LOGAN, Utah – Utah State track and field will travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the 2025 Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championships on February 27-March 1.
 
MEET INFORMATION
2025 Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championships
Date: Feb. 27-Mar. 1, 2025 
Start: Thursday @ 10 a.m.; Friday @ 10 a.m.; Saturday @ 9:30 a.m. (MT)
Site: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Venue: Albuquerque Convention Center
Live Streaming: Mountain West Network
Live Results: Record Timing
Competitions: Meet Schedule 
General Info: Championships Central
 
DIRECTOR OF TRACK & FIELD/CROSS COUNTRY ARTIE GULDEN
"The teams are excited to get at it this week in the championships. We are looking to improve from last year in all aspects–team performance, individual conference champions, and all-conference accolades. I am confident that if we compete like we have all season, our teams will be able to improve in all those areas."
 
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS 1010
For the first time this season, USU track and field will be competing in a team-scored competition. Team points are awarded based on individual finishes in each event, with the first-place athlete receiving eight points and proceeding down to the eighth-place athlete, who receives one point. All-Mountain West honors are awarded to the top-three finishers in each event.
  
REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
Junior Logan Hammer, who holds the USU outdoor pole vault record, made Aggie history by clearing 5.50 meters (18-0.5) at the BYU Indoor Invitational on January 11, setting the Utah State indoor pole vault record. His mark bested the previous record of 5.45 meters (17-10.5), which was set by Lance White in 1994 and matched by Mark Calvin in 1998. Hammer broke his own record the following week by clearing 5.55 meters (18-2.5) at the Snake River Open on Jan. 17. At the Roman Ruiz Speed and Power Invite on Feb. 1, Hammer broke both his own record and the George Nelson Fieldhouse record with his mark of 5.60 meters (18-4.5).
  
AWARDS SEASON
Freshman Daniel Chase won Mountain West Men's Track Athlete of the Week and Men's Freshman of the Week, junior Logan Hammer won MW Men's Field Athlete of the Week and freshman Abbie Scott won MW Women's Freshman of the Week on January 14. The trio was honored again the following week, with Chase earning MW Men's Freshman of the Week, Hammer repeating as MW Men's Field Athlete of the Week and freshman Abbie Scott winning MW Women's Field Athlete of the Week and Women's Freshman of the Week on January 21. This is the first time that a trio of athletes have been honored in consecutive weeks in conference history. Hammer is the first Utah State track and field athlete to earn six or more MW weekly accolades since Dillon Maggard earned nine from 2017-18. Freshmen Presley Gray and Diego Aguirre-Stewart added to the Aggies' accolades when they won MW Women's and Men's Freshman of the Week honors on February 11 and 18, respectively.
 
RUNNING IT BACK
Utah State returns six all-MW performers from last year as the Aggie men placed fourth at the MW Indoor Championships with 94 points and the women finished 10th with 27 points.
  
The USU men's distance medley relay team earned all-conference honors for their 10:07.76 time, taking first place at the MW Indoor Championships, as graduate Brennan Benson, sophomore Landon Bott, and junior Drew Hogan return from that group. Benson, who won the mile with a time of 4:11.48, and Bott, who placed second in the 800 meters with a time of 1:48.81, which ranks third in school history, were additionally recognized as all-conference honorees. Senior Kelton Chenworth claimed his second all-conference honor for his second-place finish in the high jump with a mark of 2.06 meters. Hammer, an outdoor All-American, won the pole vault by clearing 5.06 meters, while fellow junior Javin Richards placed third with a mark of 4.96 meters.
 
LAST MEET
Utah State concluded its indoor season by capturing 12 individual titles and 25 podium finishes at the BU Valentine Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts, the Tyson Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and the Mountain States Games in Pocatello, Idaho. Aggie athletes had 16 performances from the three meets that ranked in the top 10 all-time in Utah State history.
  
FOLLOW ALONG
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