LOGAN, Utah – Utah State track & field had 10 student-athletes selected to the 2026 Indoor Track & Field All-Mountain West team, it was announced by the conference on Wednesday. The top three finishers in each event at the MW Indoor Championships earn all-conference honors.
 
Utah State's 10 honorees rank fifth-most in the conference, only behind New Mexico (25), Colorado State (20), Air Force (11) and Grand Canyon (11).
 
Seniors Ernest Green, Logan Hammer, Marshall Rasmussen and Javin Richards, junior Landon Bott, sophomores Jayden Holdsworth, Ayodele Ojo, Jr. and Taite Priestley, and freshmen Tayshaun Ogomo and Caleb White earned all-MW honors.
 
Hammer won his third-straight Mountain West indoor title in the men's pole vault, clearing 5.50 meters (18-0.5). Rasmussen won the bronze medal with his clearance of 5.15 meters (16-10.75).
 
USU earned all-conference honors in the men's DMR for the fourth consecutive season as Utah State's quartet of Bott, Green, White and Holdsworth clocked in at 9:40.32 to finish second. The team posted the second-fastest time in school history, only behind the time of 9:32.31 set by All-Americans Jordan Beutler, Brady Martin, Clay Lambourne and Dillon Maggard in 2018.
 
Ogomo earned the first medal of his young Utah State career, winning silver in the men's 800 meters in 1:53.64.
 
Ojo earned the silver medal in the men's 60 meters, the second MW silver medal of his career, with his second-place time of 6.64.
 
Priestley earned bronze in the high jump for the third time in his Aggie career with his clearance of 2.13 meters (6-11.75).
 
Richards claimed the bronze medal in the men's heptathlon with 5,457 points, the fifth MW medal of his career and first in the heptathlon.
 
Bott, Hammer and Ojo will next compete at the 2026 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Friday-Saturday, March 13-14. The track and field team will commence its outdoor season the following weekend at the Utah Tech Invitational in St. George, Utah.
 
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