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DyeStat NCAA D1 Women's Outdoor Formchart By Jack Pfeifer for DyeStat Place Name School Year 100 2 Shenese Walker Florida State Sr 3 Gabrielle Matthews Florida Sr 7 Kelly Ufodiama East Carolina So Selby, the latest in a long line of great Trojan sprinters, won the Big 10 100 in a wind-aided 10.74, one of the fastest hundreds ever run by a collegian. She has plenty of quick challengers in Walker (10.80), 1st indoors this winter in the 60 and the ACC champion; Matthews (10.97), SEC champ over an excellent field, and Georgia’s Hodge (10.77), who ran just the deuce at SEC and was a close 2nd to Walker indoors. JaMeesia Ford (10.87) of South Carolina, last year’s runnerup, is running just the 200. Victoria Cameron (11.01) of Tarleton State, 3rd indoors, did not run conference. Epps (11.07w) won Big 12. Burnett (10.94w) was 2nd at SEC, Defrand (10.90w) 2nd to ‘mate Selby at Big Ten. Ufodiama (11.04w) won the American. 200 3 JaMeesia Ford South Carolina Jr 8 Shenese Walker Florida State Sr Ford (21.98 PR) is defending champion but the newcomer Hodge (21.92) dominated indoors and won SEC. Jackson (22.33), a high school phenom three years ago, has returned to good form, finishing 2nd to Hodge at SEC, ahead of Dickson (22.15). Snaer (22.07w) and Defrand (22.28w) were 2-3 at Big Ten, well back of USC’s Madison Whyte, whose windy 21.78 is the fastest ever run by a collegian – but Whyte is opting to focus on the 400. Kelley, 3rd indoors, won Big 12 in an excellent 22.19. Also a threat is Florida’s Gabrielle Matthews (22.41), who was 4th at SEC and 2nd indoors. Walker (22.05) won ACC. 400 6 Sydney Segalla Boston College Jr Last year’s champion, Georgia’s Aaliyah Butler (49.26), turned pro. Then the midseason leader, LSU’s Ella Onojuvwevwo (49.59), went down and is out. None of that bothered Georgia’s Oakley, who won SEC in a sensational 48.92, just missing the collegiate record and becoming just the second Jamaican to run in the 48s in that country’s storied track history. This sets up a titanic head-to-head with SC’s Whyte (49.64), who was part of four victories at Big 10 – 200, 400 and both relays. Brown is no slouch herself, gradually rounding herself into shape this spring, eventually getting 2nd (49.54) to Oakley. As a freshman in 2024, Brown ran 49.13 and anchored the silver-medal mixed 4x4 for the US at the Paris Olympics. Fellow Hog Butler (49.86) was 3rd at SEC. Joseph (50.08), 6th a year ago, won Big 12. Segalla (50.63) won ACC, while Smith (51.22) was 2nd at Big Ten behind Whyte. 800 1 Makayla Paige North Carolina Sr 2 Sanu Jallow-Lockhart Arkansas Sr 3 Gladys Chepngetich Clemson Jr 4 Juliette Whittaker Stanford Sr 5 Hayley Kitching Penn State Sr 6 Janet Jepkemboi Amimo Kentucky So Paige (PR 1:57.98) was 2nd to Stanford’s Roisin Willis a year ago after winning the indoor 8, and she turned back the indoor champ, Jepngetich (1:58.81), and Tolbert (1:59.39) to win ACC. Whittaker (1:57.76), a 2024 Olympian, bypassed last season and skipped the 8 at ACC, winning the 1,500 instead. She is a formidable presence in this event, following in the footsteps of her teammate Willis, who turned professional in the off-season. Jallow-Lockhart also ran in the 2024 Games, for Gambia, and she broke through at SEC by winning in 1:58.82, over Amimo (1:59.01) and Haynes (1:59.38). Kitching (1:59.22), a tough frontrunner, won the Big Ten. 1500 1 Rosemary Longisa Washington State So 2 Salma Elbadra South Carolina Jr 3 Sadie Engelhardt NC State Fr 4 Emmaculate Jemutai Kansas Jr Longisa (4:02.55), seasonal list leader, was surprise runnerup indoors to Oregon’s Nielsen, who has been off form so far outdoors. Elbadra (4:02.63 PR) held off Florida’s Wilson (4:06.43) in a tough stretch drive at SEC, while Engelhardt (4:03.28), the Wolfpack freshman from California, narrowly lost at ACC to Stanford’s Juliette Whittaker, who is focusing on the 800. Jemutai (4:09.66) was surprise Big 12 champion as the two women she beat, Billah Jekpirui and Jane Hedengren, have opted for longer events. Oregon has multiple entrants, led by Ayyildiz (4:06.97), Nielsen and teammate Juliet Cherubet (4:10.12), who actually won the Big Ten over Nebraska’s Schutz (4:07.50). Washington State has a deep tradition in distance running but it has never had a female national champion in a distance race, and just two Cougars have won the mile, Bernard Lagat indoors in 1999 and Samuel Kibiri the 15 in 1991. Steeplechase 3 Katelyn Stewart-Barnett Michigan State Sr 5 Angelina Napoleon NC State Jr 6 Jule Linder Virginia Tech Fr 7 Nelly Jemeli Mississippi State So The defending champion, Doris Lemngole of Alabama, the only collegian to break 9:00 in this event, has chosen to run other events in this year’s championships despite being list leader (9:18.66) this spring. Novak (9:24.95) and Lovell (9:26.99) are the only other collegians to get under 9:30 this year. Napoleon (9:10.72 PR), 2nd at U.S. Nationals last year, has not been in top shape so far this season, finishing well back to Novak at the ACC. Jemutai (9:39.87), part of the Kenyan stable at ‘Bama, was 2nd at SEC to Lemngole, ahead of Jemeli. Stewart-Barnett (9:44.32) won the Big Ten going away. 5,000 5 Marion Jepngetich New Mexico So 7 Edna Chelulei Eastern Kentucky So Lemngole (14:51.21) is the last collegian to beat the freshman phenom Hedengren (14:44.79 CR) at a race beyond a mile. That was at NCAA XC last Fall where they went 1-2. A few months later at NCAA Indoor, it was all Hedengren as she won both the 3k and 5k, defeating Kosgei, the reigning outdoor 5k champion. Hedengren beat Kipkore (15:20.12) and her teammate Hutchins (15:15.76) at Big 12. Cherubet (15:25.41) took the 1,500 at the Big Ten. Jepngetich (15:19.93) won the Mountain West. 10,000 3 Mercyline Kirwa Iowa State Fr 4 Jadyn Keeler North Dakota State Sr Hedengren (30:46.80 PR CR) and Kosgei (30:49.99) are both doubling 5/10. Kosgei is defending champion in both, but Hedengren was still in high school in Utah a year ago. In Hedengren’s 10k debut this spring at Stanford, she broke the collegiate record, and defeated Kosgei, by 3 seconds. The Eastern Kentucky sophomore Edna Chelulei was also in that race (31:33.57) but has opted to run only the 5k at Nationals. Kirwa (31:51.89) upset Naukot (31:34.34) at Big 12, while the Alabama freshman Kiplagat (32:56.93) beat Olemomoi (32:03.59) and Chepkoech at SEC. The Canadian Keeler has run 31:56.03. 100 Hurdles 4 Janela Spencer Ohio State Sr 5 Rachel Mehringer Indiana State Jr With her 12.64 to win the Southwest Athletic Conference title, Alase has taken a full second off her PR in one season. A Minnesota native, Alase previously ran for NAIA Dillard U. Scales matched the 12.64 in winning the SEC, and she has also won Texas Relays and Tom Jones this spring, but she was the prerace favorite entering NCAA Indoor in March and wound up a well-beaten 5th. McCormick (12.43w), who will be running on her home track, has won the last two NCAA titles, 2026 indoors and 2025 outdoors. She won the Big Ten after a month of inactivity, holding off the Jamaican Spencer (12.52w), who was 6th a year ago. Sey (12.77w), 3rd last year, won MEAC, while Mehringer (12.64w) took the Missouri Valley. Cox, one of four talented freshman hurdlers at Georgia, was SEC runnerup (12.81), while De Mello (12.63w), a Brazilian transfer from Washington State, was 3rd at Big 10. Don’t discount other excellent conference champions such as Tonie-Ann Forbes (12.75w) at Texas Tech and Kailey Elliott (12.78w) from East Carolina in this very deep field. As a hurdler at Southern, Alase is in historic company. Two Southern U. hurdlers have been Olympic champions, Willie Davenport in 1968 and Rod Milburn in 1972. In addition to Davenport and Milburn, five other HBCU high hurdlers have been collegiate champions – Lee Calhoun (1956-57) and Charles Foster (1974) of North Carolina Central, Elias Gilbert (1958) of Winston-Salem, Ronnie Ash (2009) of Bethune-Cookman and Andrea Bruce (1974-75), who won the AIAW 100 hurdles for Prairie View. 400 Hurdles 1 Akala Garrett South Carolina Jr 5 Vanice Kerubo Nyagisera Kentucky Fr 7 Vanessa Mercera Kansas State Sr With the graduation of two-time champion Savannah Sutherland of Michigan, the next three finishers a year ago are our top picks – Garrett (53.73) and Smith (54.56), 1-2 at the SEC, and Hebron (55.19), the ACC champ. Birdow (54.79) was 3rd at SEC, Nyagisera (55.12) 4th, while Belquist (55.60) won the Big Ten on her home track. Mercera beat Balde by thousandths, both in 55.39, at the Big 12. Lurking is Tess Stapleton (55.54), ACC runnerup for Stanford. 4x100 1 USC 2 LSU 3 Georgia 4 Clemson 5 South Carolina 6 Tennessee 7 TCU 8 Texas A&M They may have an overhauled lineup but USC (42.12 seasonal best) is back to defend its title in the 4x1 with a potent lineup of Selby, Defrand, Mallard, Whyte, Pace and Brahe-Pedersen, a lot to choose from. LSU (42.31), 8th last year, beat Georgia (42.61) and Tennessee (42.77) at SEC while Clemson (42.48) won the ACC. 4x400 1 Arkansas 2 Georgia 3 South Carolina 4 Tennessee 5 Texas A&M 6 Kentucky 7 LSU 8 Duke Two years ago observers predicted that Arkansas’s collegiate-record winning time of 3:17.96 might stand “forever.” Could forever be two seasons? Because the Hogs ran 3:20.04 to win the SEC, demolishing Georgia (3:22.54), Tennessee (3:22.73), South Carolina (3:23.42), LSU (3:23.94 seasonal best), Kentucky (3:25.68) and A&M (3:25.10). There’s another conference? Well, Duke was 5th a year ago, 5th indoors and won the ACC. Arkansas is led by sub-50 runners Sanaria Butler and Kaylyn Brown. High Jump 1 Temitope Adeshina Texas Tech Jr 8 Jelese Alexander Wichita State Sr Adeshina (6-5 ½ PR) has won the last two NCAA indoor titles but inexplicably slipped to 5th, clearing just 6-1 ½, at last year’s outdoor NCAA. But she has cleared 6-4 ¾ this spring, well ahead of the rest of the field. She represented Nigeria in the Paris Olympics. Yeboah (6-5 ½), also an Olympic highjumper, for Ghana, has been runnerup multiple times but is having an off year so far, managing just 6-1 ¼ at Big Ten in losing to UCLA’s Fakrogha (6-2 ¾). The Stanford senior Jones (6-3 ¼ PR), a fierce competitor, has placed numerous times in the HJ and LJ, indoors and outdoors, for the Cardinal, though her HJ best this campaign is a modest 6-0. Gates (6-3 ¼), a member of the U.S. Worlds team last summer, leads an Arizona contingent that includes 6-2 jumpers Kya Crooke and Paris Mikinski. Newcomer Howard needed 15 jumps to do it but she eventually took the SEC at 6-2 3/4. Pole Vault 3 Marleen Mulla South Dakota Sr 7 Ashley Callahan Louisville Sr The 21-year-old Moll sisters have often been joined at the hip – nearly so at birth, after all – but lately Hana has taken more of the spotlight. She won the indoor NCAA at 15-9 ¾ while her sister, Amanda, ended her indoor campaign early. The Molls are the only 16-foot vaulters in college history. Amanda came to life at the Big 10, clearing 15-2 ¼ to her sister’s 15-10. A year ago outdoors, Hana won at 15-8 ½ while Rutgers’s Chloe Timberg relegated Amanda to 3rd. South Dakota’s Willis (15-2 ¼) tied for 4th and has been joined this season by her Estonian teammate Mulla, also a 15-footer; they finished 2-3 indoors. Kuhn upset her Baylor teammate Molly Haywood at 14-10 this spring, while the Tennessee freshman Grace has also reached that height and won the SEC. Fitzsimmons, who will be vaulting at home, was 6th a year ago for the Ducks and cleared 14-8 ¼ to finish third behind the Molls at Big Ten. Long Jump 4 Alexandra Kelly Princeton Sr 8 Prestina Ochonogor Tarleton State Fr This will be Jones’ eighth and final NCAA LJ, and she has never won the championship. She showed her stuff at ACC, jumping 22-8 ½. Jones lost this year’s indoor to Beckmon (22-5 ¾ PR) by 2cm, but Beckmon, a native Oregonian, slipped to 4th at Big Ten. In Jones’s seven NCAA LJ competitions, she has never finished worse than 4th or better than 2nd. Princeton’s Scoot (21-8 ½) won Heps over her fellow Tiger Kelly (21-5 1/2). Kelly was 3rd indoors. Breigan (22-0 1/4w) won Texas Relays. Triple Jump 4 Tamiah Washington Texas Tech Jr 8 Katharine Graman Illinois Jr A recent arrival to U.S. soil from her native Uzbekistan, Davronova (PR 47-0 ¼) took one jump at Big Ten, 46-4 ¼, enough to win the title for the Ducks in her first appearance in college. She won the World Juniors in 2022, at age 15, and again two years later. Recent NCAA champions Agur Dwol of Oklahoma and Winny Bii of Texas A&M are both sidelined. The Frenchwoman Wamokpego jumped a PR 45-5 on her final jump to defeat Foreman (46-6 PR) and Washington (44-11 ½) and win indoors. Kelly (45-0 ½) and Scoot (44-4) were 1-2 at Heps on their home turf. Shot Put 1 Axelina Johansson Nebraska Sr 3 Anthonett Nabwe Minnesota Jr 6 Kelsie Murrell-Ross Georgia Sr Johansson was outdoor champion in 2023, indoor champion last year and this year. She is the prohibitive favorite, having won the Big Ten at 65-6 ¼, an inch and a half from the collegiate record and well ahead of the rest of the field, especially with the withdrawal, due to injury, of Ole Miss’s Akaoma Odeluga (63-1 ¼ PR), the SEC champion. Odeluga was 2nd indoors, Ndubuisi (62-0 ½) 3rd, Hague (61-11 ½) 4th, Mine de Klerk (60-7 ¾) of Nebraska 5th, Van Daalen (61-2 ¾) 6th, Oji (60-8 ½) 7th. Sixty feet is no longer the barrier it once was. Erasmus (59-3 ½) was 5th a year ago for the Trojans. Discus 3 Cedricka Williams Tennessee Jr 5 Marie Josee Bovele-Linaka Oregon Fr 6 Summer Mosley Cal State Northridge Sr 8 Klaire Kovatch Colorado State Sr Van Daalen (218-10 PR to win the SEC), runnerup a year ago, is the only returnee from last year’s top nine finishers. This is the first year in the States for the 24-year-old German Oguama (203-10). Tennessee’s Williams (200-4), a Jamaican, is also new to D1, having won the JC title last year for Barton County. Asaah (195-2), a Hawaiian, won Heps over Princeton’s Layla Giordano (196-8 PR) while Frenchwoman Bovele-Linaka (198-0) won the Big Ten for Oregon. Hammer 1 Anthonett Nabwe Minnesota Jr 2 Elisabet Rut Runarsdottir Texas State Jr 3 Kali Terza Kennesaw State Sr 6 Marie Rougetet Mississippi State So 8 Phethisang Makhethe Illinois Sr Nabwe’s 254-9 best is well ahead of the field, though she threw a mortal 227-1 to win the Big Ten over Makhethe (225-6 PR) and Gopher teammate Streit (236-2). Runarsdottir, the 2024 champion, has thrown 239-2 this year. Meeks (226-2) is competing for her third school, having moved on from Vanderbilt and Cal. Savva (228-7) won the ACC, Terza (226-9) Conference USA. Javelin 2 Valentina Barrios Bornacelli Missouri Sr 3 McKyla Van Der Westhuizen Rice Sr 7 Jana Marie Lowka Nebraska Sr 8 Ashley Schroeder Washington Jr It’s been a roller coaster for Evie Bliss. A biology major and former swimmer at Bucknell, Bliss has never placed in the NCAA javelin, yet she is the reigning national Open champion, having won the USATF meet last summer and gone on to Tokyo as the U.S. representative in the World Championships. She is collegiate list leader this spring at 201-3 and won the Patriot League at 196-11. There are plenty of challengers in this year’s deep field, including Bornacelli (203-5 PR), the defending champion; Van Der Westhuizen (197-9), Jepkemboi (197-10) and Lowka (194-11). Heptathlon 1 Sofia Cosculluela Washington So 2 Juliette Laracuente-Huebner Cincinnati Jr 3 Annie Molenhouse Oklahoma State Sr 4 JaiCieonna Gero-Holt Illinois Fr 6 Jenna Fee Feyerabend San Diego State Sr 7 Meagan Humphries Illinois So A wide open field, especially with the absence and/or departure of the defending champion, Pippi Lotta Enok (6285) of Oklahoma; 3rd-placer Sofia Iakushina (6260) of Texas A&M, and 4th-placer Melissa Wullschleger (5928) of Illinois. Current list leader is the Washington sophomore Coscolluela (6093) of Spain, who passed up the Big Ten hep to focus on individual events. She is 7 points up on Cincinnati’s Laracuente-Heubner, who won the Big 12 and placed 3rd indoors behind Oregon’s Lusti (5917) and the Illinois freshman Gero-Holt (5994). Gero-Holt won Big Ten over Lusti and teammate Humphries (5893) while Laracuente-Heubner prevailed in the Big 12 over Molenhouse (6005). Projected Team Scores 1 Georgia 60 2 USC 37 3 Oregon 34 South Carolina 34 5 Florida 32 6 Alabama 30 7 BYU 29 Washington 29 9 Arkansas 28 10 Stanford 23
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