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🥈 National Runner-Up Rose Yeboah 🥈 She clears a season-best 1.93m (6-4) to take home the silver medal in the high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. #WhyNotILL

🇺🇸 All-American Melissa Wullschleger 🇺🇸 She uses a program record heptathlon score of 5,928 points to earn fourth place and bring home the program's third All-America honor; the first since Carmel Corbett in 1996! #WhyNotILL

Melissa closes out the season with a school record and top-10 javelin! #WhyNotILL

Really proud of Illinois Track & Field and Cross Country, with the women finishing 5th at the NCAA Track & Field championships! Highest finish for the program in 30 years. Incredible leadership by Coach Petros and his staff, incredible work by our athletes! Congrats to all! #WhyNotILL Petros Kyprianou 🔶🔷

Caught up with #Illini thrower Abria Smith about her runner-up finish at nationals, part of a fifth-place women's team finish for Illinois Track & Field and Cross Country, their highest placement at the NCAA championships in 29 years: "It means so much to be a part of that and to be a part of history."

Melissa Wullschleger is your BIG TEN FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR‼️ Release: ow.ly/XT0e50WbSFQ #WhyNotILL

Pole vault room adding some more talent ⭐️ Brenden Vanderpool is a 2x Southern Conference Champion, is a NACAC U23 silver medalist and a Pan American U20 bronze medalist. Welcome to the famILLy, Brenden! #WhyNotILL

Illinois = Combined Events Academy 🟠 🔵 Andreas Hantson, the 2024 Big Ten decathlon silver medalist, adds more firepower to an already deep and talented combined events room. Welcome to the famILLy, Andreas! #WhyNotILL

That's our coach‼️ Petros Kyprianou was tabbed as the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Coach of the Year. Release: ow.ly/x39q50We9Kx #WhyNotILL

Meagan Humphries SHATTERS Anna Hall's USATF U20 Championships heptathlon record in her dominating win 🤯 Humphries scored 5,791 points to dethrone Hall's record of 5,660 points she set back in 2018. Release: ow.ly/zbwX50Weg0z #WhyNotILL

Big time throw for Reece 💪 He’s your USATF U20 Discus Champion with a throw of 62.23m (204-2)! #WhyNotILL

Some real speed from signee Joshua Hoffmann in his new 800m PR, 1:46.67 🫣 #WhyNotILL

Illinois track and field adds 2024 CAA Hammer Throw Champion, Oluwatomilayo Akintunde. Welcome to the famILLy, Oluwatomilayo! #WhyNotILL

2025 Illinois Female Freshman of the Year: Melissa Wullschleger of @illinitrackxc 🟠 NCAA All-American in heptathlon 🔵 Set program record with 5,928 points at the NCAA Championship 🟠 Threw program's third-furthest javelin at the NCAA Outdoor Championship

I caught up with Petros Kyprianou today fresh off his regional USTFCCCA honor and loved this call to action for local fans to come out and see Illinois Track & Field and Cross Country "When you have a team that finished in the top five in the nation...in your community, you've gotta support it"

2025 Illinois Female Newcomer of the Year: Abria Smith of Illinois Track & Field and Cross Country 🟠 National runner up at Outdoor Track and Field Championships 🔵 Won Big Ten Outdoor Champion 🟠 Set the outdoor shot put program record with a 18.92m (62-1) toss

Dike Eddleman Female Illinois Athlete of the Year: Tacoria Humphrey of @illinitrackXC 🟠 Big Ten Indoor and Outdoor champion 🔵 All-American during the indoor and outdoor season 🟠 National runner-up at the Indoor Track and Field Championships, the program's highest finish.