Collegians Shake Up All-Time Charts During NCAA DI Outdoor Championships First Round

One world all-time top-10 mark (at the time).

Eleven collegiate all-time top-10 performances.

Eleven collegiate leading efforts: seven by men; six by women.

Hundreds of trips earned to TrackTown USA.

The first round of the 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships delivered – and then some. Makes you wonder what’s in store for the final site from June 11-14 in Eugene, Oregon.

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Let’s start with the big one: the 72.12m (236-8) missile from Mykolas Alekna of California that was then the tenth best discus throw in world history (Kristjan Ceh improved his PR to 72.36m the next day in Slovakia to push Alekna’s throw to 11th). Alekna could have easily shut down after Round 1 when he threw a respectable 68.71m (225-5) that would have easily qualified him through to the final site, but the world record-holder chose to use his full allotment. Following a 68.18m (223-8) marker in Round 2, Alekna launched the platter past 72 meters for the world’s third farthest throw since 2006 outside of Ramona, Oklahoma.

No collegiate all-time list saw more movement than that of the Women’s 1500 meters. Shannon Flockhart of Providence posted the fastest time qualifier out of the East First Round with her 4:04.97 effort that put her fifth on the all-time chart. Bahyia El Arfaou of Eastern Kentucky was right behind her at 4:05.20 to slot in at sixth and Silvia Jelelgo of Clemson went 4:05.68 for eighth. Out west, Maggi Congdon of Northern Arizona clocked 4:05.73 for tenth.

No two collegians were faster than Jordan Anthony of Arkansas and Abdul-Rasheed Saminu of South Florida. Anthony and Saminu lit the straightaway on fire at the West and East First Round sites, respectively. Anthony sizzled 100 meters in a barely – and we mean, barely – wind-aided 9.75 (+2.1) to equal the second fastest performer on the all-time, all-conditions collegiate chart (Anthony is also =No. 9 on the all-time, all-conditions world list). Just a few hours earlier, Saminu registered a wind-legal 9.86 that linked him with Divine Oduduru and Micah Williams as the second fastest performer in collegiate history behind 2017 The Bowerman winner Christian Coleman at 9.82.

Doris Lemngole of Alabama and Michaela Rose of LSU continued their dominance in the steeplechase and 800 meters, respectively. Lemngole ran a controlled 9:13.12 for the second fastest performance in collegiate history behind her own collegiate record of 9:10.13. Rose went sub-1:59 outdoors for the fourth time in her career with a 1:58.91 that is now the first best all-time mark. Not to be outdone, Meghan Hunter of BYU registered PR 1:58.95 for the sixth best.

Elsewhere, T’Mars McCallum of Tennessee moved up to No. 6 on the 200-meter chart with PR 19.83 (+1.4) with Garrett Kaalund of Southern California at No. 8 with PR 19.85 (+1.1). Lastly, South Florida’s 4×100 relay team went 38.05 to become the fourth fastest collegiate program.