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MAY 28, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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☀️  Good Wednesday Morning, DIII. Safe travels if you’re heading to Indy.

🗓️ What’s Happening This Week. The NCAA Regional Rules Seminar begins its two-day run in Indianapolis on Thursday. Here is the daily schedule. The DIII softball World Series begins Thursday in Bloomington, Ill., while the rowing and baseball championships get underway on Friday.

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TOP STORY
1. Eisenman Takes Women’s Singles Crown In Three-Set Thriller

For the first time in 14 years, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps has a women’s individual national champion as Lindsey Eisenman downed Wesleyan’s Jackie Soloveychik in three sets, 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-4. She joins Kristin Lim in the elite Athena club.

Eisenman won the first set with relative ease, before Soloveychik rallied to tie the match by winning a second-set tiebreaker. The Wesleyan sophomore jumped to an early 2-0 lead in the final set, but the CMS junior rallied to tie the set at 4-4, fighting back from a 15-40 hole to break serve. Eisenman went onto win the final two games for the championship.

Her victory gave CMS both singles titles - the first time that has occurred since 2019 when Emory’s Jonathan Jemison and Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico won the championships.

» CMS Recap
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TENNIS (W)
2. Babson Back-to-Back

Twice as nice for the Babson doubles tandem of Olivia Soffer and Matia Cristiani as they defended their 2024 NCAA Division III women’s tennis doubles title with a 6-2, 6-2 triumph over Middlebury’s Nina Farhat and Sahana Raman.

It was the 17th victory in a row for the third-seeded duo who became the first back-to-back NCAA DIII doubles champions since Williams’ Julie Raventos and Linda Shin in 2015-16.

Soffer and Cristiani are the first DIII players to reach three consecutive NCAA doubles finals since 2014 and improved their record as a team to 81-8.

» Babson Recap
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TRACK AND FIELD
3. All-America Team

“All America honors for the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field season were announced Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Athletes of member institutions who finished in the top-8 of their respective individual events and as part of a relay team at the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships earned First-Team All-America honors. Those who finished ninth through 16th individually and ninth through 12th as part of a relay team were named Second-Team All-America.”

» Complete List

NEWS YOU CAN USE
4. Lightning Round ⚡️ 

» Softball. Swarthmore’s Lilly Goldberg was named the NFCA Division III Freshman of the Year.

» Finances. “Moody's Ratings has assigned an A2 rating to University of New England's proposed issuance of approximately $60 million in Revenue Bonds, University of New England Issue, Series 2025. We also affirmed the existing A2 issuer and other debt ratings. The outlook is stable.”

TRANSACTIONS
5. Comings and Goings 

ALBRIGHT - Alyssa Parsons named head women’s basketball coach
HUNTINGDON - Alex Cole named head cross country/track and field coach
ITHACA - Aaron Bouyea named director of athletics
JOHN JAY - Ryan Hyland will step down as head men’s basketball coach to join staff at Fordham
LAKE FOREST - Jim Catanzaro named assistant vice president and director of athletics. He will remain head football coach
RUTGERS-CAMDEN - Tom Thomasson named director of athletics

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