Indoor Season Begins Saturday in Boston

Saturday, December 6

Boston, MA

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University of Oregon

Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener

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Meet Schedule

The Ducks’ 23 distance-focused entries include its seven cross country All-Americans.

EUGENE, Ore. – The Ducks' indoor track and field season begins this weekend at the BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener in Boston. With a focus on the distance events, Oregon has 23 entries during Saturday's meet including its seven cross country All-Americans and the reigning NCAA indoor mile champion.

The 2025 BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Opener is taking place at the BU Track and Tennis Center, and will be streamed on FloTrack. Thirteen of the Ducks' entries will compete during the elite window, scheduled to start at 12 p.m. PT.

Oregon Entries | BU Season Opener
(all times PT)
9:20 a.m. – men's mile: (S3) Cain Evans, Ben Greene, Will Heslam
10:40 a.m. – men's 3K: (S2) Sergio Del Barrio, Tayson Echohawk; (S3) Anthony Fast Horse
12:11 p.m. – women's mile invite: Allura Markow
12:19 p.m. – men's mile invite: James Harding, Jeffery Rogers
12:27 p.m. – women's 3K invite: Juliet Cherubet, Bahiya El Arfaoui, Dalia Frias, Wilma Nielsen
12:39 p.m. – men's 3K invite: Benjamin Balazs, Simeon Birnbaum, Elliott Cook
12:52 p.m. – women's 5K invite: Silan Ayyildiz, Diana Cherotich
1:13 p.m. – men's 5K invite: Abdel Laadjel
2:05 p.m. – women's 5K: (S3) Kendall Martin
4:15 p.m. – men's 5K: (S1) Aiden Smith; (S2) Michael Mireles; (S8) Jack Meier

At last month's NCAA Cross Country Championships, Ayyildiz and Laadjel both finished in ninth place in their respective races to lead the Ducks' All-America accolades. Cook and Nielsen will don the UO kit for the first time since last year's NCAA Indoor meet. Cook helped the Men of Oregon to a third-place finish and school record in the DMR while Nielsen ran her way to an NCAA title in the mile.

Ayyildiz is the school-record holder in the mile and 3,000 meters, and will be looking for her first UO top-10 entry at 5,000 meters. Carmela Cardama Baez set the school record of 15:25.41 at the BU Opener in 2019.

Cherotich and El Arfaoui—a transfer from Eastern Kentucky—are set to make their indoor debuts for the Ducks.

Laadjel enters the weekend as the No. 6 performer in program history at 5,000 meters with a 13:34.35 from the BU Valentine Invitational last February. He carries a lifetime best of 13:29.79 from last year's Opener where he competed unattached.

The USATF Cross Country Championships will also be contested Saturday at the Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland. Freshman Juan Gonzalez will compete in the U20 men's 8K at 2:50 p.m. Cooper Teare is also entered in the men's 10K which will go off at 12:55 p.m.

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