Four All-American Showings Highlight Indoor Track & Field Nationals Day 2

On Day 2 of the 2025 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships in Indianapolis, Ind., four Ashland University individuals/relays earned All-American honors.
 
Friday's (March 14) highlight was the women's weight throw final, where sophomore Molly Winner earned her first All-American award by finishing in second place at 19.93 meters/65-feet-4¾.
 
Senior Wyatt Cory, in his first nationals appearance, earned his first All-American citation with a seventh-place finish in the men's heptathlon with 5,351 points.
 
Another senior, Caden Morris, also garnered his first All-American award by finishing eighth in the men's long jump at 7.27 meters/23-feet-10¼.
 
To end the day, the women's distance medley relay quartet of graduate Hope Sievert, juniors Montana Walker and Jade Avance, and senior Lily Dowdell also placed eighth in 11:35.84. It is Avance's third All-American honor, Walker's second, and Sievert and Dowdell's first each at AU.
 
Through two days at nationals, the Eagle women's nine team points are good for 11^th place, and the AU men's three team points have them tied for 20^th.
 
Also in the women's weight throw final, sophomore Leslie Pollock ended in ninth at 19.16 meters/62-feet-10½. Senior Brock Janowicz placed 12^th in the men's weight throw (18.84 meters/61-feet- 9¾).

In Friday's prelims:

• Senior D.J. Duncan finished second in 7.86 seconds to move on to Saturday's (March 15) finals.
• Avance took sixth in the women's 800 run (2:07.95) to advance to Saturday's finals.
• Fifth-year Aniya Seward was 15^th in the women's 60 hurdles in 8.57 seconds.
• Sophomore Brianna Chenevey finished 18^th in the women's 200 dash in 24.74 seconds.

12:30 p.m. – Women's shot put final (Winner)
2:30 p.m. – Men's 60 hurdles final (Duncan)
2:35 p.m. – Men's pole vault final (Baker)
3 p.m. – Women's triple jump final (Seward)
4 p.m. – Women's 800 run final (Avance)
5:15 p.m. – Women's 4x400 relay final (Chenevey/Walker/Avance/Gardner)
5:35 p.m. – Men's 4x400 relay final (Hunkele/Turner/Wood/Pielech)