2025 NCAA DII outdoor track & field championship (May 24) I FULL REPLAY

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Good afternoon and welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado. We are on the campus of Colorado State University Pueblo in the thunderbowl for the 2025 NCAA Division two men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships. If you’re joining us live, we glad you got the message. We’re here for hours earlier than planned. But if you are watching on delay, we don’t know who won anything yet, so we’ll keep you glued to your seats throughout our commentary for the next few hours. Again, the weather is great. Right now we’re talking about mid 70s. Competition is underway. Sun is shining very, very slight breeze. The severe weather is not supposed to come in until this evening. Roughly 8:00 9:00. It will start to pick on. Originally we were scheduled to be wrapping up a little after 9:00 this evening. And if that is going to be the bulk of the weather, the NCAA officials met early this morning and made that decision about 7 a.m. Local time to go ahead and move the meet u, basically just a straight four hours. They bumped everything up. So we are already underway with our morning field events the women’s pole vault, the women’s javelin throw and our women’s shot put all underway. You see those trophies there? We have seven field events to crown today and ten running events. So a lot of those trophies to be given away, including our team championship trophy. There you see the men’s standings on the left of your screen, our defending champion Pittsburg State. They got off to a slow start on day one, but a solid day two has them now in the lead with eight events scored. You see there Pitt State leading with 28. West Texas A&M has 27, Harding has 23. Those are the three teams that we have expected to be in contention for most of the year. Again, Pittsburg, the three time defending national champions West Texas A and M, the four time runner up, so very hungry for a victory. So that will be a great team race to watch as we go through the rest of today. On the women’s side, we’ve actually completed just seven of 21 events. Grand Valley State is the early leader. Pittsburg State, They are the defending champions, both the men and women’s side. So Pittsburg State lurking at 28.5 points. Then you’ve got Adams State with their powerful middle and long distance contingent. They are up into third place with 28 points. And again, those are the three main contenders that we will see. Obviously, with 17 more events to be scored overall on the women’s side, 14 of those events, we will see some change, but we’ll keep you posted throughout the afternoon on the team standings. And of course, if you are following along with the official results website through the NCAA and the timing, you can be following along with each throw, each race and each mark and know exactly what the team scores are as they are scrolled across the top of our screen. As we did mention, our women’s pole vault competition was the first one underway. Today. You can see the pole vault, runway, and mat located right in the middle of the football field here in the thunderbowl. We started our pole vault with 22 athletes as most of our events have, and we found it was the third height today, four meters oh seven. That’s 13 four and a quarter. And that is the height that has taken the greatest toll. Early nine vaulters went out at that height, leaving us with just seven remaining in competition. The bar has since gone to 417. That’s 13ft, eight and a quarter. All seven vaulters cleared that, with just Tara Townsend needing three attempts at four meters. 17. That means the bar will be going up to four meters 27. You see it there? That is exactly 14ft. And we have seven vaulters remaining. Tara Townsend will be the first up. Isabelle DeMarco Dequadros from Washburn. Anabeth Baumann of Fort Hays. Sarah Ferguson of Roberts Wesleyan, Isabelle Peters from Pitt State, Kyla Davis from Pitt State, and Brooke Bowers of Grand Valley State. And we say seven still in competition, actually eight. We can’t forget our top seed, Brynn King, the fantastic senior out of Roberts Wesleyan. She has not entered the competition yet. Great vaulter there at Roberts Wesleyan and she will enter the competition later. So technically we still do have eight vaulters remaining in competition. We do place eight on the podium, so as long as Brynn Keeling does eventually clear a height, you will be able to watch our podium finishers as they continue the competition and try to settle that out. Again, this is Tara Townsend of Hillsdale. She will be taking not only her first attempt, but any first attempt at four meters. 27. That is 14ft. You can see that flag blowing just slightly. No, no wind. But any wind would be a tailwind for these vaulters. And it’s going to be an unsuccessful attempt for her first try, Tara Townsend but again after first attempt clearances at three meters 92 and 407, it did take her three attempts to get over four meter. 17 so she is very well warmed up. She will have a little bit of a breather here before she’s next on for her second attempt. Next up will be Sarah Ferguson of Roberts Wesleyan. The vaulters here are vaulting from south to north on the football field there. So you’re looking at a reverse angle from our cameras here, located on the east side of the stadium. The wind all weekend has been coming in from the south and the east blowing towards the northwest. So any breeze you see there, which has picked up here for Ferguson’s attempt, it is behind them. And maybe if the wind has picked up, that may be the adjustment they are not making yet. Of course, every vaulter has that transition height in their repertoire, where they may even switch poles once they get to a certain height. And if four meters 27 is that adjustment, they are not only having to possibly adjust to a new pole, but also adjusting their stance on the runway. This looks to be Isabel DeMarco de Cuadros from Washburn the freshman, with her first attempt now at 427. This is 14ft even. Though. And a miss for DeMarco de Cuadros at 14ft. But she did get her plant down and up in the air hitting that bar with her feet. So three down. Looks like we still will have just four vaulters to go at this height. Brynn King choosing to pass yet again at 14ft. So two gorillas from Pittsburg State in competition. This will be the first up. It’s Kyla Davis. She has passed to 407, so she just has two clearances on two attempts. This will be her third attempt of the day, but first at 14ft. And that will be a miss for Davis. Next up on the runway there you see our other Pittsburg State gorilla. This is the junior Isabel Peters. And you see those two markers indicators just to the left of the runway there, the one in the front that is now counting. That’s their countdown clock. So they know if they are going to wait for the wind to pick up or go down, they have a minute. Once that clock starts to go. So they do have the option of waiting for a gust of wind or a break in the wind at all, but that is going to be a miss for Peters. So five vaulters so far with attempts at four, 27, 14ft and five misses. You can see them all there discussing with their coaches what they need to know. This is Annabeth Baumann from Fort Hays State, her first attempt at 14ft, and she is not going to like her steps on that. So the vaulters know they also watch each other. So we can tell that, you know, we’ve had six misses here at this height, but at least 3 or 4 of them have been adjusting their steps. So whether that is wind related or not, that leaves us with Brooke Bowers, the freshman from Grand Valley State. If she can clear this on her first attempt, she will vault into the lead, so to speak. And she was the closest of the seven, but another miss. So all seven vaulters with a first attempt miss at 427 or 14ft. So we’ll go back down to Tara Townsend of Hillsdale. That second mark you see back there to the left of the screen that says the 80, that is there placement of their standards where they want them to be placed as far as the pit. They can adjust those and move the bar closer to the box or further away from the box. And those those do get adjusted as the height grows and the athletes know what they want to do. But instead of having to run over and tell the officials at the mat where they want the standards, they can just tell that official standing there and he can indicate to everybody who needs to know. This is the second attempt for Tara Townsend. And she’ll feel a little better on that one. She was up with an attempt over the bar. She didn’t make it, but at least the first adjustments have been made. So she will have a third attempt to come, but probably feeling a little bit more confident. Isabel DeMarco de Cuadros from Washburn. Next up on the runway, any of these athletes, obviously they want to clear it at any time. And correction, that is going to be Sarah Ferguson from Roberts Wesleyan in the red on black. She will be up first, but the sooner you can clear you can move into the lead in the competition. So this is the sophomore Sarah Ferguson from Roberts Wesleyan. Now we should see Isabel DeMarco de Cuadros. In order. And this is the freshman from Washburn Washburn located in Topeka, Kansas. Building a very good program there. But. Definitely a strength towards the indoor season. They have a wonderful new facility, an indoor facility at Washburn, and that has helped recruiting. And it does also lend to early season success and a great indoor season. And we are seeing some of that overlap to the outdoor season with more qualifiers here to the outdoor national championships. DeMarco de Cuadros second attempt and she is not going to like that. So as we mentioned a little bit earlier. We lost nine vaulters at 13ft four. We didn’t lose anybody at 13ft eight. And now we’re up to 14ft even. And yet to have a clearance. And again we’ll see the first of our gorillas, Kyla Davis second attempt at four meters 27 14ft. And there is our first clearance at this height. So Kyla Davis will take the lead in this competition as the first over 14ft. And a big sigh of relief and a smile there for both Davis and the Pittsburg State team and Pittsburg State currently in second place. And here she comes. This is our first clearance at 14ft. And you can see she puts a lot of bend into that pole. So for her to go any higher she may need to adjust a pole. This is our other Pitt State gorilla. This is Isabel Peters and she is not going to clear it here. But she again will have one more attempt. Pitt state with two here guaranteed to score points. We are down to our final eight vaulters in competition, so we know who is going to score in this competition. And Pitt State is going to pick up a couple spots. They are currently second in the overall team standings with 28.5. They trail Grand Valley State, Grand Valley State of course though with Brooke Bowers in this event. So every event is a competition within a competition. If we look at the team standings. Next on the runway, this is Annabeth Baumann from Fort Hays State. Second attempt at 14ft. And a miss for Baumann. And you see the bar going back up to four, 27 14ft. This will be the second attempt for Brooke Bowers of Grand Valley State. And the freshman. If she can get over this bar, that would certainly help the cause for the team. There you see Brooke Bowers. So the second round sees just one vaulter clear. That’s Kyla Davis. So again, recapping, as you said, we head into our third and final attempt at this height. Brynn King has not yet entered the competition, so she’ll have to get a clearance to make sure that she is going to place. Kyla Davis of Pitt State is over for 27 14ft. Now we’re going to see our final attempts. So these are the ones that will make or break the athletes. Tara Townsend, the junior from Hillsdale, is up first. This will be their third and final attempt at 14ft. That’s four meters 27. And she’s not going to get it into vault. Into the box. Even so you see the frustration there. She will finish the day with a clearance of 13. 84.17 she’s currently sitting in seventh place. She can do no worse than eighth, so she will be on the podium. Tara Townsend from Hillsdale. She will finish in either seventh or eighth position. Next up, Sarah Ferguson, the sophomore from Roberts Wesleyan. I think Willamette. Oh so close. Sarah Ferguson will bow out with a very good attempt. Again, all these athletes that we do see, they will have podium finishes, they’ll make the podium. We are down to our eight vaulters in competition. Isabelle DeMarco de Cuadros, the freshman from Washburn. Her final attempt at 14ft. And you see the clock ticking now on DeMarco de Cuadros. And she can’t hang on to that pole. And that is going to take her out of the competition. Frustration. When you miss over the bar, at least you feel like you’ve made an honest attempt. When you can’t get the pole into the vault box, or you can’t hold your grip and get the bend in the pole, that is obviously going to be some frustration. Isabelle Peters from Pittsburg State. And that is a huge clearance not only for Peters, who will continue in the competition, but for Pittsburg State. Right now they have the only two vaulters to clear this height. So whether they’re going to finish first and second or second and third, that is going to dramatically, drastically help their attempt to repeat as team champions here. This is Isabella Peters. And you can see she gets those legs well up over the bar. She’s got the standards located in just the right spot so that full extension can get her over the bar. Looks like we are just about ready for the four by 100. We have all our exchange zones setting their marks, looking like they are ready to perform. We’re going to get one last look at Anabeth Baumann. And there is a third attempt clearance. So Baumann, the junior from Fort Hays, she will join the gorillas at the next height. That’s three over this bar. We’ve got one more attempt at this height for Brooke Bowers from Grand Valley State. And then, of course, we do have our favorite in the competition, Brynn King of Roberts Wesleyan, who has not entered yet. We’re looking at Brooke Bowers, just a freshman from Grand Valley State. One. And she is not going to clear it. So she is going to finish in either fourth or fifth place. So Grand Valley State will pick up some points. Pittsburg State with two in the top 3 or 4 competition. Now we’re going to switch over to the track very quickly. And you can see the gun is already up for our women’s four by 100m. We’ve got Lenoir-Rhyne in lane one, Pitt State in two, Tusculum in three, Cal State University, San Bernardino in four, Highlands from New Mexico in five, Fresno Pacific in six, Southwest Baptist in seven, West Texas A&M in eight, central Washington in lane nine. Now in the middle of the track. Lane five New Mexico Highlands. In the preliminaries, they ran 43.98, which is a new Division two and meet record. So if you ever want to say the word favorite, it has to be New Mexico Highlands. As they set the record for the meet and the D2 all time record in just the preliminaries in lane one, you’ve got Leonore Ryan. They are the defending national champions, and they’ll have star sprinter Alexis Brown on the back end of that relay. So the expectations would be Lane five. And then keep an eye on Lynn or Ryan in lane one. Sneaking around on the inside. It’s tough to run in lane one and they are there based on the time and placing that they finished in the preliminaries. And of course, the ideal lane assignment in a nine lane track is going to be lane five. And that’s why we see New Mexico Highlands there in lane five in the white trying to improve on their record time 43.98. Just a fantastic race here on Thursday. And a clean start. And you can see as you look at the stagger basically pretty even Lane three Tusculum making up any distance on the stagger a good but not great exchange for New Mexico Highlands. Lenoir-Rhyne moving up in lane one as expected. Keep an eye on Fresno Pacific. They are on the outside here. She’s wearing the orange sleeve on her left hand. They are going to be first at the exchange. So this could be an upset in the making. This is oh my gosh Fresno Pacific. New Mexico Highlands has faded to third. We’re going to get our first upset of the day Fresno Pacific. They ran 4482. In the preliminaries. They’re going to run 4385 here in the finals. So that New Mexico Highlands record lasted all of two days. New Mexico Highlands sets a meet and D2 record in the preliminaries. Fresno Pacific just said bring it on. 4385. That is incredible. That is a D2 record, a meet to meet record. The team of Nadia Chance, Brianna Green, Sariah Copeland, Shania Randolph. Holy moly. Second place goes to Cal State San Bernardino. They also broke New Mexico Highlands record from just two days ago. New Mexico Highlands will take third. You see them there in the all white. They’ll run 4407 today, which would just about have equaled the existing record that we started this meet with. So if this is any indication of what we can expect for the rest of the day, a very, very fast track and ideal conditions. Fresno Pacific, a new D2 and meet record 4385. Just a great race there. And you can see that in our accelerated schedule today. Everything is a final. So once the race concludes, all podium finishers, the top eight teams will head towards the award stand. And just as soon as the official results are confirmed and the officials are ready to go, we will have the presentation of these awards. Now it looks like they are continuing their trend of the shoe inspection. The winners of each event on the track have checked in with officials for a shoe inspection. And if you are a fan of track and field, you know that this year there are some new technology out and some great debate on whether certain shoes or spikes should be allowed in competition. Also, there is always the rule of the spike length. So at the conclusion of these races, their athletes are being checked in a shoe inspection. Looking quickly back to the women’s pole vault, here we are now at four meters 32. That is 14ft two inches. We are looking at Kyla Davis. She would be the first up on the runway here at 432. Only Kyla Davis and her teammate Isabelle Peters, along with Fort Hays State’s Annabeth Ballmann and Brin King from Roberts Wesleyan, just four vaulters remaining in the competition. And, of course, Brynn King yet to make an attempt. So Davis is actually the leader right now based on fewer misses. At the previous height, she did clear 14ft on her second attempt, so she gets the honors here for the first attempt at 432 14ft, two inches. This is Kyla Davis, the senior from Pitt State. And that is not a miss there. She can put the pole in the box. She just can’t cross the plane. So we talked a little bit earlier about seeing that clock on the runway that the athletes can see. We don’t see it from this angle, but she knows how exactly how much time she has. So that’s another reason they don’t always leave it for the clock to count down closer to zero. If they make that first attempt at 50, 45 or even 40s, they know they have enough time to come back and make a better attempt. Kyla Davis of Pitt State. And that is not going to be close for her. So that’ll just be her first miss at 432. That’s 14ft, two inches. So now we look at the men’s four by 100 meter relay. And there you can see the lane assignments as we get ready for this men’s four by one. You have versity of Mary is going to be in lane one northwest Missouri state in two. Fort Hays state in three. Grand Valley state in four, Minnesota state in five. Converse will be in six, Harding in seven, Carson-Newman in eight, and West Texas A&M. They’ll be in the outside in lane nine. They are the defending national champions, so they’ll be running from the outside in lane nine. And as we do, keep our team scoring in mind. Pitt state is not in this event. So any points that West Texas A and M can pick up here in the four by one will not only put them into the lead, but help boost their total for when we get to the end of the meet. Harding is currently in third place there in lane seven, so both Harding and West Texas A&M looking to pick up points here. Nine teams do advance to the finals, but only eight reach the podium. So just because you make the finals does not guarantee that you will score any points. You still will have to beat at least one team on the track to score a team point. And we are just waiting for the all clear. At each exchange zone. You can see the starter there in the middle of your screen, wearing the red shirt on the middle of that south. Apron area. Wants to get the all clear. The runners will take their marks. This is the men’s four by 100 meter relay. Again from the inside out you Emory Northwest Missouri, Fort Hays, Grand Valley, Minnesota State Converse Harding Carson-Newman West Texas A&M. That fastest qualifying time on Thursday came from Minnesota State. They ran 3944. Last year for West Texas A&M to win. They ran 3942. They’ve got everybody back with one substitution. West Texas A&M team. Their squad scheduled to be out in lane nine. JC Lynch leading off Jerry Jakpa second, James Dadzie running third and Isaac Botsio running the anchor leg. They just have had made to make one change from last year. Jeremiah Lawson was the third leg last year, and James Dadzie, who’s also made some individual contributions. He has taken over that third spot for the defending champions from West Texas A&M. But as we learn from the women’s heat, Lane five is the favorite. But New Mexico Highlands running of great time. But finishing third when you have two teams in front of you that break the existing record, there’s not much for you to do to complain. We’ll see how Minnesota State here does in lane five. And obviously we’re going to keep an eye on the outside. West Texas A&M in nine. Okay. Well nice to meet you. University of Mary Northwestern Missouri Fort Hays State Grand Valley State Minnesota state Converse Harding and Carson-Newman. West Texas A&M out very quickly on the outside, but Minnesota State doing well on the inside outside of Minnesota State Converse also looking good down the back stretch. But it is Minnesota State with the first exchange on the curve. West Texas A&M still on the outside. You’ve got Carson Newman in the Alfred. But as they make their break oh no Minnesota State had the lead. But he had to slow down. He lost all of his momentum. And look at that. When you are the defending champion you can respond oh my gosh Minnesota State. They are going to rue this one. For a while. They were in the lead after three legs. They were first off the final curve. They were in the exchange zone. The lead leg had to slow down. Now he did get the baton inside the zone, but by having to slow down, he lost all of his momentum. West Texas A&M slid through on the outside. Just an incredible victory for the defending national champions and just heartbreak for Minnesota State. It did look like Minnesota State held on. Here’s that exchange you can see in the middle of the track. Minnesota State is well ahead. But then that outgoing leg just has to slow down almost to a stop. He turns his head. He gets the baton but loses all of his momentum. West Texas A&M is going to win. Hats off to the to the anchor leg for Minnesota State. He didn’t give up and they did capture silver. But that is just going to be heartbreak. They’ll run 3971 West Texas A&M. And there is unfortunately some bad news for West Texas A&M. As we look down here on the home stretch. That is their third leg runner who is laying down on the ground. So they’re getting him up, but he does not look comfortable at all. So the sacrifice there, if he was injured, he did everything he could to get the baton around the track. He did his job. We didn’t see him go down, but now we do see him get up so they’ll get him over. Looks like they’re going to take him to the shoe inspection first. Then they’ll get him to a trainer. If that was the third leg, that would be James Dadzie. And you can see that he is in pain there. It may be a cramp, which would be great news, but he is being attended to by a trainer there. Believe that to be James Dadzie. The third leg for West Texas A&M. If it’s a cramp, it’s painful. But he knows he did his job. Fantastic. So you want to talk about getting this meat off to a great start. Our first two events. Incredible. If we can go to the award stand now you can see them just on the other side of this white tent. This is the awards for the four by 100 for the women. And again you look at the white team from New Mexico Highlands. They’re in third. They’re not happy. They set the meet record on Thursday. But today the two teams to the left of them, Cal State University San Bernardino and Fresno, Pacific, both breaking that record. Fresno Pacific runs 4385. That is the new D2 all time best and also a meet record. Csusb will be second. They ran 4394 New Mexico Highlands third at 4407. Just so you know, Southwest Baptist did not finish. Central Washington was Dq’d. So just seven teams will score in this event. They’ll get the men up there momentarily. That allows us to take a breath and get ready for our next event. It’s going to be the 1500. We, of course, will run And the best. In three two, one of the women’s. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado for the NCAA D2 National Championships. We’re just looking at the women’s pole vault competition. We’re down to our final two vaulters. Brynn King, the senior from Roberts Wesleyan, has finally entered competition and she is first over four meters 32. That’s 14ft two inches. The bar is currently at 437. It’s 14 four. This is the second attempt for Isabel Peters from Pittsburg State, and she was up over the bar, but she could not come down on the other side of it. So that will be her second miss now at 14ft, four inches. It looks like King may have passed at this height. Just waiting for the official results to catch up with the live television that you are seeing. We’re looking at Isabel Peters so she can finish no worse than second. So we were down to four vaulters at 14ft, two inches. We had two vaulters go out at 432. Kyla Davis, the senior from Pitt State, and Annabelle Baumann of Fort Hays State Isabel Peters did get over four meters 32 on her second attempt. Brynn King entering the competition at 432 and she is over. And again just still waiting for our official results board. It’s telling us that Isabel Peters has one miss at 437, and that Brynn King has one miss at 437. I’m not quite sure that is true. So we’ll keep an eye. We’re watching live. You’re looking at. One of our two vaulters, so we’ll keep an eye on that again. Our 1500 meter runners are not yet out on the track, so that will be our next race. Again, we are looking at seven field events on the day, so seven field events will take place. Most of them have started with just a couple still to come. Once the men or women have completed at competition and now we’ve got a confirmation in the pole vault, each vaulter has one miss at 14ft four inches, so we are at four 3714 for this is Isabel Peters, the junior from Pitt State. This is her second attempt. She is currently in second place. And she is over. And you can see the celebration not just from her own teammates but from the other vaulters. That is a personal best. So she has never cleared that height before. But not only will Isabel Peters move into the lead at 14ft, four inches. 437 A huge jump for the gorillas, who can now. Do no worse. Peters. This is a personal best jump. So you’re seeing the first and only time she has cleared 14ft four inches and she had room to spare there, so she ought to feel confident the bar will go up to 14ft six. She cleared that with that jump as well. That now does put a little bit more pressure on Brynn King, the favorite, the senior from Roberts Wesleyan. Here she goes on her second attempt. And that’s what happens. Champions respond. So Brynn King over on her second attempt. And so the bar will continue to go up technically. Now Brynn King is back in the lead. They both cleared 14 four on their second attempt. But then when we go back, Brynn King cleared 14 two on her first attempt, while Peters took two attempts to clear that height. So the bar is scheduled to go to four meters 42, that is 14ft six inches, with just Peters and King still in competition. Pittsburg State is excited. They can do no worse than second and third in this event. They still hope to finish first and third as Kyla Davis concluded competition. She can do no worse than third place. Intercollegiate Athletic. Get the acronym, get the markings on the board and big shout out to the board here to help us keep track of all the. Out Keene State. One of the great things about track and field is the athletes tend to actually appreciate each other and are even friends. Competition is one thing, and you want to maintain your intensity and not get too casual in your competition, but you know you are not competing directly head to head. You cannot play defense in track and field. So you go out, you do your best, and you know that all the other competitors are trying to do their best, and you can be happy for them in their celebrations. Pole vault is no exception to that. If you have watched pole vaulting at the national level, you can see the excitement that the vaulters have when one of their own clears a personal best height or even takes home a championship. Looks like we are just about ready for the women’s 1500. They are making their way to the starting line. We’ve also got some awards presentations if you want to. Catch some quick awards. These are the women’s shot putters and you can see real quickly that Brier Gillam, of Missouri Southern was eight. Molly Winner from Ashland was seven. Mackenzie Borer from Grand Valley State, was sixth. Phoebe Wessels from Pueblo CSU Pueblo on her home course was fifth. Mackenzie Garr from Missouri Western was fourth. Dylan Van Doren of Missouri Southern, the freshman, gets bronze. And this is going to be my complete error here. We’re looking at the javelin throwers. And so that’s what happens when you don’t get to watch an event. We’re actually looking at the women’s javelin throwers so correct. But all congrats go out to Kelly Luzinski from Bloomsburg. She is the winner with a personal best 5207. She will win the javelin. Frederica Dozier will take silver. Keely Johnson of Missouri Southern will get third. So if you’re following along closely you know the leaders now in our women’s shot put that competition is still going. They are through five rounds. They have one round to go. Catherine Higgins from CSU Pueblo is the leader out there at the shot put. Hannah Richardson of Azusa Pacific is second. Dylan Van Daron of Missouri Southern is third. They have one throw remaining in that women’s shot put. That venue is located outside of our football stadium here, so we have no eyes on it, but we will see the results coming through just as soon as they are official. To the pole vault really quickly. You see Brynn King, she. This is her first attempt. At 442, Isabel Peters had a miss on her first attempt. So Brynn King, the senior from Roberts Wesleyan, you are looking at her first attempt 14ft, six inches, four meters 42. And a clean vault for Brynn King at 442, 14ft, six inches. Isabel Peters, already clearing a personal best, so not quite as much as incentive to try and pass to the next height and capture the victory. We’ll see if she wants to increase her personal best to 14ft six inches, or make an attempt at 14ft eight. We need to get over to the track to see the women’s 1500. The lineup from the outside in, Estella Clemons from Lee, Elena Carey from Adams State, Mia Cabrera from Wingate, Lilly Hare from Lee, Emily Walsh from Cedarville, Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley State, Evan Humphrey from Hillsdale, Annie Wilde from Stanislaus State, Maggie McCluskey from Adams State, Evie Brooks from Wingate. Sarah Koomson from West Texas A&M and Kate Schrader from Pittsburg State. She is the senior for the gorillas. Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley State. She was third in this event last year. Elena Carey from Adams State was fourth. You can’t make too much of the actual qualifying times because one heat may have run much slower than the other heat, but the fastest qualifying time on Thursday does belong to Claudia O’Malley, the senior from Grand Valley State. The top returnee she ran for 1843, so they stepped to the line and they are underway. This is the women’s 1500 meter run. Right to the front. Of the against the last track here at the Cal Poly Humboldt. Of Minnesota. 17. Right there. 57 seconds. They are running. This is Ursuline Buffalo. And you can see that the pack still close together as they are finishing up the first lap on the track. That means a slower tactical race, which of course will favorite the sprinters in the field. They’re going to come through their first 400 just about 80s. So a very, very slow forced 400. So the strategic race decision always comes down to those athletes who think they can out kick the field, or those that think they need to run the legs out of the favorites early. And the field has decided we are going to go out slowly and we are going to run together. That is Kate Schrader from Pittsburg State out front. So she is controlling the pace. She is running, what she feels comfortable or what she wants to do, and nobody else has responded and taken advantage of that. You do see Claudia O’Malley again. She is the top returnee. She is wearing hip number seven. She’s in the white on black, running just off of the shoulder of Kate Schrader. But they are all still together now on the track with just two laps to go. So somebody is going to make the move quickly, and then we are going to see an all out sprint now just 700m to go in this 1500. So they’ve run the first half of the race very slowly. Now we could say the temperature was great. It’s actually going up here. We started the day about 74 degrees. That 77 the last time we took the opportunity. Here we see Maggie McCluskey from Adams State, the junior. She has made the first move. The field has responded. So there’s going to be no breakaway here for McCluskey. But the pace has quickened. And now with just about 500m to go, we’re going to see what we’re going to call almost an all out sprint for these middle distance runners. Maggie McCluskey is in the white on white, Kate Schrader is on the red on black. And we’ve got about five runners there who look like they have the legs left for this. Now. One lap sprint bell lap. Kate Schrader of Pittsburg State is going to be the leader. Maggie McCluskey is in the white on white. She is now behind Schrader. That is Mia Cabrera from Wingate running in second place. Now on the outside shoulder of Schrader. We’re not going to count out Sarah Koomson of West Texas A&M or Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley State. Five running together down the back stretch. It is now less than 200m to go straighter again to the front. Cabrera of Wingate on the outside. She’s in good position. McCluskey looks like she may be spent. She’s on the inside. There may be three now. Schrader. Cabrera. Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley State is going to open it up on this final surge down the track. She is going to claim gold. What a great race. Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley. She was fourth last year. The top returning athlete. She’s going to run for 29. Which if you look at the splits, their first or their third, their first full 400 coming through at about 78, then they close to 69. But that last 400 for O’Malley, 63 seconds. So she who runs the fastest final 400 generally wins the race. And that is Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley State. The senior will capture the national championship. Mia Cabrera of Wingate will take silver, and Kate Schrader, who led for most of that race and continually battled. She’ll take home bronze. McCluskey will be fourth, wild fifth. Clemson will be sixth on the track, so the women will make their way towards the award stand. And they will patiently wait. The men’s four by 100 meter relay. Finishing in fifth. Here we see the podium finish for the men’s four by one. Fort Hays State will claim seventh. There will now be there will not be an eighth or ninth place due to baton drops and teams not finishing. So Fort Hays State is seventh. U-mary is sixth, Carson-Newman will be fifth. Grand Valley State will use those. Five points that they get for finishing in fourth place towards their team title. Harding currently in second place. They’ll be happy with six points and a bronze medal. Minnesota State saying having to settle. They were the leaders and they were the favorites. But a bad exchange at the third exchange zone costs Minnesota State the momentum. They’ll finish second with 3971, which is not a bad time, but it’s not what they were expecting. But on the top of the podium, you see West Texas A and M, and we’ll help that hope that those cramps have all gone away. But a season best 39, 43 and ten team points that now puts them into the lead. West Texas A&M four by one National champions. Wingate on the inside. It is time to look over to the men’s 1500. And as we line up our men’s 1500 here again, tough to tell exactly what the splits from Thursday’s preliminary competition are going to be, but we do have a very good field lined up there. From the outside in we’re going to see Chitwan Legree, the senior from Wingate. He is out there. He’s that far, far runner you see there with the dark hair and the gray or the gold singlet. He won the steeplechase last night. He is a two time defending steeplechase champion, and he’s also the winner of the indoor mile, so he’s on the outside. The senior from Wingate, Damian Garcia from Chico State, our defending champion there. You see he’s on the left wearing the headband, the white headband that is Aziz Muhammad from West Texas A&M. He is the defending champion. David Holman, the sophomore from Wingate. Rice Chaminade Newell, the junior from CSU Pueblo. There you see him wearing the white with the red and blue chevron. He is running on his home track. He was second in the indoor mile and last year, redshirting during the outdoor season but placing fourth at the UK trials in an effort to make the team in the 800. So he’s bumped up to the 1500 this year. Luca Popp from Wingate, Dylan Sprecher from Pittsburgh State, Jagger Zlotoff from UK, John Sweep from CSU Pueblo, Hamza Shaheed from Wingate, Ross Kuhn from Hillsdale. And on that inside spot you see yet another Wingate runner that is Jacob Retschlag. So a very good field here assembled. You have to say that the defending champion is always the favorite. That’s Aziz Muhammad from West Texas A&M. You’ve got our indoor mile champion, Titouan Legree. He’s fresh from a victory in the steeplechase yesterday. Don’t count out Charmin Newell. And also keep an eye on the other Wingate runners Shaheed and Richland. We are underway. So we’re going to see the strategy of these runners. And as it looks there, Aziz Muhammad from West Texas A&M. From the outside, he is moving up. He’s in the middle of the track wearing the headband from Pitt State. That is Dylan Sprecher, who is going to the lead and choosing to run from the back is Reese Chaminade Newell and Hamza Shaheed from Wingate. So different strategies here. We saw the women go out very slowly. It wasn’t until the last 800 or even 700 that we saw any move on the track from the women, so we’ll see what the strategy of the men here is. As Dylan Sprecher, the sophomore from Pitt State, is going to be taking them through the north. Correction the south curve for the first time. I would maybe call this a medium pace. So they didn’t go out incredibly hard, but it is about 6560. 65, 66 maybe on that first 400. This is again a reminder the collegiately running the 1500. So doing the math just a little bit harder than that 1600 or even the mile where you can figure out exactly who is running where. But as they are on the north curve for the second time now, Dylan Sprecher of Pittsburgh State continuing to set the pace, but you can see the entire field is right there, all thinking about when they are prepared to make that move. You see the gold over blue for athletes competing there from Wingate. Actually five athletes in this race from Wingate. And they have kind of formed a barrier there in that second tier of runners. So they have two laps to go now. And that last 400m, they are running about 6768 on the track. So probably going to favor the sprinters. You’re going to need a strong finish. If you are going to out kick this field. We’ve still got Sprecher and Muhammad out in front. We’ve got all of the Wingate runners there. If we’re going to say that Legree is the favorite, he is currently running there. In that second row, you can see some pushing and stumbling. He’s now in second on the rail there, hopefully not going to be boxed. You see the Chico State runner Damian Garcia running on the outside at the back there trying to get comfortable. And as we come down this straightaway they are approaching the bell lap and the sprint will turn on just as soon as we hear that bell ring. And we are one lap to go, who’s got the sprint first to go on the track? Looks like Ross Kuhn from Hillsdale. There’s a spill there and off the back falls John Sweep. So he is going to be out of this race. Hillsdale’s Ross Kuhn is in front. You’ve got the Wingate runners there. This is Reese Newell of CSU Pueblo on the outside. He is in the best spot on the track in that he is not going to get boxed. We are down the backstretch, less than 200 to go the full on sprint. Chaminade Newell has one advantage in that he is an 800 meter runner. You’ve got Legree, the steeplechase champion, but there are no barriers down this backstretch. This is the hometown kid here from England. He’s been at CSU Pueblo for three years. This is going to be his first national championship. Look out Reese. Sharman Newell left nobody on the track. You can barely see anybody on the track as he finishes. Three 4847. The official time is 44. How about that? Reese? Sharman Newell three 4844. Legree will capture a silver three 5009 and Dylan Sprecher, that early pace setter. He will pick up some points for the gorillas. Three 5061 you see there just some fantastic runs. They were all bunched together. The 1500 has not become a distance race. It has become a middle distance sprint. You can see Sharman Newell over there celebrating with some of his teammates. Marco Thomas placed yesterday in the steeplechase, collecting her first hardware and his teammates congratulating, congratulating Rice Sharman Newell. And there’s his coach Matt Morris. The local team here recruiting heavily in Europe. As we mentioned at the beginning, Sharman Newell placed first fourth at the Olympic trials last year in the 800. There’s the congratulations from the defending champion, Aziz Muhammad. He finished sixth, so he’ll fade from first to sixth this year. But you just have to be happy for Reese Chaminade Newell. Winning is great, but winning on your home track is just a fantastic event. And he’ll he’ll head back to the UK as he hopes to make the national team for the World Championships to be held in Tokyo later this summer. And if Sharman Newell getting extra congratulations there, many of the volunteers here at the meet are locals members of the CSU Pueblo team or just the track fraternity in Pueblo, Colorado. Nothing better for a high school kid than to be able to come up and volunteer at a national championship meet, so I’m sure we’ll hear a lot during the awards presentations. For Sharman Newell, it looks like we might be ready for our women’s presentations, but we’re going to go back to the pole vault real quick just for a checkup. So there has been some jockeying for position. If you can’t win at the height you are at, sometimes you do pass to the next height. So Isabelle Peters is now out of the competition. She missed once at 14 six. She missed twice. Then at 14ft eight inches. So here’s our winner. This is Bren King. She is jumping at 452. That is 14ft ten inches. She’s got one miss already. So this is her second attempt. She didn’t enter the competition until 432, which she cleared on her first attempt. But she is up and over the bar. Look at pole vaulting perfection there. 14ft, ten inches. That is 452. She is over and will continue to be jumping in this women’s pole vault. Here you look at the finishers of the women’s 1500. We just saw that race and proudly standing there with the big smile. She was fourth last year. She’s first this year. The senior from Grand Valley State that is Claudia O’Malley holding gold. Mia Cabrera from Wingate is silver. Cate Schrader, the senior from Pitt State is bronze. And you can see again the celebrations all around. Such good sportsmanship in track and field. The athletes are generally happy for each other and enjoy celebrating. We’ll Pa. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado. We’re on the campus of CSU Pueblo for the 2025 Division two men’s and women’s national championships. Just had some great excitement for the home crowd here as CSU pueblos Rice Chaminade Newell takes gold in the men’s 1500. You’ll see those awards presentations coming up shortly. We’re setting the hurdles. The next events on the track will be the finals in the 100 and the 110 meter hurdles again. Today is a full day with every event being a final. We have seven field events. About half of those are now complete and those athletes have received their medals. We had ten events on the track, meaning 20 overall events. If you figure ten for the women and ten for the men. And as we go through the day, we’ll want to be keeping an eye on our team scores. The women have actually now are more than halfway complete. There are 21 events in track and field, and through the first 11, the women’s leader is Grand Valley State with 47. Pittsburg State is currently nine and a half points back at 37.5. Adams State is currently third with 33. Missouri Southern is picking up some big points in the throwing events. They have 27 points and rounding out the top five on the women’s side is CSU Pueblo with 17. They picked up some field event points today and we are about to see the presentation of some of those points on the men’s side right now. Well, we’ll give you the men’s results a little bit later. We’re going to see the women. Setting up for the hurdles. They still are going to get their run outs over the hurdles. So. Maybe an opportunity to go to the. Award stand. Not sure if they are quite ready there, but that is where CSU Pueblo did pick up some points to move into fifth place overall. You see the athletes there setting their blocks. The hurdles have just been set, so when you see them signaling, they’re telling the officials which hurdles they would like them to drop, so they have the opportunity to get a run through and go over a hurdle or two. We’ve been watching that pole vault competition. We know that Brynn King has already won the event. It looks like she has cleared 14ft, ten inches. That’s 452. She’s passed all the way up to now 15ft, nine inches. So she has passed almost an entire foot worth of competition. It looks like the bar is going to be at 480. That’s 15ft, nine inches. And we’ll run a quick check on the women’s pole vault record. She holds the record. So we know that she’s jumped this her record meet record is 460. So she’s not worrying about breaking her meet record. It looks like she is going to try to get her own Division two record. You see her there on the infield. That is Brynn King. From Roberts Wesleyan. She’s a senior now. People sometimes wonder why she’s at Roberts Wesleyan instead of a bigger Division one school. Well, it’s all about the coaching and she has a great coach, and it looks like she is going to raise the bar to 480. That’s 15ft, nine inches. And if she does get that, it would be an all time Division two record. We know that she will be competing at the USA National Championships to be held in Oregon next month. But by passing each height, she has enabled herself to get her full recovery. So we will bring you her attempts at 480 or 15ft, nine inches. Whether we see those live or in replay, we’ll be sure to be watching those. We’ve got the women’s 100 meter hurdles. It looks like they are just about ready at the starting line now. So we’ll get you set here in lane one. It’s Caroline Mays from William Jewell in lane two, Ashanti Harvey from Minnesota State in lane three, Adia Brewster from Minnesota State in lane four. That is Anaya Seward from Ashland in lane five is our fastest qualifier again for Minnesota State. It’s Grace Johnson. She ran 1301 in qualifying in lane six. Tanisha Reid from Winston-Salem in lane seven, Patrice Clark from New Mexico Highlands in lane eight, Sara Smith from Cal Poly Pomona and then closest to us here in lane nine, that is the Pittsburg State freshman Kavon Nubin. So obviously Minnesota State looking to not only win this event, but also pick up some valuable points with three athletes competing, Patrice Clark from New Mexico Highlands. She’s on that four by one team. That was a little frustrated that they did not manage to capture gold, so she’ll have a chance here. But the favorite would have to be Grace Johnson of Minnesota State. She’s running in lane five. That. And a clean start. And the Minnesota State pair out quickly. Grace Johnson maybe not quite into the lead as she gets to the fourth or fifth hurdle. And that looks like a photo finish. From this angle. It is just tough to tell. Grace Johnson was out there from Minnesota State, and it looks like she is going to win. 1304 for Grace Johnson. Patrice Clark from New Mexico Highlands. She said she had a chip on her shoulder after the four by one team did not win. She’s going to take second at 1305, and it looks like Adia Brewster is going to capture bronze also for Minnesota State. So a very impressive point scoring event. We’re going to take a look at that finish in this women’s 100 meter hurdles. Grace Johnson is inside of us. She’s wearing the black on the outside. That was Patrice Clark. And then from that angle you can see that it is just a 100th of a second. But our winner is Grace Johnson. You’re looking at Patrice Clark there. She’s smiling so she’s happy with that. 1305 the wind reading was 2.1. So that won’t be a legal wind reading race. But Clark did look a little happier than Grace Johnson here. Grace Johnson is the winner. She’s talking to her coach. We’re going to go to the podium real quickly. This is the women’s shot put. And if you do hear those loud cheers through the Nat sound, that is because the hometown team had two place winners, third place finishers. Looking quickly here. Brier Gillam, of Murray Southern is eighth. Molly, winner of Ashland, is seventh. Mackenzie Bohrer of Grand Valley is sixth. Phoebe Wessels of CSU Pueblo was fifth. Mackenzie Garr of Missouri Western was fourth. Dylan van Daron of Missouri Western was third. So Missouri Southern, excuse me. They are going to pick up some valuable points. Hannah Richardson of Azusa Pacific will take the silver medal. And here’s going to be another big cheer for the home town thrower. This is Catherine Higgins, the senior from CSU Pueblo. She is a perennial place finisher. But when the meet comes home and you’re throwing in your backyard, nothing better than being the shot put national champion NCAA Division two Catherine Higgins from Pueblo, 16m 38. That is a personal best 53ft, nine inches for Catherine Higgins. For the. And she is the all time. So two thunderwolves members there placing in this event the stands populated by the locals as we’ll see another presentation to a CSU Pueblo athlete coming up. We’re adjusting the hurdles for the men’s race. The next race is the 110 meter hurdles for the men. So not only do they have to be moved on the track, they do have to go up keeping an eye on that women’s pole vault. No attempts yet for Brynn King at a D2 record. The wind may have picked up a little bit. We’ve seen in these last two hurdle races. They have been over the allowable limit of 2.0, so the wind may have picked up. The flag looks like it is standing straight out. It is gusty. So as the pole vaulter there you see Brynn King, she will, once her time is called, have one minute to make her attempt. So she will use that wind to her advantage again if it’s a little windy. If she thinks that’s going to help her, she’ll take advantage of it. If she would like the wind to die a little bit, she’ll wait till that gust drops and make her run again. She’s had one attempt at this height. Four meters 80. It’s 15ft, nine inches, and if she clears it, she would beat her own NCAA Division two record in this event. It was March 29th of this year that she jumped and did clear four meters, 75, which is going to be about 15ft, six inches. This is 480. This is 15ft, nine inches. And here is her attempt. And it looked like she may have slowed down on the runway just a little bit. She’s up but not over the bar on her second attempt here. So she’ll make that adjustment. It’s nice to know you’ve already won the meet, so your goals adjust a little bit. But she will have one more attempt here. Getting consultation from her coaches. Two misses there, but she has already won the event. Pittsburg State will take second and third in that pole vault. So as we just mentioned, our women’s standings, Grand Valley is in the lead ahead of Pitt State. But just as soon as those pole vault results become official, we know Grand Valley will take fifth, but Pitt State will take second and third. We didn’t really mention the men’s standings, but after ten of the 21 events, so they still have 11 to go, ten in the books, West Texas A and M, they’ve vaulted back into the lead, and that was courtesy of that victory in the four by 100 meter relay. So West Texas A and M leads with 40 points. Wingate with all of their prowess in the middle distance running, they are currently second with 35. It’ll be tough for them to stay there, as they don’t have the strength in the field events and the sprinting events. Pittsburg State are defending four time defending national champions. They have 34. Harding is currently fourth with 29, Grand Valley State with 18, and the Colorado School of Mines has 17. As they are rounding out the top teams there in that men’s division. We’ll keep you posted. But again, we still have nine events remaining to be scored for the women and 11 for the men. So we are just about at the midway point of our championships. But every event from here on out is a final. You can see the men there patiently, patiently waiting. This is the men’s 110 meter hurdles. And we’ll have an opportunity to give you their lineup just as soon as they start taking the blocks. Looks like the hurdles are all set, so we may be waiting for the official start time. And it looks like our public address announcer is beginning the lane assignments for this 110 meter hurdles. So that’ll be next on the track as we look at them there from the inside out in lane one it’s Nnamdi NYU from Cal Poly Pomona in lanes two, three and four you see Pittsburg State gorillas. So coach eagerly awaiting the outcome of this race in lane two. You’ve got Daylan Williams the senior in lane three, Joel Nazoa the senior and in lane four Tyrone Jackson. He’s just a freshman. He is the favorite as he had the fastest qualifying time. He is in lane four in lane five from central Missouri. The senior Parker Warmack in lane six from Dominican, Adrian Maguire in lane seven from New Haven is Jordan Dallas and in lane eight closest to you there from Missouri Southern. Wearing the black on black, that is Jadarius pig. So Pitt State looking to pick up points in this event. You do have to finish to collect the points, but eight in the race means eight on the podium. All scoring. On your mark. And Saint Peter’s got to be favored. Keep an eye on Tyrone Jackson, the freshman from Pitt State, in the middle with the hat. That’s Parker Warmack of Central Missouri. And we’re not going to get the freshman winning. But that looks like a Pittsburg State 123 sweep. How about that? It is the senior Joel Nyazura. He’ll run. 1335 Dylan Williams will run. 1345, Tyrone Jackson will run 1368. And that is a gorilla sweep in the men’s 110 meter hurdles if they repeat their team title, and that would be number four in a row, you can look back to the men’s 110 meter hurdles and see gold, silver and bronze for Pittsburg State. You look at that. A lot of hurdles being banged down, but it was the inside runners from Pitt State who got out quickly and were managed to stay clear. Parker Womack, wearing the baseball cap there from central Missouri. He’ll finish fourth. But unless you go to Pittsburg State, you are not going to be on the top of the podium today in this men’s 110 meter hurdles. Okay, here’s one we’ve been waiting for. We are seeing the presentation of the men’s 1500 meters. And again. You see Pittsburg State. They’re getting their congratulations all around. Again. The winners are being taken to the award stand for their shoe inspections. Our PA announcer currently introducing the athletes getting ready to compete in the women’s triple jump. But that’s great. They’re on the track again. You just see the excitement for these athletes as they know. Nothing like the feeling of knowing that you have one year event. The weather is good, you can stay out there, you can celebrate. Looks like most of these athletes are probably done for the day, so they’re not having to cool down and warm up for the next event. Now, Pittsburg State always the exception to that rule, but we know they don’t have a four by 400 meter relay team in the finals. So you can see the athletes there celebrating and enjoying their position. We did have the athletes from the 1500. They were on the award stand, but got a brief reprieve as we introduce our triple jumpers. So they all ran over to get some water and some Powerade. It is hot again. We started the morning, it was the low 70s and we moved up to meet four hours because there were some concerns about the weather coming in later this afternoon. Currently it is 2:00 mountain time. The temperature says 79 degrees, and while the 79 degrees here there’s no humidity. So you don’t feel that heat. But at altitude we are just that much closer to the sun. So 79 degrees is going to feel a little bit hotter on the actual skin. So the athletes, the distance runners aren’t going to like it. They’re going to think it’s too hot. The sprinters, they’re going to love it. They think it’s just about right. And many of our field event athletes are going to be in between. We will just update you if you’re watching that pole vault bringing did not clear four meters 80. So she is going to be the national champion. She’s got 14ft ten inches. That was 452 and enough to win yet another women’s pole vault championship. And there you can see our updated team standings after that. Pittsburg State sweep in the hurdles. When you take gold, silver and bronze that’s a big jump. So Pittsburg State now with 58 points member. They are the three time defending champions trying to get number four. West Texas A and M is the four time runner up. They are now in a big hole with just 40 points. Wingate has 35, Harding 29. And you see the five, six, seven schools there. But Pittsburg State just building an incredible team and that begins with getting good coaches. It helped that Pittsburg State built a fantastic indoor facility. They just do a wonderful job recruiting, coaching and just building a culture because not only have the men won four in a row, the women are the defending team champions as well. So just a great program and a great culture there in Pittsburg, Kansas. There we see now we are at the award stand again. This is the men’s 1500 loaded race. Ross Kuehn of Hillsdale, if you remember, he was the leader going down the stretch. He took off and he had the lead almost coming off the curve. He finishes eighth. David Holman of Wingate was seventh. Our defending national champion ran a good time, but Aziz Muhammad from West Texas A and M will finish no better than sixth. Luka Pop from Wingate is fifth. You can see the Wingate dominance in this event. Hamza Shaheed was fourth. Dylan Sprecher from Pitt State. As if they need more points, he was third. That’s Tetuan Legree from Wingate capturing silver to go with his gold in the steeplechase. But here it comes up to the top of the podium. Reese, Sharman Newell from CSU Pueblo getting the award presented by his coach, Matt Morris. He is the 1500 meter NCAA D2 national champion. He runs three, 48, 44 and a big celebration there for the home team. And we’re not going to be done with CSU Pueblo athletes competing. They have one of the top seeds in the women’s 800 that is coming up in just a few events from now. Our next event on the track, you can see the women are already standing at the blocks anxiously awaiting the 400m we’re going to start in. On the inside qualifying list here. That is going to be Elena Verner of Azusa Pacific. She’ll be on the inside in lane one piece. Noelia of West Texas A and M will be in two. Hannah Caiola of southern Connecticut State will be in three. Blessing Akintoye from West Texas A&M in four. Fastest qualifier was Colin Farrington of Southwest Baptist. She is going to be in lane five. She ran 5157 to advance. In lane six will be Tiffany Huey from Northwest Missouri State. Lane seven, Chevonne Thomas from Lincoln in lane eight, Anna Salisbury from Lubbock Christian and in the outside in lane nine Asia Foster of Oklahoma Baptist. So again. In our events that are around the track, we are taking nine to the finals. Those straightaway events just advancing eight to the finals, but only eight make the podium. So a race like the 400 is always difficult. You can work very hard to make it to the finals, but if you happen to finish ninth in the finals, you get nothing for your reward. Goal is to be in the top eight and score. Our top two teams on the. In fact, our top four teams not going to be affected too much by this race on the track. In our women’s competition, none of the team leaders have athletes in this women’s 400. So Southwest Baptist and Kalani Farrington looking to be the favorites. With Lane. And as they come off the curve here, you are going to see that tight race that was our favorite. Colin Farrington from Southwest Baptist. She is in lane five and she was the first off the curve and has held off all challengers as they run down the straightaway. You can see they were battling a little bit of a headwind there, but Farrington, the junior from Southwest Baptist, 5163, Salisbury from Lubbock Christian, she’s going to run a personal best and capture silver at 5222. And there you see Akintola from West Texas A&M. She’ll take bronze at 5247. So the wind not a factor in the 400, although the athletes may tell you differently. But it definitely looked at that point one reading. And that’s going to be taken as an average during a race. But it did look like down the home stretch. Just when you are your most tired, that wind may have been hitting them in the face and you can see there’s our winner, fully exhausted, but obviously a little bit happier knowing that Cullen Farrington has captured gold in this women’s 400. And you can see the pure exhaustion there of some of the athletes at the finish line. Again, as we pull wide, you can see it’s just a beautiful day here. Again, if you are watching us live, you know that the schedule was adjusted. Everything was moved up about four hours. If you are watching this on demand later in the day, we know who has captured championships already, but we do not know anything new at this time other than we are going to look at the awards podium here for the women’s 100 and or the 100 meter hurdles. The junior eighth place there goes to Caroline Mayes of William Jewell, seventh place to Anaya Seward of Ashland, sixth place to Nishihara Smith of Cal Poly Pomona. In fifth place. Ashanti Harvey from Minnesota State, the first of three teammates to step onto the podium in fourth place. Shanaze Reade from Winston-Salem in third place. Adia Brewster, Minnesota State number two, in second place, capturing silver. Patrice Clark from New Mexico Highlands. And there you look at Minnesota State senior Grace Johnson. Finally, we see somewhat of a smile from Grace Johnson as she celebrates a national championship in the 100 meter hurdles. So Minnesota State, you see three of them there on the right side of the screen. That is always a good sign. And that moves them up to fifth place overall in the team standings. And as those team event standings populate and we are watching it live here on our results board with the last event that was officially scored. Currently, Pittsburg State is leading the men and the women’s team races, so we’ve got 13 of 21 events scored on the women’s side. Pitt state with a half point lead now on Grand Valley State. That may mean that our pole vault results have become official on the men’s side. We showed you after the hurdles race that Pitt State has hurdled their way into the lead 58 points to West Texas A and M 40. Looks like the men are now setting their blocks for the 400. And it looks like they are still taking their runouts the starters adjusting his place. So we’ll give you the lane assignments here in just a minute for this men’s 400 reminding everybody we are just about halfway through our afternoon on the track. Our next events will be the 100m for both the men and the women. Then we’ll move to the 800 and our events will continue this afternoon with the 400 meter hurdles, the 200, the 5000m, and that traditional ending with the four by 400 meter relays, which we determined yesterday in the preliminaries, may not have a huge effect on our team scoring. But at the conclusion of those four by 400 meter relays, we will also have the presentation of the team trophies. And looking out at the weather now, a few more clouds in the sky. But again, that rain and heavy weather not expected to come in this evening until at least 7 or 8:00. So allowing all of our teams to get in clean competition and hopefully get on the road, allowing our officials to get all of their equipment picked up before any bad weather does come in. Haven’t heard any complaints so far with moving the event up for ours. Traditionally, these championship events are scheduled into the late afternoon and evening just because of the heat. When the championships are down south or in any region where it is hotter. No athlete wants to run in extreme heat. And. We mentioned these women’s standings. But here you see now on your screen. Are the updated team standings. We just mentioned this, but after that pole vault competition Pittsburg State they’re the defending champions. So it’s their title to lose. They now are the lead with 51.5 points. Of course you get a half point when there is a tie. In the event. Grand Valley State is currently second with 51 points. Adams State don’t count them out yet. Not too much in the sprinting in the field events, but they score a lot in the middle distance and the running events. Missouri Southern they’re the team that scores in the throwing events. And Minnesota State we know has the great hurdling tradition. So if they have some 400 meter hurdles, they can still make a move. But exciting at the top. We’ll try and keep you posted with Pittsburg State and Grand Valley State through each event as the competition continues. Looks like we are getting closer now for this men’s 400. So here are the lane assignments and you can see from the inside there sitting on his lane marker. That is one Chapman from Pittsburg State. He’ll be in lane one. Emmanuel Dupuy of Emporia State will be in two. Emmanuel Badejo from Wayne State at Nebraska. That’ll be in lane three. Remy Balti will be in four from Angelo State. Joshua Page from Tiffin. He’ll be in lane five. Lane five means that you were the fastest qualifier. And sure enough, page from Tiffin running 4540 yesterday. So he is the favorite. Shamar Palmer of Fresno, Pacific keep an eye on him. Fresno Pacific of course, with the huge upset in the relay earlier. Raleigh Chard from central Missouri. He’ll be in lane seven. Nate Watson yet another gorilla in the finals in lane eight, and Miles Rhodes from Grand Valley State will be on the outside in lane nine. Looks like they have all received their final instructions and are standing at the blocks waiting for the commands from the starter. And. And as we look as they go down the backstretch in the middle of the track, that is our favorite. That is Joshua Page of Tiffin. He is just eating up the outside lanes on that stagger, huge lead on the inside lanes, and he will be first off the curve. Shamar Palmer from Fresno Pacific as expected giving the first challenge. We’ve got Page and Palmer now as they run down to the finish line. You can see that wind hitting them. And look at this finish. Oh my gosh from nowhere. That was Nate Watson from Pittsburg State. Oh my gosh. He was nowhere in the lead nowhere near the lead as they came off the curve. What a fantastic finish for Nate Watson I don’t know if running out there in the outside in lane eight. I don’t know if he had any block of the wind from the bleachers and the stands as he came off that curve, but he was way back here. You can see the replay when he’s already made up so much of that ground, but he was a good five, six yards behind the top two, yet closed so fast. What a fantastic race. That’s a personal best. He runs 4532. Page will be second at 4535. He’ll be disappointed although on the screen there we see he is all smiles and congratulations for Watson. Shamar Palmer of Fresno Pacific. He looked like he had a shot coming down the stretch. He’ll run 4557 and get bronze, but that’s also a personal best. So the top three all with personal or season bests. But that was just an incredible finish for Nate Watson. And if we had any thoughts of West Texas A and M catching Pittsburgh state Pittsburgh state has proven that they have the depth and they have all all guerrillas running on all cylinders with that fantastic, amazing finish in our men’s 400. Congrats for the sophomore Nate Watson. And you see as they make their way to the award stand just at the bottom of the screen though, those are going to be the award winners for our next presentation. And those are the men’s 110 meter hurdlers. Speaking of gorillas, but we’ll start on the outside of the podium. JordanI Dallas of New Haven is eighth. Adrian Aguirre from Dominican will be seventh, Nnamdi NYU from Cal Poly Pomona will be sixth. Jadarius Pigg from Missouri Southern will finish in fifth place when he who wears the baseball cap, Parker Warmack of Central Missouri. He had the good start, but he is going to finish fourth today. And that means the top of the podium is going to be all the red and black of Pitt State. Tyrone Jackson, the freshman. He’ll get third, 1368 Daylan Williams, a senior, he’ll take silver 1345 and making way on the podium there for Joel Niitsuma, 1335 for the senior for Pitt State. And you can see three very happy athletes there on the top. And that is what has vaulted or hurdled, as we say, the gorillas back into the command as they seek their fourth national championship in a row. Next And welcome back to the NCAA Division two National Championships. We’re here in Pueblo, Colorado on the campus of CSU Pueblo in the thunderbowl. And we have had some amazing performances, and we are now about to find out who the fastest athletes on the track are this season. It’s time for the 100 meter dash finals. Of course, the women will run first. And from the inside out there in lane one, you’ll see Anaya Heckstall from Barton in lane two, Jasira Hart from Tusculum in lane three. That’s Hailey Hunt from Cal State, San Bernardino in lane four, Ashley Barrett from New Mexico Highlands in lane five, Alexis Brown from Lenoir-Rhyne. Always keeping an eye on Brown. Such a fantastic career seems to always be in the mix for the top of the podium. Alexis Hollis from Central Washington will be in six. Leah Smith of Findlay in seven, Deandra Gaines from Pitt State in lane eight. And on the outside here in lane nine in the red, Brianna Byndloss from Winston Salem State, our fastest qualifier from the preliminaries. Alexis Brown of Lenoir-Rhyne. She ran 1106 in our preliminaries. Alexis Brown, the fastest seed in both the 100 and the 200 this year. She is our defending champion in this 100m. She ran 1096 last year indoors. She was second in the 60m. So we know she’s got the quick start. 2023 back here on this track. Two years ago she was second in this race at 1110. So we know that our favorite looking to go back to back national championships. She did have the fastest time this season at 1108. And top that running 1106 in the prelims. And looking at our heat sheets here, that would have been a meet record. The meet record was 1118. Can’t remember what the wind exactly was on Monday, but obviously Alexis Brown is going to be our favorite. She is the Division two all time record holder, running 1104 last season. Again, keep an eye Lane five there in the middle of the track, the black on purple or maroon that is Alexis Brown. And there is no doubt on the field who the master in this 100m is. Now we’re just going to look at the time. Oh my gosh. 1093 1093 and the wind is legal. Just a 1.8 wind legal. What an incredible race. You can see she is overwhelmed there. Alexis Brown from Lenoir-Rhyne. Just a junior. That is a personal best. That is a meet record. That is the Division two all time national record. It’s meet legal 1093 when all the conditions align, you can see what happens. You are looking at, well, you are looking at the fastest Division two sprinter ever, 10 to 93. We’re going to see this race once again. You can see she captured it the start. We said she had a great start. She was out quickly. She led out of the blocks 30 yards in. She has almost a five year lead on the field. Look at that form. Keeping it strength. No let up no let down. She did not slow down at all. And she sees that time and can’t believe that she finally breaks 11 seconds flat and finishes at 1093. Just an amazing, amazing performance there for Leonard Rhyne. And she’s going to come back and run the 200. So we’ll see if she can double that up. But for now she is just going to celebrate and enjoy seeing her name on that scoreboard. With a 10.93 and a wind legal 100m. Wow. Alright, here are the pole vault placers. We’ve been following the pole vault throughout the day. It was our first event. Took a while to finish because how well these vaulters are doing. And as we get to the top of the podium in third place, capturing the bronze medal today, Kyla Davis, the senior from Pittsburg State, her teammate stepping up for silver just a junior, Isabelle Peters. She cleared 14ft four inches 437. But now we’re looking at the senior Brynn King from Roberts Wesleyan. She is going to be our national champion today at 14ft, ten inches. That’s 452. But don’t forget she took some good attempts at 15ft, nine inches, 480. She is one that you are going to see competing later this season in Oregon, and possibly even in Tokyo. Brynn King, one of the best vaulters in the country, representing Division Two. Well along with our Pitt State gorillas. So congratulations to Brynn King of Roberts Wesleyan. Well, we know when the women set a record in the 100m, the men are going to be chomping at the bit. They are not out on the track yet. But our women’s 100m will be So. Keene State. And welcome back to the Thunderbowl on the campus of CSU Pueblo. Pueblo Colorado. We are here at altitude in the sunshine. It is a beautiful day. The wind has been legal for our last few races. We are at the Division two men’s and women’s national championships. We have just not only seen who the fastest woman on the track is this year, but the fastest woman on the track ever, as Alexis Brown, the senior from Lenoir-Rhyne, just wowed the crowd with a finish. Of 1093. We are at altitude, but it was wind legal and an incredible performance. Running under 11 for the first time in her career. She’ll see here. We’ll see her again a little bit later in the 200, but now it’s time for the men’s 100. And they all know what just happened in the women’s race, so they are all excited and looking for their best times. Here’s the lineup from the inside out. Ty Anderson, the junior from Emporia State, will be in one. Isaac Botsio of West Texas A&M in two. Winfred Porter, the senior from Catawba, will be in three. Paul Mosley, a junior from Lynn, will be in lane four in the middle. Another Pittsburg State gorilla with the fastest qualifying time. That’s the priest Hogan’s. He will be running out of lane five. Olaolu Olatunde from Harding will be in six. Tyson Williams will be in seven. Hebron Moore of Albany State in lane eight and yet another gorilla in the outside in lane nine. Dakari Charlton. So there is your lineup for the men’s 100m. And as we take a quick gander at last year’s results in this men’s 100m, remember we were not at altitude last year. We were in Emporia, Kansas, the winner of the men’s 100m was Isaac Botsio. So he is getting a chance to defend his title. He’ll be in lane two. Dupriest Hogan’s was fourth last year. He is now the favorite. He is in lane five, so it is always fun to see how these athletes bounce back from year to year. Some names familiar and always seem to be making the finals in the big meets, while others come and go. Whether that is injury or. Transferring, many of the athletes in Division two do end up transferring to a Division one school. We’ll say transfer. Some coaches will will tell you poached, but they do move on. And it is sometimes interesting to chart their success at the Division one level. But all we care about here today is our Division two championship. So again, as we look at this field we can’t count out lane two, Isaac Botsio of West Texas A and M he is the defending champion. We’re going to keep an eye on the gorillas. Not only the team favorites but Dupree’s. Hogan’s in the middle of the track again. He was fourth last year, but he does have the fastest qualifying time as he comes into this men’s 100, having run 996. We’re running from south to north, so whatever breeze there will be will be behind them. And. Looks like the temperature is still at 78 degrees. Anderson, Botsio Porter, Mosley. Hogan’s Olatunde, Williams, Moore and Charlton. They can call this a head to head between Pittsburg State and West Texas A&M, and they are all even. And to me that looks like on the inside, that may be yet another national champion defending his title. And it is Isaac Botsio never count out the West Texas A&M, defending champions Botsio is going to run nine nine for Olatunde is going to run 995. Hogan’s is again going to be under ten flat. So you look at those first three times under nine. Now we’re going to give the wind a little credit. If you look up there to the right, a big gust of wind at the start of that race, it is going to be plus four. So we know the times are going to be very fast because of the wind and the altitude. But West Texas A&M, they were the defending champs in the four by one but not the favorites. And they won. And then we watch here. Watch him on the inside in lane two it is Isaac Botsio. He gets out quickly. He’s away from the other leaders. So maybe that is an advantage in that they can’t see him. It did look like Olatunde on may have thought he had won that race, but nope. It is. The defending champion, Isaac Botsio making back to back titles. And you can see there he is reminding everybody who the fastest man on the track is. And again, we’re at altitude. It’s windy. But he’s going to take that 9.94 to the bank and not forget running that incredible time as he will continue his career. Just a junior here. Now we are looking at the place finishers in our women’s 400m on the track. Chevonne Thomas from Lincoln. Will close out her career here with a individual eighth place medal in the 400. Asa Foster of Oklahoma Baptist will be seventh. Hendrix Biola of Southern Connecticut State will be sixth piece from West Texas. A and M will be fifth. Tiffany Huey from Northwest Missouri State will be fourth. Blessing Akintoye of West Texas A&M third, Anna Salisbury of Lubbock Christian second. And there you see getting hugs from her coach that is the junior from Southwest Baptist. Cullen Farrington is our national champion in the 400. She’ll run 5163 and is all smiles there atop of the podium. You can see what they’re doing there. They’re giving them pictures with the sign, so we all know what event it is. Then the awkward holding that sign blowing in the wind is over, and we’ll turn around and give it back to her. But plenty of opportunities for pictures and celebrations as the weather remains good here in Pueblo. Our next event on the track will be the 800, and if there is one event that I have been waiting for all season long, it is this next one. And we are back. And we are back for the event of the meet. This is the women’s 800m to begin this tournament championship. Here we had all eight place. Okay, it looks like we’re going to go to the podium here. We’re just catching up with that men’s. 400. You’re looking at the champion Nate Watson from Pitt State. He came from nowhere down the home stretch to outline the favorite there Joshua Paige giving his props. But it was Nate Watson who runs a personal best to capture that gold medal. Now it looks like we’re ready for the women’s 800, and knowing that all eight place finishers in the indoor 800 were in the field are defending national champion is in the field, our defending runner up is in the field. We have advanced the top nine to finals and here they are from the inside out. Inez McAdam, the senior from Tiffin. She’ll start in the inside in lane one. Olivia Alexandrov, Azusa Pacific is in two. Jade Evans from Ashland is in three. Lena Harnick of the Academy of Art. She’ll be running out of lane four in lane five. Get ready for more hometown cheers. The junior from CSU Pueblo, she ran the fastest qualifying time at 205 15. She’s the indoor national champion, that is Helen Braybrook in lane six. Abigail. Abigail from West Texas A&M. Just a freshman. She ran 205 84 in the prelims, so she will be expecting nothing but victory. Chanel Clark Giddings of Lincoln. She ran 205 90 in the prelims, so keep an eye on the sophomore on the outside there in lane eight, we’ve got Lisa Hoogsteen from Adams State and on the lane nine, you have the junior transfer from Edinburgh, Scotland. That is Leah Keisler representing CSU Pueblo. So just a loaded event here in this 800. And we are now underway. So yesterday in the qualifying the field went out very hard. They ran very fast for the first lap and were content to then see what they had left. And as we watch this race here out of lane three, that is Jada Vance who goes out very fast. She is in the dark, black on black, wearing hip number three. Helen Baybrook from CSU Pueblo wearing hip number five. And that is Abigail Abigail from West Texas A&M. You’d have to say that the favorites are probably the two out front right now. The freshman from West Texas A&M, the junior from CSU Pueblo. A little bit slower for the first 400 today rather than yesterday. So I’m sure they’re all saving something for the finish. They’re going to go through the 400 just about 59. And you can see that it is Abigail from West Texas A&M, the freshman who has made the first move. She felt good in that first 400. It’s nice to know that you have the longer legs out front. If there is any wind you are taking the wind in the face. Helen Braybrook, the shortest of stature, running second. And now you can see she’s moving up on the outside preparing for her last chase. It looks like these two are going to be the two who go for it. You’ve got the Academy of Arts. Leah Harnik running third. Brooke has made her move, so she is in her full on sprint. Can Abigail McGuire of West Texas catcher the long legs in second Helen Braybrooke in first. We’re going to have a sprint for the last 30m. Those long legs are always great to have, and this is going to be the freshman from West Texas, A and M Abigail. Abigail. She is going to win this. And look at that fantastic time. Baybrook will be second. So she’ll take silver to go with her gold in the indoor season. And as those boards go up, those are personal best times for both of them. An incredible. 202 93 is going to win this race. Abigail. Abigail, the freshman from West Texas A&M. She holds back long enough for her full sprint down the stretch. Look at that time. 202 93 A personal best for Braybrooke, the indoor champion. She’ll run. 203 67 Jade Vance kind of lost in the shuffle back there. The Chase pack could not stay up with the top two, but Vance will take bronze. The junior from Ashland 206 28. What a race that was the women’s 800. Let’s go back to the award stand if we can, as we’re going to see the fastest woman in the country at the Division two level, not just today, not just this season, but ever. This is the podium finish for the women’s 100m. Ashley Barrett of New Mexico Highlands. She’ll be eighth place in seventh place from Barton. Just a junior, she ran a personal best 1141 that is Anaya Hextall in sixth place from Pitt State. She ran 1136 today, Deandra Gaines in fifth place at 1132. Leah Smith from Findlay. In fourth place, a personal best 11.28 from CSU San Bernardino, the senior Hayley Hunt. With a bronze medal today and a personal best 1126 from Tusculum, Azahara heart silver medal today. Another personal best 1125 goes to Alexis Hollis from central Washington, but there was absolutely no doubt who our national champion is going to be from Lenoir-Rhyne. She’s back to back. She’s still got the 200. She ran a meet best. She ran a meet record. She ran a Division two all time record. It’s wind legal. It’s 1093. Alexis Brown from Lenoir Rhyne. You can see nothing but smiles up there for our fastest women in the country this season. So congratulations to Brown. And again like we said she has the 200 still to come. We are at altitude but that is her first time under 11 seconds. So she will take that 1093 to the bank and enjoy that as she will prepare for anything that comes later this season. And of course, just a junior on the track. The competition for the best of 12.81. You can see now that the field events are mostly complete, the stands on the east side of the track starting to thin out a little bit. The women’s triple jump competition is underway on the far side. Over there you can see there are some fans, coaches, parents, athletes watching currently in that women’s triple jump. It is Central Washington’s Emmie and tech pair. She is our leader. She jumped 1326 on her third jump. That’s 43ft six inches. She’s already been at the top of the podium this season. This weekend. Geneva Bryant of Mount Olive is currently sitting second, and Michaela Miles of Embry-Riddle is sitting third. They each have two jumps remaining. The last field events of the day now starting to get underway. Our men’s javelin just started. We’ve only had two throws in the men’s javelin so they are starting. Have a whale to go. The men’s shot put will be the last event of the day. They have not yet begun competition. Both those throwing events are located outside of the bowl, so we don’t have eyes on them, but hope to be able to show you some of the top performances later on here. The next event on the track will be the men’s 800, and those athletes not quite out on the track yet. It looks like we will be having some presentation of some events, but nothing but smiles around the stadium as we enjoy this weather. Knowing that we have moved up the meet to beat the weather so nobody will be rushing to get out of here at the end of the day, or having to huddle up and stay warm or stay dry. We haven’t mentioned too many times today that the altitude here in Pueblo does make an adjustment for some of these athletes, while obviously the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference takes great pleasure in training at this all season long there, as you see, the stands on the west side with a lot of athletes here and blocked by the wind now starting to get a little bit of shade as the sun does go down or behind the clouds. The altitude here in Pueblo just a little bit higher than it is in Emporia, Kansas, where the national championships were last year. We’re 4690ft here, so there are altitude adjustments for time. But also it’s the recovery. It’s the way the athletes can train in these last few days. See how that makes a difference. Next year we’ll go back to Emporia. So they will go back down and enjoy competing at a lower elevation next season in Emporia, Kansas. The NCAA has gotten away from hosting championship track field championships in back to back years. So the last three years and next year will be alternating Pueblo, Emporia, Pueblo today and of course, Emporia. Next week you can see the 800 meter runners there getting their final run through and now making their way to the starting line. A very good field here for this men’s 800. The only difference really between the men’s and women’s field this year was the fact that in the women’s field, all those 800 meter runners from indoors all managed to come back and make the top times outdoors. While in the men’s there is a bit more variety. But as you see them standing there at the starting line from left to right, we’ll see Zion Murray from Claflin. He’ll be in lane one starting in lane two. Jonathan Rodriguez, Osorno from Texas A&M, Kingsville. Lane three, Antonio Blair in the yellow of Angelo State in lane four, Tim Anstett from CSU Pueblo in lane five, Johan Correa of Central Washington. He’s looks to be the favorite. He’s our top returner and our top qualifier. Jose Lecoudray from Indianapolis will be starting out of lane six. In lane seven, Gabe McConville of Tampa, Lane seven, Prince McCalla from West Texas A&M and lining up on the outside in lane nine from the Colorado School of Mines, located just up the road in Golden. That’ll be Tim Thompson, the junior. And it looks like they’re getting their final instructions from our starter. And will soon be on the way with this men’s 800. On your mark. It’s. And that looks like a quick start in the yellow. He may be making his way to be the head of the break. That’s Antonio Blair from Angelo State. And then moving up on the outside, wanting to quickly get to the front of the track. That is Prince Macchiavello from West Texas, A and M and behind him now settling in Johan Correa of Central Washington. So our two runners out front possibly looking to stay out there the whole time. Running wide and getting comfortable there on the outside. That is Jose from Indianapolis. But we’re going to go through the bell lap here just about 52 53 seconds on the track. So not super fast but definitely not slow below 5269. He is leading them and he is going to make everybody run around him as they go down the line. There goes the cadre from Indianapolis, just the sophomore. He is now in the lead as they go through the 600 meter mark, and he is going to lead them around the curve. You see some wobbling. One of the athletes having trouble staying inside the track when you’re that tall. Sometimes it’s hard to go around that curve. It’s definitely throwing off his cadence. And as we go down to the final sprint here look at this. It’s Jose La Quadra of Indianapolis. He is looking behind him. He sees nobody able to match him. So he is going to win this race by nearly ten meters. How about that. The sophomore from Indianapolis, Josue la Quadra running one 4816 Gabe McConville of Tampa. He’s going to be second at one 4888. And that took a personal best. Antonio Blair, who got that quick start from Angelo State. He’s going to get. 140 906 Correa, who we thought was the favorite, he had great troubles getting around that final curve. It was just like he couldn’t hold his balance as he was leaning there. So he will fade to seventh. But as we see the winner there walking to get some congratulations from his teammates. The sophomore from Indianapolis, Jose de la Cuadra. One 4816. He looks like he knew he was going to do that all along. Had a good, good plan in hand. He’ll run basically his splits 5253 and then closed with a 55. And that was the second or the fastest second 400 on the track. So well earned. Jose La Arcadia from Indianapolis.he tre going to be able to get into the final swing of our finals in the field events. It’ll take a little while to set up the hurdles. The women’s 400 meter hurdles will be next, followed by the men’s 400 meter hurdles. They will take the hurdles off. We’ll have the 200m. Want to stick around and see if those sprinters can match the 200 with their hundred? Then we’ll have our 5000 Bridgewater State. For. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado. We’re here on the campus of CSU Pueblo in the thunderbowl. You can see it is still a beautiful day here. A few more clouds than we’ve had in the past two days here. But the track and field events have been full of fire. Lots of new records, lots of personal bests, and lots of hardware handed out on this third and final day of the national championships. You can see that the hurdles are being set out on the track. That means our next event will be the 400 meter hurdles for the women, followed by the men. As you can see, it looks like most of those field events are done. We are completed with our high jump. We’ve completed our pole vault. Here is our podium finish for that men’s 100m. And he wasn’t the favorite. But the defending champion, Isaac Botsio of West Texas A&M. He knows when to turn it on. So he’s a back to back national champion. It was windy out there, but he ran a 9.9 for our gold, silver and bronze medalists, all running under 10s in a wind aided 100m. But it is a back to back championships for Isaac Botsio of West Texas A&M. To the right. There on the field you see our high jump apron. That event is complete. To the left you see the pole vault and that event is complete. The only other events that are contested in our bowl area are the long and triple jump. Our women’s triple jump competition is still going on our throwing events. You can’t really see it from here, but just beyond that parking lot, you see those three tents, the red, white and blue tents in the distance there. Those are the tents set up across the street. That is where our throwing events are. So our shot put, discus, hammer and javelin competitions taking place just on the other side of the parking lot. We’re still going there. Our men’s javelin throw and our men’s shot put throw there the final field events of the day. So that may affect our team standings on the men’s side, as it’ll be a while before those events are complete. Our women’s field events will compete. Finish up just with the women’s triple jump in that women’s triple jump. That’s towards the finish. We’re in the final round. In fact, there are just two jumps remaining in our women’s triple jump. Currently finishing in third is going to be Michaela Miles of Embry-Riddle (Florida), our leader. Our leader, Genaro Bryant of Mount Olive. She’ll have the penultimate jump. She went into the lead with her last jump at 13m, 27 just a centimeter ahead of her competitor, Emmie Cooper of Central Washington. So she’s become the leader. But in tech, pier will get the final jump. This is Geneva Bryant from Mount Olive, the freshman. She is our current leader, trying to improve on. 1327. That is 43ft six and one half inch. And you can see what looks like a good clean jump there. She’s kind of got a smile on her face as she comes out of the pit. So whether that means she knows it is not as good as the last one or not, at least a smile as she will be the leader with just one jump remaining. And here we are, following along with the live results from the web, so we should get that result just as soon as anybody. And as we still await that final mark from Bryant on the screen in the purple, you see Central Washington, she’s on the on the runway there. So in between those two athletes we see no improvement for Bryant. So Bryant at 1327, Emmie Napier from Central Washington the sophomore we’re looking at her. She’s had been our leader. She’s jumped 13 two 613 two 513 two four. So she’s clearly had the best series. But it is Bryant who has 13 to 7. So last chance here to go back into the lead. And that looked like a pretty big jump. So it’s a clean jump again the mark to beat is and she’s done it. How about that. She is excited 1333 so you saw it here live. She was leading this women’s triple jump all the way up until the fifth jump. She drops back into second, but she gets the last jump of the day and she responds. That is 43, 8.75in. That is 13m. 33. And that is a national championship. The second of the weekend for Emmie Tech here from Central Washington, the sophomore. Jake Johnson. Washburn Baylor. Senior from the university. Briscoe. In the second and Bridgewater State. Carrasco. And they’re on the award stand. You are seeing the. Results of our men’s high jump competition. Javon Harrison from Grand Valley State. Two meters, 18. That’s seven one and three quarters. So he’ll win. Grand Valley State will take first and second. So that is going to help in the team standings as Jonathan Rankins James gets a personal best 218 as well. So they both cleared 2.18. That’s seven one and three quarters. But the tiebreaker goes to Javon Harrison. So good for Grand Valley State to take home first and second. And they can be excited in the high jump. Here you see the lineup for the women’s 400 meter hurdles the hurdles all set and ready to go from the inside out. We’re going to see Natalia Rowe of Albany State. She’ll be in one. Lisa Toledo of Harding in two. Millersville of Stanislaus State in three. Brianna Greene of Fresno Pacific in four Russia. She’ll be in lane five, the junior from San Marcos. Kylie Rae will be in six from Findlay. In lane seven. She’s competing for Biola as a freshman, but she is a local Colorado high school, multiple time state champion out of Colorado Springs area. Eva Oklahoma. Correction Oklahoma never got her name right in high school, and we’re messing it up here in college. Amofah will be in lane seven. Isabel Flores of Belmont Abbey in eight and Avril Mendoza of Fresno, Pacific, will be in lane nine. And an outdoor qualifier. Kind of another fun aspect of track and field, especially at the Division two level. Obviously you get high school athletes from all over the country traveling to compete at various D2 universities. For the Colorado athletes, it’s always special to get to compete in your national championships in your home state, just as it was last year and next year. For those athletes from the state of Kansas or even the Missouri area Pittsburgh state dominating our competition for the last few years in both the men’s and the women’s division, just a couple hours east of Emporia. So feeling much like a home meet there and it looks like the gun is finally up now. So here we are. Women’s 400 meter hurdles from the inside out row Toledo real green Ray Flores and Mendoza. Lane five rusher Petrone of San Marcos. She did have the fastest qualifying time, so we always want to look to the middle of the track in lane five. But you can see she does not get off to the best start, as Brianna Green of Fresno Pacific. All the Fresno Pacific athletes seem to be stepping up on Championship Saturday. On the outside, you do have Rashaad Penny of Saint Marcos, Carly Ray from Findlay. And as they make their way around that north curve, we get a really good chance to see who the leader is. And this is Kylie Ray of Findlay and Brianna Green of Fresno Pacific. Green and Ray. One hurdle to go and they’re both clean. Fresno Pacific going to capture yet another championship. It’s been a good day for the Fresno, Fresno Pacific athletes. Brianna Green is going to run 5688. That is a personal best for her. Kylie Ray, the senior from Findlay. She’ll get silver. That’s a personal best for her at 5772. And how about that? The Colorado Kid Lulu Amofah running for Biola. She’s going to get a bronze medal in her first national championships. She’ll run a personal best 5880 Mendoza fourth, also a personal best. So the leaders, they went out there and ran hard in these 400 meter hurdles and have some personal best times to show for it. And they will all be getting some hardware on the podium in just a few minutes. Fresno Pacific always a tough track team. They don’t have as much depth as some of the other teams to compete for the national championships, but the events they are in, they place well and they have surprised throughout the day, capturing some gold medals when they were not the favorites, although as they go home with that hardware, you’d have to say they are definitely deserving. Looks like we’re going to have some awards coming up for our women’s 800m. And in eighth place there. Lika Hoogsteen, the junior from Adams State Colorado. She’ll take home eighth place in seventh place. One of the local runners all. She’s from Edinburgh, Scotland, but she’s running for CSU Pueblo. That is Leah Keisler. She will finish in seventh place in sixth place from Lincoln. Clark Giddings in fifth place from the Academy of Art. That’ll be Lena Harnick in fourth place from Azusa Pacific, Olivia Alexander. And at the top of the podium, earning bronze. The junior from Ashland Jade events. Running second. She’s going to catch a silver to go with her gold indoors. She runs a personal best. 203 67 This is Helen Braybrook. And our NCAA champion personal best. We’re hearing number six all time. 202 93 Abigail Abby Geary, the freshman from West Texas, the national champion in our women’s 800m. So some big smiles there. They know they are finished. Most of these athletes not likely to be running in R4 by 400 meter relay or the 5000m. The 800 has been such a niche event. You see a lot of smiles there, especially from Abigail from West Texas, A and M 202 93. Very impressive time for her first outdoor national championship. Well, the next event on the track, of course, will be the men’s 400 meter hurdles. And it looks like all of our hurdles have been successfully adjusted and the athletes now setting their blocks. From the inside out. You’re going to see Morris Woodring of Western Washington in Lane one, Trent Lauderdale from Stanislaus late in two, Alessio Solomon of Cal Poly Pomona will be in three. Robin Black of the Academy of Art in four. Sean Dixon of Oklahoma Baptist. He is our fastest qualifier, running 50.14. The senior Shawn Dixon will be the favorite Qerim Hamilton of Lincoln. He’ll be in lane 650 .57 qualifying. Javon Riley of Claflin in seven, Mohammed Adwani of Johnson C. Smith just a freshman. He’ll be in lane eight and on the outside, the sophomore from Lincoln, Clinton Legare. That is the field for this men’s 400 meter hurdle event. Of course, they’re chasing the record of the great Bershawn Batman Jackson. Many people don’t remember that he was a athlete running out of Saint Augustine’s. Saint Augustine’s was a powerhouse in the early 2000s, winning multiple team titles and individual titles. But Bershawn Jackson, able to run 4850 for the meet record. And earlier that season he ran 4848, which still stands as the all time Division Two record. Fastest qualifying time from Oklahoma Baptist is 50.14, so not necessarily expecting a record today, but always wanting to point out the legends who have competed here at Division Two. That record is now 21 years old, older than many of the athletes competing on the track. So. For Thomas (Maine) in the lead and won the sophomore from Western at 59 nine, 344. Ball State NCAA 84 and Upper Iowa Ohio Dominican one eight Lane from Cal Poly Columbia. Number one performance in the regular season. In lane four. 96 was third in 2023 Brown and in lane five this year. Oklahoma Baptist Boise State American champion Cabrini Charlotte Gannon six Felician. Furman. Here there should be seven. 437. One. 1537 31 the outdoor All-American last year, coming off the ride and Old Dominion Stephen F. Austin Johnson C. Smith record. Hold on. Oh, there it is. One one. One. I don’t know. He’s a sophomore from Lincoln, 1592. The first qualifying to the final. And now. And we just heard our PA announcer giving all the lane assignments for this 400 meter hurdles again from the inside out it is Woodring Lauderdale, black Dixo, Hamilton and Riley, Ardoini and Laguerre. Alcorn State. Wartburg block. Dixon. Hamilton. Brown. Cal State Dominguez Hills. Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Alessio. You can see these new mechanics that the officials have adopted in the last couple of years the starters, the assistant starters and the red. There they walk up and down the line, checking that the fingers are behind the line for every athlete. And occasionally this takes a little bit longer than hoped for. We have two officials here, two assistant starters doing that, so it takes a while. These athletes are at their marks for quite a while, but we are underway in these 400 meter hurdles. And that is quickly. Robin Black, the Academy of Art. He is in the white on white. He is in the lead. You can see his lead leg is touching down first. Muhammad of Johnson C. Smith on the outside. Currently in second place. But as the stagger starts to catch him, we look back inside to Robin Black of the Academy of Art and you can see the field seeing everybody come. So we are going to have a good race down the stretch. We’ve got black in the Academy of Art, we’ve got Dixon now from Oklahoma Baptist taking the lead. We’ve got Riley of Claflin, but it looks like first across the line. So he came on in the middle of that north curve. Shawn Dixon from Oklahoma Baptist. He’s going to be a personal best 4954. And that’s going to be a national champion ship run for Oklahoma Baptist Shawn Dixon and he takes his bow. Well earned there 4954. You can run a personal best. That’s always a good thing. Riley of Claflin, Javon Riley a personal best and the first. How about that? As we look at these results, the first seven athletes, all with a personal best today. So nothing like saving it all for when it counts the most. Dixon is first. He’s gold 4954. Riley is silver at 4987. Kareem Hamilton from Lincoln. He is also going to be sub 50. He’ll run a personal best 4989 to capture the bronze. Shawn Dixon there. The senior from Oklahoma Baptist. A well deserved cup of water. And he can now enjoy his accolades. 50 back to the award stand. Hartford Rutgers-Camden Puerto Rico. We are here. We are looking at the finalists here in our women’s triple jump. And as we get to the top there young of Cal State LA was eighth Neofytou of Minnesota State, seventh Ray of Texas A&M Kingsville was sixth. Fernandez was fifth, Washington was fourth. Getting to the top. Michaela Miles of Embry-Riddle (Florida) captures bronze today at 13m ten a personal best. Geneva Bryant just a freshman from Mount Olive, she jumped 1327 on her fifth jump. That put her into the lead temporarily. But our winner at 1333, that’s 43, 8.75in. From central Washington. Emmy pair. She won the high jump and she is going to win the triple jump. So not the most common double you ever see but our best jumper. She’ll win the high jump and the triple jump and is a two time NCAA division national champion in just one weekend. You see those triple jumpers all celebrating together. That is going to conclude all of the field events on the women’s side. So we are now seeing that there are 18 of 21 events completed. The only events remaining in our women’s competition as far as team standings are the 200m, the 5000m, and the women’s four by 400 meter relay, and the competition is still fairly close up. At the top, Pittsburg State is leading with 54.5 points, Grand Valley State is second with 51, Adams State is third with 34. They’re tied, actually with West Texas A and M they both have 34 points. Minnesota state now with 32, Central Washington with 28 and the home team CSU Pueblo, they’ve moved into the top seven. They have 27 points, which is tied with Missouri Southern. So mainly want to keep our eye on Pittsburg State and Grand Valley State. As we look at our final events. The women’s 200m is up next. And we do see an advantage here for Pittsburg State as they have one of the favorites, Deandra Gaines, the senior from Pitt State. She’ll be running in lane three. Grand Valley State does not have any competitors in this event. So as the women are setting their blocks, they’re here. They are lane assignments from the inside out. Alexis Hollis, she was second in the 100. She’ll be on the inside running that tight curve. The senior from central Washington in lane two Emma Cannon from Simon Fraser out of Canada. Haven’t had too many podium finishes yet for Simon Fraser, one of the larger universities that we do welcome from the Northland in lane three, the pre mentioned Deandra Gaines from Pittsburg State, the senior looking to score some points here that will extend that lead for the gorillas in lane four from Cal State San Bernardino. That is Haley Hunt the senior in lane five. All eyes should be on lane five. It is Alexis Brown from Lenoir-Rhyne. She won that 100m with not only a personal best, a school record, a meet record, but the all time fastest 100m. So Alexis Brown getting ready for this double in the 200. Outside of her, she’ll be chasing Colin Farrington. She won the 400 today from Southwest Baptist in lane seven. Amari Weatherford, another teammate for CSU San Bernardino. So they’ll pick up some points here with two in the finals. Hopefully on the podium in lane eight from Lincoln. The senior Shante George, looking to wrap up her outstanding career. And then in lane nine, Sariah Copeland of Fresno, Pacific. So this is the women’s 200 finals. You’ve heard these names quite a bit over the past two days, many of them sprinters, a few of them jumpers, almost all of them running relays here. But we’re going to keep our eyes focused on Alexis Brown and Lane five when you have an incredible performance like she had in the 100m, generally, that carries over and we’ll see if she’s got an exciting 200 for us as well. We might mention that the record in this event is 22.62. So. By my count, Brown may have beaten that in the preliminaries. To be honest with you, we are so excited in these preliminary competition for the past two days. We’re not always noticing the times which possibly could be records, but of course you want to do it in the finals. But our previous record set in 2013, Danielle Williams of Johnson C. Smith, she ran 2262. As I look at my cheat sheet here, Alexis Brown of Lenoir-Rhyne 2235. Not sure if that was yesterday or if that is a season best, but it’s put her in lane five in the middle, so I would assume that was what she ran yesterday, which could very well be a meet record. And it looks like they’ve had their final instructions from the clerk. This is the women’s 200. So again, they may face a slight headwind at the start of this race. But if there’s going to be any wind behind them, it would be going down that back stretch when they need it most from the inside out. Hollis Cannon, Gaines, hunt. Brown. Farrington. Weatherford, George and Copeland keep an eye on Lane five. That maroon uniform of Lenoir-Rhyne junior Alexis Brown. Women’s 200m. And looks like that one was a misfire on the gun. So if tensions were already high, they’re just going to get a little bit higher. No. No warning there. That is the gun. I believe that misfired. Brown Hollis Keene State Kenyon Brown. Here. Weatherford, George and Coker. Brown all. And a quick first curve that who you expected to be leading. That is Alexis Brown and she again establishing about that five meter lead as she comes down again the time to beat we were saying 2237 the wind there. Waiting for that wind reading as well. That would be everybody here in the stadium waiting for the oh, a fast wind, 3.7 behind. So that is going to prevent any record. But 2237 is an incredibly fast time. Farrington also under 23. She’ll run 2283. And how about that? The top three Weatherford is going to take bronze. 22, 92, 2292. Same time for George Hunt is going to be also under 23. So the wind is a plus 3.7. But you look at that. You had five athletes running under 23 seconds but leaving no doubt Farrington won the 400. She’ll be second in the 200. Alexis Brown won the 100. She easily wins the 200. So we know that Alexis Brown there. You can see she is recovering taking just a little bit longer to recover. She was celebrating after that 100 meter victory here. She’s catching her breath. But a very fast 2237 even in the wind and the altitude. And it is going to be a day to remember for Alexis Brown, just the junior from Lenoir-Rhyne. Finishing. 59 North Florida Columbus State Natalia Rowe. We’re looking at the podium finish here for the women’s 400 meter hurdles. Millersville of Stanislaus State picking up eighth place. Isabel Flores from Belmont Abbey is seventh. Natalia Rowe of Albany State is sixth. Lisa Toledo of Harding is fifth. Avril Mendoza from Fresno, Pacific, will be fourth. As we look at the top three, our bronze medal going to Biola freshman Lulu Omaha, silver to Kylie Ray, the senior from Findlay. And there is our national champion stepping her way up to the top from Fresno, Pacific the senior a personal best 5688 Brianna Green is going to be your national champion. 400 meter hurdles. A track and field fans and the finish is there 200. And. Bridgeport Cal State LA 200. And. Saw what I was doing on one. Of the lanes for you. And a sophomore at West Texas A&M, 2067. Is the agreement also contested? 105 first elected in 1979, that is James Thompson in 22. It is the senior Grand Valley State Ramapo Mount Union for. The lead three. The freshman from Johnson C. Smith three, two and three for the indoor champion in this event for 182. Tyson Williams. For. It’s the man from Harlem who wins 2039. In the three way. The people were All-American this year at 16 years old with All-American standing 100 Colorado Olivet Findlay five seniors in Pittsburg State Grand Prix one for one in the three grand championship event last year, Stanford was the sixth all time for three over 16. Seven each year from 2020 903, with a school record holder for the Fighting Action Hall. Both. Outdoor American in the Smith last year 23 and three Lynn is already on the podium once more and on the other side of the track, this is Fitchburg State Loras at 200m number three times. In the early 2015, the three decker and Charles Williams. So if you heard that public address announcer in the men’s 200, you heard the lineup. We’ll repeat it here. Lane one is going to be open that was assigned to James Dadzie from West Texas. A and M, if you remember, he came down injured in that four by 100 meter relay that the squad won. He was the third leg, and we did see him getting some treatment at the conclusion of that race. So he is out of lane one in lane two, we’ll see. Solomon Odonkor from Angelo State, Lane three, Tyson Williams from Johnson C. Smith, the freshman Lane four, Olaolu Olatunde from Harding. Lane five to Priest Hogan’s from Pitt State. Lane six. Shamar Palmer from Fresno Pacific. Lane seven, Paul Mosley from Lynn. Lane eight, Kieran Moore from Albany State. And on the outside from Pittsburgh State. That will be Dakari Charlton. He’ll be in lane nine. So two more gorillas in the lineup here as they look to extend their lead over Texas West Texas A&M. That. And not sure what happened there with the false start in this race. But right now when you look at lane four you see Olaleye with his head down. That usually means he is not wanting to hear some bad news. The worst moments of an athlete’s life. You’re not sure if it was you or you know it was you and you’re hoping they didn’t notice. But you can tell from his body language he is not expecting. Good move. Good news. You can see the starter coming over with his card and it is read. So we are going to lose lane for Olaolu Olatunde from Harding the sophomore. He will fall start his way out of the men’s 200 final. A just a terrible feeling as he heads back to the clerk’s tent. So we’ve lost two now. We’ve lost Dadzie. We’ve lost Olatunde. So again, from the inside out, we’re going to see Odonkor, Williams, Hogan’s, Palmer, Mosley, Moore and Charlton. Dupree’s Hogan’s out of lane five. The Pittsburg State red on black. You’d have to say he is the favorite, especially as he is looking outside at his most stiff competition there out quickly on the inside. It’s tough to run on the inside. Even when you get that good start, it’s harder to slingshot yourself off. They are all across as we look across the track, finishing the 200, but it does look like Dupree Hogan’s is going to cruise to victory. 20.39 is the official time for Hogan’s 20.39. Paul Mosley of Lynn is going to be second at 25 five and 20.63 for the freshman. From Johnson C. Smith. You see the wind there, a plus 2.6, so not quite as strong as it was for the women’s race, but still above the legal allowable limit at 2.6. But again, as you look at these times, the top six all under 20.9. And the other. So Dupriest Hogan’s happy with that finish. And that may be, again, what seals the deal for the gorillas in the men’s division? They are just too many points ahead of West Texas A&M. We weren’t sure at the beginning of the meet after they did not advance to the finals in the four by 100 meter relay, but just too much depth out there for Pittsburg State. So we are now looking at the award stand for the men’s 400 meter hurdles. Robin black of the Academy of Art will finish eighth. Mohammed Ardoini of Johnson C. Smith will finish seventh for Lincoln, sixth place on the podium, Clinton Laguerre in fifth place from Cal Poly Pomona. Alessio Sammarco in fourth place. Trent Lauderdale from Stanislaus State in third place, capturing the bronze medal from Lincoln Qerim Hamilton. Our second place finisher, he ran 4987 today. That’s Javon Riley from Claflin. You’re going to talk about impressive field. Everybody you see out there except for our eighth place finisher ran a personal best. But the top of the podium is Shawn Dixon, the senior from Oklahoma Baptist, getting the medal from his coach. He’ll run 4954. Shawn Dixon is our national champion in the men’s 400 meter hurdles. And we’re down to our final two events on the track, and we’re going to have one distance race for Emory. And welcome back to the Thunderbowl on the campus of CSU Pueblo in Pueblo, Colorado. We’re here this year for the 2025 NCAA Division two men’s and women’s outdoor track and field championships. We were here two years ago. We were in Emporia last year. We’re back here. We just have four races remaining on the track. And you see there the field for the women’s 5000m. So one of the races that did not have to qualify for the finals, we just took the top 22 athletes and they are here to run in their final. They are in two staggers. They’re so to give you an idea of who is in the field here, starting on our outside or our early stagger stagger, we’ve got Natalie Graber from Grand Valley State, Ava O’Connor from Adams State, Annika Esvelt from Seattle Pacific, Brianna Robles of Adams State. She was our 10,000 meter champion on Thursday night, Tristen Spence from Adams State, Jenna Ramsey Rutledge from the Colorado School of Mines, Claudia O’Malley from Grand Valley State, and a ski from Uccs Emily Schulhoff of Adams State, Kalkidan Vincendeau of West Texas A&M. And there is the start. So we’ll continue to give you the lineup as they run around that north curve. Irish Molina of Chico State, Maddie Miller of Illinois, Springfield, Katie Hughes of Adams State, Sarah Clemson of West Texas, A and M della molina of Chico State, Paige Mullen from Pitt State, Maddie McCluskey from Adams State, Naomi Idaho from West Texas, A and M, Lily Dowdell from Ashland, Elise Levell from West Texas A&M, Hannah Smith from Lewis and Mia Cabrera from Wingate. Many of those names sounding familiar, whether they ran the 10,000m or have competed in other events over the weekend, not everybody who is entered always runs this final race, the 5000. But what does happen is the athletes who had maybe not planned on running it. They see how they feel at the end. And this contingent, they are not wearing their normal fluorescent green, but you can see the front 5 or 6 runners, they’re all from Adams State. So making a team statement here, you do have Tristan Spence, Ava O’Connor, Emily Schulhoff, Maggie McCluskey and Brianna Robles, all from Adams State out there in the front wearing their white uniforms this afternoon on the track. So that will be interesting for us to see how that pans out. You would want to talk about a huge jump in the team standings. Second place. They’re the one running by herself. That is Ava O’Connor. She won the steeplechase yesterday and currently running in third place. There. You’ve got Emily Schulhoff the taller runner. She was second in the steeplechase yesterday. And next to her you have Brianna Robles who is our 10,000 meter champion. So obviously the Adams State women could be out to prove a point. And it would not be unheard of for them to sweep this race. Those of you who follow track and field and cross country, you do know that Adams State is recognized for being one of the few teams to ever sweep a cross country race at nationals, no less. They have finished one two, three four, five, six seven in a cross country race. So just a traditional powerhouse on the track and in cross country from Adams State, this is sophomore Tristan Spence. We’ve not said her name too much this weekend, but she is the one setting the pace in the 5000. You see Ava O’Connor looking back just to see where everybody else is in the field. And now that is Brianna Robles, our 10,000 meter champion who has moved up into third. Emily Schulhoff is currently running fourth, and it looks like her job may be just to be screening the rest of the athletes and not let not let them make a move. 310 on the clock is O’Connor crosses the line there with ten laps to go. Post. Now in UMass Lowell. So the last two 400 meter splits 75 76 seconds for Spence. As we go back into the field there, the large group of the field there running 78, 79. So the Adams State leaders are not content to just get the early lead. They are continuing to push this pace. Adams State currently running one, 2345 and they have another one in that next group. So we’ll see who dares challenge the Grizzlies on the track. The first non Adams State runner there is Sarah Koomson the junior from West Texas A and M. This is the 5000m. And again this race originally scheduled to run at 8:00 this evening. So those of us still here in Pueblo tonight will take a look at the weather at 8:00 this evening and probably be rooting for some rain, which would have justified this move to earlier in the day. The wind may have picked up again. This is a difficult win here. This this campus is on the outskirts of Pueblo. It’s located in the prairie, but it is a bowl. So you do get gusting winds, not always in the same direction. And not always the same strength. But we do hear a lot of cheering. Adams State Colorado just two hours away to the south. So generally you would expect a lot more fans here from Adams State than from some of the other teams, but they have done a good job of spreading themselves out around the track. So the Grizzlies, as they run this 5000 meter race, getting support all the way around the track, not just here on the home stretch. For. Second place. We’re going to take a quick jump away from the race. As you continue to see our leaders from Adams State running down the backstretch on the right hand of the screen there you’ll see the place finishers in that women’s 200. Again, the win was 3.7, so it was gusty. But you did have the top four finishers all run under 23 seconds. And as we get to the top of the podium there, you can see our top four will be Haley Hunt, the senior from CSU San Bernardino at 22.93, capturing bronze today. Amari Weatherford, also from San Bernardino, in second place. You’ve got Collin Farrington from Southwest Baptist, 2283. She won the 400. She’ll settle for second in the 200 and making her way to the top of the podium. No doubt about who the fastest D2 runner is this year. She will match her 100 meter national championship with a victory in the 200m. She runs 2237. That is Alexis Brown, the outstanding junior from Lenoir-Rhyne. So congratulations to our women’s 200 meter podium finishers. Back to the track on the left hand side there. You do see this women’s 5000m. Our leaders are on the back stretch. So as they come around the north curve they will have just over six laps to go. Still in this 5000m, Tristan Spence has been the leader from the gun. She is continuing to run 400 meter splits of 7576. Her last one was 78. Ava O’Connor running behind her 76, 78 and 80. Robles, our 10,000 meter champion, 79 and 80. So definitely not running away from the pack. But the pack is not gaining on our leaders at all. So they were not just out there to get a lead. They were out there to continue to set the pace. Adams State still running one, two, three with Spence, O’Connor and Robles. You’ve got Schulhoff leading the pack and just now making the first move in front of her is Jenna Ramsey Rutledge from the Colorado School of Mines. And you know that she has had a high podium place finish. She is the one runner who may not be intimidated by Adams State, as they are Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference foes and run against each other all the time. So under six laps to go now for all the front runners. We’ve got. Some athletes definitely have dropped off the back of the pack now, and they may be the ones who have run multiple events and really starting to strain at the end of three days at altitude. Again, this is tough for those distance runners who have come from sea level teams. You may not think that running one race at altitude ends up being a big deal, but what does happen? It does affect your recovery. So if you are trying to run a 5000 after running a 10,002 nights ago, your body is just not ready to recover. Five laps to go now for Tristan Spence, the leader. You can see her stride not slowing down at all. So there she is. Five laps to go. At 936. Ava O’Connor is still running second. Robles is third, but the field has come. So while they are still running one, two, three, Robles, the 10,000 meter champion, she held off Ramsey Rutledge in that 10,000m. They have five laps to go, but it is Ramsey Rutledge who is running faster paces right now. And the rest of the field not too far behind. Robles runs 82 on her last 400. Ramsey Rutledge 79. So you can see she is catching the front leaders. On the podium. You can see the lead there that Spence has. Just coming into view in the top of the curve. You see that second? That’s O’Connor. So the front two still with a comfortable lead. You’ll see number three coming up in the north part of the curve now. And Ramsey Rutledge has passed Robles on the podium there. You see the men’s 200 on the right hand side of the screen. Dupriest Holmes from Pittsburg State. He is going to be our winner. 20.39 the wind was 2.6, so it was fast. If anything, you can say Hogan’s was a little disappointed with a third place finish in the 100m, but he is happy to capture the crown in the 200m. The Priest Hogan’s was first. Paul Mosley of Lynn was second. And. Back to the track. They continue to make their way around this oval. 12.5 laps for this 5000m, we’re seeing the back of Tristan Spence right now as she comes off the curve. When she finishes this straightaway, she will have just three laps remaining. She still has that good stride, does not look like she is struggling at all. Her last 400 was 81, so she has slowed. Ava O’Connor her last 400 was also 81. So she is not gaining. But you can see now if you are looking at our second place runner, she’s got a little more bounce to her stride. The one that’s coming is Jenna Ramsey Rutledge from the Colorado School of Mines. She is now up into third position and looking very strong. In fourth place, Brianna Robles still falling back. Her own teammate. Has caught up to her that schulhoff. So if you’re just looking at this race, you see a lot of competition all around the track. Does look like we’ve had an athlete go down outside the race here at the. Beginning of this home straightaway. But that is not among the leaders here. As we see our leader on the track, Tristan Spence. You can see there is an athlete down there, right there on the track that is an athlete in this competition. So we hope they’re getting some medical attention sent to her. She went down on the last lap of the track, and it still looks like there is nobody rushing up. Here come our trainers. So taking care of our athletes, focusing on the track now again, Tristan Spence from Adams State. She now has under two laps to go. Ava O’Connor has about two laps to go. Ramsey Rutledge is coming. She is in third. Robles and Natalie Graber of Grand Valley State are running side by side in fourth position. And that’s big because if Graber from Grand Valley State can score some points here, Pittsburg State is not going to score in this event. So this could actually be a big factor in our team scoring. So we need to keep an eye on Natalie Graber of Grand Valley State. She is currently running side by side in that fourth and fifth position on the track. We’re going to focus on the finish of this race and hopefully we will stay on our leaders. She’s coming down the home stretch here. There you see her in the white wearing hip number. 18. It is Tristan Spence. And as she crosses that finish line she is going to have one lap to go. And she hasn’t assembled about an 80 90 meter lead. So barring catastrophe she’s going to win. She has one lap to go at 15 minutes on the clock. Ava O’Connor is still running. Second, she is going to have about a 40 or 50 meter lead on Ramsey Rutledge. But behind Rutledge, you have Natalie Graber of Grand Valley and Brianna Robles of Adams State. They are within striking distance, so the first five now are on their last lap. And a force of UK’s Naomi Ado of West Texas A&M and Claudia malley of Grand Valley State are competing there. O’Malley is currently in eighth place, which would be more points for Grand Valley State. And as we are looking at our team totals, there are two events remaining to be scored and Pittsburg State, with just a three and a half point lead over Grand Valley. So we are going to see something here, but let’s talk individually. Adams State they’re not out of it yet. They’re in third place and they are going to pick up major points in this 5000 Tristian Spence here. She is going to win this 5000m just about 1616 on the clock. So Adams State is going to get gold. Ava O’Connor is going to get silver. And look at this. This may be something to look at for the team title from Grand Valley. This is Natalie Graber. She has made a run. She is going to try and get third. Here comes Robles, the 10,000 meter champion. The Grand Valley is going to get third place. That is big points for Grand Valley. Spence is going to run 1616. O’Connor 1628 Natalie Graber. We’re going to remember this one. We’re going to bookmark her third place finish. 1639 Robles will take fourth, so Adams State will be one, two and four. Ramsey Rutledge, who made that valiant effort. She will fade to fifth. That 1640 Claudia O’Malley with a strong finish, is going to finish sixth. So Grand Valley, if Grand Valley State wins this overall team competition, it is going to be because of this 5000m. Emily Schulhoff of Adams State. She was right there from the beginning. She’s going to finish seventh. And our final podium finish from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, that’s going to be Anna Felski. She is going to run 1650 43. So all eight podium finishers, all 1650 or better. And there you see them on the screen. But that third and sixth place finish by Grand Valley State, that is going to be a huge factor. We’re looking at the entries in the women’s four by 400 meter, and neither team is competing in that event. So once these final results get posted, I think Grand Valley State is going to win our women’s team title, but nothing is official until the computer says so. So we are going to enjoy this celebration. We’re going to let the Grand Valley State and Pitt State coaches do the math in their heads. They generally know, but you can say or you can see the Adams State runners. That was quite an impressive 5000 meter for the women. Adams State was 17 points behind Grand Valley, and they are going to pick up major points with a first, second and fourth and seventh place finish. So I’m not even going to bother with the math. I’m going to wait till the computer does it. We’ll keep an eye on this women’s team race. But as we look at the 4×4, Pitt State does not have a team. Grand Valley State does not have a team, and Adams State does not have a team. West Texas A&M does have a team that is seeded high, but again, they are currently in fourth place in the team standings and even a ten point victory will not be enough for them to move into the top three. You can see there, we’re looking at Grand Valley State giving up her shoes for the shoe inspection, but it looks I I’m sensing it. I think Grand Valley State is going to sneak in and win this. And there the scores are in. And sure enough wow. Unofficially now of course. But with one event remaining, Grand Valley State has 60 points. Adams State has 59, Pittsburg State has 54.5. So you want to talk about an amazing five K that will be replayed over and over again. If Grand Valley State hangs on and wins this by just one point, you are going to go back and look at this women’s 5000 where Adams State went one, two, four and seven. Grand Valley State went three and six, and there were some sprint finishes there on both sides. Graber held off Robles to get third. O’Malley held off Schulhoff to get sixth, less than a second separating those, and that may very well be the difference in this. Women’s chase, and we have no reason to think that these times or these places and these team scores won’t hold up. And we do invite you to join us at the conclusion of our final event and the presentation of the awards in these four by 400 meter relays, we will have the presentation of the team trophies. And we’re going to take a look. Those are the women’s standings after that 5000m. And it could be not more exciting. And if you have tuned in cheering for Grand Valley State, I think you can feel awful confident right now that your team may be bringing home a national championship. Adams State just one point off, and their strategy to go out and dominate that 5000m, it paid off because they were well back in third. They were tied with West Texas A and M at 34 points. So they picked up 25 points in one event. But Grand Valley State picks up nine and moves to the lead. Pittsburg State they may be done with competition. They sit third at 54.5. They’re to the defending team champion West Texas A and M as we said, they do have a team in the 4×4. And even if they do score the max ten points, their 44 points would not be enough to move into the top three. Okay, it looks like they’re lining up over on the far side for the men’s 5000. Again, we are going to have 22 athletes competing for the finals. Not sure if everybody is going to race who is entered, but we’ll run down the list real quick. Interest from Lee Dawson Gannon of Mines, Joaquin Campos of Wingate, Antonin Saint-Pierre of Wingate, Juan Rosales of Adams State, oet. Baraki of Adams State. Cameron of Colorado School of Mines. Avery Jaynes from Augusta. Lars Larose from Wingate. Kevin McDermott from Western Washington Matthew Oglesby, from Pitt State Hamza Shaheed, from Wingate. Colby Fraser, from Grand Valley State Evan Haugen, from Lewis. Adrian, from West Texas A and M Dayton Brown, from Adams State. Ryan Hartman from Augustana, Ryan Riddle from Missouri Southern, William Amponsah from West Texas, A and M Curtis Begashaw from Adams State, Luke Pope from Wingate and Chowan Legree from Wingate. So you see what happens here. These athletes can run their 10-K or their five K here at some point during the season and establish that mark. Now, if they qualify for the 10-K, the five K, the steeplechase, maybe even the 1500, they may choose not to run all the races that they have qualified for, but they do get an opportunity to declare. And then, of course, that decision can be made at the conclusion of their other races. So it looks definitely looks like a full field here. All 22 athletes Wingate will score some major points in this event. We know that. And you can see now as the two staggers come together, there may be our favorite Chitwan Legree. He was the winner of the steeplechase last night. He finished second in the 1500. One of the great distance runners, the senior from Wingate, leading their contingent. So this may be equivalent to Adams State in that 5000. The women scored 2425 points in the 5000 to propel them to second place in the men’s standings. We do have a few more events because we have two field events still underway in our men’s competition. Unfortunately for Wingate, they do generally not score in the field events, but they are going to pick up some major points here in this 5000. They’re currently fifth with 35 points. Harding has 37, Grand Valley State has 40, West Texas A&M has 56, and I think Pittsburg State may be out of reach. They have 87 points leading the men’s competition. This is. Brevard Campbell. And you can see Defiance here. Adams State women. They just went out. They had five running at the front from the beginning. Their lead two escaped and never got caught back. You see there this slow pace. Tetuan. Legree, he’s running the pace. He just basically steps aside. He says, I am not going to lead this race. He steps to the side, beckons them to come in. We are going out at what many athletes would call a jog. If you look at the actual pace here, it’s not a jog at all. For these athletes competing in this 5000. But while they will, they will stay in a big pack here. As they’re coming off the curve. You’re going to see that we do have. A group at the award stand. It’s been a while since they finished. But at the award stand here. This is the men’s 800 completed just a little bit earlier this afternoon. Eighth place going to Rodriguez Arsenault from Texas A&M Kingsville. Thompson from the Colorado School of Mines is seventh. Johan Carriere of Central Washington is sixth. Tim Anstett from CSU Pueblo is fifth. Zion Murray of Claflin is fourth and the top three spots bronze going to Prince Bello from West Texas, A and M silver going to Antonio Blair of Angelo State, and gold and the national championship going to the Indianapolis sophomore, Josue La Cuadra. So he will stand on top of the podium and celebrate this 800 meter victory. The catheter runs one 4816. And those presentations took just about a lap on the track. And as we come back and we look to see who the leaders are, we’ve got William Amponsah from West Texas, A and M now running at the front, not pushing the pace at all. They are just running in one big pack. They ran their. First 600 in about 220. Since then they’ve been knocking off 400 in 67, 62 and 62. So quite content correction 77 and 72. So they’ve been content to go out for an easy jog. We’ll see at what point this 5000 meter race truly begins. But that’s Amponsah out front 72 on his last split Lars Larose of Wingate moving up towards the front. He ran 70 to get there while a wet break of Adams State. He’s currently third. He ran 73. So you can see as these athletes move from the back to the front of the pack, they are all just really, you know, they run so much in practice. They’re just going out for what would be a practice run with their teammates, seeing how they feel. And at some point there will be at least one on the track who feels good, who says, Altitude’s not going to bother me here in Pueblo, and I will go ahead and give it a run. We’ve got 3200m to go, eight laps we’re at 533 on the clock. So the pace not picking up at all, just about 73 for all of the runners at the front. But as they do go around that south curve and head down the backstretch, it does look like now they have picked up the pace a little bit. Aponsu is running out in the front. Lars Lawrence of Wingate is second and you can see we have gone from that big pack that was all together. The field has stretched out, not quite to single file, but that does mean that the pace has increased. So we’ll see who is ready to go with William Amponsah as he has stretched out. You can see him looking behind him there to see is everybody coming? Will he crank it up a notch into the next gear or will he be content? But the pace is definitely, definitely faster now. A wet break from Adams State the boys also wearing the white on white as we move into these final event of the day. They’ve got seven laps to go. Pace has picked up after 72 and 73 400 meter splits. That last one was 77, so the pace has picked up and it looks like most of the field have gone with them. As the pace went six seconds faster at the front of the pack. We’re reading the splits and it looks like it also went 5 to 6 seconds faster at the back of the pack, so they’ve only lost one off the back of the pack. As the pace has increased and we’ll see what Amponsah has done with it as he continues to be the leader. The Adams State runners Baraki and Begashaw are content to sit in second and third as we look for. Legree. Legree is sitting back in eighth place right now, still within striking distance, but not trying to expend any more energy than necessary. You can kind of draft in track and field. It’s not so much drafting as in cycling where you’re using the wind, but when you are running with somebody else and you match strides with them, it is much easier than running by yourself. But as we look here on the back stretch now, as they have just about six and a or correction five and a half laps to go, you can see the front three have said, okay, enough is enough. We are going to pick up this pace and see who comes with us. This is William Amponsah from West Texas, A and M, a wet track from Adams State, and Curtis Bagshaw, also from Adams State, two seniors and a junior. But it is the seniors now who may even have broken away yet again and are running by themselves. Baraki has been here many times, been the leader in this and other races, never quite seems to be able to hold on. We’ll see if he can stay on with Amponsah now, as they have under five laps to go on the track. Curtis Bagshaw the junior from Adams State. He’s the one that finds himself in no man’s land. He cannot stay up with the leaders. He doesn’t want to immediately fall back, but he is out there by himself and you can see it is windy as they come off that curve. The chase pack. That’s Ryan Hartman from Augustana in the yellow on blue. He is currently in fourth overall, but he is at the front of a pack of about. Almost 16 runners there. There are only three off the back completely, but they are clearly not running the same pace as our leaders are. Amponsah and Baraki. They are running full stride here now. Their last 400 meter split was the 65 that we mentioned earlier. They’ve got four laps now, just under a mile to go for Amponsah and Baraki and their last 400 meter split even faster. So they are just getting faster and faster on the track. 64 for Amponsah and Baraki, and it looks like Amponsah may now have finally broken Baraki. Chowan last year, the national Championships. Amponsah was second in this race, but he did win the 10,000m. And he feels very good at this point. Head back, arms pumping, looking behind him, he knows that he has broken baraki. The question is, is can he maintain this or will he find his second wind? They’ve now got three laps to go and you can see the difference there. Just about 30 yard lead. Bagshaw holding his own in third place from Adams State. Hartman still chasing. You can see Bagshaw just crossing the line at 1111. Hartman from Augustana in the yellow. He is leading that pack. They are not gaining at all and ponsa with another 65. Baraki has slowed to 68. Bagshaw 69. The chase pack. Hartman 68. Dayton Brown of Adams State runs a 67, so he has moved up in that chase pack, and you can see they are about to catch Bagshaw for third. But as we look around the course there. Just 900m left out of the 5000 and there is no slowing down for William Amponsah. Baraki is struggling, but he’s got a nice lead. The pack is coming. They may catch Bagshaw right here down the home stretch. Ryan Hartman of Augustana, Dayton Brown of Adams, Kevin McDermott. Legree is not going to factor into this race. He is sitting back in about 12th position with two laps to go. And he’s coming off the curve for the penultimate time down the home straightaway. William Amponsah, the senior he is the defending national champion. In the 10,000. He won the 10,000, actually the two time defending champion as he won that the last two years. He was second in this race last year, so trying to get his third gold medal. Amponsah there is no looking back. We’re going to have one lap now and we have got a race. Baraki it is Dayton Brown of Adams State moving up into third and now into second place. Hartman from Augustana will go into or he will challenge for third. Adams State running second and third now. But Hartman moving into third down the back stretch. So Baraki is done. He is not going to pass anybody else. But while you can’t see them, we’re just going to take one final look at the senior from West Texas and A&M, William Amponsah. This is going to be his final 100m as an NC double. A athlete at West Texas A&M. He is sprinting to the finish line. Dayton Brown is coming, but he’s just too far back. Amponsah is going to win this 5000m to go with his 10,000 meter crown. And Ponca is done. Dayton Brown we are going to have a chase. Here it is Bagshaw who has come back. Bagshaw is going to come back and get fourth. So as we look at the results now scrolling across our computer and Ponca is going to be the winner at 1426, Dayton Brown, the senior, he was back in that chase pack for most of the race. He’ll run 1429. He ran a 60 flat 400 for the final time. So the fastest 400 on the track was Dayton Brown. He runs 6060 flat final 400m after running 4600m before that, Dayton Brown is going to get silver. Ryan Hartman of Augustana, he led that chase pack. He’s going to get bronze. Kudos, Begashaw. He fell back, but then finished strong to get fourth. Colby Fraser from Grand Valley. He’s going to be fifth. A wet baraki who was at the front for most of the race, fell back to second. Could not hold off the pack. He’s going to finish sixth but another podium finish for the senior from Adams State. You see the times there. Lars Larose from Wingate will be seventh and that final podium spot is going to go to Wingate Hamza Shaheed. You can see the times for all of the other finishers. All 22 athletes registered in this event. They did compete, but there you see the winners and it is going to be. Amponsah collecting his third national championship and first in the 5000m. And we know the women are down to just one event. It’s going to be the 4×4 hundred. The men still with three events to be scored after this 5000, we still have field events going on again. We don’t see them here because they’re across the street, but the men’s javelin looks like it actually may have just finished the men’s javelin. And it’s not going to surprise anybody to hear that. Pittsburg State will take gold in the men’s javelin. Caleb Calvin, the senior from Pitt State. He throws 7594 on his very last throw of the competition. He was already in front, but he his mark, 249ft two inches will establish his standing as our national champion in the javelin. Waldbauer from Northwest Nazarene is second and Chris Fredericks from East Stroudsburg will take home a bronze medal. The other field event that is actually also just completed. So the timing is great. As our field events have complete, they haven’t been officially scored yet, but they are complete. Our men’s shot put looks like our winner is going to be. Ronald Grueso Mosquera of Texas A&M Kingsville. He’ll throw 18 and 92 on his third attempt, and it looks like that is going to hold on for the win. Cameron Belton of Southern Connecticut State will be silver and Cole Gorham from East Stroudsburg will be three. So East Stroudsburg picking up a pair of bronze medals in the men’s javelin and the men’s shot put as we wrap up our field events. So they are complete but not scored, they will go into the scorebook, I’m sure, before we get to the men’s four 4×4. So we will be able to tell you exactly what the team scores are. But Pitt State safely ahead of West Texas A&M. We believe Wingate did not pick up a lot of points. Neither did Adams State in that last race or enough points to move into the top three. But we will give you the update as we get ready. What we are looking at here was the race of the day. As it turns out, Adams State women scoring 25 points in this race. And of course Grand Valley State picking up their all important points to propel them to the lead. So here are the results of the women’s 5000 and a false key of UC’s will finish in eighth place. Emily Schoellkopf in seventh, Claudia O’Malley in sixth, Jenna Ramsey Rutledge in fifth position, Brianna Robles. She won the 10,000, but she’ll be happy with her fourth place finish here from Adams State Natalie Graber. That may be the one she’s happy. Not only did she earn a bronze medal, but holding off Robles may have been the difference in the team title as well. It’s too bad they didn’t know that on the track. Ava O’Connor from Adams State. She won the steeplechase. She will add silver in the 5000 and Tristan Spence, just the sophomore from Adams State, again getting the trophy from her coach. And you can see big smiles up there for Spence and O’Connor, but also for Graber. Spence runs 16, 16, 11 and she will be, as you see on the board there, our 5000 meter women’s national champion. And as we look at the south end of the track there, this is always that happy slash sad time at the end of a big track meet. We’re just about finished. The athletes are happily recovered, most of them, many of them anyway, celebrating their victories, holding their hardware. It’s a good feeling when you know that a meet is over. You’ve worked hard. Your body feels that overall satisfaction of having worked hard and competed to your fullest. Yet it is sad. There’s always a sadness at the end of a meet that it is over at the end, but we are not quite finished. We do have our four by 400 meter relays, and you see the women there in the clerk’s tent. They are waiting to be brought out And we are back for the final time to Pueblo, Colorado. We’re at the Thunderbowl on the campus of CSU Pueblo. This has just been an incredible three days of track and field. We can’t say that the weather hasn’t been a factor at all. We’ve had some wind aided times, but the temperature has been just about perfect, maybe a little bit on the hot side for our field event and our distance runner athletes, but they have not complained many fantastic times. We’ve had some national records, some all time D-2 records. We’ve even had some incredible. Finishes that have led to many school records. We’re going to head to the final races of the day, and of course, everyone knows that the 4×4 always closes out the individual events. A little bit of drama is always good. We’re not going to get any team drama after that. Women’s 5000 on the women’s side, because our top three teams in our team scoring do not have any entries in this four by 400 meter relay, but you can bet Pittsburg State and Adams State wish they did because as we head into this final event, our team scores are showing that Grand Valley leads with 60, Adams State has 59, Pittsburg State has 54.5, and again, none of them are entered in this final race. But for the teams in the 4×4, nothing is more important than winning the last race of the season. So here is the lineup now for this women’s 4×4 in lane one it’ll be Texas A and M Kingsville in lane two. University of Mary Lane four three will be Northwest Missouri State in Lane four. West Texas A and M they’re currently in fourth place overall in the team scoring, but they are 21.5 points behind third. So even a victory here is not going to help them in the team scoring in lane five. You’d have to say our favorite based on the preliminary times, that’s Lincoln. They are out of Jefferson City, Missouri in lane six Fresno Pacific in lane seven, Southwest Baptist. They are featuring colony Farrington. She was the 400 meter individual champion. She was second in the 200. She is scheduled to be our second runner for Southwest Baptist, so obviously that will make them a factor. Cal State San Bernardino is in lane eight. They’ve had a very good championships and Findlay is out in lane nine. Their anchor runner is scheduled to be Kylie Ray. Not that it was a surprise to Kylie, but she placed silver in the 400m, so lots of the athletes now getting to experience possibly their final race, the seniors, maybe their final competition ever. Some of them will go on to compete in age group championships or even in international competition. Many of these athletes will continue their careers either as professionals, amateurs or masters. But always a bittersweet time for some of the athletes and their parents for after eight or more years of competition and traveling around the country competing in track meets, this could be the last one on the track, but here we go. They’re in their blocks Texas A&M, Kingsville, you, Mary Northwest Missouri, West Texas A&M, Lincoln, Fresno Pacific, Southwest Baptist, CSU, San Bernardino and Findlay. It is anybody’s race but Lincoln with the fastest qualifying time. Quickly out there Fresno Pacific. They have continued to surprise us all weekend long. Fresno Pacific never the favorite in any race, but they have taken home one more than one championship title. So always keep an eye out on Fresno Pacific and the women’s race. They’re currently in seventh place, but if they could get a victory here, that could move them up as high as fourth, depending what the other teams do. Fresno Pacific running here in lane six, you can see they have made up the biggest mark of the stagger. But keeping an eye on lane three northwest Missouri State as well. This is a three curve stagger. So even as they hand off here at the finish line we don’t know exactly who has the lead. It looked like the first handoff did go to Fresno Pacific. They’re on the outside as you see them working towards the pole. But also it does depend on what these second runners exactly try to do on the track. For Southwest Baptist moving to the lead that is calling Farrington again. She was first in the 400, second in the 200, so she is closing out her national championships with a big run. This may be the last time we see Farrington running this 100m down the stretch, and she is going to give it everything. She has the veteran, so you can expect them to have a big lead. Fresno Pacific currently running second. And this is Findlay with a big push. And that looks like that might be Kylie Ray, who was the second place finisher overall in the 400 at the midway point. A terrible exchange for our leader, but Southwest Baptist is going to be the lead. Just an awful exchange. Cost them probably five yards of their lead, but you can see that lead is getting bigger down the stretch. But holy moly, look who’s coming. Wow. Look at this run down the backstretch. It’s always interesting to see if they can hold that as they come around for the second 400. Lincoln, though they were the favorites and that was just an incredible backstretch run by Chevonne Thomas. And they have the lead. But look at this. This is going to be one heck of a quarter leg. This is exactly what we want to see at the end of a big track. Meet the 4×4. We have four teams right there at the lead. And any one of these four could easily win the national title. Look at that go. Lincoln Fresno Pacific, Southwest Baptist and Findlay. And we’ve got another two teams breaking into that. Northwest Missouri State is coming and CSU Santa Barbara. So you stack your teams differently. It’s not always that you put your fastest person on the anchor leg, but this is going to be one heck of 200 meter finish. Look at this. Six teams. Any one of these six who has the strongest anchor leg that’s going to finish it. Holy moly. This is a lot of fun. They are coming across three across as they come down the stretch. This is Northwest Missouri State in the green. Lincoln on the inside Lincoln and northwest Missouri State. Oh my gosh it is going to be Lincoln. What a finish that was. That was so much fun. Lincoln is going to run. Three 3262 Northwest Missouri. They came from way back on that anchor leg. 5108 400m split for northwest Missouri. And you can see the times they’re all of those just within a couple of seconds, Southwest Baptist will fade to sixth, but an incredible run here. Lincoln is going to win it. Northwest Missouri Silver Fresno Pacific will take the bronze. That was so much fun to watch. And the best part of that is, you know that every single one of those athletes gave it their best all the way to the end. There was no the meet’s over. I’m just going to run this 400 because I have to. They all ran with everything they have. And as you look at the finish line there, you can see some of the athletes are up getting a drink walking around. They are generally the first, second or third legs there. You see Lincoln just helping each other stand up. But that was an impressive, impressive performance for the stars out of Lincoln. Lincoln’s based in Jefferson City, Missouri, and that team of Chanel, Clark Giddings, Brittany Brown, Chevonne Thomas and Shante George. They have been together for a long time. And we hope that you can hear the Nat sound coming from the crowd here as we get ready for our final race. The men in the 4×4, they’re taking their runouts here down the home stretch, and we’ve got all the fans of all the teams that are still here. We got a great crowd here on the west side of our stadium. Most of them are in the shade from the press box. The wind definitely has picked up a little bit, but it’s still a warm wind. The temperature in the mid to low 70s. And again, this is just a fun part of track and field. Seeing the teammates, the fans, the parents, the coaches just cheering their athletes on. I think we’re going to be able to have time to show one more podium finish here before we get ready in our last race. This is the men’s 5000m, and you can see they’re already on the podium in eighth place. That was Hamza Shaheed, so he’ll score for Wingate the senior, in his final meet. And in seventh place, Lars Larose from Wingate. So Wingate is going to pick up a few more points. Satan seventh in sixth place, a wet baraki from Adams State in fifth place from Grand Valley State. It’s Colby Fraser, in fourth place from Adams State, Kidus Bagshaw in third place, capturing the bronze medal today with a great finish. That was Ryan Hartman of Augustana, our silver medalist. He came from way back. You can see the unique hairstyle he’s featuring there. When we see him running around the track, he looks like a ginger. And when we see him going down the backstretch, a brunet Dayton Brown of Adams State. And there’s our champion. So he won the 10,000m. He now will add the 5000m and pull off that double. That is William Amponsah from West Texas A and M two championships in the 10,000m. And he holds on here and is also a 5000 meter men’s national champion. That’s William Amponsah. He ran 14 2623 today. And as we get ready now for our men’s race, we are still missing one of our field events in our team scoring. But I do believe Pittsburg State is going to be uncatchable. They currently have a 31 point lead over West Texas A and M, and for West Texas A and M they’re 4×4 team did not make the finals. Grand Valley State is currently third at 44. They are in this race. But even ten points can’t help them unless they scored well in this other field event that has not been scored. So we’ll keep an eye on it just to let you know, but we’re going to get ready for the men’s 4×4 and hope that it was becomes exciting. As exciting as the women’s. Lots of excitement here. Some people get tired at the end of a meet. Those of us that are still here ready to cheer are excited because the sun is shining and we’ve got a 4×4. Here are the teams that are going to try and win one more medal. Chico State will be running out of lane one. Angelo State in two, Grand Valley State in three. Lincoln will be in four. Can the men match their women and pick up a gold medal? Lubbock Christian will be in five. Pittsburg State. They’ve won the team title. It’s always nice to go out with an exclamation point. So Pittsburg State trying to win this 4×4. The Academy of Art always has a good team there in lane seven. Emporia State. As we mentioned yesterday, they hosted this meet last year and they’ll host it again next year. So the Emporia State quartet trying to keep the mojo going for Emporia, Kansas and outside in lane nine it’s going to be Texas A and M Kingsville. They’ll round out the field here in this 4×4. Always stories to watch. But if you are a fan of one of these teams, you know more stories than we do. And you know how much work and effort go into the track season. And that’s what makes this 4×4 so special. We don’t end with an individual event. We end with a team event. And as we look around, it’s great to see we’ve got so many team camps set together in the front row or around the bowl, around the stadium, cheering on their athletes. If you’re a track fan, we know you’ve been to a local meet where you will get the athletes on the field during the 4×4 and either lining the straightaways or running back and forth across the field to cheer for their athletes as many times as possible. We’re underway. This is the final event of the 2025 men’s National Championships, the 4×4 Academy of Art. On the outside, they’ve made up their portion of the stagger. We’ve also got Lincoln in lane four. They’ve made up the stagger in the inside. So again, we do remind you it’s a three curve stagger. And the mile relay or the 4×4 is often won in the last ten meters before the exchange. You’ve got some athletes finishing strong, some slowing down. There is so much change in this last ten meters before the exchange, and just how quickly that exiting runner gets out. That’s is where you win or you lose the 4×4 around the south curve. Before we head to the break, it looks like the leaders are going to be on the outside. You see Pitt State there in the red. It looks like they are going to settle into second place. I believe that is Lincoln in the lead. So they are trying to match their women. They say what they did that is always going to inspire your men’s team. If you have seen what the race ahead of you has done, and as we come down this homestretch, we’ve got Lincoln, Pitt State and Pitt State has got that strong finish. They’re looking for that exclamation point. And at the midway point of this race, it is going to be Pitt State in the lead. 46 seconds for the second leg from Pitt State Academy of Art is running second Lincoln third. Here comes Lincoln though they are now back into second place. Just an exciting race here. You see every athlete giving it all. They have these big strides on the north curve. They come off the curve for the final time. They see their teammates waiting for them. It’s Pitt State and Lincoln at the close of this third leg, and we are going to head into the last lap of the championships. Pittsburgh states, our team champion, and they’re going to hand off in the lead. And wouldn’t you know it, you might recognize that leader for Pitt State, Nate Watson. He came from way back earlier to win the 400. Lincoln has gone into the lead, but we know Pitt State is just waiting. This is going to be one heck of a finish. Lincoln trying to match the women. We see their women. They’re screaming. Pitt state’s won the team title. They came back to win the 400. He looks strong down the stretch. We know he’s done it before. And look at this. If you want to say exclamation point for Pittsburg State they are going to win their fourth national title as a team, and they are going to do it with a huge exclamation point. Chowan Chapman Caden Williams, Dupriest Hogan’s Nate Watson A season best 303 95. And that is going to be multiple multiple gold medals for some of those athletes from Pittsburg State. Well deserved. Lincoln is going to hang on just barely. So the men will take silver to the women’s gold. And it’s Texas A&M Kingsville who had a very, very, very fast finish 4639 last 400 meter split for Texas A&M Kingsville Academy art will be fourth. Grand Valley State will be fifth. That will help them in the team points, but probably not enough to move up in any positions. You look at that. Those last anchor leg splits across the line 46, 45, 45, 46 and 46. Just incredible performances. But there you see three of the Pitt State Gorillas. There they are, the four Pitt State gorillas, Chapman, Williams, Hogan’s and Watson. Not a better way to end the national championships than winning the 4×4. And 303 95. That is not just a token time. That is an incredible time. And believe it or not, that is going to wrap up our competition both on the track and in the field. We still have a lot more to bring you. We’ll show you the awards presentations for final field event. And this 4×4 you can see those Pittsburg State gorillas running, walking just a little bit stiffly. If you’ve ever run the 400 all out, you know exactly what that is about. But celebrations are continuing for Pitt State. It’ll be a nice ride back to Pittsburg, Kansas. Just about nine hours to the east of here. It’ll be a little bit easier for them next year. The national championships again in Emporia, Kansas, just about a two hour drive from Emporia to. Emporia, Kansas. On the podium. Now we do see the finalists, podium winners on the men’s javelin in eighth place. That is Evan Olson from Oklahoma Baptist, seventh place going to Luke Stefanowski from East Stroudsburg. Sixth place will go to Deion Malaznik from Fresno Pacific, fifth place to Ryan Flournoy from Embry-Riddle (Florida) fourth place to Garrett Strange of Missouri Southern bronze to Chris Fredericks from East Stroudsburg silver to Lawrence Waldbauer from Northwest Nazarene. And if we had an exclamation point on the track, how about an exclamation point in the men’s javelin, the field event, it is Caleb Calvin, the senior from Pitt State, adding yet another ten points to the gorilla total. He’ll throw 7594. That’s 249ft, two inches. And yet another individual champion for the team champions from Pittsburg State. Congrats to Caleb Calvin. And again, we’ve mentioned this a little earlier. And throughout the three days of the national championship, a very nice tradition that the NCAA Division two has maintained. Whenever possible, the coach of the winning team or the winning individual athlete does get to present the awards. So it is always a little bit of a happier moment when your own coach gets to present you with a national trophy. So by my count, we’re going to have two more presentations. We’re going to have presentations of the. Four by 400 meter relays. And of course our team trophy presentations as always. Navy Championship this year. You can see there in the awards tent, there are still a lot of trophies to be handed out. Of course, when you have the four by 400 meter relays, that is going to be eight times two times four. So a lot of those trophies will go to the relays. But the bigger ones you see there, the bigger ones will go out to the team. Champions. Tough to tell from that picture if we’re going to go bronze, silver and gold for our teams. But The. And welcome back to Pueblo, Colorado for the final time. Our events are complete. We just have some award presentations to go for you here from the Thunderbowl at the campus of CSU Pueblo, you are looking at the top eight finishers here of the men’s shot put. Eighth place went to Tyler Hiatt of Sioux Falls, seventh place to David Guzman of Texas A&M Kingsville. Sixth place to Clemson McKay from San Marcos in fifth place from Pittsburg State. Cole Sample in fourth place from Missouri Southern will be Sedrick Pearson. And at the top of the podium, earning the top three medals. It’ll be bronze for Cole Gorham of East East Stroudsburg It will be silver for Cameron Belton from southern Connecticut State, and our gold medal in the men’s shot put, a season best 18m 92, that is 62ft one inch from Texas A&M Kingsville. Ronald Grueso Mosquera. He is our national champion in the men’s shot. Put. Those awards just look so small in some of these shot putters hands. Trust us there. They’re all the same size, but a very impressive victory there for Mosquera from Texas A&M. Kingsville a season best in the last event of the season. Always a pleasant time here. We’re so glad we bumped up this meet a few hours track time here is 509. So on the original schedule we would be just getting started and running our women’s four by 100 meter relays and hoping to hold off the weather. But here we are, complete on the track and in the field events at 510. All of our final award presentations. Are on their way. We’ll have just the awards in the four by 400 meter relays for both the women and the men, and that should enable us to very quickly get into our team trophy presentation. So four more times with us there, and then we’ll be able to say goodbye and see you next year in Emporia State. You can see the a lot of fans here, nobody in a rush to leave the storms generally roll in from the west there, and you can see it isn’t a clear sky. We can’t see the mountains like we did the first two days, but the cloud clouds are still cloudy and bright. No gray storms coming in yet, but we will obviously want to Hope and have all of our teams get underway if they are heading home today. You can see that white tent that has been there on the middle of the football field all weekend long, hosting all the trophies, and our athletes now really getting to enjoy the celebration of not only a successful weekend, but a successful season. Most of these athletes are done. A few will move on to national competition for their countries. The US championships will be held in Eugene, Oregon. Of course, we know we have a number of athletes competing here today who have qualified for not only the USA Track and Field Championships, but their own countries. Maybe 1 or 2 of these athletes here will make the world team for the United States or again, their own countries. A lot of international athletes competing at the D2 level, all hoping to qualify in the World Championships, which are in Tokyo at the end of August and early September. But for the most part, the season is done. Some of these athletes can. Eat whatever they want to tonight and enjoy the trip home, celebrate their accomplishments with their families and their teammates. CSU Pueblo a successful two out of three years for the national championships, they had some places for the local team two years ago, which was always nice to see. But this year, two national champions on the CSU Pueblo side with some runner ups along the way, you can see they’re still just trying to figure out all the relay teams, make sure everybody is here. So we’re going to take another quick break. We’ll be back for the award presentations in the 4×4, followed by our team champions. On the road. Bryant. Here we are assembled and ready to do the award presentation for the women’s 4×4. It was simply electric is the only way I can describe that. Presenting the awards is the head coach from Lincoln. That is Aileen Smith. We will start with the 18 335 two Chico State of the Texas A&M. And welcome back one more time to our awards presentation at the 2025 NCAA D2 National Championships. This is the four by 400 meter relays for women, and it was a fantastic race. We had the top seven teams all together down the stretch at the end, and all seven set personal best times. So seven eighth place West Texas A and M the only team that didn’t run a personal best, but heck, they were out there competing just as hard. You Mary was seventh place. They ran three 3517. In sixth place. Southwest Baptist they ran three 3442. They were the leaders early in fifth place, Cal State University, San Bernardino. They ran a personal best three 3412. Fourth place went to Findlay. They ran three 3372 at the top of the podium, earning bronze. Today, Fresno Pacific, that team of Copeland, Randolph, Hayslip and Green they’ll run three 3312. Our silver medalist, they came all the way back at the end and nearly won the race. It’s Northwest Missouri State. The team of signs Barnes, Roland and Huey. Northwest Missouri. You can see it’s tough to get relay teams up on this podium. They’re squeezing in the best they can, making the front two sit in the back two stand. Got to leave enough room here for our champions out of Jeff City Missouri. Our 4×4 national champions. The veteran team Chanel Clark Giddings, Brittany Brown, Chevonne Thomas and Shante George from Lincoln. They’ll run three 3262 today. Lincoln is your national champion in the 4×4. A lot of smiles out there and a lot of well placed effort. They all competed all the way to the end of the final race of the season. Up go the trophies. Again, just another opportunity to remind everyone that will be in Emporia, Kansas next year. We were there last year. So many of these athletes will be familiar with the facilities, the layout, while the tracks are all 400m, every track has a little nuance to its own. So, you know, Pittsburg State will be looking to repeat its men’s title and the women to get back on top. They have to feel like competing just a couple hours away. Even though it is the conference rival track they’ll be competing on, it will be in their home state. CSU Pueblo athletes getting to host two out of the last three years, getting to feature many of their home athletes on the national stage. A good crop of juniors on the CSU Pueblo team who will be continuing their seasons as they’ll they’ll head back to England and France, competing on their national stage. Two favorites would have to look to be Reece Newell. He was fourth in the UK trials last year in the 800. He has bumped his distance up to the 1500, where he won a very fast race today, so he would have to assume that he will head back to their national meet, competing in the 1500, trying to make a spot. But we are going to take one more quick break. We’ll be back quickly for the finals presentations of the men’s 4×4. We are hit. By Daemen. And we’ll follow form here with reputation of the top 1824 by 400 meter relay. This was also a great way to close out the championship here in 2025. Presenting the award is this coach Jason Crow from Pittsburg State. We’ll start with our eighth place. In 1973, the host of the Florida State. Your seventh place at the 1864 Endicott Angelo State. Finish. And welcome back to Pueblo one more time. The you are looking at the podium finish for the men’s four by 400 meter relay. Emporia State again. They’ll be hosting next year. So they’ll go into that meet with an eighth place finish in the 2025 national championships. They are eighth. Angelo State is seventh. Lubbock Christian is sixth. Grand Valley State will finish in fifth place in the 4×4 Academy of Art will be fourth. Texas A and M University at Kingsville will be taking that spot on the third level of the podium with their bronze medals. The runner up couldn’t quite match the women’s side. The women take gold, the men will take silver. But it is a squad from Lincoln placing second in this 4×4. And you really couldn’t write it any better, as we know that Pitt State is going to be our team champions. They’re going to cap it off with a win in the 4×4. This squad of Chapman, Williams, Hogan’s and Watson, a fantastic race, a fantastic finish. They are going to be your four by 400 meter relay national champions. Miles again congratulations to all of these athletes. If you know the 4×4 you know not everybody wants to run another 400 at the end of the meet. But those that do gain the reward and this is the reward there. As these athletes will walk away with one final trophy to the 2025 season, you can see the teams are starting to collect down there on the field. Now. All that’s left for us to do is present our team trophies. Obviously. You see Pitt State’s 4×4 getting a little personalized picture. But if you look all around the stadium, you can see nothing but picture taking parents, getting to see their athletes, athletes very proud. You have coaches filling in for sports information, directors taking pictures for the program and the recruiting. You can see there all the team camps now, just kind of enjoying some celebratory congratulations. What’s next? What’s going to happen? What are we doing? For some it’s where are we eating this evening. Many of these teams will be on their way back to their respective schools or even their hometowns. Not all athletes always go back to their schools. Obviously, we would like to wish safe travels to all of our athletes and coaches, but also our officials, our volunteers, our spectators like to hope that everybody does get home safely as they are traveling back across the United States. A quick reminder. Will be moving towards our team goal. We need our teams Holy Family that 4.5 on the women’s competition and we start working towards Antonio for the. Men. We will be presenting those team trophies just as soon as possible. But you can see the women’s team standings there. Very, very exciting. If you’ve been following along with us. You know, we figured this out when it happened in real time and it was after that 5000m. But Grand Valley State is going to upend last year’s national champion. Pitt state was looking to repeat and a very good finish to finish third. It is tough to win a national title. It is so much more than just having the fastest or the best athletes. It’s also about the endurance, staying healthy, having the right athletes in the right events. But also you can’t control what other schools are doing. But as you see there, Grand Valley State is going to be excited to accept their national championship Adams State with an incredible 5000 meter event, scoring 25 points. They’re going to move all the way up or maybe 24 points. They were tied with West Texas A and M. Pittsburgh state not having any athletes on the women’s side in those last two events, you’d have to say that hurt them. They’re going to fall to third and actually a tie for fourth place this year. On the podium. Here’s the Regis (Colorado). 215 and the 400 hurdles. That is the story of the sheep Fresno Pacific. And if we look at the award stand now, you’ll see we did have that tie for fourth place in our team standings. The first award is going to go to Fresno Pacific. So they’ll have to share this trophy temporarily today. But I’m sure the NCAA will find the ways to get a duplicate trophy and send it out to one of these teams. But how about a big enjoyment of her smiling faces from Fresno Pacific? They’re going to finish in a tie for fourth place today. Coaches going ahead and jumping in, getting in the picture. Gotta fix that fourth place on the podium because this is the fourth place team. But a very, very good meet. As we mentioned a couple times, Fresno Pacific not always the favorite in any event, but they did capture a lot of hardware. Maybe surprising, not themselves, but surprising some of the other teams. So a tie for fourth in the women’s standings Fresno Pacific with 35 points. The next team that will be making their way to the podium will be West Texas A and M. West Texas A and M. Again, a well balanced team also scoring 35 points. They put on 145 for. The Keene State Kent State. And one in the discus throw the scoresheet for us on and you can see West Texas A and M making their way to the podiu. And it’ll be a double podium finish for West Texas A and M both their men’s and their women’s team will make it to the podium. And we know some of these athletes made it up there individually. Some of them didn’t. But they are all here today for the picture. And it’s always nice when you can take home a trophy for the trophy case. So West Texas A and M again they’re tied for fourth on the women’s side. Both Fresno Pacific and West Texas A&M with 35 points. In the competition. They scored 54.5 34 by 100. More in the long jump and heptathlon. That’s the ribbons. Pittsburg State. And as we see our third place team making their way to the podium, sure to be a little disappointment out there. They were the defending national champions last year. They scored 100 points, which is a lot of points in a track meet. Let’s go back almost 20 years until another team had scored 100 points, but last year they scored 100. Couldn’t quite have as much success. This year they only scored 54.5, but that is good enough for another podium finish finish third place overall. The Pitt State Gorillas third place with 54.5 points. And of course, we’ll see the Pitt State men collecting their podium finish. So another successful run for both the men’s and the women’s programs. And next we’ll have your second place team and. Eckerd making it across four events across 1805, 15, 25 and the 5000 champion, the $10 and 1800, the steeplechase. The Grizzly of Adams State scored 30. And there you see, making their way to the podium, not wearing their traditional bright fluorescent green on green but fluorescent green on white. You see the squad actually there. Those are the women that ran that 5000m, scoring 24 points in the 5000. They were second last year. They scored 72 to Pitt State’s 100. So they made it a lot closer this year. This is Adams State. They scored 59 points and they will be your 2025 women’s runner up team. Again. Let’s make sure we fix that second place because this was second place overall. Congratulations to the Adams State Grizzlies. They may have one of the shorter trips home. Just about two hours to the south and to the west in Alamosa, Colorado. And you know what comes next. They. Scored a. Six. 2.89 Stanford advantage. The Grizzlies team one is for 50. And we can hear the PA announcer giving all this specific descriptions explaining just how they scored all their points. They’ve already got the shirts ready. And that is a big celebration because it literally was that close. They won by 1.60 to 59, but it was the effort of two athletes in the 5000 that just surged ahead of Adams State at the end, and they are going to capture that, and that’s them holding that trophy up there. How does that sound? Grand Valley State, your national champions for the first time since 2012. Grand Valley State won back to back women’s championships in 2011 and 2012. And now, 13 years later, Grand Valley State. After three second place finishes in between back on top of the podium with 60 points. So congratulations to Grand Valley State. TV. And we’ll have to give kudos to the NCAA there for having those national championships all ready to go. Nobody knew who was going to win that until just about an hour ago in that 5000m, and even then, I’m not sure who knew it. The coaches were probably doing the math, but you can never trust yourself and see you see it in print or on a computer screen. But Grand Valley State. Celebrating their national title. Here. Grab one for Maggie, two handsome back. You’re on it, honey. Good job. I mean, I would have said a. Daemen. Of Wingate and moving straight over to the men’s side. No tie for fourth place here. So just four more trophies to award. And this is all based on their distance team. They may have a few athletes who score in some non distance events, but a school who recruits internationally heavy every single one of these athletes from another country competing and they’re celebrating. And that is Wingate Wingate with 38 points. That’s just going to get fourth to get that trophy by one point over Harding. And I guess we’ll call that a well choreographed celebration for Wingate. They placed fourth as a team with 38 points. For the four, 4005 and the steeplechase. And as we conclude this meet in, our teams will go out for that final meal together and then make their way home. We know the Grand Valley State’s women will be celebrating a national championship, but let’s not count out the men. They had a very good meet. They’re going to finish in third place. They’re going to score 48 points. So you know, a team is well coached when both the men and the women get a podium finish. So on their injury and all. You see the celebration now for Grand Valley State on the men’s side. They’re going to finish in third place with 48 points. Now the team on the other side of the competition, they scored 66 points ten. 84 by one with the win 6803 in the 5910 in the 5000 and the 10,000 with the win, ten eight, in the long jump, one in the triple jump, three in a row in the back line that was about a horse Texas A&M. And we were talking about this one all week long. Four times the runner up West Texas coaches. That just eats them up and they do whatever recruiting challenging they can to see if they can score just a few more points in any event, and they may have had a better season, got some national championship individual athletes, but they’re going to fall short 66 points and a runner up trophy for the fifth year in a row. West Texas A and M. 1110 in the 413 and the 210 in the. Six in the 1524, and the one team in the triple jump for the shot. 20. Six. Annual awards. And in the death of the decathlon, it is the Gorillas of Pittsburg State, making it for Yale University of Louisiana Monroe. And if there is one more thing we can count on in the NCAA Division two Track and Field Championships, it is the dominance of Pittsburg State. This is their fourth consecutive national championship. They scored 111 points this year. That is the most since Saint Augustine scored 112 in 2014. So the dominance continues. There is no reason to think that Pitt State can’t do it again next year. They’ll compete closer to home, but you see them there four times national champion, so those seniors on that team may know nothing but a team championship. Again, they had the shirts ready. They have three more sets of those at home. Some of these seniors Pittsburg State will be our final trophy presentation. They are the 2025 NCAA D2 men’s Outdoor Champions. And as we watch these celebrations heading out again, thank you for joining us. If you were here all weekend or if you are now just catching up, watching it along the way, it’s been a lot of fun to watch the NCAA Division two National Championships. Some of these athletes celebrate a little bit more than they would in the other divisions, but that’s what makes it fun. We’ll see you next year in Emporia, Kansas for the 2026 NCAA, D2 men’s and Women’s National Championships.