Pictured: redshirt senior Kayla Morgan (left) and junior Braydon Lee (front right)

Men's Track and Field 5/19/2026 10:00:00 AM Clayton Messerle, Assistant Athletic Director

NAIA National Championships Preview – Five Warriors Eye Individual National Titles

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The Corban University Men's and Women's Track & Field programs will send the most student-athletes to the 2026 NAIA National Outdoor Track & Field Championships in a number of years this upcoming week, as five individuals are scheduled to participate in seven different events and contend for team points, top ten finishes, personal best marks, and All-American honors against the best competition the NAIA has to offer. This represents the first year the NAIA will host the outdoor national championships at Karl Straus Track in western North Carolina on the campus of NCAA DII University of North Carolina Asheville.

"We head to Asheville with the largest group of student-athletes in quite some time for our programs," explained Corban head coach Todd Bos when asked to discuss his upcoming national meet appearance for the Warriors. "Jack has the best qualifying time in the 10k, while Oli, Kayla, and Braydon all have qualifying marks in their respective event top ten. Additionally, it's special to have Anthony qualify in the javelin in his final season. He has been the heart and soul of our programs in his five years at Corban, and to see him qualify for the national meet was certainly a highlight for the year. We have a great opportunity to bring home several All-American honors this spring."

Bos closed out his thoughts by stating, "As always, we would be remiss not to thank the Lord for the talent and desire He has placed in our student-athletes. We pray our efforts at nationals may bring glory to Him and Corban University."

To view the complete three-day meet schedule, click HERE.

To view the meet qualifiers competing in each of the NAIA national championship events, click HERE.

The first Warrior to hit the track in western North Carolina will be junior Braydon Lee, who will need to qualify for the men's 1,500m finals with a top preliminary time on Wednesday afternoon. The prelims are scheduled to begin at 4:10pm ET/1:10pm PT, as he enters the event with the final A-standard qualification (3:48.81) that slates him into the 13th ranked slot among the 21 total national qualifiers.

Redshirt senior Anthony Salisbury will compete in the men's javelin throw just twenty minutes after Lee's prelims begin on Wednesday, entering the event as a top 20 qualifier thanks to his 59.70m B-standard he hit in the 2026 CCC Multi-Event Championships earlier last month. He represents the first Warrior to qualify in the event since 2023 when both Evan Olson and Collin Warmouth qualified for the national meet.

The final Wednesday competitor for the Navy and Gold will be junior Jack Gladfelter in the men's 10,000m finals, as he will enter the national meet as the event favorite thanks to an NAIA-leading 29:43.18 personal best time he ran at the 2026 Bryan Clay Invitational on April 16th. In an absolutely stacked 18-man event, Gladfelter will contend with the reigning event national champion in Luca Madeo from the University of the Cumberlands, whose personal best time heading into this year's championship meet is just three seconds behind Gladfelter. Additionally, three more runners, including Mason Weisgerber from Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) member Southern Oregon University, have eclipsed the sub 30-minute mark this year and will hold an equally matched opportunity alongside Gladfelter to dethrone Madeo.

Only one Warrior will compete among Thursday's scheduled events, as sophomore Oliver Reis kicks off his first of two events at the national championship meet with the men's long jump at 12pm ET/9am PT. He utilized his very last attempt of the season to qualify after swooping in last second to claim the CCC individual title in the event last week, and will represent the No. 10-overall seed among the 19 jumpers that qualified thanks to his 7.50m A-standard mark.

Reis will also begin the final day of competition for Corban track & field, as he'll enter the men's triple jump with a top-five mark at 15.45m that allowed him to sweep the horizontal jumps at the CCC Championships. He'll look to earn a second All-American honor in either event after claiming eighth place nationally in the long jump this past indoor season.

Corban's lone female competitor at the 2026 national championships, redshirt senior Kayla Morgan, is making her sixth career appearance at a national meet in the women's high jump after claiming a third-straight CCC title in the event last weekend. She'll look to add yet another All-American honor to her trophy case while contending for her first national championship at 2pm ET/11am PT as one of four jumpers entering at a 1.73m season-best mark.

Finally, Gladfelter will make his second appearance of the week and final for a Corban student-athlete in the 2025-26 school year at 4:35pm ET/1:35pm PT in the men's 5,000m final, where he enters the national field with the 13th fastest time thus far after having only ran the event once this season. Primarily focused on the 10k this season, Gladfelter ran a 14:31.60 at the OSU High Performance meet on the first day of May to qualify for the national meet in his first and only attempt.

The NAIA will offer separate livestreams for several events across the 2026 national championship three-day meet, which will be available free-to-view on both the Urban Edge Network (UEN) and NAIA Network. Live results will be made available online by SnapTiming by clicking HERE.