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QuickTake:
The Oregon women had only seven competitors in the meet, but they finished in second place behind Georgia. The men would have needed a nearly perfect day to top Arkansas.
The Oregon women did more with less.
Despite having only eight scoring chances in 17 events at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the Ducks managed to pull off a second-place finish at the meet, with 44 points. Georgia won the team competition with 53 points, and Illinois was third with 42.
The NCAA indoor championships are the most difficult collegiate track event to get into. There are no qualifying standards; instead, athletes gain entry based on a descending order list of top times, throws or jumps during the season. Only the top 16 individuals in each event and the top 12 relay teams make it in.
They may have had only seven competitors, but the Ducks had wins in four events: the pentathlon, the 60-meter hurdles, the mile and the distance medley relay. Each victory gave the Ducks 10 points.
On Friday, March 13, Liisa-Maria Lusti won the pentathlon — a combination of five events — with a personal best 4,498 points.
The Friday session ended with the Ducks’ foursome of Juliet Cherubet, Lakely Doht-Barron, Silan Ayyildiz and Wilma Nielsen winning the distance medley relay. Nielsen, who is the reigning indoor mile champion, anchored the event with a split of 4:29.81 for 1600 meters (just short of a mile).
On Saturday, March 14, the second day of the meet, Nielsen defended her mile title in a race that got off to a slow start and ended with a furious finish. Nielsen won in 4:41.06, thanks to a final 400 meters in 58.68 seconds.
Ayyildiz finished sixth and Cherubet finished eighth to add four more points to the Ducks’ tally.
Aaliyah McCormick won the 60-meter hurdles (7.86), after finishing as the runner-up in the event in 2025.
Men also take second
Arkansas dominated the men’s team competition in Fayetteville with 73.5 points. The Ducks earned the runner-up trophy with 40 points, and Florida was third with 26.
The Oregon men had an individual win from Peyton Bair in the heptathlon (which has seven events). His 6,503 points were a personal best and a facility record.
In the shot put, Kobe Lawrence was second and Ben Smith was fourth, giving the Ducks 13 points.
Oregon also added 11 points in the 3,000 meters, behind the second-place finish of Simeon Birnbaum, who ran 7:41.85. Benjamin Balzas was sixth in 7:48.04. Three other Ducks were in the event, but finished out of the scoring. In the 800 meters, James Harding was fifth.
The men’s distance medley relay, which traveled far and wide in February to get a time fast enough to get into the NCAA meet, finished seventh, despite entering the meet with the second-fastest seed time.