ON JUNE 14, 2025, the final day of Stanford’s 2024-25 athletics year, the Cardinal women put down a performance to remember to close out the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
Moments after junior Alyssa Jones broke the Stanford outdoor high-jump record, classmate Roisin Willis ran down the field to win the fastest 800-meter race in collegiate history, with an unprecedented five women breaking two minutes.
Not long after Willis broke the meet and Atlantic Coast Conference records with her time of 1:58.13, sophomore Sophia Kennedy unleashed a lethal kick of her own, passing six on the final lap of the 5,000 to place third.
It was Stanford’s highest finish in 11 years and Kennedy was the highest American finisher. Also of note, Kennedy and teammate Zofia Dudek increased a Stanford streak of NCAA finalists at 5,000 to 15 seasons.
Led by Jones, who also was second in the long jump, Stanford placed sixth as a team, the highest from the ACC, and Stanford’s best women’s place at this meet in seven years.
Willis earned her third career NCAA title and first outdoors. Her NCAA title total ties her with triple jumper Erica McLain for second all-time among Stanford women behind only distance runner Lauren Fleshman (five from 2000-03).
Willis provided a bookend to Stanford’s back-to-back titles in the 800, following Juliette Whittaker’s triumph on the same track in 2024. This was the fourth time in NCAA history that a school won consecutive titles in that event with different runners.
Accolades for Willis included West Region Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, beating out three other NCAA champions for the honor, and was named semifinalist for The Bowerman award, track and field’s Heisman.
Her 1:58.13 was the third-fastest in collegiate history. Only Texas A&M’s Athing Mu (1:57.73 in 2021), the Tokyo Olympic champion, and LSU’s Michaela Rose (1:58.12 in 2025), who was fourth in the NCAA final, have run faster in collegiate competition.
In the first year in the ACC, Stanford women broke four conference records – Jones in outdoor long jump (22-4 1/2, 6.81), Willis in the outdoor 800, and Amy Bunnage in the indoor 5,000 (15:00.75), which also was an ACC absolute record. Stanford’s foursome of Whittaker, Cate Peters, Willis, and Bunnage broke the indoor record for the distance medley relay (10:38.93), though it was run on an oversized track. Also, Kennedy broke the ACC indoor meet record in the 3,000 (8:47.38).
Stanford women won five ACC indoor titles while placing second as a team. Jones won both the high jump and long jump while earning ACC Indoor Women’s Field Most Valuable Performer honors. Zofia Dudek won the 5,000 for the Stanford program’s first ACC individual championship, including cross country.
Stanford’s accumulation of NCAA team finishes – sixth in cross country, 13th in indoor track and field, and sixth outdoors – placed the Cardinal women at No. 3 in the USTFCCCA’s Program of the Year standings.
Team Accomplishments
- Third in USTFCCCA Program of the Year (including cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field)
- Sixth at NCAA Outdoor Championships
- 12th top-six NCAA outdoor finish
- 13th at NCAA Indoor Championships
- Second at ACC Indoor Championships
- Ninth at ACC Outdoor Championships
Individual honors and achievements
Amy Bunnage - Second-team All-American (indoor 3,000)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (3,000)
- Set ACC indoor 5,000 record (15:00.75)
- Set ACC absolute 5,000 record
- Set Australian indoor 5,000 record
- Set Australian under-20 absolute 5,000 record
- Set Stanford absolute 5,000 record
- Set Stanford indoor 5,000 record
- Set Australian under-20 absolute 3,000 record
- Set Australian under-20 indoor 3,000 record
- Set Stanford indoor 3,000 record (8:43.82)
- ACC Women’s Indoor Track Performer of the Week (Feb. 4)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Set Stanford indoor DMR (all conditions) record (10:38.93)
- Set Stanford indoor mile (all conditions) record (4:29.09)
Audrey DaDamio - NCAA West Prelims qualifier (5,000, 10,000)
- Stanford Athletics Board Block S Honors for Women
- ACC All-Academic indoors
Zofia Dudek - Second-team All-American (indoor DMR)
- ACC indoor 5,000 champion
- First-team All-ACC (indoor 5,000)
- NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (5,000)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (5,000)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (DMR)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Moved to No. 6 in the 5,000 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (15:23.46)
- Moved to No. 3 in the 5,000 on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (15:33.35)
Sevilla Duran - Moved to No. 9 in the 400 hurdles on Stanford’s all-time list (59.60)
Amelia Everett - Second-team All-American (indoor DMR)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (DMR)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
Kaiah Fisher - Second-team All-ACC (discus)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (shot put, discus)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Moved to No. 10 in the shot put on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (50-10, 15.49)
Julia Flynn - NCAA West Prelims qualifier (1,500)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
Sage Hinton - Second-team All-American (indoor DMR)
- NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (4x100)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (4x100, 4x400)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (DMR)
- Big Meet 4x100 and 4x400 winner
- Moved to No. 3 and No. 4 in the 4x100 relay on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (43.84, 43.98)
Taylor James - Big Meet steeplechase winner
Alyssa Jones - Four-time All-American (indoor and outdoor high jump and long jump)
- Three-time first-team All-American (indoor long jump, outdoor high jump and long jump)
- ACC outdoor long jump champion
- ACC indoor long jump champion
- ACC indoor high jump champion
- Three-time first-team All-ACC (indoor and outdoor long jump, indoor high jump)
- Four-time All-ACC (including second-team outdoor 100)
- ACC Indoor Women’s Field Most Valuable Performer
- Set ACC outdoor long jump record (22-4 ¼, 6.81)
- Set Cobb Track and Angell Field long jump record
- Set Stanford Invitational long jump record
- NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (4x100, high jump, long jump)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (100, 4x100, high jump, long jump)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (high jump, long jump)
- Stanford Athletics Board Conference Athlete of the Year
- Big Meet 4x100, high jump, and long jump winner
- ACC Women’s Indoor Field Performer of the Week (Feb. 18)
- Broke school record in the outdoor high jump (6-2 ¾, 1.90)
- Moved to No. 3 in the 100 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (11.20)
- Moved to No. 3 and No. 4 in the 4x100 relay on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (43.84, 43.98)
- On the five-fastest 4x100 relays in school history
- Moved to No. 9 in the 60 on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (7.39)
- Moved to No. 2 in the high jump on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (6-2 ¼, 1.89)
Sophia Kennedy - Two-time first-team All-American (indoor and outdoor 5,000)
- Three-time All-American (including indoor 3,000)
- Two-time first-team All-ACC (indoor 3,000, outdoor 5,000)
- Broke ACC Indoor Championships 3,000 record
- NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (5,000)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (5,000)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (3,000, 5,000)
- Stanford Athletics Board Block S Outstanding Sophomore
- Set Big Meet 1,500 record (4:15.93)
- Big Meet 1,500 and 3,000 winner
- ACC Women’s Outdoor Track Performer of the Week (April 22)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Set Stanford indoor 3,000 (all conditions) record (8:42.53)
- Moved to No. 2 in the 5,000 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (15:11.12)
- Moved to No. 5 in the mile (all conditions) on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (4:32.47)
- Moved to No. 2 in the 5,000 on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (15:10.71)
Lianne Kistler - ACC All-Academic indoors
- Moved to No. 9 in the pole vault on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (13-1 ½, 3.97))
Alaysia Oakes - NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (4x100)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (4x100, triple jump)
- Big Meet 4x100 winner
- Moved to No. 3 and No. 4 in the 4x100 relay on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (43.84, 43.98)
- Moved to No. 6 in the triple jump on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (42-5 ¼, 12.93)
Camille Peisner - NCAA West Prelims qualifier (4x400)
- Stanford Athletics Board Spirit of Stanford Award
Cate Peters - NCAA West Prelims qualifier (4x400)
- Big Meet 4x400 winner
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Set Stanford indoor DMR (all conditions) record (10:38.93)
Sky Schuller - ACC All-Academic indoors
Emma Sralla - Moved to No. 10 in the discus on Stanford’s all-time list (173-8, 52.94)
Tess Stapleton - Second-team All-ACC (indoor 60 hurdles)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Moved to No. 9 in the 200 on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (23.85)
- Moved to No. 2 in the 60 hurdles on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (8.22)
Riley Stewart - ACC All-Academic indoors
Hillary Studdert - NCAA West Prelims qualifier (800, 1,500)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
Audrey Suarez - Second-team All-American (indoor DMR)
- Second-team All-ACC (indoor 5,000)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (DMR)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
Juliette Whittaker - Second-team All-American (indoor 800)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (800)
- Big Meet 800 and 4x400 winner
- The Bowerman preseason watch list
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Set Stanford indoor DMR (all conditions) record (10:38.93)
- Set Stanford indoor 800 (all conditions) record (1:59.44)
Roisin Willis - NCAA outdoor 800 champion
- Set NCAA Outdoor Championships 800 record (1:58.13)
- Set ACC outdoor 800 record
- Moved to No. 3 in the 800 in collegiate history
- USTFCCCA West Region Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year
- The Bowerman award semifinalist
- Two-time first-team All-American (indoor and outdoor 800)
- ACC indoor 800 champion
- Two-time first-team All-ACC (indoor and outdoor 800)
- NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (800)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (800, 4x400)
- NCAA Indoor Championships qualifier (800)
- Big Meet 400 and 4x400 winner
- ACC Women’s Track Performer of the Week (Jan. 21)
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Set Stanford indoor (all conditions) 600 record (1:25.74)
- Set Stanford indoor DMR (all conditions) record (10:38.93)
- Moved to No. 7 in the 400 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (52.89)
- Moved to No. 2 in the 800 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (1:58.13)
Teagan Zwaanstra - First-team All-ACC (outdoor long jump)
- NCAA Outdoor Championships qualifier (4x100)
- NCAA West Prelims qualifier (100, 4x100, long jump)
- Big Meet 100 and 4x100 winner
- ACC All-Academic indoors
- Moved to No. 6 in the 100 on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (11.37)
- Moved to No. 3 and No. 4 in the 4x100 relay on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (43.84, 43.98)
- Moved to No. 10 in the long jump on Stanford’s all-time outdoor list (20-6 ½, 6.26)
- Moved to No. 3 in the 60 on Stanford’s all-time indoor list (7.31)