Completed Event: Women's Volleyball at Iowa State on November 26, 2025 , Win , 3, to, 1
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LAWRENCE, Kan. – After a successful weekend at the 92nd Kansas Relays, the Jayhawks are set for the second annual National Relay Championships, April 25-27, hosted by Arkansas at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS
The National Relay Championships meet was created in 2018 by Arkansas, and brings some of the most well-respected track & field programs in the nation together for a highly-competitive, relays-based meet prior to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Modeled after the biennial IAAF World Relays, the meet is scored on relay events only, with a men’s and women’s National Relay Champion crowned at the end of the meet. This year’s competition will feature the Jayhawks going up against a number of nationally-recognized programs. Five top-25 men’s programs will be competing at the meet, including No. 9 Stanford, No. 11 Mississippi State, No. 15 Arkansas, No. 16 Texas and No. 19 Baylor. Five top-25 women’s programs will also be in attendance, including No. 1 Arkansas, No. 12 Kansas State, No. 15 Texas, No. 20 Stanford and No. 22 Washington. Big 12 schools also in attendance include Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and TCU.
36-YEAR SCHOOL RECORD FALLS
Although Kansas is known as being a school that is highly successful in pole vault year-in and year-out, the KU outdoor school record in the event stood unchanged for 36 years, until the 2019 Kansas Relays. At 5.76 meters (18-10.75 ft.), Jeff Buckingham’s school record was an American Record in 1983, but freshman Zach Bradford was able to take it down on his way to a KU Relays title this season. Bradford cleared 5.77 meters (18-11 ft.) to claim the school record, go above and beyond the 2019 IAAF World Championships qualifying standard (5.71m) and record the No. 2 mark in the NCAA and No. 4 mark in the world this year.
HOPPEL’S WIN STREAK CONTINUES
2019 NCAA indoor 800-meter national champion Bryce Hoppel improved his individual-race win streak to 12 at the Kansas Relays, winning both the 1,500-meter and 800-meter titles. Hoppel was named NCAA Midwest Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year and has won every individual race he has competed in since the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships 800-meter final (June 8) where he finished fourth to earn First Team All-America honors. He currently ranks No. 26 in the West region this season in the 800-meter run with his time of 1:48.94 at the Texas Relays. Hoppel is slated to run the 800 meters at the National Relay Championships, as well as the 4×800 and 4×400 relays.
HAMMER TIME
Junior Gleb Dudarev’s 74.39-meter (244-1 ft.) hammer throw mark at the Florida Relays ranks No. 3 in the NCAA and No. 18 in the world this season, and earned him Big 12 Co-Men’s Athlete of the Week, announced April 3. The weekly honor marks the sixth of Dudarev’s career. Dudarev has won the last two events he has competed in, the Battle on the Bayou (April 6) and the 92nd Kansas Relays (April 18).
