2017-18 Big Ten Olympic Sports thread

[Brutus Buckeye]

WGYM Mac Championship this weekend. 



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Ashland WHoops is back in the D2 NC Game, which they won last year.

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Nebraska senior volleyball All-Americans Annika Albrecht and Kelly Hunter have been voted two of the seven finalists for the prestigious AAU James E. Sullivan Award, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) announced Friday. They will travel to New York City for the award ceremony on April 17 at the New York Athletic Club. The other finalists are: Joel Berry II (North Carolina, basketball), Erin Finn (distance running), Angela Peavy (para-equestrian), Maia and Alex Shibutani (figure skating) and Kyle Snyder (Ohio State, wrestling).

The AAU Sullivan Award has been presented annually since 1930 to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States. Representatives from the AAU created the Sullivan Award with the intent to recognize amateur contributions and achievements from non-professional athletes across the country.

Mikaela Foecke was a finalist for the award in 2015-16, and Kelsey Robinson was a finalist in 2013-14. When Foecke was a finalist in 2016, she was also joined by former Husker wrestler Jordan Burroughs. Last year, Wisconsin setter Lauren Carlini became the first volleyball player to win the award, and Albrecht and Hunter will vie to become the second.

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Thank you for voting for the 88th AAU James E. Sullivan Award. Please remember: You can vote once every 24 hours.

Finalist voting will remain open until March 29 at 11:59 PM and the winner will be announced in a ceremony at the New York Athletic Club on April 17, 2018.

This award has been given out to the most outstanding amateur athlete in America since 1930. Athletes such as Bobby Jones (1930), Wima Rudolph (1961), Carl Lewis (1981), Peyton Manning (1997), Michael Phelps (2003) and Shawn Johnson (2008).

[Brutus Buckeye]

OSU WLax collects their first Big Ten win in two years.

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Purdue's Steele Johnson wins another NCAA championship in diving. https://www.hammerandrails.com/2018/3/23/17158542/steele-johnson-ncaa-champion-again

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Lincoln, Neb. - The Nebraska softball team (22-9) beat Michigan State (11-14) in its Big Ten opener Friday night by a score of 9-6. 

Nebraska and Michigan State will play game two Saturday at 1 p.m. CT. The game will be available on Huskers.com (radio)

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Lincoln, Neb. -  The Nebraska softball team (23-9) defeated Michigan State (11-15) on Saturday by a score of 12-6, claiming the three-game series after winning game one last night. 

Kaylan Jablonski improved to 16-5 on the year, pitching 5.0 innings. She gave up two runs on four hits and also had six strikeouts. Regan Mergele got the start and pitched 2.0 innings. She gave up one earned run on three hits.

[Brutus Buckeye]

Here are the links to the Big Ten Standings for Spring Sports.

They are live standings, so these links will remain up to date from this point forward.

Lacrosse

W Lacrosse

Baseball 
Softball

Tennis

M Tennis

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Bumping the links for the Big Ten standings, so they are at the top of the new page.

[Anonymous Coward]

Michigan takes the conference crown in W Gymnastics again.

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Corngrats to the Michigan ladies

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- No. 14 Nebraska women’s gymnastics finished in second place at the Big Ten Championships in Champaign, Ill., earning a final team score of 196.950, its best score away-from-home this season. Michigan won the Big Ten Championship with a score of 197.200.

Through Session I, Nebraska was the team to beat in Session II, where six teams battled to top the Cornhuskers. Only Michigan could best Nebraska, winning the Big Ten Championship title, but the Huskers claimed or shared four of the five individual titles on the day. Megan Schweihofer won the Big Ten all-around title outright with a career-best score of 39.525. Schweihofer also shared the Big Ten floor title with Briannah Tsang of Penn State with a score of 9.95. Grace Williams shared the Big Ten balance beam title with Bridget Hodan of Illinois and Lauren Marinez of Michigan with a score of 9.90. Taylor Houchin shared the Big Ten vault title with Jamie Stone of Ohio State with a score of 9.90.

Michigan won the Big Ten Championships with a score of 197.200, while Nebraska earned the runner-up spot with a score of 196.950. Illinois finished third with a 196.625, and Iowa finished fourth with a score of 196.400. Ohio State finished fifth (196.375), Minnesota finished sixth (196.225), Penn State finished seventh (195.500), Maryland finished eighth (195.250), Rutgers finished ninth (194.400) and Michigan State rounded out the Championships in tenth (194.400).

[Brutus Buckeye]

Corngrats to the Michigan ladies

Pics, or it didn't happen. 

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[Brutus Buckeye]

Of course CMU claims the Mac crown.