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Men's and Women's Track & Field preview: NCAA Outdoor Championships
06.10.2025 | Track & Field / Cross Country
The Longhorns send 19 athletes to compete in Eugene, Oregon on Wednesday-Saturday.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 11/13 Texas Track and Field will send 19 student-athletes to the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field hosted by the University of Oregon from June 11-14. The No. 13 women will send 10 athletes to Eugene, while the No. 11 men have nine athletes competing.
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Broadcast: Wednesday, Thursday – ESPN | Friday, Saturday – ESPN2 (all field events will be streamed on ESPN+)
Women's Entries:
4x100 Relay – Carleta Bernard, Holly Okuku, Kenondra Davis, Ramaiah Elliott (Nita Koom-Dadzie, alternate)
- The Longhorns posted a season best time of 42.85 at the NCAA West First Round to advance to its 14th-straight NCAA appearance. Texas has advanced to the finals each season since 2019, having won back-to-back seasons from 2022-23.
200m – Kenondra Davis, Holly Okuku
- Kenondra Davis posted the fifth-fastest time (22.58) out of the West First Round and finished fourth at the SEC Championships at 22.68. It's the second-straight season she's reached the NCAA Championships in the 200m and finished 17th last year.
- The freshman, Holly Okuku, also reached her first NCAA Championships in an individual event finishing 10th in the quarterfinals with a time of 22.85.
100mH – Akala Garrett
- Sophomore Akala Garrett is the lone female Longhorn to compete in two individual events – the first, the 100mH. She still holds the third-fastest time in the NCAA (12.75) from the 97th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
400mH – Akala Garrett, Mackenzie Collins
- Texas is one of three schools that have two athletes in the 400mH semis. It also marks the second-straight season Texas has sent a freshman to the NCAA Championships in the event after Garrett reached last year's finals.
Long Jump – Aaliyah Foster
- Sophomore Aaliyah Foster has now reached the NCAA Championships all four times in her collegiate career in long jump. She finished 13th at last year's outdoor championships with a jump of 6.25m (20-6.25).
Shot Put – Chrystal Herpin, Nina Ndubuisi
- Nina Ndubuisi has also reached all four NCAA Championships in her young career in shot put. She was eighth at last year's Championships and was fifth in this season's indoor championships.
- Chrystal Herpin will compete in her second-straight outdoor championship. She was 13th last year.
Men's Entries:
4x100 Relay – Kendrick Smallwood, John Rutledge, Almond Small, Xavier Butler
- The 4x100 relay broke the Texas program record at the NCAA West First Round with a time of 38.57. It's the ninth-fastest time in the NCAA this season. It's the fifth-straight season reaching the NCAA Championships.
4x400 Relay – Kody Blackwood, Logan Popelka, Chris Brinkley, John Rutledge
- Longhorns make it four-straight years at the NCAA meet in the 4x400.
200m – Xavier Butler
- Ranks ninth in the country with a time of 20.02 – the new Texas program record time he set at the NCAA West First Round.
110mH – Kendrick Smallwood
- Kendrick has led the country with the fastest time in the 110mH since the Texas Relays with a time of 13.07w. He's broken his own program record four times this season.
400mH – Kody Blackwood
- Kody ranks as the third-fastest to ever run the 400mH in Texas history with his time of 48.78. Only three others have ran faster than him this season.
High Jump – Osawese Agbonkonkon
- Osawese returns to Hayward Field for the first time since transferring from Oregon to compete at his first NCAA Championships. He's the first Longhorn to make the meet since Sam Hurley in 2023.
Triple Jump – Kelsey Daniel
- After winning the NCAA indoor long jump title, Kelsey Daniel returns to the NCAA Outdoor meet in the triple jump as the No. 6 performer in UT history.
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