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Terrick Johnson competes in the 800 meters for the Iowa track and field teamTerrick Johnson competes in the 800 meters for the Iowa track and field team
Stephen Mally
Men's Track & Field

Notes: Iowa Travels to 5 Meets

The Hawkeyes will compete in five meets across the country.

THIS WEEK

The Hawkeyes will compete in five meets across the country. Distance and mid-distance head to the Bryan Clay Invite, Mt. SAC Relays and Beach Invite in California. The throws group will be at the Big Red Classic in Lincoln, Nebraska. Sprints and hurdles take off to Gainesville, Florida, for the Tom Jones Invitational.

HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG

The meet schedule and results can be found on the Iowa Track and Field schedule page at hawkeyesports.com. Live results links are located under the meet day tab on the track and field home page. Updates and results will also be posted on the team's official 'X' account (iowaXC_TF). 

2026 NEWS

  • Junior Ryan Johnson opened his outdoor season with a school-record throw of 75.75 meters in the men’s hammer throw at the Jim Duncan Invitational. He now holds the No. 2 mark in the country.
  • At the Stanford Invite, sophomore Luke Knepp set Iowa’s new school record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, placing third in his section with the new program best of 8:34.97. He had previously held the No. 2 spot on the program list at 8:39.54. He shaved five seconds off of his time from a season ago. Teammate Hayden Kuhn ran 8:30.26 in his section to post the program’s fifth-best time.
  • Senior Lizzy Korczak captured the women’s javelin title at the Texas Relays with a throw of 55.20 meters. It is her second win of the season.
  • Senior Sal Capaldo wrapped up the decathlon in third place with a lifetime-best 7,305 points at the Texas Relays. Capaldo tallied four personal bests and six top-five finishes, including the win in the 110-meter hurdles.
  • At the Florida Relays, sophomore Chioma Nwachukwu climbed Iowa’s all-time list in the women’s 200 meters, with a third-place finish in 22.96. That time ranks fourth in program history.
  • Senior Gabby Cortez improved her standing on Iowa’s all-time list, running a lifetime-best 2:03.82 to move into third all-time in the 800 meters at the Florida Relays. Junior Leanna Lewis followed behind, clocking a personal-best 2:04.13 to rank fourth in program history.
  • In the women’s 4x400-meter relay, the quartet of Olicia Lucas, Damaris Mutunga, Leanna Lewis, and Chioma Nwachukwu placed fourth with a time of 3:30.88, ranking second in program history.
  • Iowa’s Vaughn DeVaughn III claimed the men’s 110-meter hurdle title in 13.92 at the UCF Black & Gold Challenge. 
  • Lizzy Korczak won the women’s javelin in Orlando for the second-straight season, opening her outdoor campaign with a 52.06-meter throw.

LAST TIME OUT

At the Jim Duncan Invitational in Des Moines, junior Ryan Johnson opened his outdoor season with a school-record hammer throw of 75.75 meters, breaking his previous mark and moving to No. 2 nationally. On the track, Clare Kelly earned a bronze medal in the women’s 800 meters (2:09.72), while freshman Spencer Alf led the men’s 800 with a personal-best 1:52.70. Ethan Eichhorn placed eighth in the men’s 1,500 and Armaan Chopra finished 10th. Jalyssa Blazek took 11th in the women’s 1,500.

LAST TIME HERE 

Last season, the Hawkeyes recorded 13 updates to the program’s all-time list across the Mt. SAC Relays and Tom Jones Invitational, including three school records. Kalen Walker (men’s 100 meters), Chioma Nwachukwu (women’s 400 meters), and the 4x400-meter relay team of Olicia Lucas, Alivia Williams, Damaris Mutunga, and Nwachukwu each picked up school records in their respective events. At the Mt. SAC Relays, Luke Knepp ran 8:39.54 in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase, marking the second-fastest time in school history, while Brayden Burnett and Will Ryan recorded all-time top performances in the 10,000 meters, finishing sixth and seventh, respectively. Sal Capaldo scored 7,221 points in the decathlon (fifth all-time), and Carlee Rochford totaled 5,114 points in the heptathlon, ranking eighth in program history. At the Tom Jones Invitational, the women’s 4x100-meter relay team of Holly Duax, Lucas, Williams, and Lia Love clocked 44.29, the fifth-fastest time in school history, while Duax also recorded the seventh-fastest mark in the women’s 200 meters (23.50). Mutunga and Ali Frandsen added all-time marks in the 400-meter hurdles and 400 meters, respectively.

B1G HONORS

Two Hawkeyes were named Big Ten Athletes of the Week on March 25. Emmanuel Njoku's 7.95-meter jump is tied for sixth in the nation in the long jump. He won the title at the UCF Black & Gold Invite to open the outdoor season. Prior Ochonogor kicked off his outdoor campaign with a title in the 400-meter hurdles. Ochonogor's time of 50.20 led the nation after opening week. He moved to 7th on Iowa's all-time list.

JOHNSON ON THE BOWERMAN WATCH LIST 

Ryan Johnson has been named to The Bowerman Award Watch List, which honors the top male and female collegiate track and field athletes of the year. Johnson had a dominant indoor campaign, winning the NCAA and Big Ten title in the weight throw. The junior was Iowa’s first-ever weight throw champion and third overall champion in program history. He became a back-to-back Big Ten champion and holds Iowa’s only weight throw conference titles in school history. Johnson’s mark of 25.66 meters at the Big Ten Championships set the 2026 world lead. The throw broke his previous school record and shattered the collegiate, meet, and facility records. Johnson now ranks third all-time among American weight throwers and fourth in world history in the event. During the indoor season, Johnson claimed eight event titles and reset the school record three times. He was named the USTFCCCA Men’s National Athlete of the Week on Feb. 9 and earned Big Ten Men’s Field Event Athlete of the Week honors twice. Johnson opened his outdoor season with a school-record throw of 75.75 meters in the men’s hammer throw, surpassing his previous program record of 73.20 meters. He now holds the No. 2 mark in the country. Last outdoor season, he won five event titles, placed fourth at the Big Ten Championships and finished seventh at the NCAA West First Round. 

RETURNING ALL-AMERICANS

The Hawkeyes return All-American’s Ryan Johnson, Mike Stein, Lizzy Korczak, and the men’s and women’s 4x400-meter relay teams. Johnson earned first-team All-America honors in his first season as a Hawkeye finishing in sixth-place, firing 71.91 meters and scoring the men’s team three points in the hammer throw. He became the first Hawkeye to reach the podium in the hammer throw since 2007. Making her NCAA Championships debut, Lizzy Korczak became a second-team All-American in the javelin. Competing in flight two, Korczak placed 13th at 53.18 meters. Stein uncorked a 75.77-meter throw out of the gate and earned him sixth place and first-team honors. The 4x400-relay team of Landon Fontenot, Zidane Brown, Josh Pugh and Terrick Johnson placed fourth and clinched first-team All-America status. The group clocked the second-best time in program history at 3:01.61. Also returning is the women’s 4x400-relay team of Alivia Williams, Damaris Mutunga, Olicia Lucas and Chioma Nwachuku securing the program's first ever first-team All-America honor. The quartet clocked a sixth-place time of 3:27.42 to finish the 2025 NCAA Championships.

RELAY RETURNERS

Iowa brings back a deep core of mid-distance runners to pace the relays. On the women’s front, sophomores Alivia Williams, Damaris Mutunga and Chioma Nwachukwu, alongside junior Olicia Lucas return as owners of four of the top five records in program history in the 4x400 relay. On the men’s side, Landon Fontenot, Zidane Brown, Josh Pugh and Terrick Johnson hold the program’s second-fastest time in the 4x400 after placing 4th at NCAAs last season. Derek Leicht, James Fingalsen, Ryan Schreiner and Johnson ran the 4x800 relay in 7:21.88 at the Drake Relays, which marked a then-world leading time. 

IN THE RANKINGS

The Iowa men’s team is ranked No. 21 nationally in the third checkpoint of the outdoor season. The men sit No. 3 and the women No. 5 in the Midwest region. The Hawkeyes have eight event groups ranked in the top 15, led by the men’s 400-meter hurdles and men’s hammer throw at No. 2. The women’s 800 meters ranks No. 3, while the men’s 110-meter hurdles (No. 5), women’s 10,000 meters (No. 6), and men’s 400 meters (No. 10) round out the top 10. Both the men’s 10,000 meters and women’s 200 meters are ranked No. 13.

SCHOOL-RECORD HOLDERS

Seven school records have been set by current members of the 2026 Iowa roster:

UPDATING THE ALL-TIME LISTS

The Hawkeyes made 12 updates to the outdoor top-10 lists:

UP NEXT

Iowa travels to the Drake Relays and Kip Janvrin Open for meets from April 22-25.