Mountain West Athletes Set For 2026 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships

2026 NCAA Indoor Championships

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Mountain West will see 15 student-athletes compete across 17 events this week at the 2026 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, which will be held at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, March 13-14.

New Mexico is sending a league-high five student-athletes to the NCAA championships.

For the third straight year, Habtom Samuel will compete in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter races after sweeping the two events at the MW championship meet for the third straight season, breaking his own Conference meet records in both events. The junior qualified for the 5,000-meter with the NCAA’s top time this season at 13:05.21, the second-fastest in MW history behind the all-time record he set a season ago (13:04.92). The 2025 NCAA Men’s Cross Country Champion will be looking for his first NCAA indoor title after finishing second in the 5,000 and ninth 3,000 at last year’s national meet.

Lobo junior Evans Kiplagat will join Samuel in the 5,000-meter race after qualifying with a time of 13:18.05 at December’s BU Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener. Sophomore Matthew Endrödy, the 2026 Mountain West Champion in 800-meter and the mile, will compete in the mile with a qualifying time of 3:53.65 that he ran in Boston in January.

On the women’s side, sophomore Pamela Kosgei, fresh off winning back-to-back Mountain West titles in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter races and breaking her own records in both at the MW Championship meet, will compete in both events at the NCAA meet for a second consecutive year.

Utah State will have three compete on the men’s side in Fayetteville. Senior Logan Hammer qualified for the pole vault for a second straight year with a season-high 5.63 meters/18′-5.5. On the track, Aggie freshman Ayodele Ojo will compete in the 60-meters after qualifying with the top 60-meter time in the Conference this year of 6.57 and junior Landon Bott will run the 800-meter after recording a season-high time of 1:47.55 in a meet in Fayetteville earlier this season, a time that ranks third all-time in the Mountain West.

 Colorado State will send multiple participants to the national meet for a fifth straight season, however 2026 will feature a pair of new faces as Kajsa Borrman (weight throw) and Makayla Long (shot put) both qualified for the indoor meet for the first time. Borrman defended her MW title in the weight throw with a career-best mark 22.16m/72-8.5, while Long won the Mountain West title in the shot put with a personal-best throw of 17.69 meters/58’-0.5.

Boise State senior Landon Helms (heptathlon) and Kaiya Robertson (mile) will represent the Broncos at the national meet. Helms won back-to-back Mountain West heptathlon titles in Reno in February with his point total of 5,964 setting a championship meet record and ranking second all-time in Conference history. Robertson secured her spot in Fayetteville after setting the all-time Mountain West record in the mile with a time of 4:24.51 in Seattle in February. She went on to grab her first Mountain West title in the mile at the Mountain West Championships in Reno.

San Diego State junior Xiamara Young, who swept the 2026 Mountain West titles in the long jump and triple jump, will compete in both jumping events at the national meet after leading the Conference with marks of 6.50 meters/21′-4-0 and 13.51 meters/44’-4.0, respectively, this season, with the long jump mark coming at the Conference meet.

Rounding out the Mountain West participants is Krishna Jayasankar Menon of UNLV, who will compete in the shot put alongside CSU’s Long after finishing second behind Long at the MW championships with a personal-best throw of 17.09 meters/56’-1.0.

For more information about the 2026 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, click here.