B.C.’s Matti Erickson and Will Floyd continued Canada’s standout streak over the weekend, on the NCAA Indoor Monitor and Discipline Championships in Virginia Seaside, Va. Each took dwelling NCAA titles: Erickson within the males’s 800m, and Floyd within the males’s 400m.
Erickson, representing the College of Oregon, clinched the boys’s 800-metre title in 1:46.43. “I used to be ready to run it from a number of other ways,” Erickson informed FloTrack post-race. From the entrance, from the midpack, from the again…I simply tried to remain as relaxed as I might and obtained to the road as quickly as attainable.”
Simply after his extremely profitable 2024 NCAA season ended, Erickson clocked a private better of 1:45.74 on the Portland Monitor Pageant, putting him because the ninth-fastest Canadian man over 800m in historical past. He adopted this by ending third on the Canadian Olympic Trials, solely narrowly lacking a spot on Workforce Canada for Paris. In October of final 12 months, the now-22-year-old from Nelson, B.C. turned the first Canadian observe athlete to signal a Title, Picture and Likeness (NIL) cope with U.S. sportswear large Nike, marking a serious milestone for Canadian athletes within the NCAA.
Competing for the College of Georgia, 20-year-old Will Floyd emerged victorious within the males’s 400 meters, narrowly edging out Baylor’s Nathaniel Ezekiel with a successful time of 45.43. Earlier than this, he earned a silver medal on the SEC Indoor Championships with a private PB of 45.24, the fourth-fastest in Georgia’s historical past.
In 2022, Floyd represented Workforce Canada on the World Athletics U20 Championships in Colombia, taking fourth within the 400m and capturing a bronze medal within the 4×400 relay.
Ceili McCabe, Savannah Sutherland make historical past
Canadian girls additionally shone on the NCAAs, with Vancouver’s Ceili McCabe changing into the primary Canadian lady to ever win an NCAA title within the 3,000m occasion (indoors), in her closing collegiate indoor race. The second marked the primary NCAA title of McCabe’s lengthy profession at West Virginia College (WVU). McCabe’s time of 9:01.64 was a brand new facility report, and she or he turned the primary WVU athlete to win the occasion at a nationwide championship.
Vancouver’s Ceili McCabe topped NCAA champion in girls’s 3,000m
Borden, Sask. native Savannah Sutherland completed fourth within the girls’s 400m closing in a brand new Canadian report time of 51.29 seconds. The College of Michigan sprinter ran her quickest 400m time ever (throughout indoors and open air) to decrease her earlier nationwide report of 51.60 by three-tenths of a second.
For full outcomes from the 2025 NCAA Indoor Monitor and Discipline Championships, head right here.