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DyeStat NCAA D1 Women's Outdoor Formchart By Jack Pfeifer for DyeStat/Photo by Ahnaf Rashid Place Name School Year 100 Defrand (best of 10.94), a transfer from Florida State, was 60 champion indoors. In the 60 final Jackson (10.95) was 3rd, the freshman Mayberry (10.91w) 4th, Moody (11.03w) 5th. Mayberry beat Bertrand (10.94w) at Texas Relays. Lyston (10.91), outdoor runnerup last year, has not run since failing to make the indoor 60 Final. Jackson was 5th outdoors last spring, Bertrand 7th, Godbless 8th. At Tom Jones, into a headwind, Godbless (11.14) edged Jackson and Bertrand. 200 1 JaMeesia Ford South Carolina So 6 Jasmine Montgomery Texas A&M Jr 8 Kelly Ufodiama East Carolina Fr Ford had a brilliant freshman season in 2024, running 22.08, finishing 2nd in the NCAA outdoor and making the 400 final in the Olympic Trials. The freshman Mayberry, who was running for North Crowley HS of Ft. Worth, Texas, at this time a year ago, ran 22.30 this winter indoors and won the NCAA. Defrand (22.34) was 4th. Montgomery (22.59) was 2nd at Florida Relays to Georgia’s Dejanea Oakley (22.43), who is in the 400. USC’s Madison Whyte has the current outdoor NCAA lead at 22.32, but we anticipate she will run the 400 as well. In addition to Defrand, Carter and Whyte, the Trojans also have Christine Mallard (22.66w), Samirah Moody (22.58) and Brianna Selby (11.11). 400 3 Vimbayi Maisvorewa Auburn Sr What will Arkansas do in the 400? Isabella Whittaker, who enrolled at the school last fall after graduating from Penn and making the Paris Olympic team, won the NCAA indoor with a spectacular 49.24 but is redshirting outdoors. Kaylyn Brown, who won a silver medal in the Olympic 4x4 mixed relay and has run 49.13, fell short of making the indoor final this winter. And Rosey Effiong (49.72) redshirted this winter, but she ran on the winning U.S. 4x4 instead at the World Indoor in March in Nanjing. That leaves Georgia’s Butler, who also made last year’s Olympic team, ran 3rd leg on the U.S. 4x4 in the heats, then won a gold medal when the team won the Final. The new face here is Whyte, the rapidly developing Southern Cal sophomore who has run 50.91 twice this spring, along with 22.32 in the deuce. And there are more Olympians in this deep field. Onojuvwevwo (50.57) ran the 400 and the mixed relay for Nigeria; John (51.31) ran on the British 4x4 and came home with a bronze medal. Over the weekend Butler improved her PR to 49.44, ahead of PRs by Maisvorewa (50.25) and Oakley (50.35). 800 1 Makayla Paige North Carolina Sr 5 Gladys Chepngetich Clemson So 7 Juliette Whittaker Stanford Jr Paige (2:00.39) was the upset winner indoors for the Tar Heels. The field is full of NCAA champions. Rose (1:58.37) was outdoor champion in ’23, then followed that up last year by getting 4th in the Olympic Trials, narrowly missing the team. The person who did make the team, just ahead of her, was Whittaker (1:57.76), who was outdoor NCAA champ last year, just ahead teammate Willis (1:59.13), and who made it all the way to the Olympic Final in Paris, finishing 7th. And Willis herself has been an NCAA titlist, winning outdoors in ’23 as a freshman. Arkansas’s Jallow (1:59.29) also ran in Paris, for her native Gambia. Bossong (1:59.48 over the weekend) was runnerup this winter indoors, Kolbe (2:01.18) 5th and Chepngetich (1:59.81) 8th. Rose ran 2:00.22 at the Bryan Clay meet, winning over Northern Arizona’s Maggi Congdon (2:00.27), Washington’s Sophie O’Sullivan (2:00.61) and Whittaker (2:00.76). 1500 4 Chloe Foerster Washington Jr 5 Salma Elbadra South Carolina So 6 Maggi Congdon Northern Arizona Sr 8 Klaudia Kazimierska Oregon Jr Appleton PR’d in March in Raleigh, running 4:05.68 to defeat Providence’s May (4:06.58). Appleton was 3rd in the outdoor 15 in ’23. May was 2nd in the indoor mile, losing to Nielsen (4:07.38), a Washington transfer who has run for Sweden internationally. Foerster, 6th indoors, won Stanford in 4:07.32. Her teammate Maatoug (4:08.75), a Duke transfer, was 5th indoors, just ahead of Ayyildiz (4:09.34), a South Carolina transfer. The third Duck here, Kazimierska (3:59.95), had not been active since making the Olympic final in Paris, where she finished 10th for Poland, until running an 800 and 1,500 over the weekend. There are a number of other contenders in this highly competitive event, including the indoor runnerup, Mena Scatchard of Princeton (4:11.09); Melissa Riggins of Georgetown (4:07.96); another Duck, Mia Barnett (4:08.44); another Husky, Sophie O’Sullivan (4:00.23); Laura Pellicoro of Portland (4:08.03), Shannon Flockhart of Providence (4:04.98) and Judy Kosgei of Clemson (4:07.65). NAU’s Congdon (4:02.79) was a surprise 3rd indoors. Steeplechase 2 Ceili McCabe West Virginia Sr 3 Angelina Napoleon NC State So 5 Katelyn Stewart-Barnett Michigan State Sr 6 Karrie Baloga Northern Arizona So Lemngole has already finished 1st or 2nd in five different NCAA championship races – 2024 champion in the steeplechase, 2024 cross-country and 2025 indoor 3,000, and runnerup in the ’23 cross and this year’s indoor 3k. Over the weekend she broke her own collegiate steeplechase record, winning at Wake Forest in 9:10.13. McCabe won the indoor 3k this winter, has placed in the NCAA steeple three times – 6th, 3rd and 3rd – and holds the Canadian national record, at 9:20.58. She was national champion in 2022 and represented the maple leaf in Paris last summer. Baloga and Napoleon are New York high school rivals. Baloga, who won the Penn Relays 3k three years ago for Cornwall Central HS, set the American Junior record last year (9:42.22) in the steeple. She narrowly lost to Napoleon in the NY state meet in ’23. Napoleon (Allegany-Limestone HS) set the national prep record for the 2k steeple, then had a rough transition year to college before erupting with a PR 9:34.22 this spring, followed by 9:29.20 in finishing 2nd to Lemngole at Wake. The other sub-9:40 competitors in the field are the Canadian Stewart-Barnett (9:36.96), the OU freshman Jeruto (9:34.71) and West Virginia’s Sarah Tait (9:37.62) of Great Britain. 5,000 4 Elise Stearns Northern Arizona Sr 5 Chloe Scrimgeour Georgetown Jr 7 Marion Jepngetich New Mexico Fr Kosgei, a 20-year-old freshman from Kenya, took the collegiate lead last week, winning the Bryan Clay race in 14:52.45, just off Parker Valby’s collegiate record (14:52.18) from a year ago, and just ahead of BYU’s Halladay-Lowry (14:52.93). Kosgei was 3rd indoors, Halladay-Lowry runnerup. Both have also run very well in the steeplechase. Stearns (15:08.07) was 4th and Kennedy (15:10.71) 5th indoors. Olemomoi – last year’s runnerup in both the 5 and the 10 – was 3rd at Clay (15:04.65), just ahead of Scrimgeour (15:05.40) and Kennedy (15:11.12). Others deserving consideration include Lucy Jenks (15:15.58) of Georgetown, Amy Bunnage (15:00.75) and Zofia Dudek (15:23.46) of Stanford, Silan Ayyildiz (15:15.84) and Maddy Elmore (15:15.79) of Oregon and Grace Hartman (15:11.10) of North Carolina State. 10,000 6 Jadyn Keeler North Dakota Jr Hartman has been on a roll – 8th in the 10 a year ago, then 5th in XC, top six indoors in both the 3 and 5, then 1st in the Raleigh Relays 10 in 31:20.60, second on the 2025 collegiate list to Kosgei (31:02.73). Last year’s runnerup, Hilda Olemomoi (31:31.89 best) of Alabama, has not run a 10 so far this year. The Oregon runners Cherotich (31:45.22) and Cherubet (32:02.78) are new to the program. Noe (31:59.22) was 9th last year as a freshman. 100 Hurdles 4 Micaela De Mello Washington State Sr Harris didn’t enroll at Florida in time for the indoor season but she wasted little time establishing herself as a collegian, winning Florida Relays in 12.69w. She arrived as Jamaican high school champion from 2024 (12.95). Covington (12.77w) was upset indoor champ over McCormick (12.81), Wilson (12.70) and De Mello (12.85), who finished in that order. Ndjip-Nyemeck won Mt. SAC with 12.87. Oregon’s Aaliyah McCormick, 2nd indoors, has run just once outdoors (13.07w). Wilson won Tom Jones over a top field. 400 Hurdles 1 Savannah Sutherland Michigan Sr 8 Antonia Sanchez Nunez Arizona Jr Sutherland was NCAA champion two years ago, then she and Glenn finished 2-3 behind USC’s Jasmin Jones last year. Sutherland and Glenn were in the Paris Olympics. Sutherland made the finals of both the IH and the 4x4 for Canada, while Glenn went for the U.S., but in the HJ. Sutherland’s PR of 53.26 is slightly superior to Glenn’s 53.46. Garrett was 4th a year ago for the Longhorns. She has run 54.44, slightly better than what the newcomer Smith has already run (54.56) this spring for Georgia. Smith was the top American prep last year, though she hails from the Virgin Islands. In a meeting of the Big 3 at the Tom Jones meet, Sutherland (53.46) prevailed narrowly over Glenn (53.48) and Garrett (53.73), a PR for the Longhorn. Prince, a transfer from Arizona, was 4th in a PR 55.49, ahead of Hebron. 4x100 1 USC 2 South Carolina 3 Texas A&M 4 TCU 5 Arkansas 6 Georgia 7 Baylor 8 LSU The Women of Troy are loaded – depth plus this winter’s 60-meter champ, Dajaz Defrand. South Carolina took the seasonal list lead by winning the Michael Johnson Invitational over host Baylor, 42.74-42.89. A&M won Florida Relays and has run 42.94. TCU (42.89) won Texas Relays. The Aggies have won the event six times, the most recent in 2014. LSU has won it a remarkable 16 times, USC three times including two recent successes, 2019 and 2021. 4x400 1 Arkansas 2 USC 3 Georgia 4 South Carolina 5 Texas A&M 6 Kentucky 7 Tennessee 8 Duke Arkansas has won the past two years and the Razorbacks (3:23.69 seasonal best as the first college team at Tom Jones) won indoors, but they can expect a stout challenge from Southern Cal (3:26.97). Georgia (2:26.07) was runnerup indoors, Tennessee (3:27.25) 4th, A&M (3:28.43) 5th. Tennessee was outdoors runnerup a year ago. SC has won the 4x4 on just two occasions since the race began in 1982, in 2018 and 1987. Arkansas returns two members – Rosey Effiong and Kaylyn Brown – from last year’s remarkable 3:17 team. High Jump 2 Temitope Adeshina Texas Tech So 8 Cheyla Scott South Carolina Jr Kulichenko has tied for NCAA championships twice in the past 10 months, both times the competitors rejecting the “required” jumpoff for first place. Indoors this winter she tied Adeshina at 6-4 ¼; last June she matched Yeboah at 6-5 ½, a lifetime best for both. And then there’s Glenn, whose lifetime best of 6-6 ¾ is tops in the field. All four of them jumped in Paris for their respective countries, Kulichenko – a native Russian – for her adopted Cyprus, Adeshina for Nigeria, Yeboah for Ghana and Glenn for the U.S. Rogers tied for 3rd at the U.S. Trials but did not have the standard. Rogers, the New Jersey native now a Cornhusker, had an excellent winter, going 6-4 ¼, but slipped at Indoor Nationals. Outdoors there has not been a lot of activity yet; Yeboah won Florida. Pole Vault 4 Mason Meinershagen Kansas So The Moll twins have been unstoppable, though their performances so far this spring outdoors have been, for them, modest. Each one has already won an NCAA championship – Amanda this winter indoors, Hana last year outdoors. At the Big 10 indoor in February, Amanda needed to clear 16-1 ¼ to win the competition because her sister was ahead on misses at 15-9 ¼ -- and she did so, as both exceeded the old collegiate record. Amanda finally missed at 5.00, a height only four women have cleared in world history. Even so, the rest of the field isn’t that far behind as at least six others are 15-footers. Lueking (15-0 ¾ best) was 3rd indoors behind the Molls and won Texas Relays. Meinershagen (14-11 ½) was 4th and Fixsen (15-0 ¼) 5th indoors. Timberg, the reigning outdoor champion, had an excellent 15-5 ¾ clearance in January but has struggled since, finishing 4th at Big 10 and 10th at Nationals. Long Jump 2 Tacoria Humphrey Illinois Sr 5 Prestina Ochonogor Tarleton State Fr 6 Funminiyi Olajide Arkansas Sr Brown won indoors, then jumped a windy 22-11 ¾ to win Texas Relays. Humphrey had an undefeated indoor season, including 22-9 ¼ to win the Big 10, until losing to Brown at Nationals. She jumped 22 over the weekend but the other members of the Illini’s excellent stable of jumpers – Sophia Beckmon (22-6 ¼), Elizabeth Ndudi (21-11) and Darja Sopova (21-9 ½) – have been quiet thus far in the outdoor season. Jones (22-4 ¼) and Charlton (22-11) were 3rd and 4th respectively at NCAA Indoor and last year’s Outdoor – so they’re 3rd and 4th here! Ochonogor, a freshman at Tarleton State in Texas, made the finals indoors and also made last year’s Olympic final in Paris, jumping for Nigeria. Olajide (21-10 ¾) and Breigan (21-7 ¼) were both finalists outdoors. Triple Jump 4 Emilia Sjostrand San Jose State Sr 5 Tamiah Washington Texas Tech So 6 Simone Johnson San Jose State Sr Dwol was indoor champ and jumped 45-11 ¾ windy to win Texas Relays. Bii, 4th indoors, transferred to A&M from Oklahoma State and has also jumped 45-11 ¾ this campaign. Foreman (45-9 ¼) was 5th indoors. Sjostrand has the best PR in the field (46-2 3/4) but was only 9th indoors after finishing 3rd outdoors. Her San Jose teammate, Johnson, a transfer from Auburn, was 8th indoors. The top returnee outdoors, runnerup Darja Sopova (45-11 ¾) of Illinois and Latvia, had a thin indoor season. Last year’s defending champion in both horizontal jumps, Ackelia Smith of Texas, turned professional. Shot Put 3 Mya Lesner Colorado State Sr Nebraska’s Axelina Johansson, defending champion, is redshirting, and Oregon’s Jaida Ross, collegiate recordholder at 65-7 ¾ who was runnerup indoors, is out of eligibility. Behind them indoors, Dove (63-10 ¼ best) and Lesnar (62-8) were 3-4. But suddenly also now in the picture is the Illini’s Smith, who had a big PR of 62-1, her first time over 60 feet, to defeat Odeluga (PR of 62-1 ¼) by 2 ½ inches at Tom Jones. There are three others 60-footers in the field, led by the senior Ulrich (61-2 ¾). Discus 3 Cierra Jackson Fresno State Sr 5 Amanda Ngandu-Ntumba Cincinnati Sr 7 Jade Whitfield Louisville Sr Ulrich, a surprise member of last year’s U.S. Olympic team, threw 227-8 in the wind tunnel at Ramona, Oklahoma, this spring. She was NCAA runnerup a year ago, just ahead of Van Daalen (217-6 PR) and Frank (201-11). Van Daalen also threw in Paris in 2024, for the Netherlands, as did Lindfors (205-0), for Sweden. Lindfors is a transfer from Florida State, Frank from Minnesota, Whitfield (200-11) from Oregon State. Ngandu-Ntumba (208-7 for France) and Wepiwe (Germany 194-4) are also European. Hammer 2 Emma Robbins Oklahoma State Sr 3 Elisabet Rut Runarsdottir Texas State Jr 4 Gudrun Karitas Hallgrimsdottir VCU Sr 5 Stephanie Ratcliffe Georgia Sr The field includes two past NCAA champions, yet neither is our pick at the moment to win this year’s hammer. That honor goes to the Australian Roberts, who threw 230-9, then 232-10 over the weekend to take over the seasonal lead. She was 14th a year ago as a freshman. She beat Robbins at Mt. SAC in Round 6. The much-traveled Robbins (best of 229-3), a 24-year-old 5th-year senior, is now at Oklahoma State after throwing two seasons for Kansas State, for whom she was Big 12 runnerup, and a freshman year at LSU, where she was SEC champion. The Icelanders were 1-5 respectively a year ago, though Runarsdottir (PR of 231-2), defending champ, has tossed just 217-10 so far in 2025. Hallgrimsdottir has a best of 228-10. Ratcliffe was NCAA champ in 2023 when she attended Harvard. She threw for Australia in the Paris Olympics and has a lifetime best of 241-7; her seasonal best is 227-6. Frank (226-7 PR), 5th in the indoor weight throw, was a hammer finalist a year ago for Minnesota, while Cal’s Meeks (219-7) also has new digs, after departing Vanderbilt. Her Bear teammate Savva (227-0) was runnerup at the World Juniors last summer and threw 214-0 two years ago as a 17-year-old. Javelin 3 McKyla Van Der Westhuizen Rice Jr Wasn’t that long ago (2013) that the winning throw was a mere 180-3. That distance will not even make the Finals now. Rotundo was South American champion last year for the small nation of Uruguay and her big throw (210-6) at Florida Relays this month was just one inch from Rhema Otabor’s year-old collegiate record set in winning last year’s NCAA. Davidson (209-3 PR this spring) and Van Der Westhuizen (197-10) were 2-3 a year ago at Nationals, while Harris, returning from a redshirt season, was U.S. champion in 2023, throwing 199-3. Davidson threw well over the weekend but Rotundo was a no-show, a possible cause for concern. Heptathlon 1 Sofia Iakushina Texas A&M Fr 2 Pippi Lotta Enok Oklahoma Jr 4 Sofia Cosculluela Washington Fr Iakushina, a 19-year-old freshman from Russia, upset indoor champ O’Brien earlier this month 6260-6231 to become the favorite. Enok scored 6165 in winning the 2023 NCAA, then 6258 at Mt SAC; she was silver medalist at the World U20 Championships four years ago for Estonia. Richmore (best of 5869) was 5th a year ago, Feyerabend (5947) 9th; indoors Bikembo was 4th and Richmore 5th. All three, however, have had limited activity outdoors. Goudros (5769) was 6th indoors. Illinois has two heptathletes with 6000+ bests in Lucie Kienast (6044) and Texas transfer Kristine Blazevica (6146), but they do not have scores in 2025. It is a heavily European event, with Iakushina, Enok, Richmore (Sweden), Bikembo (France), Cosculluela (Spain 6017 PR), Feyerabend (Germany), Lien (5741) (Norway), Blazevica (Latvia), Katelyn Adel (6092) of Alabama and Switzerland, and Kienast (Germany). Projected Team Scores 1 Georgia 71 2 USC/Arkansas 48 4 Texas A&M 43 5 Florida 32 6 Oklahoma 30 7 Washington/South Carolina 28 9 Oregon 22 10 LSU/New Mexico 20 |
