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Nayelis Cabello / Photo by Jared |
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Anna DeBeer / Photo by Jared |
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Elena Scott / Photo by Jared |
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Savage Joins Two Other Cardinals Over Last Four Years
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Following an incredibly successful outdoor spring season, Synclair Savage was named the ACC Women's Outdoor Athlete of the Year. Savage won the NCAA East Regional long jump with a mark of 6.64m. This qualified her for the NCAA Championships, where she set a program record in the same event with a 6.72m mark, winning the national championship.
Savage joined Jayden Ulrich (2024) and Gabriela Leon (2022) as recent UofL women's track and field athletes to earn the honor.
She finishes her collegiate career having one of the most decorated seasons in Louisville history. Savage won six of the seven events she competed in this season. Five of the top 10 marks in program history came this season from the fifth-year senior.
As we have hit the halfway point of the 2025 and Louisville's fiscal year, we can now fully turn our attention to the upcoming fall sports season.
Happy Tuesday and Go Cards!
Jared
It'sTime To Bring Tom Home
We were a powerhouse in athletics during the Jurich reign, and he certainly would be a huge help to Josh on campus in restoring the Cards to the top of the heap.
True, we are in the ACC now, and the conference isn't going to roll over and play dead to Louisville athletics to establish superiority...but Jurich always had a knack of getting coaches who could get the best players and this coaching tree that women's athletics has now would no doubt be thrilled to have him back sharing ideas and helping Josh Heird continue to build this program.
The federal investigation that eventually led to Jurich's termination was a witch hunt...there are so many program who have done far worse, and the board of trustees were idiots for getting rid of the architect of what we see today on campus.
CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR PODCAST
We have much more on this on our weekly Cardinal Couple podcast. Give it a listen below:
Cardinal Couple Radio Hour Podcast 6/28/15
paulie
Good morning readers,
Welcome back to the weekend. Hopefully some cooled off temps are in our near future as the week was a blistering one here in Louisville.
Another fall sports schedule has been unveiled as the VolleyCARDS program announced its 2025 slate so lets take a closer look.
What stands out to first is that the Cards will open the season hosting the annual Cardinal Classic where we welcome Auburn, Morehead State and St. John's to L&N Arena over Labor Day weekend with the final match tipping off at 3pm Monday afternoon.
After that, they'll head downtown for a bout with the fighting Illini at the KFC Yum! Center.
Next, theyll head to Ft. Worth Texas for a 'neutral site' matchup with the Texas Longhorns in the inaugural Shriners Showdown. Pitt and UK will also be in town for their own catfight.
The following weekend, UofL heads to Omaha to face off in the Bluejay Invitational hosted by Creighton and then will head back to Louisville for some rivalry matchups with UK and WKU at the KFC Yum! Center.
The Cardinals will then open conference play with 20 total matchups ending around Thanksgiving. I did notice that UofL will face off with Notre Dame in back to back matchups in a home and away series on Halloween weekend.
As Always,
Go Cards
~Daryl
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TURKEY NARROWLY LOSES TO ITALY TO GO TO 2-1
Elif, a 6'2" power forward on the Turkiye senior squad, hasn't exactly been leading the squad, but has played twice, according to the FIBA stats..with two points in two games. she did not see the court in the loss to Italy. One has to do a lot of searching to find the information on the European results and get a box score, I discovered, in the preparation of today's article
France leads Group A at 3-0, followed by 2-1 Turkey, 1-2 Greece and 0-3 Switzerland.
Italy leads Group B at 3-0, Belgium leads Group C at 3-0 and Spain leads Group D at 3-0.
Turkey defeated Greece and Switzerland before losing to the Italians.
The 16 teams that compete in the league are Turkey, Italy, France, Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Portugal, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Great Britain.
The Turkey team also has on the roster a name Cardinals fans will remember in Teaira McCowan.She played at Mississippi State. She left the WNBA's Dallas Wings temporarily, as did a few other WNBA players, to go play in Europe, but will rejoin them when the tournament is over. We follow the Wings fairly closely here at Cardinal Couple since Myisha Hines-Allen and Paige Bueckers play for them, but...they are just 3-12 on the season, tied for the worst record in the league.
Good luck to all our former D! American players in the FIBA games.
paulie
Good morning readers,
Daryl checking back in. Appreciate Jared's willingness to jump in for me yesterday after the power went out for a bit.
I'm not sure what possessed me to walk across the entire campus yesterday to head over to the bookstore to check out the merch and possibly update my UofL attire for the fall season. I did end up getting something for Thomas' upcoming birthday so it wasn't a useless trek across campus in the scorching heat.
(( For the record, this is not a paid advertisement... UofL pays me, yes. But this was not an extra bonus, although that would be nice ))
In the summertime, I try to update my UofL closet and the bookstore has always had some gems as far as styles, design and price goes. And they have definitely caught up with the times (holy crop tops) since when I was a student a decade ago.
The store is located in the SAC (Student Activities Center) on Floyd Street. I definitely have my eye on a few things I would like to score before fall sports return. They have something for everyone; students, alumni, fans, parents, you name it!
You also never know who you may run into while browsing. :D Its located right next door to a very popular Starbucks and the Sports Administration program and the L&N Federal Credit Union Arena.
You can also shop online at the following link UofL Campus Store