In her ultimate collegiate indoor race, Vancouver’s Ceili McCabe crossed the end line at Saturday’s NCAA Indoor Observe and Subject Championships in Virginia Seaside, Va., together with her arms raised in disbelief. McCabe grew to become the primary Canadian girl to ever win an NCAA title within the 3,000m occasion (indoors).
Girls’s 3000m Champion
🥇 Ceili McCabe (@WVUXCTF)
📊 9:01.18#NCAATF x 🎥 ESPN+ pic.twitter.com/WfXudVdFW8— NCAA Observe & Subject (@NCAATrackField) March 15, 2025
The second marked the primary NCAA collegiate title of McCabe’s lengthy profession at West Virginia College (WVU). The 23-year-old closed with a 30-second ultimate 200m lap to drag away from Alabama’s Doris Lemngole, who received the very best of McCabe of their final two conferences. McCabe’s time of 9:01.64 was a brand new facility report, and he or she grew to become the primary WVU athlete to win the occasion at a nationwide championship.
She can be solely the fourth athlete within the WVU historical past to be topped nationwide champion in a observe and area occasion, and the primary Canadian distance runner to win an indoor nationwide title within the NCAA since Justyn Knight gained the lads’s 5,000m in 2018.
Final 12 months, McCabe represented Crew Canada on the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place she missed out on a spot within the ultimate in her specialty occasion, the three,000m steeplechase.
She beforehand advised Canadian Working she left the Paris Olympics with a chip on her shoulder after lacking out on the ladies’s 3,000m steeplechase ultimate by simply two spots, regardless of setting a brand new Canadian report simply months earlier. “I felt so ready to do effectively [in Paris],” McCabe advised Canadian Working. “I wished to be within the ultimate, and I do know I’m proper there.”
McCabe is in her ultimate 12 months of eligibility at WVU, and plans to run professionally after her season. Though she’s uncertain of the path she’ll go, she is aware of there’s extra alternative to coach within the U.S. and attempt to discover the very best match.
Savannah Sutherland breaks Canadian 400m report
It was a historic day for Canadian athletes at NCAA indoors, as Borden, Sask. native Savannah Sutherland completed fourth within the girls’s 400m ultimate 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 outside) to decrease her earlier nationwide report of 51.60 by three-tenths of a second.
The 21-year-old reached the Olympic ultimate within the girls’s 400m hurdles final August in her Video games debut, and gained her first NCAA title on the 2024 outside championships in the identical occasion.
Savannah Sutherland breaking a program report? Probably factor for her to do 😤 pic.twitter.com/gKLk4TLvxh
— Michigan Observe & Subject / Cross Nation (@UMichTrack) March 15, 2025
The winner of the ladies’s indoor 400m, Isabella Whittaker of the College of Arkansas led the ultimate from gun to tape, setting a brand new American and collegiate report of 49.24 seconds.
For full outcomes from the 2025 NCAA Indoor Observe and Subject Championships, view right here.