Meet Recap: 2025 NCAA DII Indoor T&F Championships

Champions were crowned at the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships!

The meet was held inside the Fall Creek Pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana

From The USTFCCCA InfoZone: Meets & Results
Related: National Championships Central

Men’s Recap

What’s better than two in a row? Three.

Pittsburg State completed a three-peat when they reigned at the conclusion of the 2025 NCAA DII Indoor Track & Field Championships. The Gorillas, who had won national titles in both 2023 and 2024, pulled away down the stretch to hold off Grand Valley State. Pittsburg State is the first men’s program to win three consecutive national titles since Abilene Christian strung four together between 2002 and 2005 (St. Augustine’s followed with four of its own from 2006 to 2009, but its 2007 title was vacated by the NCAA Committee on infractions).

A well-rounded attack led the Gorillas to their fourth national title in program history. Pittsburg State scored across nine events, winning four of them and setting two NCAA DII records in the process: those all-time bests came in the 4×400 relay at 3:07.18 and the distance medley relay at 9:32.58; while Hunter Jones and Daylin Williams turned in the other triumphs in the heptathlon and 60-meter hurdles, respectively.

No team scored more points in a single event at the meet than the Lakers in the high jump. GVSU added a staggering 26.5 points to its total thanks to a 1-2-3-t6 finish with champion Eli Kosiba, runner-up Javion Harrison, and third-place finisher Jonathan Rankins-James leading the charge.

Colorado School of Mines finished third with 36 points, followed by Adams State in fourth with 32 and Northwest Missouri in fifth with 30. Romain Legendre was one of the stars of the meet – not just for the Grizzlies – period: Legendre won both the 3000 meters and 5000 meters in meet-record times (13:33.58 in the former on Thursday; 7:46.38 in the latter on Saturday).

Women’s Recap

There’s only one place to go up from second: first.

Pittsburg State, which finished runner-up last year at this meet, captured its first national indoor title in program history with a resilient victory in the Hoosier State. The Gorillas needed every single point they could muster, as Minnesota State pushed them to the brink. Pittsburg State’s title wasn’t assured until it went 2-5-7 in the high jump for 14 points, compared to six for the Mavericks. Prior to that, the Gorillas were up just two points and saw their lead grow to ten entering the climactic 4×400 relay.

Field event athletes carried Pittsburg State to the top of the podium. Forty-five of the 63 points scored by the Gorillas came across five field events: high jump (14), pole vault (14), triple jump (eight), long jump (six), and heptathlon (three).

Minnesota State has been a fixture among the top teams at this meet in recent memory. The Mavericks have now finished first or second at four of the past five championships, including a national title in 2022. Adeyah Brewster and Grace Johnson were the main catalysts for Minnesota State with a 1-2 finish in the 60-meter hurdles.

Grand Valley State, Adams State and Azusa Pacific rounded out the top-5 teams with 47 points, 40 points, and 37 points, respectively.

Day 2 Recap

What’s better than one division record? Two.

Alexis Brown got the party started when she became the first woman in NCAA DII history to dip under the 23-second barrier in the 200 meters. Brown turned one lap of the track in 22.98 to obliterate her own division record in the process. Oh, that came in the prelims, too.

Pittsburg State took top honors in the men’s distance medley relay in 9:32.58, which set a record-legal best. The Gorilla quartet of Dylan Sprecker, Caden Williams, Jordan Kilonzo, and Mason Strader led three other teams under the former NCAA DII record of 9:36.62 set by American International in 2022.

Day 1 Recap

One division record. Four meet records.

Not a bad start to the Championships, huh?

Brynn King of Roberts Wesleyan laid claim to the division record as she cleared 4.66m (15-3½) on her way to another NCAA title. That also matched King with former Arkansas great Sandi Morris as the seventh best performer in collegiate history.

King’s mark also improved her own meet record. Three other athletes also turned in meet-record performances: Romain Legendre of Adams State in the 5000 meters at 13:33.58, which was the fifth fastest effort in NCAA DII history; Alexis Brown of Lenoir Rhyne in the 60 meters at 7.18, which came in the prelims; and Esther Conde-Turpin of Azusa Pacific in the pentathlon with 4447 points, which moved her up to No. 2 in NCAA DII history.