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Welcome back to day number two of the Division two men’s and women’s outdoor track and Field Championships. Here we are in Pueblo, Colorado on the campus of CSU Pueblo in the thunderbowl. After a great day, one to competition, we had some finals. We had some preliminaries. We are fully engaged now in day two. We’ve already had some fantastic performances as our multi-events have continued throughout the morning and into the early afternoon. We’ve completed our women’s discus throw with some incredible performances. We are just a few minutes away from wrapping up our decathlon in the 1500, and we’ve got a full evening ahead of you with preliminary competition in multiple events. We’ll have preliminaries in the 200, the 800, the 100 and 110 meter hurdles, and of course, our final event of the day will be the four by 400 meter relay preliminaries. And just before that, we’ll have the finals of both the men’s and women’s 3000 meter steeplechase. The weather is even better today. It is warmer, warmer. There’s just a slight breeze. You can see they’re blowing down on the track, but it is not as strong as yesterday. The temperature in the upper 80s and the athletes are clearly enjoying a start to day two. Here are your standings after day one. On the women’s side, it’s Grand Valley State with the early lead just 16 points. But after a few events, that’s a good way to begin. Adams State, Colorado Lewis and Kani Nebraska all tied at second with ten points. Our defending champion is Pittsburg State. They scored nine points, so they are in good position and they are followed up. They’re the top group by the Colorado School of Mines, Chico State and Ashland. And that is basically based on some early field events and the 10,000m, which concluded late last evening. On the men’s side, it is West Texas A and M, the early leader with 21 points. Adams State has 13 Harding 12 Colorado School of Mines 11. Indianapolis picked up a victory in the men’s long jump. That’s their ten points. Grand Valley State, Lewis and Tamu Kingsville all in that top group. The school you don’t see is Pittsburg State, our defending champion. They had some unfortunate events yesterday with athletes not advancing to the finals or not scoring in those competitions, which has opened up the door for West Texas A&M hungry for their first championship after being the runner up four years in a row. Looking at our heptathlon finish today, you are seeing the finish of the 200m. This event was all Pittsburgh, states Blakely win. After two days and seven events, she ended up winning the long jump but finished second in the 100 meter hurdles, the high jump, the shot put and the 200m. She was third in the javelin throw and in the final event of the day, the 800m. She also placed third, but that was good enough. She breaks 6000 points for the first time, a personal best 6007 for Pitt states Blakely win. She is our heptathlon champion. And you can see just a slight breeze today. That flag was horizontal for most of the evening yesterday, but it is just giving us a slight breeze which the athletes will welcome with this upper 80 degree temperature. The slight breeze feels good. You can see some spectators sunning themselves there in the North Bowl, while the home stretch, their fans and spectators, coaches enjoying some shade. As we get ready for our first events. Our first event today is going to be our decathlon 1500 that is scheduled for a 450 start local time, so that’s just about ten minutes away in our men’s decathlon right now. Our overall leader is Hunter Jones. So Pittsburg State looking not only to score their first points of the men’s competition, but looking for a multi event sweep in both the heptathlon and decathlon. Hunter Jones is our leader. He’s got 7079 points right now. He’s just 46 points ahead of Mark burden from Angelo State. So definitely a competitive decathlon. We’re expecting to see coming up. That difference on the track is just about seven seconds for those points. Hunter Jones is not going to beat the record he got last year. Scored 7898. And he’s had a fantastic meet. But he is still on pace to get the minimum qualifying time for the USA track and Field trials. That is 7400 points, and he’s currently sitting at 7079. Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific is currently sitting third, but he is just 15 points ahead of Roman Vater of West Texas A&M. So as this decathlon finishes, it will definitely play a big factor in our overall team standings. The defending champion Pitt State, looking to get on the board with ten points. West Texas A&M we’ve been talking about it already for a day and a half. They the perennial bridesmaid. They have finished fourth through four consecutive years. So they have made every effort to upgrade their lineup and A. Which is just getting underway. You can see they are jumping in just one pit for this women’s high jump. So we’ll keep you up to date on that. We’re about 6 or 7 minutes away from the start of the decathlon 1500, but then we’ll have a little break on the track until we start the women’s 200 meter preliminaries that is scheduled for a 530 start local time. So that is just under 45 minutes away from our next event. So you’re going to get exclusive coverage of our women’s high jump competition as that continues, our favorite in this women’s high jump is Rachel Wilson from Pitt State. She has the best entry standard time. She’s jumped one meter 85, which is six centimeters better than her next two competitors, Sierra Carter of Tiffin and Emily Napier of Central Washington. And then as we go down the line all the way to our starting height of one meter 63 will be the opening height. So they are still taking their warm ups. They have not begun competition yet in this women’s high jump. Just peeking to see if we see our decathletes coming out. We do not see the decathletes coming out yet. Our men’s triple jump is also scheduled to be getting underway soon in about 20 minutes, but we can see the triple jumpers warming up on the east side of the track. So we’ll have the women’s high jump and the men’s triple jump competitions underway here in our infield. Our men’s discus competition also starting soon. But the discus throw located outside of our stadium here. So it looks like they are just getting ready to do some introductions. Maybe for the women’s high jump, you can see the officials setting the bar early. One meter 63 will be the opening height for our women’s high jumpers. Our first jumper is scheduled to be Abby Wheeler of Ashland, so we’ll keep an eye on that as the women get ready to begin. Again. Our decathlon 1500 scheduled to begin in about four minutes, but I do not see any of the decathletes out on the track, so they are getting their. Hip numbers ready to wear again. As we get ready for this decathlon, our favorite is in position to win his back to back decathlon. It’s Hunter Jones, the senior from Pitt State. He’s had good decathlon. A little bit slow of start. Yesterday morning he placed 15th in the 100m. It’s not his specialty event but 15 out of 16 I’m sure is not what he expected to begin. The ten events. Sitting in second to last place. He was 10th in the long jump, seventh in the shot put, but it was the high jump where he does his biggest damage. Hunter Jones is an excellent high jumper. He cleared two meters 14. That’s better than seven feet and so he picked up 934 points in the high jump. And that is nearly 200 more than almost everybody else in the field. So that is going to be good for him. Just wrapping up our Hunter Jones competition. He was 13th in the 400. So he was not our leader after day one. But so far today he was second in the 110 hurdles, first in the discus, third in the pole vault, third in the javelin and he has moved into the lead. And we do see a few of those decathletes now coming out onto the infield. So they’ll be ready. You’re looking at the women’s high jump. And this is our third jumper, Liesl Theron from Lee. And she’ll be our first clearance. So actually second, Kara Blankenship of Harding and Liesl Theron of Lee, both over the bar on their first attempt, Wheeler and Thrash with misses. And that will take us to Azusa Pacific’s Nuala Healy. If you are a true track fan who couldn’t be with us here in Pueblo, Colorado, and you’re watching at home, you’re seeing the high jump live. And if you’re following along on our official timing system, which you can find at the NCAA.com through. Leon Timing, you can follow along and see the results in real time as we see two more jumpers clearing. Ara Healy of Azusa Pacific is over the bar. And then Afaf Ben Hogya from Texas A&M Kingsville also across the bar. So early days in the high jump. You are looking at Nicole Mishu, the sophomore from Western Colorado nearby Gunnison, just a couple hours to the west into the mountains, a higher altitude western state and Adams State the two Colorado schools who train at the highest altitudes. And that will help in the high jump. Two as mishoe over on her first attempt. Our board is not indicating any athletes passing at this early height, but I’m sure we will get to that as we get closer. Brynn Greenwalt of Augustana and she is easily over the bar at one meter 63. And that makes seven athletes over the bar. Next up you see jumping from the left side of the runway, this will be Carmen Kuraoka from Lewis. The Thunderbowl here is a track around a football stadium, so you see the goalposts there on the north end of our facility. It’s a good facility. It’s a good track. It’s a very fast track. The aprons are a normal size. You can see the aprons don’t begin until the extension of the end zone. This is kuraoka from Lewis. And after a practice run through, she’ll clear it on her next attempt. And there you see, the men are decathletes, and they look semi well rested. This is their 10th and final event. So as we look at our decathlon, these men started yesterday morning with the 100m. They long jumped. They threw the shot put they high jumped and they finished yesterday with a 400 meter sprint around the oval. Then a good night’s rest. I’m sure they began early today with the 110 meter hurdles. Then they threw the discus, completed the pole vault and the javelin throw just about 35 minutes ago. And now they are on to their final event. And it’ll be the 1500. And you are never going to see outstanding 1500 meter times. I know that when I first learned of the decathlon, I always thought, well, I’m a runner. I would run a good 1500 and score a lot of points. Well, let me tell you, these decathletes do not enjoy the 1500. If you can imagine competing in nine events and then having to run a 1500 meters, that is not the thing that they want to do. They are not the svelte distance runners that you see running our competitive 1500 or those field events. These athletes will take anywhere from four minutes, 4.5 minutes to five minutes to run this 1500. And that is not going to be enjoyable for just one tenth of their competition. The fastest seeded decathlete in our 1500 is going to be Matthew Luther of Lock Haven. He has run 413 in his career this year. He’s run 421, but that is 20s faster than anybody else on the field. So we’ll look for Walther to lead this decathlon. Overall, Walther is in eighth place. The senior from Lock Haven, he is 701 points behind our leader. He is just about 268 points behind seventh place. And that is a pretty big distance to make up. Even in this decathlon. The points do not come that easily to anybody who might break out and try and run, but I would look for Matthew Muffler to probably lead the field in this 1500. Our overall leader is Hunter Jones. He is not what we would call a fast 1500 runner, but he can hold his own. He’s run as fast as 445 in his lifetime. This year his best is 459. So he will be running to win this race. Not to set any records. He does have to run roughly 546 to make sure that he qualifies with the minimum standard for our USA track and field trials. Of course, meeting the minimum is not guarantee you entry in the Multi-events for the Olympic trials. So Hunter Jones will be pushing for a good score to lock up his spot there in the Olympic trials. Currently in second place is Bourdon. Mark Bourdon from Angelo State. He is second in our standings. He is just 46 points behind Hunter Jones and that is the equivalent of about seven seconds. And believe me, Hunter Jones will know that. So Hunter Jones will paint a big bull’s eye there on the back of the athlete from. Angelo State in the yellow. You see him walking away from us number 65. So you can believe Jones will be Post focused on that number 65, the yellow jersey. And he will make sure that he is not more than seven seconds behind Bourdon. Just about the same time he’s run five flat this year. So this year they’ve run within a second of each other. Bourdon’s best, however, is 456, while Jones is 445 is going to be 11 seconds faster than that. So I’m sure Hunter Jones knows what he has to do, and he just needs to stay with Bourdon and make sure that he either beats him or finishes within seven seconds. A little more competition currently in that third position. As we look at the overall decathlon standings. Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific. He’s currently in third place with 6929. He’s 150 points behind Jones and 104 points behind Bourdon, so he’s probably not going to win, but he is only 15 points ahead of Ramette Vater from West Texas A&M. So that secondary battle is going to be between Krog and Vater on the track and Vater, of course, if he can move up to third place and collect an extra point for West Texas A&M, that is going to help in the team title. Vater is a 450 1500 meter runner. While if we look at Krog, he’s run 442 and 446. So what do we expect here? Well, we expect. To see a strategic race more than a sprint. If anybody goes out ahead, it’s going to be Matthew Luther from Lock Haven. We’re going to see that our leader, Hunter Jones, stays as close as he can to Mark Bourdon. We’re going to see Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific try to stay ahead of Roman Vater from West Texas A&M. But you can see them as they are lined up there. Remsburg from Emporia State, Joel Brown from Walsh, Kelvin de Carvalho from Harding, Logan Anderson from Slippery Rock, Connor Munson from Edinboro, Mark Bourdon from Angelo State, Oliver Thatcher from Lenoir-Rhyne, Justin Moller from Truman, Mason Boyd from Shippensburg Calder, Eric from Concordia, Saint Paul. And there’s the gun there underway. Rounding out the field. Hunter Jones from Pitt State. He’s our leader, Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific. He’s third. Roman Vater of West Texas A&M. He’s fourth. Matthew Mueller, as we said, the fastest 1500 runner on the track. And then Otto Knittel of Missouri Southern or Missouri S&T and Nolan Churchman of Fort Hays State, will round out the field well ahead of his personal best. So these athletes now, they kind of know the place they’re going to finish, but they’re all working to get personal bests or specific times as they can on the track. And very quickly, as predicted, we do see. Hunter Jones currently sitting there in fifth position, and he is in front of Mark Bourdon from Angelo State. So he’s going to try his best to keep him behind him the whole way. Not the 1500 you’re used to seeing on the track. I wouldn’t call it lumbering. These decathletes can run this 1500 much faster than you or I can, but on the track, after ten events, they just want to be done again. The temperature very warm today as we hit the 5:00 hour local time in Pueblo, Colorado. Entering our temperature reads 92 degrees. So not only have you run nine other events and you’re about to finish, it’s 92 degrees out there, so they are not going to be super happy about this. Up at the front we do see Matthew Moller as expected from Lock Haven. He’s with Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific. And that is going to be. Luther now making a bit of a move. So we expected to see him out front. Krog is sitting second, so Hunter Jones a little wary of him. Connor Munson of Edinboro now moving up a spot. Our leader from Pitt State, he’s wearing all black, so he is now in front of the Chase pack, but he is behind Mark Bourdon of Angelo State. You can see Bourdon of Angelo State there in the yellow. There again you see Bourdon coming off that north curve. So Bourdon is in yellow. Behind him in black is Hunter Jones from Pitt State. So he said the gap was about seven seconds. So Hunter Jones you can see counting the seconds in his head and just staying close enough that if he sees Bourdon make any kind of move, Jones will attempt to match that on the back stretch and you can count just as well as I can as they come around this curve. And he is currently about five seconds behind. So Jones, he’s watching. He’s very aware of it. He knows how much longer they have to run and he knows he has run a faster time than Bourdon. But there’s the strategy. But here you see again the leader on the track. Now that is Matthew Muffler of Lock Haven. And he will take the bell lap. So here comes the race. We can hear the crowd down the homestretch cheering. If Mark Bourdon is going to go, he is going to go soon. He has one lap to go. Right behind him. Still on the track. It’s about that same distance 6 or 7 seconds is Hunter Jones. So we will continue to watch that. Our leader now with 200m to go, Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific. He is currently in third place. Overall. I don’t think he has the opportunity to move up in the standings. Campbell. But you do see Mark Bourdon from Angelo State. He tried. He has made his move, but Hunter Jones has responded. So there you see, there you see the leader. So the leader we know Matthew Muffler he is going to win this decathlon 1500. He is going to be right around 437. Krog of Azusa will be second here. They come off the curve though. And this is Hunter Jones. He’s in the black Hunter Jones is moving up. He is actually going to pass Mark Bourdon and that is going to seal it there. Bourdon is in the yellow. He’s in second. Our leader in the black is going to come into your screen. And as he crosses the finish line that is Hunter Jones. And he is going to win this decathlon as he finishes ahead of his closest competition. Mark Bourdon. He is going to beat him by almost two seconds. Krog is going to be second. He’ll score 678 points. That is 118 points better than. Hunter Jones. But as we look over at our standings, which the timing system quickly computes, Hunter Jones will run that five flat that he has run this year. That will be 560 points. He is going to win. Krog is going to move up into second. So his 440 the second fastest on the track. That’s going to score him 678 points, which is going to move him into second place overall. So Krog will take silver. Mark, Bourdon will fall to bronze at 7582. Rosemont Vater of West Texas A&M. He’ll not change his positioning. He will be fourth at 7421. 32 points. The automatic or I should not say automatic. The minimum standard for qualifying for the USA Track and Field trials is 7400. So we’ll have four athletes who are surpassing that. Again, that’s just the minimum standard, so you can’t get in with a mark lower than 7400. Just because you are above 7400, you would still have to be in the top 24, I believe, or less to make it to the championships. But Hunter Jones will be there 7639 a pretty good score, especially 92 degree weather. You can see he’s happy there. He knows he’s won. It’s official. He is going to take those shoes off and he is going to walk back down our home stretch and over to his fans from Pittsburg State. That is a very big ten points as well for the gorillas, as they try to repeat their team title. That’s what a man looks like when he has completed ten events in two days in 92 degree weather and sprinted the last 200 competition. We will set the stage for you here in this event. Always exciting to hear 16.65 and you can’t see him on your track there. He has stepped into the shade just being blocked by a pillar, but he is standing in front of the Pittsburg State coaches and fans on this home stretch. In fact, he’s going over the fence and collecting his celebratory back to back national championships. In our men’s decathlon last year, he got seven eight, nine eight, so he didn’t quite reach that this year. Feeling falling just about 200 points shy. But after a somewhat disappointing day one for his competition, he had an incredible day two to vault him into the lead and to give him this national championship. In 2024. Brian Wilson next in the rotation. The man from Wilson 1080 champion triple jump in the school record holder there. And if we go back down to our women’s high jump, women’s high jump is on the apron at the north end of our facility. We can see that the bar is now at five feet six inches. That’s one meter 68. We lost two jumpers at that initial height. Unfortunate for Abby Wheeler of Ashland and Abigail Thrash of Southern Nazarene. Three misses at the opening height and they are now out of the competition. We have two jumpers or one jumper who has not yet entered the competition. Rachel Wilson has passed at the first two heights, so we are just wrapping up our first round of this jump at 168. That’s five feet six inches. We have seven jumpers, have missed their first attempt, so they will have their second attempts coming up. As soon as we see here. Emmie Napier, she’s over. This is Kiara Carter from Tiffin and she is over her second height today. So 12 jumpers over this height. One has not entered yet and we will now have seven jumpers taking their second attempt at five feet, six inches. You’re looking at Liesl Theron, the senior from Lee. And that’ll be her second miss at this height. So. She’ll go over, talk to her coach, make her adjustments. You can see there the coaches in the bottom right, they are on the apron. They just have to stay behind the fenced in gates. But the athletes are able to communicate with their coaches between jumps and make any necessary adjustments. This is Erin Healy from Azusa Pacific, her second attempt. And that will be her second miss at five feet, six inches. One meter 68 in this high jump. Next up on the runway, Nicole Michaud. And that is not Michou. So we’ll see if they get that figured out. This is Brynn Greenwalt. You see Michaud there in the red at the bottom of the screen. She is the one that is on deck now. Nicole Michaud. From western Colorado. And she will miss at her second attempt here. The 92 degrees is difficult for the runners. The high jumpers don’t enjoy it either. They will try and get every bit of bit of shade they can get in between their jumps. That sun just drains on you. It’s not humid at all here in Colorado, but that 92 degrees will beat you down if you are not careful. And of course, at altitude, the ozone layer just a little bit thinner. So we’ll trust all of our athletes have their sunscreen on as well, as they find enough shade as they are competing in this high jump. Lee, the freshman from Pitt State, was next up on the runway. One two, and we have yet to see somebody clear this bar on their second attempt. We’ll have two more at their second attempt before we’ll go back to the third attempt for these final seven vaulters trying to get over and join the first 13. This is Kaylee Diamond, the senior from Grand Valley State, Grand Valley State, making a push in the team standings so they would like nothing more than to get maybe a point or an unexpected point or two in this high jump. Kaylee Dimond, the senior from Grand Valley State. This is her second attempt at five six. And you can she see she just did a an approach she didn’t like but no foul. She can go back still on the clock. And you can see for many of these jumpers they have the height. It’s the mechanics that they are needing to adjust, which is why they can go and speak to their coaches. And I believe our final jumper in this round will be Shannon Hartnett of East Stroudsburg. The freshman. It looks like here from Wilson McCoy and a foul. So it’ll be time for the number three jumps for our jumpers all currently. Tied for 13th place. We are Liesel Theron McCoy. The senior from Lee Tennessee University of North Carolina Wilmington. That’s John Jay final attempt here at one meter 68. And there’s a clearance for her. So as you see, the adjustments do work. Sometimes she will be our 13th jumper over this height. Of course one yet to compete. And we’ll move back to Erin Healy from Azusa Pacific. You see her there in the black on black. Third attempt. And that’s going to be frustrating as she will bow out of the competition. Opening round for the five more jumpers at this height. Jumping their third attempt one meters 68. They will either move on and move up, or their competition will come to an early close. Messiah of western Colorado in the red. It looks like a green light and Sam and she will also bow out of the competition at the second height. And 48, nine, 48, ten and a quarter over five. And there’s the clearance for Greenwald. Brynn Greenwald, the junior from Augustana, is all smiles. After clearing this height and advancing to our next height. So you see right there in the last two jumpers, the smile and joy of happiness when you are over a bar and the disappointment and frustration when you are not. This is Kyla Leake, the freshman from Pitt State. Her final attempt will be Colby Embry-Riddle (Florida). And she is not going to advance today, so no points from leak for the gorillas. Pitt state does have two other high jumpers in this competition. Haley Hadley is clear on her first attempt. Rachel Wilson has not yet entered the competition. She is our number one seed. This is going to be Kaylee Diamond from Grand Valley State. And you can see that one coming just took off way too close to the bar. And the senior from Grand Valley State will call it a day in the high jump. Just one more jumper now at this height. And that will be Shannon Hartnett of East Stroudsburg. The freshman final attempt at five six. Then the bar will go up to five feet eight inches. And she’ll clip that with her heels and have some disappointment. So already down now to just 415 vaulters still in competition as the bar will go to one meter 73. That’s five feet eight inches. Albright. 73. Now we’re going to take a quick look at the men’s triple jump that is going on over on our east runway. They are jumping from north to south. We are in the first round of our competition. First flight, first round. Just wrapping up with Manuel Cuesta of West Texas A and M, this will be his first jump in the competition. And he does not look too happy with that jump, but it is going to be a clean jump. 14m 90. That’s 48ft ten and three quarters. It’s going to move him up into fourth place overall. But that is again through the first round of the first flight. So now we’ll move into our. Second round or correction one more jumper here Sheldon McNicholas from Minnesota State. This is his first jump. He is the final jumper in our first flight. And there you’re seeing this live. This is Sheldon McNicholas of Minnesota State his first jump in this competition. Patiently awaiting the posting of his bar. And it’s 15m 14. So that will vault him up into fourth place. So our leader through the first jump of the competition is Jason Morgan from Virginia State, 1560 on his first attempt, 51ft, two and one quarter inches, also over 50ft on his first attempt. Ryan Wilson McCoy of Mount Olive, the sophomore with a personal best on his first attempt at 5045. That’s 50ft, 8.25in. Just looking at the wind readings looks like it is gusting between just under the legal amount and just over some of our jumpers, with a plus 2.32.2 wind readings, while others are safe and clear at 2.0 or lower, it has dropped to even 1.0, so it’s random. That’s why you see the athletes there sometimes on the runway you think, are they ready to go or not? They can see the clock. They can see the timer. They know exactly how much time they have. And if they feel that the wind is gusting too much behind them, they may wait or they may feel that, heck, I want this wind behind me. I’m not concerned so much about being wind legal as much as I am about just getting the best jump I can. For those of you in prison. The head coach from Pittsburg State, Tyler Rutledge. We’ll start with our eighth place finisher today. He’s won the last event of the day again. We are jumping from south to north. I may have misspoken earlier, but you can see on that far runway they are jumping from south to north. That was Morgan for his second attempt. And he is going to foul out there. If we look at the award stand you can see our. Now our decathletes are getting their awards presented. And you see the top eight decathletes Matthew Muffler from Lock Haven. He took that first place in the 1500 to move up into medal position. So it was worth the effort for him. Muffler will be eighth. Justin Moller of Truman is seventh, Otto Knittel of Missouri, S and T will be sixth. Nolan Churchman from Fort Hays State will be fifth. Romit Vawter from West Texas A&M will be fourth. Mark Bourdon of Angelo State will finish third. Lincoln Krog of Azusa Pacific Krog will take silver and there, making his way to the top of the podium for back to back years, he’s getting the award from his own coach, Hunter Jones, the senior from Pittsburg State. 7639 points. That’s a season best, not a career best. But he’ll take it. And you can see the sunburned Hunter Jones very excited to finish up this. And more importantly he’ll give ten points to Pittsburg State, our defending team national champion. So there you see our decathletes making their way from the podium. They will get a well deserved rest tonight after ten events, the last of which coming in 90 degree plus weather here in Pueblo, Colorado, home of the. 2025 Division two women’s and men’s national championships. We don’t forget Pueblo hosted two years ago in its history, the traditional consecutive years of assigning a host school or host town. The D2 national Championships goes back as far as 2012, when Pueblo did host. Pueblo hosted 2012 2013 back to back years here. Then we went to Grand Valley State for two years, Bradenton, Florida for two years. And as we are continuing to look at Hunter Jones, here’s a recap. Okay. Today this is the high jump here. That was yesterday. He’s a good high jumper. He can high jump over seven feet. And he got two meters 14 to win that. The discus throw was one of our second events this morning. And he won that event. He picked up 761 points with a 44 meter 71 throw. Then he goes to another strong event which is the pole vault for Hunter Jones and the pole vault he clears for 80. That was good enough for third place in the pole vault, but a valuable 849 point wise, and that may have been which thrust him into the lead. And you can see now all those trophies there, those athletes that are huddled around that tent and looking for the shade that is going to be Hunter Jones just peeking around the corner. Well deserved rest for these athletes all completing their 10th event. Well, we’re going to take a quick break on the track here. We’ll come back with our field events. The men’s triple jump, the women’s high Welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado, the campus of CSU Pueblo. We’re in the thunderbowl hosting the 2025 NCAA Division two Women’s and Men’s National Track and Field Championships. We’re looking at the women’s high jump competition. The bar is currently at five feet, eight inches. That is one meter 73. We have 1234, five, six seven jumpers over this height. On their first or second attempt. We are on second attempts now with another 7 or 8 jumpers on their second attempt. We’re looking at Brynn Greenwalt of Augustana, her second attempt here now and much better than her first attempt. But she will miss that at five eight, one meter 73. Five more jumpers on their second jump on the left hand side of your screen, you are looking at the men’s triple jump competition. This is Manuel Cuesta of West Texas A&M, his second jump. He’s currently eighth in the competition. Which is being led right now by Dante Dockery of Wilmington. Our leader is second jump 15m 63. That’s 51ft, 3.5in for jumpers now out over 50ft in this first flight. And for Cuesta, that last jump we saw on the left hand side of your screen that’s going to move him into the lead 15m, 79. So 51ft 9.75in. That’s a personal best for Cuesta. So after his second jump he will move into the lead. With a home run to go in flight. One of the men’s triple jump. We’re closing in on 16m. These are two of the events that are going on here in the side the stadium, the women’s high jump, the men’s triple jump. We do also have the men’s discus throw that is going on outside of the facility here. But just to give you a quick update, if you are a men’s discus fan, we are finishing up the first flight. So our first flight leader in the men’s discus is Isaac Tavo from West Liberty. The freshman with a throw of 5592 on his first attempt. First attempt. Personal best 183ft, five inches. Lucas Piper of Harding. He threw 5503 on his third attempt. That’s a season best for him. Those two are sitting first and second as we wrap up the first flight of competition in our men’s discus throw. Again, women’s high jump is currently at one meter 73. That is five eight. We have eight jumpers over and another seven still in competition at this height. And in our men’s triple jump competition, they are now beginning the third round of our first flight, and our leader is still Manuel Cuesta at 15m 79. That’s 51, nine and three quarters. The sophomore. We are now ready for the 200m. And if you take a look, you can see our first heat of the women’s qualifying in the 200m. They are ready to go on the inside there in the block you’ve got Jamya Morgan of Pittsburgh State Lane three is Emma Cannon from Simon Fraser. Lane four. Amari Weatherford of San Bernardino, Lane five. Sariah Copeland of Fresno Pacific Lane six. Colonic Farrington of Southwest Baptist, Lane seven. Ashley Barrett of New Mexico Highlands Lane eight. Cadence Cray running for Albany State. A loaded field in the women’s 200m this year. Of course, the favorite would be Alexis Brown, the junior from Lenoir-Rhyne. She also qualified first in the 100m yesterday. Keep an eye on Copeland and Farrington. And even Ashley Barrett of New Mexico Highlands in seven. They’re four by one team, setting a record yesterday. But we do have a clean start. And second from the right, Emma Cannon of Simon Fraser, out of British Columbia. She is in the white, on red on the inside in lane three. On the outside though, that is going to be. Cullen Farrington of Southwest Baptist running 2284. Amari Weatherford of Cal State San Bernardino. She’s going to be second across the line, 2312. That is going to make her feel good after last night. False. Starting out of the 100m, the top two automatically advance. So you see Farrington and Weatherford. They will advance to the finals the next. Three athletes will be on the bubble. So we’ll have Emma Cannon, who is first off the curve, Sariah Copeland from Fresno Pacific and Cadence Cray. They will be on the bubble trying to qualify as the next three fastest. Here in heat two of the women. Now, when we look at heat number two, we will say Layla Claire of University of Mary. She’ll be in lane two on the inside. Faith Wyman from Lewis in three, Tiana Walrond of University of Mary in four, Leah Smith of Findlay in five. Shante George of Lincoln in six. Alexis Brown from Lenoir-Rhyne in seven. And Sakinah Messiah of University of Mary. She’ll be in lane eight and again, all eyes will be on Alexis Brown in this heat. As Alexis Brown. She’s run 2267. That is the fastest this year. She finished third in this race. Last year she qualified first. So she had the fastest time in these preliminary heats, but faded to third in the finals. Brown was second in the 60m indoors, but she did win the 200 2288 last. This past March in Indianapolis. So as we get ready here, all eyes on lane seven. And that is Alexis Brown. And this is our. Second race of our evening session here. Second heat of three in the women’s 200. From the inside out. Clear. Wyman, Walrond, Smith George Brown and Messiah. Top two automatically advance, with the next three fastest times joining them in the finals. On the race. Duncan Duncan back on the triple jump right lane and the South African and two Rhode Island on into the Hope and first off, the curve well out in front. Alexis Brown is leaving everybody behind and can’t wait to see this time. Alexis Brown 2235. So that is her season best time. We don’t see the wind reading here, but as you look up at the top right, but you can see Brown is going to run 2235, nearly one full second ahead of George from Lincoln, 2333 and it looks on our official timing system. George will be ahead of Smith. So Brown and George will be our automatic qualifiers. There we see the wind reading now. Top right it’s plus 1.8 so it’s legal. So that’s a 2235. And there you see Alexis Brown just out for an evening stroll in the heat here of southern Colorado. But she will go into tomorrow’s finals as the number one seed in the 100m and the number one seed in the 200m. So Brown and George are in our bubble. Athletes right now are still Emma Cannon, Sariah Copeland and Leah Smith of Findlay is third on the bubble at 2333. As we get ready now for heat number three, Anna Salisbury of Lubbock Christian. She’ll be on the inside in lane two. Jasara Hart Tusculum is in three. Jordan Taylor from Findlay in four, Andranik Gaines from Pittsburg State. She was fourth last year. She’s run a qualifying time of 2306. Gaines of Pitt State in lane five. Haley Hunt, CSU San Bernardino, in six. Deborah Achampong of West Texas A&M in seven. Alejandro Ortiz from Leonard Trine in eight. She’ll be trying to join her teammate Alexis Brown in the finals and Alexis Hollis of Central Washington. She’s in the outside. She doesn’t have the best qualifying time at 2341 this year, but you’re going to want to keep an eye on her as she has 100 meter speed and she is second in the 100m. She’s already advanced to the finals in the 100, where she will look to challenge Alexis Brown. This is the third and final heat now of this women’s 200. Top two are in, and the time to beat for the fastest third would be 2333. You can see the trees in the background of that shot there. Absolutely no wind, maybe a slight breeze keeping the flag from settling straight down the pole. It’s a welcome respite from yesterday, where the gusts came up in the early afternoon and continued into the evening, but it brings the hotter temperature here again. We are in the low 90s in Pueblo, Colorado, and at altitude there’s no humidity, but you can almost feel the heat from the sun clean start in this final heat of the 200m. We’re going to keep an eye on the outside lane there with Hollis, but on the middle of the track, green and hunt side by side. So those two are going to finish one two it looks like. So they would take the automatic qualifying spots. That’s Haley Hunt of CSU San Bernardino. She’ll run 2306. Green from Pitt State will be in at 2314. Hollis we said to keep an eye on her on the outside. 2320 she is going to get in by time. And it looks like our three qualifiers by time will be Emma Canning Keenan from Simon Fraser, Sariah Copeland from Fresno, Pacific, and Alexis Hollis. She’ll take that last qualifier by time. So she’s seeded second in the 100m. She will squeak into the finals. You can see the finish there. And sometimes you think if you know you’re in the first or second, you don’t need to strain yourself. You don’t need to do anything that could possibly injure yourself. The athletes are taught to run straight through the line for the fastest time, but if you are working for place, you are definitely going to need to dip at the right time to make sure that you are getting that place you want. We don’t s Was 56. Franklin Pierce. Youngstown State. This is what Plymouth State. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado. We are on the campus of CSU Pueblo in the thunderbowl for the 2025 NCAA Division two Men’s and Women’s National Championships. This is day two. We have just begun our preliminaries on day two on the track. This is the men’s 200. They will have three heats qualifying the top two in each heat, plus the next three fastest to the finals. You see our first heat there on the track in lane two. That is going to be Umana Lofton from Kentucky State in lane three, Parker love from Southwest Baptist in lane four, Raheem Tate Best from University of Mary, Lane five. Mateo Casados from Colorado Mesa. Lane six. Shemar Palmer from Fresno Pacific. Lane seven. Paul Mosley from Lynn. Lane eight will be James Dadzie from West Texas A and M Lane nine. Ruben Nichols, the senior from Lincoln. He will round out the field on the outside. Fastest qualifying time on the track here, both in the middle. Again, the lanes are drawn by lot, but with Casados from Colorado Mesa 2042 and Palmer from Fresno Pacific 2049. I would expect to see the two leaders coming from the middle of the track there in lanes five and six. Bryn Mawr Cal State LA Dickinson two. The Division two. By Denver Johns Hopkins on the right picture. And now they will be here and we’re just hearing the introductions of the field by the PA announcer gives us a brief opportunity to look at the team scores on the men’s side of the competition. And now that we have completed our decathlon, the Pitt State Gorillas have jumped back into the mix, so to speak, for our team title. Defending champion Pittsburg State currently have 16 points, and West Texas A and M, the perennial challenger. They have finished fourth. Correction they have finished second for four consecutive years. They also have 16 points. So we’ve only scored five of our 21 events, with most of those being the field events, the Multi-events and of course the 10,000m last night. But Pittsburg State and West Texas A&M currently tied at 16 Harding, has 12 thanks to some good field event competition. Angelo State has 11, Hillsdale has ten, Indianapolis has ten. Today. We’ll continue with preliminary competition day number two. After our 200, we’ll move to the 800. And you’re going to want to stick around and watch the women’s 800. If there was one event this year that I would recommend everybody watching it is the women’s 800. That event is just completely loaded. Some of the fantastic competition in that women’s 800 that will come up after these men’s 203 heats, the conclusion of our 800m will have the preliminaries in the 100 and 110 meter hurdles, we’ll have the finals in the steeplechase. And then of course, today we will conclude a little bit earlier this evening than last evening. We conclude with the preliminaries in the four by 400 meter relay. So athletes now getting into the blocks again. This is the first of three heats. Men’s 200 top two automatically advance plus the next three fastest times. We are running around the south curve, so the athletes will be running from south to north down the back straightaway. Just a slight breeze that will be behind them as they finish this 200. Keep an eye on lanes five and six. Mateo Casados and Shamar Palmer packing heat one and 200m last year only to. Thiel. And that is going to be outside and outside. Shamar Palmer of Fresno Pacific and Paul Moseley of Lynn Casados in the middle of the track will fade just a little bit, but it is going to be Palmer of Fresno Pacific 20.28. So that will be the time and standard to beat 2039 is Moseley, and you can see all the times up there with the first six all running sub 21. There’s the wind reading plus 2.1. So that tailwind behind them making just a slight difference. But when you get six runners under 21 seconds you know it is a fast heat on a fast track. The fast temperature 92 degrees. But there you’re looking at Shamar Palmer who will be the leader from Fresno Pacific. And Lane three, the freshman from Harding, the great American Conference champion. As we get ready now for heat number two on the track. Favor from Carson-Newman will be in two Calvin UIndy from Harding in three. His teammate Olaolu Olatunde in four, Joshua Caleb from Alaska Anchorage will be in five. Tyson Williams, the freshman from Johnson C. Smith. He’ll be in lane six. He does have the third fastest qualifying time in the 100m, so you can look for Tyson Williams, the freshman, to get out quickly. Solomon, a condor from Angelo State, will be in seven. Darion Clark, the junior from Benedict. He’ll be on the outside in lane eight. Our fastest qualifier in this heat is Tyson Williams 20.17. So that first heat all ran to pass with the wind behind them on this track here at the national Championship preliminaries. So looking forward to see what Tyson Williams will do. He is in lane six. The freshman from Johnson C Smith. Second fastest overall qualifying time this year. And as we mentioned, he was the third qualifier to advance in the 100m. On your mark. Lane six there Tyson Williams. He is our indoor champion in the 200 as well. He ran 20 by 20.58 in Indianapolis in March. So definitely one of the favorites in this event. So keep an eye on lane six Tyson Williams Johnson C Smith. That. Akron and a clean start. As they run across the track. And that is. The sophomore from Harding on the outside. Here comes Williams yesterday and Williams. Excuse me. There you can see the excitement on the track as they finish the second heat. Olatunde is going to win the heat from Harding. Tyson Williams knew he was going to be in the top two. Not that he let up at all, but he’ll run 20.42 Odonkor from Angelo State. He’ll be third, but that first heat a little bit faster on the track. So the wind actually dropped a little bit was 1.9 for the second heat. So a little less of a of a tailwind. Palmer and Mosley will still have the two fastest qualifying times. Olatunde and Williams automatically in. And as we have finished two heats now, our bubble athletes are Solomon Odonkor, James Dadzie and Parker Love at 20.74. That will be the time to beat as we look to heat number three now Kenny Green of Metro State out of Denver. He’ll be on the inside in lane two. Toby Meyer of Fort Hays State. He’ll be in lane three. Rich Lou Tutti of Minnesota State will be in for Joshua Page. He’ll be running in lane five. Dupree Hogan of Pitt State. He is the one to watch. He has the fastest qualifying time this season. He was our first place qualifier in the 100m yesterday, running 9.96. His qualifying time is 20.13, so keep an eye on Hogan’s out of lane six. Rounding out the field on the outside, keeping more of Albany State in seven and Dakari Charlton of Pittsburg State. He’ll be in lane eight. What’s great about the national meet here is you never know for sure. We have athletes coming in with the fastest times and sometimes they back that up and will advance to the finals seated first or second. And sometimes, as we saw yesterday, in some of those middle distance events, they just have run that time maybe once and don’t have enough to keep it up at the end of the season. So here, the fastest two qualifying times this season, you look for Hogan’s and Williams, but it is Olatunde and Palmer who have run the fastest on the track in the preliminaries. Again from the inside out. Green wall Meyer tutti page, Hogan’s, Moore and Charlton. That. Come on Keene State start third from the left. That’s Hogan’s from Pitt State, quickly making up the stagger as he comes off the curve and down the back stretch, pulling away from the field as we expected. Dupree Hogan’s of Pitt State, he is going to cruise across the line and capture this final heat. 20.11, so he’ll run 9.96 yesterday, 20.11 today. We can definitely say that the Priest Hogan’s is going to be the man to beat in the finals tomorrow. Winds 2.7, so you can see the gusty winds ranging from 1.9 to 2.7 in consecutive heats. Moore of Albany State he’s going to get the automatic qualifier at 2053. And Dakari Charlton, he is going to slip into the finals. So the three qualifiers after the first two in each heat Solomon Odonkor he’s 20.43, will be the sixth fastest time. But as we look at the bottom there, Dakari Charlton of Pitt State will get into the finals. James Dadzie of West Texas A and M will get into the finals, so Pitt State will have two, but West Texas A and M will have one in the finals. And if he can improve one slot, he will score number nine make the finals. Eight. Make the podium. That means eight score towards the team competition on the track. There you are on the your screen. There you see the athletes, the winners of each heat qualifier in the triple jump are taken over to the tent for a check of the shoes. You may be following the controversy this year with the scientific development of various shoe, where they also do check the spikes to make sure they are all of legal size. But officially this is called a shoe inspection. So you can see there the winner of the last heat. They’re having to take their shoes off and make sure that they are inspected by our NCAA track officials. Going to take a quick look back now here at the women’s high jump. I believe that is Rachel Wilson of Pitt State with her final attempt at one meter 79. This is five feet, ten and one half inch. She’s asking for support on her third attempt. Two are over. This will be her third and final attempt at this height. She’s our number one seed, so we’ll see what Rachel Wilson of Pittsburgh can do. And she is not going to quite get over that height today. And that was actually as it stands, that looks like that was Portia Bennett of East Stroudsburg. So looking at a distance and following our. Scoring system there, all officials using iPads down at the event area and believe this to be Haley Hadley, the junior from Pitt State. So she was seeded five coming in. This is her third and final attempt. And she is going to nick that on the way down. So Hadley is also out of the competition at one meters 79. Shimura Horus of Oklahoma Baptist. Next up for her third attempt, we have two two over 179. It’s 510 and a half Emmy tech here from Central Washington. The sophomore over on her second attempt, and Liesl Theron, the senior from Lee. We nearly saw her go out early. She had two misses at five six, but she cleared on her third attempt. And now here she is currently sitting in second place. That was Horus from Oklahoma Baptist missing on her third attempt. So we’ll have two more jumpers here on their third attempt at one meter 79. That’s 510 and a half and we’ll see Kiara Carter from Tiffin. On the first section and two, and she gets the slow clap going for her third and final attempt at one meter 79. Carter from Tiffin. And she is going to go out at this height. So we’re down to our final attempt at this height, one meter 79 five, ten and a half. This will be Rachel Wilson, the junior from Pitt State trying to join. Her and Theron. At the next height. Five 11.5 Rachel Wilson. Third attempt, 510 and a half. And she was over it. But she couldn’t bring the legs all the way. So she will bow out. Our number one seed will finish in a tie for third place in the high jump on the track. We are now looking at the women’s 800. We have three heats. Again, this is a loaded race. They’re going to be running for place in time today. Maggie Williams of Biola, Savannah Schley of Minnesota, Duluth, Helen Braybrook of CSU Pueblo. She is there in lane four. Inez McAdam Tiffin. Jade Ashland, Elizabeth Atchison from U-mary and Jessica Simon from Adams State. So as we watch this 800, we can tell you that all eight finalists from our indoors 800 are in the field, along with last year’s winner of this race and last year’s runner up. So you have ten women in this 800, all with a potential chance to stand on the podium or even win this event. Helen Braybrook, she’s running on her home track. That is her out in front from CSU Pueblo. She is the indoor national champion. She ran 204 72 indoors. She also ran the 1600 leg on the DMR, which CSU Pueblo won. So we have to think that she is one of the favorites as she runs on her home track. That’s her wearing hip number four in the blue and red chevron. She’s going to bring them through the first 400 here. 59 seconds for this first 400. So that is awfully fast on the track. The top two will advance plus the next three fastest times. So Braybrook is going to take them out at a blistering sub 6400. And she says I’m going to run that hard. I can continue to run it. Can you come with me moving up on the outside there that is. Our runner from Adams State, Jessica Simon. And then in between the two, that is Jade Evans of Ashland. Again, all finalists from our indoor 800. The top two will advance. They don’t want to expend all their energy just to get into the finals, but as they come off the curve here, you can see the strength of Helen Braybrook. This is her track. She runs here every single day in practice. Maryland. And that is going to be a very first fast, first heat. She’s going to run. 205 15. For those two features. Once again in third place. 206 97 we’ll have to wait and see if it’s good enough to move on. Jade Evans from Ashland. She’s going to take the other auto qualifier at 20601. So that was a fast first heat. You go out at 59, they’re going to run 65 for that second 400. But it worked for Braybrook the pace setter. She will win the heat and advance in our second heat. Now we’re going to see Ellie Fry from Dallas Baptist Chanel Clark Giddings from Lincoln, Abigail Greer from West Texas A&M, Leah Keisler from CSU Pueblo, Tyler Taylor Roth from Embry-Riddle (Florida), Olivia Alexandria from Azusa Pacific, and Elysia Brooks from Ursuline. That is out of Ohio. So this second heat on the track no slouch either, as we have. A booger. A booger from West Texas. A and M she’s ran. 203 26 so she comes in with the fastest qualifying time this season, 203 26 three athletes running sub 200 for this season. So again, this 800m is going to be something special to watch. Fry Clark getting. Abigail Keisler, Roth, Alexander and Brooks. And we look in the middle of the track there. Leah Keisler also running on her home track from CSU Pueblo, the Edinburgh, Scotland native. Also on that DMR team that won indoor nationals. She ran the 800 leg on that squad, so CSU Pueblo, gearing up for hosting the NCAA championships on their own track. Many of their athletes redshirted last season. Not just taking the season off, but training for the UK Olympic Trials. Many of these athletes on this CSU Pueblo team are UK natives, and we saw Reece Newell yesterday establish a standard in the 1500. He’ll advance to the finals. Helen Braybrook will advance to the finals in this 800. Now you finally see the gun up there. After some discussion. But a clean start. Frye. Clark. Giddings, Abigail. Keisler, Roth, Alexander and Brooks 52ft ten. Ferguson. Now. On the track. Get him out. Number 800. And you can see the second heat now as they are running by that women’s high jump that we’ve been keeping an eye on. We might have heard the loud cheer Emmy, the temper from Central Washington over 182 on her second attempt. That’s five 11.5 and she is the only high jumper over that height. So she will be the champion, the national champion. Emmy Niquette from Central Washington, will continue to watch her in competition as the bar approaches six feet on the track, though this is the second heat of the women’s 800. Abigail Abigail runs 60 flat, so just about the same time, maybe one second slower. This heat keisler right there with her at the front. So those are the two setting the pace in this 800. The top two will get in automatically. The next three fastest times will also advance for the finals in the 800, but with 200m to go, you can still see five runners up there in contention Abigail Keisler, Clark, Giddings, Alexander and Roth all running together. So we’ll see who has the strongest kick down this homestretch here. This next section here. Moving up now on the outside. That is going to be Clark Giddings Keisler fading a little on the inside. She’s going to finish fourth in this heat that is going to be won by Abigail Abigail from West Texas A&M. She’s going to run 205 80 for Clark. Giddings will run 205 90 Alexander of Azusa Pacific. She’s going to run. 206 as is Keisler. 206 83 and with the top two in as we look at the bubble times as we head to this final heat, the bubble times are 206 55 206 83 and sitting on the outside they’re 206 97. That is Inez McAdam from Tiffin. She is on the bubble. As we go back and we look at the high jump competition here again, Emmie Niquette of Central Washington, the bar is at one meter 82. That’s 511 and she is over that. You can see she cleared that her back was a good couple inches over there. But that’s going to win her the national championship. 182 the bar has gone up to 184 since. At six foot and a half she has one miss. She is now currently on her second attempt and again she was over the bar but hitting it on the way down. So that’s two misses. At 184. She’ll have one more left. We’ll see if she can summon up energy to get over this bar, but she is already our champion. Women’s 800. Let’s look at the third heat. No slouch here either. Hope Sievert of Ashland, Arissa Hatcher of Cal Poly Pomona, leaky Hoogsteen from Adams State, Needhi Singh from Midwestern State, Megan Postma from Grand Valley State, Lena harnick from the Academy of Art, Jaden Barnes from northwest Missouri. And on the outside there as they line up, Lily Alberts of Grand Valley again in this women’s 800. We had all eight finalists from our indoor final in the field. Plus we had last year’s winner of this race and the winner, the runner up. So again, just a fantastic field here in this women’s 800. In this heat Houston she was third indoors, Singh was fifth and Harnick was eighth. Grambling Kent State three of three. Women’s. Hoogsteen the tall runner there in the fluorescent green and yellow from Adams State. So the first two heats have come around their first 400 in 59, the second heat in 60 flat. We’ll see what heat number three does here. The athletes know that they’ve either got to be first or second, or they’ve got to be faster than 206 97 to advance to the finals. The field for 200m and hoogsteen quickly to the front. And she’ll take them around the high jump apron and the steeplechase barrier. And as they come down this homestretch, bunched very well together. That is also Lena Harnick of the Academy of Art, wearing hip number seven. So the two taller runners leading the pace. This is a slower heat so far, though, they’re not going to come through the first 462 63. So a much slower first 400. We’ll see how that pays off down the back stretch. If you are the first two, that bodes well. If you are going to finish third here, you are going to have to pick it up on this second 400. And you have that formidable pair there as they come down the home stretch, the two tallest women in the field, Hoogsteen and Harnick, almost creating a barrier. But the first one around it that’s going to be needy Singh from Midwestern State. She gets around the two, so she knows that she has to kick it. If she is going to finish in the top two or sub. Meters. But that’s what she did. Sub 206. 97. And there go the two early leaders. Singh is fading. She’s going to have to run fast if she’s going to get in 206 97 and they are not going to do it. So the two winners of this heat, they’re going to advance. Lena and Hoogsteen, they are going to advance to the finals and our qualifiers in the women’s 800 are going to be Olivia Alexander from Azusa Pacific, Leah Keisler from CSU Pueblo, and Inez McAdam from Tiffin. You had to run under 207 to make the finals. In this women’s 800. Cannot wait for the finals. The finals are going to be run tomorrow at 7 p.m, so we’re going to hope that the rain and expected possible bad weather holds off tomorrow at least past 7:00, because that c. Foreign still in second at 16m. Georgia 1519 point. Typekit that mark on the day and he is back to having completed it. So he will go to Trayvon Martin for his. And welcome back to day two of the 2020 NCAA Division two Outdoor Track and Field National Championships. We’ve both got the men and the women here. This is Pueblo, Colorado. We are on the thunderbowl on the campus of CSU Pueblo, and we’ve just seen our qualifying in the women’s 800, a stacked event this year with the two local athletes, Helen Braybrook and Leah Keisler, both advancing in the women’s 800 to the final that will be held tomorrow. That means we’re ready for the men. You see the first heat of the men, they’re at their starting marks. We are scheduled for Samuel Allen of Grand Valley State to be on the inside in lane two from CSU Pueblo. We’ll have two guys in this first heat, and they are Russell running on their home track, hoping to compete or to qualify. That’s Tim Anstett and Emil McGill in lanes three and four. Tim Thompson of the Colorado School of Mines is in five. Riley Witt of northwest Missouri, in sixth Prince Mccalebb from West Texas A&M in seven, and Braden Anderson of Black Hills State rounding out the field on the outside again, qualifying is top two are in next three fastest times will have to advance and a clean start. Here you’ve got the CSU Pueblo runners on the inside and then on the outside. We’re going to keep an eye on the senior from West Texas A&M. That is Prince Macchiavello. And he is quickly moving to the front as the stagger breaks. Wearing the huge moving to the lead. West Texas A&M senior Prince Mccalebb. So he will take the charge as they run around that north curve. Sitting in second. Emil Miguel of CSU Pueblo wearing the blue and red chevron. So the first heats of the women’s 800 ran the fastest split they came through in 659. The men are going to come through in 52. So the strategy today is get out quickly. And to Mark Bloomsburg Justin for 52, 96 for Macchiavello as they come through the first 400. So as they head down this backstretch, if there is any wind, it is behind them. Here you can see the looking around making sure that they are clear as they try to finish in the top two. This will now be Miguel. Taking the lead as they come off the track off the curve for the final time. Top two will advance, but here comes the charge. Everybody wants to be in the top two, but if you can finish with the fastest third times, you’re going to be in. And how about this for a finish? It is the second CSU Pueblo runner, Tim Arnstadt. He will come up and end up winning. Automatic qualifier at one 4916. Michael Biola will come back and he’ll hold on to second at one 4924. And then from the Colorado School of Mines, Tim Thompson, he’ll be on the bubble at one 4941. Miguel will finish fourth. Riley Witt of northwest Missouri. He will also be sub 150 and he will be on the outside of the bubble times at one 4967. So the strategy of going out fast, they came through their first 400 around 5253. They come back with about 5556. So closer to even splits. But so far all the athletes are going out hard and then just seeing what they have left at the end. Here comes our second heat out onto the track. And as they are getting their run outs, what you’re looking at there, that is the clerk’s tent or should we say the clerk’s shed? It is also serving as the weight room here in the thunderbowl for both the track team and the football team that shared this facility. It is nice for the athletes though, because it is air conditioned so the athletes can be in there. They check in, pick up their hip numbers. They can do any final stretching or drills, and when their race is ready, they are called out of the track shed there and directly right onto the track there at the starting line. Finish line for these races that take a full oval. So there you see our athletes now after that run through, coming back to take their position. We are scheduled to see Keyshawn Garcia from Texas A&M Kingsville. He’ll be on the inside in lane two. Scott Spoelstra from Grand Valley State in three, Nolan Muller of Drury in four, Jose Arcadia of Indianapolis in five. Jonathan Rodriguez, Osorno from Texas A&M Kingsville. He’ll be in sixth. Antonio Blair of Angelo State in seven and Zion Murray of Claflin. He will be on the outside in lane eight. Keep an eye on Lecoudray running out of lane five. The sophomore from Indianapolis, he was second indoors, running in his hometown. He ran one 4894 to take second indoors. While the women returning all eight from the indoors championships, plus last year’s winner and runner up. It’s a different story on the men’s side. For the men’s side, most of our place winners from last year’s race have moved on. In fact, our top returner is Johan Correa. He finished fourth last year and he’ll be in the next heat. But this is heat number two now with a clean start again from the inside out, it’s Garcia Spaanstra Muller, La Osorno, Blair and Murray. Our bubble times all sub 150. In fact you’ve got to run faster than one 4967 to guarantee yourself a spot in the final. In this men’s 800. Tufts 200m. Around 25 seconds through Bell and they will be almost four across as they come down the home stretch here. Again, we were about 53 seconds for the first 400. In our first heat. They’re going to be just about the same time here. That is 5319 for Le cadre from Indianapolis and the rest of the field also all coming in sub 54. In fact, they are all sub 5375. So just about the same time the first heat came back with 5556 on their second 400. And again time is important but place is more important. So as you see they’re running down the back stretch. Jose Jose Josue Le of Indianapolis still the leader on the track. So he has led from the beginning. He was our runner up indoors. So he knows where he wants to be. Here comes the charge. That is Antonio Blair of Angelo State. Now moving up on the outside in the yellow and outside of him. We are going to have the Texas A&M Kingsville runners who are going to take third. And as we look at it, it’s one 4910 for la madre Blair. One one 4922 Osorno at one 4926. That will be good enough to give him the fastest third place time, and we will see both the fourth and fifth place runners in heat two, Thompson and Murray. They will move on to the bubble and that is going to knock off Emil Miguel of CSU Pueblo. He will not advance. And you hear some excitement in the crowd just below us here. They’re cheering for two people. That is the team from Central Washington. They have their high jump champion sitting patiently at the award stand waiting to accept her medal. But they also have one of their standout runners in this next heat on the track. And you see them there as they’re making their way back to the beginning. Gabe McConville of Tampa. He’ll be lining up on the inside in lane number two. Doug Martin of Wisconsin-Parkside in three, David Cardenas of Adams State in four, Caleb McLeod of CSU Pueblo in five, Johan Correa, the senior from central Washington. You heard him earlier or you heard his cheering section earlier. So they will be loud. He’s in lane six. He was fourth in this race last year. He is the fastest or returnee. He was also fourth indoors. So you have to say he is a favorite to make the final outside of Korea will be Lewis O’Laughlin from Adams State. Jordan Kilonzo of Pitt State will be lining up in lane eight and Beau Olson of Fresno Pacific. He’ll be lining up on the outside in lane number nine. Again. You’ve got to be in the top two or you had now a better run faster than one 4945. And for the Tennessee personal best. 179 510 and a half for Greenville Cameron. And the start of this race, they are appearing that they are just holding up for the presentation of the high jump awards. So Central Washington, having the rare opportunity to crown the high jump champion and have their fans see that and celebrate, and also have their star distance runner or middle distance runner here on the track. He is in lane six and the gun is off. So. That’s the fourth best jump in the history of Division two. So we’re going to have a great trip here in the second flight with that effort. And you can see on the back side moving to the front. That is Caleb McLeod from CSU Pueblo. Again, when you’re running on your home track, you always feel like you have a little bit of advantage. If there’s going to be some wind, you know where it’s going to be and you should have a good crowd behind you. So he’ll lead them coming off the curve. That is Doug Martin of Wisconsin-Parkside. And then tucked in on the third place on the rail behind them, that is Johan Correa of Central Washington. So they are actually going to come through. That’s the fastest first 452 56 for McLeod, the freshman from CSU Pueblo. So he goes out the fastest of the three heats. We’ll see if he can hold on down the back stretch. You’ve got Martin Cardenas and Correa still running at the front. They are the front four. And again two of them will be in automatically. And the magic bubble time to beat will be one 4945. So as in all the heats it’s tough to hold. So our leaders now getting caught as they come off the curve. We’ve got Correa of Central Washington. He takes charge. Here comes Gabe McConville of Tampa. He’s in the gray on red. And it is going to be Correa and McConville. And they are going to be the first two across the line. 148 4181 one 4897 Cardenas from Adams State, he’s going to be. One 4955 and that is not going to be good enough to get into the final. So it is that second heat that provides all the finalists by qualifying. Jonathan Rodriguez, Osorno, Tim Thompson and Zion Murray will take the three auto or correction the three qualifiers by time you had to run one 4945 to get into the finals, literally one 4946 did not advance. The time. And you can see our winner of that heat being escorted over to the awards tent, where they are also doing the shoe inspection. Word gets around fast so the athletes know that’s coming. So not that any athlete would be trying to wear an illegal shoe at this point in the competition. But the inspections not coming prior to the races, but at the conclusion of the races tomorrow will be. So what’s happening now is we can see that as our athletes are going through their shoe inspection and taking their final individual pictures on the award, stand for the high jump. We’re setting up the hurdles. Next up will be the 110 meter hurdles for the men, the 100 meter hurdles for the women. The women will run first as we set up these hurdles on the west side of the track. Lane in the final 200. 200m. The format of the NCAA Division two track and Field Championships allows for quite a bit of time for athletes to double up and run multiple events. When you get to the Division one level, you don’t see as many athletes doubling up in events based on a schedule that involves a regional where you have to run two rounds in the regional to advance to the championship finals, where you would run another two rounds. But here in the Division two national championships, a three day championship yesterday, basically preliminaries in half the events, with the other half having their preliminaries today and all the finals on Saturday with hesitation. Of the 10,000m. Which just has a one day final on Thursday. Today we will also have the finals of the steeplechase, but they did have preliminary heats on Thursday, so they’re setting up the hurdles for our women’s 100 meter hurdles. We will, as always, have three heats. The NCAA Division two qualifying, the top 22 athletes. So we’ll have three heats with the top two winners in each heat, plus the next three fastest times to advance. Whether you are watching just your favorite athlete compete or you are here for the duration and watching all of the D2 National Championships, just taking a quick glimpse at the schedule. We’ve got the preliminaries in the 100 meter and 110 meter hurdles coming up. Then we’ll move to the steeplechase finals. So those athletes qualified yesterday they have had 24 hours of rest for their finals. We’ll conclude today with the four by 400 meter relay preliminaries, our field events now just down to one more event competing. Our men’s triple jump finals. Although our men’s discus throw is also underway outside of the thunderbowl here. So we cannot see that. But we’ll give you those results if you’re following along on the NCAA results page from Leon Timing, you can see the throw by throw progression of those field events. Tomorrow we get underway at 11 a.m. Mountain time. The women’s pole vault will lead off competition. The women’s javelin throw will start at 1130. The women’s shot put at 115. The men’s field events will get underway a little bit later in the day at 245, with the men’s javelin, the men’s high jump at 445, the men’s shot put at 505. Those are our six field events underway tomorrow. The first running events on the track getting underway, with the finals of the four by 100 meter relay. Those are scheduled for a 510 start, and that’s mountain time. Not looked at the forecast recently, but earlier this week they were talking about the storms starting to come in Saturday afternoon. Saturday evening Sunday is supposed to be the biggest day of the storms here, so we are hoping that we can get through our meet without any rain coming in. But the good news is, if the rain does start to come on Saturday, it is supposed to be just a light rain as opposed to a lightning and thunderstorm. But we’ll be with you here tomorrow afternoon. As always. Live approximately 430 for our all of our running events. You will be able to see live here, and it looks like the hurdles are just about set. We’ll be running from south to north so they will have a tailwind behind them. And this first heat is going to feature our heptathlon national champion. So as we get ready for this first heat again they’ll be running from south to north. So the inside lane one that will be Jade Kantha from New Haven in lane three. She was our heptathlon champion running her final three events today. So no rest for Blakely win. After she wins the heptathlon she runs the preliminaries here. She’s in lane three in the All Black from Pitt State in lane four. Grace Johnson from Minnesota State in lane five. That is Alana Anderson. She is from Lincoln Missouri she’ll be in five. Patrice Clark of New Mexico Highlands in six. Ashanti Harvey of Minnesota State will be in seven. And Caroline Mays of William Jewell. She will be on the outside. That is the far right from this camera angle, and she will be in lane eight. Benedict Kentucky State. And as we switch to our camera on the east side or the west side of the stadium, so we now have the Hunter hurdles right in front of us. Lane one will be on the top of your screen, Lane eight on the bottom of your screen. So that is Samantha Win Johnson Anderson Clark Harvey maze from top to bottom. No change here in the 100 meter hurdles three heats. Top two advance automatically. Next three fastest times to the finals. Finals scheduled for tomorrow at 6 p.m. That. And a clean start that is Blakely win in two. Grace Johnson of Minnesota State in three. She had the fastest qualifying time from New Mexico Highlands Patrice Clark, but that was going to be the senior from Minnesota State. That’ll be Grace Johnson first. Across the line. She’ll run 1301 and that wind at 1.6. So behind her and legal. So that’ll be a good qualifying time. Grace Johnson 1301 Clark from New Mexico Highlands 1313. So those two will automatically advance the next three times that we see on the board there. They will be on the bubble, beginning with Harvey at 1338, Mase at 1341. And Anderson at 1351. So a great day not being a perfect day for Blakely. Win the junior from Pitt State. She’ll win the heptathlon. She will not advance in our women’s 100 meter hurdles. In lane two or heat two. Lane two. Nomi Seibold from Minnesota State. The freshman will be in lane two. Crystal Walker of Northern Michigan in three. Kavon Nubin from Pitt State in four. Adia Brewster of Minnesota State in five. Theresa Green White of Tusculum in six. And Nia Seaward of Ashland in seven. And Chaney Jefferson of Mount Olive. She’ll be in lane eight. Fastest qualifying time here. Minnesota States Arcadia Brewster. So definitely the team to look out for. Minnesota State is going to pick up some serious points in this 100 meter hurdles, with a possibility of three athletes. For athletes even making the finals. And on the outside, the junior from Mount Olive, the 400 and 1566 Furman Dickinson. The men will follow, of course, will make the adjustments to the 110 meter hurdles. And they will be. Raised a little bit higher for the men. And then we’ll go to the steeplechase. Not really much of an equivalent comparing our hurdlers with our steeplechase runners, although they do sometimes train together to learn some of those hurdling skills. As we look here from left to right, Thibaud Walker, Nubin, Brewster, green, white, Seward and Jefferson keep an eye on the middle of the track. Lane five Arcadia Brewster from Minnesota State in the purple and gold. That. And a clean start. And you can see quickly over the first hurdle that is Brewster from Minnesota State. And seaward of Ashland is going to be the first across the line 13 to 33. She’ll just out lean Brewster, but Brewster will get in automatically at 1334. Kayvon Nubin of Pitt State at 1338. So this heat will be much faster at the beginning. Nubin will be the second runner on the bubble, along with Harvey and Mays from the first heat. So 1341 now the time to beat as we look at our final heat on the track. Mauritia Spence of Angelo State will be on the inside in lane two. Nishihara Smith of Cal Poly Pomona in three. Lane four is going to be open, scheduled to be Esther Turpin of Azusa Pacific. She withdrew from the heptathlon today, so not sure what her injury was in the first day of the heptathlon, but lane four will be open. Lane five is going to be Shanaze Reade from Winston-Salem. Lane six, Brianna Green from Fresno Pacific. Lane seven, Isabella Okwara from Minnesota State. Lane eight, Brooke Barkus from Grand Valley State and in lane nine, Assyria Savage from Missouri Southern. So currently Minnesota State with three athletes are advancing to the finals. Two of them are Alok Ashanti. Harvey is on the bubble at 1338, so three from Minnesota State in with a chance in this final heat. Okwara. She’s run 1357 so she will have to run a season best if she is going to advance to the finals. And you can see her there in lane seven in the gold over Purple of Minnesota State. The days of hurdlers running both the 100 meter hurdles, the 300m in high school, of course, that goes up to 400m in college. Don’t see that too often anymore. The doubling up with the 100 and 400 meter hurdles. More likely to see some of these hurdlers running on a relay, or even the open hundred. But the days of the high school athletes running multiple events, those kind of go away when you get to college and the competition just gets so much better from top to bottom, Spence Smith, Reed green. Barcasse and Savage. Oh. That. And a clean start here in heat number three. And in the middle of the track that is Janessa Reed of Winston-Salem. And she will be first across the line. So Winston-Salem with a advancing to the finals. Reed is going to run 1320. That will be the third fastest qualifying time. Nazareth Smith of Cal Poly Pomona. She will also advance at 1340. Brianna Green of Fresno Pacific is going to run 1345, and that is not going to be fast enough to get into the finals. So our three qualifiers by time will be Ashanti Harvey of Minnesota State. So they’ll have three in the finals. Also Kayvon Nubin of Pitt State, she will get in by time, which will help in the team standings. And our last time qualifiers going to be Caroline Mays of William Jewell. She’s going to get in with a personal best. 1341 you see the wind all over the board that race. Before that, they it here in just a moment. And had a fine day. He is. The ten year and 1646. Runway and Pitt is three. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado. We’re on the campus of CSU Pueblo at the Thunderbowl, which you can see is a beautiful stadium here in the prairies of Pueblo, Colorado. We are about 25 to 30 minutes from the mountains. We could see them if you were looking the other direction here. What you see up on the hill there is backlight Mesa. And as the prairies go on, this is truly a thunder bowl. It is set down into the prairie. So a little bit block of the wind, which is good. You can see the hurdles are set up now here on the home stretch, in the shadow of the press box in the stands on the west side, we have concluded our women’s 100 meter hurdle preliminaries. So the hurdles just being set and you can see a couple of them being swapped out for. Clean hurdles in our men’s 110 meter hurdles. As always throughout the day, we are having three heats in each event, qualifying the top two plus the next three fastest times to the finals. Our men are out there setting their blocks now as they will run south to north. There’s a slight tailwind behind them for some of the races. It’s been legal just under the 2.0 legal reading 1.71.9. And then for some races, the gust kicks up and it has been 2.0, 2.2 and even 2.4. But that doesn’t matter unless you are setting a record or a qualifying mark. Here it is all about being either in the top two or getting your fastest time that you can possibly run today. It’s all legal. If you’re trying to advance to the finals, you can see the athletes there. Now that the hurdles are set, they will get a couple of run throws here before they go over the hurdles scheduled to compete in this first heat, you’re going to see Nnamdi NYU from Cal Poly Pomona in the inside. He’ll be in lane one. Matthew Morrison of Northwood will be in lane two, Andrew Martins of Augustana. He’ll be in three. You saw him competing in the decathlon, so he’ll be back here in this event. Ashton Turner of UT Tyler, he’ll be in lane four. Jonathan Biffle of Fresno Pacific in five. Adrian McGuire from Dominican out of California. He’ll be in six. Javon Hutchinson of Albany State in seven and Parker Warmack of central Missouri. He’ll be in lane eight. And that is one of the beautiful things about competing at the national championship meet in Division two level, especially some of these athletes have never seen each other before competing from the West Coast to the East Coast and all in between, from south to north. I think if you get to that Division one level, the top athletes, you tend to see them more frequently, especially the teams that do travel to the big meets in California, Texas, Pennsylvania and even the Drake Relays in Iowa. You get the collection of athletes, so they all want to run fast times to advance to the national meet, so they’ll get to the big meets and run together at this D2 level. Here you get athletes who can just flat out run fast, and they may be the fastest in their conference or their region, but they do not get out to see some of the other athletes competing. So just here, as you look at this, we have athletes from all over the United States, both East and West Coast, from Texas, all the way up to Augustana, South Dakota. So athletes haven’t seen each other, especially in the hurdles. You don’t know who gets out quickly. You don’t know the form. You just know that you have to focus on your lane and run fast. So as we look at them now, as they’re almost ready at the start, as the hurdles now just being all lined and straightened from the top, you’ve got NYU from Cal Poly, Pomona, Morrison from Northwood Martins from Augustana, Turner from UT, Tyler Biffle from Fresno, Pacific McGuire from the Dominican, Hutchinson from Albany State and Warmack from central Missouri. He’s out there in lane eight, and you can see they are patiently awaiting. And it does look like the hurdles are all now signaling clear and ready to go. This event is scheduled for a 655 local time start, and it is only 652. So that is our delay here. The track meet will not start ahead of time. And if you are an athlete who is running multiple events, you know that you sometimes need every minute of recovery and also as just a common courtesy for all spectators. Whether you are a coach, a teammate, a family member, or a friend. If you think your athlete is going to run at 655 and you’re watching us here on this live stream, we’re not going to start early and tell you what happened. So just a minute or two away here for this first heat of the men’s 110 meter hurdles, as soon as we have completed our three heats here, our women’s 3000 meter steeplechase finals are next. They will run at 715 local time. And that, of course, is Mountain time here in Pueblo, Colorado. That is Nandi NYU in three. The junior from Northwood, the runner up in the 110. Time for the gold. Matthew Morris in for the senior from Augustana. Third in the indoor 60 hurdles and fourth in this event last year. From the third in the long term. For the Patriot act in the freshman from Fresno Pacific, third in the one record holder for the sunbirds. Jonathan. In seven. The junior from Dominican champion in the school. Record holder for the Penguin and that is Adrian in the junior from Albany State champion. In the four by one last year. Javon Hutchinson on the outside track senior from central Missouri, has six time qualifier, second in this event last year and you may or may not have been able to hear the local PA announcer with the introductions on the track, but that means we are all ready to go now. Again, from left to right. As you look here on Wazy, Morrison, Martins, Turner, Biffle, Maguire, Hutchinson and Warmack. Right. And a clean start in this first heat of the men’s 110 meter hurdles. We lose Jonathan Biffle of Fresno, Pacific, as he hits a hurdle and sits on the track. But across the line, it’s going to be Parker Warmack from central Missouri, so he’ll come from the outside. He will be literally out there in lane eight. He’s going to be first across the line. 1357 the wind reading just a plus 1.5 Adrian Ogayre is going to be the other automatic qualifier from Dominican. He’ll run 1358 and as you see the next three times populating on your screen there. 1363 1378. Those will be bubble times 1363, 1378 and 1399 will be the third and final bubble time. And as we now look at the podium, these are the place finishers in our men’s discus throw. Again, this is competed off site just across the road here on campus. But on the podium you see Ole Miss Williams from Carson-Newman. He’ll be eighth. Lucas Stepper from Harding will be seventh, Jamal Williams of Missouri seventh, Missouri Southern is sixth. His teammate Cedric Pearson of Missouri Southern is fifth. Isaac Tavo of West Liberty is fourth. Spencer Helms of Harding is third. Ronald Grueso Mosquera of Texas A&M Kingsville is second. And there is our champion on the top of the podium, Owen Frazier from Missouri S&T. He actually won this event with his first throw of the day, but it’s his fifth throw that is 5929. That’s 194ft, six inches. Owen Frazier is our national champion in the men’s discus. And two of the men’s 110 meter hurdles. Big shout out. Thank you to all of our volunteers. To make sure that everybody has their one. As we get ready for the second of three heats now, New Haven Jordany Daley of New Haven will be in two. Everett Dillard from the Colorado School of Mines. He is familiar with this track here. He’s in three. Joel Azusa Pacific from Pittsburg State the senior. He’ll be in lane four. Mohamed Edwini from Johnson C. Smith. A freshman, will be in middle of the track in lane five, Troy White from West Texas A and M he’ll be in lane six. Edgardo Lopez of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez in seven and Jalen McGee of Minnesota State. He will be on the outside in lane eight. Lane eight worked very well in the last heat from Parker Womack. So we’ll see how Jalen McGee of Minnesota State responds. He had three teammates make the finals for the women’s 100 meter hurdles. So we’ll see if Jalen McGee can channel the Minnesota State women and the experience of lane eight and see if he can get that to advance him to the finals. Again, this is the second heat of two qualifying the top two plus the next three fastest times. And it looks like they have the all clear. And they will stand at their blocks. Heat two. Men’s 110 Meter Hurdles. Sorry. All right. For background and a clean start. But you see some of those hurdlers in the middle of the track. They are hitting the hurdles and it is going to be. Joel Atsür. So he he hit the first hurdle and he was the one we mentioned as he jumped the first hurdle. But then the rest of the field hit the hurdle as well. So he’s going to end up winning. 1368 Dallas of New Haven from the inside and lane one. He’s going to run. 1378 Delaware will be sub 14. And right now that is going to have him in the finals. Gets to the final. So that is for position field. And we are still considering time here. And it looks like we are watching. 1378 is the standard moving into the third and final heat of the men’s 110. We’ll get to that in just a moment. We’ll go back to the front. The homestretch here, the back stretch on the runway, the final round of the men’s triple jump going here. This is Trayvon Ferguson, Pittsburg State. And now you see the third and final heat. Coming through. And we are going to qualify just eight. So that might have been some confusion on my end. But in the hurdles we are qualifying the top two in each heat plus the next two fastest times. Just eight are going to make the finals. Oh. Third heat of the men’s 110m. Now ready on the track we’re going to have Moses Koroma in lane two, Brandon Arenas of UT Tyler in three, Jadarius Pigg of Missouri Southern in four, Dylan Williams of Pitt State in five, Tyrone Jackson of Pitt State in six. DJ Duncan of Ashland will be in seven. And Osaretin Osagie of Southern Connecticut State will be in the outside in lane eight. If you can hear me, we know now that Pittsburg State, with multiple athletes in some of these events that are qualifying today, so they’re going to have quite a few few athletes in the finals as they are attempting to defend their crown. Just looking at the team standings, which we have the ability to do if we are following along with our live results. Harding has actually now gone into the lead in the men’s side. They have 20 points after six scored events. We have that men’s discus finishing the men’s triple jump has just finished it looks like. So the men’s triple jump competition wrapping up over there. So we’ll have one more field event this evening plus our steeplechase. But Harding has gone into the lead. West Texas A&M and Pitt State are still tied, but they are sitting second now instead of in the lead. But you see two gorillas on the screen there. That is Daylan Williams and Tyrone Jackson. And if these two can make the finals, that is going to make it that much more difficult for Harding or West Texas A&M to dethrone our national champions from Pitt State. They have won the last three national championships as a team. And in five and six. Again, that’s Williams and Jackson. And they do come in with two of the faster qualifying times. On your mark. From left to right Koroma, arenas, pig, Williams, Jackson, Duncan and Osagie. Stand up and they are going to bring them up and out of the blocks. So relatively clean today. We have had no false starts called so far today. We did have a couple yesterday in the 100m. The time they are going to beat is Andrew Martins. He is sitting on the bubble at 1378. And if you hear it in the background, that is the triple jump they are watching. We are down to our final two jumpers. That was Justin Ford of Washburn. He’s currently in third position, so he has now concluded his competition and he will move into second place. He’s in a tie with Donte Dockery, but by better virtue of a second jump, he will go into second place. That does mean our winner in the men’s triple jump is going to be Trey Betts from Pittsburg State. He’s got one more jumper, rain remaining, but he is clearly the leader. He’s got a personal best 1646. That’s 54ft. We’ll see highlights from him a little bit later. But just to let you know, Pitt State has now won the men’s triple jump. They have two in the heat on the track looking to make the finals in the 110 hurdles. And a clean start, this time in the 110 meter hurdles. And that is the two Pitt State gorillas out there in the lead. And they are going to advance to the finals by virtue of being first and second in their heat. Tyrone Jackson will take the honors at 1350. Daylan Williams 1359. So Pitt State will advance three to the finals of the men’s 110 meter hurdles. Our qualifiers by time are going to be Nnamdi NYU from Cal Poly Pomona and Jadarius Pig of Missouri Southern. They will be our automatic qualifiers by time, both running personal bests today. Again, the finals in the men’s 110 meter hurdles will be at 610 tomorrow, local time. So now that our triple jump and our men’s discus are complete, we are down to our final events of the day. All the field events are complete. We’ll have the presentation of awards of the men’s triple jump coming up in a bit, but we’ll have the steeplechase for you next. The women’s 3000 meter steeplechase finals, scheduled for about eight minutes. Seton Hall Michigan State over one. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado on the campus of CSU Pueblo. We are in the Thunderbowl. We are here for the 2025 NCAA Division two National Championships for track and field, both men and women. And on the track on your screen there you see the women getting ready for the steeplechase final they ran yesterday to qualify. So they are all familiar with the course and running at this altitude in Pueblo, and they are now getting ready for the final. And you can see on the backside stretch they’re getting their runouts as the barriers are being set. It’s been a beautiful day here in Pueblo. Temperatures reaching up to nearly 92 degrees. It’s dropped. Looks like 86 is the official mark right now. So while that is pleasant for our sprinters and our spectators and our fans, these steeplechase runners will tell you they would probably prefer for it to be a little bit cooler, even though they will be dipping their toes in the water each lap around the track. 86 is going to be a very warm time for these athletes. It has been nice that the weather has held off today. We knew that today was going to be a nice day and a warm day. Tomorrow we are scheduled for it to be just a little bit cooler. The scheduled high tomorrow is just 75 degrees. There is some weather and some rain supposed to come in currently. Says it’s going to be about 9:00 10:00. So with a little bit of luck, we will get through tomorrow’s championship Saturday with all our events present, all of our trophies, get our athletes and our spectators and fans on their way before the storms do hit Southern Colorado again. It looks like the storms, the worst of the storms, holding off until late tomorrow night and even into Sunday morning. So on the track, it’ll be just a few minutes before they actually get started. But here is your lineup from the inside. So from the right to left as you look on your screen now and items from Slippery Rock the senior there wearing the dark green on the inside in lane one. Next to her is Emily Schulhoff from Adams State, Allison Beasley of Western Colorado, Margo Thomas from CSU Pueblo, Mary Edwards from Lewis, Ella Davis from western Washington. She’s out there in the light blue elite Shepherd from West Texas A and M Maya Ewing from Seattle Pacific. Ava O’Connor. She is fourth from the left, wearing the fluorescent yellow and green of Adams State. She is our favorite on the track. Emily Lamanna of the Colorado School of Mines, Ella Barrio of Davenport, and on the far left of the screen that is Maria Mitchell of Grand Valley State. So we say Ava O’Connor is the one to watch. She had the fastest qualifying time. She’s run nine 4622 this year. She was second in this event last year to her teammate, but she is the favorite. She ran very well yesterday. She took an early lead and did not look back in the qualifying. In our steeplechase, the fastest qualifying time. In the first heat. Ava O’Connor ran 1039 Emily Lamanna of Colorado School of Mines. She did run a faster split time. In the second heat. She ran 1033. But you can’t really compare those times because Ava O’Connor shut it all down with almost a lap or two remaining. We’re going to keep our eye on Elliott Schappert of West Texas A and M, Emily Schulhoff from Adam State, Allison Beasley from Western State, Margo Thomas from CSU Pueblo. All those athletes running here on a regular basis, so very familiar with what it’s like to run in southern Colorado in this heat. But there you see them toeing the line and we are off and running in this 3000 meter steeplechase. Of course, as they go around the north curve for the first time in here, they will not take that hard left and run through the water barrier. And as they come off the curve here, they will also run by this barrier that will get set up just off the curve. And now as they head down the home straightaway here, they will have their first barrier just past our finish line and they will begin the process of hurdling again. You used to jump over the barriers, or at least put your lead leg up there and use that to propel yourself off. But the new style is just a straight hurdle. These barriers, and you can see all of the women on the track doing that, hurdling in various forms. But it is Ava O’Connor, the senior from Adams State very quickly to the front. Again, she did this yesterday. She took a early lead and cruised into the finals. O’Connor. And a very quick pace for our leaders. That’s faster than a ten minute pace. Again, Ava O’Connor has run a nine 4622, but there’s not too many in this field that have run under ten minutes. And as they come off the curve now going clear of the water barrier for the first time, Ava O’Connor is going to be our leader. Emily Lamanna of Mines currently running second. And that is Elliott Shepherd of West Texas. A and M rounding out the top three. And you can see already some clear separation with the Adams State teammate that is Emily Schoellkopf running in the fourth spot. But Ava O’Connor has had a year to think about running this championship final. Last year, she ran second to her teammate Gracie Hyde. Hyde has graduated and moved on, and O’Connor has said, I am going to win the steeplechase this year and if you want to beat me, you are going to have to come and catch me because I am off to a very good start. Lamanna, of Mines, still running second with Shepherd of West Texas A and M running bronze on the track. You’ve got Schulhoff just a little bit farther and there’s the peloton, so to speak, coming through the water barrier all together. So not only are our leaders clear of the pack, that makes it so much easier to hurdle the barriers and the water jump when you’re not worried about anybody being in front of you, next to you, or even right behind you to could make it any dangerous as you compete. So at the 1000 meter mark. So we’re a third of the way in O’Connor 317 at the 1000 meter. Mark Lamanna of Mines is at 323, Shepherd at 324, and the field is about ten more seconds behind that at 334, 335. That’s all at the 1000 meter mark, which means we are one third of the race through three. And you can see there on your screen the east side of the track, still in sunshine, and they’ll have the sun in their eyes as they hit the water barrier each time, which makes a nice picturesque splash as the athletes go over. With the water barrier still there in the sun, and as they head down the home stretch, they have the shadow of the press box on the west side. So while it appears they’re running night and day, it is still actually quite bright here in Pueblo. Louisville. 439 on the clock at the 1400 meter mark. So as O’Connor makes her way around the south curve, now she’s just about at the halfway point of this race. So our leader’s going to be halfway at about 455 456. So still running at under ten minute pace. Many of these athletes will have qualified for this race at sea level, preferably for many of them in California, as these athletes run out there to run in the various meets where we get the top distance, athletes in the country can go out there and run a very fast time set that qualifying standard. Then you can adjust your training and competition schedule for the rest of the season based on the fact that you know you are going to be in the finals. So you can see now O’Connor has built up nearly a 50. 50 yard lead as she comes down the home stretch here with just over three laps to go, Lemona of mines still second Shepherd of West Texas A and M still third and Schulhoff of Adams State still fourth. Going to be a good race on the track for currently that fifth spot on the podium. Allison Beasley from Western Colorado is there on the Chase pack and now moving up into sixth position. That’s Margo Thomas from CSU Pueblo, the French national, making a push to get on the podium in front of her home town crowd. But as we go back and look at O’Connor down the backside. A literally 45 yard lead as we can measure from the football field. And she is not looking back. She is running solid 8182, second 400 meter splits, which is at least two seconds faster than anybody else on the field. And you can see that nice style she has. Getting over the hurdles as efficiently as possible. Lamanna not such a graceful style, more of a power hurdler, so to speak, but she, the freshman, is faring well for her. And as we look at Shepherd and Shokof, Shokof is making a push. So Adams State possibly looking for A12 finish. You’ve got Margo Thomas of CSU Pueblo and Allison Beasley having a battle. They see each other all the time competing in the Mac, Western Colorado and CSU Pueblo constantly battling, and they are currently sitting in that fifth and sixth position on the track. For both. The change for 39 and a little bit of a struggle that time for O’Connor to get out of the water, jump, but she’s just got 500m to go, maybe starting to see a push now. If Lamanna saw that struggle, she knows this is her final chance to go just over one lap to go. O’Connor still with a nice big lead there. Lamanna coming off the curve. Shokof from Adams State. She has now moved up into third position, so Adams State running one and three as we get to this final lap. Beasley now in fifth place, Thomas in sixth. Then it’s Anna from Slippery Rock making a push as she tries to advance or secure a spot on the podium. But we’re going to focus on our leader now. So as we look here on the back stretch, Ava O’Connor, the senior from Adams State, she was silver last year. She has just two barriers to go the water jump for the final time, one more barrier on the home stretch. And we can call Ava O’Connor a national champion. And quite a struggle. She’s worn out. She gets through that barrier and climbs out, but she knows she’s home free now. She turns for a quick look. She’s got her hands up. She is all smiles. One barrier to go. Ava O’Connor. Maybe just cooling off in that water jump. She’s got thumbs up for both sides. Ava O’Connor celebrating. We are coming. Have a race for silver Adams State. Look at this. Adams State is going to go. One, two. What a finish by Emily Schulhoff. Adams State is going to go gold and silver mines is going to take bronze. We may have a push. Here comes fourth place. Elliott Schappert is going to get fourth. Beasley is looking to get fifth. Here comes Margo Thomas. Can she get there? No, but she will get sixth. So a podium finish for her. And you can see some Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference celebrations. Adams State will win first and second mines will take third. Western will take fifth. CSU Pueblo will take sixth. So five of the first six spots in this women’s steeplechase, all going to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. And as we finish up the steeplechase pit or the steeplechase times here, you can see all of the times running through O’Connor will run in 1011. So off of that ten minute pace and you can see that that wore her out a little bit. Running fast yesterday. Running again today just 24 hours later. But Adams State pick up a valuable 18 points. And there you can see O’Connor tenderly walking around now getting congratulations from those Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference foes. Ava O’Connor from Adams State. She was silver last year. She is our 3000 meter steeplechase national champion. And with her you see Emily Schoellkopf. What a finish she had. She ran a 75 second last 400, by far the fastest in the field, 75 seconds. She closed big time on Emily Lamanna and Elliott Chaput for the silver medal. Looking at the award stand, this is the men’s triple jump, and it was our final field event of the day. And as we catch up, our champion just making his way to the top, it’s Trey Betts, the senior from Pitt State. The nice tradition here of the NCAA Division two. The coaches from the winning team generally get to present the awards to their athletes on the podium. And you see Trey Betts of Pittsburg State, he won it. And as we look at this mark in the third round, 16m, 46. That’s 54ft even. And you can see that second phase wasn’t great. But that third phase, he really jumped well into the pit. He was excited. He knew that was a personal best 54ft and a national championship for Trey Betts, the senior from Pitt State. Now he is collecting his rewards and you can see the athletes grabbing their phones, tossing them to their coaches so they can get a unofficial memento here of the triple jump. Track and field. Such a fraternity. These athletes compete against each other. They are down there. Everybody wants a picture taken on their own phone. So congratulations to all of these athletes for taking home a men’s triple jump award. Justin Ford of Washburn second on the podium today with a mark of 16 and 19. That was the same distance that Dante Daugherty had. So they tied the tie break in track and field. You go to the next best jump. And Ford also had a 16 meter jump, while Dockery’s second best jump was only 1567. So by virtue of that tiebreaker, Ford will take silver, Dockery will take bronze. You see, now the men steeplechase. They’re lining up over on the far side of the track again. They competed yesterday, so they had 24 hours of recovery. As we get ready for the men’s steeplechase, our defending national champion is not only in the field, but he has three of his teammates there alongside of him. So our defending national champion is Titouan Legree from Wingate. He won this event last year. His teammates. Last year, allowing them to go second and third. And it looks like Wingate with just three in the finals again this year. So. It was Beau Freezy who did not make the finals. Here’s the lineup as we look here now from right to left, Matthias Boorse of West Texas A and M Titouan Legree of Wingate will eight Keene State of Wingate Grant Bradley of Northwest Missouri. Max Bohnenberger of the Colorado School of Mines. There’s the start clean start. Luke Gaddis of Lee. Owen Westerkamp of Grand Valley State, Richie Johnston of Hillsdale, Ricardo Barbosa of Wingate, Hunter Doherty of Chico State, Alex Shaw of the Colorado School of Mines, and Steven Clark from Lee. So while the women’s steeplechase was dominated by the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, looks like we just have two men from the Rmcc competing today, and they are both from the Colorado School of Mines. So Max Bonenberger and Alex Shaw running for the pride of the conference. Wingate has three running on the track. Lee University has two. And then of course Wingate with three. West Texas A and M looking for every point they can get. Matthias Boorse is in the field. No gorillas in this field. So as far as West Texas State trying to catch Pitt State, they should have the opportunity to pick up some points here in this men’s steeplechase. And as they finish their first lap, just around 60 72 seconds on the clock, tough to tell exactly where the 400 meter split is, but still bunched together. And you can see what happens there. The acceleration going into that water jump is not that they’re trying to get a big advantage in time, it is more that they are trying to make sure that they are clear and safe over the barriers. This is Grant Bradley, the senior from northwest Missouri. He was eighth last year. He had a very strong preliminary semifinal heat yesterday, not the same heat as our defending champion. So the two of them both winning their heats yesterday. They are running one two on the track with the goal being can Bradley run the race out of Tetuan? The degree of Wingate they are running one two Barbosa of Wingate is running three alongside Owen Westerkamp of Grand Valley State and Matthias Boorse of West Texas. A and M those are the front five, as the field is now strung out to single file as they approach this water barrier one more time. And you can see the difference here. Just from this angle, when the women went in, you would see the big splash. When the men go in, you do not see the big splash. And that’s just the difference where they land, that’s an angle. So the further they jump, the less water they are landing in. So not only does that keep the feet maybe just a little bit drier, but it does give them less resistance in the water to get out of. And that is why often you see the men put that foot up on the rail and launch themselves over the water, just trying to get the furthest jump so that they can get clean on the exit out of the water. But Grant Bradley he is putting it to the field right now. Again, he was eighth last year. He’s run the second fastest time this year, so after finishing eighth, he has put a lot of dedication into this event. He’s run 832 Legree has run 829 this year. Of course, neither of those at altitude. It took 838 to win this event last year in Emporia. So not only are we at altitude, we’re also coming 24 hours after running this race to qualify. But as Bradley approaches the finish line here, he has four laps to go. It’s become a two man race. Bradley and Legree, they each now with just four laps to go. Wingate moving up. Barbosa now into third place. So Wingate they went one, two, three last year. Bradley trying to break that up, but Barbosa is currently running third. Westerkamp is fourth. Will Aitken of Wingate is currently running fifth on the track, so Wingate does have three in the top five, but out front it is still Grant Bradley, the senior from Northwest Missouri State challenging. Tetuan. Legree, who is the defending national champion. And you can hear the crowd, the excitement in the crowd now. Pretty good crowd here on the home stretch. They’re excited because they know they’re going to see a race. We’ve got three laps to go. And there’s going to be a battle for gold. And then you got this race. You’ve got five athletes here bunched together. They’re looking for bronze and seeing if they can pick off anything a little bit more at the front. So just 12 athletes made the finals. So we don’t have the big field here on the track. And you’re not going to see anybody get lapped in the finals in the steeplechase. But as they come the back stretch there looks like Bradley. That pace may have slowed him down a little bit. He looks more like he is pushing himself to keep that pace while behind him. Legree looking much smoother with that longer stride, gauging when he wants to catch and possibly pass. They’ve still got about 900m to go, so a long way in this race. We don’t know if Bradley is spent staying out front. We don’t know if Legree is going to shoot past him, or just run right behind him and let him know that he’s here, but they’ve got two laps to go, and right now you’d have to say, I think you’d rather be two. Legree running in second place. He can just sit on Bradley’s shoulder there and make his move whenever he wishes to go. But those two are out. Clear. They have about a 70 yard lead on third place right now, so it’ll be up to those two leaders to decide if they want to push it and go for gold, or if they want to keep it safe and make it a sprint down to the end. Grant Bradley somewhat the wild card, but Legree has made his move, and it does not look like Bradley is going to go with him. So now, with just about 500m to go, Legree has gone. He looks very strong. Bradley trying to go with him. The field has seen the break. They’re not too far behind. They’re over the water barrier now. If they sense any type of weakness in Bradley, they are going to come looking for him. So one lap to go. Legree looks great. He is the leader. Bradley is second. He still looks strong. Here comes the chase pack. You’ve got Bonenberger from the Colorado School of Mines. That Chase pack has broken up just a little bit. They’re running for bronze now. Bradley looks safe on the backstretch in silver, so it’s time to focus on our leader, Legree, across platforms. One of the more distinguished and decorated runners out of Wingate. And he now just has the water barrier for the final jump. And he knows a little bit of celebration. He’ll land with both feet. He is whipping the crowd into a frenzy as he’ll come down the home stretch for the final time. He’s excited. He knows he’s broken. Bradley. He’s going to win this. He’s going to make sure he gets over the final barrier cleanly. He’s going to celebrate coming down the stretch. Bradley’s got one more barrier. Here comes Bonenberger don’t know if he has enough to catch Bradley, but he is coming full steam. There’s first he’s going to win. Bradley struggling to finish, but he’s got enough. Bonenberger is going to finish strong for bronze and you can see the rest of the field now coming across the line. They’re all going to be podium finishers. But we are going to see Legree is gold, Bradley is silver, which is a big step up from his eighth place finish last year, and Max Bonenberger from the Colorado School of Mines, the junior. He’s going to run the fastest final lap. He’s going to run 66 seconds for his final lap. So the fastest lap on the track today is Max Bonenberger. And he’s going to use that to propel himself to a bronze medal finish. He’s going to run eight 5899, so hopefully he’ll be happy with that sub nine finish. You can see all the times there for our podium finishers. Wingate will finish with two on the podium. Lee will have two, but of course. Wingate will pick up the valuable 11 points there with a first place and an eighth place finish. They should get 12 points with eighth place picking up two. And if we look at the award stand as the men are finished, here are your place finishers for that women’s 3000 meter steeplechase. They ran just about 15 minutes earlier so you can see eighth place. They’re going to L.A. Barrio from Davenport. The senior on the podium as she finishes up her career. Another senior, Anna Gomez from Slippery Rock in sixth place. She’s on the home town track. The French native, the senior from CSU Pueblo. She will capture sixth place. That’s Margot Thomas, the junior from Western Colorado, and Allison Beasley will be fifth. Elliott Shepard of West Texas A and M will be fourth. Our bronze medalist will be Emily Lamanna of the Colorado School of Mines. And now we’ll have the Grizzlies from Adams State again, getting the awards from their coaches. Emily Schoellkopf, with that fantastic finish, the senior she’ll get silver and then the top. Ava O’Connor, the senior from Adams State. Still not the tallest on the podium, but Adams State will happily take first and second. So we’ll have one more awards presentation today, and that will be for the men’s 3000 meter steeplechase. And that will take place during our four by 400 meter relays there, you see, Legree back to back national championship. He doesn’t even look like he’s real tired. He’s going to take SUNY Maritime. Tornado. Welcome back to the 2025 NCAA Division two Track and Field National Championships. We’re here in Pueblo, Colorado. You’re looking at the Thunderbowl on the campus of CSU Pueblo. It’s just been a gorgeous, beautiful evening here in Pueblo, mid 80s. Currently we’ve just finished our steeplechase finals. Both the men and the women with glorious weather, no wind on the track whatsoever. You can see that. Still have a pretty decent crowd there on the home stretch. They’re here to watch the qualifying and the preliminaries of the four by 400 meter relays. That will be our last event of this day, two of the national championships tomorrow. It’s all finals. So we hope you’ve been joining us for all the events there. You see the lane assignments for this first heat of the women running their four by 100 meter relay, we’re going to have. Just two heats. So that is California State University San Bernardino. They will be on the inside. And there you see the finalists, final place finishers of the men’s steeplechase again just completed that men’s steeplechase. So they will be getting their award sooner. Legree defends his title. There. We see the first heat ready on the track. So CSU San Bernardino will be on the inside. They will be in lane two, Lane one will be open. West Texas A&M will be in two three. Lincoln will be in four. Texas A&M Kingsville will be in lane five, Findlay in six, Azusa Pacific in seven, Harding in eight. Grand Valley State in lane nine. And this is only the preliminaries. But we do have Grand Valley State out there in lane nine. They’re going to be definitely looking to make the finals in this event and hopefully they can score. They are our team leader right now in the women’s competition. We have scored seven of our 21 events, so that is one third of the events are scored. Grand Valley State leads our women’s competition with 34 points. Pittsburg State is 28.5. Pittsburg State does not have a team in this 4×4 hundred. So if we do come down to the last event tomorrow, Pittsburg State will definitely not score any points. Grand Valley State will be hoping that they are in the finals Adams State by virtue of the silver and gold finish in the steeplechase, they have moved up to third position with 28 points. They will be seen here in the second heat. And those are our three leaders. Really, the teams in contention as we look to wrap up day number two. Here. With the 4×4 and the ninth score by four, the number three three. And you may or may not hear the PA introduction of our teams. But again we’ve got CSU San Bernardino on the inside. West Texas A and M Lincoln, Texas A&M Kingsville, Findlay, Azusa, Pacific Harding and Grand Valley State. Two Cal State San Bernardino and NCAA champion one two Hawaii Hilo. Texas A&M. For the Husson 339 and one two, three four. And it is a look at the entire. Albion champion for the second half of 2027. In point five will be the Hardin-Simmons. And the school record holding for a ten here in the lead with six is going to be the champion and the Cleveland State, Findlay Lane seven. You think about number due to the second and third is going to be the great American champion in the school. Rockhurst Ohio Manhattan three and nine. Black champion, number three all time ranked. And a state that is one another. Look at the score. In these team relay events where we only have two heats, we’re going to qualify the next or the top two in each heat, plus the next five fastest times will advance to the finals. So again, when you get down to the end of the meet in these four by 400 meter relays, again, you’ve got 24 hours to recover, so you don’t want to completely expend yourself to advance to the finals. But you would also like to set a very fast time. And with that possible threat of some weather coming in, you probably will run a better time today in this weather than you might next week or tomorrow. So you want to win. If you want to run a good time, today may be the time to go after it. And you can see on the outside that is Grand Valley State. Harding is not Harding is a no show. So they did not start in lane eight. So that big stagger there is because lane eight is missing Grand Valley State in nine. But again they desperately want to make the finals. So this is a three curve stagger. So if they come off the curve here we can see that yes Grand Valley State may be in the lead but they still have a one curve stagger to go as they will make the handoff at the end of this first leg on the track on the inside that is Cal State San Bernardino. They’re on the inside and lane two. So they are going to be handing off ahead in their stagger. But we truly will know as the second leg here gets around the curve in their lane. They’ll break on the far side. And it does look like Lincoln. Lincoln had it coming off the curve, but she was not running full speed. And inside of her West Texas A and M is going to get the pole on the break. For Lincoln. And as this second leg comes off the curve, we are going to see Lincoln, West Texas A&M and Texas A&M. Kingsville will be the first three to make the exchange at the midway point. The top two are automatically in. Then we’re looking at time. So. Nothing taken for granted so far. But Lincoln is looking comfortable. This Lincoln team third leg scheduled. This should be Chevonne Thomas and she’ll hand off to Shante George. So they’ve got veterans here running for Lincoln so they will know what to do here. They will also know not to overextend themselves if they can maintain this lead. West Texas A&M is going to be second coming off the curve. Texas A&M Kingsville. But here comes Cal State San Bernardino. They will make the exchange in third place. And as we head now into this anchor leg. Lincoln down the back stretch, Shante George again. All she has to do is win so she can not overextend herself. West Texas A&M blessing Akintoye on the end. She wants to hold on to second. She may go for first if she can get there, but the top two are in. So it is these third, fourth and fifth place teams on the track that really, really need to run. They need to set their time. So we’ve got Lincoln West Texas A&M. They’re going to be the top two finishers California State, San Bernardino. And Lincoln is going to run three 3319. So as we said, that may be the their best time of the weekend. They’ve run 3319. So that is going to be the bar to set. West Texas A&M 334 so five teams are going to make it by time. So if you count down there you see that Azusa Pacific is going to be on the bubble at 338. So that’s a relatively fast heat. We’ll see what heat number two can do. We talked about Grand Valley State wanting to advance to the finals. They finished sixth in that heat. So the pressure will be on Grand Valley State running. Three 3724. That’s a season best. So they’ve done all they can do. They will have to hope that this next heat is just a little bit slower. If they want to make it to the finals, try to have an opportunity to pick up some points on Pitt State. And if we go back to the award stand, we can see the presentation of the awards in the men’s steeplechase from Wingate in eighth place. That is Will Aitken happily holding that hardware for finishing on the podium. Stephen Clark of Lee will be seventh from Chico State. It’s Hunter Daugherty, he will take sixth. Luke Gaddis from Lee gets to stand next to his teammate. He’s fifth. Owen Westerkamp of Grand Valley State will finish in fourth place. Max Bonenberger from the Colorado School of Mines. What a finish. He had to earn the bronze medal. Our runner up, Grant Bradley. He gave it everything he had. He led for the first half of this race, but could not just hold on. But Bradley will get silver, but no holding back. Titouan Legree of Wingate, the French national, getting the award from his coach. He’s just got one there, but that’s back to back steeplechase championships for Legree. So Wingate did go one, two, three this year. They’ll go one and eight this year. Legree is happy out there. Max Bonenberger. He is also very happy as he ran a fantastic final 400 meter split to get that bronze medal back to the women’s 4×4 hundred. This is heat number two. We’re going to see Adams State in lane two. Southwest Baptist will be in three. Northwest Missouri State in four, Fresno Pacific in five. Lenoir-Rhyne will be in lane six, Oklahoma Baptist in seven, Ashland in eight, and Umary they’ll be on the outside in lane nine. That’s the important. That is, we will obviously see a lot of fluctuation in our team scoring tomorrow, with every event being a final. But as mentioned, our three teams who are tightly packed up at the front in our women’s division after one third of the events are complete on the first two days, Grand Valley State, Pitt State and Adams State. So Pittsburg State, they will not have a team in the mile relay tomorrow. Grand Valley State on the bubble Adams State here. They’re currently in third position overall. They can look to do some damage if they can advance into the finals, especially if they knock out Grand Valley State. But you have to do it on the track. And this is why we are all here, and this is why there are so many fans still here. They are lined up on the fence here on the home stretch and all around the track on both curves. And a clean start. This is the second and final heat of our women’s 4×4. Northwest Missouri. There in lane four, they are working on the stagger down the back stretch. Also we have Oklahoma Baptist in seven. They have made up the stagger as well as they come off this north curve. Again it is a three curve stagger, so we won’t know for sure who the leaders are until the second leg gets around the curve. And of course the way you win the 4×4, it’s the ten meters before and during the exchange is where you win or lose this race. But it looks like the handoff is going to be Fresno Pacific. They’re going to make the first handoff. They’re going to lead into the curve. And as that third leg of the or that third curve, as the stagger breaks, you can see. Southwest Baptist is surging to the lead. And they will take the pole position as they head into the. North curve. Southwest Baptist in the purple. Color. Farrington on this leg. She is a multiple event competitor. You love to see that when these athletes come back and give their best for the team in the 4×4, but Southwest Baptist is going to be our leader. Fresno Pacific on their shoulder as we are at the halfway point. In the Connecticut College Lane from Randolph or Fresno Pacific down the back stretch. Kennedy Haslip for Fresno Pacific putting chase. But it is Brianna, Lord of Southwest Baptist holding her off. These are two teams looking for the auto qualifier, Southwest Baptist and Fresno Pacific as they make their way around the north curve. You, Mary has come from way back. They have passed three as they head down the stretch here, but we are going to be side by side as we head into this final leg. Fresno Pacific now in the lead over Southwest Baptist you, Mary is going to be third on the track. Adams State is going to have to have a great final leg if they are going to make the finals. Pitt state is going to love this. If their two biggest rivals do not make the finals of the 4×4, but down the backstretch, Fresno Pacific and Southwest Baptist. Northwest Missouri is the team now in third and closing fast. U-mary is fourth. We’ll see who has enough left as they come off the curve for the final time here. Fresno Pacific Brianna Green leading the charge. Southwest Baptist Laura Dixon. Can she hang on for the auto qualifier? Here comes Mary, here comes northwest Missouri. So much happens at the end of this race, but we are not going to have any change at the front. Fresno Pacific is going to run it. Three 3346 so just about the same time as the first heat, Southwest Baptist is going to get the auto qualifying spot, then you’re going to see Northwest Missouri, CSU Santa Barbara, Umary, Findlay and Texas A&M Kingsville. So good news. If you are a Pitt State fan, your two biggest rivals, Grand Valley State and Adams State, will not advance to the finals of the four by 400m. So that means tomorrow when we wrap up the 5000m for women, we may very well know who the national championship is going to be. And this four by 400 meter relay will not affect the team standings, but a lot of track and field between now and then. We can’t count any schools. Missouri, Southern Colorado School of Mines, central Washington, Nebraska Kearney. And who knows who has athletes out there who have not completed a final event. But that’s going to take us down to the final two races on the track. It’s going to be the men’s four by 400 meter relay. It looks like we do have an official from our friends at Neil Diamond. Your qualifiers into the final. It’s 4×4 R Texas A&M-Kingsville Findlay University American Cal State University, San Bernardino, our men’s competition. They have completed eight events. Now they’ve had one more final in the field events than the women have. So one step closer to being done. But still 13 events to be competed or contested for the finals. We know that the expected battle between the three big teams Pittsburg State, our three time defending champion West Texas A and M, are four time runner up. Harding in there, picking up their valuable points early in some field events. Colorado School of Mines is currently in fourth place with 17 Wingate. By virtue of that steeplechase, they are now in the mix with 16 points, but Pittsburg State in West Texas A and M probably the two favorites. And as we look at the teams competing in this final, Pittsburg State will be here in our first heat. And West Texas A&M does not have a team competing in the 4×4. Neither does Harding. So in the men’s side, you got to expect Pittsburg State. They’ve got a fast qualifying time, if not the fastest qualifying time. So you would like to think that if you are a gorilla fan, you’re expecting you’re expecting ten points out of this race. And if it comes down to that final event in the team chase, Pittsburg State is going to be looking good with West Texas A and M and Harding not having a team. We are setting up for the first heat. Mississippi College is going to be on the inside in lane two. Northwest Missouri is going to be in three. Pitt State as mentioned, they’re going to be in lane four, and they do have the fastest qualifying time. Academy of Art will be in five Chico State in six, Angelo State in seven, Lynn in lane eight and Cal Poly Pomona. They will be on the outside in lane nine in this men’s 4×4. Of. Northwest Missouri in lane four 366 the gorillas of Pittsburg State in 530719, the ninth in the Academy of Art in 630813 on the regular season for the Wildcats of Chico State 307 69 for the Redlands of Angelo State in lane 830913. Four 199308 79. The temperatures of Cal Poly Pomona. Omaha. Is that one girl this. Coe semi. That was like my best friend I’ve ever had in my life. Mississippi College Northwest Nazarene Pittsburg State Academy of Art Chico State Angelo State Lynn and Colby Pomona Fontbonne Coe. That’s like a tin man. And I’m not sure exactly what the hold up here is, but the gun is now up in this first heat of two. So. No. Cheers from the inside out. Mississippi College, Northwest Missouri, Pitt State Academy of Art, Chico State Angelo State Lynn and Cal Poly Pomona. And a clean start in this first section or first heat of the men’s 4×4. Top two will automatically advance, and then we will have. The next five fastest times. That is Academy of Art making up the stagger very quickly as they come off that north curve on the inside there on the far right. And the red and white is the Academy of Art. Pitt state is inside of them. Stagger is about the same, but they are closing. Again. Very difficult to tell who the leaders are at this point in a 4×4, because not only do you have the one turn stagger remaining, you also have those athletes who are slowing down versus the ones who are staying strong. But as we now break for the cone, you are going to see the Academy of Art into the lead. Pitt state running second, Pitt State with that fast qualifying time. So you know they are expecting to get into the finals. Northwest Missouri State currently running third, followed by Angelo State in the all yellow. Here comes Chico State. Don’t count out Cal Poly Pomona as we approach the midway point. Pitt State now going into the lead. So at the halfway point it is going to be Pitt State Academy of Art running one two Chico State with a nice finish. Northwest Missouri State is in third. As they come out of that exchange. And you can see going down the back straight there, you’ve got Pitt State Academy of Art, northwest Missouri State, Chico State, Angelo State and Cal Poly Pomona all running in order. In this 4×4. Pitt State and Academy of Art. The gorillas are going to have a slight lead as we head into this final leg. Pitt state with the better exchange, so that’ll give them the slight edge as they run this final here. Nate Watson on the anchor leg for Pitt State as he flies down the back stretch. Chico State is the team trying to make a move. They would like to be in the top two as they and Northwest Missouri State give Chase Academy of Art sitting second. Pitt state still in the lead. Down the home stretch. The top two are automatically in Pitt State Academy of Art. It’s Chico State who tightens up. They are fading. Angelo State will move up and get third. Fiscal times 305 74 for Pitt State. 30602 for Academy of Art. They’re automatically in five teams will qualify by time. So you can see Angelo State. Chico state does hang on for fourth. So they will be the second team on the bubble. Northwest Missouri also 307. Cal Poly Pomona 308 12 Mississippi College will run three 1106. They’ll be the last team on the bubble. 300 1106 and they’ll just be praying for a second heat to be much slower. You can see Pitt State there, not so much celebrating, but enjoying a good run. Always nice to know you’ve got a spot in the finals guaranteeing you to pick up some points in the team standings. You may or may not need them. Three time defending national champions, the Pittsburg State Gorillas and last year, coming off a sweep, the men and the women both capturing national titles. You see the athletes heading back into the clerk’s tent while as the winners of the heat, Pitt State heading down to the awards tent for their shoe inspection. You can see all wearing the same shoes there. They’re custom made Nike’s with the traditional Pitt State colors. They’re wearing black uniforms, but the red or red and gold, Crimson and gold, the traditional colors of Pitt State. We’ll see what they decide to break out tomorrow for the day of finals. So again, this is an official shoe inspection that all the winners heat winners go through. As we get ready for our second heat. Now, Alabama Huntsville will be in lane two, Fresno Pacific in three Emporia State. They’ll be in lane four. Remember, Emporia State hosted the national championships last year and they’ll host again next year. So Emporia State here looking to capture some of the magic from last year and prepare for next year. They’ll be in lane four. Uccs will be in lane five, Grand Valley State in sixth, Lincoln will be in seven, Lubbock Christian in eight, and Texas A&M Kingsville. They’ll be on the outside this time. They’ll be in lane nine. Grand Valley State currently leading our women’s competition. The men are in eighth place, but they have one of the faster qualifying times in this heat. And you can see the gun is up in our first leg. Taking their marks in the blocks from the inside out. Alabama Huntsville Fresno Pacific, Emporia State, Uccs, Grand Valley State, Lincoln, Lubbock, Christian, Texas A and M at Kingsville. Pittsburg State. With the challenge from heat number one, they’ll run 305 74 and behind the Grillers you had personal bests from the Academy of Art, Angelo State, Chico State, Northwest Missouri, Cal Poly Pomona and even Mississippi College. All running season best times. And a clean start for this second heat on the track. This is our final heat of the day. And you can see that is. That is Lincoln Lincoln out there in lane seven. Trying to make up the stagger again a three curve stagger. So when you make up the first two curves you’re not quite done yet. And as the come down the home stretch the stagger evens out again. So we will know in just about 100m as they break for the pole. But it does look like on the outside that is still going to be Lincoln in the lead as they pass the cones and break Lincoln in the lead. Lubbock Christian moving into second position on the track. Now we’ll have a better idea what this second heat is going to run, but Lincoln is all in. This is Ruben Nichols. Leading them down the home stretch and a bunch coming together for that second position, losing a little bit of space as they are running to the outside. That’s the advantage of being in the lead, coming down the home stretch. As you know, you are going to stay in lane one and not lose any ground from the inside out. Qerim Hamilton of Lincoln now down the back stretch. And Lubbock Christian. Yes, a little confusion from our P.A. Announcer but it is Lubbock Christian currently running second to Lincoln as they take the exchange. Anchor leg for Lincoln is Donovan Bruce Lubbock Christian also out there running second. So as these two head down the backstretch, they’re not going to slow down any. But they know that they are a little bit clear. So they are running for the automatic qualifying spots. You can see those three behind them. They are running for the time qualifiers, but you’re also running for pride here. You’ve got 24 hours to recover. Who wants this the most? It’s Lubbock Christian and it’s Lincoln, Lubbock Christian and Lincoln just got to hang on and finish first and second. Lubbock Christian. But Lincoln coming back. They’re going to finish one and two on the track 305 73 for Lincoln 305. Correction for Lubbock 305 88 for Lincoln. So those are your four fastest qualifiers are heat winners. And as we go through and look at the qualifiers by time, we can tell you that our qualifiers by time are going to be Grand Valley State, Emporia State, Angelo State, Texas A&M, Kingsville and Chico State. Chico State 307 82 is going to beat 307 83. So sometimes it’s just that close 100th of a second is going to say Chico State to the finals. And Northwest Missouri State your 4×4 season is over. And you can see the four from Lubbock Christian or at least three of them making their way down to the shoe inspection. That is going to conclude our day. Number two. Another exciting day. If we did have finals in field events, we did have the finals in the steeplechase. You’ve seen more awards presented. You’ve seen more teams advance to the finals. The weather was perfect. The sun is just going down and that’s going to close out. Day two. We will be back tomorrow for the championship Saturday from Pueblo, Colorado. The CSU Pueblo Thunderbow
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Finally after all of these years, I got to see TA&M Kingsville run.