Tide Amasses 20 Entries for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships

6/4/24 MWTR Alabama NCAA Championships
Hayward Field
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Tide Amasses 20 Entries for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships

6/3/2025 4:04:00 PM | Track & Field, Cross Country

Women's National Qualifier List Men's National Qualifier List

Twenty Crimson Tide student-athletes will head to Eugene, Ore., for the national meet

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama track and field program will have 20 entries at next week's NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships, held June 11-14, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

The Crimson Tide will be represented at next week's national meet by 20 student-athletes. The UA women have nine student-athletes listed in nine entries, while 11 student-athletes represent the men's team in 11 entries, including the 4x400-meter relay.

Marks to Know

Collegiate record-holder and reigning steeplechase national champion Doris Lemngole returns to Hayward Field, alongside UA teammate Ezekiel Pitireng
The Crimson Tide is one of two Southeastern Conference programs with student-athletes competing in both the men's and women's steeplechase prelims
Katelyn Adel is Alabama's first student-athlete to compete in the women's heptathlon at the national meet since Kaylon Eppinger in 2012 who garnered honorable mention All-America honors
Additionally, Adel is one of two freshmen in the heptathlon to medal at the 2025 SEC Championships
Samuel Ogazi is the only 400-meter runner that advanced to the NCAA Championships to have earned a spot in last year's Paris Olympics, where he finished as an Olympic finalist representing Nigeria
Megan Albamonti will be the Tide's first women's javelin representative at the national meet since Samantha Zelden who earned honorable mention All-America honors in 2022
Miracle Ailes will be Alabama's first women's high jumper competing at the NCAA Championships since Stacey Destin who earned First-Team All-America recognition in 2019
Mariia Horielova is the only underclassman in women's long jump that medaled at the 2025 SEC Championships
Precious Nzeakor is one of only two SEC freshmen running in the women's 200-meter prelims
2025 marks the fifth consecutive year that the Crimson Tide will have at least one women's 10,000-meter runner compete at the National Championships
With the advancement of the 2025 squad, Alabama will have had a men's 4x400-meter relay contingent compete at the national meet every year since 2019
The Crimson Tide is the only program, nationally, to have two student-athletes competing in both the men's and women's shot put
- Christopher Crawford, Trevor Gunzell, Treneese Hamilton, Mye'Joi Williams
Alabama is the only school at the national meet with three student-athletes listed in both the 10,000m and the discus event finals
- 10,000m – Victor Kiprop, Dennis Kipruto, Dismus Lokira
- Discus – Crawford, Gunzell, Christopher Young

UA Women | Nine entries, Nine student-athletes

200m (1)	Precious Nzeakor
3,000m Steeplechase (1)	Doris Lemngole
10,000m (1)	Brenda Tuwei
High Jump (1)	Miracle Ailes
Long Jump (1)	Mariia Horielova
Shot Put (2)	Treneese Hamilton, Mye'Joi Williams
Javelin (1)	Megan Albamonti
Heptathlon (1)	Katelyn Adel

UA Men | 11 entries, 11 student-athletes

400m (1)	Samuel Ogazi
3,000m Steeplechase (1)	Ezekiel Pitireng
10,000m (3)	Victor Kiprop, Dennis Kipruto, Dismus Lokira
4x400m Relay	Donald Chiyangwa, Samuel Ogazi, Oussama El Bouchayby, Peter Diebold
Shot Put (2)	Christopher Crawford, Trevor Gunzell
Discus (3)	Christopher Crawford, Trevor Gunzell, Christopher Young