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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 The latest in a long line of great Trojan sprinters, Selby, a Virginia native, won the Big Ten 100 in a wind-aided 10.74, one of the fastest hundreds ever run by a collegian, then a legal 10.83 at West Regional, the fastest time of the weekend, beating teammate Defrand (10.98). Walker (10.80 PR), 1st indoors this winter in the 60 and the ACC champion, nipped Jackson in an East Regional QF, 10.88-10.90, while the other heat winners were Hodge, 10.90 over Burnett, and Carter, also 10.88 over another Georgia Bulldog, Kaila Jackson (10.93). Carter, an off-season transfer from Southern Cal, had been an also-ran until now. And who is Taniya Looney? A native of Oklahoma City, this is her first year as a Lobo after two seasons at Div. II Pittsburg State. At Regional she ran 10.85w, defeating Camryn Dickson of A&M. 200 2 JaMeesia Ford South Carolina Jr Ford (21.98 PR) is defending champion but the newcomer Hodge (21.92) dominated indoors and won SEC. In the East Regional, Hodge won her heat in 22.09, Ford 22.22. Shawnti Jackson, runnerup to Hodge at SEC, was 4th in her heat at Regionals in a blanket finish but advanced as a time qualifier. Kelley, 3rd indoors, won Big 12 in an excellent 22.19. Also a threat are Florida’s Gabrielle Matthews (22.41), who was 4th at SEC and 2nd indoors, and QF winner Dickson (22.13). 400 6 Onyah Favour Southeast Louisiana Jr 7 Javonya Valcourt Tennessee Sr Last year’s champion, Georgia’s Aaliyah Butler (49.26), turned pro after the 2025 season. Then the early outdoor leader, LSU’s Ella Onojuvwevwo (49.59), turned professional midseason. 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 Ten – 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. All told, 17 runners broke 51 flat between the two Regions. 800 1 Makayla Paige North Carolina Sr 2 Sanu Jallow-Lockhart Arkansas Sr 3 Juliette Whittaker Stanford Sr 4 Gladys Chepngetich Clemson Jr 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), then won the first QF in the West Regional on her home track in 1:57.74, narrowly missing the collegiate record and winning by 4 seconds. Does that mean she has more in the tank? Kitching (1:59.22), a tough frontrunner, won the Big Ten. There are others lurking in the shadows, including Emmaculate Jemutai of Kansas, 2nd at Regionals by .01 to Whittaker; Analisse Batista of Arkansas (2:00.68), Veronica Hargrave of Indiana (2:00.40), a finalist a year ago as a freshman; Emma Sullivan (2:00.73) of Kennesaw State, and Maeve O’Neill (2:00.72) of Providence. 1500 1 Rosemary Longisa Washington State So 2 Sadie Engelhardt NC State Fr 3 Salma Elbadra South Carolina Jr 8 Emmaculate Jemutai Kansas Jr Longisa (4:02.55), seasonal list leader, was surprise runnerup indoors to Oregon’s Nielsen, and she hasn’t looked back. At Regionals she outkicked all three Ducks -- Cherubet (4:07.75) and Nielsen (4:07.87) PR’d, just ahead of Ayyildiz (4:08.16) and Jemutai (4:08.73), the Big 12 champ who for some crazy reason is attempting the nearly impossible 8/15 double. (The finals are an hour apart.) Elbadra (4:02.63 PR) held off Florida’s Wilson (4:06.43) in a tough stretch drive at SEC. At East Regional, Engelhardt (4:03.28), the Wolfpack freshman from California, caught Elbadra at the line in 4:10.62. There are many other contenders in this deep field, including Kaiya Robertson (4:09.17) of Boise State, Carlee Hansen (4:09.46) and Carmen Alder (4:09.77) of BYU, and so on, but it will be tough cracking the top 8. Off a good pace, Jenny Barringer-Simpson’s historic Collegiate record of 3:59.90, now 17 years old, could be in jeopardy. Steeplechase 3 Katelyn Stewart-Barnett Michigan State Sr 4 Sydney Masciarelli North Carolina Sr 5 Angelina Napoleon NC State Jr 6 Jule Lindner Virginia Tech Fr 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 under 9:30 this year. Napoleon (9:10.72 PR), 2nd at U.S. Nationals last year, has been off form, finishing well back of Novak at ACC. Stewart-Barnett (9:44.32), who won the Big Ten going away, was beaten by Masciarelli (9:39.51) at East Regional. Lovell was the only runner to break 10:00 in the three West prelims. 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. Lemngole had the fastest time of the Regionals (15:08.45). Other contenders include Nancy Cherop (15:31.22) of Clemson and Katie Bohlke (15:31.94) of Virginia Tech. 10,000 4 Jadyn Keeler North Dakota State Sr 5 Mercyline Kirwa Iowa State Fr 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. Kirwa (31:51.89) upset Naukot (31:34.34 PR) at Big 12. The Alabama freshman Kiplagat (32:56.93) beat Olemomoi (32:03.59) at SEC, but the Gator senior won East Regional. The Canadian Keeler has run 31:56.03. 100 Hurdles 4 Janela Spencer Ohio State Sr 5 Rachel Mehringer Indiana State Jr 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, then blasted a legal 12.44 at Regionals. Alase, with her 12.64 to win the Southwest Athletic Conference title, 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. Mehringer (12.64w) took the Missouri Valley. Cox was SEC runnerup (12.81), while De Mello (12.63w), a Brazilian transfer from Washington State, was 3rd at Big Ten. 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 With the graduation of two-time champion Savannah Sutherland of Michigan, the next three finishers a year ago are back – Garrett (53.73) and Smith (54.56), 1-2 at the SEC as well as in their Regional QF, and Hebron (55.19), the ACC champ. In all, 17 women ran in the 55s at Regionals, a majority of the field. Birdow, 3rd at SEC (54.79), defeated Belquist (55.24) at Regionals. Two Howard hurdlers, Aniya Woodruff (55.43) and Billups (55.09), won East Regional races with PRs. Woodruff finished .04 ahead of Hebron. 4x100 1 USC 2 South Carolina 3 LSU 4 Georgia 5 Clemson 6 Tennessee 7 Texas A&M 8 TCU They may have an overhauled lineup but USC (42.12 seasonal best) is back to defend its title. At Regional they ran 42.54 with a lineup of Mallard, Defrand, Whyte and Selby. LSU (42.31), 8th last year, beat Georgia (42.61) and Tennessee (42.77) at SEC, but it was South Carolina that had the fastest time of the weekend, winning its QF in the East in 42.32 over Georgia (42.40), as both set school records. Clemson (42.48) won the ACC. Eastern schools dominate this event as just two teams, USC and A&M, were under 43 flat at West Regionals. 4x400 1 Arkansas 2 Georgia 3 South Carolina 4 Tennessee 5 Texas 6 Texas A&M 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). They ran 3:21.83 at Regionals. There’s another conference? Well, Duke (3:26.33) was 5th a year ago, 5th indoors and won the ACC, though USC (3:27.80) could break in. Arkansas is led by sub-50 runners Sanaria Butler, Kaylyn Brown and Sanu Jallow-Lockhart. High Jump 1 Temitope Adeshina Texas Tech Jr A surprising thing happened in the West Regional: 12 jumpers cleared 6-1 ½ (1.87), a number of them for the first time. In the East, only 1.82 (5-11 ½) was needed to advance. Adeshina (6-5 ½ PR) has won the last two NCAA indoor titles but slipped to 5th 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, and cleared a seasonal best at Regionals. 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 Mikinski. Newcomer Howard, 1st in the East Regional, took the SEC at 6-2 3/4. Pole Vault 3 Marleen Mulla South Dakota Sr 4 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 Ten, 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, but at Regionals Willis needed three attempts to clear 14-6 ¼. Kuhn upset her Baylor teammate Haywood at 14-10 this spring, while the Tennessee freshman Grace has also reached that height, won the SEC and tied 15-footer Callahan for first at East Regional. Washington qualified four in the Molls, Veronica Vacca and Sara Borton. Long Jump 5 Alexandra Kelly Princeton Sr 8 Aaliyah Lindsay Kansas State Sr This will be Jones’s 8th and final NCAA LJ, and she has never won the championship. She showed her stuff first at ACC, jumping 22-8 ½, then a world-leading 23-3 ¼ -- 2 inches from Tara Davis’s collegiate record -- at West Regional, a foot ahead of Beckmon (22-2 ¼), who had beaten Jones indoors. 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), but Scoot barely got out of Regionals, finishing 12th (20-5). Kelly was 3rd indoors. Breigan (22-0 1/4w) won Texas Relays. Vanek was 3rd in the West with a PR 21-9, 3 inches ahead of K State’s Lindsay. Illinois has three jumpers in the field in Beckmon, Katharina Graman and Elizabeth Ndudi. Triple Jump 2 Katharine Graman Illinois Jr 4 Tamiah Washington Texas Tech Jr 5 Destini Smith Kansas State Fr A recent arrival to U.S. soil from 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. At Regionals she again took one jump, 45-8w, enough to win the West. That is the fewest number of attempts possible to get to the NCAA Finals. 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 sidelined. Wamokpego jumped 45-5 on her final jump to win NCAA indoor, but she lost Big 12 to Washington and barely advanced out of Regionals, going 43-11 ¼ after two fouls. Foreman (46-6 PR) won Penn Relays and ACC but only with jumps in the 43s, and she settled for 3rd in the East Regional with a modest 44-3 ¼, while Graman (45-6 1/2w), Atkins (45-0 ½), Smith (45-3 3/4w) and Washington (45-0 ½) were all beyond 45 feet at West Regional. Winner in the East was Scoot (44-10 ¼), half an inch ahead of Kayla Pinkard of Florida State. Shot Put 1 Axelina Johansson Nebraska Sr 4 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, de Klerk (60-7 ¾) 5th, Van Daalen (61-2 ¾) 6th, Oji (60-8 ½) 7th. Erasmus, 5th a year ago for the Trojans, became a 60-footer for the first time (60-0 ½) in finishing 2nd at West Regional, ahead of de Klerk, while the freshman Oji won the East (59-11) over Murrell-Ross, Auburn’s Marley Raikiwasa (57-7 ¾) and Van Daalen, with Ndubuisi relegated to 6th, Hague to 8th. Discus 4 Marie Josee Bovele-Linaka Oregon Fr 5 Klaire Kovatch Colorado State Sr After a big 218-10 to win the SEC, Van Daalen, runnerup a year ago, unleashed a huge 227-4 to win the East Regional by 36 feet. She is the only returnee from last year’s top nine. This is the first year in the States for the 24-year-old German Oguama (203-10), but she advanced only by virtue of a toss of 184-2 on her last try at Regionals. Lopez had a PR 198-8 to win the West over Kovatch (191-7) and Martin (190-3). The French newcomer Bovele-Linaka (198-0) won the Big Ten for Oregon. Hammer 1 Anthonett Nabwe Minnesota Jr 2 Marie Rougetet Mississippi State So 5 Elisabet Rut Runarsdottir Texas State Jr 6 Kali Terza Kennesaw State Sr 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 Hadley Streit (236-2), then just 222-9 in losing West Regional to Savva (227-0). Runarsdottir, the 2024 champion, has thrown 239-2 this year but was merely 6th at Regional (216-10). The biggest news at Regionals was the win in the East by Rougetet at 230-2, over Terza (224-1). Streit barely survived West Regional, throwing just 210-1. Roberts, 3rd a year ago, has thrown 232-10; she had a seasonal best (222-4) in finishing 3rd at Regional. She competed at last year’s World Championships for Australia. Javelin 2 Valentina Barrios Bornacelli Missouri Sr 3 McKyla Van Der Westhuizen Rice Sr 7 Jana Marie Lowka Nebraska Sr 8 Katelyn Fairchild Texas A&M Sr Bliss is reigning U.S. Open champion but has never placed in the NCAA meet. She is collegiate list leader this year at 201-3, and threw almost that (200-2) to win the East Regional, 10 feet ahead of the PR by the Alabama sophomore Partrick (190-3). Partrick, the Alabama 4A state champion two years ago – Alabama recently added the jav as an official high school event -- at 153-4, entered the 2026 season with a PR of 170-0. She hasn’t been under 179 in any meet this spring, PR’ing at 188-4 at the SEC, then 190 for the first time at Regionals. There are plenty of other 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). Fairchild, 3rd in the West, threw 190-2 three years ago. 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 66 2 Oregon 46 3 USC 38 South Carolina 38 5 Arkansas 29 6 Illinois 28 BYU 28 Washington 28 9 Stanford 24 10 Alabama 23 Florida 23 Coach Caryl Smith-Gilbert’s Georgia Bulldogs won last year’s women’s meet by 26 points, 73-47 over USC. The margin may be similar this year as it becomes a dynasty, built around the sprints but also includes strength in the hurdles, jumps, relays and throws. More news |
