WINTER & SPRING
Alumni Athletics Highlights
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Griff McGarry ’17 pitching for the Reading Fighting Phils
Photo: Reading Fighting Phils
Knights Competing Professionally
Griff McGarry ’17, a right-handed pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies organization, started the season with the Double-A Reading Fighting Phils and was named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week in April 2025 after a perfect four-inning outing where he struck out eight batters. It was McGarry’s first start since August 26, 2023, when he was with Lehigh Valley (AAA). He pitched solely as a reliever in 2024 with the IronPigs and returned to Reading for the 2025 season as he transitioned back to starting.
Maddy Price ’14 ran a leg of the Canadian women’s 4 x 400 m relay team that secured a World Championship berth with a season-best time of 3:27.28 in the qualifiers. Team Canada finished seventh in the final and will race in the worlds in Tokyo in September.
Maddy Price ’14
Photo by Kenny Zhong
JC Ng ’21 Photo by Sam Porter - Pomona Athletics
Baseball
Julien Hernandez ’20 threw 10 innings for the University of Oregon, which finished the season with a remarkable 42-16 record and advanced to the NCAA Eugene Regional. Hernandez wrapped up a standout career, including four years at Whitman, where he was a two-time Northwest Conference Pitcher of the Year in 2023 and 2024. … Pomona senior center fielder JC Ng ’21 was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings Div. III Gold Glove team. Ng started all 49 games for the Sagehens, who advanced to the regional final. He had a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage with 117 putouts and four assists on 121 chances. Offensively, Ng batted .365 with 15 home runs and a team-high 63 RBIs. He was also named ABCA/Rawlings All-American First Team, D3baseball.com All-American Second Team, and All-SCIAC First Team. … Carson Cleage ’23 batted .423 and recorded 11 hits and six RBIs in 14 games as a sophomore outfielder for Washington University in St. Louis, which closed the season in the second round of the NCAA regionals.
Men’s Basketball
Cole Kastner ’20, a graduate student at Stanford, played in five basketball games for Stanford, including his debut Nov. 4, joining a small list of players to appear at the NCAA Div. I level in both basketball and lacrosse. After a phenomenal All-American career with Virginia Lacrosse, he helped Stanford basketball to its most wins (21) since 2015. Drafted in 2024, Kastner is now on the roster of the Redwoods of the Premier Lacrosse League. … Lucas Vogel ’23, a sophomore guard for Washington University in St. Louis, won the Elite 90 for men’s basketball (presented to the student-athlete with the highest GPA at an NCAA finals site). He played in 20 games for the Bears, who went 23-7 and advanced to the NCAA Div. III semifinals.
Women’s Basketball
Senior guard Avery Lee ’21 came back to Yale basketball after a yearlong hiatus and was elected captain by her teammates, finishing second on the team in assists (47) after making her first career start Nov. 4. Since then, she started 22 games for the Bulldogs (4-23).
Avery Lee ’21 Photo by Sam Rubin - Yale Athletics
Cole Kastner ’20 Photo by Bob Drebin/ISI Photos
Beach Volleyball
Cal sophomore Emma Donley ’23 teamed with junior Portia Sherman to win 28 matches, breaking the program’s single-season pair wins record. All 28 wins came in the top spot of the lineup for the pair, which earned the AVCA Top Flight Award earlier this spring. The award is given to the top pairs who compete in at least 15 matches at a specific court and win at least 75 percent of their matches. Named First-Team All-Americans, Sherman and Donley led No. 10 Cal to the NCAA Championship match against eventual champion Texas. Donley also paired with Sherman to take the gold medal at the U23 NORCECA Continental Tour in the Dominican Republic.
Emma Donley ’23
Courtesy of Cal Athletics
Fencing
Capping a four-year career, Haverford senior Vivek Veluvali ’21 qualified and took 34th overall in épée for the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional Championships at Drew University.
Jeremy Yun ’21 (fourth from left) and Eric Yun ’24 (second from right) Photo courtesy Princeton Athletics
Men’s Golf
Princeton senior Jeremy Yun ’21 helped the Tigers take the Ivy League Championship for the 27th time in program history, beating the field en route to a 17-shot win. Yun competed in two events—the Prestige and the Princeton Invitational—where he shot a low round of 77. His season stroke average was 82.4 to conclude a four-year career. … Marcus Ying ’22, a junior at Denison, posted rounds of 84 and 80 for a 164, highlighted by a stretch of four consecutive pars in his first round of the Caschera/DiCillo Classic at John Carroll University. … Princeton freshman Eric Yun ’24 played in nine events, finishing 30th at the NCAA Amherst Regional and tying for 15th as the Tigers won the Ivy League Championship. Yun, the younger brother and teammate of Jeremy, shot a low round of 69.
Women’s Golf
Joelle Kim ’24 shot a final-round 80 and was the team’s fifth finisher as Amherst finished 12th in the nation at the NCAA Div. III Championships in Virginia. The freshman was tied as the Mammoths’ top finisher, firing a 75 at the conference championships in New York.
Men’s Lacrosse
Aidan Housenbold ’22 played in all 17 games and was second on the team in caused turnovers (36) and third in groundballs (55) as a junior defender for Williams (7-10), which qualified for the NCAA Div. III Championships. He was recently named one of the Ephs’ team captains for 2026. … Bates junior midfielder Sam Scola ’22 played in six games and helped the Bobcats to their first NCAA Div. III Championships appearance since 2019. … Ari Krane ’23 played in 12 games while making eight starts as a sophomore defender for Vassar. He collected six groundballs and caused four turnovers. … Bradford Tudor ’24 played in three games for No. 19–ranked Middlebury, which closed its season with a one-goal loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Aidan Housenbold ’22 Photo by Shiv Patel
Men’s Rowing
Georgetown senior Finn Callaghan ’21 raced the Lightweight Varsity A boat and took first with his crew in the Final 2 of the IRA Regatta in New Jersey. … Sam Warman ’24 and MIT’s Heavyweight Varsity Eights crew finished fifth in their opening heat and at the National Invitational Rowing Championships on Lake Quinsigamond in Massachusetts.
Tessa Tomkinson ’22
Courtesy of Brown Athletics
Women’s Rowing
Brown junior Tessa Tomkinson ’22 raced with the 2V8 and A4 crews during the season. She helped the Second Varsity Eights boat earn a second-place finish in the Grand Final at the NCAA Championship. … Before the Texas-Michigan matchup, Longhorns sophomore Malia Thompson ’23 and an eights crew won against the Texas Rowing Center’s Women’s Masters crew.
Men’s Swimming
In his collegiate debut season, Connor Grant ’24 earned the Occidental men’s first individual Southern California Intercollegiate Athletics Conference Championship in a decade. Grant’s victory came in the 200 free in 1:39.48—over a full second over his initial school record set a week before while opening the 800 free relay. Grant also set school records in the 500 freestyle and swam a leg in the 200 medley relay and the 800 free relay.
Women’s Swimming
Middlebury senior Carly McAdam ’21 took fourth in the 50-yard freestyle, eighth in the 100 free, and ninth in the 50 butterfly at the Middlebury Invitational and wrapped up a four-year career as a conference academic award winner. … Boston University senior Ashley Scafetta ’21 closed out her four-year career with a sixth-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke (season-best 1:07.51) and an 11th-place finish in the 200 individual medley at the Boston Winter Open. … Emory Tudor ’22, a junior at Amherst, swam a leg on the winning 3 x 100-yard backstroke relay in a dual against Babson. … Also at Middlebury, Sage Huddleston ’24, a freshman, swam in the 800 free relay, which touched the wall with an NCAA “B” cut time of 7:35.68 to earn 22 points for Middlebury at the NESCAC Championships.
Carly McAdam ’21 Photo courtesy Middlebury Athletics
Mick Tamas ’22
Photo by Brian Beard -Bowdoin Athletics
Men’s Tennis
Junior Mick Tamas ’22 and Aden Dorros won a 7-6 tiebreaker in their doubles match, but Bowdoin (18–5) fell in a narrow third-round loss in the NCAA Div. III Tournament. The duo went 15-4 mostly at the No. 3 spot, and Tamas was 3-0 in dual matches at No. 4 singles. … Nikhil Agarwal ’23 and teammate Arjun Premkumar, playing No. 1 doubles, combined for the lone win. … Evan Burnett ’24 stepped up when No. 3 Texas needed him, compiling a 5-3 dual match record, including 4-2 at No. 6 singles for No. 3 Texas, which advanced to the NCAA Tournament semifinals. The Longhorns finished the season with their third-straight Final Four appearance and were the Southeastern Conference champions in their debut year in the SEC. Texas closed the season 29-5, with the 29 victories matching the 2019 team for the most in a season, dating back to 1975, when teams began playing shorter schedules. In doubles, Burnett was 4-4 overall and 1-1 in dual matches. He posted a 4-6 singles record and a 3-3 doubles mark in the fall and opened the ITA Texas Regional Championships with two singles wins, advancing from qualifying to the main draw.
Women’s Tennis
Addie Ahlstrom ’21 wrapped up a four-year career at Brown as an All-Ivy Honorable Mention both in singles and in doubles, with Lindsey Hofflander. She posted nine singles wins, including her last match against Princeton, giving Brown its lone win of the match. Ahlstrom compiled a 10-9 record when paired with Lindsey Hofflander. ... Charlotte Makoni ’23 played in the top two singles and doubles spots her sophomore season with Lewis & Clark. Makoni was also named to the conference all-sportsmanship team.
Addie Ahlström ’21 Photo courtesy of Jon Ratner
Men’s Track & Field
Yale senior Calvin Katz ’21 opened up indoors at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational, placing fourth in the 1,000 meters, and also took fourth in the 800 at the Giegengack Invitational. In outdoor competition, Katz won the 800 at the Mark Young Invitational, running 1:51.67, and was part of the winning 4 x 400 team. At the Ivy League Outdoor Championships, Katz raced the 800 and 4 x 800 for the Bulldogs, who came in fifth overall. … Aiden Deffner ’23 took sixth in the 800 as Johns Hopkins won its 12th consecutive Centennial Conference Men’s Indoor Track title.
Men’s Track & Field, cont.
William Floyd ’23 won bronze in the pole vault in 16-.75, the third-best mark in University of Chicago history, helping the team to a first-place finish at the Washington University in St. Louis Invitational. Floyd won the pole vault in 14-11.5 with an indoors season best as Chicago won the Windy City Rumble. … Justin Pretre ’23 broke the four-minute mile barrier for the first time at the Husky Classic, posting a time of 3:59.34, which ranks fourth in program history. He also ran the first leg of the fourth-fastest distance medley relay in program history (9:32.81) at that meet. Pretre ran the 3,000 meters in 7:53.44 for the fourth-fastest time in program history.
Justin Pretre ’23 Photo by Brandon Moreno
Women’s Track & Field
University of Texas-Austin graduate student Kyra Pretre ’20 was part of the 4 x 800 relay that finished third with a time of 8:47.13 at the Texas Relays. She raced in the 1,500 meters at the Bryan Clay Invite and the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:33.58, moving her to No. 7 on UT’s all-time performer list. She wrapped up a storied collegiate career that began with three stellar cross country and track & field seasons at Yale, where she was twice named Outstanding Distance Runner.
Kyra Pretre ’20 Photo courtesy of Steve Pretre
Charlotte Tomkinson ’20 Photo courtesy of Georgetown Athletics
Georgetown grad student Charlotte Tomkinson ’20 ran a 4:14.03 in the 1,500 to take 19th in the NCAA Championships semifinals and a 4:10.92, a personal best, to claim a 12th-place finish and a qualification from the East Regional. Tomkinson closed out a brilliant collegiate track and cross country career that began at Duke, where she earned bronze in the distance medley relay at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships and All-ACC First Team honors as a freshman. She continued to excel at Duke, setting personal records in the 800 (2:02.79) and 1,500 (4:15.68).
As a freshman for Brigham Young, Summer Young ’24 set a personal record in the heptathlon with 4,588 points and in the pentathlon with 3,481 points. She competed in high jump, clearing 5-9.25 indoors, 200 meters, 800, 100 hurdles, shot put, long jump, and javelin.
Summer Young ’24 Photo courtesy of BYU
Women’s Water Polo
Sydney Bianchi ’20 scored 28 goals and dished out 11 assists as a senior for NCAA Div. III national champion Pomona to conclude a four-year career that began at Villanova. She posted a .549 shot percentage on the season and had 25 steals while drawing 10 exclusions. Bianchi helped Pomona-Pitzer to finish the season with a 25-10 overall mark and 12-0 in conference. … Kenya Cassidy ’24 played in 11 games as a freshman utility for No. 2-ranked UCLA (20-6), which advanced to the NCAA semifinals.
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