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DyeStat Women's NCAA Division 1 Indoor Form Chart Compiled by Jack Pfeifer of Lake Oswego, Ore Name School Yr 60 Meters 1 Shenese Walker Florida State Sr 5 Victoria Cameron Tarleton State So 7 Kelly Ufodiama East Carolina So Walker (7.09, 10.98 100), a senior from Jamaica, has won the past two ACC indoor 60s, last year’s ACC outdoor 100, and has made the past two NCAA 60 finals. Burnett and Cameron are tied for this year’s list lead, at 7.08, a tick ahead of Walker. Burnett (11.10), a transfer from Missouri, came out of obscurity to take the SEC this winter, while Cameron (11.01) won the WAC and made the NCAA 100 final a year ago as a freshman. She arrived at Tarleton as a soccer star. Though Defrand (7.09 PR, 10.93) is defending champion, she false-started at Big Ten and failed to make the 200 final. In her absence, sophomore Selby won conference. Georgia has the newcomer Hodge (7.13, 11.11), a redshirt freshman from the British Virgin Islands who was 4th at SEC, and the veteran Kaila Jackson (7.19). Jackson was NCAA 60 runnerup in 2023 and 2024 but has struggled a bit this winter, her senior season. Ufodiama (7.14, 11.15) won the American, Mayberry (7.17, 10.91w) won Big 12 and was 4th in this race a year ago as a freshman. 200 4 JaMeesia Ford South Carolina Jr 8 Kelly Ufodiama East Carolina So Ford had a heck of a year in 2025, running 21.98 to win the outdoor NCAA, while also running 10.87 and 50.33. But in this season’s indoor SEC, she was dismissed by the redshirt freshman Hodge, a native of the British Virgin Islands, 22.32-22.61. Hodge made the Paris Olympics semifinal for the BVI. Mayberry (22.50), Big 12 champion, is defending champion. Dickson (22.62) and freshman Cooper were 3-4 at SEC. Mallard (22.77) won Big Ten for USC. 400 7 Sydney Segalla Boston College So The multitalented Whyte leads the season’s list (50.82). She ran 50.78 outdoors a year ago, and 50.93 to win the Big Ten, passing up the 200. Arkansas’s Brown (49.13 PR), a member of the U.S. team in Paris in 2024 as a freshman, has run just 51.72 this winter, 16th on the list. That opens the door for Oakley (49.65), silver relay medalist for Jamaica in Paris; fellow Bulldog and Jamaican Foote (50.95), a transfer from San Diego State, and Onojuvwevwo (50.31), 4th outdoors a year ago and the SEC winner over Oakley, Esther Joseph and Brown. 800 1 Juliette Whittaker Stanford Sr 3 Hayley Kitching Penn State Sr 4 Sanu Jallow-Lockhart Arkansas Sr 5 Gladys Jepngetich Clemson Jr 6 Analisse Batista Arkansas Jr The defending outdoor champ, Roisin Willis, turned pro, but her Stanford teammate Whittaker, who ran 1:57.76 in Paris in 2024 and won the indoor ACC, is back for her senior season. One of her ACC victims was Paige, but the Tar Heel senior is nevertheless the returning indoor NCAA champion and was runnerup, at 1:58.97, to Willis outdoors. Paige also lost at conference to Clemson’s Chepngetich, the runnerup, this year’s list leader (1:58.81). The Penn State Australian Kitching (1:59.22) won the Big Ten wire to wire while the Arkansas pair of Batista (2:01.10) and Jallow-Lockhart (1:59.29 PR) finished .02 apart to go 1-2 at SEC. Jallow-Lockhart represented Gambia in the ’24 Games. Harvard’s Gorriaran has run 2:02 or better every year since 2020. She won Heps for the Crimson. Mile 2 Billah Jepkurui Oklahoma State Jr 5 Chloe Foerster Washington Sr 6 Sadie Engelhardt NC State Fr 8 Kaiya Robertson Boise State Sr This is the third school, sixth season and fourth NCAA indoor meet for Nielsen – don’t ask us for those eligibility interpretations. She is defending indoor mile champion, for the Ducks, and has placed in the 800 both for Washington and Bradley. But at Big Ten her teammate Ayyildiz (4:25.11 seasonal best) got the measure of her, so she gets the nod here, though watch out for Jepkirui, who took the 1000 and mile (4:22.92) at Big 12, returning to the Cowgirls after a year’s absence. Midseason BYU’s Chamberlain broke the collegiate record (4:20.61), but she ran the 800 instead at conference. Freshman Engelhardt won the ACC (4:23.84), Boise’s Robertson the Mountain West (4:24.51). 3000 5 Salma Elbadra South Carolina Jr 6 Vera Sjoberg North Carolina Sr 7 Billah Jepkurui Oklahoma State Jr This distance is right in Lemngole’s wheelhouse as she is reigning NCAA 3,000-meter steeplechase champion. She pulled away from Hedengren at this year’s Millrose Games in the late going and broke the collegiate record (8:31.39), 3 seconds up on Hedengren (8:34.98). Chamberlain (8:43.16) was a solid 8th in that race. Most of these runners will be doubling back from the mile, two hours earlier, or the 5k the day before, so recovery will determine much of the outcome. (A year ago, for example, Oregon’s Ayyildiz (8:42.66) failed to finish.) Hutchins (8:44.04), a high school phenom, is just coming into her own and could be a factor in BYU’s bid for a team trophy. Jepkirui (8:45.22) is dangerous. 5000 6 Edna Chelulei Eastern Kentucky So 8 Mary Bonner Dalton Notre Dame Fr Likely to be a rematch at the front between the freshman phenom Hedengren and the veteran Lemngole. The two battled for the NCAA cross country championship in the fall and Lemngole prevailed. Not long after, Hedengren broke the collegiate record on the track (14:44.79), a time later approached by Lemngole (14:51.21) on the same Boston University track. Kosgei (14:52.45) is Mountain West and outdoor champion, a race in which Kennedy (15:07.90) was 3rd. Olemomoi (15:04.65), runnerup in 2024, was defeated by Thorvaldson Vaught at SEC. 60 Hurdles 5 Jaiya Covington Texas A&M Sr 8 Tonie-Ann Forbes Texas Tech Jr Scales has had an excellent season, capped by her SEC win. She is list leader at 7.83. McCormick (7.89) is defending outdoor champion and was runnerup to Covington (7.90) indoors in 2025. Covington was then 2nd to McCormick outdoors. Ndjip-Nyemeck and Bebe have run 7.96 this winter. Nembhard )7.91) was SEC runnerup. Wilson won ACC, Forbes Big 12. 4x400 Arkansas (list leader at 3:25.82) won indoors a year ago over Georgia (3:26.88), then lost to the Bulldogs outdoors. Those two and South Carolina (3:26.85) have battled all year. USC (3:28.65) was 3rd indoors last year and won Big Ten, while Duke (3:30.35) was 5th outdoors, won ACC and last year’s Penn Relays. Distance Medley BYU has won the past two titles, and the Cougars return three members of the 2025 lineup (Jenna Hutchins, Sami Oblad and Tessa Buswell) and two from 2024 (Oblad and Riley Chamberlain). With Oregon (10:45.97) running a secondary lineup, Washington (10:45.03) won the important Big Ten race. Who has the best 1200-1600 combo? Probably the Ducks, but their middle legs may put them behind. BYU (Jane Hedengren) and NC State (19:46.00) (Sadie Engelhardt) will be counting on talented freshmen. High Jump 1 Temitope Adeshina Texas Tech Jr 6 JaiCieonna Gero-Holt Illinois Fr 8 Evelyn Lavielle Texas Tech Jr Adeshina tied with the since-graduated Elena Kulichenko of Georgia for last year’s championship and is the favorite, having already cleared 6-5 ½ this indoor season. Aged 27, she represented Nigeria in the 2024 Olympics. Gates redshirted last spring after finishing 4th indoors and went on to have an excellent outdoor season, PR’ing at 6-3 ¼ and making the U.S. team for the World Championships, but she was only 5th at Big 12, behind Adeshina and Enoe (6-4). Yeboah has also cleared 6-5 ½ (6-4 ¼ this winter) and like Adeshina also jumped in Paris in 2024, representing her native Ghana. Jones (6-3 ¼) has been doing the demanding HJ/LJ double for years, going back to high school days in Florida, where she jumped 6 feet in 9th grade. Gero-Holt (6-2) will be doing the pentathlon on Friday, the open HJ on Saturday as Illinois tries for the team title, but she struggled with that double at Big Ten. Pole Vault 2 Marleen Mulla South Dakota Sr 4 Veronica Vacca Washington Fr 8 Ashley Callahan Louisville Sr Hana Moll lost on the countback rule to her twin sister, Amanda, at last year’s indoor as both cleared 15-5, a height no one else in this field has reached. Hana is currently world leader (16-1 ½) while Amanda did not make the field. The South Dakota Coyote teammates Mulla (15-2 ½), a 24-year-old senior from Estonia, and Willis (15-1), 20-year-old sophomore from Colorado, have both reached 15 feet this winter. Haywood (15-1 ½) won Big 12. The Washington freshman Vacca PR’d at 14-9 to get 2nd at Big Ten over Morello (14-9). Tutton (14-10) won ACC. Long Jump 3 Prestina Ochonogor Tarleton State So 5 Maud Zeffou-Poaty Kansas State Jr 7 Hailey Coey Montana State Sr Beckmon’s worst mark in her five meets of the season is 21-10 ¾, all the others 22 and beyond, including a solid win at Big Ten. She was 5th a year ago. As for Jones, in her six NCAA championship meets, she has never finished worse than 4th but also never 1st – 3rd-3rd-4th indoors, 2nd-3rd-2nd outdoors. Her college PR of 22-7 ¾ is just ahead of Beckmon’s 22-5 ¾. Beckmon was 5th a year ago indoors, 6th outdoors. Two returning NCAA champions -- Synclair Savage of Louisville outdoors, Sydney Willits of Iowa State indoors – did not make the field. Ochonogor (21-11 ½) won the WAC, Davis (21-6 ¾) the SEC, Coey (21-5 1/4) Big Sky. Triple Jump 3 Tamiah Washington Texas Tech Jr 6 Daniela Wamokpego Kansas State Jr Last year’s two NCAA champions – Agur Dwol of Oklahoma indoors, Winny Bii of Texas A&M outdoors – are both redshirting. The 2024 indoor champ, Lasmane, who passed up the 2025 season, is back; she jumped for Latvia in the Paris Games and has jumped 46-7 ¼, but that was five years ago. She took Big 12 with 45-3. Foreman took the collegiate lead this winter with a PR 46-6 but did just 43-3 ¾ at ACC. This is a big event for Illinois, which has Honesty (44-4 ¼), Tamir (44-3 ½) and Katharina Graman (43-11 ¾). Phipps was upset winner (44-8 ¼) at Big Ten. Shot Put 1 Axelina Johansson Nebraska Sr Johansson is defending indoor champion and the 2023 outdoor champ, and she opened this indoor season in December with a collegiate-record 64-8 ½, several feet up on the rest of the field. Things got a little more interesting at SEC where Hague, not well-known prior to this winter, got out to 61-11 ½. She is one of three new 60-footers, joining the freshman Oji (60-8 ½) and the South African senior de Klerk (60-7 ¾). Ndubuisi (outdoor PR of 62-0 ½), now at Georgia, was 3rd a year ago for Texas, Odeluga (62-0 ¼) 9th. Odeluga was 2nd to Hague at SEC with 61-4, Van Daalen (59-5 ¾) 3rd. Weight Throw 2 Anthonett Nabwe Minnesota Jr 3 Phethisang Makhethe Illinois Sr 7 Elle Adrian Michigan State Sr 8 Kajsa Borrman Colorado State Jr Meeks (80-4 ¼), a junior who was 4th a year ago, is already competing for her third school after stints at Cal and Vanderbilt. Makhethe (77-9 ¼) was 3rd and Koskondy (77-4 ¾) 7th a year ago for the Illini, who also have Oluwatomilayo Akintude (72-9 ¼). What about the Wisconsin senior Taylor Kesner? A year ago she came out of nowhere with a PR 77-1 ¼ to win the NCAA in a shocker. So far this winter she’s sitting at 73-0 – she was a distant 7th at the Big Ten -- but that’s also where she was a year ago at this time! Nabwe (seasonal list leader at 80-11 ¼) was 2nd to Makhethe at Big Ten, Koskondy 3rd, Adrian (73-10) 4th. Soli (73-3 ½) was 2nd to Meeks at the SEC. Borrman (72-8 ½) won the Mountain West. Pentathlon 1 Meagan Humphries Illinois So 2 Vanessa Mercera Kansas State Sr 3 Juliette Laracuente-Huebner Cincinnati Jr 4 Sofia Iakushina Texas A&M So 5 JaiCieonna Gero-Holt Illinois Fr A year ago at this time Humphries, a sophomore who grew up in California, finished 11th at the SEC, competing for Texas, with a score of 3875. One year later, now at Illinois, she erupted to 4459 to win the Big Ten and become the favorite to win Nationals. The Dutch senior Mercera (4429) bypassed the multi at Big 12, anchoring K-State’s 4x4 instead. She has run 2:09.93 for 800 and 57.55 in the 400H. The Russian Iakushina (4556 PR) was runnerup to Notre Dame’s 2nd Jadin O’Brien a year ago, 3rd outdoors in the hep. Iakushina’s seasonal best is a more modest 4336, and she did not compete at the SEC. The newcomer Lusti, an Estonian who has a best of 4522, managed 4290 in her Oregon debut this winter. Illinois also has firepower in Kienast (4405) and the freshman Gero-Holt (4400), but Kienast DNF’d at conference. Pitts (4384) PR’d at Big Ten to finish just behind Gero-Holt. Laracuente-Huebner (4437) PR’d to win the Big 12, and the freshman Ford (4373) did likewise to win SEC. Team Scores 1 Illinois 58 2 Oregon 42 3 BYU 35 4 USC 34 5 Arkansas/Stanford/Texas 25 8 Washington 23 9 Kansas State/South Carolina 21 It’s Illinois’ title to lose. If they perform up to their standards, they may be hard to catch. All of their points will come from the field. The Illinois women have never won an NCAA team title in track and field but they were collegiate champions once, in 1970, winning the AIAW outdoor nationals, a decade before the NCAA took over the women’s side of the sport. The Illinois men have won outdoor NCAA team championships four times, the last time in 1947. Oregon has a good squad but fewer opportunities to score. More news |
