SEATTLE – Though a handful of Stanford runners raced in Boston in December, the true opening of the indoor track and field season is Friday and Saturday, with the UW Indoor Preview.
The Cardinal returns to the familiar 307-meter flat track at Dempsey Indoor on the University of Washington campus. This is the 131st season of Stanford track and field, and it’s been 116 years since Stanford’s first indoor meet, in 1909.
Juliette Whittaker, seventh in the women’s 800 meters in Paris last summer, races on the track for the first time since the Olympic final. Whittaker will run the invitational mile on Saturday in an event that will be the feature race of the meet for the Cardinal.
Whittaker will race in the same fifth and fastest section of the women’s invitational mile as teammate Sophia Kennedy, who ran the 5,000 in 15:26.14 at the Colyear-Danville Opener on December 7. The time placed Kennedy No. 2 on Stanford’s all-time indoor list for that distance. Also, in the race is Stanford alum Rebecca Mehra as well as Lithuanian Olympian Gabija Gavydyte of the Bowerman Track Club.
Expected to make their collegiate debuts are a number of Stanford freshmen: Aidan McFarlane (60 hurdles), Xavier Drumgoole (60, long jump), and Ryce Reynolds (200, 400) for the men. For the women, Addie Pendergast (200, 400), Sara Rivas (200, 60 hurdles) debut. Also, Sevilla Duran, a graduate transfer from Columbia, makes her Cardinal debut, in the 200 and 400.
Roisin Willis, the 2023 NCAA indoor 800 champion and 2024 NCAA outdoor runner-up, is scheduled to race in the 600. The school record of 1:28.22 may be in jeopardy. It was set by Olivia Baker in 2017 on this same track.
Stanford’s Schedule
(Heats slow to fast)
Friday
Noon: Men’s weight throw – Anthony Argyropoulos, Mason McKhann.
Noon: Women’s 60 hurdles prelims – H1: Tess Stapleton; H2: Sara Rivas.
12:18 p.m.: Men’s 60 hurdles prelims – H2: Aidan McFarlane.
12:30 p.m.: Women’s 60 prelims – H7: Alaysia Oakes; H14: Teagan Zwaanstra.
12:50 p.m.: Men’s 60 prelims – H1: Xavier Drumgoole; H2: John Kroeger; H3: Dylan Davis.
1 p.m.: Women’s pole vault – Lianne Kistler, Sky Schuller.
1:10 p.m.: Women’s 600 – S1: Cate Peters, Roisin Willis.
1:30 p.m.: Women’s 400 – S1: Sage Hinton, Addie Pendergast; S2: Camille Peisner, Trinity Price; S6: Madison Romain; S7: Rachel Nelson; S8: Sevilla Duran.
1:55 p.m.: Men’s 400 – S1: Olufemi Cole, Zachary Ryan; S2: Ryce Reynolds; S3: Joseph Bailey; S4: Gabriel Ajaegbu.
2 p.m.: Men’s triple jump – Kevin Yang.
2:10 p.m.: Men’s 1,000 – S2: Zane Bergen.
2:35 p.m.: Women’s 60 hurdles final.
2:45 p.m.: Men’s 60 hurdles final.
2:55 p.m.: Women’s 60 final.
3 p.m.: Men’s 60 final.
3:10 p.m.: Women’s 800 – S4: Hillary Studdert; S5: Amelia Everett.
3:45 p.m.: Men’s pole vault – Garrett Brown.
3:45 p.m.: Women’s 200 – S5: Camille Peisner, Sara Rivas; S6: Madison Romain; S9: Sevilla Duran, Rachel Nelson, Trinity Price; S11: Sage Hinton, Addie Pendergast.
4 p.m.: Men’s long jump – Xavier Drumgoole, John Kroeger, Kevin Yang.
4 p.m.: Men’s shot put – Garin Gross, Sam Liokumovich.
4 p.m.: Women’s long jump – Alaysia Oakes, Tess Stapleton, Teagan Zwaanstra.
4 p.m.: Women’s shot put – Kaiah Fisher.
4:15 p.m.: Men’s 200 – S2: Joseph Bailey, Ryce Reynolds; S3: Gabriel Ajaegbu; S6: Zachary Ryan; S7: Olufemi Cole.
5:20 p.m.: Women’s 3,000 – S4: Julia Flynn, Nicola Hogg, Audrey Suarez; S5: Zofia Dudek, Riley Stewart.
5:55 p.m.: Men’s 3,000 – S5: Caleb Boutelle, James Dargan, Robert DiDonato, Patrick Koon, Nolan Topper; S6: Thomas Boyden, Cole Sprout, Leo Young, Lex Young.
Saturday
Noon: Women’s 1-mile Invite: S2: Hillary Studdert; S3: Amelia Everett; S4: Nicola Hogg, Riley Stewart; S5: Sophia Kennedy, Juliette Whittaker.
12:30 p.m.: Men’s 1-mile Invite: S3: Zane Bergen, James Dargan, Lex Young; S4: Thomas Boyden, Cole Sprout, Leo Young.