PUEBLO, Colo. – The Pittsburg State University men's and women's outdoor track & field teams will open competition in the 2025 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships Thursday (May 22). The meet, which is being hosted by Colorado State University-Pueblo, runs Thursday through Saturday (May 24).

The Pitt State men are the three-time defending NCAA Division II national champions from the 2022, 2023 and 2024 outdoor seasons. The Gorillas are ranked No. 1 in the most recent USTFCCCA/NCAA Division II National Track & Field Ratings Index (TFRI). The Pitt State women also captured the 2024 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championship at Emporia, Kan., last year. The Gorillas are ranked No. 2 in the women's D2 TFRI.

Forty-two Pitt State athletes – 23 men and 19 women – qualified for the national championships.

Several Gorillas will be in action on day one Thursday at the CSU-Pueblo Thunderbowl.
 
Redshirt senior Hunter Jones will compete in the men's decathlon at 11:30 a.m. (CDT). Jones 3^rd in the multi events with 7,527 points. Redshirt junior Blakelee Winn will compete in the women's heptathlon at Noon and the women's long jump at 3:30 p.m. Winn enters the national meet ranked No. 2 in the heptathlon (5,780 pts) and No. 5 in the long jump (20-9.75). She also will run in the prelims of the women's 4x100m Relay at 5:40 p.m. along with teammates Kayvon Nubine, Diandrenique Gaines and Jamiya Morgan. The relay is seeded No. 5 overall (44.65). Gaines also will compete in the prelims of the women's 100m at 7:10 p.m. She is ranked eighth in 100m (11.33).
 
Junior Abby Lasiter will compete in the women's hammer throw (16^th, 187-6) at 1:30 p.m., while junior Jack Haukap will battle in the men's hammer throw (2^nd, 220-1) at 4:30 p.m.
Freshman Brooklyn Baker (19^th, 20-2.25) and redshirt freshman Makayla Watson (22^nd, 19-10.75) will compete, along with Winn, in the women's long jump at 3:30 p.m.

The men's 4x100m Relay of Victor Smith, Dapriest Hogans, Dakari Charlton and Braylon Thompson will race in the prelims at 5:55 p.m. The quartet sports the nation's fastest time at 39.49. Hogans (5^th, 10:13) also will race in the prelims of the men's 100m at 7:25 p.m.
Redshirt seniors Kate Strader (4^th, 4:19.24) and Claire Bruening (21^st, 4:25.66) will run in the prelims of the women's 1,500m at 6:10 p.m., while graduate Mason Strader (2^nd, 3:39.34) and redshirt sophomore Dylan Sprecker (11^th, 3:42.51) will compete in the prelims of the men's 1,500m at 6:25 p.m.
Sophomore Nate Watson will race in the prelims of the men's 400m (7^th, 46.16) at 6:55 p.m. Sophomores Paige Mullen (8^th, 34:22.37) and Hannah Gibson (12^th, 34:33.04) will run in the women's 10,000m at 9:10 p.m., while graduate Matthew Oglesby (15^th, 29:05.65) will race in the men's 10,000m at 9:50 p.m.
 
Links to Live Results and Live Web Stream are available.

Day Two Action • Friday, May 23 (All Times CDT)
10:30 a.m. – Jones, men's decathlon
10:30 a.m. – Winn, women's heptathlon
5:45 p.m. – Rachel Wilson (1^st, 6-0.75), Haleigh Hadley (6^th, 5-8.75), Haila Leake (10^th, 5-8), women's high jump
6:00 p.m. – Brennan Boord (13^th, 180-5), men's discus
6:05 p.m. – Treyvon Ferguson (3^rd, 51-9.75), Tre Betts (5^th, 51-9.25), men's triple jump
6:30 p.m. – Gaines (3^rd, 23.06), Morgan (20^th, 23.51), women's 200m (prelims)
6:45 p.m. – Hogans (1^st, 20.13), Charlton (13^th, 20.66), men's 200m (prelims)
7:00 p.m. – Strader, Bruening, women's 800m (prelims)
7:15 p.m. – Jordan Kilonzo (22^nd, 1:49.43), men's 800m (prelims)
7:35 p.m. – Nubine (11^th, 13.57), Winn (14^th, 13.59), women's 100m hurdles (prelims)
7:55 p.m. – Joel Nyatusah, Daylin Williams, Tyrone Jackson, 110m hurdles (prelims)
9:05 p.m. – Men's 4x400m Relay, Prelims (Chatman, Hogans, Caden Williams, Watson, 1^st, 3:05.66)

Day Three Action • Saturday, May 24 (All Times CDT)
Noon – Kyla Davis (4^th, 13-11.75), Isabelle Peters (4^th, 13-11.75), Cannon Booker (10^th, 13-4.75), women's pole vault
12:30 p.m. – Shelby Sogaard (19^th, 150-7), women's javelin
3:45 p.m. – Caleb Calvin (1^st, 258-3), Maddox Johnson (9^th, 224-4), Reed Mason(12^th, 222-1), men's javelin
6:05 p.m. – Cole Sample (13^th, 58-10.75), men's shot put
6:10 p.m. – Women's 4x100m Relay, Finals
6:20 p.m. – Men's 4x100m Relay, Finals
6:30 p.m. – Makayla Pavelka (21^st, 39-11.5), women's triple jump
6:35 p.m. – Women's 1500m, Finals
6:45 p.m. – Men's 1500m, Finals
7:00 p.m. – Women's 100m Hurdles, Finals
7:10 p.m. – Men's 110m Hurdles, Finals
7:30 p.m. – Men's 400m, Finals
7:40 p.m. – Women's 100m, Finals
7:50 p.m. – Men's 100m, Finals
8:00 p.m. – Women's 800m, Finals
8:10 p.m. – Men's 800m, Finals
8:45 p.m. – Women's 200m, Finals
8:55 p.m. – Men's 200m, Finals
9:05 p.m. – Mullen (13^th, 16:11.62), Women's 5000m
9:55 p.m. – Women's 4x400m Relay, Finals
10:05 p.m. – Men's 4x400m Relay, Finals
10:20 p.m. – Team Awards