INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Track and Field and Cross Country Committee announced the participants for the 2026 NCAA Division III Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday and No. 13 MIT women's track and field will send 11 student-athletes to this year's championships to compete in nine individual events and one relay.  

The 2026 NCAA Division III outdoor track and field championships will take place May 21-23, 2026, at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex in La Crosse, Wisconsin. 

For each individual event contested, including the decathlon and heptathlon, the top 22 declared student-athletes were accepted into the competition. For each relay event contested, the top 16 declared relay teams, one per institution, were accepted into the competition. 
 
Selected MIT student-athletes by event:

400 Meters 

• 10th – Shreya Kalyan — 55.08 

800 Meters 

• 10th – Krystal Montgomery — 2:09.51 

1500 Meters 

• 13th – Lexi Fernandez — 4:27.22 

5000 Meters 

• 14th – Kate Sanderson — 16:36.28 

10,000 Meters 

• 8th – Kate Sanderson — 34:58.73 

3000 Steeplechase 

• 18th – Liv Girand — 10:39.08 

4x400 Relay 

• 3rd – MIT (Madeline Hon, Nandini Warrier, Krystal Montgomery, Shreya Kalyan) — 3:44.39 

High Jump 

• T15th – Amalia Christina Toutziaridi — 1.68m (5' 6") 

Pole Vault 

• 11th – Hailey Surace — 3.94m (12' 11") 
• 15th – Katelyn Howard — 3.90m (12' 9.5") 

Javelin 

• 8th – Elaine Wang — 43.76m (143' 7") 

The complete list of qualifiers is available on the following website: https://results.leonetiming.com/?mid=8721. 

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