ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The Big South Conference will host the 2025 Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Asheville, North Carolina at UNC Asheville’s home track. All Big South schools will compete at the Karl Straus track from Monday, May 12 through Wednesday, May 14. Individual champions will be crowned throughout the week for their respective events ahead of the team championship ceremony on Wednesday following the conclusion of the meet.
 
BIG SOUTH OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
KARL STRAUS TRACK | MAY 12-14
MEET INFORMATION | MEET SCHEDULE | ESPN+ | LIVE RESULTS | MEN’S HEAT SHEETS | WOMEN’S HEAT SHEETS
 
Monday, May 12^th | 3:30 p.m. | Watch
Tuesday, May 13^th | 5:00 p.m. | Watch
Wednesday, May 14^th | 3:30 p.m. | Watch

Admission will be free of charge. Food trucks will be available throughout the meet. For more information on the food truck schedule and menus, click HERE. 

 

Competing Teams

Charleston Southern

Gardner-Webb

High Point

Longwood

Radford (women’s only)

UNC Asheville

USC Upstate

Winthrop

 

High Point History at the Big South Championships

The Panther men and women have swept the outdoor conference championship titles for the last four years and will look to five-peat. Both the men and women won their first Big South titles in 2021 and have kept the trophy in High Point since. A season ago, High Point crowned 11 individual champions from the men’s team and 11 individual champions from the women’s team which was the most crowned by each team in program history.

 

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HPU Marks Holding Up in Regional Standings

Several High Point athletes have posted marks through the outdoor season that are ranked in the top 48 in the NCAA East region. The top 48 marks at the end of the regular season will qualify for the first round of the NCAA Championships. As a team, High Point ranks 10th in the region for the men and 18th for the women.

 

Top 48 List:

#2. Sydney Horn                                             Pole Vault         4.46m 

#5. Justin Sluijter                                            Long Jump        7.84m

#10. Alex Constantinou                                  High Jump         2.16m

#13. Shaun Thomas                                       High Jump         2.15m

#16. Cole Wilson                                            Decathlon          7,285 pts

#18. Mauricio Galinda Vega                           Decathlon          7,217 pts

#19. Emily Romano                                        Pole Vault          4.22m

#22. Alyssa Hendrix                                       3000m SC         10:09.64

#26. Marquis Bell, Camerin Williams,            4x400m Relay     3:06.96

        Aidan Britt, Tim Brown

#31. Ricardo Montes de Oca                         Pole Vault          5.21m

#34. Auriane Viola                                          Pole Vault          4.12m

#34. Rachel Vesper                                        Pole Vault          4.12m

#37. Evan Mills                                               Decathlon         6,703 pts

#40. Brianna Malone                                      1500m               4:15.37

#42. Jackson Toumey                                     Pole Vault          5.18m

 

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Tista’ taqra bil-
Malti.

The Sirens Water Polo Women’s Team have once again demonstrated their dominance by clinching the BOV Water Polo Winter League title for the fourth consecutive year since its inception in 2022 and is the only team to win this competition since its inception.

The team’s stellar performance throughout the winter Water Polo season saw them winning all their games in the BOV Water Polo Winter League, showcasing their skill, teamwork, and strategic prowess and setting a benchmark for excellence in Women’s water polo.

Ernest Agius, Chief Operations Officer at Bank of Valletta and Karl Izzo and Randolph Cauchi, President and Vice President respectively of the Aquatic Sports Association of Malta presented Sirens with their BOV Championship Trophy.

Water Polo is not just a sport in Malta, but a tradition, cherished for decades. Bank of Valletta is proud to collaborate with the Aquatic Sports Association of Malta in the organization of the local water polo competitions – a combination of athleticism, strategy, and teamwork.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Brown track and field programs competed at the Ivy League Heps Outdoor Championships hosted by Yale this weekend. The men’s team finished seventh with a total of 34 points, while the women’s team was tied for sixth with 37 points. Joseph Oduro won the triple jump title, while Elle Riley broke the school record in the 100 meter hurdles. 
 
MEN
Saturday
The Bears scored 10 points in the men’s long jump event, as sophomore Mubaraq Aderogba and junior Frank Monahan-Morang earned podium finishes. Aderogba finished third with a personal record of 7.43 meters. That mark tied him for eighth all time in Brown history. Monahan-Morang wasn’t far behind, finishing fourth with a mark of 7.41 meters. That PR pits him 10^th in school history. 

Sophomore Keith Daigneau earned a fifth place podium finish in the men’s hammer throw with a mark of 60.08 meters. In the javelin throw, junior Cole Nesselson garnered one point for his team with a sixth place javelin throw finish on a mark of 52.05 meters. 

Sunday

Junior Joseph Oduro became an Ivy Champion once again in the triple jump with a leap of 15.32 meters. His first place finish earned 10 points for Brown. Junior Jason Estrada performed well in the 400 meter dash, securing the fourth best time in school history of 47.15. He finished third and gained six points for the team. 

The men’s 4×100 meter relay squad was excellent, finishing fourth with a time of 40.76. That earned four points, as the team consisted of Frank Monahan-Morang, Trevor Wilder, Elias Archie and Estrada. The 4×400 team of Estrada, Link Lignell, Aaron Caveney and Wilder finished sixth. Their time of 3:14.20 earned one point. 

 

WOMEN

Saturday

Jada Joseph set a personal record in the long jump, placing fourth with a mark of 6.29 meters. The podium finish earned her team four points and tied her for second best in school history. 

Chidinma Agbasi finished third in the hammer throw, scoring six points. Her mark of 58.38 meters was a personal record while remaining third best in school history.  Julia’Belle Reyfman also scored points, finishing fifth in the javelin throw with a mark of 41.23 meters. 

Elle Riley improved on her ninth best time in school history in the 400 meter hurdles, finishing in 1:01.26. Alyssa Jackson improved to a tie for second in school history in the 100 meter dash with a time of 11.86. 

 

Sunday

On Sunday, the women’s side re-wrote the record book on several occasions. Elle Riley broke her own school record in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 13.74. The fifth place finish earned two points. 

Kareema McKenzie finished fourth in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 59.34. It moved her to second in school history and earned her team four points. Olivia Fraga continued to dominate in the 3000 meter steeplechase, finishing fourth. Her time of 10:36.71 garnered four points for the Bears. 

The 4×400 relay team consisted of McKenzie, Maddelynn Brooks, Alyssa Jackson and Riley. They finished fifth with a time of 3:44.18 and set the seventh fastest time in school history. The podium finish earned two points. 

Delaney Seligmann and Jada Joseph were excellent in the triple jump. Joseph finished second with a mark of 13.15 meters. She is now tied for second best in school history. Seligmann finished seventh with a mark of 12.58 meters, which places her ninth in school history for the event. 

In the women’s high jump, Nene Mokonchu placed fourth and earned four points with a mark of 1.68 meters. Michelyn Appiah remains 10^th in school history, improving on her personal best in the discus with a throw of 45.61 meters. 

Rosie Volpintesta finished in fifth place in the heptathlon competition. She earned two points for the Bears with a personal record score of 4923 points. It puts her in fourth in school history. 

 

UP NEXT

Some Bears competitors will head to NCAA Regionals, which will be held in Jacksonville, Florida at the end of May. 

 

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All roads lead to the national championship.

But before a team can secure the title, it must fight for the right to continue down the path to glory.

And now that the Bruins are here, there’s only one route forward.

After sweeping No. 2 seed Hawai’i in the semifinal, No. 3 seed UCLA men’s volleyball (22-6, 10-2 MPSF) will face No. 1 seed Long Beach State (29-3, 8-2 Big West) on Monday in the NCAA tournament final at the Covelli Center in Columbus, Ohio. A victory would give the Bruins their third consecutive and 22nd national title.

“I’m going to give my 110% and go die on the court with my brothers,” said redshirt junior outside hitter Cooper Robinson.

The Southern California rivals played each other twice in the regular season, with UCLA falling both times and picking up just one set in the process – the team’s only back-to-back defeat from the same opponent this year.

Across both duels, UCLA posted a .300-plus hitting percentage, combining for 82 kills across seven sets. However, the team struggled defensively to stymie Long Beach’s serve and attack, underperforming in digs and garnering three times as many reception errors as its counterpart across the net.

“We’ve been preparing for it all year,” Robinson said. “We have a lot of stats on them. We played them twice, and it obviously didn’t go our way, but we’re so fired up and we cannot wait to play.”

In UCLA’s 2025 season finale, the squad said it will uphold a mindset that treats each and every point with the same importance – whatever the score may actually be.

“A big part of our endgame this week is that 0-0 mentality,” said junior setter Andrew Rowan. “We’ve blown a lot of leads in the past.”

Since the squads last faced off in February, both the Bruin and Beach lineup has shifted. On the former’s side of the court, redshirt sophomore David Decker – who contributed 14 kills in two games against Long Beach – has seen his opposite hitter spot overtaken by junior outside hitter Zach Rama, leaving space for freshman outside hitter Sean Kelly to also join the fray.

Likewise, redshirt junior middle blocker Matthew Edwards has found less time on the court and more on the bench in favor of fellow redshirt junior middle blocker Sean McQuiggan – who had been on and off the court for months nursing a shoulder injury.

But the Beach has also seen some shuffling, with injuries sidelining outside hitter Sotiris Siapanis and opposite Daniil Hershtynovich, who haven’t played since early March and mid-April, respectively.

The former, a two-time All-American, and the latter, who made this year’s All-American honorable mention list, spearheaded Long Beach’s offense against UCLA, combining for 36 kills through both games.

While only time will tell if their absences will impede the Beach’s performance against the Bruins, a constant remains for them in Long Beach setter Moni Nikolov.

Moni Nikolov, who became the second freshman to earn AVCA Player of the Year behind his brother Alex Nikolov, has paved the way for a team that dropped just three matches this season, all to top-five schools.

But Long Beach coach Alan Knipe indicated that it took some time for the whole squad to accept Moni Nikolov as the team’s ace.

“Whether everyone wants to agree with it or not, all great teams have a great player, and Moni’s our great player. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have other really, really good volleyball players on the court,” Knipe said. “But to be able to reduce or eliminate the ego and not be in conflict with your guy who is your guy is part of the maturity of the team.”

Coach John Hawks’ squad, on the other hand, takes a different approach. Hawks credited multiple players on the team, including Kelly and McQuiggan, for success in the semifinal match against Hawai’i – a philosophy in line with former UCLA coach John Speraw’s pride in a deep bench.

“We’re a family right now,” Robinson said. “Our leaders are stepping up in the right ways and just all clicking at the same time.”

No men’s volleyball program other than UCLA has ever broken into three-peat territory. Since 2012, six consecutive programs have earned back-to-back titles but have failed to win thrice.

But in his first year at the helm, Hawks has the chance to contribute to the legacy of three-title streaks established by former head coach Al Scates in the 1970s and 80s.

“I mean, shoot, it’s the stuff that dreams are made of,” Hawks said.

Hawks knows where the road in front could take them. And on Monday, his squad can take it.

“They have hearts of champions, and you can see it in just the way we play,” Hawks said.

Happy Day-After Mothers’ Day to all the moms out there. 

There’s nothing quite like the mom of a college athlete. Those four years in college are the culmination of a lifetime of organizing carpools, spending hours watching club tournaments or swim meets or any other sport and keeping their growing athletes fed and hydrated. 

They’ve taken a backseat during birthdays and anniversaries — and loved every minute of it. When it’s over, they miss it terribly.

And nobody cheers like the college sports moms. They high-five and hug and wear their collective hearts on their sleeves. There’s a reason the TV cameras find them after a goal is scored.

Hopefully, for everything they’ve done, they were showered yesterday with gifts and flowers and whatever they might have wanted. 

The Princeton Department of Athletics is loaded with moms as well. Hopefully they received the same treatment. 

Not all moms had the day off. There were plenty of track and field moms who were in New Haven for the Ivy League Heptagonal outdoor track and field championships.

Those whose offspring compete for Princeton went home very happy .

The Princeton men and women swept the team championships on a history-making day. For one thing, both teams completed the “Triple Crown” of having won Heps titles in cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field. That makes an extraordinary 12 times that the men have done so and three times that the women have. 

This academic year joins 2010-11 as years where both teams won Triple Crowns. 

Also, the two Ivy championships brought the year’s total to 16, eclipsing the old league record of 15 that Princeton had done on two other occasions. That’s 16 Ivy League championships with three still on the table this coming weekend in women’s open rowing and men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing. 

TigerBlog went to the Ivy website yesterday to see what the updated team scores were. To get there, he clicked on a story that read “Harvard Men, Princeton Women Lead After Day 1 Of Heps.” 

By the time he had clicked on the “live results” link, the Princeton men were way ahead. 

The women built their Day 1 lead with help from Georgina Scoot in the long jump and Shea Greene in the javelin, both of whom 1) won their event and 2) set a Heps record while doing so. For Greene, a junior, that’s three straight Heps javelin titles. 

Princeton went 1-2-4 in the javelin, with Greene, Niki Woods and Kameil Crane. Princeton went 1-2 in the long jump, as Scoot was followed by teammate Alexandra Kelly. 

Greg Foster won yet another Ivy League high jump championship of his own, by nearly a foot, for the first points of the meet Saturday. That’s six between indoor and outdoor, if you’re keeping score. 

As yesterday afternoon went along, Princeton added points without many first place finishes but with seconds and thirds, and sometimes both in the same event (like Marcelo Parra Ramon and Franco Parra Ramon in the men’s steeplechase and Joe Licata and Casey Helm in the men’s shot put). 

There was even a 2-3-4, with Layla Giordano, Makenna Marshall and Siniru Iheoma. Each time TB checked the team standings, Princeton was further ahead, especially after Mena Scatchard and Harrison Witt did what they do, which was to sweep the 1,500. 

And then there was Foster again, with a win in the 110 hurdles, followed in third by teammate Easton Tan and fourth by teammate Yuki Hojo. There was another 2-3-4 in the men’s 100 meters, with Jadon Spain, Jackson Clarke and Paul Kuhner. 

By mid-afternoon, the team titles were pretty much locked up. There would still be more highlights. 

Scoot would win the triple jump. Iheoma won the shot put. Helm and Avery Shunneson went 1-2 in the discus. Clarke and Gant went 1-2 in the 200. 

The women put up 202.5 points, followed by runner-up Harvard with 178.5, with nobody else over 100. The men won by a larger margin, with 212.5 points to 128 for Harvard, who was also in second-place here. 

Dominance? Yes, having the men and women win a Triple Crown in the same year fits that description. 

So does winning 16 of the first 30 Ivy titles awarded in an academic year. 

That’s a lot of high fives from the Tiger moms.

St Vincent’s Water Polo Club, based in Dublin 15, are celebrating on the double after both their women’s and men’s teams claimed victory in the Irish Senior Cup.

The women’s team played out a nail-biting final against Galway’s Tribes at the university pool in Limerick on Saturday.

After an intense battle, nothing could separate the two teams, with the All-Ireland decider ending in a 10-10 draw.

Tribes led for most of the match, but St Vincent’s stayed in the game, edging ahead 10-9 in the final two minutes.

However, Tribes were awarded a penalty in the dying moments and levelled the score.

Both teams used their timeouts, but neither could find the winner, and the match went to penalties.

St Vincent’s edged the shootout 3-2, with Zoe O’Brien saving the final penalty, sealing the Irish Senior Cup title for her team.

It was a heart-breaking outcome for a Tribes side making their first senior cup final appearance.

The result means St Vincent’s complete their own double, having also defeated Tribes on penalties in last week’s league final.

Clíona Colvin captained the senior team and was named in the Ladies Team of the Tournament alongside Ciara Williams and Aoife Hennessy.

Meanwhile, St Vincent’s faced another Galway side, Corrib, in the men’s Senior Cup final, leading from start to finish, closing out the match 14-9.

This marks the third consecutive Irish Senior Cup win for St Vincent’s.

Announcing the wins on social media, the club gave a “big thanks” to all the players, coaches, and team managers who worked “so hard all season” and showed incredible dedication to the club.

Both senior teams are now Division One League and Irish Senior Cup champions for the season.