MARION, Ind. – A pair of Warriors from the Corban University Men's & Women's Track & Field programs have landed in central Indiana and are making their final preparations for the final NAIA National Championship event of the 2024-25 school year, as the 2025 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships are scheduled to begin tomorrow, May 21st, and run through Friday the 23rd with both team and individual national titles up for grabs among the hundreds of student-athletes participating in the dozens of Olympic events.
"Both Jack and Kayla enter the meet with top eight national marks so of course, earning All-American status would be an attainable goal for each of them," explained Corban head coach Todd Bos as he helps his student-athletes prepare on the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University this week. "I believe both are capable of becoming All-Americans this week, but they are more focused on competing and executing to the best of their abilities and letting the results take care of themselves. A special thanks for Coach Kelly and Coach Stuart for their great work with these two. Of course, we thank God for the natural gifts that He has given Jack and Kayla, and for the opportunity to come compete on the national stage once again."
The first Warrior to compete this week for Coach Bos is sophomore Jack Gladfelter in the men's 10,000m race, where he will represent a top ten seed and top three from the Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) thanks to a personal best time of 30:30.74 that he ran at the Larry Byerly Invitational in Portland on April 19th. The B-standard he hit to qualify for the national championship race represents the second fastest finish in program history for the event, trailing only the University's first individual male national champion in Warrior legend Rob Swoboda back in the spring of 2022.
Gladfelter's 10,000m finals heat will begin at 6:10pm PT tomorrow evening representing the final track event of opening day, where he is seeded sixth overall out of the 25-man field. Four of the five student-athletes entering with faster seeds than the sophomore from Port Angeles, Washington are in their senior seasons of competition, while one additional underclassman joins Gladfelter in the top six seeded individual.
Redshirt junior Kayla Morgan has done a little bit of everything thus far since the indoor season of 2024. She's set numerous program records en route to a pair of All-Conference finishes, claimed a second-consecutive CCC women's high jump championship just last week, and is fresh off the first women's All-American finish during the 2025 NAIA Indoor National Championships this past winter term. This Friday, Morgan will enter the women's high jump event with the second-best mark across the entire country, looking to not only break her own program record yet again, but do so by claiming a top eight All-American finish and additionally, a national crown.
Back on April 26th during the school's first ever outdoor track and field meet on their home facility, Morgan shocked the Warrior Nation fans in attendance and greater national audience by clearing 1.78 meters, absolutely annihilating her prior personal best and logging the second-highest mark in the nation for the 2025 season simultaneously. On Friday at 11am PT, Morgan will enter the women's high jump as the second overall seed among the 34-woman event, looking to lock up her second All-American status amid an incredibly competitive field.
The last time the Corban outdoor track & field programs exited the national championship meet with multiple All-Americans was in 2022 when they secured not one, but two individual national champions alongside a third All-American, the first NAIA event champions in both program and school history. This week, Gladfelter and Morgan look to replicate that same success and return to the Pacific Northwest with even more hardware for their trophy cases.
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