Saturday, March 1
Indianapolis, IN
7:20 AM
University of Washington
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Big Ten Indoor Championships
Both Squads Top-Five, Dawgs Finish With Six Titles
March 01, 2025 | Track & Field
Big Ten Championship Results
INDIANAPOLIS – Washington's track and field squads adjusted well to their first Big Ten Indoor Championship, which doubled as their first indoor conference meet of any kind in five years. Both Husky teams finished in the top-five overall, as UW captured three more event titles today to finish with six overall for the weekend.
Chloe Foerster staged one of the days' most dramatic victories, coming from way back on the final lap to win the women's 800-meters by .02 seconds in a Meet Record, and then the Huskies swept the 3,000-meter titles towards the end of the meet, as Nathan Green and Amina Maatoug each sprinted away over the final two laps to win with impressive ease.
Those wins were added to the three from Friday, when UW swept the pole vault titles (Amanda Moll breaking her NCAA Record for the women's win, and Scott Toney winning the men's) and the men's DMR dominated wire-to-wire en route to a Meet Record.
The reconfigured Big Ten now features a huge 15-team men's field and 17 teams on the women's side. The Husky men finished fourth overall out of the 15 teams with 67 points, and the women placed fifth out of 17 teams with 50 points, one point out of fourth-place. Oregon won both team titles; on the men's side it took USC's 4x400m relay getting disqualified at the end of the meet to drop the Trojans into second.
Washington will now make its declarations for the NCAA Indoor Championships which assembles the top-16 declared athletes in each event to Virginia Beach, Va. in two weeks to cap the indoor season.
Three More Titles On Day Two
Chloe Foerster was at the back of the pack for most of the women's 800-meter final, but worked up to about fifth with 150-meters to go. At full sprint, she moved up on the outside through the final banked turn and was making up ground on Penn State's top-seeded Hayley Kitching. Foerster drew up alongside Kitching with a few strides left and both leaned for the line, with Foerster doing just enough to take the win in 2:03.27 to 2:03.29 for Kitching. Both times were under the old Meet Record of 2:03.45.
It's the second individual conference title for Foerster, as she won the final Pac-12 1,500-meters title last spring. Amina Maatoug was also fourth in the final in 2:04.08, and she'd have her own trip to the top of the podium coming soon.
Both 3,000-meter finals played out in similar fashion for Nathan Green and Maatoug. In the men's race, Green, who had anchored the DMR to the win the night before, spent most of the race tucked away in the middle of the pack, as teammate Jamar Distel set an honest pace in the front. With about four laps to go Green started to move up, and with just over two laps to go Green dialed things up and moved past Distel into the lead. Only Wisconsin's Adam Spencer went after Green as the two quickly opened up a huge gap on the rest of the field. Green still had another gear on the final lap and he distanced Spencer to win in 7:53.88 with Spencer in second in 7:55.38.
Green's last 400-meters was clocked at 54.10 seconds and his final 200-meter split was 25.83. The Dawgs also got two more points in the event from Acer Iverson who was seventh in 8:00.34
In the women's 3k, Maatoug looked like she admired Green's race plan and set out to do her own version of it. She also kept to the middle of the pack then with 1k to go she moved from 11th all the way up to fourth. Like Green, Maatoug then wound it up with more than two laps still to go, powering into the lead, and she had just one chaser, Oregon's Juliet Cherubet. Maatoug ran the last 400-meters in 64 seconds and change to cross the line smiling with arms out in a time of 9:09.06.
Julia David-Smith grabbed one more point for the women in the 3k in 9:15.40.
Distances
Other distance highlights today included the men's mile, where UW had half of the field of finalists. The Dawgs had to deal with some late stumbles that cost a couple runners some momentum and a chance to move up. Cole Lindhorst avoided that and he grabbed third overall to lead in 4:03.93. Ronan McMahon-Staggs was sixth in 4:05.48, Rhys Hammond was eight, and Martin Barco and Leo Daschbach were ninth and tenth.
Maggie Liebich ran at the front of the women's mile final throughout but she was spent on the final lap and had to settle for 10th overall in 4:45.84.
In the men's 800-meters final, a tightly packed field dealt with plenty of jostling late, with Kyle Reinheimer fighting through for third-place in 1:47.88. Justin O'Toole took seventh in 1:49.35 for an eight-point event for the Dawgs.
Multis
Jami Schlueter completed a runner-up finish in the heptathlon today, grabbing eight points for the team score. He won the fifth event to start the day, going 8.14 in the 60m hurdles. He then cleared 15-3 in the pole vault and took the lead going into the final 1,000-meters. But Schlueter couldn't quite hold it, falling just a couple seconds short of the win. He finished the 1k in 2:59.41, and wound up 18 points behind Nebraska's Adria Navajon. Schlueter's final tally was 5,561 points.
Sprints
The Huskies closed out the meet today with a women's 4x400m relay made up of Danielle Hunter, Anna Terrell, Kapiolani Coleman, and Mikayla Gardley. The group placed 11th overall in 3:41.66.
Jumps
Trenvontay Smith scored for the Dawgs today in the men's triple jump, as he went 50-4 3/4 in his third round to finish sixth overall. Roman Hutchinson was just one spot out of the final, as he was 10th at 49-5 1/2. Tim Luebbert finished 14th at 48-11/4. In the women's triple jump, Rachel Bir had a new PR with a mark of 39-2 1/4 to finish 23rd overall.
Leland Lieberg made 6-6 3/4 in the high jump to finish in a tie for 14th.
Throws
Kaia Tupu-South took on an extremely talented shot put field today and got in a big throw in round two of 56-1, which wound up placing her seventh overall for two team points.
2025 Big Ten Indoor Championships – Washington Titles
Day One
Scott Toney, Men's Pole Vault
Amanda Moll, Women's Pole Vault (NCAA and Meet Record)
Leo Daschbach/Bodi Ligons/Cole Lindhorst/Nathan Green, Men's DMR (Meet Record)
Day Two
Chloe Foerster, Women's 800m (Meet Record)
Nathan Green, Men's 3,000m
Amina Maatoug, Women's 3,000m
INDIANAPOLIS – Washington's track and field squads adjusted well to their first Big Ten Indoor Championship, which doubled as their first indoor conference meet of any kind in five years. Both Husky teams finished in the top-five overall, as UW captured three more event titles today to finish with six overall for the weekend.
Chloe Foerster staged one of the days' most dramatic victories, coming from way back on the final lap to win the women's 800-meters by .02 seconds in a Meet Record, and then the Huskies swept the 3,000-meter titles towards the end of the meet, as Nathan Green and Amina Maatoug each sprinted away over the final two laps to win with impressive ease.
Those wins were added to the three from Friday, when UW swept the pole vault titles (Amanda Moll breaking her NCAA Record for the women's win, and Scott Toney winning the men's) and the men's DMR dominated wire-to-wire en route to a Meet Record.
The reconfigured Big Ten now features a huge 15-team men's field and 17 teams on the women's side. The Husky men finished fourth overall out of the 15 teams with 67 points, and the women placed fifth out of 17 teams with 50 points, one point out of fourth-place. Oregon won both team titles; on the men's side it took USC's 4x400m relay getting disqualified at the end of the meet to drop the Trojans into second.
Washington will now make its declarations for the NCAA Indoor Championships which assembles the top-16 declared athletes in each event to Virginia Beach, Va. in two weeks to cap the indoor season.
Three More Titles On Day Two
Chloe Foerster was at the back of the pack for most of the women's 800-meter final, but worked up to about fifth with 150-meters to go. At full sprint, she moved up on the outside through the final banked turn and was making up ground on Penn State's top-seeded Hayley Kitching. Foerster drew up alongside Kitching with a few strides left and both leaned for the line, with Foerster doing just enough to take the win in 2:03.27 to 2:03.29 for Kitching. Both times were under the old Meet Record of 2:03.45.
And then along came Chloe...
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) March 1, 2025
An epic final lap comeback from Foerster powers her to the ?????? ?????? ?????????? ??
She follows her 2024 Pac-12 title at 1,500-meters with her first at 800-meters in a Meet Record 2:03.27.
Amina Maatoug grabs 4th for 5 more points.#GoHuskies pic.twitter.com/0kBWWKXfY7
It's the second individual conference title for Foerster, as she won the final Pac-12 1,500-meters title last spring. Amina Maatoug was also fourth in the final in 2:04.08, and she'd have her own trip to the top of the podium coming soon.
Both 3,000-meter finals played out in similar fashion for Nathan Green and Maatoug. In the men's race, Green, who had anchored the DMR to the win the night before, spent most of the race tucked away in the middle of the pack, as teammate Jamar Distel set an honest pace in the front. With about four laps to go Green started to move up, and with just over two laps to go Green dialed things up and moved past Distel into the lead. Only Wisconsin's Adam Spencer went after Green as the two quickly opened up a huge gap on the rest of the field. Green still had another gear on the final lap and he distanced Spencer to win in 7:53.88 with Spencer in second in 7:55.38.
Nathan Green ????
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) March 1, 2025
He blows open the 3,000-meters for his second @bigten ?? of the meet!
His last two laps were 28.27 then 25.83 ??#GoHuskies // @BigTenPlus pic.twitter.com/2tVcFJi1W4
Green's last 400-meters was clocked at 54.10 seconds and his final 200-meter split was 25.83. The Dawgs also got two more points in the event from Acer Iverson who was seventh in 8:00.34
In the women's 3k, Maatoug looked like she admired Green's race plan and set out to do her own version of it. She also kept to the middle of the pack then with 1k to go she moved from 11th all the way up to fourth. Like Green, Maatoug then wound it up with more than two laps still to go, powering into the lead, and she had just one chaser, Oregon's Juliet Cherubet. Maatoug ran the last 400-meters in 64 seconds and change to cross the line smiling with arms out in a time of 9:09.06.
Julia David-Smith grabbed one more point for the women in the 3k in 9:15.40.
Amina Maatoug makes it a Husky 3k sweep!! ????
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) March 1, 2025
She duplicates Nathan's race plan of dusting the field over the last two laps. ?????
Washington's SIXTH Big Ten ??#GoHuskies // @bigten pic.twitter.com/t1iybLT3ne
Distances
Other distance highlights today included the men's mile, where UW had half of the field of finalists. The Dawgs had to deal with some late stumbles that cost a couple runners some momentum and a chance to move up. Cole Lindhorst avoided that and he grabbed third overall to lead in 4:03.93. Ronan McMahon-Staggs was sixth in 4:05.48, Rhys Hammond was eight, and Martin Barco and Leo Daschbach were ninth and tenth.
Maggie Liebich ran at the front of the women's mile final throughout but she was spent on the final lap and had to settle for 10th overall in 4:45.84.
In the men's 800-meters final, a tightly packed field dealt with plenty of jostling late, with Kyle Reinheimer fighting through for third-place in 1:47.88. Justin O'Toole took seventh in 1:49.35 for an eight-point event for the Dawgs.
Multis
Jami Schlueter completed a runner-up finish in the heptathlon today, grabbing eight points for the team score. He won the fifth event to start the day, going 8.14 in the 60m hurdles. He then cleared 15-3 in the pole vault and took the lead going into the final 1,000-meters. But Schlueter couldn't quite hold it, falling just a couple seconds short of the win. He finished the 1k in 2:59.41, and wound up 18 points behind Nebraska's Adria Navajon. Schlueter's final tally was 5,561 points.
Sprints
The Huskies closed out the meet today with a women's 4x400m relay made up of Danielle Hunter, Anna Terrell, Kapiolani Coleman, and Mikayla Gardley. The group placed 11th overall in 3:41.66.
Jumps
Trenvontay Smith scored for the Dawgs today in the men's triple jump, as he went 50-4 3/4 in his third round to finish sixth overall. Roman Hutchinson was just one spot out of the final, as he was 10th at 49-5 1/2. Tim Luebbert finished 14th at 48-11/4. In the women's triple jump, Rachel Bir had a new PR with a mark of 39-2 1/4 to finish 23rd overall.
Leland Lieberg made 6-6 3/4 in the high jump to finish in a tie for 14th.
Throws
Kaia Tupu-South took on an extremely talented shot put field today and got in a big throw in round two of 56-1, which wound up placing her seventh overall for two team points.
2025 Big Ten Indoor Championships – Washington Titles
Day One
Scott Toney, Men's Pole Vault
Amanda Moll, Women's Pole Vault (NCAA and Meet Record)
Leo Daschbach/Bodi Ligons/Cole Lindhorst/Nathan Green, Men's DMR (Meet Record)
Day Two
Chloe Foerster, Women's 800m (Meet Record)
Nathan Green, Men's 3,000m
Amina Maatoug, Women's 3,000m
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