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FIELD HOCKEY: Three University of Maryland players -- Lauren Powley, Dina Rizzo and Keli Smith -- were among those named to the U.S. team this week.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL: At a tournament that is considered a Grand Slam event on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour, U.S. women's teams swept the medals for only the second time in the 17-year history of the international pro circuit. Top-ranked Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh defeated 11th-ranked Tyra Turner and Rachel Wacholder for the gold medal and fourth-seeded Nicole Branagh and Elaine Youngs topped sixth-seeded Jia Tian and Jie Wang of China in the bronze-medal match.
DIVING: Two local women have turned their attention to the July 2-6 selection camp in Knoxville, Tenn., after failing to win slots at the U.S. trials in Indianapolis. Mary Yarrison of Springfield and Amanda Miller of Centreville finished seventh and ninth, respectively, out of 12 competitors in the women's three-meter springboard. Only the winners in each event won Olympic bids.
FENCING: The U.S. women's saber team solidified its status as a gold-medal favorite with its victory this past weekend in the team event of the 2008 Las Vegas Grand Prix. Americans Becca Ward, Sada Jacobson, Mariel Zagunis and Dagmara Wozniak defeated France, 45-35, in the final and China, 45-37, in the semifinals. China took the bronze.
ROWING: Single sculler Ken Jurkowski and the lightweight women's double sculls tandem of Jennifer Goldsack and Renee Hykel qualified for the Olympics last week on the final day of racing at the 2008 FISA Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Poznan, Poland. The United States will send 13 boats to Beijing.
-- Amy Shipley
