Women’s lacrosse rules proposals look to simplify penalty structure, improve pace of play
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The NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee recommended rules changes to simplify the penalty structure and improve the pace of play, beginning with the 2025-26 academic year. The proposals must be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel before becoming official. The panel is scheduled to discuss the women’s lacrosse […]
The NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Rules Committee recommended rules changes to simplify the penalty structure and improve the pace of play, beginning with the 2025-26 academic year.
The proposals must be approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel before becoming official. The panel is scheduled to discuss the women’s lacrosse recommendations Aug. 13.
Committee members, who met last week in Indianapolis, approved the following measures:
Expanding one-minute releasable penalties in the midfield to all over the field, except in the critical scoring area.
Using an advantage signal for one-minute releasable penalties, when applicable, which would allow teams the opportunity to play on. The one-minute penalty could be negated if a goal is scored during the advantage or administered at the conclusion of the advantage period.
Running the clock on 8-meter free positions, except for the last minute of each quarter or overtime.
Setting up 8-meter free positions only at the two adjacent hashes on both sides of the center hash.
Upgrading dangerous contact penalties to a nonreleasable yellow card.
Flagging shooting space fouls in the critical scoring area.
Committee members said they received feedback from officials, players and coaches that the penalty structure is complex and needed an overhaul.
“Addressing the penalty structure and penalty administration is inherently also directly related to consideration of duration of games,” said Amy Foster, committee chair and senior deputy athletics director for the student-athlete experience at Cornell. “At the Division I level in particular, there was concern about games consistently extending well beyond two hours. For media purposes, that window is important, but it is also important for just the enjoyment of the game. Changes in the penalty structure and penalty and game administration could positively impact both.”
Stick checks and draws
The committee proposed ending stick checks after goals are scored.
Currently, officials check the pocket depth of the stick of each goal scorer to see whether the stick is legal.
Also, teams would have 30 seconds after a goal is scored to be ready for the ensuing draw at midfield. If a team isn’t ready for the draw by the end of the 30 seconds, possession would be awarded to the other team.
Overall, draws would occur only at the start of the game, at the start of overtime and after goals are scored.
The team having possession of the ball at the end of the first, second and third quarters would maintain possession when the next quarter starts.
“There would be a decrease in the numbers of draws, but the change is consistent with what we were doing with power plays, where we award possession at the start of the next quarter,” Foster said. “The committee felt that there should be a draw to start overtime. You want everyone to have an equitable chance to gain possession there.”
Video review challenges
Committee members proposed a change to the way video challenges would be handled next season.
If a team has a successful video review challenge in which the original call on the field is overturned, it would maintain its challenge.
However, if the call on the field is not overturned, the team making the challenge would lose a timeout. Teams would have to have a timeout to make video review challenges.
At the request of teams, committee members also proposed expanding the categories of plays eligible for video review. Teams would be permitted to request video reviews for several areas that, in the past, were reviewable only at the officials’ discretion.
Under the new approach, officials no longer would have discretion over whether to initiate reviews, ensuring greater consistency in officiating nationwide. Officials would be required to review:
Clock errors.
Whether a shot is released before the possession clock or game clock expired.
Fouls that cause ejection.
For every video review, whether requested or required, officials would review for clock errors and cardable fouls.
Olivia Dunne no longer competes in gymnastics. The 22-year-old national champion finished her fifth and final season of competition earlier this year and now it hurts to get out of bed in the morning.
Her pain stems from more than 18 years of constant hard falls.
Dunne, who is perhaps known best for her presence on social media as the first college athlete to make generational wealth through NIL, started competing in gymnastics at the age of three. She often competed for the United States as a junior before she eventually committed to Louisiana State. The Tigers won their first-ever national championship during the 2023-24 season.
Although Dunne had already competed four years at LSU, the blanket waiver of eligibility granted to every athlete in 2021 allowed her to return for a fifth and final season. It was pretty clear that she was only there to compete because she could not even remember her only two classes, but that is neither here nor there. She retired from the sport with an emotional video at the end of April.
Olivia Dunne is finished with gymnastics but the physic pain it caused her will linger forever. It hurts her just to get out of bed in the morning even at the young age of 22. Her sport took a difficult toll on her body over the last (almost) two decades. A 21-second compilation of the various falls throughout the years only begins to scratch the surface. Take a look:
Not only were the falls painful, Dunne was expected to get right back up and continue practice. She revealed that she actually lost feeling in her left foot after the violent fall onto her back in the video above. It was not considered a valid excuse to stop!
I couldn’t feel my left foot after but I continued practice
— Olivia Dunne
OUCH! It is not a secret that gymnastics is one of the most brutal sports on the body. To wake up sore at 22 does not sound fun. Olivia Dunne will feel pain from her past for the rest of her life. It is a harsh reality.
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Rozdeba ends high school career in style – Brandon Sun
Chael Rozbeda certainly knows how to say goodbye. The graduating senior from Hamiota Collegiate Institute capped off his high school sports career as the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association’s A male athlete of the year after a terrific Grade 12 year at Hamiota Collegiate Institute in four sports. “It was a perfect sendoff, that’s for […]
The graduating senior from Hamiota Collegiate Institute capped off his high school sports career as the Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association’s A male athlete of the year after a terrific Grade 12 year at Hamiota Collegiate Institute in four sports.
“It was a perfect sendoff, that’s for sure,” said the 17-year-old Rozbeda, who shared the honour with his classmate, girls’ winner Ky Solomon.
Hamiota Collegiate Institute’s Chael Rozdeba was a provincial tournament all-star and Volleyball Manitoba graduating all-star after an outstanding season as the team’s setter. (Submitted)
July 5, 2025
“You don’t see it very often, two people from a small-town school being named as the male and female athletes of the year,” Rozbeda said. “That’s pretty exciting.”
It’s just the second time Hamiota has swept the A awards, with Jacquelyn Hawkins and Edgardo (Jun Jun) Taborlupa also winning in 2015.
The other Hamiota winners since 1989 are Ashley Jay (2016), Shayna Mathison (2014), Cole Waddell (2013), Karen Rawlings (2001) and Karen Bray (1993).
He was also a winner at Hamiota’s year-end athletic banquet, for outstanding leadership in varsity volleyball, top forward in hockey and the coach’s choice award in baseball.
Rozdeba said Hamiota Collegiate Institute’s long history of producing great athletes and teams certainly doesn’t hurt anyone’s development.
“It’s really good,” Rozbeda said. “Our sports teams are good and we all push each other to be better. It’s competitive all the time.”
Growing up, Rozdeba concentrated on baseball and hockey but added the high school sports when he got older, including volleyball and badminton.
“Hockey and baseball were definitely my two favourites,” Rozbeda said, adding that if he had to choose, hockey is likely on top.
Rozdeba’s family lives north of Hamiota but they farm near Strathclair. Like all farm kids, he’s dependent on his parents — Darren Rozdeba and Carrie Ramsey — to get him into town for his games and practices.
But they also gave him a great deal more.
“My parents helped me out a lot,” Rozbeda said. “They gave me rides everywhere and coached me for lots of my sports and taught me everything I know.”
Rozdeba made a point not to specialize in one sport, opting instead to play many. He said while the individual skills might be different, there are definite ways each sport makes him a better overall competitor.
Chael Rozdeba played baseball on the Birtle, Hamiota, Rossburn and Shoal Lake co-op team, earning a nod as a provincial all-star as his team lost in the semifinals. (Submitted)
July 5, 2025
“I think it just helps overall athleticism,” Rozbeda said. “Playing volleyball can help you with your hockey and getting more explosive or playing hockey can help with your conditioning for all the other sports. They all reflect against each other.”
Not surprisingly, Rozdeba entered his final high school season with some lofty expectations, then he simply went out and did his best to make them happen.
In volleyball, Hamiota earned a spot at the A provincials by going unbeaten in a qualifying tournament at home.
They went 4-0 during the round-robin at the provincial tournament in late November, and beat the Ste. Rose Celtics and host Glenboro Panthers to book a spot in the final, where they ultimately fell 2-0 (29-27, 25-17) to the Elm Creek Cobras.
“We had a very good offence and we never quit,” Rozbeda of his team.
The five-foot-10, 175-pound setter was named a tournament all-star alongside teammate Jaxen Dziver, an honour he was understandably pleased to have. He was also a Volleyball Manitoba graduating all-star.
“It’s very exciting to get recognized as one of the all-stars in all of Manitoba,” Rozbeda said.
The team had eight Grade 12 players on its 11-man roster, which was one of its keys as a group. It was a talented cohort of players who had grown up together on the volleyball court and on the ice.
“We got to know each other really well and got close,” Rozbeda said. “We built chemistry in all the sports we played. We knew each other’s tendencies and habits.”
On the ice, the right-shooting Rozdeba played centre for the Hamiota-Rivers-Elton-Strathclair Huskies, finishing in a tie for seventh in league scoring in the regular season and leading his team with 32 goals and 57 assists in just 38 games.
“I was very happy,” the alternate captain said of his season personally.“I was surprised actually.”
Rozdeba played with the under-15 AAA Yellowhead Chiefs in 2021-22, but ultimately figured high school hockey was a better place for him. It was a decision that involved a lot more than just pucks and sticks.
Chael Rozbeda led the Hamiota-Rivers-Elton-Strathclair Huskies in scoring with 32 goals and 57 assists in just 38 games. He will be playing at Lake Region State College next season. (Submitted)
July 5, 2025
“I decided to play high school because then I could play my volleyball and my badminton and have time for all the other stuff I like to do,” Rozbeda said. “I could still be on competitive teams and with good coaches too.”
The Huskies (26-12-0) finished fourth in the regular season, and eliminated the Boissevain-Deloraine-Waskada-Pierson Broncos and Killarney-Wawanesa Raiders in the playoffs before getting swept by the unbeaten Vincent Massey Vikings in the best-of-three semifinals in mid-March.
Meanwhile, badminton was a sport he picked up in high school, and after he and partner Sev Antonio captured the Zone 10 championship in boys doubles, they were able to get to provincials at École Régionale Notre-Dame in Notre Dame de Lourdes in early May.
It was an eye-opening experience.
“It’s a whole new world compared to out here,” Rozbeda said. “You’re really never prepared. I think we won two games and lost five. We didn’t make it to the playoffs.”
On the baseball diamond, Rozdeba hits and throws right while playing the middle infield and occasionally pitching. He suited up with Hamiota in minor baseball and with Midwest AAA teams.
His high-school team, a co-op club involving schools from Birtle, Hamiota, Rossburn and Shoal Lake, won its two round-robin games at the provincial championship in Stonewall in late May and then beat Boissevain/Wawanesa 9-3 in the quarterfinals.
Unfortunately for them, that vaulted them into the semifinals against a perennial powerhouse, Winnipeg’s Garden City Gophers, who beat them 11-8.
Garden City went on to edge Steinbach in the final to earn its fourth provincial championship in the last five years.
Rozdeba made enough of an impression that he was named to the provincial high school baseball all-star team along with teammates Aiden Lewis and Nolan Drake.
“I felt really accomplished and really good,” Rozbeda said of the award. “All the hard work paid off.”
This summer, while he works on the family farm, he’s playing 18-and-under with Midwest again and also in the South West Baseball League with his hometown Hamiota Red Sox.
After an outstanding high school baseball season that led to him being a named a provincial all-star, Chael Rozdeba is suiting up with the South West Baseball League’s Hamiota Red Sox. He is shown during a game against the Brandon Young Guns on Wednesday at Andrews Field. (Perry Bergson/The Brandon Sun)
July 5, 2025
In the fall, he heads to a two-year school, Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, N.D., where his sister Whitney just completed her second year playing for the Royals volleyball and softball teams. Devils Lake is located 190 kilometres southwest of Boissevain, just off busy U.S. Highway 2.
“I reached out to Lake Region at the start of the year and they asked me to come down for a skate,” Rozbeda said. “I went down for a skate and they offered me a spot and I thought about it and accepted it.”
“I think it will be a big jump,” Rozbeda added. “There are lots of older guys who are 20 or older on our team.”
Unlike his sister — who is continuing her career at Mayville State in the fall — he’s concentrating on one sport, and he will have the advantage of playing hockey with his cousin Griffin Anderson of Glenboro, who headed to Lake Region a year ago.
His cousin Kaden Rozdeba is also in school in North Dakota, playing baseball for Valley City State University.
With all that accrued family wisdom, Rozdeba is looking forward to his next step.
“I’m very excited,” Rozbeda said. “I’m going to get a good education and get to play good hockey and travel a little bit and experience different things.”
What if Penn State football defeated Ohio State in 2017? | Penn State Football News
Saquon Barkley stood back on his own goal line waiting to receive the opening kickoff against No. 6 Ohio State on a chilly Oct. 28 afternoon. No. 2 Penn State was about to face its toughest task of the year. Barkley appeared more than ready for the test. He caught the kickoff back at the […]
Saquon Barkley stood back on his own goal line waiting to receive the opening kickoff against No. 6 Ohio State on a chilly Oct. 28 afternoon. No. 2 Penn State was about to face its toughest task of the year.
Barkley appeared more than ready for the test. He caught the kickoff back at the 3-yard line and found a lane to reach the far sideline for a 97-yard touchdown.
Furthermore, quarterback Trace McSorley led two more touchdown drives while the defense held the Buckeyes to just three points to start the game. With a 21-3 advantage early in the second quarter, the Nittany Lions laid the foundation for a possible statement victory.
However, the tides began to turn with Ohio State, led by quarterback J.T. Barrett’s 328 passing yards with four touchdowns, slowly taking control of the game. After trading scores, the Buckeyes came back to win, 39-38, throwing a potential special season for the blue and white off the tracks.
So, let’s rewind to the start of the fourth quarter when Penn State was leading, 35-20. What if the Nittany Lions never lost this lead?
Running back Saquon Barkley (26) walks off the field as an Ohio State fan shoves his phone is his face after the 38-39 loss to No. 6 Ohio State at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017.
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Penn State makes the 2017 College Football Playoff
Penn State finished the 2017 regular season 10-2, with its other loss coming to Michigan State.
Flipping the Nittany Lions’ loss to Ohio State into a win would place it at the top of the Big Ten East division standings at 8-1 in conference play.
Thus, James Franklin and company would’ve met undefeated Wisconsin in the Big Ten championship. The East went 10-0 against the West during that format of the conference championship, so it’s reasonable to believe Penn State wins this hypothetical game.
The 2017 College Football Playoff featured Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama, respectively. If the Nittany Lions were a 12-1 Big Ten champion, they likely take the 11-1 Crimson Tide’s spot, earning their first-ever bid to the four-team playoff.
There’s also a scenario in which Penn State grabs the top ranking in the playoff.
Had the Nittany Lions defeat Michigan State on top of Ohio State and Wisconsin, they’d be 13-0, likely slotting in ahead of 12-1 Clemson.
It’s realistic to think that the Nittany Lions could’ve won against the Spartans had they defeated Ohio State the week prior. The loss to the Buckeyes led to a flat start versus Michigan State.
While other variables make exact seeding up to debate, it’s practically a constant that the Nittany Lions make the playoff if they won against Ohio State.
Quarterback Trace McSorley (9) celebrates his touchdown with wide receiver Juwan Johnson (84) during the game against No. 6 Ohio State at Ohio Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. No. 2 Penn State lost 38-39.
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Potentially eliminates negative big game narrative
During Franklin’s tenure at Penn State, one of the main narratives floated is that he can’t win big games. This wasn’t as hot of a topic back in 2017, but it has increased partly because of
the Nittany Lions losing eight-straight games to Ohio State, among other losses to highly ranked foes.
However, had Penn State defeated Ohio State in 2017, the team could’ve built momentum into potentially seeing more positive outcomes in high-stake games. It would’ve been the second-straight year it took down the Buckeyes, and it didn’t need a miracle like its “block six” a year before to take a lead.
Additionally, eliminating the narrative could’ve helped with recruiting.
For instance, quarterback Justin Fields, who was a former Penn State commit before pledging to Georgia in the 2018 class, transferred to Ohio State ahead of the 2019 season. If the Nittany Lions came out victorious in 2017, coming to Happy Valley instead might’ve been more enticing for Fields.
Franklin is 4-20 against Associated Press top-10 opponents during his time in Happy Valley. While changing this one game makes the record 5-19 in retrospect, the chain reaction a win could’ve created at the time would’ve been program altering.
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Fairmont’s Jalen Bridges signs with Boston Celtics in training camp deal | WVU Mountaineers
BOSTON (TNS)— The Celtics are adding former Suns two-way player Jalen Bridges on a training camp deal. The 6-foot-8 forward rookie will also join Boston’s Summer League team in Las Vegas, according to Jay King of the Athletic. The contract will likely be an Exhibit 10 deal which will give Bridges an opportunity to make […]
BOSTON (TNS)— The Celtics are adding former Suns two-way player Jalen Bridges on a training camp deal. The 6-foot-8 forward rookie will also join Boston’s Summer League team in Las Vegas, according to Jay King of the Athletic.
The contract will likely be an Exhibit 10 deal which will give Bridges an opportunity to make the final roster with the team during camp. Bridges could also earn a $85,000 bonus if he remains with the Maine Celtics in the G-League for 60 days after being released during training camp.
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