The Oklahoma men capped off the 2025 track & field season with a sixth-place finish in the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, this past weekend, highlighted by two individual gold-medal winners.
Oklahoma's sixth place finish was the Sooners' highest national finish in 28 years. OU finished with 30.5 total points, a half-point back of fifth-place New Mexico. That was 38 places and 26 points better than a year ago, when the Sooners finished 44th with 4.5 points. The Sooners were 22nd in the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
Sooners take 6th in NCAA Men's Track & Field Championships
Senior Ralford Mullings was the NCAA individual champion in the discus and junior BJ Green captured the national title in the triple jump.
Mullings came into the NCAA Championships ranked second nationally and broke a 33-year-old NCAA Championships event record with a toss of 221 feet, 1 inch. The Jamaica native broke the record on his third attempt. Mullings actually exceeded that record and sealed the individual championship with a throw of 227 feet, 3 inches on his sixth attempt.
The second of Mullings' two record-breaking throws is the ninth farthest discus throw in NCAA history. He was the first Sooner to win a national title in the discus throw.
Green recorded a winning jump of 55 feet, 2 inches on his final attempt to win top national honors in the triple jump. All of his attempts were greater than 54 feet and would have been good enough to win the individual title. The junior from Louisiana was the second Oklahoma track and field athlete, along with former Sooner and Olympian Will Claye (2009), to be crowned national champion in the long jump
The Sooners also had the second-place finisher in the triple jump with Floyd Whitaker going 53 feet, 10.25 inches to earn a silver medal in the event.
The Oklahoma women also produced a national champion with senior Pippi Lotta Enok capturing top honors in the heptathlon, her second NCAA national title in the last three years. Her 6,165 points in the five events (100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200 meters and long jump) set a new OU program record and ranks 18th In NCAA history.
The Sooners finished 14th in the women's portion of the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
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