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Geneva, Ohio - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's track & field team finished third at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships Saturday at the SPIRE Institute.

The Eagles compiled 38.0 team points to record their 15th top-three finish in school history at the national outdoor championships. UWL has won four (1983, 1984, 2015, 2023) NCAA Division III titles while finishing runner-up six (1986, 1993, 1997, 2021, 2022, 2024) seasons. The Eagles have recorded 33 top-10 finishes at the NCAA III Championships in 43 all-time appearances. UWL has 20 top-four showings.

UWL won the Association of Intercollegiate Athletic for Women (AIAW) title in 1982.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology captured this year's national title with 56.0 points with Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.) second with 47.0. UW-Eau Claire placed fourth with 34.0. Augustana College (Ill.) was fifth (31) followed by the University of Chicago (Ill.) sixth (28.0).

SUNY Geneseo (26.0), Centre University, Ky. (24.0), Elmhurst College, Ill. (22.0) and Wartburg College, Iowa (21.0) rounded out the top-10. A total of 80 teams scored points.

The Eagles won three national titles on Saturday, including Lauren Jarrett sweeping the 100 (11.30) and 200 (23.44) meter dash titles for the second straight season. She set an NCAA Division III Championship record in the 100-meter dash, breaking the record of 11.48 set by Gabrielle Noland of Loras College (Iowa) in 2019.

Jarrett became the first sprinter to win back-to-back national titles in the 100-meter dash since Carly Fehler of UW-Eau Claire in 2014-15.

Jarrett broke her own school record of 23.56 in the 200-meter dash set this year at the UWL Final Qualifier on May 14 while tying the NCAA Division III Championship record of 23.44 set by Noland set at the 2019 national meet. She is the student-athlete to win two consecutive titles in the 200-meter dash since Wadeline Jonathas of the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2017-18. Jarrett's time of 23.44 is tied for second in NCAA Division III history.

She is one of two student-athletes in school history to win a pair of individual titles at the same championships with her back-to-back crowns in the 100 and 200-meter dash. Tori Neubauer captured the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs in 1984.

The Eagles' Julie Yang, Anika Reiland, Makenna Zak and Jarrett captured the 4x100-meter relay Saturday with an NCAA Division III record time of 45.20. It is UWL's fourth (2013, 2014, 2024, 2025) national title in the 4x100-meter relay.
 

Yang, Reiland, Zak and Jarrett broke their own school record of 45.66 set earlier this season at the UWL Final Qualifier on May 14. UWL also set the NCAA Division III overall and championship record Saturday, breaking the record of 45.60 set by Loras College (Iowa) at the 2023 national championships.

With three NCAA Division III All-America honors on Saturday, Jarrett now has nine outdoor awards in her career with four individual and two relay national titles. She has won the last two titles in the 100 and 200-meter dash after placing second in both events in 2023. Jarrett was also on the second-place 4x100-meter relay in 2023.

It is the second career outdoor NCAA III All-America honor for Reiland and Zak, who were also on the Eagles' national champion 4x100-meter relay last season.

UWL's 4x400-meter relay earned All-America accolades on Saturday as Anna Plautz, Alli Thomas, Morgan Jennings and Macy Reybrock placed fourth overall (3:44.70). It is the second career award in the event for Jennings who was a member of the fourth-place relay in 2023.

The Eagles' Maya Evans earned NCAA Division III All-America Second Team awards in the triple jump on Saturday with an 11th-place finish (38-11 ¾). She earned All-America honors with a second-place finish in the long jump a year ago.

UWL's Mackenzey Kronberg finished 21st (37-10 ½) in the triple jump Saturday.

Nickolas Davis completes his eighth season as UWL's head coach in 2025. He led the Eagles to a sweep of the 2023 NCAA III Indoor and Outdoor Championships. UWL placed second at the 2021, 2022 and 2024 outdoor championships under Davis.