Thursday, February 26
Indianapolis, Ind.
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Big Ten Indoor Championships
Huskies Get B1G Titles From Moll And Medley
February 26, 2026 | Track & Field
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Day one of the Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Championships saw the Husky women's team claim two of the first four titles handed out, as junior Hana Moll claimed the pole vault and a "Chloe-centric" distance medley relay powered to the win in Meet Record style. That put the Washington women into a tie for first with 32 points with two days to go at the Fall Creek Pavilion in Indianapolis.
With only two events scored today on the men's side, the Huskies put up nine points there, scoring in each of the two events that went final, a third-place finish from the men's DMR, and a sixth-place finish in the 5k from Evan Jenkins. Day two picks up at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time on Friday.
A two-time NCAA Champion, Moll got her second conference title but first since the 2024 Pac-12 outdoor title, leading a 1-2 finish with freshman phenom Veronica Vacca for a big 18 team points in the first event final of the championships. The women then capped their big opening day with a dramatic DMR victory from Chloe Thomas, Chloe Symon, Mia Cochran, and Chloe Foerster, with Foerster pulling away over the final two laps to win in a meet and facility record time of 10:56.18.
Pole Vault U
Hana Moll was jumping without twin sister Amanda, the defending champion, by her side, but she was hardly on her own today. Amanda will miss the rest of the indoor season recovering from an injury in practice, but Veronica Vacca stepped up nicely to make sure Hana had company at the top of the podium.
Moll, who said in her post-competition interview that she herself had suffered a foot injury one day earlier, did not enter the competition until only three other competitors remained out of the original twenty. She came in at 14-7 1/4, and had one opening miss, but then cleared on her second attempt. At that point she sat in second-place behind Vacca, as the freshman made that 14-7 1/4 bar on her first try, establishing a new PR.
Vacca, the Pennsylvania native and multiple prep national champion, then raised her PR again with a make of 14-9. That tied her for No. 4 in Husky history and should lock up an NCAA Indoor bid in her first season, as it ties for seventh in the NCAA this year. It also today locked up second-place, as the other remaining vaulter, Mia Morello, could not clear it.
Moll had passed the 14-9 bar but then came back in at 15-1, and with a first-attempt clearance there she secured the title. Vacca tried that height as well but came up short. Moll then moved the bar all the way up to a potential NCAA record of 16-1 3/4, but did not get over clean today.
Sara Borton finished 10th today with a make of 13-3 1/2.
DMR Dominance
Expected to qualify the women's DMR to NCAA Indoors in two weeks, the Huskies made a few lineup tweaks to the group that ran the qualifying mark back at the Husky Classic, bringing 5k school record-holder Chloe Thomas on to the lead-off 1,200-meter leg, shifting Mia Cochran to the 800-meter third leg, and anchoring with Foerster, who led off back in the Dempsey. Only Chloe Symon remained on the 400-meter leg.
Thomas put the Huskies in a good opening spot with a 3:21.31 time, handing off in fourth. Symon split 54.48 and then Cochran turned in a strong 2:06.28 to put Foerster in third-place right behind Penn State and Michigan. Foerster, a First Team All-American in both the mile and 1,500-meters, took the lead with around three laps remaining and never wavered from there. She widened her lead over the bell lap and the Dawgs won by more than a second in 10:56.18 over the 10:57.35 of Minnesota. Foerster's final 1,600m split was 4:34.11 as she won UW's first women's DMR title in the Big Ten era.
The time broke a Meet Record of 10:56.46 that had stood since 2013, held by Michigan.
Men Collect DMR Bronze, 5k Points
The men's DMR came down to a final all-out bell lap sprint as the Huskies took third-place, a second consecutive top-three finish after winning the title last year.
Jamar Distel stepped up for the opening led and ran 3:00.17 to pass to Alex Rhodes for the 400-meters. Rhodes ran the fastest 400m split in the field, clocking 45.76 to move UW up four spots to second and passing to Tyler Bilyard. Bilyard ran 1:47.52 for the 800-meters, the fastest split on that leg as well. Reuben Reina anchored, and he moved into the lead with a couple laps left, and held it until about half a lap remained, when Michigan and Oregon made moves around the outside on the turn. Reina fought hard to the finish but the Wolverines held on to win in 9:38.72, just ahead of the Ducks and the Huskies were 1.5 seconds back in third in 9:40.22.
The only other men's final today was the 5k, with Evan Jenkins battling for sixth-place and three team points in a time of 13:59.56. The event had fast and slow sections, and the slower section was won by a massive margin by redshirt freshman Nathan Neil, who did not have a 5k time coming in that could get him into the top heat. Neil ran 14:02.68, and that wound up being ninth overall after the top heat ran, putting him just one spot away from scoring. Parker Mong was in the top heat and wound up 26th overall in 14:32.97.
Cosculluela Thrives Over Five
An All-American last outdoor season in the heptathlon, Sofia Cosculluela completed her first indoor pentathlon as a Husky today, with one of the best scores in school history.
The Spanish standout put together a five-event point total of 4,117 to finish fifth overall today and add four team points for the women's score. She goes to No. 3 in UW history with that mark, joining Ida Eikeng (2023) and Hannah Rusnak (2020) as the only women to break 4,000 points in the pentathlon.
Cosculluela opened with a 8.53 time in the 60m hurdles, good for the new No. 9 spot in that event in Husky history. She had a high jump make of 5-4 1/2, then went 40-feet even in the shot put. A long jump of 19-5 1/2 followed, and she wrapped things up in the 800-meters with a time of 2:20.08.
Based on marks entering the weekend, that point total would have ranked 15th nationally, but a number of big marks at the SEC Championships appear likely to push the mark outside the top-16 for NCAAs. Still, Cosculluela had only had one open shot put competition this season prior to the full pentathlon today, so it gives her some great momentum going to outdoors.
Dawg Bites
With only two events scored today on the men's side, the Huskies put up nine points there, scoring in each of the two events that went final, a third-place finish from the men's DMR, and a sixth-place finish in the 5k from Evan Jenkins. Day two picks up at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time on Friday.
A two-time NCAA Champion, Moll got her second conference title but first since the 2024 Pac-12 outdoor title, leading a 1-2 finish with freshman phenom Veronica Vacca for a big 18 team points in the first event final of the championships. The women then capped their big opening day with a dramatic DMR victory from Chloe Thomas, Chloe Symon, Mia Cochran, and Chloe Foerster, with Foerster pulling away over the final two laps to win in a meet and facility record time of 10:56.18.
Pole Vault U
Hana Moll was jumping without twin sister Amanda, the defending champion, by her side, but she was hardly on her own today. Amanda will miss the rest of the indoor season recovering from an injury in practice, but Veronica Vacca stepped up nicely to make sure Hana had company at the top of the podium.
Moll, who said in her post-competition interview that she herself had suffered a foot injury one day earlier, did not enter the competition until only three other competitors remained out of the original twenty. She came in at 14-7 1/4, and had one opening miss, but then cleared on her second attempt. At that point she sat in second-place behind Vacca, as the freshman made that 14-7 1/4 bar on her first try, establishing a new PR.
Vacca, the Pennsylvania native and multiple prep national champion, then raised her PR again with a make of 14-9. That tied her for No. 4 in Husky history and should lock up an NCAA Indoor bid in her first season, as it ties for seventh in the NCAA this year. It also today locked up second-place, as the other remaining vaulter, Mia Morello, could not clear it.
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— Big Ten Conference (@bigten) February 26, 2026
Moll had passed the 14-9 bar but then came back in at 15-1, and with a first-attempt clearance there she secured the title. Vacca tried that height as well but came up short. Moll then moved the bar all the way up to a potential NCAA record of 16-1 3/4, but did not get over clean today.
Sara Borton finished 10th today with a make of 13-3 1/2.
DMR Dominance
Expected to qualify the women's DMR to NCAA Indoors in two weeks, the Huskies made a few lineup tweaks to the group that ran the qualifying mark back at the Husky Classic, bringing 5k school record-holder Chloe Thomas on to the lead-off 1,200-meter leg, shifting Mia Cochran to the 800-meter third leg, and anchoring with Foerster, who led off back in the Dempsey. Only Chloe Symon remained on the 400-meter leg.
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— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) February 27, 2026
Washington sets a new Women's Distance Medley Relay meet record ?? pic.twitter.com/iuPVaFCc02
Thomas put the Huskies in a good opening spot with a 3:21.31 time, handing off in fourth. Symon split 54.48 and then Cochran turned in a strong 2:06.28 to put Foerster in third-place right behind Penn State and Michigan. Foerster, a First Team All-American in both the mile and 1,500-meters, took the lead with around three laps remaining and never wavered from there. She widened her lead over the bell lap and the Dawgs won by more than a second in 10:56.18 over the 10:57.35 of Minnesota. Foerster's final 1,600m split was 4:34.11 as she won UW's first women's DMR title in the Big Ten era.
The time broke a Meet Record of 10:56.46 that had stood since 2013, held by Michigan.
Men Collect DMR Bronze, 5k Points
The men's DMR came down to a final all-out bell lap sprint as the Huskies took third-place, a second consecutive top-three finish after winning the title last year.
Jamar Distel stepped up for the opening led and ran 3:00.17 to pass to Alex Rhodes for the 400-meters. Rhodes ran the fastest 400m split in the field, clocking 45.76 to move UW up four spots to second and passing to Tyler Bilyard. Bilyard ran 1:47.52 for the 800-meters, the fastest split on that leg as well. Reuben Reina anchored, and he moved into the lead with a couple laps left, and held it until about half a lap remained, when Michigan and Oregon made moves around the outside on the turn. Reina fought hard to the finish but the Wolverines held on to win in 9:38.72, just ahead of the Ducks and the Huskies were 1.5 seconds back in third in 9:40.22.
The only other men's final today was the 5k, with Evan Jenkins battling for sixth-place and three team points in a time of 13:59.56. The event had fast and slow sections, and the slower section was won by a massive margin by redshirt freshman Nathan Neil, who did not have a 5k time coming in that could get him into the top heat. Neil ran 14:02.68, and that wound up being ninth overall after the top heat ran, putting him just one spot away from scoring. Parker Mong was in the top heat and wound up 26th overall in 14:32.97.
Cosculluela Thrives Over Five
An All-American last outdoor season in the heptathlon, Sofia Cosculluela completed her first indoor pentathlon as a Husky today, with one of the best scores in school history.
The Spanish standout put together a five-event point total of 4,117 to finish fifth overall today and add four team points for the women's score. She goes to No. 3 in UW history with that mark, joining Ida Eikeng (2023) and Hannah Rusnak (2020) as the only women to break 4,000 points in the pentathlon.
Cosculluela opened with a 8.53 time in the 60m hurdles, good for the new No. 9 spot in that event in Husky history. She had a high jump make of 5-4 1/2, then went 40-feet even in the shot put. A long jump of 19-5 1/2 followed, and she wrapped things up in the 800-meters with a time of 2:20.08.
Based on marks entering the weekend, that point total would have ranked 15th nationally, but a number of big marks at the SEC Championships appear likely to push the mark outside the top-16 for NCAAs. Still, Cosculluela had only had one open shot put competition this season prior to the full pentathlon today, so it gives her some great momentum going to outdoors.
Dawg Bites
- In the women's 5k, Maeve Stiles was the top Husky in 13th-place overall in 16:16.51, with Abby DeVeau in 16th in 16:23.53, and Ella Borsheim 30th in 16:57.54.
- The Big Ten Championships adds the 600-meters to the standard set of championship events. Jonathan Frazier was 15th in 600m qualifying for the Dawgs in 1:18.52, and on the women's side, freshman Sena Pittman was 23rd in 1:40.97
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