TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama track and field program will have 20 entries at next week’s NCAA Outdoor Track and Field National Championships, held June 11-14, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.

The Crimson Tide will be represented at next week’s national meet by 20 student-athletes. The UA women have nine student-athletes listed in nine entries, while 11 student-athletes represent the men’s team in 11 entries, including the 4×400-meter relay.

Marks to Know

• Collegiate record-holder and reigning steeplechase national champion Doris Lemngole returns to Hayward Field, alongside UA teammate Ezekiel Pitireng
• The Crimson Tide is one of two Southeastern Conference programs with student-athletes competing in both the men’s and women’s steeplechase prelims
• Katelyn Adel is Alabama’s first student-athlete to compete in the women’s heptathlon at the national meet since Kaylon Eppinger in 2012 who garnered honorable mention All-America honors
• Additionally, Adel is one of two freshmen in the heptathlon to medal at the 2025 SEC Championships
• Samuel Ogazi is the only 400-meter runner that advanced to the NCAA Championships to have earned a spot in last year’s Paris Olympics, where he finished as an Olympic finalist representing Nigeria
• Mariia Horielova is the only underclassman in women’s long jump that medaled at the 2025 SEC Championships
• Precious Nzeakor is one of only two SEC freshmen running in the women’s 200-meter prelims
• The Crimson Tide is the only program, nationally, to have two student-athletes competing in both the men’s and women’s shot put
  
• Alabama is the only school at the national meet with three student-athletes listed in both the 10,000m and the discus event finals
  

UA Women | Nine entries, Nine student-athletes

UA Men | 11 entries, 11 student-athletes