Completed Event: Women's Volleyball versus Bowling Green on September 3, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 1
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Women's Volleyball
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Kansas freshman Zach Bradford and senior Hussain Al Hizam became the 24th and 25th indoor First Team All-Americans in the pole vault in Kansas history on day one of the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Finishing fifth and sixth, respectively, the Jayhawk pair each tied their season-best performances at the Birmingham CrossPlex in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The pole vault was a longer-than-expected event on the night with an error by meet officials raising the bar to an incorrect height causing a delay in the action, but ultimately Bradford and Al Hizam each tied their season-best performance with clearances of 5.63 meters (18-5.5 ft.).
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Junior Bryce Hoppel earned a trip to the final in the men’s 800-meter run, clocking the fastest preliminary time of the 16 competitors in the event. Hoppel hit the line at 1:48.30 for the top spot in heat one, using a late surge in the last 75 meters to move up from fifth to first before the finish.
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Senior Sharon Lokedi ran in her final race of her Jayhawk career, placing 11th in the 5,000-meter run to earn Second Team All-America honors, marking the 10th All-America honor of her career. Lokedi clocked in with a time of 16:06.21, which was the No. 7 time in program history.
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The women’s distance medley relay team of Riley Cooney, Honour Finley, Nicole Montgomery and Ally Ryan placed 11th with a time of 11:29.84 and senior Marleena Eubanks finished 16th in the women’s 800-meter run prelims with a time of 2:15.36. Both the DMR and Eubanks earned Second Team All-America honors for their efforts.
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The Jayhawks will have four Jayhawks in action on the final day of the NCAA Indoor Championships. Freshman Rylee Anderson will compete in the women’s high jump at 1 p.m. CST, junior Andrea Willis will jump in the women’s pole vault at 4 p.m. CST, redshirt sophomore Gleb Dudarev will try to earn his second All-America honor in the weight throw at 4:30 p.m. CST and Hoppel will run the 800-meter final at 5:40 p.m. CST.
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