SELINSGROVE, PA - Susquehanna University prepares to host the 2025 Landmark Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships this Saturday and Sunday with the hope of keeping the Landmark trophies in Selinsgrove. The Pre-Championship Polls seemed to have the same opinion as the men finished atop the poll, while the women were slotted fourth.

The men's team has turned on the afterburners this spring after capturing the indoor title in the winter and look to repeat as outdoor champions for the fifth year in a row. The River Hawks reached as high as seventh this spring in the USTFCCCA National Rankings, aided by strong finishes in a number of events, including the relays. The 4x100 team consisting of Dominic Santos, Mason Winslow, Brandon Zimmerman and Austin Hurrell took ownership of the Landmark, school and facility record with a time of 40.74 at Moravian's Coach P Invite, which is currently seventh nationally. The 4x400 relay team of Winslow, Zimmerman, Benjamin Bulger and Elliott Davis claimed a new record of 3:14.37 set at the JT Duals. Both relay teams competed at Penn Relays last week, performing well in their own right. The 4x400 squad of Winslow, Brandon Zimmerman, Bulger and Davis competed in the special Pop Haddleton MAC 4x400 race, setting a new all-time best of 3:15.14, beating the previous record in the race set by their predecessors Bob Walker, Jeff Walden, Joe Boileau, and Mike Spangler, who timed in at 3:15.2 back in 1985. The 4x100 relay team consisting of Santos, Winslow, Hurrell and Zimmerman ran a time of 41.19.

Zimmerman, Bulger and Winslow each received Landmark Track Athlete of the Week this spring. Zimmerman, a gifted multi athlete, set a school record in the decathlon with 6,434 points set at the River Hawk Multi in mid-April. He set new PRs in the shot put (10.51m), 400 meters (49.31), and 110-meter hurdles (14.88), along with earning the top time in the 100 meters at 10.67 and ranking second in the long jump at 6.95m. At Moravian Zimmerman also set a new PR in the 200 meters with a time of 21.43. This helped set the stage for perhaps one of the finest ten-day runs in program annals as one week later the team headed to Moravian and where Bulger earned his Landmark weekly nod after last year's national qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles set a new PR in the event at Moravian with a time of 52.39, currently fourth nationally. Winslow earned it recently following his two-relay performance at Penn. Other accomplishments included Elliott Davis rewriting his own record in the 400 meters at Moravian with a time of 47.34. The River Hawks also had an impressive showing at Bucknell's Bison Invite, where Calder El Bachir Diakite set a new school record in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.30, currently 12th-fastest in the country. Fellow hurdler Carter Smink kept in step with his 110H time of 14.76, currently 46th in Division III. In the throws Cole Goodwin looks to keep up his Landmark-winning ways, particularly defending his shot put title where he threw 14.43m last year. His lifetime best is 14.95m. He also finished second in the discus last year at 45.53m, while his personal best is 43.72m. 

As for the women it has been another promising spring, with more times and marks blooming like Selinsgrove's spring. Multi competitor Hannah Alderfer has helped lead the charge, including breaking her own record in the heptathlon during the River Hawk Multi with 4,619 points, taking the top mark in the 100-meter hurdles (15.11), 200 meters (26.33), and long jump (5.44m), as well as setting a new PR in the 800 at 2:27.25. At Moravian she set PRs again in the long jump (5.73m), 100 meters (12.49), and 400 hurdles (1:06.26). Hurdler Chloe Yoder holds the sixth-fastest time nationally in the 100 hurdles after last year's national qualifier in the event ran a 14.05 at the JT Duals. In the team's visit to King's Monarch Open last week senior pole vaulter Sarah Bower set a new school record after clearing 3.35m, officially becoming the program's pole vault record holder in both indoors and outdoors. 

The River Hawks have also seen a bump in their mid-distance and distance group. Distance runner and pole vaulter Sophia Bostwick took on the 10,000 meters, where she ran a time of 41:20.00 at the Jim Taylor Duals in March, while ascending a height of 2.90m in the pole vault at the Coach P Invitational. Senior mid-distance runner Liza Levin posted season best times of 2:21.38 in the 800 meters at Bucknell and 1:01.31 in the 400 at Moravian. She was also a leg of the 4x400 group with Alderfer, Ashley Newman, and Denicia German that took a time of 4:09.35 at the Jim Taylor Duals. Victoria Urbaez also ran the 800 with Levin at Bucknell, where she finished with a slightly faster time of 2:21.21. Over in the throws Ainslee Binkley is 66th nationally in the javelin after posting a distance of 37.49m. Shot putter Keira Carbone led the team with a measurement of 11.24 at Moravian, while Catherine Sirignano holds the team bests in both the discus at 32.87m and the hammer at 38.42m. Fellow hammer thrower Emma Szabo was also in that neighborhood when she threw for 38.38m, with both locking down these marks during the River Hawk Multi and Field Invite. To boot, senior discus thrower Sam Shafer had a season best of 32.25m in the event at the JT Duals.