Quincy Wilson in US Championships action (© How Lao for TrackTown USA)
The 2025 Toyota USATF Outdoor & Para National Championships will be held at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon from 31 July to 3 August as US stars fight for spots for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25. Just over a year later, the facility will play host to the World Athletics U20 Championships Oregon 26 from 5-9 August 2026.
A budding group of more than a dozen U20 stars (athletes who will be younger than 20 on 31 December 2025) are among those seeking a bit of Hayward magic at the senior championships.
For the first time since he made history as the youngest US man to qualify for an Olympic team in track and field, 17-year-old Quincy Wilson will return to Hayward Field eyeing a second senior team. The 4x400m Olympic champion is the third fastest US man this year behind Khaleb McRae and Jacory Patterson, having clocked a world U18 best of 44.10 at the Ed Murphey Classic in July. Wilson is tied for No.4 on the 2025 world top list with Great Britain’s 400m Olympic silver medalist Matthew Hudson-Smith. His Paris teammates Vernon Norwood, Chris Bailey and Bryce Deadmon will be among the list of top challengers for the Bullis High School rising senior, who also owns the North American U18 best in the 600m at 1:16.20.
The fastest three US U20 men of 2025 are entered in the 100m alongside world and Olympic champions. Fresh into his pro career, Christian Miller has the top time of the teenage crew at 10.02, which places him third on this season’s U20 world top list. Miller, who holds the North American U20 record at 9.83, stands at No.3 on the world U20 all-time list. He will be challenged by US U20 champion Tate Taylor, who is set to attempt the 100m and 200m double at the championships. With respective PBs of 10.10 and 20.14, Taylor holds the second-fastest US U20 time in the 100m this year and is the fastest around the curve. The pair will be joined by Nike Outdoor Nationals champion Maurice Gleaton, whose PB of 10.11 is No.3 by a US U20 man this year.
Following a stellar freshman season at the University of Southern California, Brianna Selby sits atop the season world U20 list in the women’s 100m. Her personal best of 11.01 came at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field earlier this year. With some of the top global senior talent entered, a sub-11 clocking could be on the horizon for the young star.
Also highlighting the women’s sprints is recent Bullis High School graduate Sydney Sutton. The lone U20 entrant in the women’s 200m is the fourth-fastest teenage athlete this year thanks to her PB of 22.70. Sutton will double down as she takes on the 400m among the likes of world 400m hurdles record-holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and NCAA champion Aaliyah Butler. The high school standout is second U20 in the world in the event with 51.23 behind Natalie Dumas’ 51.14. She’s joined at the distance by US U20 champion Braelyn Baker, who holds the fourth-fastest US U20 time of the year at 51.69.
Dumas, a double threat in the 400m and 800m, has instead chosen the two-lap challenge with sights set on a Tokyo team in the 800m. The Eastern High (New Jersey) rising senior clocked 2:00.11 to win the New Balance Nationals which moved her to No.3 on the world U20 list for 2025.
Following a standout senior season at Ventura High School, which included silver in the mile at the New Balance Nationals, Sadie Engelhardt has not shied away from high-level competition. The NC State signee is fresh off a 4:07.78 personal best in the 1500m at the Stumptown Twilight earlier this month, which moved her to No.7 on the world U20 top list. She’s entered in the 1500m among top runners including last year’s Olympic Trials champion Nikki Hiltz.
At 16, Cooper Lutkenhaus is the youngest of the rising elite set to take the stage in Eugene. Less than a month after bettering the North American U18 best in the 800m with 1:45.45 to win at the US U20 Championships, Lutkenhaus will test his fitness among the veterans, including US record-holder Bryce Hoppel and area short track record-holder and world indoor champion Josh Hoey.
Anisa Bowen-Fontenot and Jasmine Robinson will both make their US Championships debuts in the 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles, respectively. Bowen-Fontenot, who won silver at the US U20 Championships earlier this year, is entered with a personal best of 13.16 that puts her at No.6 on the world U20 top list this year. Coming off a gold-medal performance in the 400m hurdles at the Nike Outdoor Nationals, Robinson’s 57.12 puts her at No.11 on the world U20 top list.
Also hoping to shake things up in the hurdles is Samford Bulldog Bradley Franklin. The rising sophomore has the fastest time by a US U20 man in the 110m hurdles in 2025 at 13.46. His mark puts him at No.4 on the US U20 all-time list behind 2024 world U20 champion Ja’Kobe Tharp, former world record-holder Renaldo Nehemiah and former LSU star Jordan Moore.
A full list of entries, broadcast and streaming information, and live results for the 2025 Toyota USATF Outdoor & Para National Championships will be available here.
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