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I am a huge sports fan who this past week watched both the Old Dominion University men and women play basketball. Earlier in life, I attended at least one St. Louis Cardinal baseball game 49 years in a row. I note these things because I do not want to be interpreted as just another academic who is anti-intercollegiate athletics. 
But being a fan has not blinded me to what has been going on in intercollegiate athletics in the United States. Increasingly, intercollegiate athletics are driven by financial rather than academic considerations. A high school lineman in Texas signed a $5+ million deal with Texas Tech, and the University of Texas Austin’s now famous quarterback (Arch Manning) has an agreement with that university that is reputed to be worth $6 million to him. LSU may owe $47 million to the head football coach it just fired, while Texas A&M’s 2023 cashiering of its head coach reportedly may cost that institution as much as $76 million. 
Within Virginia, James Madison University this year is assessing each of its full-time undergraduates a mandatory athletic fee that exceeds $3,000 (this translates to about $100 per credit hour!). Old Dominion University’s version of this fee costs its undergraduates $2,127 annually, while William and Mary’s fee is $2,401. For these and similar data, see the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s 2025-26 Tuition and Fees Report.
Virginia Tech recently received considerable publicity when its board of visitors adopted a plan that will see Tech plug almost a quarter of a million dollars into its intercollegiate athletics programs over four years. One member of Tech’s board voted against this proposal.
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Is there any evidence that students benefit from such expenditures? For example, can we point to benefits realized by Longwood University undergraduate students who this academic year must pay a mandatory $3,083 athletics fee? Longwood does not field a football team, so the focus on that campus is on its men’s and women’s basketball teams. The NCAA reported an average attendance of 2,086 fans at Longwood home men’s games in 2024-25, while the Longwood women basketballers averaged 1,115 fans at their home contests. Longwood’s headcount enrollment exceeds 4,000, and some in attendance at its games are not students. Ticket sales for all Longwood athletic events totaled a bit more than $115,000 in 2024, a paltry sum when compared to the $8.18 million that the University earned from its mandatory athletic fee. (These financial data come from the Knight-Newhouse database on intercollegiate athletics (Custom Reports | College Athletics Database.) 
James Madison and Old Dominion, both of whom are relatively recent entrants into the “big-time” Football Bowl Division (FBS) category, earn much more from their mandatory student athletic fees than other Virginia institutions. In FY 2024, Knight-Newhouse reports that JMU garnered $55.53 million from its fee, while ODU earned $32.39 million. Those are not trivial sums and are among the very highest in the nation. No wonder both institutions field winning football teams.
These fees exist despite the reality that on most campuses, students vote with their feet, and data show that most students on most campuses choose not to attend any of their institutions’ athletic events. Nevertheless, they are forced to pay for those events anyway. 
Well, more than 90% of all intercollegiate athletic programs lose money and therefore must be subsidized, and often this occurs outside of the public eye. Interested readers should go to the Knight-Newhouse database on intercollegiate athletics (Custom Reports | College Athletics Database) to find relevant data on a particular institution’s athletics financing. This report, for example, reveals that Longwood’s athletic programs received $6.69 million in “institutional/government support” in addition to the student fee revenue. I can be convinced otherwise, but this $6.69 million appears to be a subsidy to those programs. However, Longwood isn’t the Lone Ranger here. Similar subsidization exists on nearly every Virginia campus — George Mason University’s comparable support number was $5.8 million, while Virginia Commonwealth University’s was $6.72 million. 
Do athletic programs make degrees more valuable and this justifies fees and subsidies? Unfortunately, the answer is no. I am a co-author of a recently published book, “The Economic Impact of Intercollegiate Athletics on Former Students: Unfulfilled Promises” (Palgrave MacMillan). In this book, we examined 699 colleges over the period 2004-2022 and found no evidence that the typical institution’s students realize any economic benefits from their alma mater’s athletic programs after they graduate. Indeed, for the typical student, the evidence tells us that attending college athletic events is analogous to a person drinking a can of diet cola. The cola may taste good and hit the spot, but once consumed, it has no further impact on the drinker. Here today, gone tomorrow. But note this — students can freely choose not to buy a can of diet cola; however, they do not enjoy a similar choice with respect to how their campus’s intercollegiate athletic programs are funded. 
The commonwealth of Virginia is notable for the quality of the higher education provided on its campuses, public and independent. But one need not be Bob Dylan to recognize that the times are changing. Given current trends, it is time for members of governing boards, governors, legislators, donors, parents, students and the media to ask how and where expensive intercollegiate athletics programs will maintain or improve Virginia’s higher education position in the future. Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger should not ignore this need. 
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Nov 19, 2025
Photo courtesy of Barb Johnson From left to right, Wabasso seniors Sara Carlson and Audrey Johnson pose for a photo together at Wabasso High School. The two recently finished their senior seasons together as the school’s record holders in career digs and set assists, with Johnson taking the digs record and Carlson taking the set assists record.
WABASSO — A good set assist is only as good as the dig or pass leading up to it.
Wabasso seniors Audrey Johnson and Sara Carlson knew that well during their five seasons with the Rabbits’ varsity volleyball team, finishing their final year together this past fall as the school’s career record holders in digs and set assists, respectively.
Having a player set a school career record during the year is an exciting milestone that shows hard work and dedication. But having two players on the same team do that in the same season shows a true team bond that isn’t built overnight.
Johnson and Carlson made that two-for-one special accomplishment happen in September and only added on to their records the rest of the season.
Johnson was first in the record books on Sept. 18 during nonconference action at Renville County West after her 20 digs put her ahead of Jamie Taylor, née Goblirsch, who finished her career at Wabasso with 1,433 digs in 2015.
Photo courtesy of Jamie Taylor Wabasso senior Audrey Johnson, pictured above, set the school’s career digs record this past volleyball season, finishing her career with 1,653 digs. She was also an All-State, All-Journal and All-Tomahawk player during her senior year as she finished with 389 digs this past season.
Johnson ended up finishing with 1,653 digs for her career.
“I think getting this record meant a lot to me, especially being around Wabasso volleyball with my mom [Barb] being the coach,” Johnson said. “There were so many times I walked through the hallway and we’ll just look at the record list and I would just stare at it and think, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to be on there so bad one day.’ So breaking the record just meant so much to me and being able to do it with Sara’s later in the season meant even more because she was the girl with me both staring at the record board and thinking that we want to be up there someday.”
Johnson added that before the season, she and Carlson made a list of goals for their senior year and their personal goals were to break the school records in career digs and assists, something they wrote down and ended up accomplishing.
After Johnson’s milestone night, Carlson got her name in the record books on Sept. 25 in a Tomahawk win at Lester Prairie. Her 39 set assists that night pushed her ahead of the previous record holder Jocelyn Lange, née Rothmeier, who had 1,999 set assists for her career and also graduated in 2015.
Carlson finished her career in October with 2,321 set assists.
Photo courtesy of Jamie Taylor Wabasso senior Sara Carlson, pictured above, set the school’s career record in set assists this past volleyball season, finishing her career with 2,321. She was also an All-Journal and All-Tomahawk player during her senior year as she finished the season with 860 set assists, 9.56 per set.
“Just watching the girls that held the records, we managed [them], so watching them play and also just looking at the boards, it’s just been a huge goal for both of us,” Carlson said. “I remember each year we set goals for ourselves and one personal goal that was really big for me was last year getting to 1,000 and this year beating the school record, it just means a lot. It’s just a huge goal to accomplish and doing it my senior year with my best friend is just a blessing.”
As good of a captain and setter Carlson was during her career, she knew how important Johnson was to her success and said she benefited from her in multiple ways over the years.
“You need a good pass to get a good set to get a good hit, so having her kind of being the dictator of our defense was nice to have,” Carlson said. “Very consistent with her passes all the time and it was good having someone that can lead the back row when I’m not there.”
Johnson said during her time at libero, she never felt underappreciated and was glad to help set up a strong attack, an attack that led the Rabbits to four winning seasons and a Tomahawk Conference title in 2023 during Johnson and Carlson’s five years together on varsity.
“I think our team does a very good job of not overlooking the libero position and always making sure to give the pass credit, whether it was me or not,” Johnson said. “And getting to play with those hitters and Sara as a setter, it’s just nice watching them make something good of what I did or knowing when I get a good pass, I just feel confident that everyone’s gonna work their hardest and make something good of my pass.”
Carlson and Johnson may have reached varsity level together as eighth-graders in 2021, but that didn’t lead to instant success during that season as the Rabbits finished 8-16 during a building year. In 2022, however, the Rabbits went 18-8 before going 15-10 and winning the Tomahawk in 2023. They then went 19-10 in 2024 and finished 18-12 this past season.
“I think it’s been really special and fun to have each other throughout the five years because we’ve always had someone to relate to … it’s not very often that you’re in eighth grade playing on varsity,” Johnson said. “Just having that partner there that knows exactly how you’re feeling and just that someone you can rely on, and that goes for every year. Being a ninth-grader still playing together, being the 10th-graders who have big roles on the team and then just going through, having our last senior year knowing that we’ve played five years together and this is our last one and we want it to be special.”
Carlson added that her and Johnson’s bond and leadership skills developed a lot during their time playing together.
“Playing with each other for so long, we get to know each other off the court but also on the court,” Carlson said. “Knowing our strengths and weaknesses and being able to lift each other up and help each other through the tough parts of the game or being leaders for the rest of the team, knowing how they all take it, too.”
Johnson called Carlson a worker who never quit on a play and led by example.
“Sara … the best way to describe her, especially in volleyball, is she’s a worker,” Johnson said. “She really does not complain much at all, especially sometimes we have really bad passing days and we send her flying all over the court and she’s gonna run after every single ball. I feel like a big thing she does is she leads by example and that’s she’s going to put in the most effort and run after every ball and do her best to help.”
Carlson was equally complimentary of her senior teammate and friend, pointing out Johnson’s knowledge of the game and ability to teach after mistakes.
“Audrey is a very big helper in the back row and it’s good to have her,” Carlson said. “She just knows every position everywhere, so she’s very good at helping everyone knowing where to go. She owns up to her mistakes when something bad happens but is also there for you. And when she knows you made a mistake, she’s there for you and helps you get past it because volleyball’s a game of mistakes. You’ve gotta have someone to talk to to help you move past it.”
Johnson will continue her volleyball career in college at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls next fall and plans to study business. Carlson will put an end to her competitive volleyball career and but also plans to study business at either South Dakota State University or Southwest Minnesota State University.
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Mirror file photo Justin Wheeler attempts a pass for Bishop Guilfoyle against Bellefonte from earlier this season.
Westinghouse High School of the Pittsburgh City League qualified for the PIAA Class 2A state championship football game in both the 2022 and 2023 seasons, losing both games to perennial state powerhouse Southern Columbia.
Westinghouse moved down to the Class 1A level last season and was picked by many to win the state championship in that classification in 2024.
Bishop Guilfoyle Academy, however, had other ideas.
The Marauders ambushed Westinghouse in the quarterfinal round of the Class 1A state playoffs last November at Farrell High School, jumping out to a 35-0 second-quarter lead en route to a 56-15 victory that served as a springboard for BG winning the school’s fifth state title in early December.
The two teams will meet again in a PIAA quarterfinal-round matchup Friday night at Panther Stadium in Blairsville, when the District 6 champion Marauders (11-2) face Pittsburgh City League runners-up Westinghouse (7-4) for a berth in next weekend’s semifinal round. Kickoff for Friday’s game is set for 7 p.m.
BG coach Justin Wheeler is certain that the Westinghouse players and coaches have the bitter result of last year’s game etched into their collective memory bank, and will use it as motivation for Friday night’s rematch.
“I think that (Westinghouse) has probably been circling this game all year,” Wheeler said. “Everybody had them picked to win the state championship last year, but we won’t be sneaking up on them this year. I imagine they’ve been gearing for this game all year to try to get their revenge, so we will have to play very well.”
Both teams played very well last Friday night, when BG won its ninth district championship in 11 appearances since the 2012 season, routing Juniata Valley, 62-6 at Mansion Park. Westinghouse pounded Meyersdale, 44-0 in a District 5-8 subregional playoff game at Meyersdale.
Westinghouse showcased its splendid athletic versatility in last week’s victory. Junior Jordan Reid returned two punts for touchdowns, running one back 57 yards in the first quarter and 61 yards in the third quarter, and senior safety DeJheerit Mellix, an NCAA Division I recruit, ran an interception back 80 yards for another TD. Mellix — who has already had college offers from the University of Akron and Ball State — had three of Westinghouse’s four interceptions in last week’s game.
Sophomore quarterback Zahir Isameli entered the game in the second half, completing six of eight passes for 101 yards, and junior K’Shawn Hawkins, who leads Westinghouse in touchdowns scored this season with eight, started the game at quarterback and ran 53 yards for a first-quarter touchdown.
Junior Omar Pack also saw action at quarterback in the first half of last week’s game, running 15 yards for a touchdown, and junior back Dameon Hill ran 5 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter. Senior wideout Jaylen Stanford had four receptions for 84 yards against BG in last season’s game.
“They’re a really good football team,” Wheeler said. “They’ve had a bunch of interceptions and special teams returns for touchdowns this season, and they’ve been pretty consistent with that. When you’re playing against teams of this quality, you really have to be great in all phases of the game.”
Westinghouse’s defense is led by four-year veteran lineman Josiah Collins, a 6-foot-3, 235-pound Akron commit who helped the unit limit Meyersdale to a minus-2 yards rushing total.
“Ultimately, his leadership is his best quality,” Westinghouse coach Donta Green said of Collins. “He makes everyone around him better. He’s been a part of the program for four years, and he plays extremely hard.”
Green said that BG played extremely hard in last year’s game, and expects a similar effort from the Marauders on Friday night.
“I’ve only seen them briefly on film this year, and I’ve relied on input from my assistant coaches about them, but if they are anything like last year’s team, they will be well-coached, disciplined, and play very hard,” Green said of the Marauders. “That’s what we’ve got to prepare for against them.”
Westinghouse imploded in last season’s playoff game with BG, turning the ball over five times, including three on fumbles. Two of those fumbles led directly to BG touchdowns.
“We have to focus on not making as many mistakes as we made in last year’s game, and not shooting ourselves in the foot,” Green said. “I think that as long as we focus on executing at a high level, we should get the outcome that we desire.”
BG has had an excellent concerted effort from both its offense and defense through its three playoff victories this year. The Marauders’ first-team defense didn’t yield a single point in the team’s one-sided wins over Purchase Line, Homer-Center, and Juniata Valley, and BG’s offense, led by do-it-all senior Jake Kissell, has been providing the Marauders with plenty of firepower.
Kissell rushed for 115 yards and three touchdowns while playing just one half in the district championship game, upping his season rushing totals to 1,445 yards on 207 carries and 27 touchdowns. He has also caught 25 passes, including one for a touchdown, and thrown for 412 yards and five scores.
Coach Wheeler’s son, sophomore quarterback Justin Wheeler, tossed two touchdown passes and ran for another TD in the district championship game. He’s passed for 1,279 yards and nine TDs this season, while rushing for 602 yards and three scores.
Senior wideout/cornerback Tyson Lestochi has a team-leading 35 receptions for 589 yards and five TDs, and has also made a team-leading eight interceptions, including one runback for a TD last week.
Freshman back Keegan Hewitt and junior back Jack Gioiosa have also made valuable offensive contributions for the Marauders, who lost star senior running back/linebacker Taurean Consiglio for the year with an arm injury very early this season.
“We still miss Consiglio every day, because he’s such a gifted player, but other guys have really had to step up maybe earlier than they expected, and they’ve all done that for us,” Coach Wheeler said. “Many of our underclassmen have really come a long way.”
Westinghouse has been a Pittsburgh City League power in the recent past, winning five league championships over the past seven seasons. The Bulldogs lost this year’s league championship game to USO (University Prep/Sci Tech/Obama Academy), and, after a three-week layoff, used the loss as motivational fuel for the Meyersdale game.
“The guys came prepared last week,” Green said. “After we lost that City (League) championship game, I think that the guys had a little bit of a chip on their shoulder, and I’m hoping that chip remains in this week’s game.”
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Johnson supplied 25 points (8-18 FG, 3-8 3Pt, 6-6 FT), nine assists, eight rebounds, three steals and one block across 39 minutes in Tuesday’s 120-112 loss to the Pistons.
Johnson didn’t deliver his most efficient outing, though he still finished as Atlanta’s leading scorer, matching the game-high mark in points. The 23-year-old forward has been Atlanta’s top offensive option with Trae Young (knee) sidelined, posting at least 24 points in four consecutive contests. Johnson also led the Hawks in assists Tuesday, and he has dished out at least seven dimes in five straight games.
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