Track and Field Heads to NCAA Outdoor ChampionshipsTrack and Field Heads to NCAA Outdoor Championships

Track and Field Heads to NCAA Outdoor Championships

Five individuals, one relay team set for NCAA Championships Wednesday-Saturday

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State track and field team will wrap up outdoor postseason competition with the 2025 Division I NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships beginning on Wednesday, June 11-14.  Five individual qualifiers and one relay team will represent the Nittany Lions in Eugene, Ore. as they will take on some of the best track & field athletes in the country for a national title.  

MEET INFO: Championship Central | Live Results | Schedule of Events | Broadcast Info   

ESPN+ LIVE STREAMS: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4     

The 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be broadcast through ESPN/ESPN2 with live streams of each individual event on ESPN+. All links for individual events can be found on the link above.  

PENN STATE QUALIFIERS  

Florence Caron earned a double qualification to this year’s outdoor championships for her performances in the women’s 5,000 and 10,000-meter races. Caron punched her first ticket in the 10K race after finishing in 32:44.94. Caron punched her second ticket after breaking the 5K school record for the second time this outdoor season after running 15:27.05 on the final day of the NCAA East Regional.  

Maddie Ullom punched her first-career ticket to the NCAA Championships in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase. Ullom started competing in the 3K steeplechase this outdoor season and ended the East Regional Preliminaries by improving her personal best to 9:54.42, moving her to the No. 3 mark in program history all-time.  

Maddie Pitts will represent the Nittany Lions in the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships. Pitts compiled a season-best 5,677 points during the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, which ranked No. 7 in the East Region and No. 19 in the country after recording personal bests in the 200m, 800m, javelin throw and high jump.  

The men’s 800-meter duo of Handal Roban and Allon Clay will compete for a national title. Clay won the Big Ten Outdoor 800-meter title in May at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a time of 1:47.93, while Roban earned a fourth-place finish in the preliminaries at 1:45.47.  

The men’s 4x400-meter relay squad of Roban, James Onwuka, Max DeAngelo and Jake Palermo ran the fourth-fastest 4x400-meter time in Penn State history during the preliminaries with an eighth-place finish at 3:03.56. Matt DeMatteo and Josh Stolarski will also be in-play for the relay squad.   

NITTANY LIONS SCHEDULE OF COMPETITION 

Wednesday, June 11: 

Thursday, June 12: 

  • 7:38 p.m. ET/4:38 p.m. PT – W 3,000-meter Steeplechase Semifinal (Maddie Ullom) 
  • 9:56 p.m. ET/6:56 p.m. PT – W 10,000-meter Final (Florence Caron 

Friday, June 13: 

  • 2:45 p.m. ET/11:45 a.m. PT – Heptathlon Day one begins (Maddie Pitts) 
  • 9:14 p.m. ET/6:14 p.m. PT – M 800-meter Final* 
  • 10:21 p.m. ET/7:21 p.m. PT – M 4x400-meter Final* 

Saturday, June 14: 

  • 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT – Heptathlon Day two begins (Maddie Pitts) 
  • 9:24 p.m. ET/6:24 p.m. PT – W 3,000-meter Steeplechase Final* 
  • 10:55 p.m. ET/7:55 p.m. PT – W 5,000-meter Final (Florence Caron 

* = pending semifinal qualification    

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