No. 12 USC men's golf was selected as the No. 3 seed in the NCAA Championships Pullman Regional, which features a 14-team field vying for five spots in the NCAA Championship final in Atlanta (Georgia Tech).  After a seventh place finish at the Pac-12 Championships, the Trojans are looking to bounce back and make the final for the seventh consecutive year.

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USC will play host to the Pac-12 Track and Field Championships this Saturday and Sunday at the Loker Track Stadium.  The Conference of Champions boasts the greatest Olympic heritage, including 89 total individual medals at the London 2012 Games (25 by Trojans alone), and that level of talent will be on display this weekend.

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We will have blanket coverage all week in anticipation of the big event.  As a primer, here are the Pac-12 track and field coaches providing a preview.

While the Trojans have officially relinquished their five-year stranglehold on the Crosstown Gauntlet, No. 1 USC women's rowing still defeated No. 6 UCLA in all three varsity races in the annual rivalry dual Saturday.  The win moves the Women of Troy to a perfect 12-0 all-time against the Bruins.

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Here are the John McGillen photos from Ballona Creek:

The 2013 USC football poster shoot was this morning in the Coliseum locker room.  While we will not provide any clues as to the look or theme of this year's poster, you can view the behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot on our Instagram page (@USC_Athletics).

USC baseball rallied for an eight-run inning to key its Friday night victory over TCU last weekend.  The Trojans dropped two out of three in the series, but the 9-3 win featured multi-hit games from four different players and a pair of RBIs for catcher Garrett Stubbs.

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USC hosts Washington State this week Friday (6 p.m.), Saturday (7 p.m.), and Sunday (1 p.m.) with Mother's Day brunch beforehand. 

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In just its second season, USC sand volleyball has its first national champions in Kirby Burnham and Stevi Robinson who teamed up to win the AVCA National Pairs Championship Sunday in Alabama.

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Burnham and Robinson won two close sets in the final over Long Beach State, which knocked the Women of Troy out of the team competition in the Final Four.

Written by Sarah Bergstrom, USC blog contributor "In high school coxswains can be either gender as long as they hit the weight requirement," explains senior Jennah Blau. "When I transferred schools my sophomore year, the women's team had enough coxswains, so I joined the men's boat. I hated it at first. But now those guys are some of my best friends and I ended up loving it. The coxswain's job is to steer and it's harder to keep it straight the faster you go. Men are obviously faster than women so I was more prepared when I came here for the elite speed of college rowers."

Each month, we interview Pat Haden to discuss the hot topics around USC Athletics.

This week marks the one year anniversary of Junior Seau's death.  What are your thoughts on the state of player safety in football?

The concussion discussion is really on the front of everyone's mind.  I recently hosted 120 athletic directors at a summit in Santa Monica, and we had a panel dedicated to this topic with chief doctors from the NFL and NCAA.  I think we are going to see rule changes going forward.  We are going to push research here at USC and other universities across the land.  And in terms of our program, we have much less contact than what the NCAA allows you to do.  Lane Kiffin is trying to create a team that can win and be physical, and still protect our kids from short and long term injuries by not overdoing it.

Now that they are settled in, what are your expectations for Andy Enfield (pictured) and Cynthia Cooper-Dyke?

The idea was to really reset basketball here at USC.  The women have had real historical success, and there is no reason that we cannot get back to that with Cynthia Cooper-Dyke.  We think she is the right leader for our program.  She is a tenacious recruiter, one of the all-time great players and turned around two programs before coming here.  On the men's side, Andy Enfield is figuring out what it's like to be a Trojan. While it is maybe crazy to say this, Chip Kelly (former Oregon football coach) has this odd way of looking at football, and I think Andy has a little bit of that in men's basketball.  He just looks at the game differently than other basketball coaches.  Los Angeles is loaded with prospects the next three years, so we hope we can get some of those guys and create an entertaining brand of basketball to fill up Galen Center.

Come meet Enfield and Cooper-Dyke on the 2013 Coaches Tour.

With its first season now in the books, what were your impressions of USC women's lacrosse year one?

It seems like Lindsey Munday has been here a decade, but this is just their first year of competition.  She is phenomenal.  She is still a great player as the captain of the U.S. National Team.  Everyone thought we would just be slaughtered in our first year playing mostly freshmen, but we have some of the best freshmen in the country.  Lindsey has recruited fantastically, particularly back East, and this freshmen class is going to be a part of something special by the time they are done here.  It was a remarkable first year for this program, Lindsey and her staff.

(Pictured from left: J.K. McKay, Munday, Haden and Hilary Bowen)

It is national championship season at Troy.  How much hardware can the Trojans carry home this spring?

It is a really great time of year, and we have a chance to do something special with three women's teams ranked No. 1.  Andrea Gaston is the best women's golf coach in the country.  We lost the NCAA title by a single stroke last year, and she always has her team in the hunt.  I am hoping to go down to Athens, Georgia, to watch our women compete for a national championship in golf.  Women's water polo is once again phenomenal.  Jovan Vavic has an amazing daughter Monica on the team, and he has his son Nikola who is a star on the men's team. I hope he has a bunch more kids as I look forward to our water polo program dominating forever.  Our women's rowing team won the trifecta in San Diego, and they have been terrific.  And while women's tennis is ranked No. 5, they really have a shot at winning a national championship led by our undefeated doubles team of Sabrina Santamaria and Kaitlyn Christian.  We also have sand volleyball competing for a national title this weekend in Alabama.

As we close out another academic year, how has the year been on the other side of the student-athlete hyphen?

Our kids are some of the world's best athletes, and to be the world's best athletes, it takes a lot of dedication, time and focus.  And then to graduate from a premier university like USC, it really is a tribute to them.  It was not like this when I was here.  Our graduation rates and statistics continue to be outstanding as 84% of our seniors are expected to graduate this spring or summer, and the rest are on course to finish in the fall.  The Student-Athlete Graduation is a special time for the graduate to celebrate with their coach, teammates, family and friends.  For some of us, it is a sad day because we do not want to see them go.  I am just in awe of them.

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USC women's golf junior Sophia Popov was named the Pac-12 Women's Golfer of the Month after winning the SDSU Farms Invitational and finishing in second in the Pac-12 Tournament in April.  Popov's five career wins tie the German import for first on the all-time Trojan list.

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No. 1 USC women's golf begins its quest for a third national championship under Andrea Gaston at the NCAA West Regional starting May 9 at Stanford.  The head coach joined the Pac-12.com podcast to talk about winning the conference championship and the road ahead.

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Written by Andie Hagemann, USC blog contributor

Name: Kelli Tennant

Resume: L.A. Galaxy Sideline Reporter

Sport at USC: Volleyball

Did you have any previous aspirations to be a sports broadcaster?

I knew from age 10 that I wanted to be in the media. Originally, I wanted to be a news anchor. When I was being recruited, USC has Annenberg, which is amazing and the other schools that I was considering did not have broadcasting or were in a good market. I always knew that it was what I wanted to do and I wanted the best fit possible. USC was the perfect choice. When I got sick during my sophomore/junior year, the athletic department knew what I wanted to do and they let me start covering teams and doing interviews.

How did you transition from USC into a career in broadcasting at the professional level?

It was an interesting journey. I knew what I wanted to do so I created a great network. It was so much of timing, luck and having great people around me. FOX Sports hired me while I was still in school during my senior year. I started doing hosting and reporting for them. After I graduated, they hired me to co-host the Lane Kiffin show with Petros Papadakis and Lindsay Rhodes. ESPN later hired me that fall to cover volleyball for them. Both of those jobs were my first taste of the business. After that, I was with ESPN for four years, the Longhorn Network and I covered volleyball for the Pac-12 Network this past fall. I covered high school sports in New York for a year and with E! News covering red carpet and celebrity events. It has been about taking each opportunity and trying to segue that into the next thing. Volleyball and USC sports were my foot in the door and then I used that experience to get to the next step and next level. I had known the Galaxy producer from ESPN. We had known each other for a long time and he was familiar with my work. It was the ideal move for me because I love LA sports.

Was it surreal to be working in the industry so early while you were still in school finishing your senior year?

Sometimes I have to pinch myself because I am only 25 and I have been able to do so many cool things, meet so many great people and work for the best networks in the country. This is what I love to do and I just can't believe it sometimes that people have so much faith in me to let me do it. At 20 and 21, I had no idea what I was doing and for some reason, they believed in me.

What has been your most memorable experience thus far in broadcasting?

I had two moments when I was working for E! that were pretty cool. At one of my first red carpet events was a charity event in Santa Monica and I got to interview Tom Hanks. Being from USC, we are constantly surrounded by celebrities and great athletes so to me I'm not starstruck. But, I thought, "Holy cow, it's Tom Hanks!" He was so nice to me and I talked with both him and his wife Rita. They were asking me how my day was and how I got in the business. It was the coolest experience. Also, when I covered the Toyota Grand Prix for E! as well that year, I got to go on a ride with Patrick Dempsey. We rode at 120 mph and I kept thinking, "I'm in the car with McDreamy," while I'm doing an interview during the whole thing. On the sports side, a highlight would be working in the ESPN studio this past December.

What advice do you have for student athletes that want to venture into sports broadcasting?

One thing that I tell people is that the first five years are the toughest. I am in my fourth year now and I am just now making a living. I did a lot of moving around and had to take advantage of my amazing wonderful friends that I have that let me live at their places. It's really tough to try to build a career and life in the beginning. I feel that is where the weeding out process really is. You think that you want to do it and a job comes around and you're not making the money that you thought, it's not as glamorous or whatever it may be and people fall off. I think the people that make it in this business are the ones that crank it out for four or five years. Once you start making a living, you've gotten past the terrible hump and you continue to work from there. Second, it's all about networking. I can't tell you how many jobs I have had that I felt I was not necessarily qualified for but I knew the right people to get my foot in the door. They knew I would work hard, prepare, and do my job to the best of my abilities.

What's next?

I think there are a lot of opportunities right now especially in Los Angeles. There's a lot of shuffling going on between Fox Sports 1, Pac-12 Network, Time Warner, and ESPN. For me, the next step is to get a football package for the fall and pair that with volleyball. Also, have another basketball package in the spring and hopefully be working with the Galaxy again. It is just about getting reps for me right now. I have my ideal job but I am focused on taking every opportunity that comes to me. I have the mentality of never say no to anything because you never know where it may lead you. I never would have thought that I would be a sideline reporter for soccer and it is probably one of the coolest things that I have done. I take everything as it comes but ideally lining up a college football package would be really great.