GENEVA, Ohio – Four members of the St. Olaf College men's and women's track and field teams qualified for next week's 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships, as announced on Friday evening.
Junior
Isabel Wyatt and senior
Alison Bode will represent the women's team, while juniors
Ignatius Fitzgerald and
Kevin Turlington will compete for the men's team at the national meet. The event will be held at the SPIRE Institute Thursday through Saturday, May 22-24.
Wyatt will compete in her first NCAA Outdoor Championships as the No. 16 seed in the 800-meter run (2:09.44) after earning Second Team All-America honors in the event with a ninth-place finish indoors this year. The junior will run in the prelims at 3:15 CT on Friday. The finals will be held at 2 p.m. CT on Saturday.
Bode will run in the 10,000-meter run at the national meet for the third season in a row after earning the No. 15 seed (35:35.82). The senior is a two-time All-American in the event after finishing ninth last year and eighth as a sophomore. The 10,000-meter run will be contested at 8:15 CT on Thursday.
A first-time national qualifier in track and field, Fitzgerald is the No. 7 seed in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (8:52.30). The junior will race in the prelims on Thursday at 6:10 p.m. CT hoping to earn a spot in the finals the next day at 3:40 p.m. CT.
Turlington is the No. 21 seed in the 5,000-meter run (14:11.84) in his first outdoor national meet after claiming Second Team All-America honors with an 11th-place national finish indoors earlier this year. The event will be contested at 3 p.m. on Saturday in the second-to-last event of the championships.