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Bradley senior qualifies in 1500
Bradley runner Jack Crull is headed to the national finals.
The fifth-year senior earned a spot in the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships, set for June 11-14 in Eugene, Oregon. He is one of 24 qualifiers in the men’s 1,500-meter run, with a time of 3 minutes, 47.31 seconds.
Crull is the first BU track athlete to qualify for nationals since Tiana LoStracco made the women’s 800 field in 2023. He is the first men’s athlete headed to Eugene since Daniel Gagne made the 1500 in 2017. He and Gagne are BU’s only NCAA outdoor finalists since 1955.
Crull advanced after his performance last week at the NCAA West First Round in College Station, Texas. He finished second in the first round heat and then fifth in the quarterfinal heat to advance — lunging to the line to defeat the next runner by .09 and earn the final spot in the semifinals.
Crull’s next race is the national 1,500 semifinals, scheduled for 6:21 p.m. CT on June 11. The finals are 7:12 p.m. on June 13.
Six other Bradley athletes competed in the first round at College Station, but did not advance beyond their first race: Jaxson Copelin (men’s 800) Jamie Phillips (men’s 800), Abigail Hancock (women’s 1500), Kaitlyn Sheppard (women’s 1500), Trixie Wraith (women’s 1500) and Nadia Potgieter (women’s 5000).