The Bowerman: 2025 Women’s Mid-Outdoor Watch List

NEW ORLEANS – Foursomes are in play again, as four new names adorn The Bowerman Women’s Mid-Outdoor Watch List that was released on Wednesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

This is a second-straight Watch List with four women making a first appearance – and that’s highly unusual as before this year the last time a non-preseason women’s Watch List had four debuting athletes happened came in 2010, the first year of Watch Lists for The Bowerman.

The foursome making debut appearances today are Brynn King of Roberts Wesleyan, Pamela Kosgei of New Mexico, Manuela Rotundo of Georgia and Jayden Ulrich of Louisville. They join returnees Aaliyah Butler of Georgia, Rachel Glenn of Arkansas, Doris Lemngole of Alabama, Indya Mayberry of TCU, Amanda Moll of Washington and Isabella Whittaker of Arkansas.

Eight of those 10 athletes are No. 1 or No. 2 in at least one event in collegiate history.

The Bowerman 2025 will be awarded in December at the USTFCCCA Convention in Grapevine, Texas.

Butler, who hails from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has competed just once thus far outdoors, PRing in the 200 meters in 22.63 at the Florida Relays. She finished the indoor season without a head-to-head loss but was runner-up in the NCAA Indoor 400 as her time of 49.97 – the No. 5 collegiate performance all-time – was second-fastest in the two-section final. Two weeks earlier she won the SEC Championships in 49.78, then the fastest ever by a collegian at low altitude indoors. This is her fourth Watch List appearance.

Glenn, who hails from Long Beach, California, opened up the track side of her outdoor season at the Texas Relays, winning the 400-meter hurdles in 54.86 and contributing a 50.58 split on the third leg of the Arkansas team that won the 4×400 relay in 3:25.03, the fastest collegiate time this year. Indoors she was the season’s highest jumper at 1.98m (6-6) – tied for the No. 3 performance all-time indoors (she has a share of Collegiate Record at 2.00m/6-6¾ from last year). This is her tenth Watch List appearance.

King, who hails from The Woodlands, Texas, is the first athlete from Roberts Wesleyan to make the Watch List – and the first female from any NCAA DII program since 2011. King was at her highest ever in winning the Texas Relays at 4.75m (15-7) to break the six-year-old outdoor CR. Her previous PR was also special – 4.73m (15-6¼) to make the U.S. team for the Paris Olympics last summer. A three-time DII champ (twice indoors, once outdoors), she is the only DII vaulter ever to clear 15 feet (4.57m), doing so collegiately in 10 different meets including last year.

Kosgei, who hails from Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya, is the third woman from New Mexico to be named to a Watch List, joining Ednah Kurgat (2018-19) and Weini Kelati (2020). She produced an eye-opening 10k/steeple double in the span of six days – a 31:02.73 in The TEN followed by winning the Stanford Invitational by over 44 seconds in 9:15.93 as both times made her the No. 2 collegian ever. Indoors she was third in the NCAA DI 5000 before taking 11th in the 3000. Her PR in the 5k of 15:00.36 makes her No. 5 all-time collegiately indoors.

Lemngole, who hails from West Pokot County, Kenya, has run just once outdoors this year – a PR in the 1500 at 4:09.28 while winning the Crimson Tide Invitational by over nine seconds. Indoors she had a pair of notable 5000-meter races – the first in a CR 14:52.57 in early December and the other in mid-March to win the NCAA DI Indoor title in 15:05.93, the No. 9 all-time performance collegiately. She was also runner-up in the 3000 at the NCAA DI Indoor after earlier moving to No. 5 on the all-time collegiate list at 8:41.83. She has yet to race in one of specialties – the steeplechase, in which she won the NCAA DI title last year in a CR 9:15.24. This is her fifth Watch List appearance.

Mayberry, who hails from Allen, Texas, was dominating twice in her only outdoor meet this yet this year. At the Texas Relays, her rocket opening leg in the 4×100 relay helped TCU win in 42.87, still the season’s fastest collegiate time. She returned to take the 100 in a wind-aided 10.91 that also leads all collegians this year. In the winter she won the 200 at the NCAA DI Indoor Championships in 22.30 to become No. 4 all-time collegiately after earlier placing fourth in the 60 (in which she clocked a PR 7.11 earlier in the season). This is her second Watch List appearance.

Moll, who hails from Olympia, Washington, has competed just once outdoors as twin sister Hana got the best of her in a back-and-forth pole vault duel at the Stanford Invitational. Amanda had the upper hand indoors against all comers, setting or tying the CR four times that ultimately had her with the first absolute collegiate 16-footer at 4.91m (16-1¼); she also won the NCAA DI Indoor title with a meet record 4.70m (15-5) and finished the undercover season with six of the top-8 all-performances collegiately. This is her third Watch List appearance.

Rotundo, who hails from Paysandu, Uruguay, is the third woman from Georgia to appear on the Watch List this year – and the second javelin thrower. She won the Florida Relays at 64.17m (210-7) – just 2cm off the CR – while defeating and moving ahead of the previous No. 2 all-time collegiate javelinist in teammate Lianna Davidson. Davidson had thrown 63.79m (209-4) at the Yellow Jacket Invitational in March while Rotundo hit 61.13m (200-7) – a then-PR that put her No. 8 all-time collegiately. Rotundo and Davidson now sit Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, all-time and have split their two head-to-head meetings thus far.

Ulrich, who hails from East Alton, Illinois, is the first woman from Louisville to be named to the Watch List. She moved to No. 2 on the all-time collegiate discus list with a throw of 69.39m (227-8) to win the World Throws Invitational B section. Just three weeks earlier she had moved up to No. 5 all-time in winning the South Florida Alumni Invitational at 66.63m (218-7). In the shot put she was fifth in the NCAA DI Indoor and has a best of 18.66m (61-2¾) outdoors from last year.

Whittaker, who hails from Laurel, Maryland, has completed her collegiate eligibility this year, but so good were her indoor accomplishments that she remains on the Watch List. How good? She won the 400 at the NCAA DI Indoor Championships in a CR 49.24, a time that also places her No. 2 in world history. That performance came just two weeks after her first sub-50 time, a 49.90 that now rates as the No. 4 performance all-time collegiately. She also brought home the Razorback 4×400 relay team to victory at the NCAA DI Indoor with a 49.71 split. This is her second Watch List appearance.

Five more athletes received votes from The Bowerman Watch List Committee but fell outside the Top 10: Silan Ayyildiz of Oregon, Lianna Davidson of Georgia, JaMeesia Ford of South Carolina, Hana Moll of Washington and Jadin O’Brien of Notre Dame.

The next women’s Watch List is scheduled for May 7.