Kenna Curry and Jadyn Keeler from the University of North Dakota (UND) track and field team will visit Virginia Beach this week to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships at the Virginia Beach Sports Center. The weight throw portion of the National Championships will take place on Friday at 1:15 p.m. (CT), while the 5,000 meters will run at 3:42 p.m. (CT).

Curry enters the meet with the No. 6 toss nationally in the weight throw heading into the championships and is seeded No. 6. Her throw of 75-0 1/2 (22.87m) at the East Coast Invitational this February qualified her for the meet. In Virginia Beach, her throw won the weight throw and shattered the school record mark of 72-1 3/4 (21.9mm), set by Molli Detloff at the 2019 Summit League Indoor Championships.

Keeler heads into the meet ranked No. 17 in the country in the 5,000 meters and earned the No. 16 seed. She qualified for the meet with a time of 15:28.29 in the 5,000 meters in Boston this February.

She was the fifth collegiate runner to cross the finish line at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational and completely obliterated her previous school record time of 15:57.19, which she set on that same track at the Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener this past December.

Student-athletes that finish in the top-16 at the NCAA Indoor Championships will earn All-America honors, with the top-eight finishers earning First Team All-America status. Second Team All-America honors will go to the student-athletes that finish between ninth and 16th place.

Live results of this year’s National Championship meet will be provided by Flash Results. Portions of the meet will be live streamed by WatchESPN.

With both Kenna Curry and Jadyn Keeler entering the meet, it will be just the second time in UND’s Division I history that two Fighting Hawks compete at the indoor national meet.

The only other time this has happened was the 2019 season, where both Molli Detloff and Kyley Foster made nationals. Detloff finished 11th in the weight throw with a toss of 67-9 1/2 (20.66m) and Foster was 10th in the pole vault with a clearance of 13-7 3/4 (4.16m).

When she competes at the meet, Curry will become the first student-athlete in Division I history for North Dakota to participate in back-to-back NCAA Indoor Championships.

She remains just the third Fighting Hawk to make the indoor national meet, also finishing 14th in the weight throw and earning Second Team All-America accolades with a mark of 67-3 1/2 (20.51m) last season.

Keeler will become the first athlete in North Dakota’s Division I history to participate in a track event at the indoor national meet and just the fourth Fighting Hawk to partake in the meet.

Two weeks ago, Kenna Curry showed out at the Summit League Indoor Championships and was named the Field Championship M.V.P. at the conclusion of the meet. She had two All-Summit League performances in Brookings.

On the opening day of the conference championships, Curry successfully defended her weight throw crown from the 2024 conference meet and won gold with a toss of 70-6 1/4 (21.49m). On Saturday, she was victorious in the shot put with a mark of 50-3 1/2 (15.33m).

Jadyn Keeler earned All-Summit League status three times at the Summit League Indoor Championships and earned the title of Track Championship M.V.P. at the end of the meet. On Friday, she beat the rest of the competition in the 3,000 meters by over nine seconds and won the gold medal with a time of 9:21.78.

On the final day of the meet, Keeler captured the crown in both the mile and 5,000 meters. In the mile, she out-ran the rest of the competition and won gold in 4:45.90.

Towards the conclusion of the meet, Keeler completed the triple crown and won the 5,000 meters in 16:20.88. With her 5,000-meter time, she shattered the Summit League Indoor Championships record time of 16:25.16, set by Jennie Baragar-Petrash of North Dakota State in 2021.

In the most recent USTFCCCA rankings, the North Dakota climbed one spot up to No. 55 in the national poll. It is the third-best the Fighting Hawks have ever ranked and is the best UND has ever ranked this late in the poll. NoDak is the top ranked Summit League team in the poll and the only team from the conference ranked in the top-80.

Kenna Curry is No. 6 in the NCAA in the weight throw with her toss of 75-0 1/2 (22.87m) at the East Coast Invitational. Jadyn Keeler is No. 16 in the country in the 5,000 meters with a time of 15:28.229 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational.