ASHLAND, Ore. – Following the first day of events at the 2025 Cascade Collegiate Conference Track & Field Championships, the Corban University Men's and Women's Track & Field programs sit in fourth and eighth overall, respectively, with roughly half of the events still scheduled for Championship Saturday throughout tomorrow morning and into the afternoon sessions.

"Some great days for the Warrior track team," began Warriors' head coach Todd Bos. "We had lots of good performances and placing higher than we were expected to. Lord willing, tomorrow will be more of the same, but our student-athletes will need to stay focused and trust their training. I'm very thankful to God for this team!"

To view the current results of the 2025 CCC Championships with day one now completed, click HERE.

The first of three All-Conference award winners for the Corban track & field programs throughout Friday's conference clash came in the men's 1,500m race, as sophomore Braydon Lee turned in a 3:53.06 final time to place third overall and less than a second behind the event individual champion. Lee now adds an All-Conference honor to his trophy case after finishing the 2024 season as the Warriors' first All-American indoor competitor.

Joining Lee on the All-Conference podium in his first season of collegiate competition was true freshman Aaden Ackley in the men's 110m hurdle race, as the Salem native rose to the occasion and sprinted to a new personal best 15.66 final time and crossed the finish line as the conference runner-up less than two tenths of a second behind the event winner.

Finally in the last event of the day, sophomore Jack Gladfelter endured the longest track event of the weekend, the men's 10,000m race, securing the runner-up placement with a time of 30:59.80 for the first All-Conference track honor of his career to pair with his two All-Conference finishes in the 2023 and 2024 fall cross country seasons as well.

Two Warriors finished just outside the top three of their respective events to clinch top five finishes, as senior Gabrielle Tata-Rodrigues and junior DJ Armstead both secured fourth place finishes in the women's hammer throw and men's 400m race, respectively, outperforming their original seeding via personal records with Tata-Rodrigues launching the rock 50.02m while Armstead broke the 49-second mark once again at 48.77. Both will have redemption opportunities tomorrow for All-Conference honors, as Tata-Rodrigues will take on the women's discus where she is seeded second overall while Armstead competes in both the 100m and 4x400m races.

Armstead also served as the anchor in today's 4x100m relay race that set a season-best 42.18 final time to place fourth amid the eight-team conference heat and just over a second off the CCC's fastest squad from Lewis-Clark State College. Joining Armstead on the 4x100m relay team today was Ackley, sophomore Benjamin Krebs, and senior Will Maupin.

Rounding out the top ten finishers in their respective events for the Navy and Gold was redshirt junior Anthony Salisbury (fifth in men's javelin – 52.55m), freshman Caleb Jannsen (sixth in men's javelin – personal best 52.35m), redshirt junior Kayla Morgan (seventh in women's 100m hurdles – 15.93), senior Leah Nastri (eighth in women's pole vault – 2.95m), freshman Bennet Mason (eighth in men's 10,000m – 32:35.81), sophomore Shaelee Killorn (ninth in women's 1,500m – 4:55.46), and sophomore David McCormick (tenth in men's 110m hurdles – personal best 16.62). Adding to the plenty of personal best marks today by the Warriors was freshman Haley Kline in the women's 400m with a time of 1:01.89.

The women's 4x100m relay team consisting of sophomore Sara Richardson, freshman Julianna Bell, freshman Sadie Smith, and senior Leah Nastri also placed fifth overall. Additionally, the men's 4x800m relay squad, which is ran as an exhibition race purely for national qualifying marks and no team standing implications, placed second thanks to the long distance running of sophomore Luke DeVault, freshman Jacob McKinnon, freshman Bodie Strom, and freshman Julius Pokorny.

A majority of today's Corban competitors will be back in action during tomorrow's final day at Raider Stadium, with a handful of other Warriors preparing for their first events of the weekend. First field events of the day will begin at 10:30am following the graduation ceremony for the student-athletes unable to attend their own school commencement services, with track events beginning at 1:30pm.

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