2024 NCAA OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS
THURSDAY, JUNE 6 | LIVE STREAM | LIVE RESULTS
8:08pm PST - Women's 10,000m Finals
Rosina Machu

FRIDAY, JUNE 7 | LIVE STREAM | LIVE RESULTS
7:55pm PST - Men's 5,000m Finals
Wil Smith

EUGENE, Ore. - For the first time in program history, Gonzaga Track will send a male and female athlete to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Rosina Machu and Wil Smith will make the West Coast trip to Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus Thursday and Friday with hopes to make even more program history on the oval.

For Machu, she is the first female Zag runner to make a national final race after a third place finish in the NCAA West 10,000-meter semifinal in Fayetteville, Ark. on May 23. She finished with a time of 34:03.97 to become only the second Zag woman to advance to the national championships and the first since Shelby Mills moved to the 3,000-meter steeplechase semifinals in 2015 and 2016. Machu entered the race seeded third after running a program record time of 32:45.57 at the Stanford Invitational on March 29.

Two days after punching her ticket to Eugene in the 10,000-meters, Machu narrowly missed a qualifying spot in the 5,000-meter final with a 14th place finish.

For Smith, he is the third Zag male to make it to the NCAA Championships, joining Troy Fraley (2017 steeplechase) and James Mwaura (2021 5K/10K, 2022 10K, 2023 5K/10K). After a tough 10,000-meter non qualifying finish on day one of the NCAA West Prelims, Smith bounced back in a major way with a third place finish on day three in the 5,000-meter semifinals, crossing the finish line in 13:46.57.

Including Gonzaga's first appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2015, the Zags will send at least one athlete to the final week of NCAA competition for the seventh time in the last nine championship meets (2020 canceled due to COVID-19). In four of the previous six instances, GU has walked away with an All-American. Fraley was the first Zag to earn the honor in 2017 before Mwaura earned five over the span of three years in 2021, 2022, and 2023.