WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Indoor Track & Field heads to the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships held in Virginia Beach, Va. from March 14-15.
The Boilermakers individually qualified Cameron Miller, (200m), Praise Aniamaka (triple jump), Zoe Sullivan (60m hurdles) and Jalen Elrod (pentathlon), while the men's 4x400m relay team of Miller, Connor Czajkowski, Brett Otterbacher and Antoine Spencer also qualified.
Miller will participate in his third consecutive indoor championships, twice with Purdue and once with Louisville, and Aniamaka will participate in his second in a row. The rest of Purdue's qualified athletes are set for their first experience at indoor nationals.
To qualify for nationals, individual athletes needed to be in the top 16 of their respective event and relays needed to be in the top 12. The top eight in each event will earn USTFCCCA First Team All-America honors, while the remaining athletes earn Second Team All-America.
Men's Notes
• Miller is Purdue's highest-ranked athletes heading into NCAAs with his No. 4 200m (20.27) trailing Auburn's Makanakaishe Charamba (20.13), Kentucky's Carli Makarawu (20.20) and LSU's Jaiden Reid (20.27). He ran the time at Big Tens in the prelims to break his own school record. Miller followed one day later with a 20.31 to earn the Big Ten 200m title. He advanced to the finals at last year's indoor nationals with a 20.54 in the prelims.
• Aniamaka is fresh off winning the Big Ten triple jump title with an indoor personal-best 16.29m (53-05.50). The jump earned Aniamaka the No. 7 placement for the national meet. He finished ninth at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships with a leap of 15.98m (52-05.25).
• The men's 4x400m team ran a school-record 3:04.95 to earn first at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. The clutch performance earned the Boilermakers the No. 10 spot in the national meet. Spencer led the group with a 45.10 split in the anchor leg, while the rest split sub-46.75.
Women's Notes
• Elrod leads the women's side with her 10th-ranked 4,222 points in the pentathlon. The performance earned her the Big Ten pentathlon silver medal after she recorded personal bests in the 800m (2:11.70), shot put (12.51m / 41-00.50) and high jump (1.64m / 5-04.50). The point total also broke her own school record (4,218) that she set earlier this season in New Mexico.
• Sullivan qualified for indoor nationals with her 13th-ranked 8.08 in the 60mH. She ran her personal best time on Jan. 11 in Louisville, Ky. Sullivan finished sixth at Big Tens (8.18) to earn points for a second consecutive season.
Next Up
After the conclusion of the indoor season, Purdue opens the 2025 outdoor schedule from March 21-22 at the USF Alumni Invitational.
The Boilermakers individually qualified Cameron Miller, (200m), Praise Aniamaka (triple jump), Zoe Sullivan (60m hurdles) and Jalen Elrod (pentathlon), while the men's 4x400m relay team of Miller, Connor Czajkowski, Brett Otterbacher and Antoine Spencer also qualified.
Miller will participate in his third consecutive indoor championships, twice with Purdue and once with Louisville, and Aniamaka will participate in his second in a row. The rest of Purdue's qualified athletes are set for their first experience at indoor nationals.
To qualify for nationals, individual athletes needed to be in the top 16 of their respective event and relays needed to be in the top 12. The top eight in each event will earn USTFCCCA First Team All-America honors, while the remaining athletes earn Second Team All-America.
Men's Notes
• Miller is Purdue's highest-ranked athletes heading into NCAAs with his No. 4 200m (20.27) trailing Auburn's Makanakaishe Charamba (20.13), Kentucky's Carli Makarawu (20.20) and LSU's Jaiden Reid (20.27). He ran the time at Big Tens in the prelims to break his own school record. Miller followed one day later with a 20.31 to earn the Big Ten 200m title. He advanced to the finals at last year's indoor nationals with a 20.54 in the prelims.
• Aniamaka is fresh off winning the Big Ten triple jump title with an indoor personal-best 16.29m (53-05.50). The jump earned Aniamaka the No. 7 placement for the national meet. He finished ninth at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships with a leap of 15.98m (52-05.25).
• The men's 4x400m team ran a school-record 3:04.95 to earn first at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. The clutch performance earned the Boilermakers the No. 10 spot in the national meet. Spencer led the group with a 45.10 split in the anchor leg, while the rest split sub-46.75.
Women's Notes
• Elrod leads the women's side with her 10th-ranked 4,222 points in the pentathlon. The performance earned her the Big Ten pentathlon silver medal after she recorded personal bests in the 800m (2:11.70), shot put (12.51m / 41-00.50) and high jump (1.64m / 5-04.50). The point total also broke her own school record (4,218) that she set earlier this season in New Mexico.
• Sullivan qualified for indoor nationals with her 13th-ranked 8.08 in the 60mH. She ran her personal best time on Jan. 11 in Louisville, Ky. Sullivan finished sixth at Big Tens (8.18) to earn points for a second consecutive season.
Next Up
After the conclusion of the indoor season, Purdue opens the 2025 outdoor schedule from March 21-22 at the USF Alumni Invitational.