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Science News Scientists have investigated how bats migrate across Europe. The study was possible using ultralight sensors connected like cellphones. Follow us on social media The tags remained on the bats for about four weeks, after which they dropped off. (Image Credit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ Christian Ziegler). Latest Stories Bat Fireworks Aditya has studied […]

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Scientists have investigated how bats migrate across Europe. The study was possible using ultralight sensors connected like cellphones.

The tags remained on the bats for about four weeks, after which they dropped off. (Image Credit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ Christian Ziegler).

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New Delhi: Bats are known to travel thousands of kilometres in continental migrations across North America, Europe and Africa, but the behaviour is rare and difficult to observe, making the migrations an enigma. Now, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour have used sensors connected like cell phones to study 71 noctule bats during their spring migration across Europe. The researchers were able to track the paths taken by the bats, along with data on the environment, that allowed the scientists to discover that the bats were surfing on stormfronts to cross continents. The researchers tracked only a portion of the 1,600 kilometre long migration of the noctule bats.

The sensor package weighs only about five percent of the total body mass of the bat, and records the activity levels of the bats as well as the surrounding temperature. A novel long-range network was used to transmit the data, that combined 1,440 daily measurements into a 12 byte message. The sensor packages for the bats had coverage across all of Europe, much like a cellphone network. The noctule bats are widespread in Europe, and are known to migrate across the continent. The females migrate more extensively than the males, and spend their summers in northern Europe before flying to a range of southern locations for hibernating through the winter.

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Wildcats Impress on Final Day of Big 12 Outdoor Championships

Story Links Big 12 Championship Results 2025 Track & Field Schedule LAWRENCE, Kan. – Arizona Track and Field earned 21 medals on the final day and 31 total during the Big 12 Outdoor Championships.   The Wildcats men’s team finished […]

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – Arizona Track and Field earned 21 medals on the final day and 31 total during the Big 12 Outdoor Championships.
 
The Wildcats men’s team finished 8th with 48 points, and the women’s team finished 8th with 46 points. Arizona earned 21 medals during the final day of action and 31 total during the Big 12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships. See full team standings below.
 
Wildcats that earned podium finishes also earned Big 12 All-Conference honors.  
 
Ava Simms, McKenna Watson, Dakota Minor, and Jade Brown finished fifth in the women’s 4x100m relay with a program-record time of 44.13 to earn valuable points for the program. The 4x100m relay team shattered its record, 44.17 set on May 3 in Tucson.
 
Senior thrower Youssef Koudssi finished 2nd in the men’s discus with a throw of 59.08 (193-10) to post his best finish at a conference championship. After not competing during the 2024 Outdoor season, Koudssi was impressive, qualifying for the Indoor and Outdoor Championships.
 
Senior Zach Landa (4th; 57.94/190-1) and Sam Hala’ufia (5th; 57.32/188-1) joined Koudssi on the Discus podium with top-five finishes. Landa (5 points) and Hala’ufia (4 points) earned nine points combined.
 
Senior Zach Extine finished sixth in the 110m hurdles with a time of 13.64, earning three points for the men’s team.
 
Sophomore Ava Simms finished seventh in the 400m with a time of 53.52, earning two points for the women’s team.
 
Junior Tapenisa Havea finished 7th in the discus with a throw of 53.78 (176-5) to grab two points, and Senior Mackenna Orie earned her third podium of the weekend with a finish in 8th (53.55/175-8) for one point.
 
In the final race of the evening, after about an hour delay due to weather, the women’s 4×400 team featuring Ava Simms, Camila Aguilar-Perez, and Antonia Sanchez Nunez finished 3rd with a season-best time of 3:33.88.
 
Big 12 Scorers – Entire Event
Day 3
Youssef Koudssi – 2nd in Discus (59.09/193-10)
Ava Simms, Keilee Hall, Camila Aguilar-Perez, Antonia Sanchez Nunez – 3rd (3:33.88) 4×400 Relay
Antonia Sanchez Nunez – 4th in 400m Hurdles (56.23)
Zach Landa – 4th in Discus (57.94/190-1)
Sam Hala’ufia – 5th in Discus (57.32/188-1)
Ava Simms, McKenna Watson, Dakota Minor, Jade Brown – 5th (44.13) in 4x100m Relay
Zach Extine – 6th in 110m Hurdles (13.64)
Brian Limage – 6th in 100m (10.33)
Tyson Tippett – 7th in 100m (10.35)
Ava Simms – 7th in 400m (53.52)
Tapenisa Havea – 7th in Discus (53.78/176-5)
McKenna Watson – 7th in 100m (11.41)
Jade Brown – 7th in 200m (23.34)
James Onanubosi – 8th in 100m (10.43)
Mackenna Orie – 8th in Discus (53.55/175-8)
 
Day 2
Reinaldo Rodrigues – 1st in Long Jump (7.64m/25-0)
Zach Landa – 3rd in the Shot Put (19.88/65-2)
Mackenna Orie – 4th in Shot Put (16.20/53-1)
Jenica Bosko – 5th in Long Jump (6.36/21-0)
Tapenisa Havea – 6th in Shot Put (16.06/ 52-8)
 
Day 1
Erin Tack – 2nd in women’s javelin with a program record (54.37m/178-4)
Jesse Avina – 4th in men’s javelin (66.92/219-7)
Zach Landa – 8th in men’s hammer throw (61.27m/201-0)?
Mackenna Orie – 8th in women’s hammer throw (56.69/186-0)
Aislin Martinez-Pompa – 8th in women’s javelin (45.92m/150-8) 
 
Day 3
Other Finishes: Men

Yan Vazquez – 9th in 400m Hurdles (51.98)
Sylvan Osman – 10th in pole vault (personal best: 5.06/16-7)
Richard Legarra – 21st in Discus Throw (personal best: 50.60/166-0)
Isaac DavisChristian Simmons, Yan Vazquez, Brian Limage – 9th in 4x400m relay (season-best 3:10.86)
 
Other Finishes: Women
McKenna Watson – 9th in 200m (23.40)
Kelly Lyn Wetteland – 14th in 5000m (16:21.42)
 

Big 12 Final Team Standings
Men
Place Team Total Points
1 Texas Tech 136
2 BYU 100.66
3 Houston 96
4 Kansas 73
5 Iowa State 72
6 TCU 64
7 Okla. State 50
8 Arizona 48
9 Baylor 47
10 ASU 40
11 Kansas St. 39
12 Cincinnati 34.33
13 Colorado 18
Women
Place Team Total Points
1 Texas Tech 127
2 BYU 112.5
3 TCU 86
4 Baylor 84.5
5 Kansas 55.83
6 Okl. State 52.5
7 Cincinnati 48
8 Arizona 46
9 UCF 41
10 Kansas State 38.33
11 Utah 33
12 Iowa State 30
13 West Vriginia 28.5
14 Houston 16.33
15 ASU 11
16 Colorado 8.5

 
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The Wildcats will compete in the NCAA First Round on May 28-31 at College Station, Texas.
 
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Baumgarten’s Silver, Men’s 4×100 Bronze Pace Banner Day For Privateers at Southland Outdoor Championships Saturday

Story Links NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans men’s and women’s track and field teams closed the 2025 Southland Conference Outdoor Championships in style, backed by 10 top-10 finishes, including two podium finishes Saturday at the Wendel D. Ley Track & Holloway Field in Houston.  The Privateer women finished 11th, capturing 23 […]

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NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans men’s and women’s track and field teams closed the 2025 Southland Conference Outdoor Championships in style, backed by 10 top-10 finishes, including two podium finishes Saturday at the Wendel D. Ley Track & Holloway Field in Houston. 

The Privateer women finished 11th, capturing 23 points over the three days, while the men earned 13 of their 19 total points on Saturday alone. 

New Orleans’ Helen Baumgarten earned the highest finish of any individual athlete, earning silver in the women’s 100m hurdles in a personal-best 13.80 seconds, while the men’s 4x100m relay team of Chris Murphy, Madonna Favour, Daryl Bachmann and Darryl George Jr. earned bronze in the first running event of the finals with a time of 39.77 seconds. 

Freshman Annika Metzger claimed eight points thanks to a 4th-place finish in the women’s 800m and a 6th-place finish in the 1500m event. Favour hauled in three points with a 7th-place finish in the men’s 200m and 8th-place finish in the men’s 100m. 

Emma Bourg and Metzger combined to score seven team points in the women’s 1500m, as Bourg finished 5th in 4:31.54 and Metzger in 6th in 4:33.48. Metzger then took part in the 800m competition and crossed the line in 2:13.41 to add another five points in 4th. 

Favour completed the men’s 100m event in 10.87 seconds to claim 8th, flipping then to the 200m where he captured 7th place in 21.22 seconds. Taj Morris earned a pair of points finishing 7th in the men’s 110m hurdles with a time of 14.33 seconds. 

In the 4x400m relay, the Privateer men ran the 7th-fastest time in school history with a mark of 3:12.55 to place 7th, while the women finished 2nd in their heat and 9th overall with a time of 3:53.92. 

Christina Davis finished 16th in the women’s discus, landing a throw of 39.63m.

Bourg set a new personal record in the women’s 5000m event with a time of 18:10.79 in 17th, followed by Michela Papalia in 25th in 18:54.62, Petra Imre 30th in 19:26.90 and Michelle Folk in 36th in 20:00.12.

Josh Johnston finished 19th in the men’s 5000m 15:17.33, while Mason Appleton finished in 15:45.03 in 31st. Antonio Delgado set a new personal record by nearly 16 seconds in 33rd in 16:11.60 and Gary Sandrock was 35th with a time of 16:27.84. 

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The Privateers head to the NCAA East Regionals May 28-31 at Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida.

 

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Two From Track and Field Headed for Ohio for 2025 NCAA Division III National Championships

Story Links Springfield, Mass. – May 18, 2025 – Two student-athletes from the Springfield College men’s and women’s track and field programs have earned the opportunity to compete against the nation’s best as they have qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which will be held on May […]

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Springfield, Mass. – May 18, 2025 – Two student-athletes from the Springfield College men’s and women’s track and field programs have earned the opportunity to compete against the nation’s best as they have qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, which will be held on May 22-24 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

Senior Samantha Paul (Albany, N.Y.) qualified in the triple jump and is seeded 13th with a mark of 12.06-meters (39 feet, 7 inches), which she posted at the 2025 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championships on April 25. Earlier this year, Paul earned Honorable Mention All-America honors when she took 13th in the triple jump at the Indoor National Championships.

Sophomore Mike Anderson (Cromwell, Conn.) will make his debut on the national stage this week as he qualified in the 110-meter hurdles with a school record time of 14.23-seconds, which he set at the AARTFC Outdoor Championships on May 14.

Anderson will compete in the 110-meter hurdles prelims on Friday, May 23 at 2:10 pm with finals slated for Saturday, May 24 at 1:50 pm, while Paul will compete in the triple jump on Saturday, May 24 at 1:45 pm.

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ETHS Girls Earn Return Trip To State Water Polo Tourney

New Trier embraced their rare role as an underdog in girls water polo in Saturday’s sectional championship game against Evanston at Glenbrook South and even scored the first goal of the game. But with the season on the line, the Wildkits showed their rivals that how you finish is more important than how you start. […]

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New Trier embraced their rare role as an underdog in girls water polo in Saturday’s sectional championship game against Evanston at Glenbrook South and even scored the first goal of the game.

But with the season on the line, the Wildkits showed their rivals that how you finish is more important than how you start.

Evanston edged New Trier 5-4, limiting the losers to just one goal in the second half, and advanced to the Elite Eight for the second year in a row. Four goals by senior Maya Vincent helped the Wildkits earn back-to-back trips to the Illinois High School Association state tournament for just the second time in school history, matching the accomplishment by the 2003 and 2004 squads.

Saturday’s triumph was the 12th in a row for the Wildkits. Their reward for that win streak? A matchup with defending state champion Stevenson in the state quarterfinals next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the Patriots’ pool.

Other first-round state tournament games will match Naperville North against Fremd, St. Ignatius against Lyons Township, and York against Lincoln-Way Central. The semifinals and finals will be played Saturday at Stevenson.

The Trevians refused to go quietly after losing to the Kits and tying them once prior to Saturday’s showdown. Fortunately for ETHS head coach Maggie Hatcher, her team was able to match that intensity and improved to 23-4-1 on the season.

Zaya Arellano’s goal early in the second half stood as the game-winner after New Trier did manage a score with approximately two minutes left in regulation. But the losers couldn’t get any closer against the stout Wildkit defense.

“It was closer than we would’ve liked it to be,” Hatcher admitted. “New Trier came out hard at us and you have to give them credit. It took us a little while to settle in — I’m not sure if we ever really settled in — but we got the job done.

“To play a team five times in a season and come out with a win is pretty tough to do. We didn’t play our best game, but we did what we had to do to win it. In the fourth quarter our defense did a really good job of adjusting to what New Trier was running on offense. They scored their only goal on a power play, so I thought we were pretty dominant with our defense. We just need more offense.

“We know we’re at our best if we take control right away, but it some ways it really doesn’t matter if we don’t, because these girls don’t quit. They take what they’ve learned and do whatever they can to make it happen. I’m so incredibly proud of this team for winning a sectional. Mostly, though, I’m relieved.”

The Wildkits lived up to their No. 1 sectional seed and kept their season alive in a year where they didn’t figure to take another trip to State. Especially after losing three of their first four games with a new cast of players trying to fill the big shoes of the graduated standouts who accounted for a state runner-up finish a year ago.

Since that slow start, however, Evanston’s only loss came by a 12-8 margin back on April 12th — against Stevenson.

“We had to have a new goalie step in for one that was No. 1 in the state, and this is a completely different team from last year,” Hatcher noted. “But they worked very, very hard in the club season and in the summer and winter after getting a taste of what we did last year. Most of them didn’t play in the close games last year, but getting a taste of what we did last year lit a fire in a lot of these girls.

“I didn’t know what to expect, but they were ready to step up. This team has really only been together for one winter and I can’t say enough about them. Defense has always been our foundation and those early losses were all by one or two goals. I thought it was just a product of them playing together for the first time.

“I wasn’t worried early on after those losses. We talked about how unrealistic it was to compare yourself to a team that only lost three games (2024). That was crazy and that’s not something we wanted to carry around with us. The beginning of the season is always about getting experience playing together, getting in game shape and figuring things out. And we could have won all of those games.”

That includes that mid-April meeting with Stevenson. Evanston actually led the game entering the fourth period before the Pats fought back with six goals to snatch victory from defeat.

The two teams met in last year’s state championship game and Stevenson has dominated postseason competition in girls polo, winning six of the last nine IHSA state crowns. But being on the same side of the state tourney bracket with the Pats doesn’t faze Hatcher’s squad.

“We all feel that we’re hungry for some payback,” said Hatcher. “We’ll prepare like we always do. They’re just another team and we’re capable of beating any team if we play together and fight.”



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Bobcats Finish Second at Big Sky Track & Field Championships

Story Links SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stellar individual performances on Saturday at the 2025 Big Sky Outdoor Track & Field Championships powered Montana State’s track and field teams to runner-up finishes at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California.  Montana State’s women finished second for the seventh consecutive conference meet, a stretch that […]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stellar individual performances on Saturday at the 2025 Big Sky Outdoor Track & Field Championships powered Montana State’s track and field teams to runner-up finishes at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. 

Montana State’s women finished second for the seventh consecutive conference meet, a stretch that dates back to the 2022 Big Sky outdoor championship. 

The Bobcat women finished Saturday with 158.5 points, the second-largest total in program history behind only the 176 points scored in 2003—the last year they won the Big Sky title. 

No. 28 Northern Arizona secured their fifth straight team championship on the women’s side, scoring 222 points. 

Montana State was head-and-shoulders above the rest of the field, with Montana a distant third scoring 100 points. 

Montana State’s men finished second on Saturday, securing their fifth straight top-two finish at the outdoor Big Sky Championships. 

The Bobcats closed with 154 points, their fourth-most at the conference championships in program history. 

Northern Arizona secured the team title, scoring 227.5 points. Third-place Montana scored 107 points, with fourth-place Weber State scoring 77 points. 

Montana State added four event champions on Saturday in Sacramento, with wins in the men’s pole vault (Colby Wilson), men’s 1,500 meters (Harvey Cramb), men’s 4×100 meter relay (Stryder Todd-Fields, Xavier Simpson, Drake Wilkes, Noah Barbery), and men’s 4×400 meter relay (Michael Swan Jr., Stryder Todd-Fields, Nash Coley, Jett Grundy

Wilson, a redshirt senior from Olympia, Washington, competing in his final Big Sky championship meet, won his fifth conference title in the pole vault. 

The Big Sky’s indoor and outdoor championship meet record-holder felt some late pressure from Montana’s Carson Weeden, who cleared a school-record bar at 17-04.50 to put the onus on Wilson to clear another bar. 

Wilson had missed once at 17-04.50 before passing, so had just two attempts available to try and clear 17-06.50. After a miss at that height, it came down to one last try to secure the gold. 

The veteran came through, going up-and-over the bar to clinch his fifth championship title in the pole vault. 

On the track in the first event on Saturday, the MSU men’s 4×100 meter relay team of Stryder Todd-Fields, Xavier Simpson, Drake Wilkes, and Noah Barbery electrified the crowd with a thrilling race, as Barbery’s anchor leg powered the Cats down the final stretch to a win in 40.44 seconds. 

The top five teams all crossed the line within a half second of one another, but it was the Cats who got the lean for the gold—the first men’s outdoor 4×100 relay win from Montana State since 2012. 

Less than 20 minutes later, Harvey Cramb pulled off a spectacular victory of his own, winning the men’s 1,500 meter crown and de-throning 11-time Big Sky champion Colin Sahlman of Northern Arizona in the process. 

Cramb, a sophomore from Brisbane, Australia, jumped out to the early lead and executed his gameplan to perfection, maintaining an advantage throughout the race and holding off Sahlman’s kick with one of his own to secure the gold. 

Cramb, who has run the No. 2 fastest time in school history and ranks No. 28 in NCAA Division I this year, is the first Bobcat champion in the event since Cristian Soratos (2015). 

Cramb followed up that emotional win with a gutty runner-up finish in the 800 meters a short while later, as Sahlman got a measure of revenge with the event title. 

Cramb tied with junior thrower Elijah Jackman for the men’s team-lead in points contributed this weekend, with each scoring 18 towards the Montana State total. 

In the final event of the day, the men’s 4×400 meter relay closed out the competition in resounding fashion with a gold medal-clinching race. 

With legs run by Michael Swan Jr., Stryder Todd-Fields, Nash Coley, and Jett Grundy, Montana State replicated their win in the event from the 2024 team title-clinching run, with Coley replacing the lap run by Janis Pohl last May in Bozeman. 

Just like last year, it was Grundy on the anchor holding off Montana down the last straightaway to get atop the podium. 

Todd-Fields walked away from Saturday with two gold medals running legs on both relays, adding a sixth-place finish in the 200 meters. 

SATURDAY’S ALL-BIG SKY HONORS 

  • Jaeden Wolff was a points machine for the Bobcats, finishing second in both the 100 meters and 200 meters. The junior from Billings, Montana, also ran a spectacular anchor leg on the women’s 4×100 meter relay, nearly walking down Northern Arizona’s anchor but settling for a thrilling second-place finish in that event. With the three medals on Saturday, Wolff has now earned eight career All-Big Sky honors, and finished the meet as the Cats’ high-point scorer (18 points). 

  • Caroline Hawkes, a junior from San Clemente, California, also finished second in the 400 meters on Saturday to earn her ninth career All-Big Sky award 

  • Peyton Garrison, a junior from New Castle, Colorado, also finished third in the 200 meters to join Jaeden Wolff on the podium in that event. 

  • Following up her second-place finish in the discus on Friday, sophomore Sydney Brewster placed third in the women’s shot put on Saturday 

  • Easton Hatleberg, a freshman from Grandview, Texas, finished second in the men’s shot put. It capped a big week for the now two-time shot put silver medalist, who also scored points in the javelin (7th) and hammer throw (5th). 

  • Elijah Jackman, a junior from Tigard, Oregon, finished second in the men’s hammer throw one day after finishing second in the men’s discus. It marks the fourth career All-Big Sky honor for the big man, and the third of 2025. 

  • Millie Hubbell, a junior from Littleton, Colorado, placed second in the women’s 100 meter hurdles to claim silver. It’s the second career runner-up finish in the hurdles for Hubbell, who placed second in the 60 meter hurdles at the indoor championships in February. Hubbell also placed seventh in the 400 meter hurdles on Saturday. 

THE RUNDOWN 

  • After running the anchor leg on the champion 4×100 meter relay team, Noah Barbery placed fifth in the men’s 100 meter final 

  • In addition to running legs on both the champion 4×100 and 4×400 meter relay teams, Stryder Todd-Fields placed sixth in the men’s 200 meters 

  • Annie Kaul placed fourth in the women’s 800 meters with a time of 2:08.00, tied for the second-fastest time in school history. Jada Zorn placed eighth. 

  • One day after winning his seconds straight 3,000 meter steeplechase title, Rob McManus finished fourth in the men’s 1,500 meters behind his champion teammate Harvey Cramb. Sam Ells placed fifth to put three Bobcats in the top-five in the event. 

  • One day after finishing seventh in the men’s long jump, Destiny Nkeonye finished fifth in the triple jump 

UP NEXT 

Montana State will send a large contingent of qualifiers to the NCAA West First Rounds, hosted in College Station, Texas, from May 28-31. 

The full list of qualifiers, which include the top-48 marks from both the West and East regions, will be announced on Wednesday. 

Last season, Montana State sent a school-record 23 Bobcats to the NCAA West First Rounds. 

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Utah State Track & Field Excels on Final Day of Mountain West Outdoor Championships

CLOVIS, Calif. — Utah State track & field claimed two titles and eight medals, earned 93 team points and posted two performances that rank in the top 10 in school history on the third and final day of the 2025 Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Clovis, California, on Saturday.   “We’re really […]

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CLOVIS, Calif. — Utah State track & field claimed two titles and eight medals, earned 93 team points and posted two performances that rank in the top 10 in school history on the third and final day of the 2025 Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Clovis, California, on Saturday.
 
“We’re really proud of how our kids competed,” said Artie Gulden, USU’s director of track & field and cross country. “Having two conference champions and lots of all-conference kids is great. Our athletes broke two school records on the women’s side and set multiple all-time top-10 marks. Logan broke his own meet record in the vault in less than favorable conditions for vaulting.”
 
On a windy evening at Veterans Memorial Stadium, junior Logan Hammer won the men’s pole vault competition with his clearance of 5.65 meters (18-6.5), earning the fifth Mountain West title of his career. He broke his own meet record of 5.62 meters (18-5.25), set at last year’s championships. Of the seven clearances of 5.65 meters (18-6.5) by collegiate pole vaulters during the 2025 outdoor season, Hammer now owns four of them, all of which have come in his last four competitions. Junior Marshall Rasmussen cleared 5.11 meters (16-9.25) to win the silver medal, his second of the 2025 campaign. Junior Javin Richards jumped a height of 4.96 meters (16-9.25) to win bronze and complete the Utah State podium sweep.
 
Utah State continued its recent dominance of the men’s 800 meters on Saturday. Sophomore Landon Bott, the gold medalist at the 2025 indoor championships, claimed another title with his winning time of 1:49.68. Bott held the lead despite a late charge from the runner-up, New Mexico’s Matthew Endrody. Graduate Brennan Benson, who won the 2023 title in the event, won bronze with his time of 1:51.27, securing his seventh career medal at the Mountain West Championships. Junior Ernest Green rounded out the Aggie scorers, finishing fourth with a time of 1:51.59.
 
Aggie throwers claimed the silver and bronze medals in the men’s discus. Senior Nate Franz had three personal-best throws in his first three attempts, with his third mark of 57.13 meters (187-5) earning him second place in the competition. Sophomore teammate Joseph Turner earned his second career MW medal in the discus, throwing a personal record of 56.37 meters (184-11) to claim third place. Franz moved into fourth in Utah State history with his performance, while Turner’s personal-best mark ranks sixth all-time. Air Force’s Texas Tanner won the competition with a mark of 63.59 meters (208-7), breaking an 18-year-old meet record.
 
Freshman Ayodele Ojo claimed his first career Mountain West medal in the 100 meters, running in 10.32 seconds to finish second in the race. With a lean forward at the finish line, Ojo beat out the third-place runner, Air Force’s Javin Bostic, by 0.002 seconds. Freshman Daniel Chase added to the Aggie scoring in the event, clocking in at 10.47 to finish seventh. New Mexico’s Cam Watts, who played cornerback for the Lobos under current Utah State head football coach Bronco Mendenhall, won the title with a winning time of 10.23.
 
Freshman Diego Aguirre-Stewart and Ojo claimed sixth and seventh place in the men’s 200 meters, finishing in 20.99 and 21.08, respectively. Collectively, Utah State’s freshman sprinters Aguirre-Stewart, Chase and Ojo earned 25 team points for the Aggies. San José State’s Cameron Tarver won the 200-meter title, clocking in at 20.54.
 
Sophomore Joshua Armstrong scored the Aggies’ first track points of Championship Saturday, running the 1,500-meter final in 3:47.01 to finish seventh in the field. New Mexico’s Collins Kiprotich won the title in the event with a time of 3:41.05, beating teammate Habtom Samuel by 0.02 seconds.
 
Junior Krysthina Vlahovic continued her run of solid performances in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing in 13.96 to take sixth place in the field. Vlahovic has placed sixth in the event at three consecutive Mountain West Championships. San Diego State’s Jada Pierre won the race with a time of 13.12.
 
Senior Adi Nielson secured her best individual finish of her Utah State career, running the 400-meter hurdles in 1:00.96 to earn a sixth-place finish in the final. Fresno State’s Jewel Ash won the event title with her time of 57.63.
 
Senior Emma Thornley capped off her tremendous Mountain West career by finishing sixth in the women’s 5,000 meters, running her race in 16:18.50. The Utah State record holder in the event scored at the conference championships for the sixth time in her Aggie career. New Mexico’s Pamela Kosgei won the title with a time of 15:50.96, leading a group of six Lobos in the top eight.
 
In the women’s 200 meters, senior Emma Reeves earned the first individual point of her Aggie career, taking eighth place in the race with a time of 23.92. UNLV’s Kennedi Porter, who was named the Women’s Outstanding Track Performer of the Year, won the race with a time of 22.95, her third gold medal of the day.
 
The championships concluded with the women’s and men’s 4×400-meter relays. On the women’s side, the crew of Reeves, Nielson, junior Alison Richter and freshman Mashaylee Jones, who set the Utah State record last week, finished in fourth place with a time of 3:42.20. The Aggie men’s team of Aguirre-Stewart, Ernest Green, Benson and Bott, who had not competed in the event all season, finished seventh with a time of 3:17.91. New Mexico swept both relays, winning the women’s race in 3:35.54 and the men’s in 3:13.68.
 
The Utah State men finished in third place with 114.5 points, their highest team finish since 2021. The women’s team placed ninth in the team competition with 38 points. Colorado State and New Mexico completed their sweeps of the Mountain West men’s and women’s team titles, with the Rams’ men earning 192.5 points and the Lobo women accumulating 153 points.
 
“From a team perspective, it’s great that the men finished third,” said Gulden. “We had a number of guys step up to help us do that. The women collectively had a rough day today, and our team performance isn’t indicative of how good our team is. But at the end of the day, we did not get it done and we have to improve moving forward.”
 
Utah State’s individual athletes will await their postseason fate, with invited athletes set to compete at the NCAA West First Rounds in College Station, Texas, from Wednesday to Saturday, May 28-31.
 
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2025 Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships – Day 3
Veterans Memorial Stadium | Clovis, California | May 17, 2025
 
USU Men’s Results:
 














Event USU Finishers (scorers in bold)
100 Meters 2. Ayodele Ojo, 10.32; 7. Daniel Chase, 10.47.
200 Meters 6. Diego Aguirre-Stewart, 20.99; 7. Ayodele Ojo, 21.08.
800 Meters 1. Landon Bott, 1:49.68; 3. Brennan Benson, 1:51.37; 4. Ernest Green, 1:51.59; 9. Sam Green, 1:52.09.
1,500 Meters 7. Joshua Armstrong, 3:47.01; 10. Wyatt Evans, 3:48.44.
5,000 Meters 10. Camren Todd, 13:56.87; 15. LJ Floyd, 14:12.93; 19. Joshua McKee, 14:29.27; 21. John Simmons, 14:33.28;

25. Drew Hogan, 14:43.97; 26. Eric Nelson, 14:48.42; 28. Wyatt Evans, 15:14.39; Bryce Hill, DNS; Joshua Armstrong, DNS;

Garrett Woodhouse, DNS; Logan Garnica, DNS.
Pole Vault 1. Logan Hammer, 5.65 meters (18-6.5); 2. Marshall Rasmussen, 5.11 meters (16-9.25);

3. Javin Richards, 4.96 meters (16-3.25); 11. Caden Dupee, 4.41 meters (14-5.5).
Triple Jump 9. Samuel Beckwith, 13.93 meters (45-8.5); Joshua Hartvigsen, DNS.
Discus 2. Nate Franz, 57.13 meters (187-5.25); 3. Joseph Turner, 56.37 meters (184-11.25).
4×400 Relay 7. Utah State (Diego Aguirre-Stewart, Ernest Green, Brennan Benson, Landon Bott), 3:17.91.
4×100 Relay Utah State (Daniel Chase, Ayodele Ojo, Mathew Hall, Diego Aguirre-Stewart), DNF.

 
USU Women’s Results:
 














Event USU Finishers (scorers in bold)
200 Meters 8. Emma Reeves, 23.92.
400 Meters 9. Mashaylee Jones, 55.69.
1,500 Meters 10. Hannah Davidson, 4:30.30; 11. Caroline Moon, 4:31.70.
5,000 Meters 6. Emma Thornley, 16:18.50; 21. Cailey Bracken, 16:54.94; 24. Liz Phillips, 16:56.68; Hannah Davidson, DNS;

Ana Weaver, DNS; Shelby Jensen, DNS; Caroline Moon, DNS; Brianne Smith, DNS; Sarah Ellis, DNS.
100-Meter Hurdles 6. Krysthina Vlahovic, 13.96; 9. Claire Petersen, 14.36.
400-Meter Hurdles 6. Adi Nielson, 1:00.96.
High Jump 11. Presley Gray, 1.60 meters (5-3).
Discus 9. Milly Garren, 47.05 meters (154-4.25); 10. Ruby Jordan, 40.89 meters (134-1.75).
4×400 Relay 4. Utah State (Emma Reeves, Adi Nielson, Alison Richter, Mashaylee Jones), 3:42.20.
4×100 Relay Utah State (Mashaylee Jones, Emma Reeves, Breanna Raven, Camryn Ere), DNF.

 
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