BOSTON, Mass – Boston College Women’s Track & Field began the indoor season at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday. Sydney Segalla highlighted the meet with a facility and school record.

Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener

• Ron-Niah Wright ran an 8.04 and Erin Finley ran an 8.47 in the 60m dash.
• Segalla clocked a 37.40 to win the 300m event. Her time broke the BU Track & Tennis Center facility record by 0.04 seconds and the BC school record by nearly 2 seconds.
• Gina Certo (38.65), Anna Sonsini (38.38), Anna Becker (39.19), and Ava Carter (40.22) also competed in the 300m, each setting top ten all-time marks.
• Kyla Palmer and Yaroslava Yalysovetska competed in the 600m. Palmer finished sixth place overall, recording a new personal best of 1:33.13 and moving to second all-time in BC program history. Yalysovetska finished in eighth place at 1:35.52.
• Iris Bergman ran a 4:52.06 in the mile for 13th place.
• Imogen Gardiner torched her 5000m heat, taking first place with a time of 15:40.39. Her time placed her ninth overall and put her second on BC’s all-time top ten list.
• Ella Fadil, Kyra Holland, and Molly FitzPatrick all set top ten program marks in the 5000m. Fadil ran a 15:53.04 for 26th place overall, while Holland finished 31st overall at 15:55.63, and Fitzpatrick finished 55th with a 16:08.26 mark.

Next Up: The Eagles return for the Suffolk Ice Breaker Challenge at the TRACK at New Balance on January 18.

AUSTIN, Texas. — The No. 3 Texas Volleyball team swept No. 25 Penn State (25-16, 25-9, 25-19). The Longhorns are now 25-3 on the season and will compete in the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the 20th-straight season. 

Longhorns saw junior Torrey Stafford record a match-leading 21 kills, along with five digs and three blocks. It marks Stafford’s fourth game hitting over .500 this season with a .556 hitting percentage. Freshman Abby Vander Wal added 10 kills and two blocks while hitting .474. Fellow freshman Cari Spears totaled nine kills with three blocks and three digs. Spears recorded her seventh game over .400 (.467) hitting percentage tonight. 

The Longhorns defense put up nine blocks, led by Nya Bunton and Ayden Ames, who each recorded four. It marks the fourth highest total for blocks in a three-set match for Texas. The Lions were limited to a .124 hitting percentage and finished 22 errors. Texas hit .452 as a team, its sixth time this season hitting over .400. 

Set One: Penn State was held to a .167 hitting percentage with four service errors and eight attacking errors. Stafford led the set with six kills while hitting .455. Ramsey Gary added five digs for the Longhorns on defense. 

Set Two: Texas dominated the second after extending the lead to 19-7 on an 11-0 run, with two consecutive block effort from Spears, Nya Bunton and Stafford. Texas took set two, 25-9. The Longhorns hit .700 while limiting the Lions at -.065. Spears notched six kills while Ella Swindle put up 10 assists. Texas totaled four blocks in the set, with Bunton contributing three. 

Set Three: The Longhorns completed the sweep over Penn State, winning the third set 25-19. Stafford registered 11 kills while hitting .611, and Gary added six digs on defense. Saturday’s win marked the 11th-ranked win of the season for the Horns. 

Texas will face off against No. 15 Indiana in the third round of the NCAA Tournament with the game time and date TBD. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Highlighted by nine top 10 finishes, Austin Peay State University’s track and field team concluded its first meet of the 2025-26 indoor season at Vanderbilt’s Winter Commodore Challenge, Saturday, at the David Williams II Recreation & Wellness Center.

Saturday’s events began with throws, as Emma Tucker highlighted Austin Peay’s performances in the weight throw with a sixth-place finish. The mark was Tucker’s first of two top 10 marks, as she also went on to finish eighth in the shot put later in the afternoon. Freshman China Giaimo paced the Govs in the shot put, recording an 11.98-meter toss in her first collegiate meet.

Madelyn Kocik also finished the day with a pair of top 10 performances, beginning with an eighth-place finish in the long jump with a 5.61-meter leap – her best mark since finishing second at the 2025 Atlantic Sun Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. A Portland, Texas native, Kocik later went on to finish fifth in the triple jump with an 11.97-meter mark – the second-best mark of her career and her longest jump since recording a 12.12-meter jump last season at Vanderbilt’s Commodore Challenge (Jan. 11).

Three Governors competed in the 600-meter for Austin Peay with all three finishing in the top 10. Sophomore Taylin Segree paced the trio with a 1:33.28 time and fifth-place finish, while Alexis Arnett (1:34.03) and Mia McGee (1:34.57) finished seventh and 10th, respectively. It was the first time that any of the Govs had competed in the 600 in their collegiate career.

Wrapping up the Govs’ events for the day, Taylah Upshaw placed fourth in the 1,000-meter, setting a personal best with a time of 3:01.03.

Up Next

Austin Peay returns to action in mid-January when it returns to Nashville to the Vanderbilt Invitational, Jan. 16-17, at the David Williams II Recreation & Wellness Center

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DAVENPORT, Iowa– Members of the Wartburg indoor track and field program competed at the Frigid Bee Opener, hosted by St. Ambrose. Maddie Merna was victorious in the 5000m and Hannah Ramsey was victorious in the 800m.
 
Scoring Link
 
Women’s Results:
5000m
1            Maddie Merna               17:29.94
2            Karle Kramer                 17:57.89
3            Lily Peterson                  18:02.58
4            Claire Hoyer                   18:09.55
5            Ava Vance                      18:17.07
6            Morgan Engel                 18:26.72
 
Mile
2            Haley Meyer                  5:07.16
3            Nadia Bowden              5:08.75
4            Alyssa Blakenship         5:20.15
 
800m
1            Hannah Ramsey           2:18.34
2            Bethany Warren            2:18.37
5            Jade Anderson              2:28.86
 
Men’s Results:
5000m
2            Isaiah Hammerand    14:13.45
4            Lance Sobaski           14:19.14
5            Eli Larson                   14:22.17
11          Conner Sattler             14:55.34
13          Ayden Buchanan         14:59.49
14          Dawson Fricke             15:08.66
15          Drew Moser                  15:08.72
17          Seth Bailey                   15:13.51
18          Zion Taylor                    15:14.83
19          Derek Coulter               15:14.85
25          Cameron Noreen          16:20.61
 
Mile
2            Nathan Kinzer               4:12.67
3            Ahmed Aldamak            4:18.95
5            Aaron Lursen                 4:29.67
 
800m
2            Marcus Camacho       1:54.97
6            AJ Angus                     1:57.62
7            Henry Peterson           1:58.77
8            Rylan Martin                1:59.19
11          Nathan Ahern               2:00.07
14          Brendan Rader             2:03.61
17          Sawyer Schmidt           2:07.35
 
Notes:

• At press time, Hammerand’s 5000m time stands first on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Sobaski’s 5000m time stands second on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time Kinzer’s mile time stands second on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Larson’s 5000m time stands third on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Ramsey’s 800m time stands fifth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Aldamak’s mile time stands fifth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Camacho’s 800m time stands fifth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Warren’s 800m time stands sixth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Merna’s 5000m time stands sixth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Sattler’s 5000m time stands sixth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Meyer’s mile time stands seventh on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Buchanan’s 5000m time stands seventh on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Bowden’s mile time stands ninth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Fricke’s 5000m time stands tenth on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Moser’s 5000m time stands 11^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time. Angus’ 800m time stands 11^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Bailey’s 5000m time stands 13^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Taylor’s 5000m time stands 15^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Coulter’s 5000m time stands 16^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Blankenship’s mile time stands 16^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Kramer’s 5000m time stands 18^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Henry Peterson’s 800m time stands 18^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Martin’s 800m time stands 19^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Lursen’s mile time stands 20^th on the TFFRS list for this season
• At press time, Lily Peterson’s 5000m time stands 23^rd on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Hoyer’s 5000m time stands 29^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• At press time, Ahern’s 800m time stands 29^th on the TFRRS list for this season
• Hammerand’s 5000m time ranks second on the program’s top 10 list
• Sobaski’s 5000m time ranks fifth on the program’s top 10 list
• Larson’s 5000m time ranks seventh on the program’s top 10 list
• Kinzer’s mile time ranks eighth on the program’s top 10 list
• Merna’s 5000m time ranks tenth on the program’s top 10 list

Up Next
The Knights return to action at their own Alumni Meet on Jan 9 (Fri).