The Park University indoor track & field program was in Topeka, Kan. on Friday and Saturday for the Washburn Open, hosted by Washburn University. The Pirates once again put their best foot forward with four new NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championship qualifiers and three Park indoor school records.

The distance events were a strength for the Pirates over the weekend with Cayden Walker securing the 5,000m record and the sophomore turned in his first indoor national qualifying time of 14:40.87. At the Washburn Open, Walker's time was good enough for 15th place.

The men's distance medley relay of Palmer O'Connor, Chase Housh, Cody Hammond, and Caden Peters also secured a Park indoor of 10:07.87, which was also below the NAIA B standard for a national qualifying time. The young group, with only one senior in Housh among them, took 4th at the meet.

Peters is left his mark on two records over the weekend and came back on Saturday to claim the mile record at 4:18.59 for 39th place.

The sprinters were also hitting their stride as Mya Charles and Sam Thomas both reached the semis in the 60m dash. Charles would go on to hit the NAIA B standard in the 200m as well for for 20th place in a time of 24.95. Charles is coming off of 2025 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field qualifications for the 4x100m, 100m, and the 200m, where she and her team reached NAIA All-American status in the 4x100m. Previously this year, she has already attained the qualifying standard in the 60m.

Ahmad Evans also previously qualified for nationals in long jump in the opening meet, but now adds the triple jump to his list of events at nationals, taking 9th in the meet with a 14.45m jump for the B standard.

Park's Rosjai Curtis also impressed in the women's triple jump for 6th place with a distance of 11.61m, which was a big part of her Heart Field Athlete of the Week award, announced yesterday.

Park split time this upcoming weekend at the Iowa State Classic on Friday in Ames, Iowa and Saturday's Bearcat Classic in Maryville, Mo. at Northwest Missouri State University. See the full results to the Washburn Open in the link or in the table below.  

60 Meters
Semis 26 — Sam Thomas — 6.98 Prelims 32 — Sam Thomas — 6.94 57 — Ahmad Evans — 7.05	Semis 22 — Mya Charles — 7.72 Prelims 24 — Mya Charles — 7.75 58 — Rosjai Curtis — 7.92 80 — Alexandria Sherman — 8.03 112 — Hannah Mand — 8.36
200 Meters
	20 — Mya Charles — 24.95 *NAIA B 76 — Alexandria Sherman — 26.87
400 Meters
	55 — Adison Hayden — 1:03.23
600 Yards
33 — Shemar Caines — 1:15.42	28 — Adison Hayden — 1:33.92 36 — Destiny Pearson — 1:44.31
800 Meters
17 — Cody Hammond — 1:53.96 22 — Alexander Caines — 1:54.58	31 — Lilly Comarcho — 2:23.67 52 — Hannah Mand — 2:35.76
Mile
39 — Caden Peters — 4:18.59 *Park Record 54 — Palmer O'Connor — 4:25.34
3000 Meters
	26 — Anna Joyce — 10:44.23 48 — Sophia Van Asselt — 11:23.47
5000 Meters
15 — Cayden Walker — 14:40.87 *NAIA B, Park Record 28 — William Norris — 15:13.43	40 — Sophia Van Asselt — 20:00.30 45 — Jasmin Klaunig — 20:42.18
60m Hurdles
	14 — Hope Klamm — 8.98 25 — Shanai Sweeting — 9.28 28 — Faith Klamm — 9.30
4 x 400 Relay
16 — Park U. (Warde, Thomas, O'Connor, Housh) — 3:19.63 — — Park U. (Caines, Evans, Hammond, Peters) — NT	17 — Park U. (Klamm, Klamm, Mand, Holbrook) — 4:04.56 23 — Park U. (Hayden, Comarcho, Joyce, Light) — 4:18.18
Distance Medley Relay
4 — Park U. (O'Connor, Housh, Hammond, Peters) — 10:07.87 *NAIA B, Park Record	10 — Park U. (Timba, Mand, Comarcho, Joyce) — 12:47.98 *Park Record
Long Jump
10 — Sam Thomas — 6.83m / 22-05.00 15 — Ahmad Evans — 6.79m / 22-03.50 32 — Shemar Caines — 6.24m / 20-05.75	16 — Rosjai Curtis — 5.40m / 17-08.75 36 — Dawn McIntyre — 5.07m / 16-07.75
Triple Jump
9 — Ahmad Evans — 14.45m / 47-05.00 *NAIA B	6 — Rosjai Curtis — 11.61m / 38-01.25 *NAIA B
Shot Put
30 — Daniel Marshall — 12.23m / 40-01.50 31 — London Wheeler — 12.07m / 39-07.25