INDIANAPOLIS Western Colorado will have four from its men's and women's track & field programs competing at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, which begin Thursday, March 13 and conclude Saturday, March 15.
The championship will be hosted at the Fall Creek Pavilion in the Indiana State Fairgrounds, and is part of the NCAA DII Winter Festival that also includes the national championship events for men's and women's swimming & diving as well as men's wrestling.
WHO AND WHEN
Thursday's events include the women's and men's mile, of which Western will have one runner in each.
Emma Kjellsen is seeded 16th with a time of 4 minutes, 48.39 seconds, altitude adjusted from her time of 5:04.58 at the Mountaineer-hosted RMAC Last Chance Meet on March 1. Her preliminary heat of 18 runners is slated for a 2:55 p.m. MT start.
The men's mile is scheduled for a 3:15 p.m. start, and will include Western's Esteban Deniz. He is seeded 17th of the 18 runners, with a time of 4:03.53 (alt. adjusted from 4:17.93 at the Last Chance Meet).
The top nine finishers in each of the mile preliminaries will advance to the championship finals on Saturday, with the women's heat scheduled for 1:15 p.m. MT and the men's at 1:25 p.m. MT.
Saturday's event list includes Western's two other participants, Sammie Bretz and Allison Beasley.
Bretz is the fifth seed in the women's high jump after setting a qualifying height of 1.78 meters (5 feet-10 inches) in winning the event at the 2025 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship meet. The event in Indy is scheduled for a 1:55 p.m. MT start.
Beasley will be the Mountaineers' final competitor at nationals. She will be racing in the women's 3,000-meter run in which she will be seeded 14th with a time of 9:27.90 (alt. adjusted from 10:02.90 at the Last Chance Meet). Her race is scheduled to go off at 2:40 p.m. MT.
WATCH and follow LIVE RESULTS
The championship will be broadcast on through the NCAA's Live Video outlet, while live results will keep up with the meet via its link on leonetiming.com.
