GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The Marian women's track and field team finished 14th overall at the 2025 NAIA Indoor Women's Track and Field National Championships. Marian earned four NAIA All-American honors on the final day of the championships, scoring 24 total team points.
Katie Woods kick started the day for the Knights in the mile race, scoring team points as she earned a third place finish. Grace College's Kylie Sauder finished first using a late kick on the straightaway to win, while Dylan Garcia of Montreat finished second in front of Woods.
Katie Woods finished with a personal best time of 4:49.33 in the mile, scoring six team points with her second NAIA All-American honor of the week.
Nora Steele followed on the track with a fifth-place run in the 800m, as she clocked a time of 2:16.95. One day off running her personal best time in the event, Steele battled through the race and scored four team points with her efforts. Marian concluded their individual run on the track as
Summer Rempe completed her freshman indoor season in the 1000m. Rempe secured her second NAIA All-American honor of the week after finishing eighth in the 1000m, as she clocked a time of 3:01.71 in the finals to score one point to Marian's total.Â
The final field event of the week for Marian came with
Shirmara Anderson competing in the women's triple jump. Anderson competed in flight one, but did not land a successful jump, fouling on each of her three attempts.Â
The NAIA Championship run for Marian ended with the women's 4x400m relay, as
Hanna Reuter,
Janae Bailey,
Jovana Milosevic, and
Emma Edwards lined up for the final race of the season. Marian entered the race with 22 points, holding a top-10 spot on the leaderboard for the majority of the afternoon. Marian's time in the race was a 3:51.50, the second-fastest women's 4x400m relay in program history, and stood as a seventh place finish in the event. The Knights' scoring kept the team in the top-15 overall, as they ended in a tie for 14th overall with their 24 points.Â
During the championship, the Knights earned NAIA All-American honors in eight different events, with
Katie Woods,
Summer Rempe and
Nora Steele each earning two NAIA All-American honors, one individual and one on the 4x800m relay.Â
Marian will look to ride their momentum from the indoor season into outdoor season, which begins the weekend of March 21.Â
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