The University of Georgia claimed the women’s team title at the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field on Saturday. Photo by Rian Yamaski.

By Owen Murray, TrackTown USA

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The University of Georgia dominated day two of the 2025 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships to claim the women’s team title with a stunning 73-point haul. The Bulldogs won four events over two days to best second-place University of Southern California by 26 points and win their first-ever women’s outdoor national championship.

USC earned just four day one points, but rose to second place in the team standings on the back of 43 points in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m.

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The Trojans began their Saturday with a 4x100m win — they ran the fastest time in qualifying on Thursday, and finished in a new DI #1 42.22 seconds. Starter Samirah Moody, who also won the 100m, said that race was “probably one of the first races all season where I really knew I won.”

“I crossed the line screaming,” she said, “so I knew.”

Georgia, though, entered Saturday with the overall lead (26 points, ahead of then-second-place Louisville by nine), and didn’t let it go. The Bulldogs added wins from three day two events to a day one women’s hammer throw title to claim the national team championship.

Elena Kulichenko (SR - Georgia) led the way with a women’s high jump win and a clearance of 1.96m (6-05) — a personal-best and new DI #2 mark.

“It was so amazing, because my outdoor season wasn’t as great as I wanted,” Kulichenko said. “I never jumped 1.90m-plus this season outdoors, so it was really important for me to go there, do my best and help the team to win this title.”

Georgia took home maximum points from the 400m, too, where the Bulldogs finished first and second for an 18-point haul. Aaliyah Butler (JR - Georgia) won the race in a new personal-best, DI #1 49.26 seconds, while her teammate Dejanea Oakley (JR) was close behind in a PB, DI #2 49.65.

“It was an immediate shift (to the 4x400m after the 400m), but Aaliyah made sure we took the moment to hug each other and embrace the moment, because it doesn't get much bigger than this,” Oakley said.

The Bulldogs left no doubt with a DI #1 4x400m win in the final event of the meet — Butler and Oakley both ran legs in a 3:23.62-second race that stacked 10 more points onto their final 73-point total.

“We worked really, really, really hard,” Georgia head coach Caryl Smith-Gilbert said. “We have a team that’s starting to form into something that’s going to be a great program.”

Early on Saturday, Cierra Jackson (SR - Fresno State) set a meet-record in the women’s discus on her way to her first-ever NCAA title. Jackson, whose first throw registered at 65.82m (215-11), was one of seven athletes to throw a personal-best mark.

Women’s heptathlon winner Pippi Lotta Enok (JR - Oklahoma) trailed after the first half of the multi on Thursday, but seized the lead with a 6.39m (20-11 ¾) long jump and didn’t let it slip. Enok won her second outdoor heptathlon title (2023) ahead of two-time NCAA indoor pentathlon winner Jadin O’Brien (SR - Notre Dame) by just 29 points.

“I feel like I perform the best under the pressure,” Enok said. “It feels like deja vu — two years ago, the difference was 27 points, and I had to just run (in the 800m). Today was the same.”

“Towards the home stretch, I couldn’t believe that I was going under nine minutes. I was so happy — it was unbelievable.”

— University of Alabama sophomore Doris Lemngole

Doris Lemngole (SO - Alabama) set a new collegiate record in the women’s 3000m steeplechase — one of two to run under the previous time on Saturday. Lemngole finished in a personal-best 8:58.15; Lexy Halladay-Lowry (SR - Brigham Young) ran a DI #2 9:08.68. The previous record (9:10.13) also belonged to Lemngole.

“Towards the home stretch, I couldn’t believe that I was going under nine minutes,” Lemngole said. “I was so happy — it was unbelievable.”

Roisin Willis (JR - Stanford) set a new meet-record time in an 800m race where each of the top three finished under the previous meet record. Willis’ time, 1:58.13, was a new personal-best — and this time, it earned her a trophy.

“I was visualizing it in my head — for the past six months, but really for the last 24 hours, me crossing that line first” Willis said. “Leading up to the race, I started to doubt myself a little bit, but as it was happening, I was coming down the home stretch and I said, ‘I want to win today.’”

“I think the hardest part was getting over my fear and having to run it. I knew I had it in me. I just had to let it go.”

— University of Michigan senior Savannah Sutherland after breaking the collegiate record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 52.46

Savannah Sutherland (SR - Michigan) broke Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s collegiate record in the 400m hurdles by running 52.46; she said that she’s had a sub-53-second time written on a whiteboard in her room since February. She met McLaughlin-Levrone at last summer’s Olympic Games — and now, she has her collegiate record.

“It was easy in the moment,” Sutherland said. “I think the hardest part was getting over my fear and having to run it. I knew I had it in me. I just had to let it go.”

Hayward Field is just heating up for the summer: Nike Outdoor Nationals and USATF U20 Outdoor Championships are scheduled for June 19-22, followed by the 50th edition of The Prefontaine Classic on July 5.