Men's Outdoor Track & Field

Dickinson's Richwine, JHU's Ezumba Win NCAA Gold

CC competitors earn 27 All-America honors

LA CROSSE, Wisc. - Dickinson's Trevor Richwine repeated as national champion in the 800 meters and Erika Ezumba won gold in the hammer throw to highlight a total of 27 All-America performances from Centennial Conference competitors at the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships from May 21-23 at the Veterans Memorial Stadium on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
 
Richwine earned back-to-back golds in the 800 in a meet record time of 1:47.39, becoming just the third Centennial male athlete in outdoor history to earn multiple national golds in a career along with Haverford's Karl Paranya (4) and J.B. Haglund (2). Richwine's gold was the 14th in CC men's outdoor history. 

Ezumba won the hammer throw with a conference-record throw, marking the 11th time in conference history that a female athlete earned gold at the outdoor championship event. She landed on top of the podium with a CC-record mark of 60.11 meters, besting her own previous record of 58.77m that she set in April. 

Twenty-three individuals and one relay earned a total of 27 All-America accolades throughout the three-day meet with top-16 placings. Top eight finishers earn first team All-America awards while a nine through 16 finish earns second team honors. The CC registered 13 first team awards and 14 second team awards. 

The Johns Hopkins women led all CC teams with a third-place finish with 38 points. In the men's team standings, Johns Hopkins took 17th with 14 points, Dickinson placed 20th with 12 points, Ursinus tied for 24th with eight points and Haverford tied for 55th with three points. 

Wisconsin La Crosse swept the team titles on both the men's and women's side, with the men claiming the trophy for the third straight year. 

Ursinus' Mitchell Davis (pole vault) and JHU's Claudia Ouimet (heptathlon) and the Hopkins women's 4x100 relay collected silver medals with runner-up finishes. Davis posted a mark of 5.25 meters, Ouimet totaled 5,079 points and the Blue Jay 4x100 squad of Mirra Klimov, Chloe Zhang, Ellie Lewis, and Dominique Thomas broke their own Centennial record with a time of 45.79. 

JHU's Caleb Tenney and Emma Kothari garnered bronze medal finishes in the 1500 and 800 meters, respectively. Tenney took third in the 1500 at 3:46.14 while Kothari finished third in the 800 at 1:08.30. Haverford's Simon Lane also captured first team All-America honors in the men's 1500 with a sixth-place finish at 3:46.64, while JHU's Mackenzie Setton placed sixth in both the women's 800 (2:08.97) and 1500 (4:22.09). 

JHU's Oluwademilade Adeniran broke a 20-year-old Centennial record in the triple jump en route to a fourth-place finish. Adeniran recorded a jump of 15.23 meters, shattering the previous record of 14.80m held by McDaniel's Broderick Maybank since 2006. 

JHU's Emmanuel Leblond took sixth in the 5000 meters at 14:14.12 while teammate Anthony Clark finished ninth with a time of 14:22.95. 

Dickinson's Franklyn Akabi-During recorded a pair of All-America finishes, taking seventh in the 100 meters (10.42) and 11th in the 200 meters (21.45). Akabi-During's prelim 100 time of 10.41 tied his own CC record. 

Other All-America finishes on the men's side came from JHU's Connor Oiler in the 3000-meter steeplechase (12th; 9:16.96) and Sebastian Tangelson in the decathlon (6456). Other All-America finishes on the women's side came from JHU's Dominique Thomas in the 100 (13th; 11.92), Lorna Arcese in the 800 (15th; 2:10.88), Ani Wedemeyer in the 800 (16th; 2:11.16) and 1500 (13th; 4:28.78), Adriana Catalano in the 1500 (12th; 4:33.14), Diani Valentini (16th; 4:32.15), Carter Brotherton in the 5000 (16:48.03), Sydney Shock in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (16th; 10:49.01), Phoebe Williams in the hammer throw (13th; 52.59m) and Ursinus' Kaelin Ryan in the 100 hurdles (15th; 14.67). 


Centennial Conference NCAA Championship Finishes 

Men

NAME SCHOOL EVENT PLACE TIME/DISTANCE
Franklyn Akabi-During          Dickinson 100m 7 10.42
Franklyn Akabi-During      Dickinson 200m 11 21.45
Trevor Richwine Dickinson 800m 1 1:47.39
Caleb Tenney Johns Hopkins 1500m 3 3:46.14
Simon Lane Haverford 1500m 6 3:46.64
Emmanuel Leblond Johns Hopkins 5000m 6 14:14.12
Anthony Clark Johns Hopkins 5000m 9 14:22.95
Connor Oiler Johns Hopkins 3000m Steeplechase 12 9:16.96
Mitchell Davis Ursinus Pole Vault 2 5.25m
Oluwademilade Adeniran Johns Hopkins Triple Jump 4 15.23m
Sebastian Tangelson Johns Hopkins Decathlon 13 6456

Women

NAME SCHOOL EVENT RANK TIME/DISTANCE
Dominique Thomas  Johns Hopkins 100m 13 11.92
Lorna Arcese  Johns Hopkins 800m 15 2:10.88
Ani Wedemeyer Johns Hopkins 800m 16 2:11.16
Emma Kothari Johns Hopkins 800m 3 2:08.30
Mackenzie Setton Johns Hopkins 800m 6 2:08.97
Mackenzie Setton Johns Hopkins 1500m 6 4:22.09
Adriana Catalano Johns Hopkins 1500m 12 4:33.14
Ani Wedemeyer Johns Hopkins 1500m 13 4:28.78
Diana Valentini Johns Hopkins 1500m 16 4:32.15
Carter Brotherton Johns Hopkins 5,000m 12 16:48.03
Adriana Catalano Johns Hopkins 5,000m 22 17:26.09
Natalie Boquist Johns Hopkins 10,000m 21 36:57.18
Kaelin Ryan Ursinus 100 Hurdles 15 14.67
Lianne Saussy Johns Hopkins 400 Hurdles 17 1:02.97
Sydney Shock Johns Hopkins 3,000m Steeplechase   16 10:49.01
Cooper Brotherton Johns Hopkins 3,000m Steeplechase   20 11:01.19
Eleni Alvarez Johns Hopkins 3,000m Steeplechase   21 11:04.05
Erika Ezumba Johns Hopkins Shot Put 22 11.49m
Erika Ezumba Johns Hopkins Hammer Throw 1 60.11m
Phoebe Williams Johns Hopkins Hammer Throw 13 52.59m
Claudia Ouimet Johns Hopkins Heptathlon 2 5079
Klimov, Zhang, Lewis, Thomas Johns Hopkins 4x100 Relay 2 45.79