COLLEGE STATION, Texas (5/30/25) – Arkansas State track and field capped a strong week at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds on Friday at E.B. Cushing Stadium.

Colby Eddowes narrowly missed advancing to the national championships in his second event – having already qualified in the decathlon – by finishing 13^th in the 110-meter hurdles quarterfinals with a time of 13.61.

Jacob Pyeatt concluded the week in the semifinals of the 5000 meters, placing 22^nd with a time of 13:48.72

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A-State will send four athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, held June 11-14, in Eugene, Oregon. Eddowes will compete in the decathlon, while Noa Isaia will make his nationals debut in the hammer throw. Bradley Jelmert will jump in the men’s pole vault and Carly Pujol will compete in the women’s pole vault.

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LOS ANGELES — Three USC women’s water polo players have earned another round of All-America honors with one newcomer to the list as the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches announced the list of 2025 women’s All-Americans today. Senior Tilly Kearns has her third First Team All-America award in-hand, joined by first-time All-American Emily Ausmus on the First Team. Sophomores Rachel Gazzaniga and Ava Stryker have their second All-America selections in two seasons of work, with Gazzaniga on the Third Team and Stryker with Honorable Mention.

A 2024 Olympian with Team USA, Emily Ausmus was named MPSF Newcomer of the Year and a member of the All-MPSF First Team in her first season at USC. The freshman attacker scored in all 34 games for USC to set a school single-season record with 114 goals. In addition to becoming the fastest Trojan to reach 100 goals, Ausmus also handed out 55 assists and stole the ball 46 times in 2025. En route to the NCAA championship game, she scored three goals with two assists and two steals in the national quarterfinal against Harvard. In addition to earned ACWPC All-America First Team honors in her freshman season, Ausmus is a finalist for the Peter J. Cutino Award.

A 2024 Olympic silver medalist with Australia, Tilly Kearns became a three-time All-MPSF First Team honoree this season for USC. The senior center scored 100 goals and finished her time as a Trojan ranked No. 3 all-time in scoring with 262 career goals. In addition to the scoring, Kearns earned 62 exclusions and notched 48 steals on the year. She earned NCAA All-Tournament First Team honors and was instrumental in propelling USC to the NCAA championship game by scoring five goals and earning six exclusions in the Trojans’ national semifinal win over UCLA. This is Kearns’ third First Team All-America selection (2022, 2023, 2025), going along with her recently secured status as a three-time Cutino Award finalist.

Sophomore Rachel Gazzaniga has her second set of ACWPC All-America honors with her spot on the Third Team for 2025. Also an All-MPSF Second Team selection this season, Gazzaniga earned a spot on the NCAA All-Tournament First Team. She scored 46 goals for the high-powered Trojans, delivering at least one goal in 26 games with 13 multiple-goal outings. That included a career-high four-goal outburst in a win over UCLA earlier this season. She also had a hat trick later to beat the Bruins in USC’s NCAA semifinal victory and now boasts 95 career goals in two seasons of work at Troy. Also in 2025, she nabbed 34 steals and had 21 assists.

Ava Stryker scored her 100th career goal during her sophomore campaign while ending up with a total of 72 goals scored for USC in 2025. USC’s third leading scorer, she also was third in assists (48) and steals (41). She scored at least one goal in 32 of USC’s 34 games, with 23 multiple-goal efforts. Named to the NCAA All-Tournament Second Team, Stryker scored six goals in NCAA action to help drive her career scoring count to 121 goals in her two seasons as a Trojan.

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Mykolas Alekna (left), Garrett MacQuiddy (center) and Johnny Goode (right) will represent Cal’s men at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

T&F5/30/2025 7:16 PM | By: Cal Athletics

Alekna Breaks 72 Meters In Discus; MacQuiddy, Goode Advance On Track

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Three of the five California track & field athletes competing at the NCAA West Regional on a humid Friday afternoon posted qualifying marks to advance to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, elongating their already-outstanding seasons in which each man set at least one program record. Including the four Golden Bear qualifiers from Thursday, Cal is now up to seven with the opportunity to add more Saturday.
 
World record-holder and The Bowerman candidate Mykolas Alekna continued his historic streak of dominance in the discus, letting out a yell in his third attempt as he unleashed a throw of 72.12m (236-7) that surpassed the rest of the competition by over 16 feet (4.91 meters) and crushed the former E.B. Cushing Stadium facility record by nearly 24 feet (7.25 meters). The mark also bettered Alekna’s own meet record by nearly 14 feet, or 4.37 meters, and was both the No. 10 performance in world history and the No. 2 throw in collegiate history, which officially clinched all 10 of the all-time collegiate top-10 marks for the Lithuanian native.
 
Garrett MacQuiddy navigated his heat masterfully in the 1500m quarterfinal, putting himself in the perfect position to move outside in the final 200m and execute his signature kick to finish third with a time of 3:47.06, good for third place in his heat and the auto-Q to his second NCAA Championships. Four events later, Johnny Goode ground out a time of 45.84 in the 400m to hang on as one of the top three “next fastest” men, finishing outside of the top three in his heat but nevertheless earning his first NCAA qualifying berth to become Cal’s first man to qualify in that specific event (not counting the 440y race) since Dave Archibald and Forrest Beaty in 1964.
 
Jared Freeman, who competed in the hammer throw two days prior, concluded his collegiate career with a discus mark of 54.91m (180-2), while Jeremiah Bolaños closed out his sophomore campaign in the triple jump with a leap of 15.06m (49-5).
 
NCAA WEST REGIONALS – MEN’S RESULTS (Day 3)
400m Quarterfinal – 9. Johnny Goode 45.84 (q)
1500m Quarterfinal – 14. Garrett MacQuiddy 3:47.06 (Q)
Triple Jump – 36. Jeremiah Bolaños 15.06m/49-5
Discus – 1. Mykolas Alekna 72.12m/236-7 (q, Facility Record, Meet Record); 31. Jared Freeman 54.91m/180-2
 
 
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Five Cal women will close out the meet Saturday, beginning with the women’s discus at 11 a.m. PT.
 
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COLLEGE STATION, Tex. — The UNI relay team of Zack Butcher, Parker Kiewiet, Drake Hanson and Zach Fall took to the track on Friday night at Texas A&M’s E.B. Cushing Stadium, running in the national quarterfinal round of the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary Meet.

In the final men’s event of the four-day competition, Northern Iowa clocked a final time of 3:08.36 to finish in 19th place out of 24 teams with the ninth-fastest time in program history. After Butcher and Kiewiet led off the first two legs with a combined time of 1:33.76, Hanson, who ran in the first round of the men’s 800 meters on Wednesday, posted a time of 46.76 seconds on the third leg, while Fall finished the final 400 meters with a time of 47.85 seconds to round of the third of three heats. 

Other notable teams in the third heat included Southern Illinois and Illinois State, this year’s Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) champion and runner-up respectively, as well as Iowa State.

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With the conclusion of men’s competition on Friday, the Panthers wrap up action in Texas on Saturday with Josie Moreland set to make her NCAA West Preliminary debut in the women’s high jump, while school record holder Emma Hoins hits the track at 5:40 p.m. CT in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase.

PANTHERS AT NCAA WEST PRELIMINARY MEET

Wednesday, May 28

• Men’s Javelin (First Round) | Justice Miller – 19th – 217 feet, 1 inch (66.18m)
• Men’s Shot Put (First Round) | Carson Lienau – 22nd – 59 feet, 9 inches (18.29m)
• Men’s Shot Put (First Round) | Spencer Kessel – 34th – 57 feet, 11 ¾  inches (17.67m)
• Men’s Shot Put (First Round) | David Russell – 41st – 56 feet, 7 ½  inches  (17.26m)
• Men’s Pole Vault (Semifinals) | Brendan Safley – 21st – 16 feet, 11 ½ inches (5.17m)
• Men’s 800m (First Round) | Drake Hanson – 32nd – 1:49.35
• Men’s 800m (First Round) | Chase Knoche – 37th – 1:50.03

Thursday, May 29

• Women’s Shot Put (First Round) | Katie Fare – 22nd – 51 feet, 5 ¾ inches (15.69m)
• Women’s 400m Hurdles (First Round) | Carlie Jo Fusco – 42nd – 1:00.76

Friday, May 30

• Men’s 4x400m Relay (Quarterfinals) | Butcher, Kiewiet, Hanson, Fall – 19th – 3:08.36

Saturday, May 31

• 3:30 p.m. CT – Women’s High Jump (Semifinal) [Moreland]
• 5:40 p.m. CT – Women’s 3,000m Steeplechase (Quarterfinals) [Hoins]

UNI track and field action can be followed all season long on social media on Facebook (UNI Track and Field), X (@UNITrackFieldXC) and on Instagram (@uni_tf_xc). Schedules and rosters, along with the latest Panther news and information can be found online at UNIpanthers.com.

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – On a hot, muggy day in College Station, Rob McManus and Harvey Cramb kept their seasons alive by punching tickets to Eugene at the NCAA West First Rounds on Friday inside E.B. Cushing Stadium. 

The duo will join long jumper Hailey Coey at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in two weeks at Hayward Field, with more potential Bobcat qualifiers still waiting in the wings ahead of the final day of regional competition on Saturday. 

Elsewhere, both Owen Smith and Will Kelly wrapped up memorable careers at the national quarterfinals in the steeplechase on Friday. 

“There were incredible efforts today from the quartet of men’s distance runners,” head coach Lyle Weese said. “The West Region of NCAAs is such a challenging region–so many incredible and outstanding athletes can’t get out of the region. For Harvey to make it through in the 1,500 meters and Rob in the steeplechase is truly outstanding.” 

McManus, a senior from Cashmere, Washington, qualified in the 3,000 meter steeplechase for the third straight year, and joins Levi Taylor (2022-24), Duncan Hamilton (2021-23) and Nick Lam (2007-09) as the only Bobcats in history to make it to three straight NCAA Outdoor Championship meets. 

The current face of ‘Steeple U’ never looked in danger during a commanding second heat on Friday in College Station, staying in the top three throughout the entirety of the nearly eight-lap race over barriers and water jumps. 

McManus finished in 8:30.65, second in his heat and the third-fastest mark in the entire field. 

The decorated distance runner earned Second Team All-American honors in the steeplechase in both 2023 (16th) and 2024 (13th) before earning another Second Team All-American honor in March this season in the indoor mile (15th). 

“I’m really excited to be headed back to Eugene,” McManus said. “We’ve had steeplers to nationals for the past five years straight and it’s awesome to keep that streak going. I’m proud to be a part of this team and can’t wait to represent Montana State on the big stage again.” 

Over the past five years, the Cats have sent ten total qualifiers to the national meet in the 3,000 meter steeplechase, with Hamilton going three times, Taylor three times, McManus three times, and Owen Smith once. 

Smith, a senior from Billings, was trying to return to the big stage in the steeplechase out of the first heat on Friday but came up just short, placing 27th overall with a time of 8:59.83.  

The veteran ends a standout distance career in the Blue and Gold on the track after earning Honorable Mention All-American honors in the steeplechase last year and a bronze medal at the Big Sky Championships this spring. 

“Owen finished up a great track career with another great effort today,” Weese said. “He has brought so much to the team with outstanding performances and always being such a great teammate. 

Will Kelly, a graduate student from Golf, Illinois, also ended his season on Friday night finishing 36th in the 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 9:11.14. In his lone year as a Bobcat, Kelly ran the eighth-fastest steeple race in program history and the eighth-fastest 10,000 meter race in school history. 

“As a graduate student, we were unfortunately only able to have Will for one year,” Weese said. “We were so fortunate to have that one year with outstanding accomplishments and also being such an awesome teammate.” 

Earlier in the day, Harvey Cramb backed up his incredible season by punching his ticket to Eugene in the 1,500 meters. 

Cramb, a sophomore from Brisbane, Australia, becomes the fourth Bobcat man to qualify for nationals in the 1,500 meters, joining Cristian Soratos (2015), Patrick Casey (2011) and Mike Feist (2000). 

The Aussie led for the first three laps of the race before getting stuck on the rail, then held on down the stretch to grab one of the five auto-bids by placing fourth in his heat with a time of 3:47.28. 

“Harvey stayed composed in a stacked heat, and even when he got into a tough position, he battled his way through,” Weese said. 

It continues an incredible year for Cramb, who finished 11th in the mile at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in March to earn Second Team All-American honors, then won a memorable Big Sky title in the 1,500 meters two weeks ago over NAU’s Colin Sahlman. 

Now, Cramb is headed to the biggest stage in collegiate track and field. 

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Montana State track and field concludes their stay at the NCAA West First Rounds on Saturday night at E.B. Cushing Stadium. 

Grace Gilbreth kicks off the evening in the third heat of the 3,000 meter steeplechase at approximately 6 p.m. CT. The school record-holder is seeded 12th in the West Region and is looking to become the first Bobcat woman ever to advance to the NCAA Championships in the steeplechase. 

Later, Kyla Christopher-Moody will look to keep her legendary career alive when she toes the line for the 5,000 meters at 8:10 p.m. CT. The graduate student who holds four school records is seeded 26th in the field and will be aiming at one of the 12 tickets to Eugene.  

Finally, the women’s 4×400 meter relay team will close out the meet in the final event of the week, racing in the final heat at approximately 9 p.m. CT. 

The quartet of Olivia Lewis, Peyton Garrison, Giulia Gandolfi, and Caroline Hawkes are trying to become the first-ever Bobcat relay to advance to the NCAA Championships and enter the regional meet seeded ninth in the 24-team field. 

The Cats will need to either finish in the top three in their heat or run one of the next three-fastest times to book their tickets to Eugene. 

The meet will stream live on ESPN+ beginning at 4 p.m. MT/5 p.m. CT.  

A full meet schedule is available here and start lists can be viewed here. A meet central webpage with links to live results, information, streaming, and more can be found here.     

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LOGAN – The Cache Kraken girls water polo team capped off a standout season with a third-place finish at the Utah state tournament recently, bolstered by individual accolades for players and coaches.

Zoey Hunter was named Utah’s Player of the Year, while Coach Doug Fryer was honored as Coach of the Year. Teammates Whitley Davis, Beza Fryer, Nya Joekel and Sophie Dayton also received statewide recognition. Davis was named First Team All-State Goalie, Fryer made First Team All-State, Joekel earned Second Team All-State, and Dayton received an Honorable Mention.

The Cache Kraken boys team also delivered a strong performance, finishing second in the state after a dramatic shootout loss by a single goal. Justus Field and Tyler Crook were both named to the First Team All-State roster.

The club is now looking ahead to its youth summer camp, which runs Fridays from June 6 to July 18 at 9:30 a.m. at Mountain Crest High School. Open to kids ages 7–13, the camp offers a chance for youth to try out water polo, build friendships, and stay active during the summer. More information is available at www.cachepolo.com.