INDIANAPOLIS- When the NCAA announced the qualifying lists for the 2026 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships on Sunday (March 8), 21 members of the UW-Oshkosh men's and women's track & field teams had qualified for 13 events.
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The men's team qualified 17 athletes in 13 events while the women's team qualified four athletes in three events.
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The national meet will be held in Birmingham, Ala. at the Birmingham CrossPlex on March 13-14.
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Dylan Doss (Sterling, Ill./Sterling) highlighted the Titans' men's selections with the top seed in the 60-meter dash (6.65) and 200-meter dash (21.07), while sitting eighth in the long jump (7.34m) and leading off the 4x400-meter relay squad that also included
Sean Malay (Denmark/Denmark),
Lucas Koerselman (West Des Moines, Iowa/Valley) and
Tyran Bender (Bradley, Ill./Bradley-Bourbonnais Community) that is second at 3:10.76.
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Davian Willems (De Pere/West De Pere) and
Nolan Milas (Virgil, Ill./Burlington Central) joined Doss in the preliminary round qualifiers of the 60-meter dash with seeded times of 6.72 and 6.76 seconds, respectively, while Milas also qualified for the 200-meter dash at 21.27.
Lucas Nicholson (Pewaukee/Pewaukee) qualified for the national championship with a time of 1:51.57.
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Program record holders
Collin Kao (Lindenhurst, Ill./Lakes Community),
Joshua Rivers (Bolingbrook, Ill./Bolingbrook) and
Gavin Fritsch (Little Chute/Little Chute Career Pathways Academy) all own the top seed in the pole vault, long jump and weight throw. Kao leads Division III at 5.25 in the pole vault, Rivers paces the division at 7.91 meters in the long jump and Fritsch owns a division-best 20.84-meter mark in the weight throw.
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Caleb Wright (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) will join Rivers and Doss in the long jump with a qualifying distance of 7.43 meters and
Bryce Hale (Appleton/Kimberly) joins Fritsch in the weight throw at 19.29 meters.
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Isaiah Baez-Isom (Lansing, Ill./Thornton Fractional South) will compete for the Titans in the shot put after qualifying for the national meet with a cast of 17.34 meters.
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Charlie Nolan (Bloomington, Ill./Normal Community West),
Cavan Dobberstein (Manawa/Fox Valley Lutheran),
Bryce Smith (De Pere/West De Pere) and
Marcus Mittelstadt (Round Lake, Ill./Grayslake Central) will all compete in the heptathlon. Nolan owns a season-high 5,071 points, followed by 4,988 for Dobberstein, 4,972 for Smith and 4,958 for Mittelstadt.
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Amelia Lehman (Oshkosh/Valley Christian) qualified for the national championship in two individual events and helped the Titans' distance medley relay squad earn a spot in the meet. She is billed as the top seed in both the mile run and 3,000-meter run, both events she set program records in this winter, with respective qualifying times of 4:41.03 and 9:23.31.
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Emma Boegh (Berlin/Berlin),
Maddy LaVoi (Ankeny, Iowa/Ankeny Centennial),
Adriana Garcia (Green Bay/Green Bay East) and Lehman combined for an adjusted qualifying time of 11:35.78 during the Wartburg College Final Qualifier on March 7.
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