ASHLAND, Ore. – The Corban University Men's and Women's Track & Field programs are making their final preparations for the annual Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) Championship meet, as Southern Oregon University will play host at Raider Stadium over the course of Friday and Saturday's competition where the 2025 team championships will be earned by two of the conference members in attendance along with numerous All-Conference award winners and individual event champions to be crowned.

"This year's hard work and preparation will be on full display this weekend," Corban head coach Todd Bos explained. "I am really pleased with this team's cohesiveness and maturity. I expect they will compete with everything they have. We have a few student-athletes hoping to reach national qualifying marks along with all-conference performances this weekend. Finally, the Lord has really blessed this group as they have done their best to create a vibrant Christian community. We will do our best to honor Him and make Warrior Nation proud this week."

To view the complete list of qualifiers for the 2025 CCC Track & Field Championships from every conference member, click HERE.

To view the event schedule as announced by the conference office, click HERE.

Across the two-day conference championship meet, 35 Warriors will suit up to compete in an exact 35 different events, which includes five different relays teams, seven sprinters, five hurdlers, eleven distance runners, eight jumpers, and eleven throwers.

Relays

Coach Bos will send five relay teams to the track this week in Ashland, beginning with a men's 4x800m quartet that will be competing for the first time in 2025 as a complete unit looking to hit an NAIA qualifying mark. This year's 4x800m medley consists of sophomore Luke DeVault, freshman Jacob McKinnon, freshman Bodie Strom, and freshman Julius Pokorny.

In the short distance 4x100m relay, the Warriors will field a men's crew comprised of freshman Aaden Ackley, sophomore Benjamin Krebs, senior Will Maupin, and junior DJ Armstead as they enter ranked fifth in the CCC heading into Friday's race with a team-best 42.24 seed time. On the women's side, Coach Bos will send out another fresh quartet who have yet to submit a time thus far in 2025, which will feature sophomore Sara Richardson, freshman Julianna Bell, freshman Sadie Smith, and senior Leah Nastri.

The final event of the weekend on Saturday afternoon, the ever-intense 4x400m relay, will be represented by two Corban crews who have continuously improved their times over the 2025 season and will look to do so once again this week on the conference stage. The men's team will consist of Maupin, Armstead, Pokorny, and sophomore Braydon Lee, while the women's squad will see freshman Hailey Kline, sophomore Kirsten Kuenzi, sophomore Shaelee Killorn, and redshirt junior Kayla Morgan take to the track together.

Sprints

A handful of Navy and Gold speedsters will look to climb both the Corban and conference leaderboards across this week's competition, led by Armstead and Krebs in the 100m who are seeded seventh and tenth, respectively. Kuenzi will represent the lone women's sprinter at 100m, as the program record holder at 12.40 will have the opportunity to improve upon her eighth-overall entry seed within the 21-woman event.

Kuenzi and Krebs will both double their distance in their respective 200m heats on Saturday afternoon, entering at twelfth and fourteenth with 25.98 and 22.34 season-best marks to beat against the conference competition. Finally, Armstead and Kline will compete in the 400m heats on Friday, where Armstead only needs to shave off four tenths of a second to qualify for the NAIA National Championships later this month.

Hurdles

The three hurdle races conducted at the conference meet, comprised of the 100m women's race, 110m men's race, and both men's and women's 400m race, will feature four different Corban competitors with five separate entries. Morgan enters the 100m event just outside the top five seeds in seventh, while sophomore David McCormick picks up the 110m tenth seed and Ackley embodies one of the few Warriors ranked in the top three of their respective events with a 15.73 personal best. Ackley will make another appearance in the men's 400m race seeded in twelfth, while senior Kristi Hirte enters the women's race seeded eleventh.

Distance

Lee and sophomore Jack Gladfelter each represent the highest ranked distance runners for Corban in multiple events, with Lee sitting four tenths of a second off the national qualifying pace in the men's 1,500m race while Gladfelter has already qualified for the men's 10,000m race and enters Friday's final event as the favorite to claim the event crown with his 30:30.74 personal best. In addition to their primary events, Lee will also attempt to qualify for nationals in the 800m race, while Gladfelter takes on the men's 5,000m race where they are both seeded sixth overall. Junior Zander Moha and sophomore Luke Harkey will join Gladfelter in the 5k event, whereas freshman Bennet Mason and graduate student Forrest Cooley look to compete alongside the cross country All-American in the longest event of the weekend.

Killorn will be busy on both Friday and Saturday as she attempts to set a new personal best in two different events once again this spring, competing in the women's 1,500m on day one and the women's 800m on day two. The final women's distance runner to compete this weekend will be represented by true freshman Carrie Babcock in the women's 5,000m as she's expected to start in hip one of the 16-woman event.

Jumps

The Corban jumps team continues to improve at both the conference and national levels with each passing year, as assistant coach Kelly Holding has qualified eight different leapers in six different events and following an exceptional outing at their first ever home meet to end the month of April, Warrior Nation will see the top ranked women's high jumper come from Coach Holding's unit. Morgan's 1.78m record breaking leap from the Nancy & Norm Berney Classic tops all but one mark nationally in 2025 with postseason competition now in full effect, as she towers over the second CCC entry by nearly three inches as she looks to defend her conference title where she set the meet record in 2024, representing a last chance warmup before her trip to nationals in two weeks' time. Opposite Morgan in the men's high jump will be Maupin who's seeded sixteenth.

Kuenzi will participate in her fourth event of the weekend in the women's long jump, where her 5.22m horizonal jump ranks seventh all-time in Corban history as the Silverton native continues to break barriers in just her second season as a Warrior.

In the women's pole vault, Nastri will enter the field as the only Corban student-athlete with a mark over three meters to seed her ninth overall, while sophomore Johnna Waddell will be seeded twelfth in an extremely competitive event for the CCC.

Two women and one men's lowerclassmen trio of jumpers will participate in their respective triple jump events, with Bell entering the women's event seeded sixth and sophomore Jackson Cook in eighth for the men while Smith is positioned in eleventh behind Bell.

Throws

The Warrior throwers will once again look to put All-Conference marks on the board with their robust representatives in southern Oregon this week, with senior Gabrielle Tata-Rodrigues looking to go out on top of the conference hurlers and possibly a bid for nationals in the final CCC meet of her storied Corban career. She'll enter the women's discus throw where she has earned All-Conference honors already as the third overall seed, along with a sixth-overall seed in the women's hammer throw. Joining Tata-Rodrigues in the discus will be freshman Emily Escobar Sosa who is seeded in eighteenth, while the men's lone discus participant will be represented by sophomore Aden Dardis who holds a top ten seeding of ninth.

In the men's hammer throw, Dardis is joined by true freshman Caleb Jannsen who holds the seventh-best mark entering conference competition. The women's shot put will feature just a single Warrior in 2025, as sophomore Malena Robnett is seeded twelfth heading into Saturday's CCC event.

Finally, four different javelin throwers with a pair on both the men's and women's sidelines hold impressive entry marks and will attempt to climb the leaderboards, starting in the women's event where senior Keelyn O'Reilly enters with a top three seed while junior Madelynn Straus will return from injury to best her career mark on the conference stage. Meanwhile, redshirt junior Anthony Salisbury and freshman Caleb Jannsen enter the men's event seeded sixth and seventh, respectively, with 0.25 meters separating their season-best tosses.

All live results for each event will be made available by AthleticTiming and can be accessed by clicking HERE.

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