By: Trevor Jackson, Graduate Assistant

NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championship Central
 
PUEBLO, Colo. – On Friday, Matthew Muthler once again made history, as the senior earned his second All-American honor of the 2024-25 season on day two of the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships hosted by Colorado State University – Pueblo at the CSU Pueblo Thunder Bowl. 
 
Two-time Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Champion, PSAC and Lock Haven record holder, and Indoor Track and Field All-American, Muthler earned his second All-American honor this year after finishing in eighth place with 7073 points at the National Championship. Muther entered the second day of the decathlon in ninth place with 3713 points. He then climbed one place to secure his All-American honor and a podium spot on the grandest stage. 
 
He competed in the final five events in the decathlon. His best performance today was in the 1500-meter, where he dominated the decathlon field by finishing at 4:37.66. Muthler started the day with the 110-meter hurdles and finished in the top-ten with a time of 15.25. He kept the top-ten performances going in the discus throw, where he threw for a distance of 120-6. Muthler threw in the javelin, earning him another top-ten finish with a throw of 174-10. In the pole vault, Muthler achieved a new personal best height of 13-1.5. 
 
Next up for The Haven: 
Peter Bellomo will throw on the final day of the championship event on Saturday (May 24), beginning at 2:45 p.m. (4:45 p.m. EST). 

GENEVA, Ohio – Dickinson junior men’s track and field athlete Trevor Richwine put a great big bow on a fantastic 2025 outdoor campaign by claiming the 800m title at the NCAA DIII Outdoor Track and Field Championships on the SPIRE Institute campus on Saturday afternoon.

Richwine entered the weekend hoping he would take to the track twice once each on Friday and Saturday. In order to guarantee himself an opportunity at Saturday he had to land within the Top-9 of the 22 competitor field. He accomplished step one on Friday by putting up the second fastest time of 1:51.14. Then, on Saturday, Richwine’s magical moment came as his mark of 1:49.99 toppled the field with his next closest challenger Dawit Dean from Emory University hit the line in 1:50.36. 

With the win he secured not only the title, but also earned First Team All-American status.

HER wrist bears the sign that she is an Olympian. The mental scars are elsewhere.

Given Erin Riordan did not have the best Olympics experience, returning to the place where she spent most of her time trying to qualify and prepare for the Games might seem an odd choice.

3

3

3

But, so far, it is working for the former swimmer turned water polo player, who helped St Vincent’s win the Irish Senior Cup this month.

The daughter of Irish parents, Riordan was born in Japan and has lived in Switzerland, Hong Kong and the UK.

College brought her back to the ancestral home as swimming kept her there.

Tokyo was targeted and missed. So, too, it seemed, had Paris, when the 4x100m freestyle relay team of which she was a member of came 17th in the World Championships.

Riordan quit but returned when they were bumped up the list because Japan had not met their own national qualifying criteria.

It was a far from ideal build-up to competition.

She reflected: “The few months leading up to Paris were probably the most emotionally strained I’ve been in my life.

“Along the way you kind of forget why you’re doing it and it becomes, ‘I want to make the Games, I want to do this’, as opposed to I used to love the sport and I loved getting up at 5am.”

On the qualification reprieve, she said: “I think that I had already grieved the loss.

“I had decided, ‘OK it’s not happening for me, I’m not going to the Olympics’.

“And then two weeks later it was, ‘Get back to Dublin, you might be going’. It was a big toll on the mind more so than the body.

“It’s not a few months of prep, it’s years and years of prep. We tried to get to Tokyo and didn’t get it.

“I said, ‘I’m sticking it out, I’m doing it again’, trying to get to Paris.

“That was all taken away in one moment and then all given back in one moment, peaks and troughs, and a rollercoaster.”

Ireland finished exactly where their qualification ranking suggested they would — in 16th.

But the overall experience did not exactly live up to the hype.

Riordan, 25, said: “You build it up in your head a little bit and then you get there and you’re like, ‘Oh my goodness the food is not nice, the hotel is not nice’.

“You walk out and you’re like, ‘This is it, this is the moment’. And then you’re also like, ‘Oh this is it?’ Two edges of a sword I guess.

“I got Covid when I was over there. I was not well when I raced.

“I tested negative before I raced and tested positive after I raced so I got sent home immediately.”

NEXT CHAPTER

She got the five-rings tattoo soon afterwards and it was not long before she took up a new sport.

She said: “That was something we worked on with the sport psychologist — a plan for after Paris.

“We knew it was going to be my last race, she advised me, ‘The Olympic blues, you have to be careful. You’re so used to getting all these endorphins from doing sport so if you stop, that’s all going to drain out of you plus you’ve just completed the goal of your life’.

“So she was like, ‘You need to have a plan’. The two sports I was looking at were triathlons or water polo but triathlons don’t seem that fun.

“So I decided to go into water polo which was a weird transition because I’d never done any ball sports, I’d never done team sports.

“It was a bit humbling at the beginning, going from the Olympics to being the very worst on a team that has 14-year-old girls on it but good fun all the same.”

St Vincent’s are based out of the National Aquatic Centre which meant returning to a venue where she put in the hard yards in pursuit of a dream that did not quite live up to expectations.

She said: “It’s fine now but the first time I was walking in I was like, shudders, post-traumatic stress disorder from all the training.

“I didn’t even want to do the swim sessions with the water polo team. I managed to force myself to do it.

“It’s good now, I guess. It’s kind of like home even though I didn’t want to be there for a while. I get a home feeling from it.”

DIFFERENT OUTLOOK

That may in part be down to bumping into former team-mates.

She said: “Yeah every now and then and I’d still keep in touch with them. It’s funny seeing them do their 6km sessions, enjoy!”

Training twice a week nicely dovetails with her full-time job with pharmaceutical firm Grifols, although she is also training for the Lisbon marathon in October.

She said: “Before I used to work my life around my sport, whereas now I’m working sport around my life. It’s a different dynamic for me.

“I started off not being able to catch the ball. There’s a lot of skills you get from doing a lot of sports that are really transferable so I’ve picked it up a lot quicker than most people would pick it up.

“It’s different, even learning tactics and stuff.

“I’ve never really done anything like that, it was just, ‘Swim in a straight line and hope for the best’.

“I ended up getting called up for the Irish Senior Cup team. I had more of a minor role.

“I got a bit of game time but we ended up winning which was great. In the next few seasons I’m going to keep going, see where we go.”

Geneva, Ohio – May 23, 2025 – Springfield College sophomore Mike Anderson (Cromwell, Conn.) represented the Pride at the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field National Championships on Friday afternoon in the 110-meter hurdles at the SPIRE Institute.

Anderson, who entered his first career appearance on the national stage seeded 15th in the 110-meter hurdles, clocked a time of 15.12-seconds for 18th overall in the event. Anderson wraps up a very successful sophomore campaign as he broke the school record in the 110-meter hurdles multiple times culminating in a mark of 14.23-seconds which he set at the AARTFC Outdoor Championships back on May 14.

Tomorrow, Samantha Paul will compete in the triple jump at 1:45 pm for the women’s track and field program looking for her second All-America accolade of the 2024-25 year.

For the latest on Springfield College Athletics, follow the Pride on social media on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.  Be sure to tune into all Springfield College Athletic events by subscribing to FloSports.

 

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.6.1 Safari/605.1.15 X-Middleton/1

0786ae7b8f791dcd165d63cdd413629aeb710cce

1

Tyler Hendrickson was born and raised in Long Beach, and started covering sports in his hometown in 2010. After five years as a sportswriter, Tyler joined the athletic department at Long Beach State University in 2015. He spent more than four years in the athletic communications department, working primarily with the Dirtbags baseball program. Tyler also co-authored of The History of Long Beach Poly: Scholars & Champions.

http://the562.org