PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers track and field qualified 16 Scarlet Knights for the 2025 NCAA East First Round in Jacksonville, Florida from Wednesday, May 28 through Saturday, May 31.
 
The Scarlet Knights are coming off a solid showing at the 2025 Big Ten Championships that included eight podium finishes with three bronze medals. The trio of Brian O’Sullivan (pole vault), Donavan Anderson (triple jump) and Chloe Timberg (pole vault) finished third in their respective events and will represent Rutgers at the NCAA First Round.
 
Live results of the East First Round are available here, while the competition will stream live on ESPN+ (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4). Qualifiers out of these East First Round will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships held June 5-8 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
 
Wednesday, May 28
2:30 p.m.                 Javelin                             Steve Coponi
5:30 p.m.                 Pole Vault                        Nico Morales, Brian O’Sullivan, Kevin O’Sullivan
6 p.m.                       110M Hurdles                Chris Serrao
8:20 p.m.                 400M Hurdles                Bryce Tucker
 
Thursday, May 29
2:30 p.m.                 Javelin                             Alianna Eucker
4:30 p.m.                 Long Jump                      Paige Floriea
5:30 p.m.                 Pole Vault                        Emma Keating, Suzy Lacombe, Chloe Timberg
7:25 p.m.                 400M                               Charlee Crawford
 
Friday, May 30
2:30 p.m.                 Triple Jump                     Donavan Anderson
3:30 p.m.                 High Jump                      Malachi Yehudah
 
Saturday, May, 31
2:30 p.m.                 Triple Jump                     Faith Bethea
3:30 p.m.                 High Jump                      Jenovia Logan
 

Veronica Rauch had a choice; attend her high school graduation at St. Ignatius College Prep, or play in the IHSA State Quarterfinals for girls’ water polo. Both were happening just an hour apart.

As team captain, Rauch chose the latter. Rauch said there wasn’t even a decision to be made when it came to attending graduation or playing water polo.

“I’m the goalie, and I’m on the team, and it’s my responsibility and my desire to be at that game,” she said. “It’s a huge accomplishment for the team, and because of the accomplishment, I want to be there. Because of the name of the game, I want to be there.”

St. Ignatius water polo head coach Nicole Lum said the game was a nailbiter.

“I’ve been coaching a long time, and I’ve never experienced anything quite like it,” she said.

“We had a player who got out there who had not played water polo before this season. She’s a junior, and she got in there, and she gave us a goal; and it was an incredible, incredible moment,” Rauch said.

That was followed by an incredible moment. Dr. Sterling Brown, the prefect of studies – or principal – at St. Ignatius, brought the graduation to Rauch.

“I knew it was far, but I didn’t realize what the timing would be,” he said.

The graduation was at 6 p.m. The game was at 7 p.m. Brown made the drive from the graduation in Chicago to Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, where the state quarterfinals were taking place.

“My experience for her has been four years of giving to this place, and I’m glad that in a very small way, we could give something back,” he said.

As for the game, the team didn’t win.

“They gave a Herculean effort, every last one of them. It was fantastic,” Lum said.

But Rauch said, in the end, one thing mattered most.

“The way we played was a win in itself,” she said.

Now that she has graduated, Rauch is heading to University of Alabama, where she’s going to study vocal performance. She wants to be an opera singer one day.

If her beautiful singing voice wasn’t enough, Rauch also speaks several languages, among them Mandarin.

Audrey MacLean and Zoe Wang of the Middlebury women’s track and field team opened competition at the three-day NCAA Championship taking place at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Wang led off the day in the pole vault, finishing in 22nd place with a height of 3.60 meters. 
• MacLean was one of 12 athletes to qualify for the finals in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. The Panther led the way, crossing the line in first with a clocking of 10:33.39. 

MacLean competes in the final on Friday at 4:55 p.m. and participates in the 5,000 on Saturday at 4:25 p.m. Emily Rubio kicks off Friday competition with the high jump at 11:30 a.m.

MISSOULA — The Montana track and field program will send five athletes to College Station, Texas, next week for the NCAA West First Round. Ashley Carroll, Matthew Hockett, Kyle Iorg, Carson Weeden and Erin Wilde will represent the Grizzlies at the regional meet.

The top 48 athletes from the West Region qualify for the First Round, which will be held May 28-31.

Wilde, the now five-time Big Sky Champion in the women’s high jump, will be making her third straight appearance at regionals. She placed 38th as a freshman and 27th as a sophomore.

The Whitefish product is tied for 34th in the West with her mark of 5-10 set earlier this year at the Al Manuel Invitational.

Ashley Carroll reached the First Round in the women’s javelin. The runner-up at last week’s Big Sky Championship, Carroll has a season-best mark of 152-7 set at the Bengal Invitational on May 2. She ranks 47th in the region.

Carroll is making her first regional appearance. The sophomore from Shepherd placed fourth in the Big Sky as a freshman and followed it up with a second-place finish in 2025.

The Grizzlies will have two representatives in the men’s javelin competition. Kyle Iorg and Matthew Hockett will both be competing on Wednesday.

Iorg is ranked 21st in the West with a mark of 226-10 set at the Bengal Invitational on May 2. The true freshman improved in three straight meets during the regular season to reach the mark. He placed third at the Big Sky Championships last week.

Senior Matthew Hockett, who finished as the runner-up at the Big Sky Championships, will be going to his third career regional meet. He placed 41st in 2022 and 35th in 2023 before redshirting last season.

Hockett is ranked 28th in the region with his mark of 223-2 set in the season opening Al Manuel Invitational.

Carson Weeden locked up his spot in the First Round with a school-record performance at the Big Sky Championships. Weeden had a triple PR in Sacramento to finish second in the league with a mark of 17-4.5.

Weeden is ranked 27th in the region with his mark and will be making his first regional appearance.

Hockett and Iorg will compete on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Weeden will also be in action on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. The women’s javelin competition for Carroll begins at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, and Wilde will wrap up Montana’s meet at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.

CHICAGO – The NCAA announced Thursday afternoon that DePaul Track and Field has a total of 11 athletes with qualifying marks for the NCAA Championships West Preliminary Rounds in College Station, Texas. The total marks a significant jump from last year’s program-record eight qualifiers. The Blue Demons will be represented in sprints, throws, distance, jumps, and hurdles in what head coach Dave Dopek calls the “most complete group” the program has ever brought to the national stage.
 
Among the returners are All-American Darius Brown (110m hurdles, 4x100m) who is making his fourth-straight appearance. He is joined by Alex Bernstein (hammer throw) and Jaiah Hopf (triple jump), each earning their third appearance, and Kash Allen (shot put), making her second. The remaining seven Blue Demon athletes are set to make their NCAA postseason debut.
 
On the women’s side, Jessica Beckman (discus), Jaiah Hopf (triple jump), and freshman Tessa Roe (steeplechase) earned bids, with all three securing top-40 regional rankings behind season-best efforts at either the BIG EAST Championships or the Gary Wieneke Memorial. Additionally, Kash Allen holds the No. 34 regional ranking in the shot put after winning the third BIG EAST title of her career.
 
Brown is joined on the men’s 4x100m squad by Dominic Cole, Charles Lewis, and Demetrius Rolle, who also qualified individually in the 100m. Dustin Hudak (800m), Jaiden Gary (shot put), and Bernstein round out the men’s qualifiers, with Paul Goins and Amaru Mazibuko traveling as relay alternates.
 

The NCAA West Preliminary Rounds will take place May 28-31 at E.B. Cushing Stadium on the campus of Texas A&M. The top 12 in each event will advance to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore.
 
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BOCA RATON, Fla. – Florida Atlantic beach volleyball senior Sydney Schroder sat down with Assistant Coach Kristi Tekavec for this week’s Inside the Owl’s Burrow: Life’s A Beach segment.
 
Coach Tekavec has been an instrumental part of the Sandy Owls’ success over her five seasons in Boca Raton.
 
Tekavec joined Florida Atlantic in 2020 as a volunteer assistant before being elevated to Assistant Coach in the fall of 2022.
 
The Owls have had tremendous success over the past five seasons, winning three conference championships (2021, 2023, 2025), in addition to earning three NCAA Championship appearances, including the program’s first in 2022. FAU has also had three 20+ win seasons during that span, including a program record 23 wins during the 2022 season.
 
Coach Tekavec also currently competes professionally in the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP).
 
Enjoy getting to know Coach Tekavec on Life’s a Beach presented by Inside the Owls’ Burrow.

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