Trinity University Track & Field Teams sends eight athletes to the 2025 NCAA III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
 
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Trinity University Track & Field has qualified athletes in five events for the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships: the men's 4x100-meter relay, women's 100-meter hurdles, women's long jump, and both the men's and women's triple jump. Half of the Tigers' qualifiers are making a return trip to nationals, while the other half will be competing on the national stage for the first time.

Returning to Nationals

Senior Joy Areola (Tomball, Texas / Rosehill Christian) returns to the NCAA Championships in the women's triple jump for the second consecutive year. Areola punched her ticket with a 12.08-meter leap at the Trinity Last Chance Meet, which ranks 11th in the nation. A Second Team All-American last season with a 13th-place finish (11.78m), she also holds the school record of 12.20 meters and is one of only two Tigers ever to surpass the 12-meter mark.
The men's 4x100-meter relay team also returns to the national stage with three of its four members from last year's squad. Seniors Legend Grigsby (Houston, Texas / Cypress Creek) and Nicolas Ladreyt (Santa Monica, Calif. / Harvard-Westlake School), junior Orie Piken (Torrance, Calif. / West Torrance), and sophomore Price Schultea (Cypress, Texas / Cypress Christian) earned the final qualifying spot in the 16-team field. The quartet broke the school record with a time of 40.76 seconds at the Augustana Midwest Twilight Final Qualifier. Grigsby, Piken, and Schultea all competed at nationals last year, where the team placed 13th.

First-Time NCAA Qualifiers

Junior Bocar Diagana (Edina, Minn. / Edina) will make his NCAA debut in the men's triple jump after breaking the school record with a 14.80-meter jump at the Trinity Last Chance Meet. Diagana had previously set personal bests at the SCAC Championships (14.27m) and then improved that mark to 14.30m at the Cameron Burrell Invitational before his record-setting performance, which placed him 15th nationally.
Senior Danya Selber (Edinburg, Texas / Robert Vela) will race in the women's 100-meter hurdles. She has broken the school record five times this season, highlighted by a 13.96-second performance at the SCAC Championships—ranking her fifth in Division III. Selber has clocked sub-15-second times on six occasions this year and is one of only two Trinity athletes ever to reach that level.
First-year Annabelle Lanik (Sugar Land, Texas / St. John's) rounds out the Tiger qualifiers in the women's long jump. Lanik began her track season by breaking the school record in her debut, jumping 5.78 meters. She went even further twice more during the season, with her best jump of 5.98 meters coming at the Trinity Invitational—currently the eighth-best mark in Division III.

Preview - NCAA Outdoor Championships

The NCAA Championships will begin on Thursday, May 22, with the men's 4x100-meter relay team competing in the preliminaries at 5:15 PM, followed closely by Annabelle Lanik in the women's long jump prelims and finals at 5:30 PM. On Friday, May 23, Danya Selber will take the track for the women's 100-meter hurdles preliminaries at 2:30 PM. Saturday's events include Bocar Diagana competing in the men's triple jump at 11:00 AM, followed by Joy Areola in the women's triple jump at 1:45 PM. 
 
Looking Ahead

If they advance, the 4x100-meter relay team will race in the finals at 1:05 PM, and Selber will return for the 100-meter hurdles final at 2:00 PM.