Since her breakout efficiency on the 2023 NCAA Championships, Borden, Sask.’s Savannah Sutherland has dominated the 400m hurdles—and Sunday on the Large Ten Championships in Eugene, Ore., was no exception. The College of Michigan standout received her third consecutive convention title within the occasion, punching her ticket to the NCAA Regionals later this month in Florida.
Sutherland cruised by means of the prelims and last, profitable every spherical by greater than two seconds—a commanding margin within the one-lap race with 10 hurdles. She clocked 55.37 seconds within the last, almost two seconds off her season’s better of 53.46, set final month. This marks her third straight Large Ten title within the occasion; the one time she didn’t win was in her freshman yr in 2022, when she completed fourth.
The 21-year-old is at present the top-ranked NCAA athlete within the girls’s 400m hurdles and a robust favorite to seize her second NCAA title, having received her first in 2023. Final yr, Sutherland completed second to American Jasmine Jones within the NCAA last, however she set a brand new Canadian report of 53.26 seconds within the course of.
Sutherland additionally made historical past final summer season in Paris, changing into the youngest member of the 2024 Canadian monitor and subject crew to achieve a person Olympic last, the place she completed seventh. She was the primary Canadian to achieve a girls’s 400m hurdles last since Atlanta 1996.
Subsequent up for Sutherland is the NCAA East First Spherical in Jacksonville, Fla., from Could 28–31.
Rachel Forsyth breaks U20 5,000m report
Additionally making headlines on the 2025 Large Ten Championships was Michigan State distance runner Rachel Forsyth, who set a brand new Canadian U20 report within the girls’s 5,000m. Forsyth completed fifth in her first collegiate season with a time of 15:43.81, breaking her earlier U20 report of 15:47.04, set simply final month.
She now holds 4 Canadian U20 distance operating data, starting from the mile to the 5,000m.
