ARLINGTON, Texas — Utah Valley University's men and women swept the WAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday at Maverick Stadium, giving the women back-to-back outdoor titles and the WAC Triple Crown with their earlier wins in both cross country and indoor track & field.
Both teams left little doubt as the day pressed on. The Wolverine women entered the Championship Saturday with 92 points and finished with 208, a commanding victory over second-place UT Arlington with 153 points. The men started the final day of action with 83 points, to 45 from UT Arlington, and finished the meet with 221.5 points. Grand Canyon finished second with 170.5 points.
Cameron Franklin and
Gabe Remy each captured a trio of gold medals on Saturday.
Remy won the men's 100 and 200-meter dashes, breaking the school record in both. He ran the 100 in 10.09 seconds, which puts him 13th in the country and ninth in the West. After the meet, he was named the Men's Most Outstanding Track Athlete of the Meet.
Kade Thompson was the runner-up in the 100, recording a PR and the No. 3 mark in UVU's top 10 with a time of 10.27 seconds that slots him currently at No. 42 in the West. Remy's 200-meter time of 20.41 seconds is the No. 7 spot in the West and 10th in the country. Thompson finished fourth and Franklin was fifth in the 200.
Franklin won the men's 400-meter dash and was the second leg on both gold-winning 4x100 and 4x400 relay squads. The 4x100 opened the day on the track as UVU's men made it back-to-back with a time of 39.31 that slots them at 10th in the West and 20th in the country.
Gavin Stafford, Franklin, Thompson, and Remy were the quartet in the 4x100. In the 4x400, Franklin was joined by
Isaiah Archer,
Bode Jensen, and
Max Clemons. That relay squad finished in 3:09.20 for a new school record.
Kali McEuen won gold in the women's 400-meter hurdles and was the runner-up to teammate
Quincy Bonds in the 100-meter hurdles. McEuen ran the 400mH in 58.63 for the gold and ran the 100mH in 13.48 seconds with a time that currently moves her into 44th in the West. McEuen totaled three silvers, with two more coming in the relays in addition to the 100mH. Bonds finished in 13.28 to back up her 60mH gold at the indoor championships. She was also fifth in both the 100 and 200. Also winning gold was
Ella Hopper in the women's 400-meter dash in 53.67 seconds.
Mo Guled added a second gold to his weekend, dominating the men's 5,000-meter race with a time of 14:05.86, nearly 40 seconds in front of the second-place finisher. The 5k win comes after Thursday's gold in the 10,000.
Wyatt Mortenson earned the bronze, and
Gilbert Olivas also picked up three team points with his sixth-place finish. In the women's 5k,
Anna Martin—Thursday's 10k winner—took third and was followed by teammates
Caila Odekirk and
Oakley Olson—Friday's steeplechase champion— in fourth and fifth.
Elisabeth Ferrell finished seventh, and
Ari Trimble was eighth as the five combined for 18 points, despite not having a top-two finisher.
In the women's discus,
Grace Degarimore earned silver in her first outdoor conference championships with a mark of 48.01, and
Karsten Deakin also picked up two points after finishing seventh. On his final discus throw of the day,
Trevor Hill improved his finish from bronze to silver, hitting 51.49 meters for a new personal record and an enhancement on the No. 3 mark in the school record book.
Nick Forsyth earned bronze in the men's javelin, with his best throw of 59.99 meters coming on his first attempt of the day.
Cole Johnson took fourth in the javelin for the Wolverines after also recording a Top 10 PR in the decathlon, which wrapped up on Friday.
Aubrey Tasker earned three team points after taking sixth in the women's high jump, and
Aiden Garnett placed fourth for the men in the high jump. In the triple jump,
Benati Louvouezo took fourth in his first outdoor championship as a collegian, earning five team points with a jump of 14.42 meters, which tied him for the third-best mark of the day.
Noah Peterson was also fourth in the pole vault.
The women's relays both won silver medals, with the 4x100 squad of Bonds, Hopper, McEuen, and
Whitney Fisher running it in 45.30 seconds to set a new school record. Fisher, McEuen,
Gabriele Dabb, and Hopper ran the 1600-meter relay in 3:44.71, which slots in as the fifth-best time in the program's top 10. In total, Utah Valley won 15 event gold, nine silver, and six bronze medals during the three-day meet.
The 2025 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds participants will be announced next Thursday, May 22nd, with the regionals in College Station, Texas May 28-31.
Utah Valley Medals
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Men's 4x100 (Stafford, Franklin, Thompson, Remy) |
Jocelyn Phillips, Pole Vault |
Caleb Ream, 3k Steeplechase |
Men's 4x400 (Archer, Franklin, B. Jensen, Clemons) |
Caleb Washington, Long Jump |
Katelynn Emmons, 3k Steeplechase |
Gabe Remy, 100m |
Abdulsalam Farah, 3k Steeplechase |
Nick Forsyth, Javelin |
Quincy Bonds, 100mH |
Grace Degarimore, Discus |
Wyatt Mortenson, 5,000m |
Gabe Remy, 200m |
Trevor Hill, Discus |
Anna Martin, 5000m |
Cameron Franklin, 400m |
Women's 4x100 (Bonds, Hopper, McEuen, Fisher) |
Eddie Garcia, Hammer |
Ella Hopper, 400m |
Kali McEuen, 100mH |
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Kali McEuen, 400mH |
Kade Thompson, 100m |
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Cameron Jacobs, 3k Steeplechase |
Women's 4x400 (Fisher, McEuen, Dabb, Hopper) |
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Oakley Olson, 3k Steeplechase |
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Mo Guled, 5,000m |
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Mo Guled, 10,000m |
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Elyssa Shaw, Hammer |
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Kelsi Oldroyd, Javelin |
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Grace Williams, Pole Vault |
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