2026 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships: June 11
Big Ten claims two more individual champions
Photos by Bennett Metcalf
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EUGENE, Ore. – Big Ten schools continued the momentum on day two of the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Two Big Ten student-athletes earned individual event titles, and 13 student-athletes and three relay teams qualified for finals races on Saturday evening.
Nebraska’s Axelina Johansson completed her storied college career by winning the women’s shot put title with a meet record throw of 19.92m, and it marks the fourth NCAA title for the 2024 Paris Olympian (2023 Outdoor, 2025 Indoor, 2026 Indoor).
Like clockwork, Washington’s Amanda Moll claimed the women’s pole vault title with a new collegiate record of 4.84m. Her twin sister Hana, who set the previous record at the Big Ten Championships in Lincoln this May, finished second this time around. The Moll twins have become a staple in the event, as the two have combined for the last four Indoor and Outdoor Big Ten women’s pole vault titles, and five out of the last six NCAA titles.
With the twins' efforts, Washington holds the lead after day one with 18 points. Nebraska sits third with 14 points, and Minnesota fifth with 13 points.
Podium Finishers:
Decathlon
Luuk Pelkmaans, ILL — 3rd — 8079
Women’s Hammer Throw
Anthonett Nabwe, MINN — 2nd — 73.15m (240-0)
Hadley Streit, MINN — 4th — 69.50m (228-0)
Jordan Koskondy, ILL — 5th — 69.24m (227-2)
Women’s Shot Put
Axelina Johansson, NEB — 1st — 19.92m (65- 4 ¼) *MR
Ashley Erasmus, USC — 2nd — 18.14m (59-6 ¼)
Mine De Klerk, NEB — 4th — 17.86m (58-7 ¼)
Elizabeth Tapper, MICH — 7th — 17.54m (57-6 ½)
Women’s Pole Vault
Amanda Moll, WASH — 1st — 15-10 ½ *MR, CR
Hana Moll, WASH — 2nd — 15-6 ½
Finals Qualifiers:
Women’s 4x100m
USC — 1st — 41.96
Women’s 1500m
Wilma Nielsen, ORE — 3rd — 4:06.78
Juliet Cherubet, ORE — 9th — 4:09.54
Silan Ayyildiz, ORE — 10th — 4:09.58
Women’s 3,000m Steeplechase
Katelyn Stewart-Barnett, MSU — 9th — 9:44.76
Women’s 100m Hurdles
Aaliyah McCormick, ORE — 1st — 12.58
Celeste Polzonetti, UCLA — 3rd — 12.74
Janela Spencer, OSU — 4th — 12.77
Women’s 100m
Brianna Selby, USC — 4th — 10.94
Women’s 400m
Madison Whyte, USC — 5th — 50.73
Women’s 800m
Hayley Kitching, PSU — 2nd — 1:59.46
Women’s 400m Hurdles
Kelsie Belquist, NEB — 7th — 55.94
Women’s 200m
Dajaz DeFrand, USC — 4th — 22.36
Christine Mallard, USC — 8th — 22.55
Women’s 4x400m
USC — 5th — 3:25.97
Iowa — 7th — 3:27.21