Amazing performance Courtney Weation at the NCAA Outdoor Athletics Championships last weekend It reminded me of something special happening under my coach in the BYU Women’s Athletics / Cross Country Program. Dirgito Taylor..
BYU has won national individual or team titles in cross-country, indoor and outdoor tracks at the last six NCAA Championship events.
Here’s what happened in the last two years:
2021 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship
Wayment teamed up with Alena, Lauren Ellsworth and Olivia Simister to win the second fastest distance medley relay in college history. 24 hours later Wayment returned to win a 3,000-meter run.. Cougars finished seventh in the team tournament. All 29 points of the team were from long and medium range events. Two days later, Cougars entered the NCAA Cross Country Championship with a completely different team …
2020 NCAA Cross Country Championship (postponed to March 2021)
Due to the pandemic, the 2020 NCAA Cross Country Championship has been postponed. It was someone’s great idea to reschedule just two days after the indoor track championship. Cougars had the depth to create two separate teams. One for track competitions and the other for cross-country competitions (none of the scorers on the track championship teams remained cross-country qualifications). All of that made what happened next even more impressive. Cougars routed the field at the NCAA Cross Country Championship and won the team title.. They finished 65 points earlier than their closest rivals and with the largest margin since 2012. Scores: BYU 96, North Carolina 161, Stanford 207. Top 41— Anna camp 11th, Aubrey Frenteway 15th, Witni Orton 17th, Sarah Masselman 33rd, McKenna Lee 41st. This was followed by a second-place finish at the 2019 Cross-Country Championships by almost completely different teams, again demonstrating the depth of the program.
2021 NCAA Outdoor Athletics Championships
A camp that wasn’t on anyone’s pre-race favorites list, Won 1,500 meters of run, claims BYU’s first outdoor championship since Nasher Stewart won the 800-meter run in 2012. Camp, a small senior in Fillmore, Utah, was timed at 4: 08.53. In 3 days. Supported by performances at long and medium distance events, Cougars finished 10th in the team’s ranking. The camp signed an expert contract after the tournament.
2021 NCAA Cross Country Championship
Orton, a senior in another small Utah town, Panguitch, set the second fastest time in the history of the NCAA cross-country competition. Win an individual championship, 19: 25.4 (5: 12.5 per mile on average) covers a 6,000 meter (3.7 mile) course of wooded hills. She defeated the next two finishers, Mercy Chelangat from Alabama, and her undefeated pre-race favorite Ceili McCabe from West Virginia in four seconds. Orton is BYU’s first female cross-country champion. Her victory helped BYU finish second in the team tournament. Orton signed a professional contract after the race.
2022 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship
Weiment defeated North Carolina State University’s Caitlin Taoi with a runner-up and a former high school sensation, winning a 5,000-meter run and winning his third national championship. Claire Solmare finished second in 800 and Cougars finished eighth in the team tournament.
2022 NCAA Outdoor Athletics Championships
Weiment took the puck and ran three laps in a 3,000-meter obstacle course, then soared, and everyone dared to chase her. No one did.she I won the race in just over 9 seconds Then, at 9: 16.00, he broke the university record in 8 seconds. It also made her the fifth fastest American, college or professional ever. The Cougars, who finished 1st from Ashton Reiner in a javelin throw, finished 10th in the team race... Weiment secured her fourth national championship in her last college race. She turns professional this week.
BYU javelin thrower Ashton Reiner will be competing in the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Athletics Championships last week in Eugene, Oregon. She was the first to move up in the event.
Please consider this. Over the last six years, BYU athletes have collected 82 US 1st and 2nd Team Certificates in athletics. 58 of them are distance and medium range runners. In the last six years, before Taylor arrived at BYU in the fall of 2016, Cougars collected 17 such certificates. Cross-country has 13 Americans since 2016. There have been two in the last nine years.
From 2006 to 2015, BYU’s best finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championship was 19th, and he couldn’t even qualify for the national championship four times. In the last three championships, they finished second, first and second. The same is true for indoor and outdoor track championships.
The BYU woman rewrote the record book. Since 2017, they have claimed four of the top six schools at 800, five of the top seven at 1,500, the top two in obstacle races, and the top three at 5,000. They set school records at 1,500 outdoors (several times), obstacle races (several times), 5,000 (several times), distance medley relays, 4 x 800 relays, and indoors 800, miles, 3,000, 5,000. .. And distance medley relay.
“I feel like I’ve done exactly what I’ve come here,” says Taylor. “Especially with the three people who pursue their dreams and run professionally …. What I’m most proud of is that we did it the right way. That is, we set a new record while raising women. It must be more than a success in sports. These women have learned the meaning of growing up and inspiring the next generation. “
After graduating from Camp, Orton and Wayment, the next generation will be Jenna Hutchins, Carmen Alder, Megan Hunter, Lexie Halladay, freshmen Taylor Rohtinsky and Riley Chamberlain. Taylor is tested when she attempts her first actual reconstruction project.
“I don’t know who will step up, but we need to rebuild,” she says. “It’s amazing to me that in the last six championships, every championship has a personal title (or) a team title. So, yeah, it’s time to rebuild.”
Recent BYU long-distance running national champion
Courtney Weation — Obstacle Course — 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championship
Courtney Weation — 5,000 meters — 2022 NCAA Indoor Championship
Whittni Orton — Cross Country — 2021 NCAA Cross Country Championship
Anna Camp — 1,500 meters — 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championship
Ellsworth-Ellsworth — Distance Medley — 2021 NCAA Indoor Championship
Simister-Wayment — Distance Medley — 2021 NCAA Indoor Championship
Courtney Weation — 3,000 meters — 2021 NCAA Indoor Championship
BYU Team — Team Championship — 2020NCAA Cross Country Championship
BYU Women’s Athletics Coach Dilgit Taylor hugs Courtney Weation after first finishing an obstacle course at the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon last week.
