Since her breakout efficiency on the 2023 NCAA Championships, Borden, Sask.’s Savannah Sutherland has dominated the 400m hurdles—and Sunday on the Huge Ten Championships in Eugene, Ore., was no exception. The College of Michigan standout gained her third consecutive convention title within the occasion, punching her ticket to the NCAA Regionals later this month in Florida.
Sutherland cruised by way of the prelims and closing, profitable every spherical by greater than two seconds—a commanding margin within the one-lap race with 10 hurdles. She clocked 55.37 seconds within the closing, practically two seconds off her season’s better of 53.46, set final month. This marks her third straight Huge Ten title within the occasion; the one time she didn’t win was in her freshman yr in 2022, when she completed fourth.
The 21-year-old is at the moment the top-ranked NCAA athlete within the ladies’s 400m hurdles and a powerful favorite to seize her second NCAA title, having gained her first in 2023. Final yr, Sutherland completed second to American Jasmine Jones within the NCAA closing, however she set a brand new Canadian document of 53.26 seconds within the course of.
Sutherland additionally made historical past final summer time in Paris, turning into the youngest member of the 2024 Canadian monitor and area workforce to succeed in a person Olympic closing, the place she completed seventh. She was the primary Canadian to succeed in a ladies’s 400m hurdles closing since Atlanta 1996.
Subsequent up for Sutherland is the NCAA East First Spherical in Jacksonville, Fla., from Might 28–31.
Rachel Forsyth breaks U20 5,000m document
Additionally making headlines on the 2025 Huge Ten Championships was Michigan State distance runner Rachel Forsythwho set a brand new Canadian U20 document within the ladies’s 5,000m. Forsyth completed fifth in her first collegiate season with a time of 15:43.81, breaking her earlier U20 document of 15:47.04, set simply final month.
She now holds 4 Canadian U20 distance operating data, starting from the mile to the 5,000m.
