Big Ten Reveals Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Postseason Awards

ROSEMONT, ILL. - The Big Ten Conference announced the 2025 Big Ten Women’s Outdoor Track and Field postseason individual award recipients on Wednesday, as selected by the conference’s head coaches. The NCAA championship meet was held last weekend at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. 

Michigan’s Savannah Sutherland won Women’s Track Athlete of the Year, while Washington’s Hana Moll was selected as Field Athlete of the Year and Illinois’ Melissa Wullschleger was tabbed as Freshman of the Year. 

Sutherland claimed the new collegiate record in the women’s 400 meter hurdles with a time of 52.46 to claim first place in the event. She beat gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's seven-year-old record of 52.75. 
 
Moll, the 2024 NCAA Indoor National Champion, earned first place in pole vault. To do so, she cleared 4.79m (15-8.5) which broke her twin sister Amanda’s record set in the 2025 Big Ten Outdoor Championships. She also beat the defending NCAA Outdoor Champion Chloe Timberg from Rutgers. 
 
Illinois’ Wullschleger made an impressive debut in the NCAA championships, finishing fourth overall in the heptathlon with a score of 5,928 points. The heptathlete performed exceptionally well in the shot put and javelin on her way to a podium finish. In the shot put, she earned fourth place with a mark of 13.61m (44-8) and in javelin she earned third place with a mark of 5.96m (19-6.75). Wullschleger also became the first All-American for Illinois since 1996. 

Earlier this month, the Big Ten announced the award recipients for Track Athlete of the Championships, Field Athlete of the Championships and Coach of the Year, as well as the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honorees.