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DyeStat NCAA D1 Women's Outdoor Formchart By Jack Pfeifer for DyeStat/Photo by Ken Martinez Place Name School Year 100 1 Shenese Walker Florida State Sr 2 Victoria Cameron Tarleton State Jr Walker (10.98 PR), a senior from Jamaica, has not run a century yet this spring but she gets the nod on the basis of her victory in the indoor 60 a month ago. There are plenty of challengers, led by Cameron (11.01), the converted soccer player at obscure Tarleton State. She was 3rd indoors and won Texas Relays. Georgia has the veteran (the senior Jackson, 11.03) and the newcomer (the freshman Hodge, 11.04w). Both are running well and are threats to win. A&M’s Dickson has been better at 200 but recently ran 11.02w. Newcomer Burnett (11.10), a transfer from Missouri, was 4th indoors. Selby (11.01) appears to the best of the SC stable of sprinters at the moment. Missing at this stage are the 2nd and 3rd finishers from a year ago, JaMeesia Ford (10.87) of South Carolina and Tima Godbless (10.91) of LSU, along with Shawnti Jackson (10.89) of LSU. None are currently in top form, though that could change. 200 2 JaMeesia Ford South Carolina Jr 3 Gabrielle Matthews Florida Sr 4 Kelly Ufodiama East Carolina So Ford (21.98) is defending champion but the newcomer Hodge (22.10 at Spec Towns) dominated indoors and is favored. The Jamaican Matthews was runnerup indoors. USC is deep – Defrand (22.20), 3rd a year ago; Christine Mallard (22.71), Big Ten champion; Madison Whyte (22.16), last year’s runnerup; Rachel Uvieghara (23.17), and the onetime high school star Mia Brahe-Pedersen (22.43). Which can make this final? We believe Whyte will shift her focus to the 400. Mayberry (22.30), upset indoor champ in 2025, is attempting a comeback. The Texas freshman Cooper ran 22.44 as a prep and could be joined in the meet by her two sisters, one at Stanford, one at Harvard. There’s also Jasmine Montgomery (22.26) of Texas A&M and Alexis Brown (22.35) of South Carolina, who was Div. II national champion a year ago for Lenoir-Rhyne. 400 5 Vimbayi Maisvorewa Georgia Sr Three schools – Georgia, Arkansas and South Carolina – dominate this event at the moment, though we have an LSU Tiger, Onojuvwevwo (49.56), 4th a year ago, as the favorite. She beat USC’s Whyte (50.06) head to head on the LSU track in the Battle at the Bayou. Oakley (49.65) heads the Georgia contingent, which also includes Maisvorewa (50.25), Foote (50.88) and the freshman Tianna Springer (51.74), not to mention their short sprinter Adaejah Hodge (51.24). Arkansas’s Brown (49.13) was an international phenomenon as a freshman, anchoring a U.S. relay team in Paris; 5th last year as a sophomore, she is trying to return to top form. Her ‘mates include Sanaria Butler (51.40) and Analisse Batista (51.46). South Carolina is led by JaMeesia Ford (50.43) and Zaya Akins (51.43). A wild card in the event is the Duke sophomore Braelyn Baker, who has run 50.80 this spring but is expected to concentrate on the 400H. Last year’s champion, Georgia’s Aaliyah Butler (49.26), turned pro. 800 1 Juliette Whittaker Stanford Sr 2 Makayla Paige North Carolina Sr 3 Sanu Jallow-Lockhart Arkansas Sr 4 Gladys Chepngetich Clemson Jr 6 Hayley Kitching Penn State Sr Stanford won this event a year ago with Roisin Willis (1:58.13), who then turned pro and handed off the mantle to her fellow middle-distance star Whittaker. Whittaker redshirted last year, having made the Olympic team in Paris the year before, running 1:57.76. She was 4th indoors this winter, a race won by Jepngetich (1:58.81). Another indoor champ is also in this year’s field in the person of UNC’s Paige (1:58.97), the 2025 winner indoors and runnerup outdoors. This field is loaded. There’s also this year’s indoor runnerup, Jallow-Lockhart (1:59.29), also a 2024 Olympian, for Gambia; Duke’s Tolbert (1:59.39), 5th a year ago, and the Big Ten champion Kitching (1:59.22), an Aussie. More than a dozen others have run 2:01 or faster. 1500 2 Billah Jepkurui Oklahoma State Jr 5 Sadie Engelhardt NC State Fr 6 Salma Elbadra South Carolina Jr 7 Chloe Foerster Washington Sr 8 Rosemary Longisa Washington State So For whatever reason, the indoor NCAA mile champions rarely win the outdoor 1,500 four months later. Oregon’s Nielsen (4:02.05 PR) hopes to overturn that. She could be joined by teammates Ayyildiz (4:05.71), Bahiya El Arfaoui (4:05.20) and Juliet Cherubet (4:09.04). That’s the U.N. 1,500 -- Sweden, Turkey, Morocco, Kenya. Oklahoma State’s Jepkirui, 4th indoors, has run 4:04.59 this spring, winning by, yes, 25 seconds. The Carolinas are represented by Sjoberg (4:05.09), the freshman Engelhardt (4:07.00), and another young woman from Morocco, the Gamecocks’ Elbadra (4:05.85). BYU’s Riley Chamberlain (4:02.03) is redshirting. Sjoberg was 5k runnerup a year ago for BU. Steeplechase 2 Angelina Napoleon NC State Jr None of the contenders has run a steeple yet this spring. Lemngole (8:58.15) is defending champion and the only collegian ever to break 9 minutes. Napoleon (9:10.72) was 3rd in the college final and 2nd in the U.S. final last year, making the World Championships final. Cherono (9:32.10), Jeruto (9:34.71) and Lovell (9:37.97) all made the top nine in last year’s race. Fotheringham (9:58.55), a 20-year-old Australian freshman, attends the New Jersey Institute of Technology aka NJIT. 5,000 4 Marion Jepngetich New Mexico So 5 Hayley Burns Northern Arizona Jr 7 Mary Bonner Dalton Notre Dame So 8 Ava Mitchell Northern Arizona Jr The imposing freshman Hedengren (14:44.79 CR) is likely to double 5/10, and who’s going to beat her? The last person to do so, at NCAA XC, Doris Lemngole (14:51.21) of Alabama, is expected to defend her title in the steeplechase. Neither she, Kosgei (14:52.45) nor Olemomoi (15:02.45) could handle Hedengren in the indoor 5k final. Kosgei is defending outdoor champion at this distance. Arkansas’s Sydney Thorvaldson Vaught (15:02.52) is redshirting. 10,000 3 Edna Chelulei Eastern Kentucky So 5 Jadyn Keeler North Dakota State Sr It was only a matter of time. The BYU freshman Hedengren made her 10k debut this spring at Stanford, beat the defending NCAA champion, Kosgei, and broke the collegiate record (30:46.80). Kosgei also narrowly got under the previous record (30:49.99). Tagging along in that race were the sophomore Chelulei (31:33.57), also top 10 all-time for a collegian, and the Canadian Keeler (31:56.03). Naukot (31:34.34) was 3rd a year ago. Olemomoi (32:03.59) won Raleigh Relays. NC State’s Grace Hartman (31:20.60 and runnerup a year ago) has been absent. 100 Hurdles McCormick (12.74), who will be running on her home track, has won the last two NCAA titles, 2026 indoors and 2025 outdoors. In Eugene a year ago, the presumed favorite was Florida’s Habiba Harris (12.62), a freshman from Jamaica. A semifinal winner, she however stepped out of the blocks prior to the gun and has not run since, though she remains on the Florida roster. The Kentucky hurdler Scales (12.75) had an impeccable indoor season but slipped to 5th in the NCAA final. Covington (12.77w) was 2nd to McCormick a year ago, Sey (12.77) 3rd, Torian (12.81) 4th, Wilson (12.94) 5th. Torian’s father, Reggie, was NCAA champion for Auburn in the men’s highs 29 years ago. 400 Hurdles 1 Akala Garrett South Carolina Jr 7 Vanice Kerubo Nyagisera Kentucky Fr Garrett (53.73), at South Carolina after two years at Texas, finished 2nd a year ago to the two-time champion from Michigan, Savannah Sutherland, who won in collegiate-record time (52.46). Smith (54.56), 3rd as a freshman, went on to run in last summer’s World Championships for the Virgin Islands. Hebron (55.21) was 4th last year, Birdow (55.37) 7th, Allyria McBride (55.68) of Vanderbilt 8th, Baker (55.77) 9th. The Florida freshman Sutton ran 56.04 in high school last year. Duke’s Baker also has qualifying marks in the 100 (11.34), 200 (22.76), 400 (50.80) and both relays. 4x100 1 Georgia 2 South Carolina 3 Texas 4 USC 5 Texas A&M 6 Florida 7 TCU 8 LSU South Carolina (42.83 so far this season) was 2nd a year ago, losing to USC, but to move up this year they’ll have to beat loaded Georgia (42.62). A&M (43.03) was 3rd a year ago, TCU (42.91) 4th, Texas (43.14) 5th. The Longhorns, with an overhauled lineup from a year ago, won their own Texas Relays, beating Texas Tech (43.02 seasonal best), Clemson (43.53) and the Horned Frogs. SC (42.90) has a revised lineup but is always a threat. 4x400 1 Arkansas 2 Georgia 3 South Carolina 4 Duke 5 Tennessee 6 Texas A&M 7 LSU 8 Florida This meet finale is always a battle. A year ago six teams broke 3:28, led by Georgia, which won in 3:23.62 over Arkansas (3:24.25). It may come down to the same two SEC rivals again, as the Hogs have already run 3:22.06 this spring, Georgia 3:24.29. They finished in that order indoors as well, with South Carolina (3:25.12 to win Florida Relays) a respectable third. Tennessee (3:25.69) was 2nd at Florida, the host Gators (3:26.02) 3rd. Duke was 5th a year ago, 5th indoors and won Penn Relays. High Jump 1 Temitope Adeshina Texas Tech Jr 7 JaiCieonna Gero-Holt Illinois Fr Adeshina (6-5 ½ PR) has won the last two NCAA indoor titles but she inexplicably slipped to 5th, clearing just 6-1 ½, at last year’s outdoor NCAA. She represented Nigeria in the Paris Olympics. Yeboah (6-5 ½), also an Olympic highjumper, for Ghana, has been runnerup multiple times. Enoe (6-4) has been quiet outdoors so far this spring. The Stanford senior Jones (6-3 ¼), a fierce competitor, has placed numerous times in the HJ and LJ, indoors and outdoors, for the Cardinal. Gates (6-3 ¼), a member of the U.S. Worlds team last summer, leads an Arizona contingent that includes 6-2 jumpers Kya Crooke and Paris Mikinski. The freshman Gero-Holt (6-2 ¼), who placed in the 2024 Olympic Trials as a high schooler, is also expected to be in the heptathlon. Pole Vault 2 Marleen Mulla South Dakota Sr 7 Ashley Callahan Louisville Sr The 21-year-old Moll sisters have often been joined at the hip – nearly so at birth, after all – but lately Hana has taken more of the spotlight. She won the indoor NCAA at 15-9 ¾ while her sister, Amanda, ended her indoor campaign early. Both went Down Under later in March, where Hana lost to Australia’s Nina Kennedy, the reigning Olympic champion, 15-5 ¾ to 14-11 ½. Amanda was 3rd. The Molls are college’s only 16-foot vaulters. A year ago outdoors, Hana won at 15-8 ½ while Rutgers’s Chloe Timberg relegated Amanda to 3rd. South Dakota’s Willis tied for 4th and has been joined this season by her Estonian teammate Mulla; they finished 2-3 indoors. Kuhn upset her Baylor teammate Haywood at 14-10 this spring, while the Tennessee freshman Grace also reached that height for the first time this outdoor season. Ten other collegians have done at least 14-9, so watch out. Long Jump 3 Alexandra Kelly Princeton Sr 4 Prestina Ochonogor Tarleton State Fr 5 Maud Zeffou-Poaty Kansas State Jr Beckmon (22-5 ¾ PR) is the latest jumper to deny Stanford’s Jones an NCAA title, beating her by 2cm indoors for her first NCAA championship. Jones has been in seven NCAA LJ competitions, never finishing worse than 4th or better than 2nd. Kelly and Scoot could join their male teammate Greg Foster Jr. in the NCAA LJ this year. Kelly (21-5 ½) was 3rd indoors, Scoot (21-4 ¼) 11th outdoors. Were they 1-2 at Indoor Heps this winter? Yes, 5cm apart. Ochonogor (21-11 ½) was silver medalist for Nigeria at the African Championships as a 16-year-old, an Olympic finalist at 18. Breigan (22-0 1/4w) won Texas Relays. Triple Jump 3 Tamiah Washington Texas Tech Jr 7 Machaeda Linton Texas A&M Sr 8 Destini Smith Kansas State Fr With recent NCAA champions Agur Dwol of Oklahoma and Winny Bii of Texas A&M apparently sidelined, the Frenchwoman Wamokpego jumped a lifetime-best 45-5 on her final jump to defeat Foreman (46-6 PR) and win the indoor NCAA. Washington (45-0 ¼) was 3rd, Townsend (44-10 ¼) 8th, Smith (44-9 ¾) 5th. Shot Put 1 Axelina Johansson Nebraska Sr Johansson was outdoor champion in 2023, indoor champion in ’25 and ’26. This winter she set the collegiate record (64-9 ¾) several times and also found time to travel to Poland in March, where she won the bronze medal in the World Indoor for Sweden, making her the prohibitive favorite. Odeluga (62-1 ½ PR) was 2nd indoors, Nduibisi (62-0 ½) 3rd, Hague (61-11 ½) 4th, de Klerk (60-7 ¾) 5th, Van Daalen (61-2 ¾) 6th, Oji (60-8 ½) 7th. Sixty feet is no longer the barrier it once was. Discus 3 Cedricka Williams Tennessee Jr 4 Anthonett Nabwe Minnesota Jr 7 Marie Josee Bovele-Linaka Oregon Fr 8 Klaire Kovatch Colorado State Sr Van Daalen (214-8 PR), runnerup a year ago, is the only returnee from last year’s top nine finishers. So welcome to a new class! This is the first year in the States for the 24-year-old German Oguama. Tennessee’s Williams (200-4), a Jamaican, is also new to Div. I, having won the JC title last year for Barton County. There’s a pattern here. Hyman (196-6) and Bovele-Linaka (198-0) are French, Wepiwe (196-0) German, Nabwe (195-6) Liberian. Hammer 1 Anthonett Nabwe Minnesota Jr 2 Elisabet Rut Runarsdottir Texas State Jr 3 Kali Terza Kennesaw State Sr 8 Charlotta Sandkulla Virginia Fr Four in this year’s field have thrown in the 230s – Nabwe (233-8), Runarsdottir (234-3), Savva (230-4) and Roberts (232-10). Roberts, at 3rd the top returnee, has thrown just 214-6 thus far this year. Meeks (226-2) is competing for her third school, having moved on from Vanderbilt and Cal. Europe is well represented, with Runarsdottir (Iceland), Savva and Harvard’s Emilia Kolokotroni (222-6) (both Cyprus), Roberts (Australia), Sandkulla (Finland), Mississippi State’s Marie Rougetet (221-1) (France) and Colorado State’s Kajsa Borrman (220-8) (Sweden). Javelin 2 Valentina Barrios Bornacelli Missouri Sr 4 Skylar Ciccolini Missouri Sr 5 McKyla Van Der Westhuizen Rice Sr 6 Jana Marie Lowka Nebraska Sr It’s been a roller coaster for Evie Bliss. A biology major and former swimmer at Bucknell, Bliss has never placed in the NCAA javelin, yet she is the reigning national Open champion, having won the USATF meet last summer and gone on to Tokyo as the U.S. representative in the World Championships. Going into the Pennsylvania state meet her senior year for Rimersburg, pop. 945, her best throw ever as a prep was a modest 146-7, but at the state meet she somehow threw 23 feet farther and won first place. That earned her a trip to the U.S. Juniors meet, which she promptly won. She’s been 12th and 13th at her two NCAA meets, but last summer in Germany she threw 199-6, the longest of the year by an American, and over the weekend she improved her best to 201-3 at the Bison Outdoor Classic in Lewisburg – the 2nd-longest throw in the world in 2026. There are plenty of good throwers ready to eclipse her, including Bornacelli (203-5), the defending champion; the 2025 runnerup, Rotundo (210-6); Van Der Westhuizen (197-9), and Lowka (194-11). Of that group, only Bliss is an American. Missouri’s Ciccolini (188-6), however, is from Lewistown, Pa., a mere hour’s drive from the Bucknell campus. Heptathlon 1 Sofia Iakushina Texas A&M So 3 Sofia Cosculluela Washington So 4 Juliette Laracuente-Huebner Cincinnati Jr 5 JaiCieonna Gero-Holt Illinois Fr 6 Jenna Fee Feyerabend San Diego State Sr 7 Meagan Humphries Illinois So 8 Melissa Wullschleger Illinois So With the apparent departure of the defending champion, Oklahoma’s Pippi Lotta Enok, 3rd-place Iakushina (6260 best) is the top returnee, followed by Wulllschleger (5928) 4th and Cosculluela (6000) 6th. There are plenty of talented newcomers this year, particularly Oregon’s Lusti, the indoor champion from Estonia, and the American freshmen Gero-Holt (5552) and Vanderbilt’s Janie Ford (5311), 2nd and 4th indoors. Neither of them has done a heptathlon as a collegian yet. Third indoors was Laracuente-Huebner, who has taken the early seasonal collegiate lead with a PR 5920. Iakushina claimed an all-time freshman best last year with her 6260. A Russian native from Krasnodar, a city across the Black Sea from Turkey, she is reportedly pursuing Turkish citizenship. Others worth watching include Illinois’s Lucie Kienast (6044), Pauline Bikembo of Florida (5979) and Maddie Pitts (5778) of Penn State, 5th indoors. Projected Team Scores 1 Georgia 79 2 Oregon 42 3 Texas A&M 40 4 South Carolina 35 5 Florida 33 6 BYU 28 7 Illinois 27 8 Arkansas 26 9 Washington 23 10 Kansas State and Minnesota 21 Coach Caryl Smith-Gilbert’s Georgia Bulldogs won last year’s women’s meet by 26 points, 73-47 over USC. The margin may be bigger this year as it becomes a dynasty, built around the sprints but also includes strength in the hurdles, jumps, relays and throws. More news |
