Program record four bobcats qualify for NCAA indoor icing athletics championships

Bozeman-Montana State Track and Field has qualified for the 2025 NCAA indoor light athletics championships next week in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Virginia.

Shelby Schweyen (Pentathlon), Colby Wilson (Pole Vault), Harvey Cramb (Mile) and Rob McManus (Mile) will be represented at the National Championship Meet from March 14th to 15th in the Virginia Beach Sports Center.

The meeting is broadcast in the ESPN family of networks.

The qualification for the NCAA indoor lighting athletics championships is one of the most difficult things in college athletics. There is no regional qualifications-the top 16 markings in NCAA division I are invited to the National Meet in every event.

“The NCAA indoor championships are the hardest of the NCAA championships,” said head coach Lyle Weese. “The brands that the individuals have to get into the meet are really elite. Therefore, it is great evidence of their skills and the whole time and effort that the student athletes use at this level.”

The State and Field of Montana qualified for 19 athletes of all time for the NCAA Indoor Championships and several athletes only qualified twice: Lucy Corbett (high jump) and Duncan Hamilton (3,000 meters) qualified in 2022 and 2023.

Next week Montana State four will send to the big stage.

Schweyen, a senior from Missoula, qualified thanks to her big Sky record at the Bobcat performance meeting on January 31 with a single point in the pentathlon.

Schweyen stated personal provisions in all five events of the multi-to-tally 183 points, at that time the third best brand in the country. After the conference championship weekend, the total of Schweyen is in the NCAA Division I.

In the 17th and a qualification brand, Juliette Laracuente-Huebner from Cincinnati was missing, who scored 4,182 points at the Big 12 championships.

Schweyen is the first Bobcat to qualify for indoor members of the Pentathlon and only the second multi-event athlete.

Wilson, a senior from Olympia, Washington, broke his own big Sky record in the pole vault this season and this year, thanks to its release of 5.61 meters (18-04.75), will be seventh this year at the Big Sky Championships.

The four-time Big Sky Champion appears after qualifying for the NCAA outdoor light athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon, as a second appearance at a national meeting, where he took 20th place to get all-American.

This season, Wilson resolved 5.60 meters (18-04.50) at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational on February 15, before supporting the Big Sky Championship at the Big Sky Championship at the Big Sky Championships on March 1st.

Wilson is the first pole jumping athlete for men from the state of Montana, who qualified for the NCAA indoor championships and the second Pol Vaulter as a whole -Ellie Rudy won in the national internal reports in 2007 and 2008.

Cramb, a student from Brisbane, Australia, qualifies on the mile thanks to its height of 3: 53.77 in Big Sky Tuner in Bozeman on February 20.

Cramb is sown 12 of 16 competitors in the mile in Virginia Beach.

The time of Cramb is in third place in the program history, behind the program legend Hamilton and the national qualification man Rob McManus.

Cramb took second place in the 800 meters of the Big Sky Championships last week and was a regional qualification game in the 1,500 meters last spring.

McManus, a senior from Cashmere, Washington, qualifies on the mile on February 20 in Big Sky Tuner in Big Sky Tuner in Big Sky Tuner.

McManus rose to second place in the program history with this race and is sown 11th in Virginia Beach.

The current face of 'Steeple U', McManus, appears after two consecutive trips to the NCAA outdoor championships in 2023 and 2024 at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

McManus took 13th place in the 3,000-meter obstacle in Eugene last June and took 16th place in the national meeting in the 3,000-meter obstacle to get the all-American honor of the second team in 2023.

The two-time all-American was also part of two qualification cross-country teams of the NCAA championship in the state of Montana and helped the cats in 2023 and a 25th place in 2022.

McManus will secure his third all-American honor if he takes part in the mile next week and will be the only Bobcat men to join Levi Taylor, Hamilton, Weese and Shannon Butler who will receive at least three all-American awards in athletics.

The cats had five earlier qualifications in the inner mile of men: Hamilton (2021), Diego Leon (2018), Cristian Soratos (2015), Patrick Casey (2010) and Miguel Galeana (1998).

Incredible, the Mile Times from Cramb (3: 53.77) and McManus (3: 53.59) would have been good enough to break the NCAA record in 2012 – the mileage record this year was 3: 5.54.

In 2025, this time was not in the top 16 marks at the I-level division and would not be enough to qualify for the NCAA indoor championships.

Both Sky Conference qualified the seventieth athletes for this year's national meetings with nine men's entries and seven women's entries in the teams of men and women.

Hailey Coey, who took number 20 in the country in the long jump, and Sam Ells, who reached number 29 in the mile, was missing.

“It is exciting to have qualification games in event groups, and four are something very special,” said Weese. “Also thinking that Hailey Coey was so close and Sam Ells was not too far away, it is just a shot in the arm to have people who occur at this level. It has an effect from top to bottom – for each individual that people in this program can be some of the best at NCAA level.”