VIRGINIA BEACH — The Oregon women’s track and field team won six events to take the 2025 NCAA indoor national championship Saturday at the Virginia Beach Sports Center. It was the Ducks’ first national title — indoor or outdoor — since 2017.

On the men’s side, Southern California scored 19 points in the sprints to win its first indoor track and field title since 1972.

But it also was a great day for Hampton Roads athletes Madison Whyte, Michaela Rose and Layla Anderson as all three earned All-American honors in front of family and friends.

The trio did so well that if they had been on the same team, they would have scored enough individual points to place 17th overall.

Whyte, a Southern California sophomore who starred for Heritage High in Newport News, ran 22.80 seconds to finish fifth in the 200 meters. She also ran on the 4×400 relay that finished third to help the Trojans finish third overall as a team.

“It was amazing. It was actually everything I expected it to be,” Whyte said about coming home to run. “When I got here, I was like, ‘This feels like high school.’ It honestly felt like I never left. And to have my family in the crowd, it was all I expected it to be.”

Whyte, who finished third in the 200 at the Big Ten indoor championships last month, said she didn’t feel any extra pressure to perform.

“I knew they were going to be proud regardless,” she said. “It’s been a great trip. We got third place with everything not going as planned. So imagine if everything goes as planned next time, which it will, just imagine the damage we will do.”

Rose, a LSU senior who was homeschooled in Suffolk, ran 2:02.19 to place fourth in the 800 meters. She also ran on the distance medley relay.

In the distance medley relay, Rose got the baton in last place but split 2:01.70 — the fastest 800-meter split of the day — and handed off near the front to help the Tigers finish fourth overall in a season-best time of 10:47.17.

She remembers as a kid coming to the Virginia Beach Sports Center, but she only got to run there a few times because of injuries.

Then she got a message from someone at the Virginia Beach Sports Center who told her the Division I indoor championships were going to be in Hampton Roads.

“When I knew it was going to be here, I knew I had to make it here,” she said, laughing. “It means so much. I’ve never seen so much of my outward family at my race before. It just meant a lot for it to be here.”

Anderson, a Tennessee senior and a seven-time state champion for Churchland High in Portsmouth, finished fifth in the 60-meter hurdles. She ran 8.03 seconds to earn All-American honors for the first time in her career.

Anderson, who finished runner-up in the event at the Southeastern Conference indoor championships, said being able to compete in the NCAA championships when they were held in Hampton Roads is a dream come true.

“I would have never thought that we would have had the NCAA championships in the 757,” said Anderson, who transferred to Tennessee from Virginia Tech. “So the fact that championships were here and this is my first time being in the finals for an NCAA championship, I’m extremely blessed. I’m just taking it all in. And it was really important for me to make my family proud, my coach proud and myself proud.”

Other outstanding performances included one by Arkansas’ Isabella Whittaker, who won the 400 meters in 49.24 to set a new facility, meet, collegiate and American record.

Washington sophomore Amanda Moll set a meet record in the women’s pole vault, clearing 15 feet, 5 inches.

BYU’s team of Jenna Hutchins, Sami Oblad, Tessa Buswell and Riley Chamberlain set a meet record in the women’s distance medley relay (10:45.34).

Wyoming senior Daniel Reynolds set a meet record in the men’s weight throw (82-3½).

Virginia’s Wes Porter, Alex Sherman, Conor Murphy and Gary Martin set a meet record in the men’s distance medley relay (9:15.12) and helped the Cavaliers tie for sixth in the team standings.

Georgetown senior Abel Teffra set a meet record in the men’s mile (3:53.60).

And Oklahoma State sophomore Brian Musau set a meet record in the 5,000 (13:11.34).