Indoor Track and Field

2025 KCAC Indoor Track & Field Championships — Event Recap

WICHITA, Kan. — The 2025 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) Indoor Track & Field Championships took place Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February 15, hosted by the College of Saint Mary and the Omaha Sports Commission in Omaha, Neb. The following is a meet recap written by meet announcer and long-time contributor to the KCAC, Carol Swenson.
 

2025 KCAC Indoor Track & Field Championships — Event Recap
by Carol R Swenson, Meet Announcer

 

The 2025 KCAC Indoor Track & Field Championships returned again to Lied Fitness Center Fieldhouse on the campus of the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska, and again the athletes of the KCAC found the 200m flat track to their liking as they set seven new indoor conference meet records (five on the women's side; two on the men's) and posted 36 NAIA national championships qualifying marks (23 on the women's side; 13 on the men's) over the two days of competition.  Women accounted for five of the new Indoor Meet records, establishing new records in the 60m Dash, 1,000m and 5,000m Runs, High Jump and Pole Vault, while the men’s records were set in the 200m Dash and 60m Hurdles.

The University of Saint Mary women ran away with their third straight team title, topping Evangel University by a score of 198.5 to 138.5, their 60-point margin the largest difference between first and second since 2020.  The battle for the men’s championship banner was predicted to be a four-team race, and it saw Friends build a solid first day lead winning the 4x800m Relay, pole vault, and long jump with multiple scorers in both field events.  However, the Falcons couldn’t hold off the balanced Coyote squad as Kansas Wesleyan won its first ever KCAC Indoor Track & Field title (141 to 128.5) while Saint Mary's men edged Evangel for third (123.5 to 114).

Winners of multiple individual event titles included Gretchen Raney (Saint Mary), winning the 60m and 200m, Autumn Nold (Evangel), the 400m and 600m, and Carly Holadia (Saint Mary), the 1,000m and 1-Mile Runs.  On the men’s side, multiple individual event champions were Devyn Wright (Evangel), winner of the 200m and 400m Dashes, and Tommy Baker (Saint Mary), winning the 1-Mile and 3,000m Runs.

Vance Shewey (Tabor) became the first man in KCAC Indoor history to win three titles in the High Jump.  Reagan Hiebert (Saint Mary) won her second title in the 5,000m, while Aaliyah Ramirez (Friends) won a second title in the Pole Vault.  Luis Perez and Tommy Baker (Saint Mary) won their second championship in the 800m and 1-Mile Runs, respectively.  The Saint Mary women won the 4x800m Relay for the sixth straight year, while Kansas Wesleyan’s men won the 4x800m Relay for a third straight time.  The Ottawa women picked up a second straight title in the 4x400m Relay.
 



New KCAC meet records set were:
 

Women

  • 60m Dash: 7.60 by Gretchen Raney (Saint Mary) in the preliminaries bettering the old record of 7.61 set first by Raney in the preliminaries, then tied by Delaney Weimer (Evangel) in the finals in 2024.
  • 1,000m Run: 2:59.41 by Carly Holadia (Saint Mary) bettering the 3:00.06 set by Madisyn Ehrlich (Kansas Wesleyan) in 2024.
  • 5,000m Run: 17:43.64 by Reagan Hiebert (Saint Mary) bettering the 17:43.64 by Kaitlyn Shoemaker (Saint Mary) in 2019 on a 300m track and the 17:44.47 by Reagan Hiebert (Saint Mary) run on a 200m track in 2024.
  • High Jump: 1.76m/5’9.25” by Delaney Miller (Evangel) bettering the 1.75m/5’8.75” by Chelsea Baker (Friends) in 2018.
  • Pole Vault: 3.60m/11’9.75” by Aaliyah Ramirez (Friends) bettering the 3.42m/11’2.5” by Gabrielle Moore (Saint Mary) in 2022.

Men

  • 200m Run: 21.48 in the preliminaries by Devyn Wright (Evangel) bettering the old record of 21.69 by Mason Held (York) set on a 300m track in 2019 and 21.74 by Corey Lyons (Saint Mary) on a 200m track in 2022.
  • 60m Hurdles: 7.98 in the preliminaries by Rinaldo Moore (McPherson) besting the old record of 8.03 by Marcquiece Cade (Friends) set in2022.



TEAM SCORES
 

Women

  1. Saint Mary 198.5
  2. Evangel 138.5
  3. Friends 88
  4. Ottawa 80.5
  5. Kansas Wesleyan 70
  6. York 48
  7. McPherson 39
  8. Tabor 38
  9. Bethel 26
  10. Southwestern 8
  11. Bethany 4.5
  12. Oklahoma Wesleyan 1

Men
       
1. Kansas Wesleyan 141
       2. Friends 128.5
       3. Saint Mary 123.5
       4. Evangel 114
       5. McPherson 65.5
       6. Ottawa 48.5
       7. Sterling 36
       8. Tabor 31
       9. York 21
       T10. Bethany 12
       T10. Bethel 12
       12. Southwestern 8

 

Individual Awards
 

Athlete of the Meet:

  • Women – Jordyn Weems (Ottawa)
  • Men – Devyn Wright (Evangel)

Field Events Athlete of the Meet:

  • Women – April Phillips (Evangel) 2nd straight year
  • Men – Charles Jones (Sterling)

Track Events Athlete of the Meet:

  • Women – Josie Tyrrell (Saint Mary)
  • Men – Devyn Wright (Evangel)

Coach of the Year:

  • Women – Alstin Benton (Saint Mary)
  • Men – Kyle Hiser (Kansas Wesleyan)

Assistant Coach of the Year:

  • Women – Joshua Saak (Evangel) 2nd straight year
  • Men – Garrett Young (Kansas Wesleyan)

Complete results can be found at Heartland Timing  https://milesplit.live/meets/659157 or 2025 KCAC Indoor Track and Field Championships Full Results (PDF) - Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.
 


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