Saturday’s Meet
Visit Winston Salem College Kick Off
December 6, 2025 | 9:30 am – 4:25 pm
JDL Fast Track | Winston-Salem, N.C.
 
Live Results: Click Here
 
Event Preview:
The USC Upstate men’s and women’s track and field teams begin the indoor season Saturday with the Visit Winston Salem College Kick Off for the eighth consecutive season. In the 2025-2026 Big South Indoor Track and Field Preseason Polls, the men were ranked third and the women ranked sixth.

Jeremiah Harris is an athlete to watch this season for the Spartans. At this meet last season, Harris placed second in the 200m and set personal bests in both the 200m and the 60m.  Elias Harrison broke the school record for the 600m this time last season, and looks to kick-off a strong track season with the Spartans. 

Laurin Hannibal had an outstanding performance at the meet last season in the women’s triple jump, finishing fourth in the event. Jenelda Aristhil is another athlete to watch. Last season at JDL Fast Track, Arishtil set a personal best in the weight throw.

 

Schedule of Events:

 

Time	Event	Athlete
9:30 AM	M Shot Put	Mosley, Sterling, Ketch, Bruce
9:30 AM	W Shot Put	Aristhil, Joyner
10:00 AM	W 60m Hurdles	Redding, Franklin, Harper, Perez
10:00 AM	M Long Jump	Bilderback, Clark, Moody, Means
10:00 AM	W Long Jump	Handy, Hannibal, Perez
10:15 AM	M 60m Hurdles	Isley, Bryan
10:30 AM	W 60m	Yates, Benson, Singletary, Brown, Jackson
10:50 AM	M 60m	James, Bui-Hayes, Rice, Daniels, Dixon, Grant
12:50 PM	W 400m (Unseeded)	Bell, Brown, Osterkamp, Chisholm
1:05 PM	M 400m (Unseeded)	Hendrix
1:25 PM	W 400m (Seeded)	Glover
1:30 PM	W High Jump	Cook, Perez
1:30 PM	M Weight Throw	Sterling, Mosley, Ketch
1:35 PM	M 400m (Seeded)	Ruff, Krishnaraj, Hunter
1:45 PM	W 800m	Kutilek
2:05 PM	M 800m	Harrison, Barron
2:20 PM	W 200m (Unseeded)	Allen, Benson, Yates, Cornelius, Jackson
2:35 PM	M 200m (Unseeded)	Johnson, Daniels, McKinney, Walston
2:45 PM	M Triple Jump	Moody, T. Pressley, J. Pressley
2:45 PM	W Triple Jump	Handy, Hannibal
3:05 PM	M 200m (Seeded)	Harris
3:30 PM	M High Jump	Means, Kenny
4:00 PM	W Weight Throw	Aristhil
4:00 PM	W 4x400m	A: Osterkamp, Brown, Glover, Bell; B: Perez, Allen, Chisholm, Harper
4:25 PM	M 4x400m	A: Hunter, Krishnaraj, Ruff, Walston; B: McKinney, Bryan, Bui-Hayes, Harris

 
 
UP Next for the Spartans
The Spartans resume the season January 16-17 at the two-day Tryon International Classic.
 
Connect with the Spartans     
Facebook.com/UpstateAthletics     
Twitter | @UpstateXCTrack @UpstateSpartans     
Instagram | @UpstateXCTrack @UpstateSpartans     
YouTube.com/UpstateSpartans 
 
 

2025 NCAA Tournament – Second Round

Match #32:  Northern Iowa Panthers (26-5) at #11 Creighton Bluejays (26-5)

Omaha, Neb. • Friday, Dec. 5 • 6:30 p.m.

| LIVE VIDEO | LIVE STATS | CU NOTES | UNI NOTES | PROGRAM |

• Eleventh-ranked and No. 10 seed Creighton (26-5) seeks its fifth trip to the Regional Semifinals when it hosts Northern Iowa (26-5) on Friday at 6:30 p.m. inside D.J. Sokol Arena in Omaha, Neb.

• The match will be broadcast on ESPN+, with Jon Schriner and Shannon Smolinski on the call. Live stats for the general public can be found at https://www.ncaa.com/game/6500701 and for the media via http://creighton.statbroadcast.com.

• With a win on Friday, Creighton would…

– Improve to 27-5 with its 22nd straight win. It would be Creighton’s third-longest win streak in program history, with the only two teams with longer streaks each having them snapped in the Elite Eight (25 in 2024, 23 in 2016). Entering Friday, the only schools with longer active win streaks are Nebraska (30), Kentucky (23), Northern Iowa (22) and Utah State (22).

– Win its 12th straight home match, the nation’s ninth-longest active home winning streak.

– Win its 69th straight match against an unranked team.

– Win its 57th straight non-televised match.

– Improve to 19-14 all-time in the NCAA Tournament, including a 5-7 mark in the Second Round.

– Improve to 9-4 in home matches in the NCAA Tournament with its sixth straight win.

– Improve to 18-42 against Northern Iowa with its ninth straight win over the Panthers.

– Win 27 or more matches for the ninth time, and fifth year in a row.

– Earn itself a Regional Semifinal match against either Arizona State or Utah State. A site, time and opponent will be finalized on Saturday night or Sunday by the NCAA.

– Brian Rosen can become the BIG EAST’s first rookie volleyball coach to win multiple NCAA Tournament matches.

• Northern Iowa leads the all-time series against Creighton, 42-17, including an 18-7 mark in Omaha.

    After winning just three of the first 43 meetings, Creighton has won 14 of the last 16 match-ups in the series, including eight in a row. CU’s 14 wins are the most against the Panthers since 2012, three more than UNI’s 11 losses to Illinois State.

    Six of CU’s 17 wins against the Panthers have come in five sets.  Creighton’s last 12 victories over Northern Iowa have come in six different states (five times in Nebraska, three times in Kentucky, and once each in Iowa, California, Kansas and Illinois).

    Brian Rosen is 1-0 against UNI and Bobbi Petersen as a head coach. Petersen is 30-17 all-time against Creighton.

    Northern Iowa is 14-0 all-time when ranked and facing Creighton. Creighton is 11-1 all-time when ranked when facing UNI. Oddly, the teams have never met when both were ranked.

• Friday’s match-up with Northern Iowa will be Creighton’s 60th against the Panthers since the program’s restart in 1994, the most of any opponent.

    The only other teams that Creighton has played more than 40 times are Wichita State (50) and Illinois State (43).

    UNI is the only opponent to defeat Creighton more than 30 times, something the Panthers have done 42 times.

    Creighton and Northern Iowa have played all but one season (2013) since the Bluejays restarted volleyball in 1994.

    The teams were Missouri Valley Conference rivals who played twice annually from 1994-2012, plus six more MVC Tournament meetings.

    Creighton is 12-2 against Northern Iowa since leaving the MVC, compared to a 5-40 mark when the two were Valley rivals.

• There are a ton of connections between Creighton and Northern Iowa.

    Northern Iowa sophomore Reese Booth (6.23 aps., 2.31 dps.) is the daughter of former Creighton head coach Kirsten Bernthal Booth and an Omaha native who attended Elkhorn North High School.

    Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott played (1984-88) at and served as a head coach (2001-06) at Northern Iowa.

    Former Creighton Athletic Director Bruce Rasmussen is a 1971 graduate of Northern Iowa. He had been at Creighton since 1980, ascending to the Athletic Director  position in 1994, before retiring in August of 2021.

    Northern Iowa women’s basketball head coach Tanya Warren played at Creighton and has spent two stints as an assistant coach with the Bluejays. Warren played for Rasmussen and is one of two Bluejay women’s basketball players with her name in the rafters inside D.J. Sokol Arena.

• It’s quite possible that next weekend’s Sweet 16 could feature Kentucky, USC and either Creighton or UNI (as well as the Arizona State/Utah State winner). From 2014-22 (except 2020, when COVID cancelled most tournaments), USC, Kentucky, Creighton and UNI played in the same tournament that rotated sites over back-to-back four-year spans.

    Creighton went 5-3 against Kentucky with wins in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021, while UNI was 1-7 vs. Kentucky (winning in 2016).

    Creighton was 3-5 against USC with wins in 2019, 2021 and 2022, while UNI went 1-7 with a victory in 2017 over the Women of Troy.

• Creighton is seeking its fifth trip to the Sweet 16 in program history, having been there in 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 and 2024 teams also won in the Regional Semifinals to make the program’s lone Elite Eight appearances to date.

• Creighton is one of 11 schools to appear in the Regional Semifinals each of the previous two NCAA Tournaments, joining Kentucky, Louisville, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Stanford, Texas and Wisconsin.

    Kentucky, Purdue and Wisconsin all won on Thursday, while Oregon was not selected to the 2025 NCAA Tournament field. Louisville, Nebraska, Penn State, Pittsburgh and Stanford open NCAA Tournament play later tonight.

• Creighton is one seven schools to win 26 matches or more each of the last five seasons (2021-25), joining Nebraska, Pittsburgh and Western Kentucky. Louisville (24 wins entering Friday) and Wisconsin (25 wins entering Friday) can join them with successful weekends.

    With a win tonight, the list of teams with 27 wins or more each of the last five seasons narrows down to just Creighton, Pittsburgh and Western Kentucky. Louisville, with 24 wins entering Friday, can get there with a return to the Elite Eight this year.

• Ava Martin had 30 kills on Friday, one of her most dominating performances in a career full of them. Considering the following about the sensational senior…

    Martin’s 30 kills tied her career-high, also done vs. Marquette on Nov. 1, 2025.

    It made Martin the only player in CU history with multiple matches of 30+ kills.

    It tied the D.J. Sokol Arena record that she did vs. Marquette on Nov. 1, 2025 and first accomplished by Norah Sis vs. Auburn in a 2022 NCAA Tournament match.

    It tied Sis’ match vs. Auburn in the 2022 NCAA Tournament for the most by any Bluejay in an NCAA Tournament contest.

    Martin’s 34.5 points in the match were the most by a Bluejay ever in any match since 2001, when points were first tracked nationally. It was also a D.J. Sokol Arena record.

    It was Martin’s 25th straight match with 10 or more kills, and 108th in a row with five or more kills.

    It was the 24th straight contest that Martin has led or tied for the Creighton lead in kills.

• Ava Martin had eight kills in 14 swings during the fifth set last night. In five matches this season to go five sets, Martin has averaged 23.4 kills per match on .323 hitting.

    In the fifth set alone this fall, Martin has 18 kills (3.60 kills per set) and just one error in 42 swings, good for a .405 hitting percentage.

    As a team, Creighton has hit .400 in the fifth set this year, owning 47 kills and just five errors in 105 swings. CU has not had an attack error in three of those five matches (UCSB, Marquette, Northern Colorado).

• Ava Martin’s three aces on Thursday also helped her move up the record books.

    Martin now owns 127 career aces, as she moved into third in program history.

    Martin now owns 66 career aces inside D.J. Sokol Arena, tying Keeley Davis’ facility record.

• While Ava Martin improved her status in several ace-related categories, you can be sure she won’t mind that teammate Nora Wurtz tied her in a few categories on Thursday.

    Wurtz had one ace, moving into a tie with Martin (from 2024) with 56 this season, the second-most in CU history. Only Molly Moran (59 in 2000) has had more.

    Wurtz also tied Martin’s single-season record from 2024 with her 35th ace inside D.J. Sokol Arena this fall.

• There’s also all sorts of D.J. Sokol Arena records within reach on Friday.

    Ava Martin (256.0) is 13.5 points shy of Jaali Winters’ (269.5 in 2015) single-season D.J. Sokol Arena points record.

    Ava Martin (765) is 14 kills shy of tying Jaali Winters’ (779 from 2015-18) for the D.J. Sokol Arena career kills record.

    Ava Martin (230) is 19 kills shy of tying Jaali Winters’ (249 in 2015) single-season D.J. Sokol Arena kills record.

    Ava Martin (66) has tied Keeley Davis (from 2019-22) for most career aces inside D.J. Sokol Arena and is one away from sole possession of the record.

    Nora Wurtz (35) has tied Ava Martin (in 2024) for the most single-season aces in one season inside D.J. Sokol Arena and is one away from sole possession of the record.

    Kiara Reinhardt (8) has tied Elise Goetzinger (in 2024) for the most single-season solo blocks at D.J. Sokol Arena.

    Kiara Reinhardt (247) is two blocks shy of Naomi Hickman (249 from 2017-21) for most career blocks in history inside D.J. Sokol Area.

    Kiara Reinhardt is expected to add to her D.J. Sokol Arena career records for sets played (currently 225), matches played (currently 68) and matches started (currently 65) on Friday.

• Creighton and Northern Iowa have played two common opponents this season, both in Omaha at the Bluejay Invitational.

    During those matches from Sept. 12-14 at D.J. Sokol Arena, both teams swept Rice and lost to Louisville in four sets. Creighton swept UNI to end the event.

• Creighton and Northern Iowa already met once earlier this year inside D.J. Sokol Arena, a 3-0 Bluejay win (25-13, 25-20, 25-17) on Sept. 14th as part of the Bluejay Invitational. Since that meeting, UNI is 22-0, while Creighton is 20-1 with the only loss being a five-setter against No. 1 Nebraska.

    Cassidy Hartman led UNI with 13 kills that day while Lily Dykstra added nine kills.

    Creighton was paced by 10 kills on .625 hitting from Ava Martin. CU had nine aces to UNI’s one and had advantages in kills (39-36), digs (39-37), blocks (6-3) and hitting percentage (.330 to .175).

• Thursday saw Creighton improve to 3-2 on the season in matches in which it has trailed 2-1, having also beaten Marquette and UC Santa Barbara.

    Creighton had not won an NCAA Tournament match when down 2-1 since doing it in a Regional Semifinal victory over Michigan on Dec. 9, 2016 in Austin, Texas.

• Creighton has won the first set in every match during its 21-match win streak.

• Last night’s victory marked Brian Rosen‘s NCAA Tournament debut as a head coach, and it resulted in a 3-2 win over Northern Colorado.

    Rosen’s predecessor, Kirsten Bernthal Booth, won her NCAA Tournament debut as a head coach with a 3-2 win over Iowa State on Dec. 3, 2010.

• Creighton’s victory last night was its first NCAA Tournament victory in a five-set match since a 3-2 win over Michigan on Dec. 9, 2016 in Austin, Texas. That year Creighton made history as the first team to ever open an NCAA Tournament run with three straight five-set victories. The streak started with a 3-2 win in Lawrence, Kan., over Northern Iowa (25-16, 25-20, 24-26, 14-25, 15-12).

• Creighton attracted 2,527 fans on Thursday, just above the listed D.J. Sokol Arena capacity of 2,500.

    Nationally, that ranked fourth-most among the eight sites that competed yesterday. Leading the way was Wisconsin (4,465), Kentucky (3,572) and Arizona State (2,951). CU finished ahead of Purdue (2,415), USC (1,830), Indiana (1,815) and Kansas (1,607).

    Creighton has now attracted 50,162 fans at home this season and are averaging 3,344 fans per home match. Both will be school records.

• Nobody has dominated their respective conferences in recent years more than Creighton and Northern Iowa. UNI has won 60 straight matches over Missouri Valley Conference foes to lead the  country, while Creighton’s 53 consecutive conquests over BIG EAST opposition is second-most.

• Creighton and Northern Iowa were two of eight teams nationally to finish conference play unbeaten this fall. Of those eight, all but Dayton made the NCAA Tournament.

    Teams that went unbeaten in league play this year went 4-0 on Thursday to open the NCAA Tournament. Kentucky won 3-0, while Creighton, Northern Iowa and Utah State all won in five sets.

• After winning just 13 of its first 26 home sets in NCAA Tournament play, Creighton enters tonight having won 15 of its last 17 home sets in NCAA Tournament action.

• Annalea Maeder’s finished her NCAA Tournament debut with 53 assists and 21 digs.

    The 21 digs were a career-high and the most by any Bluejay all season.

    She became the eighth player in CU history to attain at least 20 assists and 20 digs in the same match, but the first to do it in an NCAA Tournament match.

    It was Maeder’s team-leading 13th double-double this fall.

• The opening day of the 2025 NCAA Tournament featured 16 matches, six of which went five sets.

    The site at D.J. Sokol Arena was the nation’s only venue to see a pair of five-set matches.

    It’s reminiscent of 2022, when all three matches in the Creighton sub-Regional went all five sets.

• No. 1 seeds in each quadrant went 8-0 last night, but No. 2 seeds were just 5-3.

    At least 10 of the 16 top seeds in each quadrant have advanced to the Regional Semifinal round in each of the past 24 seasons.

    On average in that span, 12.83 of the 16 seeded teams (80.2 percent) make the Sweet 16.

The Greg Page Relays, an annual indoor track and field competition hosted by the men’s and women’s track team that marks the beginning of the indoor track season on Friday and Saturday, December 5-6, will no longer be open to unattached or club athletes. 

Meet information previously stated that the event was “open to all athletes that are currently eligible.” It has since been updated to specify participants are limited to those who are “currently eligible and actively rostered student-athletes at NCAA and NJCAA institutions only,” according to previously posted information about the meet on the Cornell University Athletics website. 

The Greg Page Relays were historically an opportunity for club or unattached athletes to compete in officially timed meets. Unattached athletes were required to pay an entry fee of at least $40 per person. Results from these official meets are crucial to athletes hoping to gain the interest of varsity teams. 

“Greg Page Relays has often been a proving ground for underclassmen athletes looking to make it onto the varsity team,” said Lucas Corea ’26, a member of the Cornell Running Club. “It is an environment that provides a golden opportunity to perform against varsity collegiate athletes across all divisions and most importantly other varsity athletes on the Cornell team.”

Callum Coots ’27 is also a member of CRC and previously competed in the Greg Page Relays as well as the Marc Deneault Invitational, which also recently limited its entry to NCAA and NJAA rostered athletes, according to information about the meet from Cornell Athletics. He also participated in the Big Red Invitational, which has not posted information about eligibility for the meet. 

For Coots, the chance to compete is “incredibly valuable” for his development as a runner. 

“These meets have provided me opportunities to build my case as a hopeful walk-on and get noticed by coaches,” Coots said. “They have also allowed me to have a full track season with meets every few weeks.”

According to a Cornell spokesperson, the currently posted information is incorrect and will be updated to ensure that collegiate teams “understand the proper entry procedures.”

“To best meet our team’s competitive needs, the Greg Page Relays and Multi Meet are open to collegiate teams by invitation only,” a Cornell spokesperson wrote in an email statement to The Sun. “Our varsity rosters are set for the year. Other opportunities are available within the region for unattached athletes to compete.” 

When asked why the decision was made to change the eligibility of the meets, the University did not directly answer, but stated that the change is “not related” to the University’s settlement with the federal government. 

In the $60 million settlement with the Trump administration, Cornell agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice’s guidelines including Title IX guidelines pertaining to transgender athletes in sports and more as “unlawful.” 

USA Track and Field hosts one other official timed indoor meet, the Niagara Open and Masters Indoor Track and Field Championships on January 18. 

“Overall, I am losing the ability to compete at a high level at my own school,” Coots said. “The new eligibility rule makes it impossible for me to compete in Cornell-hosted meets like the Greg Page Relays.”

---

Read More

8:05 am CT December 5, 2025Share this update

More to read from Wisconsin’s NCAA tournament match against Eastern Illinois

John Steppe

9:09 pm CT December 4, 2025Share this update

Wisconsin stats leaders vs Eastern Illinois

John Steppe

• Kills: Mimi Colyer and Una Vajagic with 10
• Hitting percentage: Trinity Shadd-Ceres with 1.000 hitting percentage on four total attacks
• Service aces: Kristen Simon and Charlie Fuerbringer with two
• Assists: Charlie Fuerbringer with 35
• Digs: Kristen Simon with 15
• Total blocks: Alicia Andrew and Charlie Fuerbringer with four each

8:31 pm CT December 4, 2025Share this update

Who does Wisconsin play next in NCAA tournament?

John Steppe

Wisconsin will face North Carolina in the second round of the NCAA tournament after the third-seeded Badgers swept Eastern Illinois. North Carolina upset sixth-seeded UTEP in the first round before Wisconsin’s match.

The match will be Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. and air on ESPN+.

8:29 pm CT December 4, 2025Share this update

Wisconsin completes sweep vs Eastern Illinois

John Steppe

For the 13th time in Kelly Sheffield’s 13 seasons as Wisconsin head coach, the Badgers are advancing to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Wisconsin won the third set, 25-19, to complete the sweep over Eastern Illinois. The Panthers went on a 4-0 scoring run before UW finally put it away with a kill by Tosia Serafinowska.

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College Women’s Track & Field team is set to kick off the 2025-26 indoor season at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener on Saturday, December 6.
 

Last year’s attempt at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener saw five top ten marks set at the BU Track & Tennis Center. Kyla Palmer ran the second fastest 600m in program history, while Kylee Bernard and Ava Carter recorded top five marks in the 300m.
 
Following this weekend, the team has a month long break before returning for the Suffolk Ice Breaker Challenge, held at the TRACK at New Balance on January 18.
 
Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener

Saturday, Dec. 6 | 9:30 a.m. | Boston, Mass. – BU Track & Tennis Center
Live Results | Watch | Meet Info
 
Eagles Competing: Elizabeth Barlow, Anna Becker, Kylee Bernard, Iris Bergman, Ellie Buckley, Ava Carter, Gina Certo, Claire Crowley, Ella Fadil, Erin Finley, Imogen Gardiner, Gabrielle Hamel, Kyra Holland, Hanna Hollins, Kyla Palmer, Sydney Segalla, Anna Sonsini, Yaroslava Yalysovetska, Ron-Niah Wright
 

BOONE, N.C. – The App State women’s track and field team launches the 2025-26 indoor season at the Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-Off at the JDL Fast Track on Saturday. Field events will start at 9:30 a.m., and track events are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
 
Twenty-five Mountaineers return to the High Country after guiding App State to a third-place finish at the 2025 Sun Belt Indoor Championships, the best team finish for the Black and Gold since winning the title in 2016. Lilly Nichols, who set the school, conference, and Polish U20 women’s indoor pole vault record with a clearance of 4.26m (13′ 11.75″) in her collegiate debut, returns for her sophomore season. The Broomfield, Colo., native secured silver and earned Second-Team All-SBC honors in the women’s pole vault with 4.18m (13′ 8.5″) at last year’s indoor championship. Joining Nichols in the pole vault and returning for her senior season is Ava Studney. Studney matched Suzanne Makinson’s 2004 clearance of 4.06m (13′ 3.75″) during the 2024 campaign and stands tied for second on the App State all-time list. She also finished sixth at the conference championship last year with a clearance of 3.73m (12′ 2.75″). 
 
Sprinters Kendall Johnson, Nicole Wells and Jayla Adams return for their junior seasons. Johnson set the school record with a time of 7.42 in the women’s 60-meter prelims at the SBC Championship and finished seventh overall in the final with a time of 7.51. The previous record was 7.44, set in 2005 by Jennifer Claud. Additionally, Johnson, alongside Addison Ollendick-Smith, Ja’Naya Linder and Adams, earned Second-Team All-SBC honors for their performance in the women’s 4×400-meter relay at the conference championship. The quartet stopped the clock at 3:45.19, coming within two seconds of the program record of 3:43.85, which was set at the 2023 Sun Belt Indoor Championships. 
 
Ollendick-Smith, who holds the program record in the women’s 600 meters (1:33.95) and stands second all-time in the women’s 800 meters (2:11.13), returns for her senior season, specializing in mid-distance events. In addition to helping the Mountaineers to a second-place finish in the women’s 4×400-meter relay, she was a part of the women’s distance medley relay team that also secured silver at the conference championship meet with a time of 11:35.52. 
 
Junior Rhys Ammon and sophomore Savannah Moore return to the track for the Mountaineers’ distance squad this year. The duo secured spots in both the women’s 600 meters and women’s 1,000 meters last winter, with Moore leading the way, ranking second all-time in the 600 meters (1:36.45) and third all-time in the 1,000 meters (2:57.90). Junior Dianna Boykin and sophomores Emily Edwards and Brittany Ellis make their returns for App State’s throws squad. Boykin and Ellis both recorded personal bests in the women’s weight throw with marks of 14.20m (46′ 7.25″) and 12.86m (42′ 2.25″), respectively at the SBC meet. Edwards led the team in the shot put last season with a personal best mark of 12.57m (41′ 3″), which she set at the 2025 Virginia Tech Invitational. 
 
For the 2025-26 campaign, thirteen newcomers will don the Black and Gold. Senior Damyja Alejandro-Ortiz, who spent three seasons at Lenoir-Rhyne, and sophomore Micayla Collins, who spent her freshman season at Virginia Tech, joins App State’s sprints squad alongside freshman Tatiana Blake. Freshmen Alana Braxton, Kelly MacBride, and Ashlynn Wimberly will specialize in the jumps events this season. Distance freshmen Josie Jackson, Allie Kinlaw, Tessa Massa, Julia Mayer, Elizabeth McCart, Lika Strydom, and Ashby Williams are set to step onto the track after making their collegiate debuts on the cross country course this fall. Massa, Jackson, and McCart earned All-SBC honors after helping the Mountaineer women to their second consecutive Sun Belt Cross Country team title. Additionally, Massa was tabbed as the Sun Belt Women’s Cross Country Freshman of the Year for her efforts.
 
On Deck 
App State’s indoor season will resume on Saturday, Jan. 10, with the UNC Asheville Collegiate Opener at Tryon International in Mill Spring, N.C.