Seven Chargers chosen to compete in 2026 NCAA DII Outdoor Championships

The Hillsdale College monitor and subject group can be properly represented on the most important NCAA DII stage subsequent week, as seven males’s and girls’s athletes are among the many subject chosen to compete on the 2026 NCAA DII Outdoor Championships.

The Outdoor Championships will happen in Emporia, Kansas at Emporia State University from May 21-23, with athletes from throughout the nation competing for nationwide championships and All-American honors.

Three members of Hillsdale’s males’s monitor and subject group earned the best to compete in 4 occasions. 2025 NCAA DII hammer throw champion Ben Haas will look to defend his crown and add a fourth nationwide title to his trophy case, and he’ll be joined within the hammer throw subject by teammate and redshirt freshman Dominic Scharer, who was an All-American indoors within the weight throw. Haas additionally will compete within the shot put for the Chargers, whereas senior Ross Kuhn, a 2025 All-American within the 1,500m run, is again within the subject on the lookout for extra honors this season as properly.

On the ladies’s facet, the 2026 G-MAC Champion Chargers are sending 4 athletes in 5 occasions. Indoor 5,000m champion Allison Kuzma will compete within the 10,000m run, an occasion she completed third in as a freshman within the 2025 NCAA DII Outdoor Championships, and is the highest seed within the subject. She’s joined by sophomore Amelia Lutz, an indoor All-American within the shot put, who’s ranked second within the nation getting into the outside shot put competitors and also will compete within the hammer throw as properly.

Senior Tara Townsend, a two-time All-American within the pole vault, will compete in her fifth nationwide meet in her signature occasion as properly trying to construct off an eighth-place end within the 2025 championships, whereas freshman Sofia Boonzaaijer, an indoor nationwide meet qualifier within the shot put, will compete for the primary time at an out of doors nationwide meet within the discus.

The motion will start on Thursday, May 21 on the Francis G. Welch Stadium in Emporia, Kansas. You can observe together with the motion with live results here, or watch the meet on a dwell stream on NCAA.com.