One of Oregon’s breakout track stars of 2025 just flipped gears completely.

On Monday, Jesuit senior Grant Valley announced on his social media that he is committing to Oregon to join the track and field team.

Valley was previously committed to Southern Oregon University to play football.

At 6-foot-1, 165 pounds, Valley played receiver and defensive back for the Crusaders in the fall and helped lead Jesuit to a 9-3 record in 2024. He was named a second team all-state selection in Class 6A as a senior.

But it was in the spring when Valley truly burst onto the scene. After leg injuries derailed a lot of his high school track career, Valley stunned the field and won the 100-meter dash at the Oregon Relays in early April. It was his first non-dual meet track and field win of his high school career.

At a dual meet in May, Valley broke the state record in the 200 as he clocked a 20.86-second finish to break Micah Williams’ mark of 21.03 in 2019. He completed his year by winning Class 6A state championships in the 100, 200 and the 4×400-meter relay.

Valley’s personal best time in the 100 (10.36) is No. 3 all-time in state history, behind Williams’ 10.21 in 2019 and Thomas Tyner’s 10.35 in 2011.

For the Ducks, the men’s sprints was a struggle in the 2024-25 school year. Oregon did not have any men’s sprinters compete in the prelims for the 100 or the 200 at the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.

Women’s Volleyball | 6/17/2025 3:43:00 PM

June 17, 2025 – Emporia State Volleyball has released their schedule for the upcoming 2025 season, which features a trip to the Golden State to begin the season and nine home matches in MIAA action.
 
The Hornets will open the campaign at the San Diego Invite hosted by Point Loma on September 4-6. Emporia State begins the trip with a match on September 4 against the host Sea Lions, who went 26-2 last season. The final two matches of the trip will be against Cal State San Bernardino on September 5 before closing against Northwest Nazarene on Sunday, September 6.
 
The matchups against the Sea Lions, Coyotes and Nighthawks will be the first in program history.
 
Following the trip out west, Emporia State returns for a trip up the turnpike for the Washburn Invitational which features four matches on September 12-13. The Hornets take on Newman and Truman State on Friday, September 12. The tournament will wrap up with matches against MSU-Moorhead and William Jewell on September 13 at Whiting Fieldhouse.
 
The final non-conference action of the season will be on September 19-20 as Emporia State travels to Edmond, Okla. for the MIAA-GAC Crossover hosted by Central Oklahoma. The Hornets will take on four GAC opponents, with East Central and Southwestern Oklahoma on September 18, followed by matches against Oklahoma Baptist and Southern Nazarene on September 19.
 
Emporia State’s first action at home will be on September 26, as the Hornets play host to Missouri Western, followed by a match against Northwest Missouri on September 27.
 
A trip to Newman and Pittsburg State will follow on the schedule, with the matchups scheduled for October 2nd and 3rd.  
 
Following the two road matches, the Hornets will begin a five-game home stand, starting with a midweek Turnpike Tussle against Washburn on Tuesday, October 7. The Hornets will then take on Nebraska-Kearney and Fort Hays State on October 10 and 11, before wrapping up the stint at White Auditorium against Central Missouri on October 17 and Missouri Southern on October 18.
 
Emporia State will go back on the road for five road matches over the following three weeks. The trip begins with the second Turnpike Tussle of the season, as the Hornets take on the Ichabods on Friday, October 24. The following week, Emporia State takes on Northwest Missouri and Missouri Western on October 31 and November 1. Matches on November 7 and 8 against Fort Hays State and Nebraska-Kearney will be the final road matches of the regular season for the Hornets.
 
Emporia State will wrap up the season with two matches at White Auditorium. The Hornets will take on last season’s MIAA and Central Regional winner Central Oklahoma on November 13 before capping off the regular season on November 14 against Arkansas-Fort Smith.
 
The MIAA Tournament is scheduled for November 20-22 at Civic Arena in St. Joseph, Mo. The Hornets have made the MIAA Tournament in each of the first two seasons under head coach Ken Murczek, earning the sixth seed last season, before falling to eventual MIAA champion Central Oklahoma in the first round.

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Harvard track & field garnered national recognition this afternoon, as both Crimson squads ranked at No. 16 in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Program of the Year list, an award that calculates a program’s success across the cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field campaigns.

Anchored by a first place finish from two-time NCAA men’s cross country national champion Graham Blanks ’24, the Crimson men’s cross country squad finished in 27^th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Madison, Wisconsin last fall. All-America showings from Kenny Ikeji ’24 and junior Tito Alofe pushed Harvard to a strong showing at the NCAA Indoor Championships, as a third place showing from junior Ferenc Kovacs highlighted Harvard’s time at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

The women’s year started with a 28^th place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, followed by a meteoric rise at the NCAA Indoor Championships. In a historic in Virginia Beach, Virginia, 11 Crimson women earned All-America First Team status, as Harvard led the nation in All-America First Team selections and finished in a program-best 11^th place in the team standings. All-America First Team showings from Chloe Fair ’24 and Izzy Goudros ’24 wrapped the Crimson’s season at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

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CORVALLIS, Ore. – The third season’s schedule for Oregon State volleyball under the direction of Lindsey Behonick has been announced on Tuesday.

The Beavers are slated for 28 games in the 2025 campaign, including 13 in front of the home fans in Gill Coliseum. Nonconference opponents include familiar ones in Arizona, Boise State, Oregon, Portland State and Stanford.

Action commences in Long Beach, Calif., against Stanford and Long Beach (Aug. 30-31) before three in Boise against Arizona, UC San Diego and Boise State (Sep. 4-6) ahead of the first action at home. The Beavers will host Montana State, UC Irvine and UNLV (Sep. 11-13) for the Asics Invitational to open a four-match homestand that will conclude on the 18^th with the Rivalry Series against Oregon. Two days later, on the 20^th, the Beavers will wrap nonconference play against Portland State in the Rose City.

The final season in the WCC includes 18 league contests with home-and-homes against LMU, in-state rival Portland, Pacific, Saint Mary’s, San Diego and San Francisco. OSU will host a pair of future Pac-12 rivals in Gonzaga and Washington State while visiting Pepperdine and Seattle U. League play opens on September 25^th and closes November 29^th.

Oregon State fans can get their first look at the third team of the Behonick era with the annual Orange and Black scrimmage, set for August 16^th inside Gill Coliseum.

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Senior Maya Mladjan’s fourth varsity girls water polo season for Lyons Township High School started rough with missed matches because of illness and a concussion following an auto accident. Even with another physical setback, the Brookfield resident couldn’t have finished much better.

Mladjan and junior teammate Bella Recker were named first-team all-state after helping the Lions place second in state – the program’s second-highest state finish to their 2010 state championship.

“I would say it was a complete 180 [turnaround],” Mladjan said. “I had a little bit of a [left] shoulder injury so I wasn’t even playing that much leading up to state but then comes state and you’re just bam right in the center of the action.”