Northern Colorado athletes delivered several top performances Friday at the 2026 Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championships in Pocatello, Idaho, with a school record and multiple all-time program marks as the team heads into the final day of competition.
The men’s team is currently seventh in the standings with 11 points. Northern Arizona leads with 56 points, while Idaho and Idaho State are ahead of UNC with 14 and 23 points respectively.
Tyler Rogers secured a conference championship for Northern Colorado by winning the men’s long jump. His mark of 7.72 meters (25’4.00″) earned him both the gold medal and first place on UNC’s all-time list in that event.
In preliminary races for the men’s 60-meter hurdles, Daniel Beckford finished second overall with a time of 7.91 seconds to automatically advance to Saturday’s final. Jaydon Sundbye also qualified for finals after running an 8.26, moving him to No. 7 all-time in school history for that event. Moise Bennett ran an 8.44 in prelims.
Among sprinters, Mark Miller led UNC in the men’s 60 meters by placing ninth at 6.82 seconds, followed closely by Edgar Garcia (6.85), Beckford (6.91), and Johnny Fisher (6.94). In the men’s 200-meter preliminaries, Christopher Cheatham (22.21), Garcia (22.23), and Raphael Egbuchilem (22.25) finished within .04 seconds of each other; Egbuchilem later advanced to the finals of the men’s 400 meters after posting a fifth-place time of 49.13 seconds.
Bennett completed his heptathlon campaign with a score of 4,530 points—good for eighth overall—and now ranks No.2 all-time at Northern Colorado in that event.
On the women’s side, UNC is eighth in team scoring with 15 points but remains close behind Idaho State and Sacramento State heading into Saturday’s events; Northern Arizona leads at this stage with over fifty-six points.
Kiana Van Haaren provided one of Friday’s highlights by taking second place in women’s long jump at a distance of 6.19 meters (20’3.75″), which places her No.2 on UNC’s historical performance list for that discipline; Camaria Corder contributed further points by finishing fifth at just under six meters.
April Necaise scored for UNC women by clearing five feet six inches to take fifth place in high jump.
On track events, Alexia Austin made it through to finals in women’s hurdles after recording an eighth-place time during prelims; Sherika Thomas and Donice Bruno-Ezealah also competed in those heats but did not advance further this round.
Monique Stewart reached finals qualification for women’s indoor eight hundred meters as well.
Caydence Brewer competed across both sprint distances—sixty meters and two hundred meters—in preliminary rounds.
The distance medley relay team finished ninth overall.
According to information from university officials, support from initiatives such as The Relay Club has helped provide better training resources and travel opportunities for student-athletes participating on these teams.
