The Bowerman: 2025 Women’s Post-NCAA Indoor Championships Watch List

NEW ORLEANS – If you like seeing new names on The Bowerman Watch List, you’re in the right place as four athletes make their debut appearance on the Post-NCAA Indoor Championship edition that was released on Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

That’s the most women making their first appearance on a single non-preseason Watch List since 2010, the first year of Watch Lists for The Bowerman.

The foursome making debut appearances today are Lianna Davidson of Georgia, Indya Mayberry of TCU, Jadin O’Brien of Notre Dame and Isabella Whittaker of Arkansas. They join returnees Aaliyah Butler of Georgia, Rachel Glenn of Arkansas, Axelina Johansson of Nebraska, Doris Lemngole of Alabama, Amanda Moll of Washington and Hana Moll of Washington.

The Bowerman 2025 will be awarded in December at the USTFCCCA Convention in Grapevine, Texas.

Butler, who hails from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, finished the indoor season without a head-to-head loss but she was runner-up in the NCAA Indoor 400 meters as her time of 49.97 – the No. 5 collegiate performance all-time – was second-fastest in the two-section final. Two weeks earlier she won the SEC Championships, in 49.78, then the fastest ever by a collegian at low altitude indoors. She has clocked two sub-50 anchor legs on the Georgia 4×400 team, including the fastest at the NCAA Indoor (49.48) as the Bulldogs improved as the No. 6 program all-time. This is her third Watch List appearance.

Davidson, who hails from Sydney, Australia, got her Georgia career off to an incredible start, winning Georgia Tech’s Yellow Jacket Invitational last weekend with two of the three longest javelin throws in collegiate history – 63.79m (209-3) and 62.59m (205-4). Only the 64.19m (210-7) CR by Nebraska’s Rhema Otabor last year is farther on the all-time list. Prior to transferring to the Bulldogs, Davidson was runner-up for Texas A&M at the last two NCAA DI Outdoor Championships, which included her previous PR of 60.70m (199-2) last year. Davidson’s presence alongside Butler gives Georgia its first pair of women on the Watch List since 2018.

Glenn, who hails from Long Beach, California, was the season’s highest jumper at 1.98m (6-6) – tied for the No. 3 performance all-time indoors (she has a share of collegiate record at 2.00m/6-6¾ last year). With outdoor season kicking into high gear, don’t be surprised to see her in another event – she’s No. 9 collegian all-time in the 400-meter hurdles at 53.90. This is her ninth Watch List appearance.

Johansson, who hails from Hok, Sweden, completed an undefeated indoor season in the shot put, sweeping the Big Ten and NCAA DI titles with the two longest efforts of her career – 19.31m (63-4¼) and 19.28m (63-3¼), respectively, which also rate as the No. 4 and No. 6 performances in all-time collegiate indoor history. Outdoors she’s already an NCAA champion, having won the 2023 title, and is No. 3 collegian all-time at 19.54m (64-1¼). This is her fourth Watch List appearance.

Lemngole, who hails from West Pokot County, Kenya, ran the 5000 twice indoors this winter – the first in a CR 14:52.57 in early December and the other in mid-March to win the NCAA DI Indoor title in 15:05.93, the No. 9 all-time performance collegiately. She was also runner-up in the 3000 at the NCAA DI Indoor after earlier moving to No. 5 on the all-time collegiate list at 8:41.83. With outdoor season heating up, watch for her in the steeplechase, in which she won the NCAA DI title last year in a CR 9:15.24. This is her fourth Watch List appearance.

Mayberry, who hails from Allen, Texas, won the 200 meters at the NCAA DI Indoor Championships in 22.30 to become No. 4 all-time collegiately with the No. 7 all-time performance. Earlier in the meet she placed fourth in the 60, in which she clocked a PR 7.11 earlier in the season. She swept both events at the Big 12 Championships and is the second athlete from TCU to make the Watch List, joining long jumper Whitney Gipson from 2012.

Amanda and Hana Moll, who both hail from Olympia, Washington, continue as the first set of siblings – and twins – to appear on the same Watch List. Both had a share in raising the meet record at the NCAA DI Indoor Championships in going 1-2 (Amanda over Hana) at 4.70m (15-5). Amanda set or tied the indoor CR four times this winter, topped by a 4.91m (16-1¼) clearance to win the Big Ten Championships, where Hana was leading at 4.81m (15-9¼). Together they dominate the all-time indoor collegiate pole vault list, combining for all of the top-8 performances, Amanda leading 6-2. This is the fourth career Watch List appearance for Hana and the second for Amanda.

O’Brien, who hails from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, is the third Notre Dame woman to appear on the Watch List, and the first Fighting Irish combined event athlete. She won her third-straight pentathlon title at the NCAA DI Indoor Championships, scoring 4596 points to become No. 5 collegian all-time. Outdoors she’s the leading collegiate returner in the heptathlon with a best of 6234, which is No. 11 on the all-time collegiate list.

Whittaker, who hails from Laurel, Maryland, makes her Watch List debut after winning 400 at the NCAA DI Indoor Championships in a CR 49.24, a time that also places her No. 2 in world history. That performance came just two weeks after her first sub-50 time, a 49.90 that now rates as the No. 4 performance all-time collegiately. She also brought home the Razorback 4×400 relay team to victory at the NCAA DI Indoor with a 49.71 split. Whittaker is the third woman from Arkansas to make the women’s Watch List this year – and 15^th all-time, which is tied for No. 2 behind Oregon (19).

Six more athletes received votes from The Bowerman Watch List Committee but fell outside the Top 10: Silan Ayyildiz of Oregon, Alexis Brown of Baylor, Dajaz Defrand of Southern California, JaMeesia Ford of South Carolina, Elena Kulichenko of Georgia and Wilma Nielsen of Oregon.

The next women’s Watch List is scheduled for April 16.