1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,880 The 2026 NCAA Outdoor Track and field Championships have 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,039 concluded inside Hayward Field here in Eugene, OR, and so now 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,440 it's time for our final daily recap episode. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,160 Another team champion has been crowned, and just like last 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,040 night, there's another sweep after the Arkansas men won the 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,160 indoor and outdoor titles. On the men's side, the Georgia 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,680 women do the same tonight. They score 50 points, taking the 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,840 win just as exactly the same score difference between 1st and 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,480 2nd as we saw on the men's side, with Georgia taking the win with 10 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,480 50 points and the Florida Gators bouncing back from a down 11 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:35,360 season. Last year. 12 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:40,680 They finished second with 43 points, and tonight was a night 13 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:45,440 perfectly insane enough to cap off the most ridiculous four 14 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,520 days of collegiate track and field anyone has ever seen. 15 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:51,520 We saw three more collegiate records go down, bringing I 16 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:57,640 believe our total for the week to 9, which is pretty insane. 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,280 In case you guys weren't aware, the ones we saw tonight were the 18 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,879 women's 200, the women's 800 and the women's 400. 19 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:10,000 So on the women's side, 1248 all wiped off the books. 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:17,280 For the men, you had the 200, the four by one, the 400, the 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:21,480 women's pole vault as well was in there and that is 9. 22 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,520 So I'm not missing any. Let's start with some of those 23 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,520 records tonight and let's start by the ones from the Georgia 24 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:29,240 Bulldogs that helped them to the team title. 25 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,640 A Deja Hodge. Actually a Deja's is a little 26 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,440 more interesting. So we'll start with Deja Nae 27 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,480 Oakley, who wins the women's 400. 28 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:38,640 She's been the fastest woman in the country all year. 29 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,120 She delivered on that expectation today on the fastest 30 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,520 track in the world, 4879. She just gets under Nikisha 31 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,720 Prices. Nikisha Prices collegiate record 32 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,160 which was run at this meet in 2024. 33 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:53,920 So a Jamaican taking a Jamaican's record and she's also 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,880 now joins Nikisha as the only two Jamaican women to ever go 35 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:01,920 sub 49 in the quarter mile. But she was not alone in the 48 36 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,360 second range as Madison White from USC drops a massive PB 37 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:12,280 4897, taking her PB coming into this race set at 4964. 38 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,560 So well over a half second as she was pushing Dejonay all the 39 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:19,160 way down this home straight in a way that I think a lot of people 40 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,720 weren't predicting. But Dejaney was saying in the 41 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,080 mix zone that like she wasn't really racing other people in 42 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:27,080 this race. She was waste. 43 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,240 She was racing one other person and that person was her from 44 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,280 SEC. She was saying her mindset 45 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,520 coming into this meet, someone in the country has run 48 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,560 seconds, that someone was hurt. She needs to beat that someone 47 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,200 and so she did it. She beat herself and she beat a 48 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,520 very strong challenger in Madison White. 49 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,720 Like I said, 4897. We've now seen three women in 50 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,360 collegiate history break 49 seconds. 51 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,800 Two of them were in this race tonight. 52 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,200 Now the other collegiate record from a Georgia Bulldog, a Deja 53 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,400 Hodge comes back after she runs the 200 record on Thursday or 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,240 the 100 record on Thursday, running 1063. 55 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:14,040 She comes into this one and runs 9 or 2168, taking a full over a 56 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,440 full 10th off of Abby Steiner's collegiate record which had 57 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,720 stood at 2180 for almost for a little over 4 years. 58 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:26,320 I should say Adeja just ran this one incredibly well, as she 59 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,040 always does, but she was running. 60 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,360 She said in the mix zone. She wasn't running, quote pissed 61 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,160 off, but she had good reason to because in the hundred a few 62 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,120 hours earlier, she actually lost. 63 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,760 Shanice Walker from FSU, the NCAA 60m champion indoors, got 64 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,200 the better of A Deja on the straightaway, despite the fact 65 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,480 that A Deja became the fifth fastest woman in NCAA in world 66 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,120 history. That is why they run the final, 67 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,360 because Shanice Walker came through 1088. 68 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,880 I believe a Deja came through in 1093. 69 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,640 So 3/10 off of what she managed to do on Thursday. 70 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,800 And she said that was just a result of being 2/10 and she 71 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:08,200 wanted that one too much. And so then she comes back in 72 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,800 the 200, is able to race a little freer and that freedom 73 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,600 produces the fastest time we've ever seen in collegiate history. 74 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:20,720 And I think she's top. And in world history now, maybe 75 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,360 there's not a lot of women that have run faster than 2168. 76 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,280 I know that for sure. Really fast race in this one. 77 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:31,000 Shanti Jackson from LSU takes second and APB of 2212. 78 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,800 Cameron Dixon out of Texas A&M also goes sub 22 to going 2218. 79 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,560 So that was a big 20 points for the Dogs and they also got eight 80 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:45,080 points from a Deja, finishing second in the 100. 81 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:49,080 They started the day off when the four by one where they only 82 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,360 finished third, but that's because the team ahead of them, 83 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:53,680 they're the two teams ahead of them. 84 00:04:53,960 --> 00:05:00,000 USC 4158 Madison White was running a leg on this relay, 85 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,200 which is incredible that the third fastest quarter mile in 86 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:07,240 NCA history is now also a part of the fastest 4 by or the 87 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,120 second fastest 4 by 1 in NCAA history. 88 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,960 The Trojans come up just three hundredths of a second short of 89 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,160 Texas's collegiate record, which they set at the 2023 NCAA 90 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:20,280 Championships. Famously that team was in the 91 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:26,480 midst of Julian Alfred's Bowerman year 41584174 for LSU 92 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:35,640 and 4189 for Georgia and they LSU or USC had run sub 42 before 93 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,480 LSU and Georgia become the 3rd and 4th schools in collegiate 94 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,840 history. To break the 42 second barrier 95 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:44,760 for a four by one. They are in rarefied air and to 96 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,400 have three of those performances in the same race, given the way 97 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:52,320 the athletes have been performing all week, it wasn't 98 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,880 necessarily that big of a surprise. 99 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,960 But it was still just an absolute blast to watch this 100 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,080 one, and thankfully a little cleaner than we saw in the men's 101 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,800 race yesterday, which had four teams come up as DNFS in the 102 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,960 results. Georgia also got a nice helping 103 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:16,200 of points from the women's 4x4. They took second in that 132096, 104 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,880 but the Arkansas Razorbacks, anchored by Sunu Jallow, who 105 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:24,080 will get to in a second 31888, the second team in collegiate 106 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,120 history to go under 3 minutes and 20 seconds. 107 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,400 The only team that's ever run faster is their 2024 team, 108 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,240 featuring former collegiate record holder in the 400, 109 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,360 Nakisha Price, which was run unsurprisingly on this track at 110 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,800 the 2024 NCAA Championships. Because that meet was pretty 111 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,160 insane too. But Arkansas, and they've been 112 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,800 the best. It's the same thing that I've 113 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,720 said a couple Times Now between these recaps. 114 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,600 It's favorites deliver on expectations, which wasn't 115 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,400 necessarily what we saw all the time, but it definitely felt 116 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:59,280 like in more races than not, it was who you thought was going to 117 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:00,800 win was going to come out on top. 118 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,920 But that doesn't by no means means that was a boring 119 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,960 competition because the times more than made-up for the, I 120 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,480 guess, lack of upsets, you could say. 121 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,760 So Georgia finishing that one really closed out that team 122 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,640 title for them. But like I said, Sunu Jalo 123 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,120 brought home Arkansas into that second fastest time in 124 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,160 collegiate history. Just a few hours or not even an 125 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:24,800 hour. I think. 126 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,120 Let's see on the schedule, the 800 set to go off at 6:14, the 127 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:35,840 four by four at 721. So 67 minutes for Sunu Jalo to 128 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:46,840 recover from running 15685. She takes almost a full second 129 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:48,840 off of a Thing MO's collegiate record. 130 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,960 And she said in the mix zone that like she didn't want to 131 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,440 just dip under the record, she wanted to shatter it. 132 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,000 And she came close to just dipping under the record, 133 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:03,000 running 100th of a second off of it at West Regionals 2 weeks 134 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,360 ago. But then she left absolutely no 135 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,160 doubts about it. Who is the fastest 800m runner 136 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:14,720 in collegiate history? And she took this one out in 55 137 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:19,800 O 3 and Sunu is someone who I think her split on the anchor 138 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,640 leg of the four by 4 ended up being 49 O 2. 139 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,400 So 55 seconds in and of itself isn't super fast for her. 140 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,760 And she was saying that like, yeah, coming through the 400, I 141 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,480 feel fine, She said. She feels good, honestly, up to 142 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,400 650 in the 800. And then that's when that 143 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,480 breakneck pace she goes out at really starts to hurt. 144 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,159 But this one, like she said from the beginning of the race, she 145 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,120 knew it was hers to lose. She knew she was going to be the 146 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:49,160 one to cross that line first and there was a valiant effort 147 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:50,960 behind her. I mean, you look at the results 148 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:56,040 page and each of the top six women all ran personal best. 149 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,160 Haley Kitchen 15765. She also gets under a thing 150 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,720 Moe's collegiate record. Lauren Tolbert Duke 15822. 151 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:08,440 Michaela Page 15830 Annalise Batista 15841 Immaculate Genetai 152 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:16,760 158556 Women ran 158 or faster. We knew this was going to be in 153 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,680 the cards with it taking sub two just to make this final, knowing 154 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:24,040 the way that Sunu Jalo likes to race, just getting out so hard, 155 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,920 dragging all those people behind her to these incredibly fast 156 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,960 times. But I think even in your like 157 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,680 craziest expectation of how this race could have gone, I don't 158 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,320 think you really could have seen it going this fast top to 159 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:40,080 bottom. Maybe you could expect something 160 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,480 that fast out of Sunu, the way she ran West Regionals and 161 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,640 knowing just kind of the raw 400 speed she has. 162 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:51,200 But for everyone to step up to that plate, I mean all the top 8 163 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,840 under 2 minutes. Juliet Whitaker was the only 164 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,480 woman she finished 9th to flat 54. 165 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,480 The only woman to not break 2 in this final. 166 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,720 So crazy, crazy fast. One of the women that did break 167 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,320 2 in this final finishing running 15855, running APB, the 168 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,760 junior from Kansas Immaculate Gemia tie. 169 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,080 And that leads us into the 1500 because in that one Immaculate 170 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,640 finished 6th and she finished 6th in 800 as well. 171 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,440 So 6 points for The Jayhawks about. 172 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,120 It's probably the most difficult way you could imagine to score 6 173 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,240 points in an NCAA championship with six place finishes. 174 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:36,760 And the the 1500 was a little more tactical, but yeah, that's 175 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,440 that's insane to do. Like I think less than an hour 176 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:43,560 and a half apart That 1500 was run was won by Washington 177 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:46,880 State's Rosemary Longhisa after finishing his runner up in the 178 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,240 mile indoors. She comes back and takes this 179 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,160 title, takes it from Juliet True, but takes it from Wilma 180 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,240 Nielsen on their home track. They end up finishing third and 181 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,440 4th for an Oregon team that placed fourth overall in the 182 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,320 meet. South Carolina's Salma Al Badra 183 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:05,760 placed second in this one. And it was pretty windy here 184 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,520 inside Hayward today, especially a lot of the distance runners 185 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:13,360 were saying the curve on the far side by the steeple pit was 186 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,600 pretty rough with a tough headwind coming into it. 187 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,120 And so early in this one, you kind of had Wilma Nielsen 188 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,320 running on the rail and Rosemary Langeisa on her outside. 189 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:24,880 And those two were the ones leading. 190 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,720 And Wilma said afterwards that like, she really should not have 191 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,960 been leading that race. Because just doing that against 192 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,000 the wind and being the one that now has to break the wind for 193 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,320 everyone else in the field is really not a it's not a pleasant 194 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:44,160 way to run a 1500, especially when you have to kick and close 195 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,280 in sub 60 because Rosemary Longhisa closed this one in 59 O 196 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,280 8. So that the weather definitely 197 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,840 played a factor. It was also pretty hot here 198 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:56,480 today. I think we might have touched 199 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,240 according to Apple weather, we touched 91 today. 200 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,720 So things are getting pretty spicy in here. 201 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,920 And so maybe that's why the the distances over 800 weren't 202 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,960 necessarily super fast, but huge kudos to Rosemary Longhisa, who 203 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:14,920 you should go after you're done watching this. 204 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:16,760 Of course. Please finish the recap episode. 205 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,360 Go check out Rosemary's interview on the Sidious Maggie 206 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,680 YouTube channel, because she has a very fun story about how she 207 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:25,840 is close personal friends with Faith Kipyegon. 208 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,520 Pretty crazy stuff. She has her kit from when she 209 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,120 ran the world record at the pre classic here last year. 210 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:36,240 Very fun story. And I, that was she won a 211 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,920 national title and most of the interview was talking about 212 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:40,400 Faith Kipyegon. So. 213 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:41,880 So that's a fun one to listen to. 214 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,760 After you guys finish up here, where should we hop to next? 215 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:47,480 We'll talk about the women's 100 hurdles. 216 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,320 Because if you talk about Oregon athletes getting it done on 217 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,640 their home track today, that was Aaliyah McCormick. 218 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,520 She defends her national title. She's now won four in a row. 219 00:12:59,360 --> 00:13:03,640 She went indoors last year. I I forget, so I'm going to 220 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,200 conservatively say this is her third national title in a row, 221 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,400 but she no Jaya Covington won the indoor 60 hurdles last year 222 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,800 in Virginia Beach. Lia McCormick in this one, 223 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:17,200 though, 1247, her third or fourth time running in the 1240s 224 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,640 in the past few weeks. She's the only woman this season 225 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,600 to run that fast. And she delivered and it was 226 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,720 really funny watching her on the start line because one of the 227 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,480 most dialed in athletes I've ever seen, which makes sense. 228 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:33,320 You know, there's some pressure on her expectations of the 229 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,000 favorite. She's on her home track. 230 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:36,800 Her team was in the race for the team title. 231 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:38,720 So an important 10 points for her to get. 232 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,520 And the camera like comes to her on the introductions and she's 233 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,840 just staring straight down the flight of hurdles, throws up the 234 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:49,160 O waves to the crowd like this, but is just constantly looking 235 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:53,160 straight down the track. And that rocket in this paid off 236 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:57,840 as she ran 1247 Emmy Scales, who was her kind of chief competitor 237 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,640 all season from Kentucky. She unfortunately clipped hurdle 238 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,880 10, kind of rolled across the finish line. 239 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,200 It looked like originally for a second, but then she was later 240 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:12,320 dequeued for impedement. And Celeste Paul Zanetti out of 241 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,600 UCLA takes second and 1279, a photo finish with Big 10 rival 242 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,960 Janella Spencer of Ohio State. So A123 finish for the Big 10 in 243 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,400 that women's 100 hurdles. Let's move to the to the 400 244 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:29,200 hurdles now moving up in distance but keeping the 245 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,520 barriers at Kayla Garrett 5332. She gets her collegiate title 246 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,480 and she talked in the mix zone about a really nasty Achilles 247 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,680 injury she's kind of been needing to manage throughout the 248 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,760 last month and a half since she raced, I think in the first 249 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,480 weekend of May down in Jacksonville. 250 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,600 But she's been able to to just find ways to keep running, 251 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,480 running really well. And now she goes 5332 in this 252 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,680 one, a huge PB pushed a little bit more than she expected by 253 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:00,240 her former Texas teammate Amelia Berto. 254 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,720 But 5332 for Akayla, just an incredible run. 255 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:09,320 She said apparently she was. She had a she had blonde hair in 256 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,800 the prelims on Thursday in honor of her team mate Jamie Sia Ford, 257 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,280 who pulled up in the 200 prelims on Thursday. 258 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,280 She was all pink tonight and the pink paid off as she wins a 259 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:24,840 national title. The 3000 Sepal Chase BYU's 260 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:30,040 Taylor Lovell takes the win in 921 ahead of Sophie Novak 926. 261 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,360 And this one, it was one that felt wide open without Doris 262 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,960 Lemon goal. In this one, we will get to 263 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,360 Doris Lemon goal in a second because there is a lot of 264 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:40,640 interesting stuff that goes into that one. 265 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:45,800 But Taylor Lovell takes the win for BYU, their first national 266 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,440 title in the steeple, I believe since Courtney Weyman did so. 267 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,920 But just adding to that incredible legacy and tradition 268 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,960 that they have building there on the women's side in Provo, Like 269 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,800 I said, Sophie Novak, who was the fastest seed, finishes 270 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,800 second in her final career race for Notre Dame. 271 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:07,000 Now, the 5000 Doris Lemingold versus Jane Heddingren, the race 272 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,280 we've been waiting for since NCAA indoors and it did not 273 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,800 really pan out the way we hoped it would. 274 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,000 The first big kind of factor in that is that apparently Jane 275 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:20,040 shared in the mix zone afterwards that she got really, 276 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,880 really sick last Friday. So a little over a week ago, she 277 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:27,560 was apparently bedridden, was barely running leading into 278 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,040 these championships fights through it, still finishes third 279 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:37,000 in the 10K, just losing it on a on a fast last 400 against 280 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Mercil and Kirwa and Pamela Cosguy. 281 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,960 And then she really was not feeling great coming to the line 282 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:44,480 for this one. But she wasn't going to give up 283 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,560 the opportunity to race for a national title and she was in 284 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:49,600 it. She was fighting to stay in this 285 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,920 one for as long as she could, but she ends up finishing ninth. 286 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,480 She was originally 10th but then the other side of this rivalry 287 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,280 that didn't quite pan out the way we hoped it would. 288 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,640 Doris Lemmingle originally crosses the line first winning 289 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:14,560 and I believe 1512, but then she is dequeued for rule 15.5 dash 290 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,000 3G which is 2 plus steps on or over the curb. 291 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,160 So I believe that means she stepped on the rail and took at 292 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:27,560 least 2 steps on there, which is a a disqualification. 293 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,840 Unfortunately, she came through the mix zone and didn't really 294 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,400 say much. She came through the mix zone 295 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,960 before Alabama's protest was completely settled and then 296 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,760 basically right after she passed through it was official that she 297 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:44,560 was disqualified and now she's an 858 steeplechaser who 298 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:47,160 finished I think 5th at World Championships last year. 299 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:51,200 So now there is part of it where you wonder if she sees out her, 300 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,160 I believe her last year of eligibility and comes back in 301 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,000 the fall or if she just turns pro. 302 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,600 But this would be quite a sour note to leave on for one of the 303 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,000 greatest distance runners the NCAA has ever seen. 304 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:05,720 But we will see what Doris ends up deciding to do this summer 305 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,120 after all that happens. It's New Mexico's Marion 306 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:12,520 Jeppengetich who isn't named the champion in this one, finishing 307 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:19,480 in 1513 O1 and Marion was fourth at this meet last year when her 308 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,960 teammate Anela Kosgai took the win. 309 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:27,800 She was third, I believe, in the 5K at indoor nationals behind 310 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:31,120 Jane and Doris, and so now for her to be the one to come out 311 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,880 here and take the win, pretty cool. 312 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,840 Run out of the sophomore and you look at the top 6 of this race 313 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,440 is all pairs of teammates. After Doris was dequeued, you 314 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,960 had New Mexico finishing one and five, Iowa State finishing two 315 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,040 and four. Mercil and Kerwha comes back to 316 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,200 finish third to finish second as the runner up after Wing with 317 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,080 10K. And then you had Florida Gators 318 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,640 finishing in 3rd and 6th. There's some team running in 319 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:56,760 this one. All those women finished within 320 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:02,800 3.22 seconds of each other, so a tight one down to the line in 321 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,920 the 5K. Into the field we go. 322 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:09,040 Elita Van Dahlen finally gets the job done in the women's 323 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,240 discus. She finished third. 324 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,440 She finished third. She finished second last year 325 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,160 and took a championship record to beat her. 326 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,720 And today she takes that championship record, knocks it 327 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,880 out of the park and wins by 6 full meters. 328 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,600 Elita's average win, average margin of victory this year has 329 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,840 to be one of the highest in NCAA history. 330 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:32,400 I mean, she won SEC's by I think 8 meters. 331 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:35,280 She won the East Regionals by 11 meters. 332 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,480 So just an absurdly dominant season. 333 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,920 She does have a season of indoor eligibility left, which she'll 334 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,760 be coming back for next winter. But what a way to cap off one of 335 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,160 the greatest discus careers we've ever seen. 336 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:50,640 The women's high jump comes down to be decided on count back and 337 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,760 Temetope Adashina of Texas Tech takes the win over Rosia Boa. 338 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:01,360 They both clear 196, but Temetope took a first time 339 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:04,360 clearance at 196, whereas it took Rosia Boa all three 340 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:07,040 attempts. And Temetope actually had a 341 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:12,040 perfectly clean sheet with six first first attempt clearances 342 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,240 in a row before they got to 199. So a big win for Temetope there. 343 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:19,920 I believe she double s back from when she won the NCA Indoor 344 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:24,800 Championships. Just a few, just a few months 345 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,320 ago, the women's triple jump provided a lot of intrigue 346 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,560 because you've had Sharifa Devra Nova, the two time world junior 347 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,680 champion for Oregon, on her home runway. 348 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:38,480 And Sharifa was an athlete that suddenly just appeared on the 349 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,320 start list of the Big 10 championships. 350 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,800 Jumps 14 meters, takes the national lead, wins the Big 10 351 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:48,120 title in dominant fashion. And then she comes into this one 352 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:52,800 and is in a battle with Clemson senior Shante Foreman. 353 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,440 And originally for the first like 5 rounds or so, the way it 354 00:20:56,440 --> 00:21:00,480 was shaping up was Shante had the lead at 4 meters 14 and 355 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,680 Sharifa had jumped or 14 meters 14 and Sharifa had jumped 14 356 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,160 meters 13. And then on her last jump, 357 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,400 Sharifa moves ahead. Jumps 1415. 358 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,240 A little windy so gets gets some good luck there. 359 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,280 And then with her last attempt, Shante Foreman, I believe The 360 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:24,080 Who knows how eligibility works sometimes Now I believe the last 361 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:28,120 attempt of her collegiate career 1424 a new PB the best park in 362 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:31,320 the country this year and she is a national champion for the 363 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,760 Clemson Tigers. So the the final field event we 364 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,680 saw go down. That's only partially true 365 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,760 because we also have the heptathlon where Sophia Costco, 366 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:47,040 Layla out of Washington Run performs APB 6182 points 367 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,000 collegiate lead, the best mark in the in the country this year. 368 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,440 Which that's the way feels like that's the way these things 369 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,400 should end with the best performance in the country this 370 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,000 year coming at the national championships and about an hour 371 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:06,200 of yapping about 9 collegiate records and 42 national 372 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,840 champions +2 team champions crown. 373 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,240 That does it for the 2026 NC Outdoor championships. 374 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,480 What a fun meet to experience and be a part of. 375 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:22,440 And yeah, so go check the cities mag podcast feed re watch all of 376 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,760 these to just relive the Hayward magic, please. 377 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,880 That would be pretty cool. And then for anything you 378 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,560 missed, catch up on the Cities Mag Socials where we have 379 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,120 champion graphics and performance graphics for every 380 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,000 event winner. We've also got interviews on the 381 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,880 City SMAG YouTube channel. And like I said, all four days 382 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,240 of recaps right here on the City SMAG podcast feed. 383 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,920 So I've been Paul Hoff Mahoney, thank you so much for tuning 384 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,040 along and we will see you guys next year back in Eugene.