11 Oklahoma Sooners @ NCAA Indoor T&F Championships in Virginia

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Eleven (11) Oklahoma track and field athletes are set to compete on the national stage at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships hosted inside the Virginia Beach Sports Center Friday and Saturday in Virginia Beach, Va. The Sooner men go into the meet ranked No. 9 and the women No. 10 in the nation per USTFCCCA's Track & Field Rating Index. OU aims for its first combined top-15 NCAA finish since 2011, where the men placed 13th with 14 points and the women sixth with 25 points.

The two-day meet will kick off with combined events on Friday at 9:35 a.m. ET. The Saturday session starts at noon ET with field events. Live results for the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships can be found via Flash Results. A broadcast of the championships will air on ESPN+ Friday and Saturday. (Live links are in the article below.)

Here is the pre-meet article written by the Sooners staff writers:

https://soonersports.com/news/2025/3/13 ... mpionships

Oklahoma returns all six of last year's qualifiers:

• No. 5-ranked Olivia Lueking, aims for her fourth consecutive First Team All-America honor in the pole vault.

• Known as the top-two combined events athletes in OU history, No. 1 Pippi Lotta Enok and No. 7 Angel Richmore return to the indoor championships after placing ninth and seventh, respectively, in 2024.

• No. 11 Paige Low earned 14th at last year's championships in the shot put for Second Team All-American.

• No. 3 BJ Green returns to the final site after grabbing a bronze medal (Triple Jump) at the SEC Indoor Championships and earning two NCAA First Team All-America awards in 2024.

• No. 3 Nikaoli Williams looks for redemption in the long jump after qualifying for last year's site but was unable to attempt due to injury.

Four Sooners will debut on the indoor national stage:
- No. 3 Kyren Washington (high jump),
- No. 6 Agur Dwol (triple jump),
- No. 6 Ralford Mullings (shot put)
- No. 18 Floyd Whitaker (triple jump).

Jasmine Akins, who competed at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships, will participate in the long jump and triple jump, where she ranks 7th and 12th, respectively, in the nation.

Good luck to the Sooners in their efforts at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Boomer Sooner!

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Friday - Day One Update:

The Oklahoma track and field team wrapped up the first day of the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Virginia Beach Sports Center Friday night. All five OU athletes secured top-six finishes in their respective events to earn First Team All-America honors and the women's team concluded day one in second place.

The women posted 19 points during the first session of the championships, collecting scores from Pippi Lotta Enok (6), Olivia Lueking (6), Angel Richmore (4) and Jasmine Akins (3). Nikaoli Williams finished second in the men's long jump for eight points, helping the men climb to 10th.

Enok sat in second place with 1,944 points and Richmore sixth with 1,883 points heading into the shot put. To wrap up the pentathlon, Enok raced to 2:17.84 and 853 points in the 800-meter run, securing third place overall with final score of 4,375. Richmore posted 773 points with a 2:23.74 time for fifth place and a total of 4,310 points. Enok claimed the third All-America award of her career and Richmore notched her fourth.

In the midst of combined events, Olivia Lueking cemented herself as one of the greatest pole vaulters in Oklahoma history. In her final indoor meet as a Sooner, the senior confidently cleared every height, including her final mark of 4.55m (14'11.00"), to garner third place and a First Team All-America award.

Jasmine Akins kept the momentum rolling with sixth place in the women's long jump, leaping to 6.58m (21'7.25") for First Team All-American. Akins' finish is the best by a Sooner at the NCAA Indoor Championships since Ti'Anca Monk earned fourth in the event in 2011.

For the Men, Nikaoli Williams' runner-up finish in the LJ closed out the day for Oklahoma. The graduate student out of Portmore, Jamaica, posted Oklahoma's best place in the long jump at an NCAA indoor meet in at least 36 years, up there with Russell Adams' finish in 1989 and Will Claye's bronze medal in 2009.

Here is the full recap article about Day One written by Sooner staff writers.

https://soonersports.com/news/2025/3/14 ... ampionship

OU opens the Saturday session with the men's high jump at noon ET. Live results for the NCAA Indoor Championships can be found via Flash Results and a broadcast of Saturday events will air on ESPN+.

Good luck to the Sooner athletes on Saturday!

Boomer Sooner!

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Dwol Crowned Champion, Track Teams Impress at NCAA Indoor Championships

Oklahoma concluded a successful two days of competition Saturday night at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships inside the Virginia Beach Sports Center. Agur Dwol became OU's first triple jump champion and the Sooner Women placed fourth as a team, the best finish in program history.

For the Sooner Men, BJ Green and Kyren Washington added top-three performances to help the men's team finish 12th.

Here is the full article about the Oklahoma Sooners performance at the NCAA Indoor Finals written by the Sooner staff writers.

https://soonersports.com/news/2025/3/15 ... mpionships

Dwol's initial mark of 13.72m (45'0.25") tied Tamiah Washington of Texas Tech. After official review, it took Dwol's third-best effort of 13.48m (44'2.75") to separate her from the Raider and she solidified the title with a centimeter difference. Dwol became OU's first national champion in the triple jump and joins an elite group of six Oklahoma women to win a title on the NCAA indoor stage. Boomer Sooner!

Also in the triple jump, Jasmine Akins grabbed seventh place with a 13.43m (44'0.75") leap, adding two points to OU'steam total.

The Sooner Women concluded the weekend with 31 points, the highest count in program history, for fourth place. The Sooners shared the position with Arkansas and Washington.

The Sooner Men concluded the day with 19 points, their highest score in at least 17 years, to place 12th overall in the field.

BJ Green helped the men's side with a bronze medal in the triple jump. The junior leaped 16.50m (54'1.75") on his second attempt for his third first-team All-America honor of his career. Sophomore Kyren Washington followed with a fourth-place finish in the high jump, clearing 2.19m (7'2.25") for his second first-team award.

Also in the men's triple jump, Floyd Whitaker made his NCAA Championships debut and earned a second-team All-America award. The senior narrowly missed scoring position by finishing in ninth place with a 15.90m (52'2.00") leap.

Two Sooners competed in the women's and men's shot put. Paige Low finished 15th in the event with a 16.70m (54'9.50") toss and Ralford Mullings posted an 18.16m (59'7") mark for 13th. Both throwers earned second-team All-America accolades.

It has been quite an Indoor season for the Sooners in Track and Field with some impressive finishes and team marks that just keep improving. Congrtulations to the individual athletes and to the Coaches for programs improvement and accomplishments.

Boomer Sooner!