Shoreview native Lara Dallman-Weiss has qualified for her second Olympics in sailing, making the U.S. team for this summer’s Paris Games in the mixed dinghy-470.
Dallman-Weiss and teammate Stu McNay won the U.S. Olympic trials in Miami last month, but they still had to qualify the boat for the Paris Games. They did so with a 26th-place finish at the 470 world championships, which ended Sunday in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The team clinched the Olympic berth by being the top North American boat at the championships.
A member of the White Bear Yacht Club, Dallman-Weiss placed 12th in women’s 470 at the Tokyo Olympics with teammate Nikki Barnes. McNay, of Providence, R.I., will compete at the Olympics for the fifth time after racing at the past four Summer Games in the men’s 470.
Gophers wrestler earns top seed
Gophers senior Isaiah Salazar earned the top seed at 184 pounds as the Big Ten Conference released pre-seeds for this weekend’s conference championships in College Park, Md.
Led by Salazar, Minnesota heads into the championships with four wrestlers who slot in within the top five in their weight class. The pre-seeds, as voted on by the conference’s coaches, rank 14 starters in all 10 weight classes. Official final brackets for the tournament are set to be finalized and released later this week.
After a perfect 11-0 dual season where he posted a 7-0 mark in conference action for the second year in a row, Salazar claimed the top seed at 184 pounds. The only undefeated wrestler against the field at the weight class, Salazar finished fourth a year ago in the Big Ten tournament and eighth as a sophomore.
Three other Gophers are seeded in the top five: Michael Blockhus (No. 2 at 157), Patrick McKee (No. 4 at 125) and Garrett Joles (No. 5 at 197).
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* The Lynx signed guard Olivia Époupa to a training camp contract. Époupa is playing in the EuroLeague Women for Cukurova Basketbol Mersin in Turkey and helped Team France to a fourth-place finish in the 2016 Rio Olympics.