ROCHESTER, N.Y. – 2025 NCAA DIV. III WOMEN'S INDOOR NATIONAL RUNNER-UP! The No. 3 Washington University in St. Louis women's indoor track and field team finished the 2025 NCAA Div. III Indoor National Championships with 45.5 points to finish as the national runner-up!
After sitting in fifth place after day one, the Bears moved up three spots to finish second. MIT claimed the national title for the second year in a row. In 2024, they claimed the title by just three points. This year, it was nearly the same as MIT finished with 49.5 points, just 3.5 points ahead of WashU.
Saturday's events made all the difference for the Bears with several high-scoring points collected for WashU.
Graduate
Ebun Opata opened the day with a national runner-up finish in the triple jump with a new school record of 12.59m, narrowly missing out on claiming the title by .01m. She earned eight team points.
Junior
Jenae Bothe followed that up with her own second-place finish in the shot put. She threw a new school record of 14.96m. Her finish earned another eight points for the Bears.
Opata pulled double duty at the championships after earning a spot in the high jump as well. She finished with a height of 1.68m to finish in a tie for sixth place, earning WashU 2.5 points.
Junior
Jasmine Wright scored six more points for the Bears with her third-place finish in the 60m with a time of 7.53. This earned WashU six more points.
It was a third national runner-up finish on the day for the Bears as the 4x400 team of sophomore
Julia Coric, first-year
Quinn Bird, sophomore
Cate Christopher, and junior
Kylie Spytek finished in second place in a school-record time of 3:46.20, earning WashU its final eight points of the meet.
With all the top finishes, several Bears earned All-American honors. Here is a complete list of All-American honors for WashU women:
First Team All-American
Second Team All-American
