Catch up on all the newest information from Gopher Athletics from the previous week.
GopherSports.com: A program report eight Gophers have been chosen in final weekend’s MLB draft.
GopherSports.com: Wrestling’s Max McEnelly (Read) and Track & Field’s Tony Nelson (Read) earned CSC Academic All-America honors.
Academic News:
- Athletics: Minnesota Produces 126 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars
- Tennis: Gophers Recognized by ITA for Academic Excellence
- Women’s Golf: Finley and McCauley Earn WGCA All-American Scholar Honors
@GopherCCTF: Anthonett Nabwe obtained her NCAA Championship ring for the indoor weight throw final week.
GopherSports.com: Wrestling’s Andrew Sparks and Hockey’s Nelli Laitinen have been named Minnesota’s Outstanding Sportsmanship Award honorees by the Big Ten Conference.
GopherSports.com: Incoming freshmen Katya Sander and Sloane Hartmetz are in Ohio for the 2026 USA Hockey Girls National U19 Training Camp.
GopherSports.com: Soccer’s ‘Meet the Newcomers’ sequence kicks off with Victoria, Minn., native Bella Naples.
@USAVolleyball: Carly Gilk and Team USA captured gold on the NORCECA U21 Pan American Cup.
GopherSports.com: Former Baseball head coach John Anderson will obtain the ABCA / Wilson Lefty Gomez Award, which is introduced to a person who has contributed considerably to the sport of baseball regionally, nationally, and internationally.
GopherSports.com: Amaya Battle will start her skilled Basketball profession after signing with Logiman Broni of Italy’s Serie A1.
GopherSports.com: Freshman Nolen Anderson is featured in Men’s Basketball’s ‘Get to Know’ sequence.
@GopherFootball: CBS Sports was on the town final week for a photograph & video shoot forward of its Football broadcasts this fall.
@GopherWrestling: Former Gopher Gable Steveson earned a first-round knockout in his UFC debut. Before his match, Steveson talked with Fox 9’s Pierre Noujaim (Watch).
Gopher Shorts:
@GopherWGym: Get to know Gymnastics assistant Kiki Parenteau.
@GopherWGym: The Gymnasts have been visitors of honor on the Minnesota Lynx recreation on Monday evening.
YouTube.com: Former Gopher and Viking Marcus Sherels was a visitor on KFAN final week.
KSTP.com: KSTP caught up with Kent Meyer forward of his son Max’s first All-Star Game look. It was introduced prematurely that he wouldn’t pitch in final evening’s recreation.
@MikeGrimm3: Three weeks away from the Soccer exhibition opener, Coach Chastain was a visitor on Mike Grimm’s Go Gopher Podcast.