SALEM, Ore. – In their only head-to-head dual scheduled for 2025, the Corban University Men's and Women's Track & Field programs completed a three-day crosstown rivalry meet with NCAA DIII Willamette University earlier this evening, where nearly every Warrior on both squads competed in at least one event as the spring season continues to ramp up.

To view the final results from today's dual, click HERE.

"Over the past three days, we have had some solid marks produced, including nine top ten program marks," shared Warriors' head coach Todd Bos earlier this evening. "I believe we will continue to see improvement throughout the next seven weeks as we prepare for our conference meet. As long as we continue to compete for the right reason, that being God's glory and not our own, we will be headed in the right direction."

On both the men's and women's sides, the Navy and Gold put up 39 team points to trail the Bearcats on the team scoreboard, yet the purpose of their yearly friendly dual is to always provide as many student-athletes opportunities to post new personal or season bests with their local communities around to support. Nine different all-time top ten marks were set today by nine different Warriors, with a single school record being broken by a true freshman.

In the men's 3,000m race, sophomore Luke Harkey (9:15.04) and senior Forrest Cooley (9:22.13) finished second and third, respectively, while completing the third and fifth fastest times in school history, only for true freshman Bennet Mason to take the event by 12 seconds and set the new event record for Corban men's track & field with a final time of 9:03.71 to nearly clinch a sub-nine minute mark.

Moving from the long distance to short distance races, sophomore Kirsten Kuenzi won the women's 100m sprint with ease and in doing so set the second-best all-time mark in the event, as she broke the 12.50 benchmark with a 12.49 for a new personal best and is just .06 seconds off the all-time fastest time by a Warrior.

On the men's side of the 100m, sophomore Benjamin Krebs flew to the finish line and posted a sub 11-second mark for the first time in his Corban career, good enough for fourth all-time in the Warrior record books. Junior DJ Armstead won the event at 10.93, merely four-hundredths of a second faster than Krebs.

In the field events, fellow sophomore Jackson Cook (12.59m) finished in second place during the men's triple jump event and secured the tenth best leap in school history along the way, while senior Keelyn O'Reilly launched a 39.83m hurl in the javelin throw to set a new fifth-place mark in the event for Corban women's track and field program history.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, redshirt junior Anthony Salisbury and sophomore David McCormick each participated in the men's decathlon against Willamette, where they posted 4,596 and 4,364 points, respectively, to each appear on the top ten decathlon scores for the program in ninth and tenth overall.

In addition to the nine new program top ten marks, seven more Warriors turned in personal bests within their events, including two event winners in senior Gabrielle Tata-Rodrigues and freshman Carrie Babcock. In her third attempt, Tata-Rodrigues flung a 44.12m mark in the women's hammer throw to win the event by a single inch over Bearcats' Tenley Grant and in doing so set a new personal best mark, while Babcock took the women's 1,500m race by nearly five seconds at 4:56.18, the only competitor under five minutes today at McCulloch Stadium.

Winning event categories today for the Navy and Gold were freshman Haley Kline (1:05.25) in the women's 400m race, Tata-Rodrigues (37.77m) in the women's discus throw, and freshman Caleb Jannsen (49.58m) in the men's javelin throw. Also setting new collegiate career best marks today for Corban track and field were freshman Jada Ang (women's 100m – 15.18), senior Will Maupin (men's 100m – 11.40), sophomore Malena Robnett (women's shot put – 10.16m), freshman Emily Escobar Sosa (women's shot put – 8.64m), and freshman James Davison (men's discus throw – 31.63m).

A handful of Warriors will be in action over the next two days in the 2025 Oregon Preview at historic Hayward Field, hosted by NCAA DI University of Oregon on both Friday and Saturday.

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