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NCAA Men's D1 Outdoor Formchart By Jack Pfeifer for DyeStat/DyeStat Photo Place Name School Class 100 5 Abdul-Rasheed Saminu South Florida Jr 7 Chance Cross Kennesaw State Jr Anthony, this year’s indoor champion, won the SEC with a spectacular legal 9.95 to establish himself as the best sprinter in the college ranks at the moment. Ajayi (10.01), Watkins (10.02) and Okon (10.07) were next across the line in that race in Lexington. Saminu (seasonal best of 9.87w) was 4th this winter in the indoor 60, 5th outdoors in last year’s 100 final and ran for Ghana in the 100 and the 4x1 at the Paris Olympics. He false-started at the American Conference, a race won by teammate Jaleel Croal (10.05). Ajayi (9.96 at Tom Jones) and Okon (9.91w) are two young Nigerians at Auburn. Okon is just 17. Ajayi also ran in Paris. Lewis lost to Saminu by .01 10.06-10.07 at the East Coast Relays and finished 2nd to Cross at Conference USA. Mosebi, a close 3rd at the East Coast meet, won the ACC in 10.08. 200 2 Makanakaishe Charamba Auburn Sr 4 Makanakaishe Charamba Auburn Sr 5 Jaleel Croal South Florida Jr Charamba lost to fellow Zimbabwean Carli Makarawu of Kentucky by .03 in the NCAA indoor final. They were both Olympic finalists last summer in Paris, Makarawu 6th and Charamba 8th. Makarawu (19.93 PR) ran a solid 20.22 in the prelims of the SEC but did not take the line for the final. Charamba (19.92 in the heats) lost to Anthony (19.93) in the final, as the Arkansas sophomore took command of the event at this time. Miller won the Big Ten with an excellent 20.12 on a cool day in Eugene. Among the missing there was USC’s Garrett Kaalund (20.05), who did not take the line for the final after running 20.16 in the heats. Kaalund, who has also run 44.73 this spring, has declared for the deuce at Regionals. Stubbs, who won the SWAC in 2021, has run 19.95 and thus is a threat. Croal (20.28) beat his better-known South Florida teammate, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu at the American. Reid (20.13) and Buffington (20.24) were 3-4 at the SEC while freshman Johnson (20.36) won the ACC for Clemson just ahead of his twin brother, Ian. 400 1 Micahi Danzy Florida State Fr 4 Josiah Wrice South Carolina Fr 5 Ervin Pearson III Georgia Fr 8 Auhmad Robinson Texas A&M Sr A year ago at this time, Danzy was running high school track and playing football in Tallahassee, Fla. At the ACC Championships, he took the collegiate lead by running 44.38 to become the favorite to win Nationals. Robinson had held the collegiate outdoor lead off his 44.61 in winning Florida Relays, but he was far back at SEC, 8th in 46.65. The winner there was the Olympic veteran Ogazi, who started slow outdoors but turned back a strong field to win SEC, contending with a stiff headwind at Lexington to win in 45.04. He was NCAA runnerup last year, then went on to make the Olympic final for Nigeria, finishing 7th. He ran 44.41 in 2024, 44.58 before turning 18 in May, the fastest ever run by a 17-year-old. Jones, who won the Big Ten, ran 44.76 in the Trojans’ dual meet against UCLA, losing by .03 to teammate Garrett Kaalund. Kaalund is not running the 400 at NCAAs. The peripatetic Floyd, a Canadian citizen who attended high school in Seattle and spent an unpromising freshman season at Stanford, was surprise NCAA indoor champ for his new school, Georgia. At SEC he finished behind two more promising freshmen, Wrice and Pearson. Taylor, 2nd at ACC to Danzy, is a track novice from Toledo, Ohio, with a background in basketball. 800 1 Aidan McCarthy Cal Poly SLO Jr 4 Christian Jackson Virginia Tech Jr 5 Abdullahi Hassan Mississippi State Sr 6 Tinoda Matsatsa Georgetown So McCarthy (1:45.19 PR) was runnerup in 2023, sat out last season, then got 3rd this winter indoors. He was Big West champion. Whitmarsh (1:44.46) was runnerup a year ago and won SEC indoors and outdoors this season. Erickson (1:45.74) won indoors but was beaten at Big Ten after getting boxed in. Hassan (1:45.53), a transfer to Mississippi State from Wisconsin, was 4th at last year’s Canadian championships. Matsatsa (1:45.04) was 4th indoors, freshman Watcke (1:46.32) 5th. Kidali, a talented 22-year-old Kenyan in his first year with the Ducks, has a lifetime best of 1:42.66. Erickson and Kidali are in good company at Oregon as five Ducks have won the NCAA 800 over the years – Elijah Greer (2013), Andrew Wheating (2009-2010), Joaquim Cruz (1983-84), David Mack (1982) and Wade Bell (1967). Watcke has had an excellent first season on the Main Line; Villanova has not won the outdoor 800 in 45 years, since Don Paige in 1979 and 1980. 1,500 3 Ethan Strand North Carolina Jr 7 Emanuel Galdino Iowa State Jr A remarkable field, the deepest mile field in college history. Green was NCAA outdoor champion in 2023, ran 3:32.20 in finishing 5th in last year’s Olympic Trials, but was upset indoors by Georgetown’s Teffra (3:35.81 PR), thus ending Washington’s string of indoor and outdoor mile titles at five. Strand (3:33.41) won the indoor 3,000 with a spectacular kick, while Murphy (3:33.02) and Villanova teammate Marco Langon (3:33.38) defeated Virginia’s Martin (3:33.41), the 3k runnerup, in a fast outdoor race this spring. Wisconsin’s Spencer went home to Australia in the early Spring and finished 2nd in their Nationals in an impressive 3:34.57, then beat Green and Birnbaum to win the Big Ten in Eugene. He has finished 3rd the past two NCAA outdoors. Galdino was 2nd in the Big 12 to Oklahoma State’s Fouad Messaoudi (3:34.34), who was a surprise scratch from Nationals. Steeplechase 2 Geoffrey Kirwa Louisville Fr 3 Matthew Kosgei New Mexico Fr 4 Rob McManus Montana State Jr 5 Collins Kiprop Kipngok Kentucky Fr 7 Bismack Kipchirchir Akron Fr Corrigan had a remarkable 2024 season. He began the year with a PR of 8:52.54, finished with 8:13.87. He was only 9th in the NCAA final but two weeks later, on the same track, finished 3rd in the Olympic Trials and made the U.S. team to Paris. He got down to 8:22.20 this spring to win the Big 12 over Ruto (8:25.42) and his fellow BYU Cougars Isaac Hedengren (8:30.01) and freshman Landon Heemeyer (8:33.50). The Kenyans Kirwa (8:13.89), Kosgei (8:22.13), Kipngok (8:22.67), Kipchirchir (8:27.51) and Ruto have all run well this spring. Kipngokl won the SEC in 8:26.33. McManus (8:26.83) is continuing the great steeple tradition in Bozeman. 5,000 1 Parker Wolfe North Carolina Sr 4 Ishmael Kipkurui New Mexico Fr 7 Valentin Soca Calif Baptist Jr Wolfe is defending champion. After winning the ACC and the NCAA last spring, he got a surprising 3rd at the Olympic Trials in a PR 13:10.75. Indoors he missed some training time, finishing just 6th in the 3000. The miler Martin also put himself into the 5k picture by running 13:16.82. Samuel (13:04.92) was 2nd indoors, Hansen (13:12.65) 3rd, Langon (13:14.11) 6th, Kipkurui (13:05.47) 7th. Langon won the Big East outdoor in 13:27.21. 10,000 1 Ishmael Kipkurui New Mexico Fr 3 Evans Kurui Washington State So 4 Ernest Cheruiyot Texas Tech So 8 David Mullarkey Northern Arizona Sr Kipkurui (26:50.21) and Samuel (26:51.06), New Mexico teammates, finished 1-2 at The Ten and both went under the collegiate record. Kipkurui is a freshman from Kenya, Samuel – the defending champion – a sophomore from Eritrea. A number of other collegians have broken 28:00 this year, including Kurui (27:37.32), Young (27:48.93), Schubert (27:45.63), Drew Bosley (27:53.48) of Northern Arizona and Cheruiyot. Kurui runs for Washington State, whose alumni include two former world record holders in the 10,000, Samson Kimobwa and the legendary Henry Rono. 110 Hurdles 2 Jamar Marshall, Jr. Houston Sr 4 Ja’Qualon Scott Texas A&M Sr 7 Jerome Campbell Northern Colorado Jr Smallwood (13.07w best) ran a brilliant 13.13 to turn back an excellent SEC field that included Tharp (13.15) and Scott (13.18), who were 2nd and 3rd respectively at last year’s NCAA. Tharp was the indoor champ this winter, while Scott ran 13.09 a year ago in finishing 5th at the Olympic Trials. Campbell (13.30) was runnerup indoors, a finalist at this year’s World Indoor for Jamaica, and is Big Sky champ for the Bears of Northern Colorado. Marshall (13.13) was Pac-12 champion three years ago for Arizona State before transferring to Houston. Waters (13.21) ran for San Jose State in 2024 as did Malachi Snow (13.38) of Texas Tech. Andrews (13.28w) is Bahamian national recordholder. 400 Hurdles 4 Ja’Qualon Scott Texas A&M Sr 7 Jason Parrish Wichita State So Defending champion Caleb Dean of Texas Tech turned professional. Returning scorers are Ezekiel (2nd in 2024, 3rd in ’23), who won the Big 12 in a season-leading 47.89; Scott, 4th (48.85), and Edlund, 5th (48.70). Ezekiel (Nigeria) and Edlund (Sweden) both ran in the Paris Olympics. Williams had the biggest mid-season race, defeating Blackwood at Tom Jones, 48.77-48.79, with newcomer and Vol teammate Hinti 3rd (49.25), but it was Hinti (48.44) who dominated the SEC with Williams far back. Matulonis (49.54) set the meet record at Heps, where he repeated as champion. 4x100 Tennessee Minnesota South Florida Auburn USC LSU Arkansas Kentucky The Trojans (38.41 this season) won in 2022, their first victory at the distance in 42 years. Auburn, pre-conference list leader at 38.39-- whose coach, Leroy Burrell, also won this event as the Houston coach – is defending champion, but they did not enter a team at SEC. Instead, Tennessee won that race and took over the seasonal lead (38.20), defeating LSU (38.43), Arkansas (38.60), Texas (38.81) and Kentucky (38.82). Kentucky (38.43) won Texas Relays, while Minnesota (38.66) beat South Florida (38.66) at Florida Relays and beat USC to win the Big Ten (38.54). LSU (38.77) and Florida have dominated the 4x1 this quarter-century. LSU has won eight times in that period, the Gators seven. When LSU triumphed two years ago, they passed USC with 11 wins all-time in the event to 10 for the Trojans. This was not an NCAA event until 1964, and SC went on to win nine of the first 17 years. Then they went on the 42-year drought. 4x400 Georgia Texas A&M USC Arizona State Florida Arkansas South Florida South Carolina A&M returns three members (Cutler Zamzow, Kimar Farquharson, Auhmad Robinson) of last year’s championship team, which ran 2:58.37. Arkansas, which has never won this event outdoors, was 2nd to the Aggies. SC last won the 4x4 in 2018, setting the then-collegiate record of 2:59.00 with a formidable team that included Olympians Rai Benjamin and Michael Norman, but the CR has since been advanced to 2:57.74, set by Florida in in winning the 2023 title. Arizona State has not won this event in half a century. While SEC schools have done well in recent years, it was 15 years before they won their first mile-relay championship, by LSU in 1979. By then UCLA had won seven times, including six in succession. West Coast schools dominated in the early years, with wins by the Bruins, Trojans, Cal and Washington. The record for all-time wins is 10, shared by UCLA and Baylor. The Bruins haven’t won in 25 years. Florida is list leader thus far this spring, winning the Tom Jones Invitational at 3:01.52. but it was Georgia (3:02.06) that won the SEC. A&M won Florida Relays at 3:02.15 and Penn Relays; Arkansas won Mt. SAC over Arizona State, 3:01.82-3:01.85. High Jump The order here matches the indoor result 1st through 4th. Wilson, who has a best of 7-6, was 2nd last year outdoors and 4th in 2023. Alofe (7-4 ½) defeated Kam to win Heps while Hayes beat teammate Kason O’Riley on misses at 7-4 ½ at Sun Belt. Arkansas freshman Scottie Vines jumped 7-6 this winter but was a disappointment at Nationals. Rankin and Troupe had a spirited competition at SEC, clearing PRs of 7-6 and 7-5 respectively. Pole Vault 1 Aleksandr Solovev Texas A&M Jr 6 Arnie Grunert Western Illinois Jr Solovev, a freshman from Russia, and Garretson are both 19-foot vaulters. Garretson was outdoor runnerup in 2023. They finished 3rd and 4th indoors this winter, an event won by Simen Guttormsen, the younger brother of Sondre, 3-time champion for Princeton. Hammer won the Beach Inv with a PR 18-8 ¼. Johnston won the Big Ten with a PR/MR 18-6, ahead of Urlacher’s 18-4. Solovev won the SEC at 18-9 ¼. Long Jump 1 Charles Godfred Minnesota So 3 Reinaldo Rodrigues Arizona Sr 8 Channing Ferguson South Carolina Sr It’s helpful to look at Round 6 of the SEC LJ to understand why this year’s event is so unpredictable – even though that is our task here, to predict the outcome! In Round 6, 1st and 2nd place changed hands four times! The eventual champion was the Florida freshman Keys, who jumped a lifetime-best 26-1 on his final jump, defeating Ferguson, who had jumped 26-0 moments before. Fellow Gator Clemons wound up 3rd, 4 cm from 1st, while Kelsey Daniel, this year’s indoor champion for Texas, finished far back in 7th. Daniel had dominated the indoor season with the longest jump of the winter (26-9 ¼). Clemons (PR 26-11 ¾) was 3rd outdoors a year ago and 4th in 2023. Stevenson (26-11 3/4) is defending national champion but has been below 25 feet in recent weeks. Henry Kiner of Arkansas (26-4 ½) was 3rd indoors and Micah Larry of Georgia (25-11 ½) 4th, but they did not even make the finals at the outdoor SEC. Godfred, on the other hand, is seasonal outdoor list leader at 26-8 1/4w, won Drake and dominated the Big Ten in cool conditions. Other big windy marks in 2025 belong to Lokesh Sathyanathan (26-8 ½) and Sir Jonathan Sims (26-0 ¾) of Tarleton State, Heps champion Foster (26-7) of Princeton and Big 12 champ Rodrigues (26-5) of Arizona. NC State freshman Adams (25-11) won ACC on his final jump. Triple Jump 4 Jhavor Bennett Kansas State Jr 5 Theophilus Mudzengerere South Carolina Jr 8 John Watkins Georgia Tech Sr Green (55-6 ¼) and Brown (55-4 ¼) were 3-5 outdoors in 2024. Missouri’s Jonathan Seremes, a 24-year-old Frenchman (55-11), won indoors but was a no-show in the spring. Shot Put 1 Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan Ole Miss Jr 3 Chris Licata South Carolina Sr 4 Dylan Targgart South Carolina Sr 5 Thomas Kitchell North Carolina Sr 6 Brandon Lloyd Arizona State Sr 8 Fred Moudani Likibi Cincinnati Sr O’Hagan (69-3 ¼ PR), the Ole Miss junior from Rhode Island, has dominated the shot put in recent years though he was originally a weight throw specialist. He is reigning champion indoors and outdoors. Swarens, 3rd indoors, exploded to 70-1 ½ early this month, then won the Big Ten at 67-4 ¼. The rest of the field is closely bunched in the 67s, led by South Carolina teammates Licata (67-3 ½), runnerup indoors, and Targgart (67-1 ¼), 4th. Swarens and Targgart were 2-3 outdoors. Kitchell did 67-2 in the indoor season but was unable to match that at Nationals; the same was true of Moudani (67-8). Landa had a big PR 67-8 ¾ at Mt. SAC. Moudani came back outdoors to win the very competitive Big 12 meet with 66-6 ½, 3 inches ahead of Lloyd. Discus 2 Ralford Mullings Oklahoma Sr 3 Dimitrios Pavlidis Kansas Sr 5 Uladzislau Puchko Va Tech So 6 Vincent Ugwoke South Florida Sr Alekna has been big news this spring, breaking the world record with a legendary throw of 247-11 in the wind tunnel at Ramona, Oklahoma. And yet, he has never won an NCAA championship, finishing 2nd by 2 cm in 2022 and 3rd in 2023, losing to Turner Washington and Roje Stona. Alekna redshirted in ’24 to prepare for the 2024 Olympics and, though just 21 at the time, entered as the favorite, hoping to match his father as the Olympic champion for his home country of Lithuania. And yet, it was not to be, as in Round 4 he was passed by 3 cm by that same Roje Stona, who won Jamaica’s first gold medal in the event. Jamaica is a big presence in the DT at the NCAA meet. This year’s field includes Jamaicans Mullings (226-10); Raquil Broderick (207-0) of USC, runnerup last year as a freshman; Gunzell (209-7), and Brandon Lloyd (204-6) of Arizona State. Pavlidis broke the Greek national record by throwing 213-7 at Ramona. Other big throws this year include 207-2 for Puchko, 209-1 for Ugwoke, 208-7 for Tanner, 204-4 for Michael Pinckney of UCLA and 207-11 for Helm. Hammer 2 Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan Ole Miss Jr 3 Angelos Mantzouranis Minnesota So 6 Trey Knight Cal State Northridge Sr Kenneth Ikeji (253-0 PR) of Harvard, the 2023 champion and 2024 runnerup, has withdrawn. Zaltos redshirted last season after finishing 2nd to Ikeji in ’23. He and Knight have thrown identical PRs this spring of 255-7. They trail Zaltos’s fellow Greek countryman and Minnesota teammate Mantzouranis (257-11) on the yearly list, but Zaltos beat his younger teammate to win the Big Ten. Mantzouranis was 3rd at last year’s NCAA. He and Zaltos met in last summer’s Greek national championships, the older Zaltos (25) coming out ahead, 3rd to 6th for the 20-year-old Mantzouranis. Robinson-O’Hagan, who won the SEC with a PR 248-5, has placed the last two years. Knight and Johnson (235-9) were 2-3 indoors this year in the weight throw. Tanner (248-9) is a rare 3-event thrower, also excelling in the shot and disc. USC senior Nikolaos Polychroniou (246-10), 5th the past two years and 8th in those Greek nationals, is redshirting. Knight threw 255-7 early, then was idle for a month until Mt. SAC where he had a close loss to Ikeji, 246-8 to 243-11. He won the Big West but was short of 240. Javelin 2 Remi Rougetet Mississippi State Sr 4 Moustafa Alsherif Georgia Sr 6 Keyshawn Strachan Nebraska Jr 8 Leikel Cabrera Gay Florida So Deysel, a South African, is the top returning scorer, having placed 3rd a year ago. He threw a PR and season-leading 270-2 to win the ACC. Strachan, a Bahamian, was 5th a year ago for Auburn. He has a seasonal best of 265-9 and the top PR (276-5) in the field. Newcomer Alsherif won Florida Relays (264-2) over Sirmon (256-9) and the Cuban Gay (255-4), but Alsherif, Gay and Tennessee freshman Nick Reynolds (251-7) all were beaten in the SEC by Mississippi State’s Rougetet (264-1). Sirmon, 3rd at the Big Ten, surprised at last year’s Olympic Trials, finishing 4th. Two-time scorer Chinecherem Nnamdi of Baylor (271-8) is redshirting. Stein (257-10/266-4), Big Ten runnerup, was 7th a year ago. Decathlon 2 Peyton Bair Mississippi State Jr 3 Brad Thomas Cal/Santa Barbara Sr 4 Paul Kallenberg Louisville Jr 5 Ryan Gregory Long Beach State So Steinforth passed up the past two NCAA seasons in order to represent his homeland, Germany, internationally, getting bronze at the recent World Indoor and finishing 15th at the Paris Olympics. He placed 4th at the 2023 NCAA and has a PR of 8287, tops in this year’s field. He did not contest the Big Ten dec, nor did Iowa’s Vogelsang. Steinforth is joined by German countryman Kallenberg, who PR’d with 7944 to win the ACC. Bair, the leading American in the field (8131), won the NCAA Indoor and was runnerup outdoors last spring to Texas’s Leo Neugebauer, who went on to win silver in Paris. Thomas was surprise Big West champion with a big 8108 PR score. Recent 8000 scorer Roskelley tumbled at the Big 12, scoring just 7153 while BYU teammate Barton won with 7865, just ahead of Houston’s Grant Levesque (7848). Projected Team Scores 1 Minnesota 38 2 Texas A&M 37 New Mexico 37 Auburn 37 5 Georgia 31 Nebraska 31 7 Arkansas 25 8 Oklahoma 24 9 USC 22 South Carolina 22 Florida 22 More news |
