{"id":75068,"date":"2025-06-24T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=75068"},"modified":"2025-06-24T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T18:08:09","slug":"2025-track-and-field-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/2025-track-and-field-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumberjacks excel at 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 11, nine of NAU\u2019s star athletes returned to the University of Oregon\u2019s historic Hayward Field to take on four days of heart-pounding competition at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. They closed the contest\u2014and their 2024-25 outdoor track and field season\u2014flying high with several All-American honors and personal-best finishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three runners led the pack with first-team All-American honors, including sophomore <\/span>Maggi Congdon<\/span><\/b>, who finished third in the women’s 1,500-meter on <\/span>June 14<\/span><\/a> with a time of 4:09.31. Congdon reached the event finals after placing ninth in the 1,500-meter at last season\u2019s NCAA Outdoor Championships and eighth overall in the event\u2019s preliminary round this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same day, graduate student <\/span>Agnes McTighe<\/span><\/b> finished the women\u2019s 5,000-meter with the sixth-fastest time in program history and a personal best of 15:35.87, placing seventh overall to earn a first-team All-American honor. Sophomore <\/span>Ava Mitchell <\/span><\/b>also completed the event with a 22nd-place finish to earn an honorable mention All-American.<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior <\/span>David Mullarkey <\/span><\/b>earned<\/span><\/a> a first-team All-American honor for his sixth-place finish in the men\u2019s 10,000-meter and a second-team All-American nod for his 10th-place finish at the men\u2019s 5,000-meter two days later. Redshirt sophomore <\/span>Drew Bosley<\/span><\/b> joined Mullarkey in both events, securing honorable mentions with a 20th- and 17th-place finish, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s 3,000-meter steeplechase on <\/span>June 12<\/span><\/a>, sophomore <\/span>Karrie Baloga <\/span><\/b>saw a three-second personal best that was less than half a second away from beating the Big Sky Conference record. Placing third in her heat and eighth overall, she moved on to the event finals two days later and finished in 12th place with a second-team All-American nod.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two Lumberjacks\u2014junior <\/span>Trevor Hook <\/span><\/b>and sophomore <\/span>LiNay Perry<\/span><\/b>\u2014were the first in NAU history to advance to the NCAA Championships for their events: the men\u2019s javelin and the women\u2019s 400-meter hurdles. Hook finished as a second-team All-American with a javelin toss of 67.84 meters, placing 15th. Perry came home with an honorable mention All-American nod at 20th place after breaking her school record at the NCAA West preliminary round.<\/span><\/p>\n

Freshman <\/span>Colin Sahlman <\/span><\/b>earned an honorable mention All-American after placing 19th in the men\u2019s 1,500-meter semifinals.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, the NAU women\u2019s team tied for 34th overall and the men\u2019s team tied for 58th. To learn more about each athlete and their performance highlights, visit <\/span>NAU Athletics<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 11, nine of NAU\u2019s star athletes returned to the University of Oregon\u2019s historic Hayward Field to take on four days of heart-pounding competition at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. They closed the contest\u2014and their 2024-25 outdoor track and field season\u2014flying high with several All-American honors and personal-best finishes.…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":75069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}