PITTSBURG — The 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field National Championships open Thursday (Mar. 13) at Fall Creek Pavilion at the Indiana State Fairgrounds at Indianapolis and continues through Saturday (Mar. 15).

Thursday's action gets under way at 10 a.m. with the start of the men's heptathlon competition. Open events begin at 3 p.m. Thursday, while Friday's action starts with the culimination of the heptathlon at 11:20 a.m. On Saturday, the competition starts with the men's triple jump at Noon and the championships culminate later that evening with the men's 4x400m relay slated as the last event at 5:35 p.m.

Pittsburg State is the two-time defending NCAA Division II Indoor Men's Track & Field National Champion. The Gorillas made a strong push down the stretch at the Robert W. Plaster Center in Pittsburg to claim the program's third NCAA-II Indoor crown in 2024. Pitt State compiled 69 points to win the national championship by 12.5 points over second place Grand Valley State (56.5). Adams State finished third with 55 points.
 
Pitt State is the No. 1 ranked men's team in the USTFCCCA national poll entering the national championships. Grand Valley State is ranked second, followed by West Texas A&M, Wingate and Colorado Mines.

Adams State is the two-time defending NCAA Division II Indoor Women's Track & Field National Champion. The Grizzlies edged Pittsburg State, 67-64.5, to claim the national championship last year. Minnesota State finished third in the team standings with 54 points.
 
The women's top-five ranked teams entering the national championships are:  Minnesota State, Pittsburg State, Grand Valley State, Adams State and West Texas A&M.

Gorillas Primed for Championships Showcase
Thirty-eight Pitt State track & field athletes qualified for the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships —17 men and 21 women.
 
For the Pitt State men, senior hurdler Daylin Williams enters the national meet ranked No. 1 in his discipline, as does the Gorillas 4x400m relay and Pitt State's distance medley relay.
 
Williams brings a fast time of 7.65 seconds into the 60-meter hurdles. The 4x400m relay of Dapriest Hogans, Woyn Chatman, Caden Williams and Nate Watson hold the nation's leading time of 3:07.80, while the DMR of Dylan Sprecker, Watson, Jordan Kilonzo and Mason Strader ran the second-fastest time in Division II history earlier this season (9:35.14).
 
Hogans is ranked No. 2 in the 200 meters (20.82) and No. 4 in the 60 meters (6.65), while A.J. Evans ranks third in the 60m (6.64). Dakari Charlton also qualified 11^th in the 60m (6.68) and 12^th in the 200m (21.10). Watson (2^nd, 46.39), Chatman (9^th, 46.99) and C. Williams (13^th, 47.08) all qualified in the 400 meters.
 
Strader is ranked No. 2 in the mile (3:58.16) and No. 9 in the 3,000 meters (7:54.43), while Sprecker qualified 12^th in the mile (4:01.22). Tyrone Jackson qualified eighth in the 60m hurdles (7.85) and Hunter Jones is ranked No. 4 in the heptathlon (5,404 points) and No. 14 in the 60m hurdles (7.92). Caden Uthe qualified 16^th in the 800 meters (1:50.07).
 
Senior Tre Betts is ranked No. 3 in the triple jump (51-4.5) and junior Jack Haukap is ranked No. 8 in the weight throw (65-11.5). Senior Cole Sample qualified 17^th in the shot put (57-7) and junior Doug Brown qualified 12^th in the heptathlon (5,235 points).
 
Senior jumper Auna Childress leads the Pitt State women into the national meet. Childress qualified No. 1 in the triple jump (42-2.25) and No. 13 in the long jump (19-8).
 
A trio of pole vaulters – senior Kyla Davis, redshirt junior Isabelle Peters and freshman Cannon Booker – qualified in the discipline. Davis is ranked No. 3 at 14-2.5, while Peters is ranked No. 5 (14-0) and Booker is ranked No. 8 (13-7.25).
 
Senior Erica Schamel (3^rd, 5-10), junior Rachel Wilson (6^th, 5-9.25) and junior Haleigh Hadley (6^th, 5-9.25) all qualified in the high jump. Redshirt freshman Makayla Watson (11^th, 19-8.75), junior Makayla Pavelka (17^th, 19-5.25) and freshman Brooklyn Baker (18^th, 19-4.75) all qualified in the long jump.
 
Additionally, a trio of Gorillas qualified in the 60-meter hurdles:  freshman Kayvon Nubine (3^rd, 8.34), senior Madelyn Marquez (5^th, 8.40) and Peters (7^th, 8.45). Freshman Lily Brown and senior Diandrenique Gaines both qualified in a pair of events. Brown is seeded No. 10 in the pentathlon (3,730 points) and No. 12 in the triple jump (40-1.5), while Gaines is seeded No. 10 in the 200 meters (23.80) and No. 11 in the 60 meters (7.40).
 
The distance medley relay of Paige Mullen, Olivia Lowrey, Claire Bruening and Kate Stader qualified eighth with a time of 11:25.92, while the 4x400m relay of Maddie O'Neill, Jamiya Morgan, Kinleigh Hall and Lowrey qualified 11^th (3:41.87).
 
Mullen also qualified in the 3,000 meters (9:30.22) and Strader qualified in the mile (4:46.70).