Meet Recap: 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor T&F Championships

Champions are being crowned at the 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships this week in Eugene, Oregon.

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The meet, which is being held at Hayward Field, runs from June 11-14.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the action thus far from TrackTown USA.

2025 NCAA DI Outdoor T&F Championships – Final Standings
Men’s Teams	Points	Women’s Teams	Points
Texas A&M Southern California	41	Georgia	73
Arkansas	40	Southern California	47
Auburn	35	Texas A&M	43
New Mexico	31	Washington	31
Oklahoma	30.5	Illinois	29.5

Saturday, June 14 – Women’s Day 2

Georgia won its first team title after finishing as high as second twice by less than two points on those occasions.

Nothing was close about this finish as the Bulldogs racked up 73 points, 26 better than its nearest pursuer, Southern California – a program that UGA head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert directed to two such titles in this meet (2018 and 2021).

The Bulldogs, who once were runner-up solely on field-event points, distributed their destruction much more equally – 34 points in track events, 39 in field events. UGA won four events – the hammer and high jump in the field and the 400 and the 4×400 on the oval.

UGA’s wins on the track were led by Aaliyah Butler, who led a 1-2 in the 400 with Dejanea Oakley and then anchored the winning 4×400 team in 48.79. Their field points were led by Stephanie Ratcliffe’s seasonal best of 71.37m (234-2) to reclaim the hammer title she won in 2023 while at Harvard and Elena Kulichenko’s clearing her three highest bars of the season to outduel Rose Yeboah of Illinois in the high jump at 1.96m (6-5), just below the 1.97m/6-5½ MR they both set last year in sharing the title.

The meet’s final day had two Collegiate Records – Doris Lemngole of Alabama obliterating the steeplechase record in 8:58.15 (with BYU’s Lexy Halladay-Lowry also under the old CR of 9:10.13) and Michigan’s Savannah Sutherland lowering the 400 hurdles record to 52.46 (the previous CR of 52.75 was set by Sydney McLaughlin of Kentucky in 2018).

Another standout performance was turned in by Stanford’s Roisin Willis, who lowered the 800 meet record to 1:58.13 in defeating the LSU’s Michaela Rose, who had broken a 35-year-old MR two days earlier in 1:58.95.

Cierra Jackson of Fresno State kicked off the final day with a meet record in Round 1 of discus with a throw of 65.82m (215-11) that also moved her to No. 7 on the all-time collegiate list.

Friday, June 13 – Men’s Day 2

Much like the indoor championships, it took a few minutes for the team standings to become official as Southern California and Texas A&M tied for first place with 41 points, with Arkansas just one point behind.

The Trojans won their first team title in this meet since 1976 and became the first men’s program to have at least a share of the indoor and outdoor titles in the same year since 2015, when Oregon swept both. It was the first tie for the men’s team crown since 2013, when the Aggies shared top honors with Florida (also the last time A&M hoisted the team trophy).

Texas A&M won two events in the meet – the 800 with Sam Whitmarsh in 1:45.86 and Wednesday’s pole vault with Aleksandr Solovev at a PR 5.78m (18-11½) – while the Trojans relied on a team effort without event titles, replicating their formula from winning the indoor title.

The race for the team trophy came down to the meet-ending 4×400 relay. USC, sitting with 40 points, needed to finish fifth or better to assure itself an outright victory 49 years in the making. The Aggies could finish no worse than second and hope the Trojans faltered. Well, Texas A&M took runner-up honors behind South Florida and USC eked its way into eighth place, the final scoring position.

Individual standouts on the final day included Baylor’s Nathaniel Ezekiel, who clocked 47.49 in the 400 hurdles to move to No. 3 all-time collegiately. Also making the all-time collegiate top-5 were James Corrigan of BYU (8:16.41 in the steeplechase, No. 4) and Ja’Kobe Tharp of Auburn (13.05 in the 110 hurdles, No. 5).

Thursday, June 12 – Women’s Day 1

Family Matters

The collegiate record and NCAA pole vault title remain in the Moll household.

Hana Moll, not her twin sister Amanda Moll, vaulted to the top this time.

Hana Moll of Washington captured her first NCAA title on Thursday and cleared a CR 4.79m (15-8½) in the process. Moll won the NCAA title at 4.64m (15-2¾) after defending champion and runner-up Chloe Timberg of Rutgers couldn’t scale that bar on her two attempts (Timberg passed after one attempt at 4.59m (15-0¾) to meet Moll at the next). Moll asked the bar to be raised 1cm higher than her sister’s month-old CR and went over on her third attempt.

Kosgei, Rose Set Meet Records

Dominance, your name is Pamela Kosgei and Michaela Rose.

Kosgei and Rose romped to meet records in the 10,000 meters and 800 meters, respectively.

The New Mexico standout went 31:17.82 over 25 laps to lead five women under the former meet record of 31:46.09 set by 2024 The Bowerman winner Parker Valby last year: Grace Hartman of NC State, Joy Naukot of West Virginia, Paityn Noe of Arkansas, and Chloe Scrimgeour of Georgetown also bested Valby’s mark. If you’re curious, Kosgei’s 31:17.82 is the third fastest performance in collegiate history. Oh, Kosgei’s 13.83-second margin of victory was the largest since 2010.

The LSU standout traversed two laps in 1:58.91 to take down Suzy Favor’s 35-year-old meet record of 1:59.11. Rose was one of four women to go sub-2 minutes last night, which doubled the previous total in meet history.

Let’s narrow the focus a bit more on the 10,000 meters. That’s because Kosgei and teammate Ishmael Kipkurui become the first athletes from the same institution in NCAA DI history to sweep the 10,000-meter titles at the same NCAA DI Outdoor Championships.

Built Ford Tough

JaMeesia Ford keeps getting faster.

Ford clocked a pair of blistering PRs on Thursday: 10.87 in the 100 meters and 21.98 in the 200 meters. Those marks put Ford =No. 6 in collegiate history in the 100 and No. 5 in collegiate history in the 200.

But what if you combine them? We’re glad you asked.

Ford threw down the seventh fastest one-day 100-200 combination in history – world history.

Merlene Ottey, 32.59 (1990)
Shericka Jackson, 32.61 (2022)
Ottey [2], 32.67 (1993)
Marion Jones, 32.73 (1997)
Gwen Torrence, 32.78 (1993)
Christine Mboma, 32.84 (2022)
JaMeesia Ford, 32.85 (2025)

What will Ford do for an encore on Saturday in the finals?

Wednesday, June 11 – Men’s Day 1

What’s Better Than 1? How About 1-2?

Kostas Zaltos and Angelos Mantzouranis started it.

Ishmael Kipkurui and Habtom Samuel finished it.

“It” is going 1-2 at the top of the podium with their teammate.

Minnesota’s Zaltos and Mantzouranis opened the day with a sweep of the hammer podium – the first of its kind since Virginia Tech in 2011. The Greek athletes came into the competition as two of the best throwers in collegiate history and asserted themselves early – like Round 1 early. Zaltos, who eventually won his first NCAA title, launched the implement 76.92m (252-4), while Mantzouranis let it fly 76.96m (252-6). Both throws easily eclipsed eventual third-place finisher Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan of Ole Miss at 76.78m (251-11).

Zaltos and Mantzouranis improved their marks in Round 4 to 78.08m (256-2) and 76.96m (252-6), respectively, which made them the third- and eighth-best performers in meet history.

Kipkurui and Samuel clocked the two fastest marks in collegiate history in the 10,000 meters earlier in the season and kicked to a 1-2 finish in the penultimate event of the evening. The New Mexico standouts went 29:07.70 and 29:08.73, respectively, nearly two seconds ahead of third-place finisher Ernest Cheruiyot of Texas Tech. Kipkurui showed no signs of wear down the stretch, as he closed the last lap in 53.38 seconds (Samuel clocked 54.08 in comparison).

Kipkurui and Samuel are just the second pair of teammates to go 1-2 in the 10,000 meters in the past ten years. They join Stanford teammates Ky Robinson and Charles Hicks in 2023.

Historically Fast Decathlon Sprints For Bair

Peyton Bair of Mississippi State racked up 4479 points after Day 1 of the decathlon to hold a 287-point lead over his nearest pursuer, Brad Thomas of UC Santa Barbara.

Bair started and finished the day with decathlon CRs – 10.25 in the 100 and 46.00 in the 400, both bettering times set in 2022 by Ayden Owens-Delerme of Arkansas (10.27, 46.10). In the three field events in between, he had marks of 7.28m (23-10¾) in the long jump (an outdoor PR), 14.22m (46-8) in the shot put and 2.01m (6-7) in the high jump (tying his outdoor PR). That 400-meter mark is also the fifth fastest in the history of the decathlon.

He is 51 points ahead of the pace in his PR score of 8131 set in finishing as runner-up in last year’s NCAA DI decathlon.