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Charlotte Ahrens takes great pride in the letters GER.She spent the past year competing at the national level with the abbreviation printed across her triathlon suit, and she speaks highly of her experience racing as a triathlete for her home country of Germany. But when the opportunity to become part of another team arose, Ahrens knew it was the right time to make a move.On Saturday, Ahrens will represent a new team, one that also is abbreviated by three letters: ASU.The Arizona State freshman will join 74 other women from 23 schools at the womens collegiate triathlon national championships in New Orleans. It is the Sun Devils first appearance at the championships.Arizona State University is one of just two Division I triathlon teams (East Tennessee State University is the other), but coach Cliff English has worked hard to recruit high-level athletes from across the world to help build the program.Womens triathlon is not yet an NCAA championship varsity sport, but teams can field varsity programs -- and offer scholarships -- because the sport has gained emerging sport status. If 40 D-I schools support varsity teams by 2024, triathlon will advance to championship status and be officially recognized with NCAA events. Until that point, national championships cannot contain the brand of the NCAA in the name.Along the same path Ahrens and Germany are taking, English said USA Triathlon has talked for decades about ways to develop future Olympians, and collegiate programs that offer triathlon could be the next step in the plan.We are really looking to build something pretty special here and, at one point, recruit athletes that are having the opportunity to train and get a great education, English said. Its kind of fun to imagine the next cycle going into 2020, 2024 -- that there will be schools very similar to the swim programs that are turning out Olympians. I think that would be great.One American athlete who is hoping to take advantage of the collegiate opportunity is Addison Smith, a sophomore at Baylor High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.Smith, who won the 15-19 age division at triathlons Sprint National Championships in August, competes on her high school cross country and swim teams and said she is hoping to pursue triathlon in college.Im looking forward to training with other people my age and competing against people that are doing the same thing that I am, she said.Some high-level multisport athletes, though, still choose to compete in a single sport in college.Cornell freshman Taylor Knibb competes for the Big Reds cross country team, but she traveled to Cozumel, Mexico, this fall to race in the International Triathlon Union Junior Elite World Championships and came away with a victory. She also finished third in the Montreal Elite World Cup in early August, edging out some Olympians.While her triathlon accomplishments stand out, Knibb said she is still figuring out her long-term multisport goals. She said she did not look at triathlon programs before choosing Cornell but instead picked the school for both the academic and athletic opportunities she would be afforded as a member of the cross country team.Going through the process, knowing that anything can happen over four years, I created a list of possible schools where I thought Id be happy not even considering the athletics, and then worked my way from there, Knibb wrote in an email. Although I wasnt sure if I wanted to swim or run, I knew that I wanted to just pursue one sport to help develop it to the best of my ability.Before 2014, when the NCAA made triathlon an emerging sport, Knibbs choice to focus on a single sport was the most common option for those looking to pursue any of the triathlon disciplines in college. Accordingly, USA Triathlon depended on a program called the college recruitment program as its pipeline. The program selects athletes who excelled in running or swimming in college and helps them train to become top-level triathletes after their graduation. Gwen Jorgensen, a former Wisconsin swimmer and cross country athlete who won gold in triathlon at the Rio Olympics, is one of the success stories. (Jorgensen, by the way, will be making her marathon debut this weekend in New York.)The United States ended the 2016 triathlon season with six women in the top 20 world rankings, and five of the six athletes participated in the college recruitment program, according to a USA Triathlon spokesperson. While the college recruitment program has proved to be successful, English said the NCAA triathlon teams could deepen the pool for future Olympians in the United States.This is something that a lot of us over the years have been keeping our eye on. We have all these great junior athletes who go to college, and we lose them from our sport, English said. They will go and run and swim, and now to be able to actually go to school on a scholarship and actually be a varsity sport, Im thrilled about it. I really think you have to have that vision that this is going to be a big thing. I feel like we are sort of on the wave of that.The question remains whether the NCAA program can grow. In the short term, though, it will grant athletes, including Ahrens and her Sun Devils teammate Katie Gorczyca, the opportunity to compete against other elite athletes in college nationals this weekend.Already seeing how far we have come since the beginning of August, I can only imagine where we will be in five years, Gorczyca said. Across the nation, I think more schools will adopt triathlon as a varsity sport.Bol Bol Jersey . -- Arizona knocked off some quality opponents, rolled over a few overmatched ones and grinded out victories even when things didnt go so well. Danilo Gallinari Jersey . -- Hunter Smith scored the winner with just 12 seconds remaining in the third period as the Oshawa Generals edged the host Sarnia Sting 5-4 on Friday in Ontario Hockey League action. https://www.cheapnuggets.com/ .J. Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. Carmelo Anthony Jersey . 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Inclusion as a member of the Final Four referees and linesmen is a huge accomplishment. Being selected is certainly the pinnacle of every officials career and a signal to the hockey world that they are regarded as the best of the best. Referee McCauley has had a terrific playoff run by my ratings and certainly deserves his place at the top. His uncanny feel for the game (almost a lost art) allowed for the expected playoff intensity to flourish in each game he called. Most importantly, McCauley demonstrated the courage and good judgment to make the tough call at any point in the game regardless of the score or time. He did not put his whistle away! Wes McCauley is about to enter uncharted waters. The stakes are higher and the focus of the hockey world intensifies in this final round. I remember it well. No one gets to this level of proficiency without the assistance of coworkers and mentors. The night prior to my first Stanley Cup Final game, I had the good fortune of dining with the best mentor I could have hoped for. John McCauley, then Director of Officiating (Wes McCauleys father) prepared me for what to expect and instilled in me the confidence I needed to succeed. John McCauley had been a well respected referee in the NHL until his career was cut short from a sucker-punch in the eye by a drunken hockey fan from Kapuskaing, Ontario. The blow was delivered after the Soviet National Team had trounced a collection of NHL All-Stars in the third and final game of the 1979 Challenge Cup at Madison Square Garden. The Master (as John was affectionately called) was a very good communicator, was blessed with a very quick wit and terrific judgment that served him well as both a referee and following his eye injury as Director of Officiating. One time in the Boston Garden, Wayne Cashman was upset at one of McCauleys calls and told the Master he was going to shoot a puck at the refs head. John didnt bat an eye and told Cashman if that was the case he would just skate over and stand in the opponents net. From that location he wouuld be safest guy in the building if Cash was aiming for him! It was a hot and sunny afternoon in May, 1985, when I arrived in Philadelphia prior to Game 2 of the Cup Final between the Flyers and the Edmonton Oilers.dddddddddddd It was just my third season to have participated in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and a selection to the Final could have very easily overwhelmed me. I checked into the Hershey Hotel on Broad Street that was designated as the NHL headquarters and media hotel. The lobby was bustling with activity and swarming with members of the media; the likes of which I had never experienced. As I looked for an escape route from the lobby mob scene I was approached by my boss, John McCauley, who invited me to join him for an early dinner. Looking back on it now I believe it wasnt just by chance, but more by design, that I bumped into the Master and was invited to dinner. John wanted to make sure that I got off on the right foot by preparing me for this new experience. He truly cared about his staff; each and every one of us and was the kind of boss you would go through the wall for. After we ordered dinner, John asked me how I was feeling. I confessed to being a little nervous (understatement) but was excited about the opportunity he had given me. What John McCauley shared with me in that moment is what he would also tell his eldest son Wes if John had not passed away at just 45 years of age following the 1989 Stanley Cup Final. I now pass along the Masters words of wisdom from that conversation to Wes McCauley as he too prepares for his first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals. "You earned the right to be here (selection to Stanley Cup Final) based on your work throughout these playoffs. I assigned you to some very tough games and you passed the test with flying colors. You have proven to me that I can put you in any situation and you will neither disappoint nor let me down. Your work made the games better. I have the utmost confidence in your ability. That confidence is being rewarded with your first selection to the Stanley Cup Final. While I know there will be many more Cup Finals in your future, take this one game at a time. Prepare yourself and officiate no differently than you have in all the other games I have assigned you to. Enjoy the moment and have fun with it. I trust in your ability and most of all I believe in you!" I have no doubt that referee Wes McCauley will do a great job in his first trip to the Stanley Cup Final. If he listens closely in his heart, I would also bet that he will hear his father whisper the same words of wisdom and vote of confidence that the Master offered me. ' ' '