Westlake High School alumnus Sidi Njie placed 3rd in the NCAA 400m Championship and helped his relay team earn 1st place with a school record. UGA finished as national runners‑up. Go Dawgs! We’re so proud of you son! 🐾🎉@FultonCoSchools@coach_cage
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Madyson Wilson finished with a time of 57.81 seconds in the 400m hurdle semifinals to place 20th and earn Honorable Mention All-American honors.
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A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.
She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.
Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.
Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.
Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.
She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.
By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.
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The 4x400 relay team of Faith Franklin, Joy Moorer, Josie Donelson, and Madyson Wilson finished with a time of 3:31.17 to punch their ticket to Eugene!
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𝓢𝓔𝓝𝓘𝓞𝓡 𝓢𝓟𝓞𝓣𝓛𝓘𝓖𝓗𝓣 → Madyson Wilson
Madyson is this year's co-president of the Black Student-Athlete Group and a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
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