Doris Lemngole, Cierra Jackson headline record-breaking final day of 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships

The tightest race of the day came in the 100m, where USC’s Samirah Moody edged out favourite JaMeesia Ford by just three thousandths of a second. Both were timed at 11.14, but Moody took the win.

Ford didn’t leave empty-handed, coming back strong to win the 200m in 22.21, just ahead of Madison Whyte, who clocked 22.23.

New Mexico’s Pamela Kosgei, the African U-20 champion from Kenya, completed a long-distance double, adding a 5000m win (15:33.96) to her 10,000m victory earlier in the week. She held off Vera Sjoberg, who finished in 15:34.77.

In the 800m, Stanford’s Roisin Willis surged from fourth to first in the final stretch, winning with a personal best of 1:58.13.

Elena Kulichenko, the Russia-born athlete competing for Cyprus, scaled the bar at 1.96m to claim the women’s high jump title ahead of Ghana’s Rose Yeboah (1.93m), whom she shared the title with last year. Both athletes represented their countries at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Sophie O’Sullivan of Washington, daughter of Republic of Ireland’s former world champion and four-time Olympian Sonia O’Sullivan, took the 1500m title in 4:07.94 — a full second ahead of the next finisher, Margot Appleton.

The heptathlon was another close contest. Oklahoma’s Pippi Lotta Enok, last year’s champion, narrowly defended her title with a personal best of 6285 points, just 29 ahead of runner-up Jadin O’Brien.