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Mat Belcher and Will Ryan - 2021 470 European Championships © Joao Costa Ferreira Australias hopes for a medal in the 470 mens division at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics are pinned on class veteran Mat Belcher and crew Will Ryan and the pair found their rhythm on day two in Portugal after 18 months away from international competition. Vilamoura, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, delivered light southerlies in the afternoon and the 81 teams battling for positions at the 470 2021 ...

Akron hires new AD, whose fundraising prowess will be crucial Contributed photo Charles Guthrie has been hired as the University of Akrons new director of athletics. The appointment, pending board approval, is effective on July 1. The University of Akron is undergoing yet another leadership change. The latest is at the head of the Zips athletic department. Akron on Tuesday, May 4, announced that Charles Guthrie, who has been the director of athletics at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay sin...

Mat Belcher and Will Ryan at the 2021 470 Europeans © Joao Costa Ferreira With less than three months until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Australias two 470 representative teams have been given the opportunity to join the international fleet at the class 2021 European Championship in Vilamoura, Portugal. Eighty-one teams from 25 countries are contesting the last major 470 event before Tokyo 2020 and the first international regatta since August 2019 for Australias Mat Belcher and Wi...

Jake Lilley - Ready Steady Tokyo Sailing 2019 © Sailing Energy Queenslander Jake Lilley has been announced as Australias representative in the Finn class for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, rounding out the sailing selection for the Games. Lilley completes a team blessed with a mix of youth, experience, and a history of success. Australias sailors will head to Japan carrying the hopes of a nation after collecting six gold medals across the past three Olympics. "Its always a good feeling t...

Jake Lilley - 2021 Open and U23 Finn European Championship © Joao Costa Ferreira 98 days out from the Tokyo Olympic Games, Australian Sailing Team Finn sailor and Rio Olympian Jake Lilley (QLD) has wrapped up the 2021 Open Finn European Championships in Vilamoura, Portugal with a top ten finish in a world-class fleet. After ten races over five days, Lilley finished the event in a strong eighth place. Defending European Champion and dual Olympian Zsombor Berecz (HUN) won the regatta...

It’s early August 2018, and Green Bay’s month-long search for talent has ended. Coach Linc Darner’s staff files into a meeting room to begin sifting intelligence gathered from watching games in side gyms. By the time they finish, prospects populating the program’s recruiting board will be sorted and prioritized. As their deliberations unfold, one name slowly gathered momentum: Amari Davis. The 6-foot-3 combo guard’s lean 175-pound frame never cut an imposing figure in the layup line....

Nia Jerwood & Monique de Vries - Australian Sailing Team © Jesus Renedo / Sailing Energy Nia Jerwood and Monique de Vries have waited a lifetime to get the call to tell them they were going to the Olympic Games. After breakout international performances in August 2019, they presumed that call was not too far off. However 2020 did not go as planned for the Perth-based duo, with COVID-19 and the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics giving them cause to wonder if it would come at all. ...

David B. Gaylord David B. Gaylord, 89, of Burlington, Vt., passed away peacefully at home on March 2, 2021, surrounded by his family following a six-month battle with glioblastoma. David was born on September 28, 1931, in Northfield, Vt., to Richard H. and Irene (Biorklund) Gaylord, the youngest of three children. His mother passed away soon after his birth. His father was remarried to Elsie Ehlert from Brooklyn, N.Y., who was the woman David knew as h...

2019 Farr 40 NSW State Title © Jennie Hughes After a disrupted schedule throughout the season, six yachts have entered in the 2020/2021 Farr 40 NSW State Title, with the event hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club over the last weekend of summer. During the morning briefing, PRO Phil Yeomans gave the option to Skippers and Tacticians to wait onshore due to the lack of breeze, while the management team set off outside the Heads to check conditions. The Owners group voted unanimously f...

By Jim Scott Feb 26, 2021 4:55 PM (WNFL) – The Green Bay Phoenix men’s basketball team may be losing its top two scorers. According to Jeff Goodman of @GoodmanHoops, both Amari Davis and Joshua Jefferson are both in the transfer portal. Davis,  a sophomore guard averaged 17.2 points per game, scored 18 points in Thursday’s loss to Purdue Fort Wayne in a Horizon League first-round tournament game. Jefferson who averaged 14.8 points per game missed the game against Purdu...