Set of national championship meets for Razorbacks, alums
FAYETTEVILLE – A combination of 28 Razorbacks and Arkansas alums will be competing in various national championships this weekend as athletes bid for spots in the World Athletics Championships during the USA, British and Canadian championships.
National championship meets held this week will include 25 Arkansas athletes at the USATF Championships in Eugene, Oregon, (Thursday, July 31 to Sunday, August 3) along with a pair of Razorbacks at the UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England, (Saturday, August 2 to Sunday, August 3) and a solo entry at the Canadian Championships (Wednesday, July 30 to Sunday, August 3) in Ottawa, Canada.
The Arkansas men will have 12 athletes at the USATF Championships along with Hunter Woodhall competing in the 100m and 400m at the Para National Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene.
Men | 14 entries | 12 athletes
| 100 | Jordan Anthony, Dapriest Hogans |
| 200 | Jordan Anthony, Dapriest Hogans, Lance Lang |
| 400 | Chris Bailey, James Milholen, Jonah Vigil |
| 1500 | Austen Dalquist, Reuben Reina |
| Long Jump | Henry Kiner, Jarrion Lawson |
| Shot Put | Jordan West |
| Decathlon | Marcus Weaver |
Para | 2 entries | 1 athlete
| 100 T62 | Hunter Woodhall |
| 400 T62 | Hunter Woodhall |
The Arkansas women are also represented by 12 athletes at the USATF Championships along with five professional athletes who train in Fayetteville.
Women | 14 entries | 12 athletes & Pro group | 5 entries | 5 athletes (in italics)
| 100 | Jada Mowatt |
| 200 | Brittany Brown |
| 400 | Rosey Effiong, Paris Peoples, Isabella Whittaker, Britton Wilson, Alexis Holmes |
| 1500 | Nikki Hiltz |
| 5000 | Katie Izzo, Nikki Hiltz |
| 10,000 | Katie Izzo |
| 100 Hurdles | Destiny Huven |
| 400 Hurdles | Anna Cockrell, Dalilah Muhammad |
| Steeplechase | Krissy Gear, Logan Jolly |
| Pole Vault | Sandi Morris |
| Heptathlon | Taliyah Brooks, Michelle Atherley |
World Indoor champion Amber Anning (400m) and Funminiyi Olajide (long jump) will compete at the UK Athletics Championships while Tiana LoStracco (800m) will race in the Canadian Championships.
The USATF Championships serve as the selection meet for the NACAC Championships which will be held August 15-17 in Freeport, The Bahamas, as well as the World Athletics Championships that will be held September 13-21 in Tokyo, Japan. The World Para Athletics Championships will be held September 26 to October 5 in New Delhi, India.
Coverage of the USATF Championships will be available through USATF.tv (a paid service) as well as NBC and Peacock during the weekend dates, from 3 to 5 p.m. (CT) on Saturday and Sunday.
Live results from the USATF & Para Championships will be available through pttiming.com.
A formchart for the USATF Championships by Track & Field News magazine has a total of 14 Arkansas entries and all five members of the Fayetteville pro group placing among the top 10.
USATF Formchart | Track & Field News
Men
| 100 | 7) Jordan Anthony |
| 200 | 8) Jordan Anthony |
| 400 | 1) Chris Bailey |
| Long Jump | 5) Jarrion Lawson |
| Shot Put | 9) Jordan West |
| Decathlon | 9) Marcus Weaver |
Women
| 200 | 4) Brittany Brown |
| 400 | 2) Isabella Whittaker, 5) Alexis Holmes, 9) Britton Wilson, 10) Rosey Effiong |
| 1500 | 1) Nikki Hiltz |
| Steeplechase | 9) Krissy Gear |
| 100 Hurdles | 8) Destiny Huven |
| 400 Hurdles | 1) Dalilah Muhammad, 2) Anna Cockrell |
| Pole Vault | 2) Sandi Morris |
| Heptathlon | 2) Michelle Athlerley, 3) Taliyah Brooks |
Chris Bailey, who won the 2025 World Indoor 400m title, is favored to claim the event in Eugene while Nikki Hiltz is tabbed to claim a third consecutive 1,500m title. Runner-up finishes are predicted for Isabella Whittaker in the 400m and Sandi Morris in the pole vault.
Fayetteville pros Dalilah Muhammad and Anna Cockrell are tabbed for a 1-2 finish in the 400m hurdles while Michelle Atherley is predicted as runner-up in the heptathlon with Arkansas alum Taliyah Brooks third.
Bailey set a 44.15 career best recently in placing second in the 400m at the Prefontaine Classic. Hiltz finished fifth in the 1,500m at Pre with a season best of 3:55.96.
Whittaker won the 2025 NCAA Indoor title with a world-leading time of 44.24 that ranks No. 2 on the world indoor all-time list and broke the American and collegiate records previously held by Razorback Britton Wilson. Whittaker set an outdoor PR of 49.58 to win a Diamond League race in Oslo and three days later won the Stockholm Diamond League in 49.78.
This will be the 11th USATF Outdoor Championship for Morris, who has won four titles and placed second four times. She claimed three consecutive titles in 2017, 2018, and 2019, then added a fourth in 2022.
Placing fourth at the 2024 Olympic Trials marked the first time Morris didn’t make Team USA for a World Championships or Olympic Games since her first USATF Outdoor Championship in 2014.
Morris has competed at five World Outdoor Championships and two Olympic Games, earning three World Championship silver medals and one Olympic silver medal.
NCAA 100m champion Jordan Anthony is predicted to place in the final of the 100m and 200m at the USATF Championships. He produced career best times of 9.95 and 19.93 in sweeping the SEC 100m and 200m, then clocked a wind-aided 9.73 (2.1 wind) at the NCAA West First Round.
The last NCAA 100m champion to also win the USA 100m title in the same season was Sam Graddy of Tennessee in 1984, who also placed second in the 1984 Olympic Trials 100m.
Over the past 20 years, a pair of NCAA 100m champions finished second at the USATF Championships with Charles Silmon of TCU in 2013 and Tennessee’s Christian Coleman in 2017. Razorback Jarrion Lawson won the 2016 NCAA 100m and finished seventh in the Olympic Trials final.
Joining Anthony in the 100m and 200m is incoming Razorback Dapriest Hogans, who has set career best times of 10.10 and 20.36 this season along with wind-aided bests of 9.96 (2.5) and 20.11 (2.7), both at altitude. Hogans won the NCAA Division II 200m title and placed third in the 100m.
The first two days of the USATF Championships feature the heptathlon and decathlon with Brooks and Marcus Weaver, who set a career best of 7,940 points to win the SEC Championships decathlon.
Brooks set a season best of 6,365 as runner-up in the heptathlon at the Decastar in Talence. Last year she established a career best of 6,408 to place third in the Olympic Trials and finished 11th in the Olympic Games.
