(Tempe, AZ) It’s been a long season, and it’s all built up to this week. Sun Devil Track and Field, led by head coach Dion Miller, will be represented in 11 events at this week’s NCAA Track and Field Championships. Competition runs June 7-10 at Texas’ Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas. Full NCAA Championships info is available here, including watch links (ESPN networks), the daily schedules, and live results.
NCAA Championships Full Info
ASU Record Books
ASU Outdoor National Champions
Women’s Outdoor All-Americans
Men’s Outdoor All-Americans
For the third consecutive year ASU will send 11 qualifiers to the NCAA final site. Four-time national champion Turner Washington is back chasing gold, while several Devils are making their national meet debuts. Individually, Sevanna Hanson (pole vault), Grace Campbell (high jump), and Christina Warren (triple jump) are all going to the final site for the first time in their careers. ASU’s 4×400 took fourth at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships, but the 4×100 hasn’t qualified for either the indoor or outdoor meet since the 2016 outdoor season when they finished eighth in 39.90.
2023 ASU NCAA Qualifiers (name, qualifying place, mark)
Men
200m – Jeremiah Curry, 10th, 20.50
400m – Justin Robinson, 1st, 44.65 – No. 3 in ASU history
400m – Dubem Nwachukwu, 5th, 45.35
400m – Gamali Felix, 8th, 45.55
Shot put – Turner Washington, 1st, 20.99m/68-10.5
Discus – Turner Washington, 3rd, 63.48m/208-3
4×100 – Jalen Drayden, Jeremiah Curry, Trevin Moyer, Garrett Shedrick – 8th, 39.21
4×400 – Justin Robinson, Dubem Nwachukwu, Trevin Moyer, Gamali Felix – 2nd, 3:02.62
Women
Pole vault – Sevanna Hanson, 6th, 4.22m/13-10
Triple jump – Christina Warren, 8th, 13.35m/43-9.75 – program record
High jump – Grace Campbell, 7th, 1.82m/5-11.5
Season Highlights
Climbing the Record Books
ASU has had a great year, especially in the last few weeks. Thirteen record book updates have been made so far this season, including three program records being broken by Jeremiah Curry (200m), Adriana Tatum (200m) and Christina Warren (triple jump). Tatum didn’t qualify for the national meet, but Warren is coming off back-to-back record breaking meets (Pac-12 Championships and West Regionals) and Curry is showing no signs of slowing. Grace Campbell also had a phenomenal year. The second-year transfer set personal records in the high jump for four consecutive meets and now sits third all-time in ASU history at 1.84m/6-0.50.
Pac-12 Championships
ASU earned two conference titles and seven total medals at the Pac-12 Championships this year. Grace Campbell won the women’s high jump by two inches, earning ASU’s first HJ gold medal since 2004. The men’s 4×400 also claimed gold, running 3:01.57 to get the program’s first 4×400 crown since 2014.
400m Dominance
Justin Robinson, Dubem Nwachukwu and Gamali Felix are officially on the nation’s radar. Robinson and Nwachukwu both ran sub-45 seconds during the regular season, hitting 44.65 and 44.91, respectively. Prior to the various conference championships, ASU was the only program in the country to have two runners under 45 seconds. Heading into nationals, the trio of runners match only Florida for programs sending three 400m runners to the final site.
Press Release courtesy of Sun Devil Athletics – Will Edmonds
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