JACKSON, Miss. – The Millsaps College golf, women's tennis and track and field programs prepare for the 2025 SAA Spring Championships, beginning on Friday. The Majors are set to compete in Tennessee and Arkansas over the weekend.
Below are team-by-team previews and links to follow all the action for Millsaps men's and women's golf, women's tennis as well as men's and women's track and field.
2025 SAA Men's & Women's Golf Championships
The Millsaps men's and women's golf programs have posted strong scores individually and as teams throughout the season. They will look to place strong in the 2025 SAA Men's & Women's Golf Championships at Greystone Golf Club, April 25-27. Live scoring is available for all three rounds.
On the women's side, seniors
Sophia Albasini,
Annie Piggott and
Mallory Noble will compete as well as freshman
Abigail Cerwick.
Piggott has four individual wins this seasons and has been named the SAA Women's Golf Athlete of the Week on four occasions. She also was runner-up and third in two other tournaments.
Cerwick has three top-10 finishes her first collegiate season.
Representing Millsaps from the men's team will be seniors
Will Danielson and
Thomas Arensberg, junior
Steven Noack, sophomore
Jason Howe alongside freshmen
Charlie Berglund and
Miles Harrison.
Danielson placed runner-up at the LTU Spring Break Invitational in March and was third at the Greystone Fall Invitational in September. He was named the SAA Men's Golf Athlete of the Week after both events.
Berglund has also performed well in his initial college campaign. He placed 11th at the Eagle's Bluff Intercollegiate (March 31-April 1) and 12th at the Chick-fil-A Invitational in October.
2025 SAA Women's Tennis Championship
The Millsaps women's tennis program readies for the 2025 SAA Women's Tennis Championship, beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday. The Majors return as the No. 5 seed and will face No. 4 seed Centre in the Quarterfinal match, looking to avenge last season's postseason defeat.
Millsaps (7-9, 2-3 SAA) and Centre (9-8, 3-3 SAA) also met on April 5, which saw the Colonels prevail, 4-0.
The winner advances to face top-seed Sewanee at 9 a.m. on Saturday and battle to advance to Sunday's Championship match.
Senior
Mary Dabadie has been holding down Court One and her classmate
Segen Lister has played across Courts Three through Five. The two both have five singles wins.
Freshman
Riley McClain holds a team-best 9-6 record in singles primarily on Court Three, while classmate
Skylar Spinks is right behind at 8-7 mainly on Court Five.
Senior
Mackenzie Vordick has six triumphs mostly on Court Two, junior
Alexis Oliver split time between Court Two and Four with five wins and freshman
Malakie Smith earned four victories on Court Six.
In doubles, expect Dabadie and Vordick to maintain Court One, McClain and Oliver to control Court Two and Smith along with Spinks to manage Court Three.
2025 SAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships
The Millsaps men's and women's track and field programs will be competing in the 2025 SAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday and Saturday in Sewanee, Tenn., under first-year head coach
Brandon Beckett.
On the women's side, senior
Fran Edwards looks to lead the pack being ranked fourth in the conference in the women's 10,000 meters (40:55.63) and 10th in the 5000 meters (18:40.97).
The Little Rock, Ark., native times shattered both school records in the 10,000 meters and 5000 meters during her senior campaign.
Junior Eleanor Scott, another strong leader for the Majors, enters the conference second in the conference in the triple jump (11.22 meters).
The Clinton, Miss., native is also tied for fourth in the high jump with a leap of 1.55 meters.
Freshman
Claudia Dempsey will look to leave her mark in the 3000-meter steeplechase, where she ranks sixth (12:55.96).
Sophomore Fiona Selders has also been swift in the sprints. She is eighth in the 400 meters (1:01.44) and ninth in the 200 meters (26.40).
Classmate Hannah Brown is also ninth in the 100-meter dash (12.91). Rounding out top-10 regular-season performances include both senior Tyler Hamby and freshman Laken Day in the javelin. Hamby enters with the eighth-furthest toss of all SAA competitors (31.43 meters), while Day is 10th (29.57 meters).
On the men's side, graduate Bryan Sullivan is fifth in the javelin (44.39 meters), while sophomore Justin Smith and freshman Phillip Antis are ranked high in the 400 meters. Smith is ninth at 51.82 seconds and Antis is 12th at 52.84 seconds.
Freshman W.H Carver holds the 12th spot in the long jump (5.93m) as well. Millsaps also has its 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays ranked fifth.
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Founded in Jackson, Mississippi in 1890, Millsaps College is a national liberal arts college dedicated to academic excellence, open inquiry and free expression, the exploration of faith to inform vocation and the innovative shaping of the social, economic and cultural progress of our region. Consistently ranked as one of the best values in higher education, Millsaps has been praised by Colleges That Change Lives, The Princeton Review, Forbes Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The John Templeton Foundation, and The Fiske Guide to Colleges.
