Temple Begins Indoor Track & Field Season at UPenn This Weekend

PHILADELPHIA – Temple women’s indoor track and field season opens its 2025-26 campaign with a meet this Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Penn Opener. The meet will be held at the indoor facility located in South Philadelphia, The Ott Center, and is hosted by Penn. The Cherry & White have 17 returners along with 16 newcomers joining the Owls, 15 of which are freshmen. The jumping events will start at 11:30 a.m. followed by the running events at 1:30 p.m. Catch all the action live on ESPN+ or by viewing the link below.

Live Results 

Previewing the Owls

• A total of 26 athletes will represent Temple across 11 events this weekend.
• Freshman Emilie Creighton, Aly Doyle, Kei-Mahri Hanna, Rian Johnson, Kenya Merritt, Kamryn Ohm, Janae Pettaway, Smilla Ranebro, and Adama Turay, will make their indoor track and field college debut this weekend.
• Nine Temple athletes will compete in the jumps: Emelie Beckman (pole vault), Doyle (long jump), Ohm (pole vault), Ranebro (high jump), Shalisha Robertson (long jump and triple jump), Reagan Schwartz (long jump and triple jump), Deja Scott (long jump), Inara Shell (long jump and triple jump), and Reece Sullivan (pole vault). 
• For the sprints, Zayniah Ali, Pettaway, Turay, and Lila Ziegler  will compete in the 60m dash. Also, racing in the 60m hurdles are: Ali, Doyle, and Turay.
• Competing in the 300m dash are Ali, Grace Hickman, Merritt, Pettaway, and Maliah Powell. 
• Racing in the 600m are Jayla Green, Hanna, Mariah Jameson, Chole Smith, and Dicia Watkins. 
• Laila Cottom and Maya Gomes will represent Temple in the 1,000m race. While, Creighton and Johnson will run the 3,000m race. 
• To conclude the meet Temple will race three 4×400 meter relay teams. 

Previewing the Field
    Other schools that will be competing this weekend are Delaware, Georgetown, Hampton, Rider, St. Joseph’s, Penn, Princeton, Morgan State, and Villanova. 

Up Next 

    Temple will return to the Ott Center to compete at the Penn Select hosted by Penn on Saturday, Jan. 10.