Saturday, June 14
Eugene, OR
3:30 PM
University of Washington
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NCAA Outdoor Championships
O’Sullivan’s Title Leads Huskies To Historic Fourth
June 14, 2025 | Track & Field
EUGENE, Ore. – Washington Director of Track & Field Maurica Powell officially has some magic numbers: 4 and 31. At the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, the Husky women's team scored a record 31 points to place fourth overall. Today, the women once again finished with 31 points, and again finished fourth in the nation, grabbing their second team trophy in program history, both coming in the same season.
Washington's charge was led by Sophie O'Sullivan's absolutely dominant win in the women's 1,500-meter final, as a Husky won an NCAA title for the third day in a row.
Thursday it was Hana Moll claiming the pole vault in an NCAA Outdoor Record of 15-8 1/2. Friday, Nathan Green won UW's fourth-straight men's 1,500-meter title in a thrilling lunge across the line. And today, O'Sullivan just pulled farther and farther away on the final lap, leaving one of the deepest women's 1,500m fields ever in her wake, as she won by more than second in a time of 4:07.94.
O'Sullivan's confirming breakthrough win came after 2024 and 2023 NCAA Outdoor finals where she finished last each time. Talking to the media after her win, the Irish Olympian said "They say if you're not first, you're last, but I guess it works the other way that if you're not last, you're first."
The 10 points from O'Sullivan's win were added to the 16 points scored on Thursday by Hana and Amanda Moll in the pole vault. Then the Dawgs received another scrappy five points from the trio of Chloe Foerster, Sofia Cosculluela, and Amina Maatoug to reach their 31 point total.
Foerster finished eighth in the 1,500-meter final to snag a point. Cosculluela went from 14th to 6th over the final two events of the women's heptathlon to score three points. And Maatoug fought through a thrilling and chaotic final lap of the 5,000-meters to finish eighth and get the last point of the night.
Georgia ran away with the team title with 73 points, with USC second with 47 points, and Texas A&M in third with 43. The Huskies were fourth with 31, ahead of fifth-place Illinois (29.5 points), sixth-place Stanford (29), seventh-place South Carolina (28), eighth-place Arkansas (26), ninth-place New Mexico (25), and Oregon and Texas in a tie for 10th with 23 points.
"We had a lot of people in finals today, and it's a big job to get people in finals so you have an opportunity to make things happen," said Maurica Powell. "Sophie obviously was incredible, and it kicked off the day for everyone to keep scrapping and scraping for every point they could get. Hana and Amanda were phenomenal on day one, Sophie knocked it out of the park in the 1,500, and then Chloe, Sofia, and Amina just dug for every step, and that was the difference maker. We had some heavy hitters, and then we had some clutch, last-meter dives that solidified it for us.
"We didn't have a ton of bullets. We come in against these big SEC schools with a different kind of lineup, and we've got to hit in a different way at these big meets. It was just really impressive what they put together, indoors and now outdoors.
Distance Dawgs Shine On Biggest Stage
O'Sullivan and Foerster opened things up on the track in O'Sullivan's third shot at the 1,500m final, and Foerster's first. Unlike all the rounds leading up to the final, another runner asserted themselves ahead of O'Sullivan, as Virginia Tech's Lindsey Butler ran to the early lead, but O'Sullivan was sitting right behind in second.
O'Sullivan then moved into the front with a lap and a half to go, with Foerster at the back of the pack but still in contact. Gradually all runners tried to bunch up to the front to get ready for a big final lap, but O'Sullivan calmly kept motoring on the rail at the front. On the final lap, she dropped the hammer and no runner was able to match her acceleration. The gap grew around the second to last turn, and the Paris Olympian came flying down the homestretch with daylight behind her.
She crossed with a huge smile and halfway shrug, winning in 4:07.94 after a 58.43-second final 400-meters, which was more than half a second faster than the next quickest closer in the field.
Foerster moved up to grab eighth overall in 4:11.03, just .01 seconds ahead of ninth.
Next came the steeplechase final with senior Maggie Liebich running the first NCAA final of her career. Liebich was mid-pack for much of the race, but slipped a few places late and wound up 10th overall, just a couple spots off the podium, in a time of 9:50.77. She earns All-America Second Team honors, after only just moving to the event at the start of May.
Maatoug and Julia David-Smith brought things to a finish for the Huskies in the 5k. Maatoug, doubling back from the 1,500-meter semis on Thursday, stayed in the midst of a main pack that stayed very large until very late in the race. The final few laps as the speed increased were extremely jumbled and chaotic but Maatoug continued to navigate and went into full sprint mode over the last 300-meters. Down the final homestretch she was digging hard for sixth, but got just edged out by two women at the finish that knocked her to eighth, but still earning First Team All-America honors for the third time this year after her two podium finishes indoors.
Maatoug finished in 15:35.93, becoming the first Husky woman to score in the 5,000-meters at NCAAs since Amy-Eloise Neale in 2018.
David-Smith made her individual NCAA Championships debut tonight and finished top-20 overall. She earned All-America honorable mention with a 19th-place finish in 15:59.27.
Cosculluela Shines Down The Stretch To Score
Sofia Cosculluela came into the second day of the heptathlon in 15th-place overall. She opened up in the long jump getting a best on her first attempt of 19-6 3/4 which was ninth overall in that event. That moved her up one spot overall to 14th-place.
Things took a huge positive turn in the sixth event, the javelin, as Cosculluela unleashed a 14-foot PR on her third and final attempt. Already one of the higher-ranked javelin throwers in the field, she went from a best on her first two attempts of 143-feet, out to 160-8 on her final throw.
Suddenly all the way up to sixth, Cosculluela had to try and defend that spot in the final 800-meters. She dug deep and came through in a time of 2:23.14, and maintained her sixth-place finish, finishing with a two-day total of 5,856 points. That was just three points ahead of seventh and 22 points ahead of eight, and conversely just 19 points shy of fifth-place overall.
She earns First Team All-America honors with the best finish by a Husky in the event since Ida Eikeng was NCAA runner-up in 2022.
Washington Results – NCAA Outdoor Championships
Eugene, Ore. | Hayward Field
Day 4 of 4 (Women's Events)
Women's 1,500m, Final
1. Sophie O'Sullivan, 4:07.94 (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
8. Chloe Foerster, 4:11.03 (All-America First Team)
Women's 5,000m, Final
8. Amina Maatoug, 15:35.93 (All-America First Team)
19. Julia David-Smith, 15:59.27 (All-America Honorable Mention)
Women's 3,000m Steeplechase, Final
10. Maggie Liebich, 9:50.77 (All-America Second Team)
Women's Heptathlon
Day One
Event 1 | 100m Hurdles: 3. Sofia Cosculluela, 13.48 (3rd overall in points)
Event 2 | High Jump: tie-20. Sofia Cosculluela, 5-3 (15th overall in points)
Event 3 | Shot Put: 10. Sofia Cosculluela, 41-7 3/4 (12th overall in points)
Event 4 | 200m: 17. Sofia Cosculluela, 24.83
Day One Total: 15. Sofia Cosculluela, 3,398 points
Day Two
Event 5 | Long Jump: 9. Sofia Cosculluela, 19-6 3/4
Event 6 | Javelin: 1. Sofia Cosculluela, 160-8
Event 7 | 800m: 19. Sofia Cosculluela, 2:23.14
Final Standing: 6. Sofia Cosculluela, 5,856 (All-America First Team)
Washington's charge was led by Sophie O'Sullivan's absolutely dominant win in the women's 1,500-meter final, as a Husky won an NCAA title for the third day in a row.
Thursday it was Hana Moll claiming the pole vault in an NCAA Outdoor Record of 15-8 1/2. Friday, Nathan Green won UW's fourth-straight men's 1,500-meter title in a thrilling lunge across the line. And today, O'Sullivan just pulled farther and farther away on the final lap, leaving one of the deepest women's 1,500m fields ever in her wake, as she won by more than second in a time of 4:07.94.
Bow Down!!! ???
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) June 15, 2025
Sophie O'Sullivan DOMINATES to become the first UW woman to win a running event at NCAAs since Katie Flood also won the 1500m in 2012. #MileCity pic.twitter.com/9t9cQYGLRe
O'Sullivan's confirming breakthrough win came after 2024 and 2023 NCAA Outdoor finals where she finished last each time. Talking to the media after her win, the Irish Olympian said "They say if you're not first, you're last, but I guess it works the other way that if you're not last, you're first."
- The brilliant display from O'Sullivan was the first national title for a Husky woman in a running event since Katie Flood also won the 1,500-meters in 2012.
- Washington also became just the second program to sweep the men's and women's NCAA titles at 1,500-meters, joining Oregon, which did it back in 1984.
- This is the first time in Washington school history that the program has won three individual titles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Two titles in one meet had been done seven times before, first all the way back in 1921, and most recently in 2006.
- Washington's previous best team finish was 8th back in 2012, and they surpassed the program's points high of 26 set back in 1988.
The 10 points from O'Sullivan's win were added to the 16 points scored on Thursday by Hana and Amanda Moll in the pole vault. Then the Dawgs received another scrappy five points from the trio of Chloe Foerster, Sofia Cosculluela, and Amina Maatoug to reach their 31 point total.
Foerster finished eighth in the 1,500-meter final to snag a point. Cosculluela went from 14th to 6th over the final two events of the women's heptathlon to score three points. And Maatoug fought through a thrilling and chaotic final lap of the 5,000-meters to finish eighth and get the last point of the night.
Women's 1500m National Champion
— NCAA Track & Field (@NCAATrackField) June 15, 2025
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Georgia ran away with the team title with 73 points, with USC second with 47 points, and Texas A&M in third with 43. The Huskies were fourth with 31, ahead of fifth-place Illinois (29.5 points), sixth-place Stanford (29), seventh-place South Carolina (28), eighth-place Arkansas (26), ninth-place New Mexico (25), and Oregon and Texas in a tie for 10th with 23 points.
"We had a lot of people in finals today, and it's a big job to get people in finals so you have an opportunity to make things happen," said Maurica Powell. "Sophie obviously was incredible, and it kicked off the day for everyone to keep scrapping and scraping for every point they could get. Hana and Amanda were phenomenal on day one, Sophie knocked it out of the park in the 1,500, and then Chloe, Sofia, and Amina just dug for every step, and that was the difference maker. We had some heavy hitters, and then we had some clutch, last-meter dives that solidified it for us.
"We didn't have a ton of bullets. We come in against these big SEC schools with a different kind of lineup, and we've got to hit in a different way at these big meets. It was just really impressive what they put together, indoors and now outdoors.
Distance Dawgs Shine On Biggest Stage
O'Sullivan and Foerster opened things up on the track in O'Sullivan's third shot at the 1,500m final, and Foerster's first. Unlike all the rounds leading up to the final, another runner asserted themselves ahead of O'Sullivan, as Virginia Tech's Lindsey Butler ran to the early lead, but O'Sullivan was sitting right behind in second.
O'Sullivan then moved into the front with a lap and a half to go, with Foerster at the back of the pack but still in contact. Gradually all runners tried to bunch up to the front to get ready for a big final lap, but O'Sullivan calmly kept motoring on the rail at the front. On the final lap, she dropped the hammer and no runner was able to match her acceleration. The gap grew around the second to last turn, and the Paris Olympian came flying down the homestretch with daylight behind her.
She crossed with a huge smile and halfway shrug, winning in 4:07.94 after a 58.43-second final 400-meters, which was more than half a second faster than the next quickest closer in the field.
Foerster moved up to grab eighth overall in 4:11.03, just .01 seconds ahead of ninth.
Next came the steeplechase final with senior Maggie Liebich running the first NCAA final of her career. Liebich was mid-pack for much of the race, but slipped a few places late and wound up 10th overall, just a couple spots off the podium, in a time of 9:50.77. She earns All-America Second Team honors, after only just moving to the event at the start of May.
Maatoug and Julia David-Smith brought things to a finish for the Huskies in the 5k. Maatoug, doubling back from the 1,500-meter semis on Thursday, stayed in the midst of a main pack that stayed very large until very late in the race. The final few laps as the speed increased were extremely jumbled and chaotic but Maatoug continued to navigate and went into full sprint mode over the last 300-meters. Down the final homestretch she was digging hard for sixth, but got just edged out by two women at the finish that knocked her to eighth, but still earning First Team All-America honors for the third time this year after her two podium finishes indoors.
Maatoug finished in 15:35.93, becoming the first Husky woman to score in the 5,000-meters at NCAAs since Amy-Eloise Neale in 2018.
David-Smith made her individual NCAA Championships debut tonight and finished top-20 overall. She earned All-America honorable mention with a 19th-place finish in 15:59.27.
Cosculluela Shines Down The Stretch To Score
Sofia Cosculluela came into the second day of the heptathlon in 15th-place overall. She opened up in the long jump getting a best on her first attempt of 19-6 3/4 which was ninth overall in that event. That moved her up one spot overall to 14th-place.
Things took a huge positive turn in the sixth event, the javelin, as Cosculluela unleashed a 14-foot PR on her third and final attempt. Already one of the higher-ranked javelin throwers in the field, she went from a best on her first two attempts of 143-feet, out to 160-8 on her final throw.
Suddenly all the way up to sixth, Cosculluela had to try and defend that spot in the final 800-meters. She dug deep and came through in a time of 2:23.14, and maintained her sixth-place finish, finishing with a two-day total of 5,856 points. That was just three points ahead of seventh and 22 points ahead of eight, and conversely just 19 points shy of fifth-place overall.
She earns First Team All-America honors with the best finish by a Husky in the event since Ida Eikeng was NCAA runner-up in 2022.
Washington Results – NCAA Outdoor Championships
Eugene, Ore. | Hayward Field
Day 4 of 4 (Women's Events)
Women's 1,500m, Final
1. Sophie O'Sullivan, 4:07.94 (NCAA Champion; All-America First Team)
8. Chloe Foerster, 4:11.03 (All-America First Team)
Women's 5,000m, Final
8. Amina Maatoug, 15:35.93 (All-America First Team)
19. Julia David-Smith, 15:59.27 (All-America Honorable Mention)
Women's 3,000m Steeplechase, Final
10. Maggie Liebich, 9:50.77 (All-America Second Team)
Women's Heptathlon
Day One
Event 1 | 100m Hurdles: 3. Sofia Cosculluela, 13.48 (3rd overall in points)
Event 2 | High Jump: tie-20. Sofia Cosculluela, 5-3 (15th overall in points)
Event 3 | Shot Put: 10. Sofia Cosculluela, 41-7 3/4 (12th overall in points)
Event 4 | 200m: 17. Sofia Cosculluela, 24.83
Day One Total: 15. Sofia Cosculluela, 3,398 points
Day Two
Event 5 | Long Jump: 9. Sofia Cosculluela, 19-6 3/4
Event 6 | Javelin: 1. Sofia Cosculluela, 160-8
Event 7 | 800m: 19. Sofia Cosculluela, 2:23.14
Final Standing: 6. Sofia Cosculluela, 5,856 (All-America First Team)
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