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Logan Hammer and Shelby Jensen Represent Utah State Track & Field at NCAA Championships

LOGAN, Utah – Junior Logan Hammer and sophomore Shelby Jensen will represent Utah State track and field at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, from Wednesday to Saturday, June 11-14. MEET INFORMATION 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships Date: June 11-14, 2025  […]

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LOGAN, Utah – Junior Logan Hammer and sophomore Shelby Jensen will represent Utah State track and field at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, from Wednesday to Saturday, June 11-14.

MEET INFORMATION

2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Date: June 11-14, 2025 

Start: Wednesday @ 1 p.m.; Thursday @ 10:45 a.m.; Friday @ 12:45 p.m.; Saturday @ 4:30 p.m. (MT) 

Site: Eugene, Oregon 

Venue: Hayward Field

Broadcast: ESPN (Wed.-Thurs.) / ESPN2 (Fri.) / ESPNU (Sat.)

Live Results: Record Timing

Competitions: Meet Schedule 

More Information: Championships Central

DIRECTOR OF TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY ARTIE GULDEN

“We are thrilled to have Logan and Shelby representing Utah State at the NCAA championships. They both have experience in big meets, which should help them manage the emotions that come along with an NCAA championship meet. We want them to take the week and their competitions step by step, staying focused in their present moment. If they are able to do that and be super tough competing, this will be a special week for them both.”

RAISING THE BAR

So far in 2025, Hammer has put together an unforgettable season. He made his first bit of Aggie history by clearing 5.50 meters (18-0.5) at the BYU Indoor Invitational on January 11, setting the Utah State indoor pole vault record. His mark bested the previous record of 5.45 meters (17-10.5), which was set by Lance White in 1994 and matched by Mark Calvin in 1998. Hammer broke his own record the following week by clearing 5.55 meters (18-2.5) at the Idaho State-hosted Snake River Open on Jan. 17. At the Utah State-hosted Roman Ruiz Speed and Power Invite on Feb. 1, Hammer broke both his own record and the George Nelson Fieldhouse record with his mark of 5.60 meters (18-4.5). On February 15, the Nampa, Idaho, product cleared 5.61 meters (18-4.75) at the Arkansas-hosted Tyson Invitational to break the school record. Hammer tied his school record en route to a sixth-place finish at the 2025 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, earning first-team All-American honors. He joins White as the only USU men’s pole vaulters to earn both indoor and outdoor All-American honors.

Hammer carried his historic run of success into the outdoor season. On April 17, he broke his own outdoor school record and Mountain West record at the Pacific Coast Invitational, clearing 5.68 meters (18-7.5), then broke it again two days later at the Beach Invitational with a height of 5.70 meters (18-8.25). He also broke his own MW championship record by clearing 5.65 meters (18-6.5) at the conference championships on May 17. Hammer enters the national championships with the second-best outdoor pole vault mark in the NCAA and the eighth-highest mark of any American, professional or collegiate, in 2025. The Columbia (Idaho) HS graduate also holds four of the seven best jumps in NCAA Division I this season.

STEEPLE-CHASING HISTORY

Jensen enters the national championships amid a breakout sophomore campaign. The Saratoga Springs, Utah, native, who ranked second in Aggie history in the 3,000-meter steeplechase entering the 2025 season, set personal bests in each of her first three races in the event. At the Mountain West Outdoor Championships on May 16, she broke the Utah State record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, which was set by All-American Cierra Simmons-Mecham in 2018, with a time of 9:48.44, earning a silver medal at the meet. On May 31, Jensen clinched her berth to nationals with a time of 10:00.46, putting together the fastest lap in the entire NCAA quarterfinal field on her final lap (1:09.79) at the NCAA West First Rounds. She became the first Utah State woman to reach the national championships since Simmons-Mecham in 2019. Jensen is currently the 11th-ranked collegiate runner and the 17th-ranked American runner, collegiate or professional, in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

AGGIES AT THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

Utah State will be sending athletes from both the men’s and women’s programs to the national championships for the first time since 2019, when Sindri Gudmundsson and Simmons-Mecham represented the Aggies in the men’s javelin and women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, respectively. Hammer will be making his second straight appearance at outdoor nationals, having finished 16th with a clearance of 5.22 meters (17-1.5) at the 2024 championships to earn second-team All-American honors.

The men’s best-ever team finish came in 1958, when Olympic silver medalist L. Jay Silvester earned All-American honors in the discus and shot put to lead the Aggies to an eighth-place finish. The 1997 women’s team earned the program’s top team finish at the outdoor nationals, powered by Olympian LaDonna Antoine’s All-American performance in the 400 meters.

USU’S TROPHY CASE REVIEW

USU’s varsity athletics programs have won three team and six individual national championships all-time. The men’s track and field program has produced five individual national championships. Glenn Passey won the national title in the discus in 1961, marking the Aggies’ first-ever title. Jerry Cerulla claimed the 60-meter hurdle title at the 1965 Outdoor National Championships. Olympian Mark Enyeart holds the most national titles in Aggie history, having swept the 880-yard titles at the Indoor and Outdoor Championships in 1975 and the 800-yard title at the 1977 Outdoor Championships.

Utah State volleyball won the AIAW national title in 1978, the Aggies’ first-ever team title. Jay Don Blake won the NCAA men’s golf national championship in 1980, becoming the only athlete outside of track and field to win an individual title. USU softball won back-to-back AIAW national titles in 1980-81, the latter serving as Utah State’s most recent national championship in any varsity sport.

LAST MEET

Utah State track and field advanced two athletes to the national championships and set one school top-10 mark at the NCAA West First Rounds in College Station, Texas. Hammer qualified for nationals in the men’s pole vault by clearing 5.42 meters (17-9.25) and Jensen secured her place at the championships with her time of 10:00.46 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, good for second in her heat and sixth overall. The men’s 4×100-meter relay team of freshmen Diego Aguirre-Stewart, Daniel Chase, Mathew Hall and Ayodele Ojo clocked in at 39.54, improving on their third-best performance in USU history and missing out on a berth to nationals by 0.10 seconds.

FOLLOW ALONG

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