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NCAA West Preliminaries
No. 11 Women's Track and Field advances six events to NCAA Outdoor Championships
05.31.2025 | Track & Field / Cross Country
Akala Garrett breaks facility record in 400m hurdles on Saturday night.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – No. 11 Texas Women's Track and Field finished the last day of the NCAA West First Round and advanced six events to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
The women's 4x100-meter relay showed off a new lineup with Carleta Bernard, Holly Okuku, Kenondra Davis and Ramiah Elliott and recorded a season-best time of 42.85 to advance to Eugene.
Sophomore Akala Garrett advanced in both hurdle events for the first time in her career after recording a personal-best non-winded time of 12.98 in the 100-meter hurdles. She later set the E.B. Cushing Stadium record in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 54.72, the sixth-fastest time in UT history. Garrett will be the first Longhorn to compete at the NCAA Championships in both hurdle events in the same season since Rasin McIntosh competed in both events in 2003 and 2004.
Freshman Mackenzie Collins also reached the NCAA's in the 400m hurdles, earning the last spot with a time of 57.14. It marks the second-straight season the Longhorns have sent a freshman to the NCAA Championships in the event after Garrett went last season.
Texas later sent two through in the 200-meter dash. Kenondra Davis equaled her personal best with a time of 22.58, moving her up to No. 10 on the school's all-time performer list. Okuku qualified for her first individual NCAA event by matching her personal best with a time of 22.85, the 10th-fastest time of the night.
Results
Akala Garrett – 1st – 400mH – 54.72 (qualified)
Bernard, Okuku, Davis, Elliott – 2nd – 4x100 – 42.85 (qualified)
Akala Garrett – 5th – 100mH – 12.98 (qualified)
Kenondra Davis – 6th – 200m – 22.58 (qualified)
Holly Okuku – 10th – 200m – 22.85 (qualified)
Mackenzie Collins – 12th - 400mH – 57.14 (qualified)
Chrystal Herpin – 13th – Discus – 53.89m
Collins, Elliott, Bernard, Koom-Dadzie – 4x400 – 3:35.12
Elizabeth Stockan – 24th – 1500m – 4:34.62
Elizabeth Pickett – 33rd – 5000m – 16:36.68
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