Official D3 Indoor Nationals Thread (unofficial)

Apparently it’s Franklin College. Sorry! Someone do please spill the beans on women’s long jump. Seems really bizarre!

If they're going to let dopers run, then I think they should let anybody wear whatever shoes they want. Maybe even the playing field by letting the clean athletes wear the overstock shoes.

Nah not even IAAF would let illegal spikes slide, they’d let dopers run though

I don't have specifics on this situation, but I know something similar happened in the men's triple jump at last year's outdoor meet. There were athletes who wore illegal spikes, but passed the spike check. There was initially some thought to put more than 9 athletes in finals, but the officials decided to just treat it as normal. If the athletes passed the spike check, it's on the officials/meet management, not them.

I won’t mention the big case that everyone is talking about. I am rather concerned about the big picture of D3 track with some of precedents being set. D1 is insane and I think will cannibalize itself into most programs just being club and a few super teams from schools that have a multimillion yearly budgets. No ‘spirit of competition,’ win at all costs, and don’t get caught get caught cheating too much.

first it’s on meet mgmt. it seems like Birmingham Southern College was supposed to be hosting this meet but their school up and closed. Leaving a national meet to be run by a conference office and the local municipality is extremely whacky. There’s not a shortage of full-run meet management companies out there.

In this instance I’m baffled that a coach would a) not check their athletes’ spikes before Nationals to double ensure they are compliant, b) not know the rules or ignore them, or c) and most egregiously get caught cheating and then punitively punish the athlete of the coach who noticed your athlete was cheating (intentional or not).

I’m glad I got out to spend more time with family. I don’t think I’d last long in this climate of D3 where a word that rhymes with moping seems okay, kids are transferring multiple times as a D3 athlete, and the rules of competition have been tossed. I was mostly a D1 guy but did have a short time in D3 and it was honestly a great experience (minus the pay). Kids were working hard in school, training hard, and had just a different mentality towards it all. I’m sounding like a “back in my day” guy so I’ll probably sign off and go run.

Good luck to everyone today and beyond!

Why would Clevenger run the race like that? If you were on the fence about him being a tool, trying to lap the whole field should've pushed you over.

Why not just run in the pack and make a semi decisive move over the last 600?

Another big day starting up soon!

In the Hep with 4 out of 7 events scored from yesterday, it looks like Oshkosh is in good position to get some points out of the event if they can perform well in the next 3 events. As of now they have four athletes ranked 7th (Charlie Nolan 5th seed), 8th (Marcus Mittlestadt 14th seed), 9th (Cavan Dobberstein 12th seed), and 13th (Bryce Smith 13th seed) with the current events.

Returning national champion Jacob Balcome of River Falls (1st seed) leads the Heptathlon field with 3039 points, and 8th place is only 195 points behind at 2844.

UWL has two athletes competing with one currently positioned at 10th with 2817 (Nolan Seaberg 8th seed), but it looks like their second athlete (Bryant Yanke 10th seed) wasn't able to get on the board for Long Jump and High Jump which unfortunately might make it impossible to have any chance at recovery.

They stood up there a little too long. Shouldn't have allowed SC the chance to get a photo op with the winners.

Looking at the Hep 60H, 2nd place Kale Hobart from Central College leads the event with a strong 8.13 for 949 points, bringing him 16 points away from current leader Jacob Balcome.

I checked out their PRs for the next two events, Pole Vault & 1000m. Balcome has the stronger PRs with 4.63m and 2:45.1 which could help him build back some ground from Hobart who has PRs of 4.30m and 2:48.5 if they both perform well.

We've also got some upward movement from Oshkosh and UWL.

Oshkosh moves up to 4th, 6th, 9th, and 12th, while UWL moves their top man up from 10th to 7th.

I managed to catch both their names this time around, Will Lear - Pomona College & and Stu Newstat - DePauw University.

8.25 for a D3 record and big lead gap over 2nd from UMass Boston's Aryianna Garceau in the 60H finals!

Cracks her previous record from earlier this month of 8.31

Looks like our national champion for the mens 60H is Eli Etherton from Nebraska Wesleyan in 7.85! He was previously national champion in 2023, seems like a nice way to start and finish an indoor career!

UWL's favorite to win Luke Schroeder falls to a 5th place finish in 7.97, while Rowan's two athletes finish in 3rd (Kwaku Nkrumah) and 4th (Jason Agyemang) to give them 11 points over UWL's 4 points from the event.

Hope the men’s 3k is a good, CLEAN, race

Uh oh? Looks like there might have been some trouble in the 60H, Eli Etherton now shows up on the live results as a DQ, moving Gunner Meyer of Central College to take the win with a 7.89.

Anyone have any boots on the ground insight on what might have happened there? It seems to have thrown off the announcers as well.

Rowan moves up to 2nd and 3rd to pick up 14 points and UWL takes 4th for 5 points out of the event.

Sydney Radigan is our national champion for the womens 60m! 7.52 just slightly over the 7.54 of TCNJ's Lucia Garcia-Beltran, and a real close fight for 3rd place 7.545 vs 7.548.

Little bit of a hiccup there with the false start but it seems like the officials have been pretty lenient this weekend and thankfully letting the runners run in each of these situations.

They gave us a recap on the livestream, it looks like Eli Etherton stepped out of his lane into lane 2 right before the finish, you hate to see it.