sees as perfectly timed for a surge in such litigation.

Bryant has most recently served as a partner at Clarkson Law Firm, the public interest practice, where he headed up its Title IX team. He previously worked at the San Francisco office of Bailey & Glasser after serving as chairman and executive director of Public Justice, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit legal advocacy organization.

“This is a period of golden opportunities for Title IX enforcement in America,” Bryant said in a phone interview. “The law is very clear that women athletes at colleges and universities are supposed to get equal opportunities to participate, equal financial aid and equal treatment compared to men. And some schools are providing it. But many, many, many are not. And all it takes to hold them accountable is women being willing to sue.”

Bryant, who served as lead counsel in the first ever Title IX case filed against a university (Haffer v. Temple University in 1986) for discriminating against its female athletes, currently represents a group of former Oregon club rowers and varsity beach volleyball players in a lawsuit against UO.

That class-action litigation—which withstood the university’s motion to dismiss—alleges multiple forms of gender-based discrimination, including by providing superior NIL resources and opportunities to male athletes. If the House v. NCAA settlement is approved, and depending on how Oregon allocates its revenue-sharing funds, this case stands ready to serve as the first legal challenge the settlement’s injunctive relief on Title IX grounds.

In addition, Bryant is also suing both Fresno State and San Diego State on behalf of female athletes at those schools, in addition to representing eight athlete House objectors in collaboration with the law firm MoloLamken.

“Because of the House v. NCAA settlement,” Bryant said, “some schools are going to be eliminating women’s teams in violation of Title IX and sometimes even men’s teams in violation of Title IX, and any school that decides it is going to make name, image and likeness [payments] disproportionately to men is opening themselves up to a massive Title IX damages lawsuit. While my new law firm will not be limited to Title IX cases, it seems like a perfect time to do this.”

INDIANAPOLIS, IND. (EMUEagles.com) – The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Committee announced the participants for the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships First Round competitions, revealing eight Eastern Michigan University Eagles on the list Thursday, May 22.

Five Eastern men and three members of the women’s team will compete at the NCAA East First Round, hosted by the University of North Florida at Visit Jax Hodges Stadium, in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday-Saturday, May 28-31. A full list of men’s declared student-athletes can be accessed here and a women’s one can be viewed here.

The qualifiers out of the East and West Regions will compete in the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by the University of Oregon at Hayward Field, in Eugene, June 11-14.

Fans looking to attend the meet can purchase tickets here and access further meet information here. Supporters can follow along with live results and live streams that can be accessed using both the men’s and women’s track and field schedules, and stay tuned to EMU cross country/track & field social medias on Instagram, X, and Facebook at @EMUXC_TF.

Men’s Qualifiers

Leading the men’s qualifiers is senior hurdler Gabe Singh (Toledo, Ohio/Sylvania Northview/Oakland) who holds the 25th-ranked 400m hurdles time in the East Regional at 50.62, a mark that stands as the best in the MAC and 50th in the nation. The high jump duo of Brendan Hill (Huber Heights, Ohio/Wayne) and Lucky Fiaku (Nimo, Nigeria/Busy International Secondary) punched their respective tickets with 2.12m (6-11.50) marks that tie for second in the conference, 32nd in the East Regional, and eighth in program history.   

With a strong finish to the season, sophomore thrower Jake McEachern (Lloydminster, Alberta/Lloydminster Comprehensive) is among EMU contestants with a season-best 63.63m (208-09) hammer throw that slots 34th in the regional, second in the conference, and falls just two meters shy of tying his 63.65m (208-10) personal best from the 2024 campaign.

Rounding out the entries for the Eastern men is junior Kian Wiles (Hull, England/St. Mary’s College), who sports a 3:40.73 1500m time that lists him 45th in the East Regional, first in the MAC, and fourth in program annals.

 

Men’s Schedule – Advancement Requirements

Wednesday, May 28

10:00 a.m. – M Hammer – First Round (McEachern) – Top 12 advance to National Championships

6:30 p.m. – M 1,500m – First Round (Wiles) – Top 5 from each Heat + next 4 fastest times

8:20 p.m. – M 400mH – First Round (Singh) – Top 3 from each Heat + next 6 fastest times

Friday, May 30

3:30 p.m. – M HJ – Semifinal (Fiaku & Hill) – Top 12 advance to National Championships

5:15 p.m. – M 1,500m – Quarterfinals (Wiles) – Top 5 from each Heat + next 2 fastest times to National Championships

7:25 p.m. – M 400mH – Quarterfinals (Singh) – Top 3 from each Heat + next 3 fastest times to National Championships

 

Women’s Qualifiers

Junior high jumper Micah Martin (Clinton Township, Mich./L’Anse Creuse) holds the highest-ranking mark of the three Green and White women’s qualifiers with a 1.76m (5-09.25) high jump that ties for 29th in the East Regional while standing fourth in the conference and the EMU all-time leaderboards.

 

Coming off an MVP performance at the MAC Outdoor Championships, May 15-17 Saraiah Walkes (Manatee County/The-Out-of-Door-Academy) will compete in the 400m dash as she holds the regional’s 33rd-ranked time in 52.88. Her personal-best mark also stands as the top in the MAC and third in program history.

 

Senior Isabella Brent (Dearborn Heights, Mich./Divine Child) will continue her collegiate track & field career. She is slated to see action in the hammer throw as she comes in with a career-best 57.54m (188-09) throw that stands fourth in the conference, 49th in the East Regional, and fifth on the EMU all-time top-10.

 

Women’s Schedule – Advancement Requirements

Thursday, May 29

10:00 a.m. – W Hammer – First Round (Brent) – Top 12 advance to National Championships

7:25 p.m. – W 400m – First Round (Walkes) – Top 3 from each Heat + next 6 fastest times

Saturday, May 31

3:30 p.m. – W HJ – Semifinal (Martin) – Top 12 advance to National Championships

6:50 p.m. – W 400m – Quarterfinals (Walkes) – Top 3 from each Heat + next 3 fastest times to National Championships

 

Up Next

Qualifying Eagles will compete in the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by the University of Oregon at Hayward Field, in Eugene, June 11-14.

 

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PUEBLO, COLO — Embry-Riddle’s Brooklynn Gould was named an All-American after finishing in fifth place in the heptathlon at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Pueblo on Friday.

Gould began the second day in 10th place, but moved up five spots following a trio of great finishes. She was fourth in the long jump with a leap of 5.69m, then set a personal best in the javelin with a throw of 42.00, finishing fourth. Sitting in sixth place, she locked up her All-America award by finishing second in the 800 in a time of 2:18.13. The 849 points earned from that was enough to jump Abriel Thrash of Southern Nazarene and Gould won the spot by 30 points.

This is Gould’s second All-America honor in the outdoor heptathlon, also claiming the honor in 2024. She was also an All-American in the pentathlon at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March.

Embry-Riddle’s Taylor Roth ran in the 800, finishing fifth in her heat with a time of 2:10.68. She did not qualify for the final.

ERAU’s Kobe Diggs and Antonio Caito also competed in the triple jump on Friday. Diggs finished in 12th with a distance of 15.53 on his second attempt. Caito hit 15.45 on his third attempt, finishing 15th.

Water polo might not be the most common answer to the ‘what-the-Olympian-did-next’ trope, but for Riordan, it was the right antidote to help her immediate post-swimming life. She went to her first water polo training session at the National Aquatic Centre in Abbotstown with her new club, St Vincent’s Water Polo Club, just a month after the Paris Olympics. Two weeks ago, she helped them win the Irish Senior Cup in Limerick.

“A bit humbling at the beginning going from the Olympics to being the very worst [player] on a team that has 14-year-old girls on it,” Riordan smiles. “At the moment, I’m in the mind space of ‘I want to enjoy’ sports, first and foremost, to be doing it because I want to be there. The Olympics were a heavy mental and emotional toll on me. I wanted a break from that.”

Co-existing with intense change has been part of Riordan’s story over the past year. After the Irish women’s 4x100m freestyle relay initially missed out on qualifying for Paris by one spot, Riordan retired from the sport at age 24. The twist came when Japan withdrew from the event in June, which meant Ireland got back in through the ranking system. Riordan had to unretire herself and had just a month to prepare for her first Olympics.

The breaking of an Olympic dream and the scramble to put it back together in such a short time left rough edges.

“The few months leading up to Paris were probably the most emotionally strained I’ve been in my life,” Riordan said. “I think I’d already grieved, grieved the loss. I had decided, ‘OK, it’s not happening for me, I’m not going to the Olympics’. And then, two weeks later, it was, ‘Get back to Dublin, you might be going’. It took a big toll on the mind more than the body.

“I think I kind of had a sour taste in my mouth from swimming after, even though I had this amazing experience and I’ll never forget that. I didn’t even want to do the swim sessions with the water polo team. I managed to force myself to do it.”

The intensity only escalated when she got to Paris. The relay team came 16th overall in their heats on the official opening day, but then she tested positive for Covid afterwards and had to leave the village immediately. The five-ringed experience didn’t hit the peak she imagined.

“You do build it up in your head a little bit and then you get there and you’re like, oh my goodness the food is not nice, the hotel is not nice. I got Covid when I was over there. I was not well when I raced. I tested negative before I raced and tested positive after, so I got sent home immediately.

“You walk out and you’re like, this is it, this is the moment. And then you’re also like, oh this is it. Two edges of a sword, I guess.”

Her new sport brings her into contact with her old home. The first time she walked into the National Aquatic Centre to go water polo training, she felt a shudder, “post-traumatic stress disorder from all the training” from her swimming days.

While there was an element of a team when she competed in the relays for Ireland, it’s not the same as competing in an actual team like water polo (a physical sport described as a combination of swimming, basketball and wrestling).

“In Paris, we were all really good friends, we were all doing the same event, but we were also all competing to get onto the relay. You’re there for each other, but you’re also, ‘I want to beat her’. It’s a hugely different dynamic. Whereas in water polo, it’s like everybody is taking a share of the pressure, it’s not one person’s fault, it’s the team. That’s something I’ve never experienced before and it’s been so refreshing to be a part of that.

​“I didn’t realise how physical the sport was. People are wrestling each other in the water, but it’s almost refreshing to see that in a women’s sport because that’s not how we’re meant to behave I guess, but it is very physical, very aggressive.

“It’s different, even learning tactics and stuff, I’ve never really done anything like that, just swim in a straight line and hope for the best.”

Post-Paris, Riordan has started working as a documentation specialist with a pharmaceutical company in Grange Castle, Dublin. She’s also training for the marathon in Lisbon in October.

“Something I always knew coming out of swimming is that I can’t just stop activity altogether. I think I get quite down if I do. So I picked up all these sports, I’m just trying everything out. Before I used to work my life around my sport, whereas now I’m working sport around my life. It’s a different dynamic for me.”