Dear Friends of Tribe Athletics,

Hello again! It's a real treat to communicate with you twice this week, and I'm glad we have the extra opportunity because there are so many great things happening in Tribe Athletics!

After a whirlwind couple of weeks with Women's Basketball, everyone is back on campus, and we're busy with our spring sports. From today through the end of the month, we have 16 events you can attend on campus or online!

Setting the Bar High!
Our 10th-ranked Men's Gymnastics team will compete at the 2025 USA Gymnastics (USAG) Collegiate National Championship hosted by Navy, starting today at 2 p.m. The weekend will feature team, all-around finals, and individual event preliminaries. The top six scorers in all-around and each event final will earn USAG All-America honors. You can watch the action through a video stream on the team's Facebook page.

The team had a spectacular warm-up for the Championship with an outstanding performance in their tri-meet against top-ranked Oklahoma and No. 11 Greenville. Freshman standout Luke Tully, pictured below, had an excellent meet and was selected as the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Rookie of the Week.Luke currently leads the ECAC and ranks fourth nationally in all-around (73.883), while he is also second in the conference on high bar (13.317), fourth on floor (13.483), and sixth on vault (13.917).
 
Women's Gymnastics finished its season last week with a fourth-place finish at the Gymnastics East Conference (GEC) Championship hosted by Penn. Caroline Blatchford, pictured below, highlighted the Tribe's performances and earned first-team all-conference honors on bars by placing second with a career-high 9.850. Hannah Burke and Melanie Faulkner also delivered tremendous efforts, earning second-team all-league distinction on vault and beam, respectively, along with Sarah Wozniak, who received all-league honors on bars.
 
Also, 18 members of the women's team earned GEC Scholar-Athlete Awards for achieving a 3.2 or higher in the fall. Congratulations, everyone!

Notable

• Kickoff times for 10 of the 12 games on the William & Mary football team's exciting 2025 slate were announced earlier this week. Our home opener vs. Maine is on Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. Get ready!

• Football held its annual pro day Monday afternoon at Zable Stadium, as nine former Tribe standouts worked out for an event record 37 coaches and scouts from 29 NFL teams and one CFL organization.
• Track & Field opened the 2025 outdoor season at the Fred Hardy Invitational with six event winners over the two days of action. Arianna DeBoer won the women's 5000m seeded section; Kyra Holland was victorious in the 800m; Elizabeth Strobach won the vault; Dana Abraham, pictured below, claimed the women's triple jump; Raiden Lafortune was the champion in the men's javelin throw; and David Seekford posted the fastest time in the men's 400m hurdles.

• Track & Field sent five athletes to the Raleigh Relays hosted by N.C. State yesterday and today. On the men's side, Hayes Trapp competed in the 10000m. On the women's side, Arianna DeBoer will compete in the 10000m; Catherine Garrison in the 3000m SC; and Kyra Holland and Molly Weithman in the 5000m.
• Track & Field is keeping busy!  Tomorrow they are hosting their annual Dan Stimson Memorial Meet. Union College (NY) and Richmond will be competing along with W&M and unattached athletes. Just a few days later, the Colonial Relays will be held April 3-5 and in conjunction, our annual Cross Country and Track & Field Alumni Weekend will be April 4 -5. 
• Sean Joseph and Gur Trakhtenberg of Men's Tennis were named the CAA Doubles Team of the Week. The team notched a hard-fought 4-3 victory over Longwood on Tuesday evening at the Mackesy Tennis Center and will travel to Campbell today for a match at 2 p.m., before traveling to Elon on Sunday, March 30, for an 11 a.m. match.

• In Women's Tennis, Hedda Gurholt was named the CAA Player of the Week for the eighth time in her career, while this week Emma Fernald and Mira Kernagis earned CAA Doubles Team of the Week honors. The team takes on VCU today at 1:00 p.m. in the Mackesy Tennis Center.
• Avery Thompson's career-best round of 2-under 70 helped lead the Women's Golf team to its first top-five finish, coming in fifth at the Tribe's Kingsmill Intercollegiate.
• Top 15 finishes from Logan Hunter, Camden Goldknopf, pictured below, and Luke Walmet paced Men's Golf to its first top-five finish since 2021 in its home event, the Golden Horseshoe Intercollegiate. TheTribe finished fourth in the field of 13.

• Swimming set six school records during its season:  Julie Addison, Ellie Scherer, Lindsay Juhlin and Caroline Burgeson in the 200 medley relay (CAA record); Julie Addison in the 50 back;  Scherer in the 100 breast; Claire Neilly in the 400 IM; Zoe Arakelian, Flynn Truskett, Sarah Dunham and Burgeson in the 200 free relay; and Sophia Heilen in the 200 breast. Women's Swimming finished as runner-up at the CAA Swimming Championships.

Make It Happen on OTOD!
We all thank you for the great things happening in Tribe Athletics. One way to ensure we continue to thrive is to participate in One Tribe One Day (OTOD). We are just five days away from this event, which provides critical support for us, and I hope you will join me in supporting W&M Athletics! Your participation will unlock over $100,000 in matches and challenges for Athletics.
 
Thank you for giving as generously as you can. Since it's in our nature to be competitive, help us score our biggest win yet on One Tribe One Day!
 
Go, Tribe!

Brian D. Mann
Director of Athletics