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🏈 Linebacker watch list
🏀 Cofie’s athletic history
⚔️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Watch Him! Linebacker Eric Gentry was named to the 2025 Butkus Award Watch List. The award recognizes the nation’s top collegiate linebacker. In his four-year collegiate career, he has collected 195 tackles, including 19.5 tackles for loss, three quarterback hurries, three forced fumbles, two interceptions and one blocked kick.

🏈 Here’s more about Gentry.

🔼 Meet Cofie. The men’s basketball team welcomes Jacob Cofie to the 2025-26 roster. Cofie is a Seattle native and a Virginia transfer. He began playing basketball at his local YMCA with his mom as his first coach. At a young age, he had to decide whether to play football or basketball. Read his story on becoming one of the nation’s top basketball prospects here.

Today’s Top Tier Performance presented by ARCO is the nine track and field athletes who are competing in the 2025 Toyota USA Track and Field Outdoor and Para National Championships. The nine athletes who are currently on the team or who graduated this spring are Dajaz DeFrand, Madison Whyte, Brianna Selby, William Jones, JC Stevenson, Samirah Moody, Taylor Banks, Brady Palen and Ezra Frech. The event begins today!

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Football Season. Welcome to August, aka, football season!

How many days until USC takes on Missouri State?

Think you’ve got it? Scroll down for the answer!

📆 THE DAYS AHEAD

Wednesday, August 6

⚽️ Women’s Soccer at Long Beach State @ 7pm PT

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 29!

⚔️ Have a great Friday, everyone!