USTFCCCA News & Notes
By USTFCCCA Communications, USTFCCCA June 16, 2025   

Lemngole, Sutherland Make History At 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor T&F Championships

Setting collegiate records is cool and all.

Want to know what’s even better?

Being among the best athletes in world history in doing so.

Doris Lemngole of Alabama and Savannah Sutherland of Michigan did just that this past weekend at the 2025 NCAA DI Outdoor T&F Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Hayward Magic was alive and well, as Lemngole and Sutherland obliterated CRs in the steeplechase and 400-meter hurdles, respectively. Lemngole went 8:58.15 to become the 11th fastest woman in world history, while Sutherland clocked 52.46 to shatter Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s seven-year-old CR and move up to No. 9 on the world’s all-time chart.

Lemngole was equally as dominant as she was historic when she competed in her signature event this season. The Alabama sophomore lowered her CR twice – once from 9:15.24 to 9:10.13 in April and then again from 9:10.13 to 8:58.15 – and notched another 9:13.12 effort that also went under her former CR from 2024. Lemngole won each of those races and none were particularly close (to say the least): her average margin of victory was 25.56 seconds.

Conversely, Sutherland flew under the radar this season. The Canadian standout entered the year as the fifth fastest collegian all-time at 53.26, a time she ran last year in finishing runner-up at the NCAA DI Outdoor Championships. Sutherland approached that PR just once this year with a 53.46 winner at the Tom Jones Invitational in mid-April. Then, Sutherland went supernova in TrackTown USA, as she lopped off 0.80 seconds from her PR for the CR.

On the collegiate scale, 17 other athletes found their way on the all-time top-10 performers list, including six that cracked the all-time top-five: Ralford Mullings of Oklahoma cemented his spot at No. 2 in the discus with PR 69.31m (227-5); Lexy Halladay-Lowry of BYU moved up to No. 2 in the steeplechase behind Lemngole after also going under the former CR at 9:08.68; Nathaniel Ezekiel of Baylor moved up to No. 3 in the 400-meter hurdles with PR 47.49; James Corrigan of BYU moved up to No. 4 in the steeplechase with his 8:16.41 SB; Ja’Kobe Tharp of Auburn moved up to No. 5 in the 110-meter hurdles with PR 13.05; JaMeesia Ford of South Carolina moved up to No. 5 in the 200 meters with PR 21.98; Valentina Barrios of Missouri moved up to No. 5 in the javelin with PR 62.00m (203-5).