GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— One of the largest national meet contingents in the Colorado Mesa University Track & Field program's history will compete this week in Emporia, Kansas.
 
Eight Maverick athletes will represent the Mavericks in six different events at the 3-day meet at Emporia State University's Francis G. Welch Stadium, which begins Thursday and runs through Saturday.
 
The meet will be streamed on NCAA.com.
 
Heat sheets and live results can be found here.
 
Additional information and the links to purchase tickets can be found on the championship microsite.
 
CMU Schedule
 
The Mavericks will compete on all three days of the meet.  Here is a breakdown of CMU's event schedule.
 
The full meet schedule can be seen here.
 
Thursday, May 21
4:50 p.m. CDT/3:50 p.m. MDT- Men's 4x100m Relay-Prelims (Amaris Mora, Joseph Randolph, Marik Cummings, Teo Casados)
7:55 p.m. CDT/6:55 p.m. MDT- Women's 400-Meter Hurdles-Prelims (Kammi Merritt)

Friday, May 22
5:30 p.m. CDT/4:30 p.m. MDT- Men's 200 Meters-Prelims (Joseph Randolph & Teo Casados)
5:45 p.m. CDT/4:45 p.m. MDT- Women's 200 Meters-Prelims (Hannah Schissler)
 
Saturday, May 23
12 p.m. CDT/11 a.m. MDT- Men's Javelin-Finals (Izaak Siefken)
3:30 p.m. CDT/2:30 p.m.MDT- Men's 4x100m Relay-Finals* (Amaris Mora, Joseph Randolph, Marik Cummings, Teo Casados)
5:50 p.m. CDT/4:50 p.m. MDT- Women's 400 Meter Hurdles-Finals* (Kammi Merritt)
6:10 p.m. CDT/5:10 p.m. MDT- Men's 200 Meters-Finals* (Joseph Randolph & Teo Casados)
6:55 p.m. CDT/5:55 p.m. MDT- Women's 5,000 Meters-Finals (Megan Hodges)
 
Historic Relay
 
The Maverick men's 4x100-meter relay team, which is seeded fifth with their altitude-adjusted qualification time of 39.74 seconds, is the first Maverick men's relay unit to have ever qualified for the indoor or outdoor championships.
 
Amaris Mora, Joseph Randolph, Marik Cummings and Mateo Casados set a school-record time of 39.62 seconds in the Mavs' first meet of the season
 
The Maverick women have qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 4x100-meter relay on four previous occasions finishing 11^th in 2019, 12^th in 2021, 12^th in 2022 and 15^th last year.
 
The Maverick women have also competed in the 4x400-meter relay at the NCAA indoor championships on two occasions, winning a national title in 2021 and finishing tenth in 2023.
 
Gunning for Points & All-America honors
 
How they Qualified
 
The Mavericks contingent of eight athletes qualified for the NCAA Championships by being amongst the top 22 declared student-athletes (individual events) and 16 relay teams on the final season-long performers' lists in their respective events.
 
Here's a breakdown of each Mavericks' pre-meet seeds and their qualification marks (altitude-adjusted where applicable)
 
Men
200m- 11. Joseph Randolph (20.70); 19. Teo Casados (20.86)
4x100m Relay- 5. Colorado Mesa (39.74)
Javelin Throw- 11. Izaak Siefken (68.75m)
 
Women
200m- 17. Hannah Schissler (23.59)
5,000m- 15. Megan Hodges (16:29.41)
400m Hurdles – 9. Kammi Merritt (59.00)
 
Gunning for Points & All-America Honors
 
The top eight finishers in each event will earn team points on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis and will be on the awards podium.
 
Additionally, those finishers will each earn first team all-America honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
 
The ninth through 16^th place finishers in each individual event will earn Second Team honors.  The ninth through 12^th place finishers in the relay events will also do so.  In previous years, only the ninth through 12th place finishers in individual events and the ninth and tenth place relay team members earned second team honors.
 
NCAA Veterans & Debuts
 
Half of the Maverick contingent will be making their NCAA Championship debuts while two others will be competing in an individual event for the first time.
 
Meanwhile, Maverick sprinters Teo Casados and Joseph Randolph are NCAA Championship veterans after also representing the Mavs in the 200 meters at this year's NCAA indoor meet in March.  Casados finished seventh after placing 15^th at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
 
Randolph was disqualified for a lane violation at the indoor meet and also competed in four straight national championship indoor and outdoor meets at the NAIA level in his first two collegiate seasons at Olivet Nazarene University.
 
Relay teammates Marik Cummings and Amaris Mora as well as javelin thrower Izaak Siefken will be making their NCAA Championship debuts this week.
 
On the women's side, all three qualified Mavs will be competing in an NCAA Championship individual event for the first time in their respective careers.
 
Notably, Megan Hodges has been part of the Maverick team at the past two NCAA Cross Country Championships and earned USTFCCCA All-America honors with a 37^th place finish in the fall.
 
Kammi Merritt was a member of the 15^th place Mavs' 4x100-meter relay team at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships but will be running in an individual event for the first time.
 
Hannah Schissler will be making her NCAA Championship debut.
 
Program-Record Honors
 
The Mavericks set a program-record by earning 16 all-region honors, bestowed by the USTFCCCA last week.
 
All-region honors are given to the top five individuals from each of the nation's eight regions in each of the individual events and to members of the top three relay teams from each region.  The rankings are based on the season-long performers lists.
 
A dozen different Maverick athletes were recognized with Teo Casados winning honors in three different events.  Joseph Randolph and women's thrower Kaiya Graves were recognized in two events each.
 
Record Setting Season
 
The Mavericks have combined to set the program record in 11 different disciplines (5 men's, 6 women's) during this 2026 outdoor season. 

Additionally, 21(11 men, women) Maverick athletes combined to set 24 (12 men's, 12 women') NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying marks throughout the campaign, certainly one of the best all-around campaigns in program history.
 
Here's a look at all the new school-records
 
Men (5)
200m- Teo Casados (20.79)
800m- Vasileios Salpas (1:49.24)
5K- Clayton Wilson (14:08.75)
Javelin- Izaak Siefken (68.75m/225-7)
4x100m Relay- Amaris Mora, Joseph Randolph, Marik Cummings, Teo Casados (39.62)
 
Women (6)
400m- Kammi Merritt (55.27)
400m Hurdles- Merritt (58.89)
3K Steeplechase- Shirley Weaver (10:50.52)
Discus Throw- Kaiya Graves (47.30m/155-2)
Javelin- Graves (43.56m/142-11)
4x400m Relay- Hannah Schissler, Elaina Arcand, Waycee Harvey, Kammi Merritt (3:47.52)

Up Next
 
This week's meet will wrap-up the 2025-26 academic year for the Maverick track & field program.