INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Washburn men's and women's track and field teams will have a school-record total 13 (seven men and six women) of student-athletes competing in 14 events at the 2025 NCAA Indoor National Championships as qualifying invitations were announced today. The championships will be from March 13-15 hosted by the University of Indianapolis.

Tre Richardson and Ezekiel Seamster will compete in the 60m. Richardson has the fourth-fastest time in the nation this year with a time of 6.65 and Seamster's time of 6.68 ranks 11th overall. Richardson and Seamster are making their first NCAA Championship appearances.
Seamster also received a nationals bid with his time of 21.00 in the 200m. That time is the ninth-fastest time in the D2 ranks this season.

The Ichabod men will have two competing in the high jump qualifying seventh and eighth, respectively. Jordan Dale's MIAA-title winning jump of 2.16m (7-01.00) and Matthew Heckman's mark of 2.15m (7-00.50) are the top two in Ichabod program history during the indoor season. Dale is making his fourth NCAA Track Championship appearance finishing eighth at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships and seventh at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships, while Heckman is making his third NCAA Championship appearance and his second during the indoor season.

Adam Wooldridge is the 15th overall seed in the pole vault with a school-record mark of 5.08m (16-08.00) set at the MIAA Indoor Championships. Woldridge is making his first NCAA Championship appearance.
 
Ransford Nti is seeded 18th in the triple jump after his mark of 15.06m (49-05.00) setting a school record at the ichabod Invitational. Ransford is making his first NCAA Championship appearance.

Chaney Martin will represent the Ichabods in the heptathlon. Chaney set a school record in the season-opening Boo Rogers Combined events at Pittsburg State with 5,267 points.  Martin is making his first NCAA Championship appearance as an Ichabod.

On the women's side, the Ichabods will have Ta'Mijha Nichols competing in the 60m entering with a No. 12 seed after a time of 7.41 set at the MIAA Championships last weekend en route to a third-place finish earning all-MIAA honors. Nichols is making her first NCAA Championship appearances.

Lexie Fontaine will be in the 800m as the No. 17 seed after breaking her own school record at the Arkansas Qualifier in a time of 2:09.13. Fontaine is making her first NCAA Championship appearance.

Alex Hart is ranked second entering the high jump competition with a mark of 1.79m (5-10.50) set at the Ichabod Invitational. Hart is making her third NCAA championship appearance as an Ichabod overall and her second during the indoor season. Hart won the 2021 NCAA Division II Indoor Champion in the high jump as a member of the Fort Hays State team.

Washburn will have two entries in the pole vault with Isabel Demarco de Quadros as the No. 6 seed and Reagan Housley as the No. 15 seed. Demarco de Quadros' recorded a school-record jump at the Washburn Open of 4.26m (13-11.75) and Reagan Housely recorded a personal best in the event at the MIAA Championships at 3.98m (13-00.75). The championship appearances are the first for both Ichabods.

Nairui Krein, the MIAA Indoor Champion last weekend, is the No. 7 seed entering the pentathlon with 3,821 points. Krein is making her fourth NCAA Championship appearance overall and her second indoor appearance. She finished third in the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in the pentathlon.