By Owen Murray, TrackTown USA

The second day of competition at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships was when the women entered the field: Pole vault played host to a new collegiate-record mark, a hammer queen was crowned, and the fields for Saturday’s finals were set. The men’s decathlon wrapped up, too, and Georgia leapt into an early women’s team lead.

Collegiate record at 4.79m ✅
NCAA Title ✅

Watch @UWTrack’s Hana Moll win the 2025 women’s pole vault title, from the bleachers#NCAATF pic.twitter.com/51qvapEfyO
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 13, 2025

Hana Moll (SO - Washington) won the women’s pole vault title with a clearance at 4.64m (15-2 ¾) ahead of Chloe Timberg (SR - Rutgers) and her twin sister, Big Ten champion Amanda Moll (SO - Washington).

“That’s the bar I’ve been going for all season,” Hana said. “It’s a PR, too — I can’t not be happy about that.”

The winning mark was one Hana Moll didn’t even attempt last time out at Hayward — she cleared 4.58m at the Big Ten Championships before passing to 4.78m, where she missed three times.

She didn’t stop. Hana, the second-ranked vaulter in the competition, had just two third-attempt clearances in her otherwise pristine series (four of six clearances were first attempts). After getting over 4.39m in three, Moll cleared 4.79m on her third attempt to set the new meet and collegiate record.

“My 4.39m attempt…it was very close,” Moll said. “It wasn’t a perfect meet today — it never is, but I think I really cleaned it up at the end and focused on the jumping, not the winning.”

Stephanie Ratcliffe (SR - Georgia) won the women’s hammer title with a collegiate-leading 71.37m (234-02) throw. As a sophomore at Harvard, Ratcliffe won the NCAA hammer in 2023, but failed to get a mark in the 2024 edition after transferring to Georgia.

When she landed her first legal throw on Thursday, she said, “It felt like I could breathe again.”

“It’s a lot of relief,” Ratcliffe, a 2024 Olympian, said. “Fouling out last year…there’s a lot of memories that come with that, and a lot of emotions that come with that. I kept my cool, just went out there and took it one throw at a time.”

Ratcliffe’s eventual winning mark came on her fourth attempt — that, she said, was when the relief really began to set it.

“When I threw 71 meters,” she said, “I was like, ‘Okay. We’re good.’”

Oregon qualified three finalists in the women’s 1500m — Şilan Ayyildiz (JR - 4:11.65), Mia Barnett (SR - 4:09.61) and Klaudia Kazimierska (SR - 4:09.94) all earned automatic-qualifier slots through two stacked semifinal heats. Ayyildiz owns three Big Ten titles this season (in the indoor and outdoor 5000m, and the outdoor 1500m), while Barnett ran a personal-best time and Kazimierska placed tenth at last summer’s Paris Olympics.

Oregon seniors Mia Barnett and Klaudia Kazimierska after competing in their heat of the women’s 1500m semifinal. Photo by Rian Yamasaki.

“I’m so happy we all got in the final,” Ayyildiz said. “I think it’s going to be so fun for us. I’m super excited.”

Big Ten outdoor champion Sophie O’Sullivan (SR - Washington) returned to Hayward Field to earn the top-overall qualifying time in the event: 4:09.39. O’Sullivan, who was the 16th seed on Thursday, has been in the NCAA championship in each of the past three seasons.

“I think I was just happy to be in the front and running easy enough,” O’Sullivan said. “I had free space to run in — I was kind of waiting for someone to go for the big kick and I was thinking I’d just follow them.”

She didn’t need to, and she crossed the line solidly in front.

The top-overall qualifier in the women’s 3000m steeplechase was never in doubt. Second-place qualifier in the first heat, Katelyn Stewart-Barnett (SR - Michigan State) put it succinctly.

“Hopefully no one tries to run with Doris,” Stewart-Barnett said of her race plan.

Doris Lemngole (SO - Alabama) owns both the meet and collegiate records in the event. She ran 9:10.13 — the college record — in April 2025. She won her heat ahead of Stewart-Barnett by more than 10 seconds.

Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck (SR - UCLA) ran the second-fastest women’s 100m hurdles time in school history — only Gail Devers is faster. Her 12.71 second park is the new DI #2 time.

“I had a good start, but I kept hitting hurdles,” Ndjip-Nyemeck, who ran her previous personal-best time at the 2025 West Regional, said. “I feel like there’s a lot that I can fix to run even faster.”

Two athletes ran the new Division I-leading times in the women’s 100m; after Anthaya Charlton (JR - Florida) finished in 10.866 seconds, JaMeesia Ford (SO - South Carolina) ran 10.864 to take the DI #1 crown. Both were personal-bests.

Ford, who was also part of a season-best effort in the Gamecocks’ 42.58-second 4x100m relay, is the reigning NCAA indoor 200m champion.

35-YEAR-OLD RECORD BROKEN‼️@LSUTrackField's Michaela Rose runs 1:58.95 in her 800m semifinal.#NCAATF x 🎥 ESPN pic.twitter.com/fFPygTjGXR
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 13, 2025

Michaela Rose (SR - LSU) ran a meet-record 1:58.95 time in her heat of the women’s 800m semifinal — just ahead of Lauren Tolbert (JR - Duke), who ran a DI #4 1:59.39.

“We said, ‘Go out and run like it’s a final,’” Rose said. “There’s nobody here to joke with. That’s what I did, and seeing Tolbert next to me, it really encouraged me to push at the end.”

Tolbert was effusive after breaking the two-minute mark — she said that it had been her goal — and both will run in the final on Saturday.

Pamela Kosgei (FR - New Mexico) was the top-seeded athlete in a stunning women’s 10,000m: all of the top-five athletes ran a faster time than the previous meet record (Parker Valby’s 31:46.09 win in 2024). Kosgei, who won all but one of her outdoor races this season (she was second in the West Regional 5000m), finished in 31:17.82 to snag the NCAA title in her first season.

Mya Lesnar (SR - Colorado State) won the women’s shot put as the only athlete to throw over 19m. Her winning mark — 19.01m (62-04 ½) — came on her first attempt of the day.

“There’s more to come,” Lesnar said after the win. “We’ll see.”

Peyton Bair (JR - Mississippi State) took the men’s decathlon lead on Wednesday and never relinquished it. He scored a personal-best mark in half his events, plus a joint-PB and a season-best in two more for a personal-best and collegiate-lead 8323 total points.

Georgia leads the women’s team competition, with 26 points, ahead of Illinois (16.5) and Washington (16). Competition continues tomorrow at Hayward Field with the men’s finals and women’s heptathlon — multis begin at 11:45 a.m., and men’s field starts at 2:15 p.m. with track events starting at 4:50 p.m.