Cedarville, OH – For the seventh year in a row, Cedarville University earns the NCCAA Women’s Indoor Track & Field National Championship, taking home the 2025 national championship on Saturday, February 8.
 
The Yellow Jackets rolled to claim their heptad of consecutive national championships, scoring a whopping 179.33 points. Bethel University finished second with 88.33 points, while Greenville University finished third with 85 points.
 
Summer Swartwout of Cedarville earned the 2025 Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year while Talahiva Talanoa of Greenville University earned 2025 Women’s Indoor Field Athlete of the Year. Cedarville University earned 2025 Women’s Indoor Track & Field Coaching Staff of the Year honors. To view all award winners, click here.
 
Track Highlights:

• After winning the DMR yesterday, the Crown College quartet of Ruth Breuckner, Lindsey Morrison, Mia Arroyo, and Ella Dufault took home gold in another distance relay, winning the 4x800 relay with a time of 9:46.33, the only team to finish the race in under 10 minutes.
• Summer Swartwout continued to sizzle on the track, as the Cedarville University runner won the event championship in the 60-meter run with a time of 7.53 seconds, a Cedarville school record and just 0.01 seconds from tying the NCCAA record set by Emma Johnson of Columbia International University in 2024. Makiyah Allen of Campbellsville University took third by 0.01 seconds, edging out Paloma Baumert of Jessup University with a time 7.89 seconds.
• Allen found the podium again just a few minutes later, this time taking gold in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.97 seconds. Morgan Johnson from CIU finished third in the event at 9.26 seconds after picking up a second place finish in the 60-meter dash.
• In a tight mile run, it was Bailey Gassmann of Asbury University snuck past Christy Shank of Campbellsville to take first place with a time of 5:05.91 compared to Shank’s time of 5:06.72.
• Bethel University picked up a win on the track thanks to Brianna Hooton in the 400-meter run, as she was the lone runner to finish the race in under a minute at 59.78 seconds. Malone University’s Allea Graves beat out Cedarville’s Hope Carroll by 0.03 seconds to take third place with a time of 1:00.69.
• Sydney Diedrich and Audrianna Enns of Cedarville finished in the top two spots of the 800-meter run. Diedrich won the race with a time of 2:19.00, while Enns finished second with a time of 2:20.69.
• Cedarville completed the clean sweep of the 200-meter run, as Swartwout took first place at 24.89 seconds for her third gold medal of the weekend. Her teammates Nora Hagan finished second (26.17 seconds) and Mallory Gasper finished in third place (26.29 seconds).
• The Yellow Jackets swarmed for the top four spots in the 3,000-meter run, as Abby Drosdak just beat out teammate Corinne Lynch for the gold with a time of 10:03.08, topping Lynch’s time of 10:03.41. Cedarville’s Savannah Ackley (10:17.74) and Alyson Enns (10:25.77) finished in third and fourth. 
• Cedarville closed out the day with a win in the 4x400 meter relay, as the team of Jessica Ferguson, Nevaeh Pearson, Hope Carroll, and Diedrich took gold by almost three whole seconds with a time of 4:04.38.

 
Field Highlights:

• Alecia Parker of Bethel University took home gold in the shot put, recording a toss of 13.45 meters. Julia Pisenti of Jessup University took home the bronze medal with a throw of 12.68 meters, beating out Emma Bailey of Cedarville University by 0.01 meters.
• Bethel continued to roll early in the field events, as the Pilots’ Gabrielle Zeilenga took first place in the long jump with a distance of 5.65 meters, beating out Angela Williams from Cedarville by 0.33 meters. Lexi Tucci of Malone University took home her second medal of the weekend, finishing third with a jump of 5.25 meters.
• Dasia Garland from Campbellsville University rolled to a victory in the triple jump, as her mark of 11.18 meters won her the gold by 0.62 meters. In a unique stat, both Aurora Osburn of Jessup and Kenniqua Grate from Gampbellsville recorded a jump of 10.24 meters, but Osburn takes third via tiebreaker.
• Talahiva Talanoa of Greenville University rolled in the weight throw, breaking her own meet record she set last year with a toss of 18.70 meters, demolishing the record she set last year of 18.07 meters. That mark is also a new Doden Field House record, breaking the old record of 18.40 meters set by Candace Swann of the University of Charleston all the way back in 2006. Talanoa won the event by 2.70 meters.

About the NCCAA
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