BROOKINGS, S.D. – [
RESULTS] The 2023 NAIA Indoor Men’s Track & Field National Championship concluded on Saturday.
The Cascade Collegiate Conference Athletes had five All-Americans:
Eastern Oregon University’s
Hunter Nichols (1000m)
Eastern Oregon University’s
Tanner Nett (Shot Put)
Lewis-Clark State College’s
Carter Gordon (600m)
Multnomah University’s
Donte Sol (60m and 200m)
Northwest University
Micah Murphy (5000m)
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TEAM RESULTS] Multnomah led the conference in 19th with a team score of 14. Eastern Oregon was next in 39th with a team score of six. Lewis-Clark State followed in 46th with a team score of five. Northwest received 54th with a team score of three.
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- Saturday kicked off with the 1-mile run as Jason Bowers of Cumberland (Tenn.) was .03 seconds short of tying the national championship meet record time. He was the first Cumberland athlete to win the 1-mile run (2nd overall in program history) after posting a time of 4:03.72.
- Emmanuel Niang became the first Talladega (Ala.) men’s indoor track athlete to win a national title, capturing the 60-meter hurdles title in 7.85 seconds.
- Joseph Taylor clinched the first-ever men’s national title in the 400-meter dash for Southeastern, clocking a time of 46.80 seconds.
- Jacob Ulrich became the first Life runner to win the 600-meter dash title with a time of 1 minute, 16.34 seconds. His time is tied for the ninth-best time in the world this season.
- Midland’s (Neb.) Dylan Kucera became the 4th overall NAIA athlete to earn a 4-peat national title. He won the shot-put national title for the fourth consecutive year, throwing his national-best mark of 19.17 meters (62 feet, 10.75 inches).
- Kucera was the second shot-put thrower to capture four straight national titles since 1987-1990 by Ade Olukoju of Azusa Pacific (Calif.).
- William Jones won his second jumping title in two days for Life. After winning the long jump Friday, He leaped 15.89 meters (52 feet, 1.75 inches) on his last attempt to win the national title in the triple jump. Jones also became the first Life’s long jumper to win the national championship.
- Freshman Caleb Pouliot won the pole vault title after clearing the height of 5.10 meters (16 feet, 8.75 inches), becoming the first The Masters (Calif.) men’s athlete to win a national title in program history.
- Saminu Addul-Rasheed of Florida Memorial edged the semifinal top time by Donte Sol to win the 60-meter dash national title. Abdul-Rasheed finished with a time of 6.63 seconds, followed by Sol with a time of 6.65 seconds. Jaylan Washington of Ottawa (Kan.) was third in 6.68 seconds.
- Milan Todorovic of Oklahoma City earned the first 800-meter run national title in program history, registering a time of 1:52.03.
- Senzo Sokhela of Westmont (Calif.) denied St. Mary (Kan.) for the third straight 1000-meter run national title (previously won by Luke Skinner of St. Mary). Sokhela finished with a time of 2 minutes, 25.42 seconds, followed by Liam Neidig of USM in 2:25.70. Sokhela’s teammate Jack Vanden Heuvel finished third in 2:26.10.
- The 3000-meter run national title belongs to Bryn Woodall of Milligan (Tenn.), clocking a time of 8 minutes, 19.09 seconds.
- A pair of Madonna (Mich.) sprinters finished in the top two of the 200-meter dash race. Deveyon Blacknell won the national title in 21.07 seconds (first Madonna to win the 200-meter dash national title), while his teammate Cortez Cunningham earned runner-up honor .03 seconds later (21.10 seconds).
- Milligan added another national title in the 5000-meter run, paced by Aaron Jones with a time of 14 minutes, 26.68 seconds.
- The Masters (Calif.) claimed their second national title late Saturday, winning the distance medley relay. Zach Garey, Sam Jean, Anthony Ghiorso, and Davis Boggess produced a time of 9 minutes, 59.47 seconds to win the title.
- Southeastern won the thrilling final race of the day in the 4 x 400-meter relay in 3:10.40.