2025 NCAA DIII outdoor track & field championship (May 23) I FULL REPLAY

2025 NCAA DIII outdoor track & field championship (May 23) I FULL REPLAY

Okay. Okay. Great. Guilford. Hilbert. Fairfield. Saint Benedict. Cal State LA. Bryn Athyn. Wells 56. Berry 40. Here we go. Got it. 110 High Hurdles. Oh, Rowan. And we’ll let you know what those results are. As of Rowan 13 points. Qualifiers. Number one. Rowan 1434. They love. The third 14.4400 seconds. In number two right away. Number two. For. Oh. Number five from indoors and outdoors last year. Hopefully they can band together come together here. But you feel for both those athletes Diakité and Nkrumah for fallen here in the prelims. Yeah. Nkrumah was going so well early in that race. Really right on the shoulder of Agyemang. You have to imagine they they were kind of looking at a one, two, three finish in that first prelim. But I mean, that’s part of the risk in these events. The hurdles are high. And if you clip it wrong it’s technique just as much as it is fitness. Yeah. And thankfully no one got hurt because he kind of slid into that bear into the front part of that next hurdle. And thankfully no one stepped on him and he didn’t get hurt. And hopefully he’s okay. But we have more Rowan guys here coming up in heat two. As you can see in front of us, the Rowan guys are getting fired up for Jamir Brown, the D-3 record holder running 1360 this year and makes his outdoor debut. And there you see the fans, the guys there, they were just jumping around cheering for their guy. Getting ready for heat two here. Yeah, you gotta have a short memory as a program. Sometimes you kind of have to take the wins with the losses and we just keep the action rolling. Moving into section two, I’ll introduce you to those guys and we’ll give you some notes on them. Heat two of three is going to be Ari Skolnick from Denison, Aiden Sears from Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Walter Truett from MIT, Blake Hardison from Dubuque, Jamir Brown, which you just mentioned from Rowan, Gunnar Meyer from Central, and Desmond Gist from Bluffton. So we have some experience here in this field. Gunnar Meyer was eighth indoors. This is his first outdoor meet. Blake Hardison of Dubuque, has been an All-American in the indoor 60, was 10th last year and Walter Pruitt, his fourth straight 110 hurdles at the nationals, but has yet to make a final. Let’s see if he can do it here today. Excited to see Jamir Brown’s campaign get going. We’re going to lose him to Division One next season, so we’ll treasure him while we have him. The D3 record holder loading into the box right now. All right, let’s see you, buddy. Come on. Stephanie. Yeah. Let’s go. Section two is away. Clean blanket start to the first hurdle. Daemen Brown appears to have a slight edge. Sears looks good on the inside two, but Jamir Brown has a step. We lost an athlete there from MIT on the home stretch. Jamir Brown takes section number two easily. Looked like maybe Sears held on for second there. We’ll confirm. No, it was Gunnar Meyer who slips in there for second. Jamir Brown, 14 flat from Rowan. That will get him into the final. Guaranteed. With that big cue. Great execution there. Another fall. I believe that’s true. It from MIT, who we see down on the track in front of us in the box. It looks like Skolnick did get across, so only one DNF in that race. Jamir Brown takes it. Gunnar Meyer in second and Desmond Gist in 1442 takes third. There still. Yeah. It’s tough break for Truet there. We mentioned he fortunately fell. That’s quite a wound on his shoulder there too, actually. But Jamir Brown’s got to be happy to make his first D3 final. He’s looking. Jamir Brown’s kind of giving a what’s going on here? Something happened. Yeah, he’s coming over. Everything looks good on live results. So unless he’s not happy with the 14 flat. Yeah, we’ll keep an eye on that. I mean, Stu, maybe this is a time to just say quickly that there were a lot of disqualifications yesterday. Like, these athletes need to stay in their lanes if they want to advance. We’ll get more into that later. But the three but the officials are definitely calling infractions this weekend. Heat three. As we shuffle our papers here. Now onto the track. This is going to be Zachary Reed from Laverne, AJ banks from Augustana, D’Andre Sinegal from McMurry, Lucas Johnson from lacrosse, Jason Ikea from Bethel, Zion Jackson of Trine, Michael Anderson from Springfield, and Camille from North Central. Keep an eye out for Jason Ikea. He was third indoors, fourth last year and was second in 2022. Lot of history here for the Bethel program in Ikea. But also D’Andre Senegal comes in looking to make a statement here. He’s had a good year so far in the jumps long jump and triple. We talked. We heard from him at the press conference and he’s ready to go. He’s looking forward to this competition. And Stu I’m going to correct myself. I should have been saying Ikea not Ikea, Ikea, Ikea for the folks at home, want to make sure we get as many names right as we can. We do our best here in the booth. Let’s take a look at the bubble time on our compiled start list. Looks like that eighth place time right now is 1445. A reminder we take the winners of each heat as the automatic qualifier, and then we fill in the gaps. We take the next six fastest. And we’re away in heat. Number three of three. Eckerd looks good on the inside, but so does Jackson from Trine. But on the inside it is Senegal who’s pulling ahead of this field and the inside lane. He looks to have it by a stride or two. We’ll go to the board. Senegal takes it 1405 over Ekiyor so the favorites go one two in that heat. 1405 to 1415. That should get into the final. No problem. Did we get everybody across the line in that one? We did. We had one fall from Wisconsin lacrosse, so a lot of might have finished though I, I saw him go down. So Lucas Johnson from Wisconsin lacrosse the senior does go down. We’ll wait to see if he’s finished. So yeah a lot of casualties over three three heats of this. A lot of hurdle clipping going on here. I wonder if any of the wind or the weather is playing a factor here. Maybe not used to the high gusts. I mean it’s only 1.5, but it is a little bit of a crosswind too. Yeah, absolutely. These small factors can can turn into big factors pretty easily. Looks like our results are compiled. And so we’ll give you a preview of Saturday’s final. Our only final today on the track are going to be the 3000 meter steeplechase. Has had a couple finals in the field. We’ll get to later. So tomorrow is the day when really the big points roll in qualifying through to that final. Jason Agyemang, Jamir Brown, the duo from Rowan go one two with automatic qualifiers. Senegal wins his heat 1405. He’s the three seed. Meyer, Jackson, Hughes, love and just make up that field so Rowan gets three in. Yeah, they were expected to get three in. It might have not been the three they expected but Nia’s Brown coming in 20th and gets in. So we’re seeing over performance by these Rowan guys. When one guy goes down the next one steps up. And they’re still projected the points that they were expecting here coming into this meet. And absolutely. And Coach Tate said, you know, he thinks he thinks they can go one, two, three. And to do that they had to get three guys into the final. And they did just that. You see the hurdle crew moving on here for the women’s 100 meter hurdles. They move back towards the start line, push them all the way down and get things started. We’re going to give you a quick update on the team scores here. While we still have you. And mind you, it’s only through five events on the men’s side and six events on the women’s side, but we’ll also give you some projections as well. Wisconsin-Eau Claire currently leading with 30 points, followed by Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 24. Lacrosse has 11 and third, and York is tied with them in 11th and North Central has ten in fifth through six events. On the women’s side, MIT has 17, Washu, 15, Augustana 14th and stout tied. Sorry, stout and Augustine are tied for the last podium right now with 14 points. But if we take a look at where things stand in terms of entries and projections and all of that good stuff, Wisconsin lacrosse came in with a projection of 91 five. Now, looking at 83.5, Wisconsin-Oshkosh came in with a projection of 48, and that’s still the same if I’m reading this correctly from our big statistician, Evan Hatten. And right now Wisconsin-Eau Claire is overperforming with 46.5 points projected for them. They can still get more on the way. We’ll keep you posted on the women’s side. I’ll give you right here really quickly. Looks like we don’t have that updated just yet, so I can’t give you a clear view. But as the day goes on, we’ll have a better idea of where things stand tomorrow. That’s one prelim in the books. We’re set to go off in the women’s 100 hurdles at 230 local time. So we have a few minutes here. Stu and I are going to step away for a quick break. Yesterday we took no breaks. Yesterday it was all gas. Tod In five, four, three, two. You’re unmuted. One. You guys are live. Welcome back to Geneva Ohio here at the Spire Institute. Day two of the 2025 Outdoor Track and Field National Championships for Division three. If you were here before we stepped away, we saw the men’s 110 hurdles go through their three preliminary rounds, and now the women’s step to the track for the 100 meter hurdles, which will play out over three rounds. Yep. Same thing as last time heat winner plus the next six fastest as they load into their blocks. I will introduce you to the field in heat two from RPI. Emma McGinn Lane two Rice. Oh yeah, you’re right. Thank you so much. It is very confusing. Yeah. No I do that all the time. Yeah. It does look like it says heat. It should say Lane Lane three from Ohio Wesleyan Catherine, Dortmund Lane four from Trinity. Donna Silber, Lane five from Ithaca Rachel Larson, lane six from Saint John Fisher. Cierra Franz, your indoor 60 meter hurdles champion in the number one seed from UMass Boston in lane seven, Ariana Garceau and run up the field in lane eight from Wisconsin-Stout. Kaylee Raths yes, do pretty, pretty loaded field here with a clear favorite though. Ariana Grasso was your 60 meter hurdle hurdle champ indoors. He was an All-American in this event last year. We also have the CAC champ Donya Selber in this field. We have her parents directly in front of us in the in the stands, and so we promise to shout out to their daughter and granddaughter. So she’s got a great support system here for section one coming from Texas. They’re a little cold today, but they’re feeling alright and looking forward to watching their daughter in there. In her first NCAA competition coming off of a conference win, Rachel Larson from Ithaca was another indoor All-American who finds her way into section one of the 100 hurdles. Yeah, so we have a mix. We have a mixed bag here of veterans and rookies. We love to see that kind of a passing of the torch and also. Looking forward ahead. We also have Catherine Dorman from Ohio Wesleyan, a freshman making her debut as well. So a lot of carnage over the men’s heats, we saw 4 or 5 athletes go down on the track clipping hurdles, so we’ll hope for cleaner races on the women’s side. Yeah, lovely Wisconsin-Stout fans right in my line of view here. So I’m going to do my best to get the first two hurdles until I can see clearly. We’re going to do a little quick switcheroo here in the booth here. Sorry for any technical interference. All right. I got a great view now to give you my best effort at the 100 meter hurdle. Heat one. Clean start here. Over. The first hurdle on the inside is Dorman with a great start. Can Garceau make up it? She’s starting to catch Dorman on the inside, but Garceau looking great over. The final hurdle will take heat one here, one casualty on the track. I believe that was the inside lane. So Dortmund no excuse me, that was McGinn of RPI hits the track. She does get across the line. Garcelle kind of a late charge there. We saw a really strong running from Dortmund on the inside. Yeah you know I wonder how much of a late charge comes into play here in the in the sprints and the hurdles. You know, you gotta make sure you’re going all effort over these hurdles so you don’t mess up your steps. But a great way to stay calm and show why she was the indoor champion. Yeah. It’s kind of always amazing how much drama can build over 14 seconds. But for a second, I thought maybe Garcelle was in trouble over the first two hurdles. But yeah, really just getting the legs going. She ends up winning that heat fairly easily over Rachel Larson. Garcelle goes 13 nine one to get the automatic qualification Rachel Larson 1412, and Kaylee Rask comes through in third and 1425, so they’ll have to wait and see what they can do on time. I did like the fast start from Dortmund, kind of showing her cards like, hey, I’m excited to be here and I will be here for the next four years. Absolutely. Section one in the books reminder when in you’re in. And then we take the next six fastest times for the final of nine, which will come your way on Saturday. Heat two is on the track adjusting their blocks here. I’ll go ahead and run you through those competitors. Na Campbell from McMurry Takiyasha Jones from Greenville, Rin Brown from UChicago, Alison Hammond from Pacific Josephine jet, the jet from C.m.s, Dasia Hargrave from Worcester and Jill Ambler from Suny Geneseo. Take to the line here. Yeah. Wren Brown, remember her runner up from last year’s 400 meter hurdles. She was indoors. She made it in the indoor 60 as well. She was seventh last year in this event. Alison Hammond burst on the scene indoors. She was the first ever track qualifier for Pacific and finished runner up indoors. We’ll see what she can do here in the outdoor. And maybe the best singlet you’ll see here is from Worcester. Deja Hargrave I announced the Ncac conference meet. She was the champion there and had a great competition and rocking the plaid from the Scots of Worcester. Yeah, that jersey is awesome. We’re seeing, you know, a lot of jerseys that are just kind of standard. But it’s nice to see something that that really stands out here. Excited to see Wren Brown here. We traditionally think of her as a longer hurdler. And so coming down to the short sprints, we’ll see if she’s got it all. And it’s nice to see Wren Brown and Alison Hammond right there next to each other. You got a key off some big competition. Lost my voice. There we are. Back for heat two. Clean start as they hit the first hurdle. And jet is over the first hurdle first. But here comes Hammond up. Pacific can Wren Brown counter. Hammond looking great. Two hurdles to go, Hammond and Brown. But here comes Brown. The late charge. And it looks to be. Brown will take heat two and another another fall there I believe that was Hargrave in the in the cool singlet who took a dive there over the hurdle does get across the line. Wren Brown is your champion in section number two. She gets across in 1375, which I believe is our top time overall over Alison Hammond, who looked really strong in the early stages of that race. She goes sub 14 as well. 1388 new personal best. She came in running. 1403, so a good 10th off her time. Yeah. Strong move there from Wren Brown. We are through to heats. And so we now have a good idea of the bubble time that it’s going to take to get into tomorrow’s final. Katherine Dortmund is on the bubble. The freshman from from Ohio Wesleyan 1426 is the bubble. Time to get into the final right now. 1426. And it took 1426 to make this meet so pretty strong. Yeah pretty strong. And it gives you a great idea of what you got to do to keep it kind of standardized there. You know that theme we’ve been talking about all week and if you joined us yesterday is the historic depth of these fields. And that doesn’t just mean that the top end is faster. It means that that final qualifier in each field and in almost every field across the board is substantially faster than it’s ever been before. Heat three getting ready to take their blocks. I’ll introduce you to the field in lane two from Bridgewater. Allison McDonough Lane three from Wisconsin lacrosse. Regan Scott next to her from Stout in Wisconsin. Hannah Zastrow, Laura Suppa from Ithaca will be in five. Betsy Duncan of Lynchburg and six Kelsey Sealock from Bethel (Minnesota). And seven Liberty Scott from our alma mater, DePaul in eight Go Tigers, Nicola Nadeau from Elmhurst in Lane nine, a loaded heat featuring two runners who have been in many nationals before, racking up a lot of All-Americans. That’s Hannah Zastrow and Kelsey Sealock Wisconsin-Stout in Bethel (Minnesota). Laura Suppa was a All-American indoors. Third last year. Sioux Falls Spalding number 16. Sasha was fourth last year. So very pretty. Intense battle here. Yeah, we’ll see your hands after hoping to ascend from those third and fourth place finishes to the top step. It takes their blocks here. 1426 The bubble time also got a shout out to pause the tiger stripes. Those are the national Simmons may wear. Yeah they. Will start on the first row, one step up from Attica with the lead. But here comes Zastrow from Stout and Sealock on the outside, charging hard on the final hurdle. It’s just too close to call for Miami (Florida) Gordon. Yeah. 13 and nine. Over 1392. Wow. Let’s see if I can win that. What looks to be our third fastest time overall there? Yeah, she lives on the right before the race. They go neck and neck. We go one two in this heat and get this full compiled results. Now we’ll run you through the qualifiers into tomorrow’s final round. You Chicago will go in as your top seed at 1375 overall. And Alison Hammond on time, 1388 Tulsa Sealock Arianna Garcia. Kue and Josephine Jett, Betsy and Laura and Rachel Larson on the field at nine. Can you hear me? Looks like we have a lot of time here. We’re going to take a quick break. We may go to appeal. Then when we come back next on the track is going to be the 400 meter with the men and the women. Great competition in the hurdles so far. We’ll give you an update on where things stand, but for now, keep enjoying. 2025 D-3 Outdoor Track and Field Championships. We’re going to have the action. The heptathlon final 800m. We’re crowning a national champion here soon, but stay with us. We’ll be right back. Hey, Nick. Here we here. Rice. Limestone off. Just now. Yeah, yeah. Something happened. Something that I know. You got another day. Yeah, yeah, we’re. I got another one. They can’t hear us. Live stream. I think something happened because the cameras lost comms to. Can hear it. Sounds like you’re across the room, is what you’re saying. And. I believe. Yeah. I just got a text. My camera’s Texas. Cameron. Oh, yeah. Oh. That’s great. That’s so. Five. In there. Thank. That’s okay. You know, I’ve been looking forward to. This for. For about. A day. And. Two seconds. On time. Check check check check. And a few technical difficulties. If you’re still with us, we’re going to go back live now here as the track gets started for the women’s heptathlon 800 meter final, that means we’re crowning a national champion in the women’s half. They’ve competed over seven events this weekend, or I guess this will be their seventh event. They’ve completed six so far. We’ll run you through the scores here momentarily. Yeah. Nikki Bowen is on the leaderboard just as she was at the end of yesterday. She’s continued that trajectory on into the 800. Doesn’t look like they’re out on the track yet. So we probably do have some time to get you through this. But yeah Nikki Bowen has had a pretty historic run so far. In each event she’s gone second, fifth, second, second, third, second. She’s amassed 4657 points to her name so far. So she’s got nearly a 400 point lead over second place in the green from Wisconsin. Eau Claire Bruner from Chatham is in third. Bur from Thomas College is in fourth. Layton from North Central is fifth. Booker from Wisconsin, Eau Claire is sixth and seventh is Amber Grosse and eighth is Olivia Bolen. And so yeah, there’s definitely a lot that can change. There’s some narrow gaps in the top eight right now over the women’s 800 heptathlon, but we’re still waiting for the athletes to make their way out of the warm up tent. So I believe we have a few minutes here. And so we’re going to lay off and we’ll come back in just a moment to continue coverage of the women’s heptathlon. Hello and welcome back to the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio for the 2025 outdoor D-3 Track and Field National Championships. Welcome back. We’re about to crown a new national champion in the outdoor heptathlon. The women are taking it to the track now for the final event of seven. We’re bringing in 2024 D3 decathlon national champion Jackson Anderson. Jackson, welcome back into the booth, Duke. Thanks for having me back on. Excited to have your expertise here. You know you can relate to them in some regards of a long day. I guess you do the indoors. So take us through what it feels like now. You’ve just completed six events. You’re lining up. You need as many points as you can to jump into all American, but you have to run 800m. Yeah, the thing you’re mostly feeling is tired. I said this before the heptathlon, indoors before the one K, but it’s true of any multi before the last event. Your legs are heavy, your spirits might be a little low, but all you got to do is get through 800m to go through to the finish. It’s only two laps. It’s only two laps. So we have actually a the title is. Everything goes well for Nikki Bowen. She will add a national title to her national record. She’s up by 379 points. What has to go wrong for that? To lose her lead. Yeah. As they toe the line here and they go off Nikki Bowen is in a great position. She has the second best 800 PR in the field. So short of a disaster falling off the track where we should see her. Wrap this up here. What I’m looking forward to is Emma Gruen versus Ariel Bruner. They’re separated by 21 points. Take us through what 21 points is in terms of seconds. Yeah. So it’s about 15 points per second. That’s going to be a dogfight for that runner up position. Gruen only 20 points, 21 points ahead of Bruner in third. They are taking this out. Hot stew. Yeah, they are out really? Well. That was around a 32nd 200 split here as they come around the turn for 300. Wow. Two athletes getting after it. That looks to be Illinois Wesleyan Huber against North Park’s Thea ring. They’re both on the outside 11th and 12th trying to get into that top eight to be first team All-Americans. Yeah. And Huber’s in striking distance. They come through in about 6364 Huber. Fastest 800 here in the field about 214. So we’ll see what she can hang on for. And we have two Wisconsin-Eau Claire runners here in the field. We gotta look at the live results to give you an idea of who is who here. So right now Ariel Bruner, excuse me, is leading Gruen by two seconds at the bell? Yeah, and that makes about sense. Gruen about four seconds slower in terms of PRS and Ariel. But we’ll see what they come through in these last 250m. That’s what we’re looking for. The runner up position. They seem to be in stride together as the leaders are vying for as many points as they can. 150m to go. We will get you updated scores as they come in. We won’t jump to conclusions. We’ll wait and see. But what a run from Illinois Wesleyan Lauren Huber strong through the last hundred. She’s coming around the homestretch now, going to the arms, turning the legs over quickly. And that looks to be Finn from Rippon coming down. But it’s going to be Huber here taking the 800. But there’s Nikki Bowen coming down the back stretch. The home stretch to claim her national title. Right behind her will be Katie Moore of DePauw in The Tiger Stripes. But Nikki Bowen is going to take the women’s heptathlon national title, scoring 5435 points. Yeah, this was a conservative 800 for Nikki. She’s a she’s capable of a lot faster, but all she needed was this 223 that she ran a great weekend from her Stu. Yeah. Take us through these results as they start piling up. And we’re going to see where the runner up performance comes from. It looks to be Emma Gruen takes home the runner up, followed by her teammate Emily Booker. If the scores are correct, Huber went from 11th to fourth in one event. Yeah, that’s what the 800 can do. Lot of points on the table here. If you can take them again 15 points per second. Huber looks like she ran about 216 216. So slower than her PR, but still about 4 to 5 seconds faster than most of the rest of the field. So that’s big points right there. And that’s a personal best in the overall heptathlon. If we can maybe get a view of the carnage. Almost half the field is down on the track after seven events, but look who’s still standing. Nikki Bowen from Emory, your national champion giving a hug to the competition. You know these women are together all weekend. Seven events. Talk about the camaraderie in the Maltese. Absolutely. A lot of the multi-events are spent standing around, you know, between events, between throws, between jumps. So you get to know a lot of the same people. You get to spend time with them. You get to become friends with them. Nikki, I’m sure, has a lot of familiar faces in this field with all the national championships she’s been to. So for a lot of these women, it’s a good chance to see friends and compete with. So a lot of love between the field, as you can see here. So I’m going to run you through the finalized All-Americans here. Your national champion once again, the national record holder from Emory, Nikki Bowen, runner up from Wisconsin Wisconsin-Eau Claire Emma Gruen, third place from Wisconsin Wisconsin-Eau Claire Emily Booker from 11th to fourth with a great 216 800. Lauren Huber of Illinois Wesleyan Ariel Brunner she’s tripling this weekend, finishes fifth, her second All-American award already this weekend with the triple jump tomorrow. Emma Burr of Thomas College in sixth, Bridget Finn of Rypin in seventh, and Faith Layden of North Central finishes in eighth. Yeah, great weekend for these women. As you mentioned. A busy weekend for a lot of them, too. Nikki Bowen was in the long jump. Ariel Brunner was the runner up in the long jump. So this is her second All-American of the weekend. Faith Layton as well, was third overall in the javelin last yesterday. Strong tradition of women’s heptathletes doubling and tripling, as I mentioned yesterday, dating all the way back to Emma Eagan from Williams. A lot of other athletes come to these championships and do the heptathlon and also a handful of others. But Nikki Bowen is our champion today. Any surprises from the top eight? A lot of support here, a lot of team points for Wisconsin-Eau Claire Emily Booker up in the top. We expected her to see her there. She was second coming in overall, but Emma Gruen, her teammate, jumping up to that runner up position. She was seeded seventh so coming in expecting a podium spot but jumping all the way up to the second one. Emma Burr looks like she came in 20th seed. That must have been a massive personal best for her. The sophomore from Thomas College jumping up to sixth. Great competition and what a season for Nikki Bowen taking the indoor title and the record indoors. Yeah. And now that adds the double outdoors. Absolutely. Yeah. At the indoor championships she took her national title with a national record. 13 days later she set the outdoor national record at her opener at her home track of Emory. And she’s just solidified her legacy here by finishing first in this heptathlon, defending the pentathlon heptathlon double. Well, Jackson, thanks so much for your expertise. We’re going to leave you of your duties now. Maybe go get an interview with Nikki for D-3 Glory Days. Come back up for the decathlon 1500. I’d love to. Thank you. Stu. We’re going to welcome Noah back into the booth and move right along here in this day two prelims, as we have the men’s 400 meter taking to their blocks. Man. Tough act to follow there. Jackson a pro commentator. Stu I’m surprised you offered me the microphone back. I think we’re both going to lose our jobs here between Pascha and Jackson Anderson. So moving on here to day two, we have the men’s 400 meter prelims coming up here. I’ll introduce you to heat one. Right here. Heat one, and we have some inside information for you as well. But in lane two will be Braylen Brown of Texas Lutheran, Josh Williams of Colorado College, and three Collin Conzemius of Wisconsin. Lacrosse in five Otis Patterson of Dubuque in. Sorry, Kenzie was in for Otis Parsons in five. Chase Dornic of lacrosse in six. The indoor national champion Alexander Rhodes of Puget Sound in seven, Jack Kittel of Wittenberg in eight. And Samuel Knowles of Widener in Lane nine. Prior to coming up here in the booth, we did see the indoor champion, Alexander Rhodes father, and he filled us in on kind of how his outdoor season has been going. He had a tough double indoors. That 400, that 200 hurt his groin a little bit. But since he had an early qualifier, he didn’t run a whole lot this season. So we’ll see how much that impacts him in his final D3 competition before he heads off to Washington in Seattle D1 for the Huskies. Yeah, it’s great to see D3 talent get a shot at D1 competition. Get to do it on the biggest stage in collegiate athletics. We’ll definitely miss his dad around taking photos of the competition too. He’s lugging around those giant cameras. But on the track now. Men’s 400 meter dash. This section, this preliminary round is going to go over the course of three heats. Excuse me. Heat one on the track. Who we’ve introduced you to. We’re going to take the top athlete from each heat. And then we’re going to fill in the next six fastest times after that to fill in the field, top seed going into section number one is going to be Chase Doornick from Wisconsin Lacrosse. But he won’t be all alone because Alex Rhodes with a 4650 is breathing down his neck. And you have to think Alex Rhodes maybe hasn’t showed his full set of cards just quite yet. Yeah, out west, they can do the outdoor season. While Midwest and East Coast teams are already are still indoors because the weather is so nice. So that 4650 comes back way in March. So we’ll see where he stands now and where his fitness and where his health is as he comes in, not as the top seed. Despite being the indoor national champion. And Stu, you’re an absolute pro at predicting staggers. You want to take this one? Oh, I would love to, Noah, thank you very much. Oh Josh Williams is a DNS in lane three four. Excuse me. And we are off here. Heat one coming right at you Wisconsin lacrosse is looking pretty good so far. But don’t count out Otis Patterson of Dubuque. He is making up the stagger on. Virtually everyone right now is I take to the turn. Look at those long strides from Jack Kittel of Wittenberg. But Patterson of Dubuque looking good. But don’t be surprised if someone on his inside of lacrosse catches up to him. But on his outside, it’s dornick of lacrosse as lacrosse is sandwiched right now as they come down the home stretch on the inside, it’s Collin Conzemius and Alexander Rhodes is in trouble here. But here comes Jack Kittel of Wittenberg, the freshman. But Conzemius is going to take this here. Heat one for Wisconsin lacrosse. Wow. Big surprise there to see Alex Rhodes kind of in the wash in the middle of the field. I mean, we mentioned it been a while since his last race. Maybe a little bit of injury concern going on there. We’ll try to get the full story later there. But Conzemius from Wisconsin lacrosse looked really strong early there. There was kind of an interesting moment there where Conzemius, Doornik and Rhodes were all kind of like in a straight line together on the back stretch, you know, making up the stagger. But it keeps things interesting. Jack Kittel finishes second there. 4764 Dornink from Wisconsin. The cross goes 4785. So big points. Opportunity for lacrosse here. You have to imagine both those athletes will probably get through on time. Yeah Conzemius and Dornink are part of that. Wisconsin lacrosse 4×4. You know it’s kind of similar with Grant Nelson and Jacob Parent. If you have a good 4×4, you’re going to have some good individuals here in this show that right now. And we’ll see if they can get both into one. We’ll see if they get both into that final. Absolutely. We’ll keep you updated on that bubble time as we move forward. It’s going to be, you know, more interesting after this second heat, whom I will introduce you to. How about right now? Jacob Hunter of Miss Misericordia. Grant Nelson from Bethel. Bashir. Bashir Omoruyi who ran great in that 4×4 last night from John Carroll. Evan Lander from Illinois Wesleyan. Evan Jensen, from Cortland, Jordan Dean from Ohio Northern and Eric West of Randolph. There’s some serious talent in this heat. Yeah, I want to give a shout out to Evan. Louder. If you remember from Virginia Beach, if you’re a D3 track and field junkie, he went down, unfortunately. Got knocked down in Virginia Beach, got reinstated into the final and then got knocked down in the final. So you always feel for that. He’s here looking to make revenge from a year and a half ago, but Bashir Al Ramahi, 4575, split for John Carroll last night in that 4×4. But the number one seed in the nation, Grant Nelson. Stew, I just want to interrupt you quickly to point out Alex Rhodes just took off a huge medical bandage from it looked to be like his midsection. He’s there on the infield. So probably an injury concern there for Rhodes out of section one. But anyway, shift our focus. Yeah, he just shrugged too. It’s you hate to see that any injuries keeping star athletes out, but presents a new opportunity for someone to take over. Absolutely. And maybe that someone is Grant Nelson from Bethel. We saw him anchor the 4×4 to an easy heat win. Let’s see how he looks here in his prelim. And I believe he’s the number one seed heading in right over his teammate who we’ll see in the next section. Yep. So. And we’re away clean here in the second heat of the men’s 400. Omoruyi looking good off the turn. But on his inside is going to be Grant Nelson. The two studs going after it here in heat two Nelson on his inside making up the stagger on almost everyone except for Omoruyi. But he will do it here on the turn with the inside advantage. Grant Nelson of Bethel said he’d rather run the 4×4 than do an individual event, but looking like his individual event has some success. As well as Nelson and Omoruyi have a blanket now coming down the back stretch, neck and neck. Only one as Nelson looks over to see Omoruyi still there. It’s Nelson, it’s Omoruyi. It looks like Nelson is going to take heat two here and get the automatic qualifier for tomorrow’s final running. 4668 stew every now and then and you see a battle in a prelim that feels like a preview of a final. And yeah, to see Nelson Omoruyi go neck and neck like that to the line. We’re going to see some serious fireworks tomorrow. Can you add in the rest of the field to this 400 is going to be absolutely nuts. And this field this next field you can see here the results on the screen there for heat two. But this next heat will feature Nelson’s teammate Jacob Parent who is currently second in the nation. Absolutely Nelson takes it gets the big Q in 40 668. Alabama right on his heels and 4675. Those are your top two. Looking at compiled results heading into this third and final section. The bubble time is Alex Rhodes from Puget Sound, the sophomore 4796 bubble time for eighth place right now. Moving on to prelim number three as they get settled and their blocks and get adjusted. Jacob Miller from Geneseo, Jacob Parent from Bethel, Mason from Chapman, Josh Jeffers from Cortland, Tyrone Bender from Wisconsin, Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Logan Butcher from Mount Union and Elliot Davis of Susquehanna. You got a great view there of some of the competitors from heat two. Grant Nelson looks a little tired running 46 and he’s run two four hundreds in back to back days. And tomorrow he’ll have his open four and the 4×4. But sharing a moment with his competitor that he just went neck and neck with down the back stretch. We’ll have to compile and see what his mile time is of the four 400. Oh he does. That could actually be kind of an interesting stat. We’ll bring that to you in a couple days on D-3 glory days if you’re if you’re interested. But yeah, there’s the number one seed. Pretty smooth sailing there. It’ll be interesting to see what his his teammate Jacob Parent can do in section number three. Something to keep an eye on here in heat three is going to be Josh Jarvis of Cortland State. They were the indoor national champions in the 4×4. And they were part of DQ gate yesterday. So many teams and individuals were dq’d yesterday for various reasons. We didn’t get a reasoning on their disqualification, but there’s a new champion going to be crowned in the 4×4 here this calendar year. And Josh Jarvis was that anchor leg. And he gets his opportunity to make an individual final. And you have to imagine that lights a little bit of a fire in the belly when you have that disappointment, this disqualification, you now get to kind of try to make it up to your team the best you can in the individual event. On his inside, look for Jacob, parent of Bethel, Jacob Miller, another Jacob from SUNY Geneseo, has had a strong career, running 4717 to get into this meet. They’ll have a nice tailwind coming out of the blocks and then they’ll smash into it on the far turn. So yeah, they’re getting a little bit of everything over the course of one lap here at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. And we’re off here in heat three. Mason Fara of Chapman. We didn’t mention him in the preview. A seed time of 4655. He is out hot and Jacob Parent is right on his shoulder on the inside. Fara of Chapman rolling down the backstretch here. Jacob parent right there with him. He has a slight advantage over Fara due to the inside lane, but these two will take the turn and head for home trying for that first spot in an auto qualifier. In tomorrow’s final it’s parent, it’s Fara, but Jacob Parent looks like he is running away with this one. But here comes Jarvis. Can the late charge from Cortland State get him to tomorrow’s final? He’ll have to wait on time as parent takes the third and final heat. It’s slow. Jarvis with a big lead there. I think he saw the clock and realized what it was going to take some arms up there as people wonder why the times maybe were slower than they expected. Jacob Parent does lead that one all the way to the line 4773 and Jeff is gets it on a Lynn actually by more than I expected. Looking at the clock 47 880 Alex Denver Rhodes was dq’d as well. So we’ll try to get information on why another DQ has happened here at the 2025 T3 Outdoor Track and Field Championship. Yeah, he was the bubble time before this section, but now compiled results are available. So let’s run you through the athletes, the nine athletes who will set the stage in the final tomorrow on Saturday, Championship Saturday. We haven’t thrown out that buzzword yet. Championship Saturday coming up tomorrow, Grant Nelson is going to go in as the number one seed as expected. 40 668. Bashir Omoruyi, 4675, and Evan Louder, Colin Conzemius, Evan Jensen, Jack Kittle, Jacob Parent who won that last heat? We just saw Chase Doornink and Josh Jeffs with the big Lynn looks to take the ninth and final spot in tomorrow’s final. Jacob Parent there on your screen. He’s got to be really happy to have gotten out there executed. No drama joins his teammate tomorrow in the final. Yeah. And they’re sitting one seven. So that’s going to be interesting. We’ll see some big names 789 get some unfavorable Lane draws tomorrow which could be an impact. I believe that if you’re ninth you get number one. Lane. Yeah, absolutely. You want that out. You want to be a little further outside chance to stretch your legs. That’s all for the women’s 400. Excuse me. Men’s 400 prelims. We have the women’s 400 prelims coming up next at 315 local time. We’re going to step away for just two minutes, and And welcome back to the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, for continuing coverage of the 2025 outdoor Division three National Track and Field Championships. We have a nice little crowd starting to fill the stands here. We’ve been gifted a little bit better weather than we had yesterday, and our attention now moved back onto the track, where the women’s 400 meter prelims are about to get underway. A loaded first field. I feel like we’re saying that all throughout this competition, but we’re going to remind you how loaded the women’s field is. It’s 5541. It took 5541 to get into this meet back in 2016. That was the last time it was this hard to make the meet. And that was 55.97, almost half a second off the last time. It was very difficult to make or the hardest time to make this meet. So you’re going to see a great field here. Some great women will not make the final, which will make for some drama here in heat one. Absolutely. Sometimes you have to approach the prelim as if it were a final. I think that’s what we’re going to see today. Allow me to introduce you to this field. Lauren Phillips goes from Johns Hopkins, Marina miller, Bryn Mooney, Sarah Schermerhorn, Megan carrots. Garrett. Excuse me. Rhymes with carrots. Stew. I’ve got that one stuck in my head. Megan Garrett, Michaela moriarty, and Kennedy. Wait. The senior from Mount Union goes in the outside lane. You should all be familiar with Kennedy. Wait. A multi-time national champion knows how to get it done. Has remaining eligibility left to be here for her team. Was on that 4×4 yesterday for Mount Union. But we’ll have to take on a strong field. Megan Garrett’s 10th fastest all time Bryn Mooney indoor champ. Just the hits keep coming in section one. Yeah this is loaded. Don’t expect this to be near a blanket coming around that second turn. Absolutely. And only one auto qualifier goes through to tomorrow. The next six for that field of nine are going to have to rely on fastest times. And we are away here for the first heat of the women’s 400 meter. Schermerhorn looks strong from Hope in the center of the track, but here comes Bryn Mooney and Marina miller on her inside. But Schermerhorn is running great on the outside. Michaela moriarty is making up the stagger on Kennedy. Wait, but it’s going to be Schermerhorn and Megan Garrett, the number one seed coming into this. Coming around this corner here, this final turn, as I mentioned, it could be a blanket here as they come across and be very difficult to call. We have for now about five women up even coming down the final homestretch. But Schermerhorn has a slight advantage. But here comes Lauren Phillips on the inside of Johns Hopkins. It’s Schermerhorn, it’s Garrett, it’s Lauren Phillips. Here comes Marina miller. It’s going to be too close to call. It’s looking like I’m not even going to say it. Wait for the board. I think it was Schermerhorn. We’ll take a look and see. No, it’s Phillips by the slimmest of margins. 0.0 for Lauren Phillips. Takes heat one, taking down a very strong field. Yes, two. Just as you predicted. Bit of a blanket finish down the home stretch there Lauren Phillips takes the win in section 150 502, just 0.02 ahead of Sarah Schermerhorn, who really did a lot of the work in that race. Moving up Marina miller in third, Megan Garrett in fourth, Kennedy wait down in sixth place, Bryn Mooney in fifth. There are some great athletes in this section who will not advance to the final. And you kind of mentioned the men’s yet just previously. Maybe a preview of the final right here and what it’s going to take coming down the backstretch for athletes. Neck and neck 0.02 separating the top two to guarantee a spot in tomorrow’s final. Lauren Phillips feeling good for the Hopkins. What they say go hop, go hop. Yeah, it’s going to be really interesting to see how many athletes in this field advance on time. And so we’ll keep an eye on that and we’ll update people as we go through. Meantime, we shift our attention to section two of three in the women’s 400 meter dash. Reminder win and you’re in. And then we take the next six fastest times. Madison Miles of Mount Union goes on the inside lane. Bella King Harvey from Williams, the sophomore, goes to her outside. Eva excuse me from Emory goes to her outside. Ariella Rogan press from McAllister. The freshman. Rose Talbot from Rose-Hulman. Kamya Wooten from North Carolina and Mackenzie Reser from Augustana goes in the outside lane. Kamya Wooten was part of the DQ fest yesterday in the 200. She’s looking now to get back into that final in this 400. Mackenzie Reeser of Augustana (South Dakota) saw her teammate win the javelin. Excuse me, the discus throw. Charlotte Freyer hopefully can take some inspiration from Charlotte and channel that into her race, but Ariel Rogan Press went neck and neck with Megan Garrett at the mIAC final, where they went one two in the country, so we’ll see her debuting here in her outdoor season. After the men’s sections, I was starting to kind of wonder and question if this was going to be a fast day on the track or not, but the women proved that it can be fast, and we’ll see them in section two here in just a second. I’ll give it a go. Once again, unless you want to take over, would you? My eyes are better than your eyes. Would you like me to give it a shot? We’ll see how you do. Then. Let the fans vote on who should take heat three. Absolutely. Fan poll in real time and we’ll see how this goes. Once again. Attention, decathletes. The javelin area for a 345 start. So and they’re away in section two of the women’s 400 meter dash. All even to start. They have that tailwind at their backs right now from Emory seems to be moving up on the stagger very quickly. Rogan press looking strong in the middle of the field, but also Talbot moving up quickly. So a lot of movers over the first 200. But as we take this left hand turn as always and slam into the wind, we’re going to shake things up a little bit. Reser looks good on the outside. We’ll see how things look after the stagger as they turn for home, and we’ll have a clear picture of what’s going on here. Rogan press from McAllister appears to have it by just a stride over Talbot to her outside, where blanketed one two and Reser on the outside, also looking really strong in that third position for now. But Rogan Press appears to have about six inches on the field. Can’t tell from my vantage point. We turn to the scoreboard. Rogan press does in fact take it. The freshman from McAllister, 5388, gets that big Q by about a 10th of a second over Carchedi from Emory the senior 50 397 wrestler from Augustana close behind, 50 four two, six two. How’d I do? That was amazing. You did great. And the women in the field did fantastic. 5388. That’s 0.01 off of her PR. So a slight PR here in the prelims. Yeah. And like, like I said before, I was kind of wondering if things were slowing down today a little bit. The men didn’t seem to find the track very fast, but the women are absolutely crushing it in the one lap race. It is going to take some 55 to get into this final. It’s looking like 5530 maybe that’s a little ambitious. So four women can break 55 here in this next final like they did in this. And heat two we’re seeing a sub 55 final. As you see the freshman Ariel Rogan press there. Yeah Stu mentioned four athletes under 55 seconds at the moment. And that bubble looks like it’s going to be Miller from MIT 55 three. It’s going to be close here. But as we mentioned this is the hardest 400 meter field in D3 history. So don’t be surprised if four women follow up and go under 55 seconds here. Yeah. And Stu, to your point, it looks like our information is indicating that we’ve seen in the in these top eight times so far four personal bests and one season’s best. So it’s basically going to take the best. You got to get through to tomorrow. And we’ve echoed that across all the national meets. We’ve called so far that you have to be your very best on every single day, not just the final. And it’s showcasing here so far. We’ll introduce you here to heat three as I move my papers around. In heat three Lane two Kira Abrantes of Bridgewater, Kylie Spytek of Washu RF as they say, Lindsey Novak of North Central, Peter Leroy of Brandeis, Shalom Sula of Bethel, Kylie Grabowski of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Zoraya Moore of Rutgers-Newark and Elizabeth Biswanger of Puget Sound. Apologies. Shalom to any of Bethel (Minnesota). Someone we want to keep an eye on here is Kylie Spytek, she posted in the fun Facts that she’s been ninth to national meets in a row and she’s fired up, ready to go and make this final ninth the hardest position in track and field. The first one missing out on All American Awards. Let’s see. Stu, you want you want me to take it? What do you think? No, I’m going to take this one. You’re taking this one. You deserve it. I love. It. So. And they’re away here in heat three of the women’s 400, vying for a spot in tomorrow’s final. Spytek and Novak are out hard. Spytek of Washu is someone you want to cheer for, and they are going to be close here. Coming down to the final turn, it’s Spytek Novak have made up the stagger, but look on the outside there. Kylie Grabowski of Wisconsin Eau Claire. Will the inside have an advantage here? Garbarski of Eau Claire coming down the home stretch, followed by Spytek and Novak. They’re going to catch Garbarski here. It’s going to be close. We have five women coming down. It is going to be neck and neck to make tomorrow’s guaranteed spot in the final. It’s too close to call. It looks like University of the South of Bethel (Minnesota) is going to take this one. From Bethel (Minnesota) does in fact take it with a late charge. Look to be about a 4 or 5 women blanket finish there and it is Shalom, Sue in 50 523 over Peter Lee Leroy, the freshman from Brandeis in 50 543. So things slow down a little bit in that section. But yeah, still some really quality running here. How much does that impact the bubble time. Let’s see when I scroll down here it doesn’t it doesn’t affect it. So Marina miller from MIT does in fact hang on to grab that final spot in tomorrow’s final with a 55.30. Your top seed is going to be Ariella Rogan Press 53.88. One of only two athletes to go sub 54. The other, of course, was Eva Carchedi Megan Mackenzie Resser, Rose Talbot, Lauren Phillips, Sarah. Schermerhorn. Shalom Bella, King Harvey and Marina miller, who mentioned previously. Those are going to be your nine athletes toeing the line in tomorrow’s final. We’re super excited to bring you that one on Championship Saturday. Next on the track are going to be the fastest athletes D3 has to offer. We’ve got a few minutes here before that event gets going, so we’re going to lay out her All right folks, welcome back to the Spire Institute here in Geneva, Ohio for day two coverage of the outdoor track and field national championships. Next event on the track, we have division three’s fastest athletes, the men’s 100 meter prelims. Prelims, excuse me, are set to get going here in just a few minutes. That action is going to take place over three prelims. Much as we’ve seen in previous events on your screen. Now, all Americans and the women’s heptathlon, they’ve been added over seven events in these two days. We were fortunate enough to bring you that coverage of the 800 there. That was their final event. Nikki Bowen is your national champion once again in the national. Excuse me in the outdoor heptathlon. Love the camaraderie amongst the competition. They’re there together very for a very long time over two days. And you see how much respect they have for one another. Knowing what it takes to be on that podium, how much work they have to do throughout the season. The fast men are on the track, making some final adjustments to their blocks, and we’re going to get a chance to see one of the favorites in this competition heading our way in section one. Sam will be in heat two, but Davion Williams here is in heat one. I was looking at the wrong part of the sheet. Davion Williams of Wisconsin Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the second fastest man in D3 history. Taking to the blocks. We’ve seen him time and time again. Run very fast, do very well at the national meet. He was runner up last year, runner up indoors and is ready to take on this field. Yeah, if anyone is going to challenge Blaskowski, it’s likely going to be Williams. He’s kind of had to serve runner up to Blaskowski so many times, both in conference action and national action. And so you have to imagine he’s got a little bit of an underdog mentality coming into this, something to prove. And so no blaskowski in section one. So we’ll see what Davion Williams can do on his own. Let me run you through the rest of the field here. Max Rice Shane Kawakami Williams, Brandon Zimmerman, Davion Williams, Jamal Jones, Javonte farewell, Caleb Beitel and Dylan Doss from Illinois College rounds out the field. Do you want to correct me on a name here? Yeah. Caleb Bechtel, Bechtel. Apologies to the Bechtel family. Caleb Bechtel from Wisconsin-Whitewater goes out there in lane eight. He burst on the scene this indoor season, running the top ten all time time for Whitewater. We have a few Wisconsin guys here in the field excited to call this. Excited to watch this one. Dylan Doss from Illinois College. Unfortunately, Dq’d in the 200 looks for some redemption here. Now in the 100. Yeah, absolutely. That DQ has gotta be absolutely heartbreaking. You want to do the sprint double, but he’ll get his shot here in the 100 and the outside lane. And I’m super curious to see how fast this homestretch is been. Kind of a cross wind all day. But the grandstands are really blocking it. So yeah, we’ll see what the wind reading is, but I think it might be a pretty fair effort for them. Yeah, we saw some great 400 meter times coming down that backstretch, maybe proving that there isn’t much of a headwind as you’re coming down the stretch here. We don’t want to get too hung up on times because it is about the competition. But man, Stu, I, I, I think that sub ten in Division three is within reach. And so hoping the athletes get get the opportunity to really put that mark to the test. We’ll see what happens. Section one of the men’s 100 meter dash takes to the blocks. And we are away clean. Williams looks to have had a good start, as did Doss on the outside, but Williams leaving no doubt about this so far. Rice maybe his closest competitor out in one. We’ll see what happened over the last few steps. We don’t have a great view here, but it was Williams, the junior from Wisconsin Wisconsin-Oshkosh, who takes it by about a 10th of a second over. Max Rice from Saint Johns 1046 gets the job done, gets the big cue today, a slight headwind, negative point one. So still slash a slight headwind potentially. Yeah I’m actually that wind reading is lower than I was probably expecting. So that that’s a good sign. But Williams really cemented his status as one of the favorites in section one. You can tell we that we don’t really know when that much because the flag is flying, but maybe on the track it’s not as bad. Yeah, Stu, I think a lot of it’s getting blocked by the grandstand here. I don’t know exactly where they read it, I don’t know. Fans at home probably don’t really care so much right there in the middle. You can see it right there. Okay. It’s right there in the middle. So that makes sense. Maybe we’re blocking. Maybe you and I are actually blocking blocking the wind here for the field. All right Williams takes section one as we turn our attention to section two where the favorite of this whole sprinting competition is going to come into play. So I’ll run you through the field here and we’ll give you some highlights. Jalen Jones, the senior from Lynchburg goes in the inside lane. Caleb McClinton goes on his outside and Colby from McMurry Brady Fowler from Roanoke Lucas Fadden from Grinnell. Sam Blaskowski from Wisconsin. La Crosse goes in seven and to his outside in lane eight is going to be Amari Carter, the freshman from Roanoke. So wardrobe check here for Sam Laskowski once they come on the screen. If you remember yesterday he was an all tights for the 200. He wasn’t. Now he’s back in the all tights underneath his singlet. That gives you an idea what the weather is like out there. That’s how we know if it’s cold or not. Like exactly what Wisconsin guy has tights on. If the Wisconsin guy is in full arm sleeves and tights, you know, you know, it’s cold. But I guarantee you he’s not going to wear that stuff in the final. This is the hardest D-3 final in D-3 history. Took 1046 to get here to beat your very best. And we’ve really I mean, we’ve just been given a gift over the last 3 or 4 years, maybe even five years of D3 caliber sprinters who were who were just amazing. Some of them went on to run in Division one after exhausting their eligibility here. And now. You know, we’re going to see athletes like Sam go on to have a professional career after. And I don’t think he’s going to be the last sprinter that we send to the collegiate ranks. We saw Sam a couple times yesterday and looks to be in top form every now and then. We hear of little injury concerns. Haven’t heard any of that talk heading into these championships, so he should get a clean run at it here out of lane seven. Underway in section two of the men’s 100 meter dash. It is Sam Blaskowski out in lane seven who has a meter on the field already. He powers home. He’s not going to see anybody coming into his peripheral vision as he takes it. Section number two time check 1028 takes section two with the win in section two. Lucas Fadden from Grinnell falls just behind him, about 3/10 of a second behind him, 1058 into a five meter per second headwind. Amari Carter is third in that 1 in 1068. Stu I mean, that’s about what we expected there. That was that went by the script. And that’s what he wants to do this weekend. Get to the final as easy as as possible. Just won by 0.3 seconds in 100m. So light work for Blaskowski only 100m on the day. We’ll see him three times tomorrow in the 100. In the 200 and part of that D3 record. Four by one team. So get ready. Fireworks. Tomorrow we have another heat still to go here in the men’s 310 300. That’d be a fun event. Men’s 100 meter dash. Heat three. Before we introduce you to those athletes, we see Sam walking off the track here. You kind of wonder like what he’s going to do. I mean, he’s he’s done this so many times. He must have his routine super dialed in. I imagine they’ll get indoors on the bubble right now is Jamal Jones ten six eight. Is that bubble time in the compiled results through two heats as section number three is adjusting their blocks, it’s going to be Ethan Shane on the inside. Shamar love from Rowan to his outside in three. Kevin Arthur who ran great yesterday is in four. Tristan Wright in five. Stefan Stefan Golaszewski in six, Landon Liu in seven and Jacoby Cefalu from Ripon in eight. Landon Liu hurt his hamstring earlier in the season, has only run 200 meter dashes so far and got it done early, late in the season to get here. We’ve spoken to four, and he’s not too concerned about how many races he needs to get to the final or feeling good, so expect a good performance from him today. But he’s got to go up against Kevin Arthur, who just ran 1019. It was into an illegal wind, but that’s still a great time at 2.4m/s. I spoke to Landon a couple days ago at the D3 Glory Days event, and he just kind of looked at me and he said, another national championship, another hamstring injury. And I don’t think he meant that he’s feeling it now, but it did affect his season. But you know, this guy’s been as high as third place in the sprints. I don’t think we’re too concerned about this injury. He knows how to navigate these waters. And he’s a kinesiology major. Loves the sport loves the physicality of it and figuring out his form. And he thinks he has an unconventional form, but he knows that it works for him. Arthur looked great in preliminary action yesterday. We’ll see if he can keep it rolling into the finals tomorrow. See him in that distinctive red and blue kit from Saint John’s. Away in our final section of the men’s 100 meter dash, it was actually Karczewski who looked really strong there and still does. Arthur, on his inside seems to be moving up. I think Arthur may be inching just ahead there. I think Arthur takes section number three. He does ten four one over Stefan Kichefski, who had a really great start there. He finishes second in 1046. Tristan Wright is given third place right now in 1058. The freshman from Lynchburg. As the results continue to populate here, Stu Arthur continues what has been a really impressive campaign so far and a great start from Karczewski. Yeah, he’s going to give some people a run for their money in tomorrow’s final and the 200 meter final as well. Great to see it. And the wind keeps picking up here. Points negative point six now. But that’s big for Wisconsin-Eau Claire to get some points potentially tomorrow obviously to finish in the top eight. There’s nine in the final. But they’re doing well. And a little surprise there for Landon Liu. But he did was dealing with an injury. So hopefully he is feeling a little bit better here. Yeah so difficult to get to these championships in top form. These athletes go through conference. They go through a bunch of big meets and keeping the body healthy can be difficult. Let me run you through qualifiers through to tomorrow’s final. Sam Blaskowski no surprise goes in as your number one seed, Kevin Arthur on your screen, who just took section three win, goes in as the two seed Damian Willemse rounds out that that favorite trio, 1046, gets in Stefan Kruszewski, Max Rice, Javonte Farewell, Lucas Fadden, Tristan Wright and Caleb Battle. Who am I saying that right battle Bethel (Minnesota) excuse me, Caleb Bethel (Minnesota) from Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’m going to remember that name because he’s in the final tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing these gentlemen compete. We have a few minutes here at the Spire System. Spire Institute. Excuse me. Before the women come in to run their 100 meter dash. So we’ll lay out here for just a minute or two back with more sprinting action at Geneva Ohio the 2025 Division three National Track and Field Championships. Welcome back to the Spire Institute here in beautiful Geneva Ohio for continuing day two coverage of the Division three outdoor Track and Field National Championships. Before we get into the women’s 100 meter, we’re quickly going to give you a recap over from the women’s Maltaise, the women’s heptathlon, which we saw play out over the course of the last two days. These women went through seven events together long jump and then from North Central, your champion in the javelin throw going 3857. That was faith laden on your screen. Then our final event, this happened on the track just earlier today. It was the women’s 800 meter run. And Lauren Huber from Illinois Wesleyan moved herself from 11th into fourth with that run. But it was ultimately Nikki Bowen. No surprise there. The senior from Emory who got the job done. She didn’t win any single event, but she did enough over the course of all seven to become your champion. She scored 5435 points, winning this championship over Emma Gruen by 447 points. Stu, that’s a pretty impressive margin of victory there. Yeah. What a dominant season for Nikki Bowen. The record holder is now the national champion finishing runner up last year two titles. Now as we get ready for heat one. Yeah moving our attention back to the track. We just saw the fast men go off in the men’s 100 meter dash. We now turn our attention to the women’s edition of the 100 meter dash and similar storyline in the women’s race. There’s one clear favorite, but a super strong field behind her. Yeah. Let’s introduce you to the field. First. We’ll get to the favorite after that in lane two from Chicago, Gabby Meschino in lane three from Colby, Simone Wahid from SUNY Delhi. Part of that four by one Miranda Cole. And for Emma Seipel, the long jump national champion will be in five. Jasmine Dean of Mary Washington in six. Dakota Houston, the freshman All-American in the 60 meter dash from John Carroll in seven. And Blessing Quay from Connecticut College in eight. Strong field here assembled in section one. Same story. If you guys have been following along, you know the drill. But hey, if you’re just now joining us when and you’re in. So the first across the line guarantees their spot in tomorrow’s final. And then we’ll fill out the field of nine with the next six fastest times. In the blocks. And we are away clean. Dean looks strong on the inside, but Kai on the outside looks really strong. Moving into UChicago, Moschino seems to be making a hard charge of it. Too close to call from my vantage point. Turning to the screen here, see who is given the win. It was Dakota Houston, the freshman from John Carroll gets it done. Big cue in 1179. Moschino just behind in 1186. The wind is just whipping around. Oh wow. Yeah. For the men. And now 2.5 for the women. But Dakota Houston having a great freshman campaign indoor all American now will be in the final tomorrow 1197 gets it done. Yeah. Kind of chaotic here with the wind blowing all around. I mean it really just elevates the stakes of getting that number one spot in that auto qualifier because you have no idea what kind of wind the next heat’s going to be dealing with. With the next heat coming up, we do have Lauren Jarrett, which could be fun if it’s a lot of wind. That’s true. We get a little tailwind going behind the fastest athlete D3’s ever seen. Yeah, we could be treated to a fast time here, but Dakota Houston has to be excited with this so far. A freshman campaign, we saw her in the 200 yesterday. And now again here today in the 100. Job well done. We’ll see you tomorrow. Moving on to section number two in the women’s 100 meter dash. As we get a quick fact check on something, our stat department is working overtime here. Stu, do you want to go ahead and run us through the field here since you’ve got some stuff pulled up in front of you? Yeah. Lane two from Wheaton, Massachusetts. We have Sheena Lauriston in lane three from center, Chloe Hein in lane four from SUNY Delhi. She said Johnson in lane five from Puget Sound. Kirsten Wilson, the record holder in lane six from Wisconsin. Lacrosse Lauren Jarrett in lane seven from Johns Hopkins, Mira Klimov and from North Carolina Wesleyan in lane eight, Camilla Wooten. Thank you Stu, appreciate that. We got our first glimpse of Jarrett yesterday in the four by 100 meter relay. She was the anchor leg for that lacrosse program. And I mean she was an absolute rocket down the home stretch. We’ll see if she can replicate that performance here in the individual event. Look out for lane seven. We got a DM from someone of the Johns Hopkins team saying watch out for her today. Yeah. Away in section two it is Jarrett who takes an early lead. She’s getting a little bit of a challenge there from Johnson on her inside. But Jarrett’s going to do it. Running away from the field. She crosses the line first just as we expected. She takes it 11 five four and a 2.9 wind and still good call there from Johns Hopkins. Goes second in 1187. Our sources are very we have great sources and student. And to your point, if you have some inside information you’d like to share with your humble broadcasters, feel free to send a direct message over on the D3 Glory Days Instagram, and we’ll try to work it into this all star broadcast here. We just need to make sure it’s accurate and have your athletes back up the talk. Yeah, absolutely. Let’s let’s keep things factual there. But definitely a great run there from Klimov Lauren Jarrett secures her spot. She does does enough but not too much 11 five four gets the auto qualifier into Saturday’s final. I just can’t believe that the wind shifting like that so quickly. I guess that’s how it works. But hey, that wind it it does blow, Stu. That’s what I’m told. I’m sorry. Moving on to section number three. Let’s take a look at compiled results here. We’ll give you an idea of the bubble time. Emma Siple, the scalpel from Loras, the senior 1192 sits on the bubble right now. Bubble times could be saved. I mean, you have no idea what’s going to go on with the wind here, so we’ll we’ll see if Siple can get into tomorrow’s final. But there’s another field of women here who have something to say about that. Lane two from Elmhurst part of that. Four by one Lauren Marshall Jasmine Wright was third last year from Washu, Mojo Doumbia from center in four, Alyssa Busker from Elmhurst in five, Josephine Jett of CMS in six. Dakota Mitchell part of their four by 1 in 7. Tasia Bryant of North Carolina Wesleyan. And rounding out the field in lane nine is Rachel Arthur of Williams in the center of your track. Right? Doumbia busker Jett Mitchell loaded. I mean, the whole field is loaded. If you’re a sprinter, you want to be named jet. I mean, what a great name for a sprinter. Imagine. Yeah, just it happened like we drew it up her. Her parents are saying named Miles. Yeah. It just absolutely perfect, though. Not as cool as jet jets. Definitely cooler. Section number three standing behind their blocks. Now they’ll get their final instructions while they take to their blocks. I’ll just give you a preview of what we have yet to come here. After these 100 meter prelims are wrapped up, we’ll get into the half mile ish 800 meter prelims for both men and women. And then our final event on the track is going to be the 3000 meter steeplechase for both men and women. We’ll also get a chance to bring you the end of the men’s decathlon in the 1500. Later on in today’s broadcast. Mojo Doumbia, we saw her qualifying the 200 meter. She’s fourth all time in the hundred, coming in second overall. Seed has yet to make a final. Can’t she go two for two this weekend? Away in our final section of the women’s 100 meter run. Doumbia with not a great start there. Actually it was jet on the outside who looked really strong. This one’s going to be a blanket finish. Maybe. Maybe it’s buscar looking strong in the latter stages of that race. Let’s take an eye to the board here. Doumbia did come back from a tough start there to go 11.65 into a 1.0 win or with a 1.0 wind I should say busker. Also looking strong there. It looks like we essentially tied here going down to the 1,000th of a second, 11, six, five, 11, six, five. I feel pretty good about not being able to call that one with a margin of victory like that on your screen. Now, Doumbia and Busker essentially tie there in heat number three right from Washu. Goes 11 eight one Mitchell goes 11 eight two to round out the top four in that heat. Well, I mean, that’s just a great illustration of how competitive these things are going to be. You remember the last time we saw a 100 meter sprinter here in 2022, on the men’s side or on side. Yes JP Vaught. So now we got Doumbia here on the women’s side for center, keeping that 100 meter tradition alive. Yeah. Shout out JP Vaught. It’s a pleasure watching him run part of D3 sprinting royalty for sure. And it’s great to have another center athlete on the line in a final. We’ll get to see her come back tomorrow. Let’s run you through the field of nine Lauren Jarrett Matt Doumbia, Alyssa Busker, Dakota Houston, Jasmine Wright, Dakota Mitchell, Gabby Meschino, Mira Klimov and Blessing Ki of Cornell College. The freshman rounds out the field in 11 nine, just barely over Sasha Johnson, who also ran 11 nine. And we go down to what is that two thousandths of a second? Is that how it works? I think that’s how it works. Yeah, the third decimal point. So I mean, just just listen to spots like nine through 13, 1190, 1190, 1192, 1192, 1194. So close battling for that ninth lane in the final, Lauren Jarrett is going to be your top seed, as expected in 1154. So stay tuned. Tomorrow if we get good weather, we’re going to see something really special here at the Spire Institute. Let’s see. Men’s 800 scheduled to go off here at 4 p.m. Local time. So we’ll step away for a couple Welcome back to day two coverage of the Division three outdoor track and field national championships here at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. We just wrapped up coverage of the prelims and of the 100 meter dash in both the men and women, and we now turn our attention to a two lap race. The men’s 800 meter run is out on the track, and we’re going to get a great first field filled with MIT athletes and the reigning champion from Wisconsin lacrosse, Cale the showman showman, can’t wait to see him run and make his debut this weekend. But he’s got some tough competition ahead of him. Yep. Rounding out this field is going to be Pierce Clark, Dominic Pena, David Whitaker, Andrew Hutchinson, Cale showman Ellis Delvecchio, Charlie Glaze and Simon Opsahl. It took a very fast time to get into this field with some scratches. Took around 150 min to get into this field, so expect some fast times. It’ll be interesting to see how they handle these prelims, whether they take it out fast, can they? Negative split in 800. We’ve seen that before in prelims. So we’ll see how they go as they take their final jumps and slaps on their legs to get ready. Yeah, I think it took I think 15 athletes went sub 5151. Excuse me. Sub 150 in this field. And for those at home once you see them on your screen here, they’ll stay in their lane for the first turn and then cut in 100m in. You don’t want to cut it early because there’s been a lot of dqs, and they are looking at the lane like a hawk this weekend. We’ll take the top two across the line as our qualifiers, and then the next three fastest times stand up. Oh, they’re going to stand back up there. I don’t know Stu with this with this strict officiating you know no problem with that. But every time I see a little shutter on the start line, I just I don’t want to see a DQ in the 800. I missed him kind of stumble. I thought he was going from a hand on this ground type start as Ethan. Greg turns over as he sees someone stumble at the starting line. Yeah, athletes just don’t love staying in that start position for too long. But we are underway clean here in the men’s 800. Stu, you got your hand up. What’d you see? I’m not going to say anything out loud, okay? We’re not going to say anything out loud. Stu, I want to talk about Cale showman here a little bit. I spoke to him a couple days ago in person, and, you know, we were kind of talking about, despite the fact that he’s won three, 800 meter championships, he still is kind of looked at as an underdog in this field. And he took it personally indoors. And when we named him least likely to defend his national championship from last year’s outdoors, I’m glad you took it personally because that’s what we’re here for. We want to fire these guys up and make sure they are competing and don’t feel like it’s getting handed to them. And showman is a great sport, a great competitor. As he sits in second now coming down the home stretch with Simon Upsall taking the lead in from MIT. As we have three MIT athletes in the mix as his teammate joins him at the bell lap. Yeah, showman doesn’t want to get boxed in there, but that’s really not a bad position. Two ways to run the 800. There’s kind of that hard charge from the front or the sit and kick. But Simon Opsahl from MIT, the senior, and David Whitaker, his teammate, going one two shoulder to shoulder, essentially with the defending champion just behind them. This is just like practice for the MIT engineers looking like they are back in Cambridge taking some 200 meter reps as they hit 200m to go. Showman in second MIT with a top two placings right now the two make it automatically to tomorrow’s final as they come down, the home straight will be a tailwind as Opsahl and Whitaker continue to do the driving for MIT, but showman doesn’t want to leave it to chance. He wants to move up, and here comes Hart Hutchinson from Dubuque. On the inside. Showman looks to his right, doesn’t see Hutchinson on the inside, and looks to be showman and Hutchinson getting your auto qualifiers. Hutchinson great move there. We I don’t think we mentioned his name once in the first 790m of that race, but he moves up just in time to grab that second auto qualifier. One 5238 for Hutchinson. But it is Cale, the show showman, who takes the top spot in prelim number one. 150 225 Hutchinson, from Dubuque, was running so fast on that 100 meter stretch, I thought he was Blake Hardison’s teammate, that hurdler. I almost had Hardison’s coming down the stretch, but Hutchinson from Dubuque getting that second qualifier. Yeah, you know, you’re running fast when you kind of catch the announcers off guard a little bit with that hard move. But yeah Showman and Hutchinson are your are your auto cuz. Whitaker hangs on for third. Delvecchio fourth. And so they’ll have to stand by and wait and see on time. I believe we’ve got three sections here, three sections coming up here, which is going to be great competition and we love to see it. Section two now walking up to their blocks here Miles. It’s going to be excuse me, let me refresh my documents here. Ziad Hassan who was the top seed going into the mile I believe indoors we now are going to see him in the 800. The senior from MIT, a one 5005 to his name Will Neubauer, comes all the way from Crawfordsville, Indiana, the senior from Wabash, one 5042 to his name, Trevor Richwine, the top seed from Dickinson. The junior 140 831 Oscar roaring from Pomona. Pitzer one 4950. Kyle Miller from Buena Vista, John Diaz from NYU and Parker Boyle, the sophomore from Amherst, rounds out this field. Yeah, we mentioned 15 guys under 150. And we’re going to see four of them right here in this one with Ziad right there at 5005. So we’ll see. We’ve seen Ziad go to the front in other races and indoors. So we’ll see what kind of approach he takes here as we get ready for heat two of the men’s 800 meter prelim, Trevor Richwine, the only athlete to go sub 149 this outdoor season. I’ll correct right there. He was second to Tahoe Davis. Oh yeah like 2/200. Well I’m trying to keep it race specific here. Still championships but Stu is right. We saw Tor Ho Tung Davidson decide to pass on the 800 to go all in on the mile. We got a green card there on the start there. Ziad Hassan. Kind of a little stumble. Put his hand up, say, hey, I’m not ready yet as you have the list there in front of you. They’re getting ready to take the start here as we get a redo of heat two. And that’s a nice tip for athletes at home. Just put your hand up if you need to reset. Just put the hand up underway clean here in section number two we’ll come around the bend and get an idea of who’s going to take this. We’re starting to get an idea of times reminder times outside of the auto cues are going to advance. Hassan looks like he’s trying to fight for the rail, but Neubauer right to his inside. And Stu, can you see who that is? Yeah. Rich wine, rich wine. Dickinson going straight to the front, showing why he’s the number one seed, as he’ll have Kyle Miller of Buena Vista right on his outside shoulder. Rich wine appears to want to drive this thing going, but he’s not going to be unchallenged down the home stretch. We’re kind of two by two in down the home stretch right now. Yeah. Miller takes over from Buena Vista. He’s had plenty of outdoor national meet experience that long stride looking great as they come to the bell. Lap 54 unofficially as they come through rich wine right there. Will Neubauer of Wabash moves in the third Hassan and roaring battling for fourth. Oskar Rowan saw his teammate finishes an All-American in the 10-K, but Kyle Miller of Buena Vista, looking to get himself into tomorrow’s final with a big lead down the backstretch. Yeah, this is a really strong push from Miller as we start to see Will Neubauer, the little giant from Wabash, start to make a move into into second. He couldn’t quite get there, so he’ll settle for third right now. Rich wine still in a strong second. But it seems like Miller may have shocked the field here with such a strong move. Miller went to the front and never looked back. We talk about it all the time. When you make your move, you got to be confident with it. He has 50m to go, but here comes rich wine trying to get that second spot. But roaring and Neubauer both coming down 30m to go. Can Kyle Miller hang on for tomorrow’s final. And he will rich wine right there for second. I couldn’t tell if Miller was kind of taking it easy there, or if he was starting to tie up a little bit. Miller gets it done. 158 eight kind of doing it the hard way from the front. Trevor Richwine, your top seed coming into this section, gets it done. Getting the auto qualifier in second, the junior from Dickinson. And then I mean it was really close behind roaring from Pomona. Pitzer the senior 150 127. Will Neubauer 151 three. Oh, we’ll stand by and wait to see if those get in on times. I believe they were faster in section two than we were in section one. Yeah. Confirming that right now, only David Whitaker of MIT is sitting on the bubble right now from heat one. Yeah, smart running there from section two. You know they don’t they know there’s one section behind him. They know they had to get out there and push it. But they really benefited by that move from Kyle Miller. He decided after a lap he was kind of done messing around. Took over from Trevor Richwine. He said, I don’t care if you’re the number one seed, I’m taking this one. Yeah, I’d love to see it. You know, going after it. He came here alone with just his coach. We saw them at the D3 Loras event on Wednesday. He’s fired up and now he’ll be in tomorrow’s final. An opportunity to become an All American. You can see some love there from Dubuque. They’re in the same conference. The American Rivers Conference has two guys into tomorrow’s final so far. And we’ll look to add one more. No, they won’t because they’re not. Yes. Lawrence. That was I knew there was a guy in here. They’ll try to get him into the final and celebrate from a conference standpoint. But let’s introduce you to heat three. Yep. Heat three on the track now, Matthew Sheehan from Suny Geneseo. Sam Lane from Lynchburg, Joe Frank from Lawrence DeWitt. Dean from Emory. Oliver Brandeis from Bowdoin. Spencer Wartburg from Emory. And Zachary Liu Walter from Williams. They know what they have to do to get it done. One 5252 David Whitaker from MIT is the bubble time right now, but the safest way to get through is to finish in that top two, get yourself an automatic qualifier and come back to fight again on Saturday. Curious to see how Sam Lanasa does in this heat. He was in the 1500 meters yesterday, qualified fairly easily by running from behind and moving up. He’s the only Lynchburg athlete from that guys who broke four and Jason Hunt to be doubling here this weekend as Zachary Liu. Walter heads to the front here 200m in with DeWitt Dean right behind him and Lanas, aka Nez as he’s so affectionately called by his team, is employing a similar strategy that we saw in the Lynchburg guys in the 1500 meter prelims. They all kind of went straight to the back and then started working their way up. And so we’ll see if that’s that’s in the cards for him as well. It’s reminded me of a 2016 Craig Engels esque going from the back and coming up as we hit the bell lap. Lou Walter still in the lead with DeWitt, Dean of Emory, on his shoulder. Dean has a teammate in there, Spencer Watry. As we’re we’re grouped up here with 300m to go. Oliver Brandis of Bowdoin, the polar bears trying to move up front. But here comes Dean from Emory. That was a 54 mid first lap split, so should be well within the range of all these athletes here. Dean continues to drive, but things are starting to shuffle behind him. Here comes Sam from Lynchburg moving into third. It’s Dean Brandis and Lanasa moving here with 150m to go. Cam DeWitt Dean hold on as they come down the home stretch, but he has a plenty of competition running behind him, including Joe Frank of Loris. What a kick from Frank of Loris DeWitt Dean and Joe Frank looking like they’re going to lock up the top two spots here in heat three. It’s a battle for third. Dean pumps the fist. I saw him gritting the teeth with 120 to go. He does get the win over Frank and Sam. Lanasa does just enough, potentially. 152 wow to make it to tomorrow’s final. We’ll give you compiled results here in just a second. But just to recap section three, DeWitt Dean takes it. He basically led that the last 600m of that race. 151 to 656. Second last lap for him. Joe Frank really moved to the front exactly when it mattered. He was in sixth place at the end of 400m, and he goes up to second. At the end of the race. Sam Lanasa just edges out Oliver Brandeis from Bowdoin for that third spot, compiled results. It shows how tough it is. Are these results compiled? Yeah. So the reason you’re you’re I can see your you can see you can see how I’m so confused. But he’s seventh right now. But the auto qualifiers he had two auto qualifiers slower than him which put the bubble time. All right. So fill this fill this out for me Stu. Yeah. So because we had two auto qualifiers it goes the next three fastest. And despite Oliver Brandis being in the top nine, he does not move on to tomorrow’s final because he had two qualifiers a little bit slower than him. So now it populated up for you Noah. You can see the small queues. Oscar Rowan gets a small queue, will Neubauer with a small queue, and Sam Lanasa gets the third small queue. Does that make sense? It does make sense. Thank you for explaining that to me and the folks at home. So let’s run you through just the full field. We’ll see in tomorrow’s final. Kyle Miller, Trevor Richwine, DeWitt, Dean, Oscar Rowan, will Neubauer, Joe. Frank, Sam. Lanasa Kyle. Showman. Andrew Hutchinson wrap up that field of Nine in Saturday’s final. It’s always interesting when you see this type of thing you saw in the sprints. It’s top three and then the next fastest, but that’s what it is. That’s what it’s like here in the 800, and we have another great 800. Coming up here with the women. And it’s the theme of the women’s 800 as they’re right. Now before I get to the women’s 800, they’re celebrating Alexis Boykin of MIT shot put national title. She also threw a D3 record 1680 for Alexis Boykin on the podium. Now there she is. 10.10 big points for MIT in their quest to take home another national title. If they did that in indoors. Congratulations to your All American field in the women’s shot. All right, back to my theme for the women’s 800. Very rarely do you see a middle distance event, scratch or not scratch anyone. The women’s 800. No one scratched. It’s a hey, meet me at the starting line. I think I can take you on type type vibe here. They all think they’re the best 800 meter runner in the country. And they’re all going to showcase that here this weekend. Absolutely. We’ll get that underway here in just a moment. Similar to the men’s, this is going to play out over three sections, with the top two from each heat advancing plus the next three fastest times. Introducing heat one of the women’s 800. It starting off in lane two will be Kenna Madigan of Wisconsin Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Isabelle Wyatt of Saint Olaf in three, Annika Pawlowska of Williams, and for Kayla Cass of Stockton in five. Hope Murphy of Baldwin Wallace in six, Lina Matuk of Augustana (Illinois) in seven. Alexis Estes of Connecticut College in eight, and Hannah Edwards of Lynchburg rounds out the field and we have 3207 women here in this first prelim. Yeah, three 207 women. That’s going to be CAS, Matuk and Murphy, your top seeds. Do we have three, 207 and A206 right. Is there a two. Yeah. Oh yeah, I completely forgot. Lina Matuk of Augustana. You don’t care about 206 yeah, give me the 207 so for women here under 207 in such a loaded field, one of the best D3 800 fields of all time. Matuk was second in the 800 indoors. As they’re off. I’ll give you a quick example of why this is the best 803 history. The previous best was two 1136, so that was the fastest it took ever in D3 history back in 2016. Now it takes almost a second faster in the 800 as they hit the stagger in the turn, the cones, the cut in, whatever you want to call it, they’ve cut in. Now, this is another event that, on the women’s side in Division three, has produced such strong runners that go on to run Post-collegiately go on to the Division one level. So we’ve certainly seen some stars come through the women’s 800 over the years. Kayla Cass of Stockton takes the lead here as the sun finally graces. Oh, it’s beautiful out all of a sudden. Geneva Ohio Kayla Cass of Stockton takes the lead kind of on their form. It looks like they’ve slowed down a little bit here. Hard to fully tell. As Lina Matuk of Augustana with the arm sleeves sitting in second. But here comes Annika Pawlowska of Williams moving in the third. Hope Murphy of Baldwin Wallace moving in on the outside, but it will be Kayla. Cass here at the bell looks to be about a 66 opening lap. There seems to be pretty well within the range of this entire field, as Cass continues to pilot them around the top. Turn Matuk just on her outside shoulder. We’ll see if she tries to go around on the back stretch. Yeah, all together here. Still for the most part, with 300m to go. Trying to battle for position here. Cass on the inside. But Matuk takes over now and Pawlowska of Williams follows suit. But Lina Matuk of Augustana, the indoor runner up looking to take control here in the final. 150 yeah, I love that move by Matuk there. She moved in just before the turn. That’s where you want to do it. You want to pass on the straight and she’ll be in the driver’s seat as they turn for home. Here we have. What is that? Six women still in it, coming down to guaranteed spot. Watch the inside. Kayla Cass as Matuk looks over as Cass takes Lane one Hope Murphy on the outside from Baldwin Wallace. Can she have enough to get into tomorrow’s final? But Matuk takes over and it looks like Hope Murphy is going to be the second qualifier for tomorrow’s final. Man, I loved that run from Matuk. She she kind of opened up lane one to cash there down the home stretch, and she fended off that challenge. And then she had a challenge from Hope Murphy on the outside. And she survives to be the top finisher in prelim number one two 1081 over Hope Murphy. Hope Murphy had a super strong close there. Like basically 64 flat. Looks like Hope Murphy had the fastest last lap in the field, and most of that came over the last like 120 or so. 64 03A little, little negative split there. Yep. She went up four positions in the last lap. And almost all of that was really in the last 100m over Kass from Stockton two, 1137 in third and Madigan in fourth. Two 1164. So, yeah, I mean, I like that run from Matuk. I think that bodes well. She I mean, not only was willing to lead early, but she also was fending off like two really hard challenges in the last 200. Yeah. Shows that she can handle any types of moves that are coming her way. Shows her race readiness for this final. I mean, she was indoor runner up, so she is a tactician, if you will. Absolutely. And that’s what it takes in the 800. It’s one of the most tactically interesting events. You see those late kicks. So a lot of times you don’t even mention the winner until that last 50m because they kind of come out of nowhere as you frantically check notes. But yeah, that’s the that’s the nature of the beast. And that’s what makes it so fun to call up here in the booth. All right, moving on now to the women’s 800, heat two. Crystal Montgomery of MIT. Tanis Thornton Philyaw of Goucher in for the indoor 800 meter champion. Kelsey Oster of Elizabethtown in five Sierra duty of SUNY Geneseo in six Lee rising. We saw her in the 1500 in seven Piper Lentz of Massachusetts in eight and Haley Schreffler of Eastern. Fun fact for you, we asked some people some fun facts. Haley was a 230 runner in high school, and now is A209 runner. Look at that. And they’re off. Oh, they’re off. Just all of a sudden I, I, I certainly love that progression, Stu. But we gotta focus on we’re getting into it and there’s Chris Montgomery is not in this field. Lane three was empty as Thornton Philyaw and Keltie Oster go at it again. Conference foes taking on each other. We talked about 207206 seeds. How about A205 seed? Thornton comes in with? Yeah, she is sixth all time and joins an elite list of athletes who joins who has run sub 206 in their D3 careers. Kelsey Oster was our indoor champion, also an All American outdoors last year. So she’s also looking to advance through this final as easily as possible to make her mark on Saturday. And Ellie Rising of George Fox now takes the lead over Thornton filia Kelsey Oster right there at Piper Lance of Amherst. It’s a pack of four, all six really still together as they come up to the bell lap rising in this position before we saw her do this in the 1500. They’re going kind of quicker than other ones. Yeah, much faster opener there. We’ll get an official split sub 6460 389 there as rising continues to pilot the field. But Thornton Philyaw looks to be moving up to her shoulder. It was a fast first lap, and maybe not quite fast enough for Thornton, who wants to take over the driving seat, but Oster is right in her back pocket and rising is not back. Yeah, Rising’s not going anywhere. Wow, what a field. So far, only two guaranteed spots for tomorrow’s final, but we’re in lane three. If this pace holds, times could come from this heat. As Oster and Thornton battle for position here in the top two seeds with rising right behind them. Great run from rising here, sticking her nose in it. And this is where you’re going to see fast times, because they know that only the top two are going to qualify. Thornton Filia on the inside lane. She’s going to feel that challenge from Oster on her outside their stride for stride right now. Too close to call. I’m not sure if rising is going to have the legs to come back, as Thornton gets about a meter gap here with 20 to go, she will take section number two. Oster can’t quite get around, but the yeah, the two favorites advance their sub. 210 yeah great run there again. Kind of saw making your own move. Responding to a move and seeing how you can handle that. Getting them ready for tomorrow’s final. Showcasing the depth here in the 800 meter. We have one more heat to go. One more heat to go to solidify the field heading into tomorrow’s final. Current bubble time 211 six four, 211 six. For. So yeah, looks like heat one. Well they’ve been pretty evenly matched really across the two heats so far in terms of time qualifiers. I think Ellie Rising will probably have done enough there in section two to get through in a 210. But you know time will time will tell. Let’s see. Looking at prelim number three here, I’ll run you through the list of starters. Heidi Barton goes on the inside lane. Annie Huang on her outside. Megan Bell, Mary Mason, Izzy Gorton, Emily Moehringer from Catholic and Janelle Eckel from Geneseo will round out that this field. Thornton taking a well deserved stroll down the infield there as the starters in section number three now populate your screen. Mary Mason part of that Mount Union 4×4 last night. So she does have an Megan Bell as well. So they both have some tired legs. Huang was in that 1500, so an interesting little competition here with some tired legs or some fresh legs here in the 800. Yeah. Megan Bell, the class of this field, she was third place indoors and we saw her also in All-American position, finishing fourth outdoors last year. And so you gotta wonder, you know, can can she make that jump third fourth to first or second. Bell was the top seed in the country prior to Thornton Philia’s big performance that jumped them. So you have two top ten all time times here. Yeah. And Bell just got to watch that prelim before Thornton had such a strong run winning the section. You imagine she wants to send a message. You were talking about earlier how all these athletes showed up. No scratches. They said, I’ll see you on the line. So Bell just saw Philly all throw down. She’s going to want to do the same thing. Yeah. And about Megan Bell she was a 400 meter specialist. Moved up to the 800. In her first ever 1500 she ran 427 showcasing the strength that she’s developed over her career. Showcasing the range. She opted to not run the 1500, doing the 800 and the 4×4 as she takes the lead 200m into this third heat and it is Bell hitting 200 in the pole position but not unchallenged, as Izzy Gordon from wash U is in her back pocket. RF another sub. 210 Washu bear Izzy Gordon the middle distance program in at Washington University in Saint Louis is unmatched. They produce great middle distance runners and Izzy Gordon is next in line. Huang tucked in just behind that duo in third, running for Tufts. Excuse me. Sorry. Johns Hopkins the blue got me confused, but Bell continues to push this race from the front. She hasn’t relinquished the lead yet. Gordon the senior from wash U just over her shoulder. We’ll see if anybody wants to make a move around Bell or if they’re going to wait until the homestretch. And Janelle Eckel from Suny Geneseo kind of in a nice spot right here watching everything unfold. She saw her teammate yesterday, Penelope Green, win the 10-K. Extra motivation for her here in this heat as well. Continues to lead 200m to go. Gordon and Huang still in it and don’t connect just yet. Bell looks really good. She has that long piece of KT tape on the hamstring, which is a little concerning, but it doesn’t seem to be affecting her stride at all as she hasn’t seen anybody else in this race and she’ll take the turn for home. Still in the lead over Gordon and Huang, but Huang swings to the outside trying to match the move, but Bell and Gordon look unfazed at all coming down the last 50m. Does Huang have enough? And it does not. Look, I shouldn’t speak too soon. I was right, she did not have enough, unfortunately for her. But Bell and Gordon take home the top two spots. Super strong run there from Megan Bell. She was never out of danger, but she really held her composure there. Didn’t allow any athletes past her for essentially the entire race. 65 five second lap there. So super strong, though not as fast as we saw some closers earlier. Sorry, just getting my schedule right here. And then we move to compiled results here. As I, I don’t know if you want to do this. I don’t see any little cues. And you know how my brain is a little bit older than me, so I gotta explain. It just doesn’t work so good sometimes. I got you here, guy. Alright, moving on to tomorrow’s final. The top four. Sorry. The top six automatically qualified was tennis Tennessee Thornton, Findlay, Megan Bell, Kelsey Oster, Izzy Gordon, Lina Duke and Hope Murphy. The time qualifiers were Annie Huang, Ellie Rising, and Kayla Cass. So two 1137 got you to tomorrow’s final and that’s a wrap on 800 meter prelims. I think our next event on the track is likely to be the men’s 1500 meter decathlon. So they’re finishing up their warm ups or maybe another event, I don’t know, we’ll see them soon. But for now we want to toss you over to the men’s shot put. That action went down earlier in the day. Highlights coming at you on your screen now. And that’s your champion Adam Strouth from Wisconsin Wisconsin-Eau Claire who threw his furthest on his very first toss 18 five. And Stu, we were watching this reaction earlier. He just absolutely loved it. Yeah. And you know who his coach is? Roger Steen. But here’s Kristian Pfeiffer of Baldwin Wallace had a he was the national champion from indoors a few years ago. But here’s Jackson Bly of MIT jumping 214, which matches his personal best. They actually tied both at 214. And it comes down to scratches. Jackson from MIT had less scratches to the where they matched their height at, and so he takes home the national title. And yes, if you’re curious, that event was moved indoors. You your eyes weren’t deceiving you kind of windy conditions here earlier. So that was moved indoors. Happy to bring you that recap of the field events. We’re going to step away here from the Spire Institute for a few minutes. Looks like they’re setting up barriers for men’s steeplechase. So we’ll get to decathlon when we get Welcome back to day two action from the Division three outdoor Track and Field National Championships at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Before we go back to the track for the men’s steeplechase, we’re going to throw you to a field. Event recap. Beginning with the women’s high jump representing the Coast Guard, junior Allie Wildsmith goes up and continues her dominance of the women’s high jump, going 1.74. She was the only athlete to go over 174. She’d ultimately get over 1.80, which was a personal best for her. She took a shot at the D-3 record but didn’t quite get there. Speaking of D-3 record, here’s Alexis Boykin of MIT setting a new D-3 record in the shot put, throwing 1680. She almost powered by a full meter. Her PR going into this was 1586. She threw 1680, taking down Robin Gerakis of UW Oshkosh’s record from 2006. Yeah, Alexis Boykin is just an absolute powerhouse in the ring and cements her dominance with that throw earlier today. Moving back to current action at the Spire Institute, we’ve been tracking prelims all afternoon if you’ve joined us, but if you’re just now joining us, we turn our attention to the only final occurring on the track today. This time, it’s the men’s 3000 meter steeplechase. This prelim happened yesterday on Friday. So quick turnaround for these gentlemen. But we do have a field of 12 on the track. They are Ignatius Ignatius Fitzgerald of Saint Olaf. Sorry. My tongue is. Let’s do that again. Let’s get Ignatius Fitzgerald of Saint Ignatius. No. Ignatius Ignatius Fitzgerald of Saint Olaf. There we go. It goes by. Iggy. Nailed it. Iggy Fitzgerald from Saint Olaf. Joe Langridge from Augustana, Jayden Zywicki from lacrosse. Chuck Vader of lacrosse. Get used to hearing that. Caden Schneider from Platteville, Mason Shay from Eau Claire, Adam Linzer from lacrosse, Joey Sullivan from lacrosse, Walter Mock from Oberlin, Pierce Young from Suny Geneseo. Lance Sabarsky from Wartburg and Brady Goss from Concordia-Moorhead. His nickname indoors was boss. The Goss or Goss the boss. Excuse me. Now his teammates call him Blizzard for his unfortunate DQ indoors in the mile, but he came into this competition as the number one seed looking to make redemption for that DQ indoors. We saw these prelims yesterday. We were fortunate enough to have last year’s champion, Christian Paska, up in the booth on the microphone for these men’s prelims, along with you, Stu. And so we got some great insights from him. But he’s not here to defend his championship this year with an injury. So we’ve got a new field who’s hungry for it right now. Yeah. And go straight to the front showing why he made this final and why he is the number one seed coming into it. And it’s going to be all packed up with our guy Ignatius Fitzgerald of Saint Olaf. They’re in the lead. Let’s go Iggy. Pretty good conditions out here for distance running. Temperatures are pretty mild and the wind has been variable but doesn’t look too strong right now. We were kind of wondering, you know, going over barriers and stuff with the wind as strong as it was earlier, it could be a problem. A fun fact for you here. Eight of the 12 men come out of the North region, with half of them coming from Wisconsin lacrosse. So North Region runs the steeplechase right now. Yeah. You see those kind of gray silver singlets, maroon shorts from lacrosse. Huge points. Opportunity for this heavily favored program. I want to point out that Wartburg is in black today. Sabarsky can I see him with the orange spikes in fourth there? So stay away from the orange. They had white yesterday and now the championship singlets are black. It’d be nice if they could give us a heads up before the before the wardrobe change. As Moe continues to push from the front, we’ll get a full lap split. When they come around again, they’re going to hit the water jump for the first time. Let’s see what kind of jumping legs we have in the group. We tried to get Paska to give us a favorite. He ended up listing the entire field. Yeah, that was the most hemming and hawing I’ve ever seen. He you know, he’s well media trained from UW Whitewater, so he couldn’t get a pick out of him. As Moe takes the lead here. Lacrosse guys. You know they’re sitting in the back here a little bit in the back half of this pack working together, treating this like a practice up at lacrosse as as Mason Shay. That is one name that Paska did mention that he liked sitting in the middle there with that Wisconsin-Eau Claire singlet on. Yeah, this is a tactical race. You you know, I was kind of watching the athletes faces as they went by. This group is super clumped up right now, and everybody’s really content to let Molk continue to just set his tempo. It was almost nearly a 75 second lap there. That’s well within the range of this entire field. But Stu, that that starts to make me a little bit nervous. Like it’s good to be comfortable with the pace. But this is such a chaotic event. With all those legs swinging around. Things could get a little sketchy if we learned anything from Christian Pasch yesterday. Two time D3 steeplechase champion is that you got to make a move here to be comfortable. I mean, that’s a lot of bodies right there going over these barriers as Joe Langridge moves into the lead now or with Molk, I guess ties up there. But it like you said, it could get dangerous. I expect a move here soon. We have five laps to go, 2000m. We come through the K mark, we’ll get an idea of what the pacing is like. But this is well within all of their wheelhouses. We’re going to be over three minutes for that first thousand meters, so expect things to pick up here. Wind up as Ignatius Fitzgerald of Saint Olaf moves into third at five laps to go as they go through it. 36306 which is 918 pace yeah, Fitzgerald kind of makes the first real move, just kind of floating up from the back to the front. I mean, when we were talking to Paska. Paska had almost a visceral reaction to like imagining running in a pack like this, just knowing the stakes. But I mean, to be honest, with the pace of this slow, an athlete could go down and theoretically catch back up to the pack pretty soon. But there there is going to be a move before too long. And maybe it’s going to be Langridge. Yeah, here it is right now. Augustana (South Dakota) fouled by the competitor from Suny Geneseo, Pierce young. Starting to string out just a little bit. You see your top four athletes now we were kind of two by two. But yeah Langridge is going to take us over this water jump. And I think the race is pretty much on now. His jumps are nice. It came down a little weird, but he does get only one foot in the water here. Langridge from Augustana, coached by Kyle Flores. We’re told he’s a euchre master. As Moak makes his way back up. Mason Shay, people are starting to get anxious here. Here with 1600 meters to go, looking around, moving around, all 12 still together. Here we go. Absolutely. It’s just more position jockeying at this point. Oh we did see a fall. It’s Goss. He went down. Goss the boss goes down. But just as I said a lap ago, with the pace like this you can go down and still reattach to the field. And it looks like he’s not going to have much trouble that I mean, you don’t want to take advantage of anybody’s misery, but that was a chance for Langridge to really get things going. And it doesn’t look like they took advantage of it. We’re let’s see, the last few laps were 74, then 73, then 72. So just a gradual tightening of the pace. And here comes Sabarsky the first time. He’s kind of made his presence known in this race. As he moves to the front there. With Langridge still 1112 guys still to go here as we move to the barriers over the water jump. Sebastian’s got some great water jumps as he barely gets his feet wet. Now taking over Wartburg assemble, assemble! But here comes Caden Schneider of Platteville. As things begin to yo yo here, you know things are going to get crazy when we start seeing everybody’s name. Everyone seems to be coming to take a turn at the front, but nobody has really instigated things until sabarsky did. He comes through. He wrenches the pace down from 72 to 70. Stu, this race is fully on the field. Is really stringing out now. Sabarsky taking over now. As we come down the back stretch, they’ll reach 1000m to go. We’ll give you a rough estimate of what this split was, but you can tell as Noah with the splits it has picked up, we are stretched out. The entire field is going after it now. Unofficially. Looks like 603. Maybe picks it up a ton. Then they’re at 257. If my math doesn’t deceive me at Sabarsky has a clear sight of the wire jump only one foot in. Yeah, Sabarsky still looking really good. Over that jump, Schneider found himself on a little bit of a gap. All of a sudden it was almost imperceptible. And now the lacrosse boys are starting to pull up on his shoulder. At least two of them we haven’t talked about Joey, Joey Sullivan or Adam Linzer yet, but here they come, 800m to go. They started with five. They have four in the final and now three in the top five. Sullivan and Linzer are really liking this position as they come through that lap. With 800 to go, and the pace continued to get faster, Sabarsky took us through in a 68 with Sullivan and Linzer right on his shoulders. This is going to be one of those races where every single lap is faster than the one that preceded it. Yeah, and you know, these guys have strength. These are 14 sub 1410 type runners. They have some mile speed as well. And the strength is going to be a key here or the finishing kick as well. For together here Sabarsky versus the lacrosse guys. And Schneider from Platteville. As we come to the penultimate water jump, Sabarsky is looking to disrupt these men of the North region, but he’s going to have his work cut out for him as Sullivan now sniffs the lead for the first time. Linzer, just like they drew it up side by side. And Stu, I think in the steeple, it’s especially nice to have a teammate because you guys can not have to fight each other as much for positioning. Yeah, you let them in. They saw what the twins did early in the 10-K as the Bell lap Wisconsin lacrosse, Adam Lunzer, Joey Sullivan. They are starting to go. Does Caden Schneider have an answer for them? Linzer pushes from the front over that last jump. Sullivan right in his back pocket. Schneider still in contention, but young beginning to move up on the outside. Can he close that gap? I don’t like his jumps, but I like his speed. Right now he is getting over the barriers efficiently, but it’s a little low. But as Joey Sullivan now goes to the front, he kind of went low over the hurdles. But what can lacrosse do? This gap back to fourth feels insurmountable to me. I think the race is up front. Sullivan Linzer. Go over the water. Jump for the last time. They’re through clean. Schneider stalks them back in third. He’s on a five meter gap. Sullivan turns for home, arms pumping his teammate just behind him. Adam Linzer goes to the arms. He looks over his left shoulder, one barrier left to navigate. Linzer stumbles, stays on his feet. Sullivan turns for home. He’s going to be your national champion in the men’s steeple. Can Linzer his teammate, hang on for second? He survives the stumble to take second. Schneider third. Wow. The Wiac conference meet is now the Nyac National Meet as they send one, two, three Wisconsin lacrosse goes one two, followed by Platteville in third, Zywicki in seventh as they get three Wisconsin lacrosse. We’re going to take you back to a replay on that home stretch here in just a moment. We saw the two teammates, Sullivan and Linzer going at it, and I think I jinxed him when I said one barrier left to navigate. Just as I finished saying that, Sullivan got over clean. Linzer just barely clips it with that right foot. It was a miracle, Stu, that he stayed upright, I think because he didn’t really clip it. He had his foot on top of it, so at least he had his balance there. But coming down awkwardly, you can kind of tell his quad might have seized up, but thankfully for him, he had enough room left as you see a big hug from potentially a parent there for Joey Sullivan didn’t get a good glimpse of who it was as to who is this, I don’t know, Joe. Oh, it’s gotta be his parents. We’re going with the parents. The Sullivan’s stand up. It was Wisconsin lacrosse. What a moment for the program, for UW lacrosse. What a moment for Joey Sullivan and Adam Linzer right there. Yeah, that was that was such a strong run. And you know, I mentioned this during the race, but still we I think we said almost everybody’s name there who take it, who took a turn at the lead. But, you know, the real contenders were these were these men from lacrosse. And they just get mobbed by their fans and friends over there. Sullivan looked to be really in control. I think he was going to win regardless of the stumble. Super happy for Adam Linzer that he was able to hold on and finish second there. That was, I think, the best case scenario. The Wyatt gets five in the top eight. Brady Goss finishes fourth, Pierce young fifth. Sebastian six, seventh and Mason Shea eighth. What a moment for lacrosse and what a race. How exciting was that. Yeah great race. And like I said I and I think it it almost panned out to be true that every lap just kind of gradually got faster. That turning of the screw style race. Congratulations, Joey Sullivan. Congratulations to Wisconsin lacrosse with Adam Linzer two. Well, the top two, I should say. And that’s it for the men’s steeplechase. The only men’s final on the track today. We’re going to step away for just about a minute or so, and then we’ll come back. It looks like we’re going to come back with the women’s 3000 meter steeplechase, and then we’ll wrap up the day with the decathlon 1500 meter run on the track. Back in just a moment with more action from the Spire Institute here in Geneva Ohio. o day two coverage of the Division three outdoor Track and Field National championships here at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. On the line here is the only women’s final on the track today. The women’s 3000 meter steeplechase. Looks like they’re hearing their final instructions from the officials. So if you’ll allow me, I’ll run you through the start of today’s race. Adrianna Crabtree from Illinois Wesleyan. Ella Quincy from Wellesley. Payton Steffen from Central College, Sophie Boll from Calvin, Emma Odell from Augustana, Ellie Meyer from Wartburg, Annika Carlson from Chapman, Anna Brennan from Geneseo, Audrey McLean from Middlebury, Charlene Pang from Williams, Loras. Liv Durand from MIT and Kira Rogan from Hamilton. So they they’re not messing around here right ahead of schedule. Yeah. Here we go. No brakes. All gas as we start the next steeplechase final. Adrianna Crabtree, we talked about her yesterday coming in as a low seed. Now in the final with a big kick. That kick got her into the final. She was entered as the 20th seed and now has a share of the lead in the final. We are five athletes across in the middle of the pack, which goes to show us that we’re probably at a fairly pedestrian pace right now. Similarly to how the men’s race played out. Looks like they’re going to kind of feel each other out for a lap or two, and we’ll see if anybody wants to take the lead and drive it home. They call that championship style racing as a great shot of the SUNY Geneseo on the top curve there for their teammate and Brennan, as is that. That is McLean in the lead now. Audrey McLean of Middlebury in the lead now with Peyton Steffen. Steffen saw her teammates go one two last year in the steeplechase. Now it’s her turn to take her glory. Yeah, we saw these athletes kind of running their prelims in a similar fashion up front, kind of staying out of trouble. Did we see a fall there? Liv Duran of MIT went down on that on that barrier. Maybe we can take another quick look at that if we can get a replay in the booth. But that’s the that’s the trouble when you’re so bunched up. There’s just a lot of chaos in the pack, some tough jumps there in the water as they make their way through it. As McLean comes out unscathed in the lead, followed by Steffen Adrian Crabtree, Kira Rogan and Sophie Bohl right there and Anne Brennan. Still everyone grouped up really together? Yeah, the back of the pack starting to shake up a little bit. I think that’s more a result of the friction in the pack more than the pace. But we’ll get we’ll give you a better idea here. As they complete a full lap. We’ll get you a lap split. McLean still in the lead with Steffen. It’s all grouped up. We got to see this play out. Similar to the men’s race. We love to see this tile championship racing as we see the fall here. Quick glimpse to see what happened. Yeah. Kind of keep your eye there. Kind of the back of the pack really. So it only it really only impacted one athlete able to stay on her feet there. So not as bad as it could have been. Audrey McLean from Middlebury. The sophomore continues to pilot the show here. We’re running 8081, which is about what the pace of the women’s 10-K was last night, actually, to give you a reference. Yeah. From facial expressions, this looks pretty in control for most of these women here. Yeah I think Stefan’s in a great position here. In second place, she can just kind of tuck in. Doesn’t have to eat all the wind. And coming up to a barrier, she can just swing out and get a great line because they are into the wind on that water jump. And I think that complicates things just a little bit. We’re starting to see a small crack here in the pack, as I say that they make up the gap and we are all back together again as McLean out front, seeing her berries in front of you. Ellie Meyer just saw Sabarsky do work for Wartburg as now a pack of four starting to crack a little bit here. It’s McLean, Stefan, Rogan and bull. All four we saw yesterday. Get into this final with automatic qualifiers and Rogan the freshman from Hamilton. She ran with a lot of confidence and courage yesterday in her prelim. I mean, for a freshman she looked like she’d been there before. And she’s really showing the same the same cards here tucked into third place. That’s a great spot for the very same reason I mentioned before. She doesn’t have to eat the wind. She can move out and get a clear line if she needs to. But yeah, McLean just seems pretty content to tap out 8182 second laps right now and nobody seems interested in challenging her yet. It seems like every time we go over the barrier, the pack spreads out. And then when on the on the flat land, it all comes back together. Eight women now kind of have separated themselves from the rest of the field. That’s your All-American pack working together here. They’re going to come up to 1600 meters after this water barrier, as now we kind of have a top four separated. Yeah. This was about the point of the men’s race where things started to shake up a little bit, and I expect to see the same here as these athletes start to get a little bit anxious. Sophie bowl there in fourth. Kind of moves over to the side. So yeah throw a blanket over the top four. It’s that close. But I wouldn’t count out the athletes in the top eight or even even nine. It looks like Peng is still kind of doggedly staying in contention with that All-American group in the top four. Barely looked like they’re giving a big effort here. Relaxed faces. Rogan with her bouncy stride bowl. Kind of looks like she’s out for her Sunday long run. They’re actually slowing a bit every lap as opposed to that wrenching of the pace. They’re actually just kind of relaxing so far, which could mean a real barn burner of a last lap or two. Guys see a kick here, then who’s going to have the best kick over these last 1600 meters? McLean still up front piloting this race. Payton Stefan from Central College just on her outside shoulder, the way she’s been the whole time. But tucked in there, just kind of there. Almost like she wants the top two to kind of forget she’s there so she can surprise him as Kira Rogan Stefan does have 211, 800 meter speed, so mix that in with her strength over the steeple. You know, that could give her a slight advantage here as we get down to it. Three laps to go when they hit the home stretch. Yeah, Stu, that’s a great point. I think if you have that 211 speed and you’re in a race that’s been this slow. Really, Stefan like, feels like she has that kick. It’s more just about can you navigate these barriers at a fast pace? Because we know that influx of speed is coming soon. McLean, Rogan and bull have 430 1500 meter speed, so the slight advantage to the kick right now could go to Stefan. But we’ll see how this unfolds. With 1200 meters to go. And we have a pack of four still together. Yeah that was another 83 second lap. McLean just really dictating the pace for the rest of the group. Stefan just refuses to go around. I wonder if McLean wants her to at this point, but also Kira Rogan must have gotten some good instructions from her coach here. She’s being so patient as this bull just behind her there. Really just everybody wants this to be a kicker’s race and add elements to the mix. We have a slight rain going on now. Oh, a slight rain, which I don’t know Stu. The those barriers do have some grip on the top of them, but they can get a little slippery when wet. McLean moves into the water. Jump in the lead once again. Stefan just kind of pops out a few inches on the side to take a clear jump at that bull. And Rogan still looking really comfortable. McLean gets to the water the best out of all four right now, and I mentioned yesterday I liked how bull looked as we got a little jostling for position to get here on the on the back stretch now flag stayed down. Thankfully. McLean Stefan bull Rogan. We have yet to name a different for the last few laps. We have 800m to go. Central College, the reigning champions. But what can Sophie Bull do now? She goes to the front with two laps to go 800m. This is our first little shakeup of the race. Bull is running so close to McLean, not quite wanting to go around, but Stefan now finds herself in third for the first time. Bull is bumping elbows with McLean. They’re putting a little bit of pressure and sometimes that can be like extra psychological pressure heading over the barriers. They’re basically in lockstep now as bull just kind of gently moves into the lead and all of a sudden Rogan and Stefan are off the back, the wind picks up, the rain falls down, and all of a sudden we have ourselves a race as bull now has the first sustainable lead here in the field. My call from yesterday. Looking good so far with 600m to go. Does Sophie Bull have enough left here? The penultimate water jump as we go through right now. I love that move from bull there. Just as the rain starts to fall in the Spire Institute, she takes over the race, moving from fourth in the pack to first, and she is just absolutely blown this thing open. There’s about 20m between each of these athletes. Now bull is going to hear the bell with a clear lead over McLean. Sophie Bull of Calvin, putting on a clinic, waited to the last two laps to make her move as she hears the bell. 400m to go and she’ll bring home a national title to the Grand Rapids area. Don’t jinx it, Stu. You’re never out of danger in the steeplechase. We saw that on the last barrier in the men’s race for bull. Right now, it’s all about getting over clean. Luckily, she’s not being pressed from behind. McLean is about 30 40m back in that second place position. Bull has one, two, three more barriers to navigate before she can bring home this national championship. But she looks really good with 200 to go. Sophie Bull finished second in her heat yesterday but looked really, really good and now she looks even better as a potential national champion with her last water jump. Here to go. Sophie Bull of Calvin limited herself in the season, only running two steeplechases. Doubles it up here this weekend. Her final 100m to go. Sophie Bull of Calvin her last barrier. A sigh of relief stays on her feet, embraces the home crowd as she’s going to run a really strong time here. A new personal best for her. 1011 eyes, arms to the sky. She can’t believe it. 1011 for Sophie Bull of Calvin, your steeplechase national champion. Yeah, that quartet continues to come across the line. McLean gets second. Rogan, the freshman from Hamilton, gets third. And it was a super strong finish by Ellie Meyer there. From Wartburg she moves into fourth place over Peyton Steffen from Central College in fifth. But Sophie Bull just deserves so much credit for that run. Just patience patience patience. Can you believe she won by 12 seconds? Wow. She really gapped the field. Wow. She her last 800 was 213 or. Excuse me 233. Yeah. 233 we went from she basically injected about 6 or 7 seconds of pace over the course of one lap and just absolutely blew that thing open. It was tough to tell who felt the best in that quartet. But Stu, you called it Sophie Bull from Calvin. Just an absolute clinic there in the steeple. Navigated the barriers. The water jumped super cleanly. And yeah, she’s your national champion in the women’s 3000 meter steeplechase. She took off 20s off her personal best to move to number four all time. So a historic race for Sophie Bull of Calvin to claim a national title. There’s her coach, Michelle Farr, embracing. I can’t read lips. It looked like what just happened could be said. She can’t believe it. A national champion for the Calvin Knights. It’s always fun to win, and it’s especially fun to win like that. Congratulations to your national champion Sophie Bull from Calvin. As the rain really starts to fall in earnest and the fans are kind of taking cover here at the Spire Institute, as far as we’re aware, up in the booth, there’s no no weather delays as of yet. We have a couple things yet to get to. This was our last event. We still have the men’s decathlon final event in the 1500. And Stu, can you tell us a little bit about the run off we’re going to see as well? Yeah. Before that I don’t know where I got Michelle Farr from. Nicole Kramer is the Calvin head coach who she embraced. So sorry to Nicole. Don’t know where I got that other name from, but we’re all going to see a run off here in the men’s 110 hurdle up in the booth. We have limited information, but we do know it is Wisconsin-Stout athlete who will be running. We don’t know potentially why they are running. It’s it looks like it’s going to be I mentioned it was the Wisconsin-Stout athlete who why is there not on our results sheet. And I will look here it is this mix. They put him in heat for Thomas Casey of Wisconsin-Stout. He will be in the run off. Okay. And they are setting up hurdles for Casey. It looks like right now. And so we’re still educating ourselves on the circumstances of this one man heat. It does look like that is going to be our last event. Sorry our second to last event on the track. So we’ll wrap up this 110 qualification process and then we’ll move on to the decathlon 1500. Let’s see what heat was he in originally. Do we have that sheet with us. We do. Thomas Casey he okay. So Kweku Nkrumah was right next to him in sixth. So there’s there could be a reason why that he might have been impeded when Nkrumah went down. So Thomas Casey gets a run off. He’ll be here by himself in the rain. Not ideal. And the time to get himself in is 1442. Yeah. So just this is a pretty rare occurrence in the track and field world. Just a one athlete Welcome back to day two coverage of the Division three outdoor track and field national championships here at the Rainy Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio. Coming at you now with a little bit of bonus coverage, this time from the 110 meter hurdles, there was a little bit of a scuffle earlier in the earlier preliminary round, so Thomas Casey is going to get a chance to do it again. But this time he’s going all by himself and the race is underway. He’s got to go, I believe. 1442 so, Thomas, if Casey can go under 1442, he’ll qualify through to the final. So it’s him versus the clock. Slight stumble there. Eyes on the clock. 1445 unofficially. We’ll see what it gets corrected to. It’s rounded up. They he won’t give a big cue okay. Yeah I was going to say they put a qualification next to his name, but I think he’ll just miss it. Maybe we can get another look at that since it was just him. But Casey there got another chance. It really a hard draw for him to do this again first of all, but then to do it again in the rain. Just a kind of a stroke of bad luck for Casey there. Yeah, that’s hard to do, but what an effort to run that by himself. We’ll take another look at it. This one man show. It’s got to be a lonely endeavor here, you see? Just a small stumble right there going over the hurdle. And that’s probably what costed him the couple fractions of a second that he needed. He immediately put his eyes on the scoreboard. So tough break there for Thomas. Casey will not be advancing into the finals of the 110 hurdles, but a really valiant shot there for the young man. A lot of respect for that effort coming out on a rainy day. If he could have got that in 15 minutes earlier, he would have had a nice dry track. But just not to be. So that’s it for the runoff. That’s it for our bonus coverage. One event yet to complete at the Spire Institute at these championships. That’s going to be the men’s 1500 meter leg of the decathlon. And we’ll come back for that full coverage of that. Of course, we’re going to bring in special correspondent Jackson Anderson to commentate on that race. Long day for those gentlemen. They just finished throwing the javelin out in Welcome back to the Spire Institute here in Geneva Ohio for our final event here on day two of the 2025 Division three Outdoor Track and Field Championships. If you’re a lover of the Multi-events, you’re in luck because we’re here to highlight it. Put it on a podium for you. It’s been going on over the last two days. Let’s catch you up with all the action in the men’s decathlon. We started the day with the 110 meter hurdles. Charlie Nolan looking good in that heat. There he is, our leader through for the first day. He came through with a strong 110m hurdle race and continued his lead. After that we went to the discus. The 24 men went over to the ring and had three throws each over two flights. Next they had pole vault and then went to the javelin. Some big throws in the field. Charlie Nolan putting out a big throw was fourth overall. He’s your leader going into the 1500. Yeah a lot of action out there. Were able to highlight a few events. But there’s obviously you know we’re nine events into this decathlon at this point. Our D3 special correspondent Jackson Anderson. What have been some of the sticking points for you so far over these last couple days? Yeah, it’s you heard me say the name Charlie Nolan a couple of times. He’s had a big weekend so far. He has had a top five finish in eight of nine events, including five individual event first finishes. So he’s really dominated so far this weekend. Absolutely. Give me why don’t I go ahead and just run through names real quick. And then you can let us know some things to look out for over the course of this 1500. If there’s anything that can change, it looks like Nolan probably has the top spot locked up, but I’ll let you update us on standings. Here’s your start list. Heading into the final event of the men’s decathlon. Charlie Nolan in the lead. And I’m reading these in order of current placing. So remember that kale, Hobart, Max Luca, Jacob Balcombe, Max Foland, Nick Whitlow, Oak. Sullivan. Cort. Peterson, Joe. Guthrie, Reed. Weber State, Payton White, Mike. Hudson, Ulysses. Ulysses. Patterson, Evan. Hofstetter, Mac. Ashour, Mitch. Stegman, Gabe. Thyne, Blake. Smith, Tom. McMillan, Casey, Patrick. Jackson, Jacob Hewitt, and Ethan Spar. Those last three are going to be into this event. So a field of 19 will take the line for the 1500. Jackson what are some storylines to look out for here? Absolutely. You said it earlier, Charlie Nolan just has this thing all but wrapped up. He goes into this event with a almost 300 point lead over second place Cale Hobart. That’s going to be a little bit too much to summit for Cale for a little bit of context, you get about eight points per second here. Okay. That’s super good information I love that. So Cale would need to put a big dent into Nolan’s time. They come in with a 445 PR for Hobart and 447 PR from Nolan, so unless Cale can pull out something incredibly special, it looks like it’s going to be Nolan’s title. And we’re underway in the men’s 1500 meter decathlon. Who are the strongest? Some of the stronger 1500 meter athletes in this field? Yeah, immediately out to the front, we see USC’s Hofstadter. He has the fastest PR in the field of four. 25 Thane of Rochester, 427. And Guthrie of River falls in 429 are the three fastest. But we see the Santa Cruz athlete taking out incredibly fast this first 200. Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I look at decathletes and I wonder if, if any of these guys are true 1500 meter specialists, the 1500 really stands out from the other events. I mean, it’s a true endurance event where they’ve been really jumping and throwing and sprinting in short bursts up to this point. Absolutely. I talked about this a little bit with the heptathlon, where we see a lot of athletes double. I want to call out Mitch Stegman, D3 multi great. He was a pole vault All-American a couple of years ago. So definitely possible to be great in individual events as if you’re a decathlete. Not so possible to be great at the 1500. Were there any surprises in this field over the last couple of days? Any big names that maybe didn’t place quite as high as you were expecting? Yeah. Mitch Stegman, my heart goes out to him because we can see him standing right at the 1500 start. It looks like he took to the line for the gun and then stepped off shortly after he came into this event with a little bit of Achilles problems that he’s been dealing with for a couple months. He just came here to have one last swing at it, unfortunately got injured in hurdles and had to pull out. Didn’t compete in pole vault. But he is our biggest loss in this in this field. A couple positive surprises. We see O’Sullivan, the freshman from Williams, jumping up into seventh. He came in as one of the last people in the mighty O’Sullivan, the mighty O’Sullivan. So he’s one to keep an eye on in these last couple laps. Mike Hudson from Augustana continues to push the pace from the front here, but it looks like he may have some company before too long from Evan Hofstetter, who is making up that gap pretty quickly. Yeah, absolutely. Looks like that quick pace initially is coming back to bite him. Yeah. The Augustana athlete in front I had mixed it up earlier and now it looks like the Santa Cruz athlete Hofstra are about to overtake with about seven 500 to go. It’s been tough conditions over these last couple days. It’s kind of been on and off raining, breezy, cold. The decathlon is a difficult event even in the best conditions, but this must have been really hard on these athletes for sure. They got lucky with this weather, the rain that was around for some of the steeplechase and that 110 hurdles rerun has cleared away. We can see this nice bright and sunny, but what you haven’t seen is that it’s been spitting rain early mornings for these guys and pretty cold. So they’ve been they’ve been dealing with the conditions through out this weekend. As Hofstetter continues to pilot this field. I think one of the greatest moments in the decathlon is right at the finish line, where everyone just kind of collapses in a heap. You’ve been there many times, kind of speak to that moment where you first realized that your championships are finally done. Yeah, it’s a it’s a mixed bag because you feel this overwhelming feeling of relief that you finished and you feel a lot of overwhelming pain from the 1500. So about 400m left for these athletes to endure before that glorious moment. Hofstadter takes the bell in the lead he’s running. That was a 71 second last lap for him. Joe Guthrie moved from third into second place as Mike Hudson continues to hold on to third after a super hard start there. And it looks like Max Luca, am I pronouncing that correctly from Luca from Saint John’s is in that fourth spot right now. Yeah, I said earlier, Charlie Nolan has this thing about wrapped up, but the rest of the podium is all up for grabs, separated by about 40 points each between each of them. Where’s Charlie Nolan in this field now? Can you spot him with your eyes? About 300m to go. Expoland overtaking him now. But Charlie Nolan again basically just has to get across the finish line to wrap this thing up. Look at this kick from Hofstadter. He’s saved the best for the last hundred. And he’s putting up an extremely respectable 1500 meter time now. Looks to be about 419. And he takes the win in this event. Just behind him is going to be Joe Guthrie of Wisconsin, River falls. And then Hudson, who went out to that early lead, is going to hang on for third. And let’s see. Let me know. Let me know when Nolan, the leader, is coming through. It looks like it’s happening right now. Yeah. We got a huge push across the line from that Oak Sullivan from Williams College. He’ll finish in about. We’ll wait for the times to come up. About 445 Max Nolan being brought across the finish line by his teammate Mitch Stegman there. And we can see Charlie Nolan approaching the finish line here as he crosses. He will claim his 2025 decathlon title. We’ll wait for the official results to roll in, but this is going to be Charlie Nolan’s title rolling in with 7118 points. Wow. And I mean like put that point total into context for us. Absolutely. It’s a lot. It’s a lot. It’s a lot. Yeah. We can see that. Cal Hobart came in with 6916. So he cut that lead down by about 100 points. But again 300 points going into this 1500 was just a little bit too tall of a mountain to summit. But Charlie Nolan again had a great performance throughout this weekend. He went 1088 to win the 100m. He went seven meters to win the long jump. Shot put 1035 a good mark for him. He won the high jump in 194 400. He took as well in 4966. Day two was solid 1499 was third overall in the hurdles, 3654. Was fifth in the discus. He won the pole vault with a massive PR of 450. Javelin throw was good. He came in fourth with a 4962, and he did what he needed to do here in the 1500. He ran A503 to claim his decathlon title. We see an embrace there between him and previous champion Mitch Stegman. Maybe a potential passing of the of the torch as Charlie Nolan takes over the crown of D3 decathlon. Yeah, just such a special moment here. Waved to the crowd. Shout out to the crowd here who endured a brief rainstorm. It stuck around to see these decathletes finish off their weekend. I mean, yeah, we got guys down all over the track. And, you know, we speak to the camaraderie that the athletes feel in the multis a lot. And I don’t think that’s any clearer than right now at the end of the day. Absolutely. Like I said with the heptathlon, these athletes spend a lot of time together through all ten events, and in between they’re all around each other. Charlie Nolan is no stranger to the national meet, so he has a lot of familiar faces in this field as well. We see him embracing his competitor, Max Foland and his teammate Payton White right behind him. So a lot of love between these athletes as we see here. Well, before we start wrapping things up here on day two, is there anything else you’d like to say? Jackson. Absolutely. I can run us through our podium for sure. Please do. In eighth place, we have Nick Whitlow, the senior from center, Joe Guthrie, the freshman from Wisconsin. River falls with a great 1500 meter to close, finishing in seventh. Oak Sullivan, the freshman from my alma mater, Williams College, will finish in sixth with a personal best. Max Foland from Eau Claire came in as the 21st seed. He will finish with a season’s best in fifth place. Jacob Balcom was your indoor champion, finishing fourth overall here. Max Luca, the senior from Saint John’s of Minnesota, finishing third. Kael Hobart Like I said, the sophomore from Central College finishing second and on top of the podium, is going to be your champion for the 2025 national meet of the decathlon. Charlie Nolan from Wisconsin Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Congratulations to your field of All-Americans there in the men’s decathlon. Super exciting to follow along with their journey over these last couple days. Charlie Nolan on your screen debriefing a little bit after his national championship. And that’s going to do us do it for us here on day two at the Spire Institute. At these 2025 national championships, the prelims are set or I should excuse me, the prelims are done and the finals are set as we head into Championship Saturday. Tomorrow. The action is going to come at you fast. We sincerely hope you’ll join us. We’ll be back tomorrow. It looks like finals on the track start tomorrow at 1:05 p.m. Local time. We’ll get things going with four by 100 meter relays. And yeah, you won’t want to turn your TV off. So thanks for joining us today. We’ll see you tomorrow. For more from the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohi

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