ARLINGTON, Texas — Utah Valley University's women raced out to an early lead after sweeping each of the four finals on the opening day of the 2025 WAC Outdoor Championships at Maverick Stadium on Thursday.

It didn't take long for Kelsi Oldroyd to notch her third straight WAC javelin gold medal, hitting 56.85 meters on her first — and only — attempt. Elyssa Shaw won gold in the hammer, Grace Williams took gold in the pole vault, and Anna Martin ran away with the final event of the night, the women's 10,000.

The Wolverines lead in both the men's and women's team races after just two men's finals and four women's finals. The women have 65 team points after the four events to lead Grand Canyon (22) and Southern Utah (21). Mo Guled won the men's 10,000-meter final by over 18 seconds to help the men to an early lead with 23 team points to 16 from Abilene Christian and 15 from host UT Arlington. Guled's win mark the sixth time UVU has won the men's 10k, while Martin's win, nearly 35 seconds in front of the second-place finisher, continues a line of domination that has the Wolverines with four straight women's titles and five of the last six in the 10,000. 

Oldroyd will now prep for Friday's long jump before heading to College Station, Texas for her third straight appearance at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds. Shaw's win is just the second win in the hammer for UVU at the WAC Outdoor Championships. Shaw also won gold on the strength of her first attempt, as she hit 55.19 meters to also break a school record, which was previously owned by WAC 2017 champion Chantil Martin, who won gold with the prior record. Grace Degarimore took fifth to score four points, hitting 49.59 meters.

Williams and Jocelyn Phillips made the women's pole vault a two-person race. Williams breezed through her first three heights before needing to hit her final attempt at 3.92 meters, which she did to secure the gold medal. Jocelyn Phillips, who was the WAC's Indoor pole vault champ, earned the silver as UVU went 1-2 in outdoor while also sweeping the indoor and outdoor individual titles. Williams is the first UVU pole vaulter to win the outdoor WAC title.

In the decathlon, Cole Johnson sits in sixth and Matt Biggins is eighth after the first five events. Johnson's throw of 13.37 meters put him in first place in that event, while he was also second in the high jump. In the women's heptathlon, Krista Farley is seventh and Talia Conrad is 10th after four of the seven events were contested on Thursday. Farley took first in the 200, finishing in 24.70 seconds.

There were six prelims contested on the track: the 1500, 200, and 400mH for both the men and women. All four men's entries qualified for the 1500-meter final. Alex Hartshorn, Abdulsalam Farah, Gilbert Olivas, and Pierce Vittone will compete in Saturday's final, with Hartshorn taking third overall in the prelims. The women also had all three entrants in the women's 1500 advance to the finals: Oakley Olson, Elisabeth Ferrell, and Liz Zwahlen.

In the 200, Quincy Bonds and Ella Hopper both qualified for the final on Saturday. Bonds recorded the fourth-best time while Hopper landed in the eighth to also earn a spot in the final. The men had three qualify for the finals, with Gabe Remy setting a PR and moving to No. 4 in UVU's Top 10 with a 29.89 finish, second best among all competitors. Cameron Franklin was third and Kade Thompson seventh in the prelims as they will join Remy in the final on Saturday.

Three women qualified for the 400-meter hurdles final, with Kali McEuen and Whitney Fisher recording the third and fourth best times in the prelims. Harmony Lopez had the seventh-best time and also qualified as one of the eight finalists. For the men, Brayden Walker and Jackson Egbert both qualified for Saturday's final.

In the men's throws, Eddie Garcia earned the bronze in the hammer with a PR of 55.47 meters that moves him up to fourth in the top 10. Luis Diaz Bojorquez and Payton Vernon finished seventh and eighth, respectively, to also pick up team points in the event.

There are eight finals on Saturday, including the multis, shot put, and long jump. The steeplechase will wrap up action on day two with the men slated to start at 6:30 p.m. CT and the women at 7 p.m. CT.