2025 NCAA DI Outdoor T&F Championships Has Worldwide Reach

Track & field is a global sport.

The 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which get underway today at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, are a microcosm.

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Athletes from 66 countries will compete for 21 event titles per gender over the next few days in TrackTown USA. No country will be more represented than the United States with 546 athletes. Kenya is second with 46, followed by Jamaica with 37. Great Britain is a distant fourth with 17, while Australia (15), Canada (14), Nigeria (13), Germany (12) and South Africa (12) all have more than ten.

Check it out on a map.

Let’s compare those aforementioned numbers percentage-wise to last year and then seven years ago to see how much has changed.

The country with the largest population that will represented in the Evergreen State is India, which has four athletes in the mix: Krishna Jayasankar Menon of UNLV, Sharvari Parulekar of Louisville, Selva Prabhu of Kansas State and Lokesh Sathyanathan of Tarleton State. The country with the smallest population that will be represented in Eugene is the British Virgin Islands, which has two athletes in the mix: Jaleel Croal of South Florida and Kaelyaah Liburd of Florida State.

What about hometown? Kingston, Jamaica, leads everybody with 14 athletes. Eldoret, Kenya, and Houston, Texas, both have 11 for the only other hometowns with more than ten athletes.

Finally, let’s put the focus on the United States. Athletes from 46 states are in Oregon for the climactic meet of the 2025 outdoor season, led by Texas with 69. In fact, the next two states combined – California (45) and Florida (26) – barely edge out Texas.

Competition at Hayward Field starts today and goes through Saturday.

Post-NCAA Championships Update

Athletes from 14 countries won individual NCAA titles in Eugene, Oregon.