Eight members of the New York University men's and women's track and field teams will descend on La Crosse, WI, May 21-23, for the 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships.
Seven runners and one jumper posted one of 22 qualifying marks for each event and will compete over three days on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Five Violets of the eight to qualify will represent the women's team.
Three Violets will compete in the Women's 10,000m Run. Katherine Cochran (34:15.67) and Josephine Dziedzic (34:28.40) logged the fifth and sixth best times in the Division III outdoor season to secure their place at the National Championship meet. Lucy Gott (35:34.96) joins them in the field with 17th-best seed time.
Cochran and Gott will be appearing in their second Outdoor National Championships, with Dziedzic qualifying for the first time.
The Women's 10,000m Final is scheduled for 7:30 PM Central Time (CT) on Thursday, May 21.
Cochran and Dziedzic will pull double duty with the Women's 5,000m Run. Cochran (16:34.94) finished the season with the 13th-best time in Division III. Dziedzic (16:37.02) will join her after recording the 19th-best time across DIII.
The two will run in the final individual event of the meet, scheduled for Saturday, May 23, at 4:00 PM CT.
Katharine Frank will make her first National Championship meet appearance after posting the 17th-best time nationally in the 1500m run, 4:28.84. Frank will take part in the preliminary heats on Thursday, May 21 at 4:35 PM CT. Finals will be held Saturday, May 23 at 2:25 PM CT.
NYU's lone field athlete at the National Championships will be rookie Alexa McMillian. McMillian posted her seed mark on the final day, jumping 12.00m in the women's triple jump at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference Championships on May 14. The program-record mark was good for the 14th seed mark. She will compete on Saturday, May 23, at 2:00 PM CT.
Three runners from the men's team will be in action in Wisconsin. Julian Aske will make his second career Outdoor Nationals appearance after qualifying in the Men's 800m Run. His 1:50.07 mark is the 13th-best in the field and he will run the final on Saturday, May 23 at 3:00 PM CT.
Theodore Udelson-Nee qualified for his first Outdoor National Championships with the third-best 5000m time (13:56.49) in Division III. Udelson-Nee will run the final Saturday, May 23, at 4:25 PM CT.
Liam Hagerty will be the Violets' lone representative in the Men's 10,000m Final, qualifying for his first Outdoor National Championships. Hagerty (29:45.55) qualified with the 14th-best time and will run Thursday, May 21 at 8:15 PM CT.
Stay tuned to NYU Athletics website and social media for updates throughout the week.
