MEN
Charleston
4×100 Relay
Zane “Iggy” Chalker: 5,000m; 10,000m
Jules Geffroy-Remot: 1,500m
Hugo Hewitt: 5,000m
Timber Huysmans: 200m
Frankie Winter: Hammer

Concord
Ian Gardner: 400m

Davis & Elkins
Jackson Gibson: 1,500m
Carter McKenna: 1,500m; 10,000m
Jordan Thomas: 10,000m

Frostburg State
Thomas McCoy: Pole Vault

Point Park
Kamar Sutherland: 110m Hurdles
Jannik Windelband: Steeplechase

West Liberty
Hunter Patterson: 200m
Issac Tavo: Discus

West Virginia State
Tyler Minter: 400m

West Virginia Wesleyan
Michael Hansford: Triple Jump
Jonathan Norton: Steeplechase
Rovell Salmon: Long Jump

WOMEN
Charleston
Brooke Burns: Discus; Hammer
Maya Clark: 400m
Colette Patti: 100m
Beth Sykes: 800m; 1,500m
Stefani Vasileva: Triple Jump
Madison Woolwine: 1,500m

Concord
Cassidy Hammonds: Heptathlon
Cierra Parker: High Jump

Davis & Elkins
Lydia Falkenstein: 10,000m
Savanna Hardman: 5,000m; 10,000m
Lauren Twyman: 800m; 1,500m; 5,000m

Glenville State
Janae Scott: Shot Put

Point Park
Cassondra O’Connor: 5,000m; 10,000m

West Liberty
Ky’Ara Ross: Long Jump

West Virginia State
4×100 Relay
Candace Morris: 200m

West Virginia Wesleyan
Samantha Cash: Heptathlon
Lindsey Dillon: Steeplechase
Leigha Hall: Steeplechase; 5,000m

Wheeling
Keala McCurry: Pole Vault

Eugene, Ore. – Maddie Harris and Jenna Rogers added to the Husker Big Ten title count as the Nebraska track and field team finished competition on Sunday at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with both the men and women finishing in the top five. 

The Huskers swept the high jump titles as Rogers won on the women’s side, clearing 1.84m (6-0 ½). There were four other Huskers in the top 10, as Karsyn Leeling was fifth (1.81m, 5-11 ¼), Brooklyn Miller finished sixth (1.75m, 5-8 ¾) and Riley Masten and Ela Velepec tied for 10th (1.70m, 5-7). Harris became a three-time Big Ten Javelin Champion, throwing 58.38m (191-6) for the win. Jenessa Ruder joined Harris in the top eight, finishing seventh (49.12m, 161-2). 

In the men’s discus, Maxwell Otterdahl threw a person-best 59.12m (193-11) to improve his ninth-best mark in school history and finished third. Cade Moran also earned points for the Big Red as he finished fifth (57.59m, 188-11). Kael Miedema was 16th (52.42m, 172-0), and Brett Schwartz was 25th (45.15m, 148-1). 

Kalynn Meyer and Kellyn Kortemeyer scored points in their second event of the weekend, as Meyer threw 17.43m (57-2 ¼) for fourth and Kortemeyer hit a mark of 16.87m (55-4 ¼) for eighth. Amelia Flynt was 11th (15.95m, 52-4), Sage Burbach finished 15th (15.55m, 51-0 ¼) and Lauren St. Peters placed 18th (14.44m, 47-4 ½). 

In the women’s pole vault, Jacelyn Neighbors grabbed sixth (4.03m, 13-2 ½), scoring three team points for the Huskers, and Kylie Clark-Fox was 17th (3.88m, 12-8 ¾). In the women’s triple jump, Velecia Williams was ninth (12.53m, 41-1 ½), and Lotavia Brown was 18th (12.15m, 39-10 ½). 

On the track, the Huskers scored points in seven events. In the women’s 4x100m relay, Velecia Williams, Bariborve Deebom, Kelsie Belquist and Darby Thomas finished eighth (45.10). Thomas also finished in the top 10 of the women’s 100m, running 11.39. Abrielle Artley ran 58.94 in the women’s 400mH for fifth, and Ali Bainbridge clocked the second-fastest 5000m in school history (15:54.16) for eighth. Berlyn Schutz earned on point for the Huskers as she finished eighth in the 1500m (4:16.54). On the men’s side, Kavian Kerr earned eighth in the 100m (10.53), and James Ledbetter was sixth in the 400mH (51.83). 

Rounding out the events at the Big Ten Championships was Ashriel Dixon, Till Steinforth, Luke Noland and Kavian Kerr placing 10th in the 4x100m relay (40.59), Abrielle Artley, Belquist, Deebom and Johanna Ilves finishing 10th in the 4x400m relay (3:39.01), and Logan Lebo, Niko Schultz, Gabe Nash and Pradeep Senthilkumar in 14th in the men’s 4x400m relay (3:12.76). 

The Husker men finished fifth with 76 points, while the women were fourth (73 points). 

Up next, the Huskers compete in the NCAA West First Round in College Station, Texas, May 28-31. 

Big Ten Outdoor Championships Results
Day 3
Women’s Javelin 
1. Maddie Harris – 58.38m (191-6)
7. Jenessa Ruder – 49.12m (161-2)

Women’s Pole Vault 
6. Jacelyn Neighbors – 4.03m (13-2 ½)
17. Kylie Clark-Fox – 3.88m (12-8 ¾)

Women’s Triple Jump
9. Velecia Williams – 12.53m (41-1 ½)
18. Lotavia Brown – 12.15m (39-10 ½)

Men’s Discus 
3. Maxwell Otterdahl – 59.12m (193-11) PR
5. Cade Moran – 57.59m (188-11)
16. Kael Miedema – 52.42m (172-0)
25. Brett Schwartz – 45.15m (148-1)

Women’s High Jump 
1. Jenna Rogers – 1.84m (6-0 ½)v
5. Karsyn Leeling – 1.81m (5-11 ¼)
6. Brooklyn Miller – 1.75m (5-8 ¾)
10. Riley Masten – 1.70m (5-7)
10. Ela Velepec – 1.70m (5-7)

Men’s 4x100m Relay 
10. Dixon/Steinforth/Noland/Kerr – 40.59

Women’s 4x100m Relay 
8. Williams/Deebom/Belquist/Thomas – 45.10

Women’s Shot Put 
4. Kalynn Meyer – 17.43m (57-2 ¼) 
8. Kellyn Kortemeyer – 16.87m (55-4 ¼)
11. Amelia Flynt – 15.95m (52-4)
15. Sage Burbach – 15.55m (51-0 ¼)
18. Lauren St. Peters – 14.44m (47-4 ½) 

Men’s 100m
8. Kavian Kerr – 10.53

Women’s 100m
6. Darby Thomas – 11.39

Men’s 400mH
6. James Ledbetter – 51.83

Women’s 400mH
5. Abrielle Artley – 58.94

Women’s 5000m
8. Ali Bainbridge – 15:54.16 
18. Berlyn Schutz – 16:25.46

Men’s 4x400m Relay 
14. Lebo/Schultz/Nash/Senthilkumar – 3:12.76

Women’s 4x400m Relay 
10. Artley/Belquist/Deebom/Ilves – 3:39.01

Women’s 1500m
8. Berlyn Schutz – 4:16.54

By: Hunter McKay

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The Kennesaw State men’s and women’s track and field teams completed competition at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships on Sunday by earning the school’s second CUSA title.

The KSU men’s team collected its first Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championship scoring 216.5 points in the three-day meet. The Owls also concluded the Liberty men’s run of 17-consecutive outdoor titles at the Division I level. KSU and Liberty’s 5.5-point differential was the closest CUSA Outdoor Championship finish since 2006. Cale McDaniel was named CUSA Men’s Coach of the Year.  

 

The KSU women battled hard on Saturday and finished in third place. The Owls finished with 104.5 points.

 

Men’s Team Scoring (21 of 21 events scored)

KSU – 216.5 points

Liberty– 211 points

MTSU – 97 points

Sam Houston – 73 points

Western Kentucky – 71 points

UTEP – 58 points

Louisiana Tech – 56 points

FIU – 28 points

Women’s Team Scoring (21 of 21 events scored)

Liberty – 178.5 points

UTEP – 117 points

Kennesaw State – 104.5 points

FIU – 101 points

MTSU. – 84 points

New Mexico State – 74 points

Louisiana Tech. – 49 points

Sam Houston– 38 points

Western Kentucky– 21.5 points

 

Medal Winners

 
   Men’s Notable Performances

• Evan Martinez placed seventh in the shot put with a personal-best toss of 49.73m (163’2″).
• Edwin Kiprono finished sixth in the 1500m (3:53.26) and fourth in the 800m (1:48.85).
• Sean Dyer ran a time of 14.22 seconds to place fifth in the 110m hurdles.
• Justin Warner (46.14) placed fourth in the 400m. That mark sits 40^th in the NCAA East Region.
• Xavier Paris (10.34) secured fifth in the 100m.
• Sean Dyer (52.49), Daris Roberts (53.91) and Cameron Guadiano (54.05 seconds) took home fourth, sixth and seventh in the 400m hurdles.

 
Women’s Top Performances

 
Quotable
Director of Track and Field Cale McDaniel
 
On the men’s team…
 “It just feels so good to lead a group that trusts and believe in themselves and in the program. I love these men and have so much respect for what they have accomplished. This team is proof of how special the school is and how it attracts exceptional individuals. Our staff and support staff are first class and total professionals. This was a huge team effort and I’m so thankful for all of them.”
 
On the women’s team …
 “We need to grow and we need to get better in this conference. I take full responsibility in shaping this women’s program into what I know we can be. With that said, we had some women do some really awesome stuff this weekend and several with a chance to lengthen their season at NCAA’s. We will be better moving forward.” 

 

Next Up

Athletes who rank among the top 48 in their respective events earn a berth into the NCAA East First Rounds in Jacksonville, Fla. May 28-31. In addition, the best 24 relays times advance to the NCAA First Rounds. Athletes with the top 12 times/marks and the best 12 relay teams at both the East and West First Rounds sites will qualify for the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore. The decathlon and heptathlon will not be held during the NCAA Preliminary Rounds. Instead, the top 24 decathlon and heptathlon scores in the nation earn an automatic berth to the NCAA Championship site.

Make that eight Big Ten championships in Oregon‘s first year in the conference.

The Ducks men secured a conference title on Sunday in outdoor track and field, protecting their turf at historic Hayward Field. The women finished second, just behind Big Ten champion USC.

Oregon has now won Big Ten titles in football, baseball, softball, men’s indoor and outdoor track and field, women’s indoor track and field (NCAA champions), women’s cross-country, and women’s golf.

The men ran away with it on Sunday, scoring 110 team points compared to just 81 apiece for tied-for-second Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The USC women surpassed Oregon in the final event on Sunday afternoon, winning the 4×400. The Trojans had 121 total points to Oregon’s 113, despite the Ducks winning multiple individual titles of their own.

Here is every event Oregon scored in:

Men’s total score: 110 points (Champions)

Men’s javelin: 4 points

Pat Vialva, 232-3 (5th place, 4 points)

Men’s 10,000: 23 points

Aiden Smith, 29:24.65 (2nd place, 8 points)

Evan Bishop, 29:25.13 (3rd place, 6 points)

Evan Burke 29:26.10 (4th place, 5 points)

Abdel Laadjel, 29:27.42 (6th place, 3 points)

Quincy Norman, 29:28.15 (8th place, 1 point)

Men’s decathlon: 6 points

Koby Kessler, 7,303 (4th place, 5 points)

Aiden Carter, 7,058 (8th place, 1 point)

Men’s long jump: 7 points

Cheikh M’Baye, 24-10 (5th place, 4 points)

Safin Wills, 24-9 (6th place, 3 points)

Men’s high jump: 3 points

Shaun Miller Jr., 6-9 (6th place, 3 points)

Men’s shot put: 6 points

Kobe Lawrence, 63-8 3/4 (3rd place, 6 points)

Men’s steeplechase: 16 points

Benjamin Balazs, 8:40.93 (Champion, 10 points)

Sergio Del Barrio, 8:42.67 (3rd place, 6 points)

Men’s triple jump: 8 points

Safin Wills, 51-2 1/4 (2nd place, 8 points)

Men’s discus: 5 points

Aidan Elbettar, 191-1 (4th place, 5 points)

Men’s 1,500: 9 points

Simeon Birnbaum, 3:53.38 (3rd place, 6 points)

Rheinhardt Harrison, 3:54.31 (6th place, 3 points)

Men’s 100: 3 points

Rodrick Pleasant, 10.36 (6th place, 3 points)

Men’s 800: 8 points

Matthew Erickson, 1:47.922 (2nd place, 0.001 seconds off 1st, 8 points)

Men’s 5,000: 12 points

Simeon Birnbaum, 13:31.87 (Champion, meet record, 10 points)

Abdel Laadjel, 13:35.98 (7th place, 2 points)

…

Women’s total score: 113 (2nd place)

Women’s 10,000: 10 points

Diana Cherotich, 32:00.48 (Champion, meet record, 10 points)

Women’s heptathlon: 10 points

Annika Williams, 5,914 (Champion, 10 points)

Women’s steeplechase: 5 points

Katie Clute, 9:57.98 (4th place, 5 points)

Women’s javelin: 4 points

Kohana Nakato, 166-6 (5th place, 4 points)

Women’s triple jump: 18 points

Ryann Porter, 44-5 1/2 (Champion, 10 points)

Cassandra Atkins, 43-11 1/4 (2nd place, 8 points)

Women’s 4×100: 4 points

Shaniya Hall, Lily Jones, Brazil Neal, Amirah Shaheed, 44.39 (5th place, 4 points)

Women’s 1,500: 14 points

Silan Ayyildiz, 4:13.35 (2nd place, 8 points)

Mia Barnett, 4:13.40 (3rd place, 6 points)

Women’s 100 hurdles: 10 points

Aaliyah McCormick, 12.86 (Champion, 10 points)

Women’s 400: 5 points

Ella Clayton, 53.00 (4th place, 5 points)

Women’s 800: 14 points

Klaudia Kazimierska, 2:02.92 (Champion, 10 points)

Ella Nelson, 2:05.46 (5th place, 4 points)

Women’s 400 hurdles: 3 points

Annaleise Taylor, 1:00.11 (6th place, 3 points)

Women’s 5,000:

Silan Ayyildiz, 15:37.11 (Champion, meet record, 10 points)

Diana Cherotich, 15:46.60 (6th place, 3 points)

Ella Thorsett, 15:52.03 (7th place, 2 points)

Women’s 4×400:

Ella Clayton, Shaniya Hall, Annaleise Taylor, Lakely Doht-Barron, 3:38.10 (8th place, 1 point)

—Ryan Clarke covers college sports for The Oregonian/OregonLive. Reach him at RClarke@Oregonian.com or on Twitter/X:@RyanTClarke. Find him on Bluesky:@ryantclarke.bsky.social.

GENEVA, OHIO – The young guns on the TCNJ men’s track and field team will get another chance to step into the spotlight as the Lions are set to send two individuals and a relay to the NCAA Outdoor Championships next week.
 
Maxim Rychkov qualified in the 100 and 200 meters, Nate Adams did so in the 400 hurdles, and the pair will join Anthony Senatore and Noah Traverso in the 4×400 relay at SPIRE Institute. Adams, only a sophomore, is the lone non-rookie in head coach Justin Lindsey‘s traveling party.
 
Adams will make his NCAA debut thanks to his second-place time of 52.72 at the NJAC Championships, enough to land him the 22^nd and final qualifying spot in the event.
 
Rychkov made a big splash at the NCAA Indoor Championships, running to All-America honors in the 60-meter dash (12^th place) and 200-meter dash (7^th). He also joined Senatore, Traverso, and Jack Attali to place 8^th in the 4×400 relay.
 
Rychkov owns the 8^th-best time in Division III in the 200 (20.98), and his record-breaking mark of 10.45 seconds from the AARTFC Championships was enough to move him into 18^th in the 100.
 
Adams, Rychkov, Senatore, and Traverso posted a school-record mark of 3:10.70 at Widener earlier this week, which clocks in at 11^th nationally.
 
Adams will compete in the 400 hurdles prelims at 6:10 p.m. on Thursday. Rychkov will then take on the 200-meter dash prelims at 6:40 p.m., and the 4×400 prelims are set for 8 p.m.
 
The 100-meter prelims are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Friday.
 
Finals are slated for the following times on Saturday: 100 (2:30 p.m.), 400 hurdles (3:15 p.m.), 200 (3:40 p.m.), and 4×400 relay (4:50 p.m.).

ABOUT THE SHOW

With the rallying cry “Achieve Greatness Everyday,” Season 98 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) carries on with the league’s tradition of bringing exciting sports action to viewers.

The NCAA is home to student-athletes from 10-member schools, namely, the Arellano University, Colegio de San Juan de Letran, De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, Emilio Aguinaldo College, José Rizal University, Lyceum of the Philippines University, Mapúa University, San Beda University, San Sebastian College – Recoletos, and the University of Perpetual Help System DALTA.