TRAFFORD, Pa. (pacathletics.org) - A strong contingent of 10 student-athletes, including seven women and three men, from Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) programs have qualified for the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, scheduled for Thursday-Saturday, May 22-24 at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. The top 22 performers in each individual event are invited to the NCAA Championships.

Leading the PAC women who qualified is Chatham University senior Aurielle Brunner (Altoona, Pa./Bishop Guilfoyle), who will compete in three events, including the heptathlon, long jump and triple jump. She is joined by three others who, like Brunner, also competed in the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in March. They include Westminster graduate student Breannda Davis (Streetsboro, Ohio/Streetsboro), who will compete in the high jump, while her Titan teammate, graduate student Madison Conley (New Castle, Pa./New Castle) is competing in the pole vault. The fourth indoor/outdoor championship qualifier is Grove City College senior Lydia Bennett (Bethel, Maine/Gould Academy), who will compete in the 1,500-meter run.

A trio of Allegheny College Gators complete the list of PAC women competing this weekend at nationals, including junior Chloe Bonson (Penn Township, Pa./Penn-Trafford) in the 5000, senior Laila Davis (Springfield, N.J./Jonathan Dayton) in the hammer and junior Elizabeth Lubold (Indiana, Pa./Indiana Area) in the javelin.

The men's championships will feature three from PAC programs, including two in field events in Allegheny senior Aaron Moon (Springfield, Va./Lake Braddock) in the long jump and Grove City senior Ryan Lenhart (New Castle, Pa./Shenango) in the discus. Also qualifying in the 100-meter dash was Bethany College sophomore Caliyph McClinton (Pittsburgh, Pa./Neighborhood Academy).

Counting indoor and outdoor, this is Brunner's fifth trip overall to NCAA Championships and third for outdoor. A seven-time All-American, Brunner most recently racked up two All-America finishes at the NCAA Indoor Championships, including a national runner-up finish in the long jump. In Brunner's appearance at Outdoor Championships in 2024, she collected All-American status in the triple jump (fourth place) and heptathlon (seventh). 

Brunner, who scored 68 points herself at PAC Championships May 1-2 as she won the Track MVP, Field MVP and overall Track & Field Athlete of the Year, will also compete at NCAAs in the heptathlon. She is seeded fifth entering the competition after she totaled 4,947 points at the Lenoir-Rhyne Last Chance Meet May 10-11.

Conley, a two-time All-American and four-time national qualifier, was seventh at both the indoor and outdoor national championships in 2024 before finishing 18th at this year's Division III Indoor Championships, clearing 3.77 meters (12-4.50). She cleared a personal-best 3.87 meters (12-08.25) at the Walsh University Invitational on April 23 and will enter the outdoor championships tied for the 14th-best mark this season. 

Breannda Davis saved her best for last, clearing a season-best 1.68 meters (5-6) at Mount Union's Last Chance on May 15. She was one of eight qualifiers to clear 1.68 meters, the 11th-best mark this year. A four-time national qualifier, Davis competed at both the indoor and outdoor national championships in 2024 before qualifying in the high jump at the indoor championships this year.  

Bennett is now a three-time national qualifier this year. She also qualified for NCAA Cross Country Championships in the fall and earned NCAA All-America honors in the mile last March at the indoor national championships by placing seventh (4:52.30) in Rochester, N.Y.

In her outdoor championships appearance this week, Bennett will be the No. 6 seed in the 1500 after she posted a school-record time of 4:25.41 on May 14th at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Championships in Williamstown, Mass.

For the second year in a row, Lubold qualified for the javelin at Mount Union's Last Chance meet days before the field was announced. The third-year thrower hit a season-best 41.29 meters/135-5 at that meet, tied for the 18th-best mark in the nation entering the outdoor championships.

Laila Davis will compete on the national stage for the first time. Davis set a new personal record in her hammer throw victory at Denison University on April 25th. Her best toss measured 52.59 meters/172-6, which ranks 19th in Division III.

Allegheny's final competitor at the NCAA Outdoor Championships will be Bonson, who also ran at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in the fall. She punched her ticket to SPIRE in the 5,000 with her qualifying time of 16:43.76 from Bucknell University's Bison Outdoor Classic back on April 12th, which clocked in as the 21st fastest 5K in the country.

The first PAC male to compete this week will be Lenhart in the discus, which is the opening event of the national meet Thursday morning. Lenhart enters the Championships as the 22nd seed with a season-best throw of 167 feet, 1 inch, which was recorded May 8th at Allegheny's Marty Goldberg Invitational. That throw broke his own school record by three feet and qualified Lenhart for his first trip to the national championships.

Moon, the 2025 PAC Track and Field Athlete of the Year, as well as the Track MVP and Field MVP after he scored 54 points at PAC Championships, will compete in the long jump at NCAAs. He qualified for nationals at Mount Union's Last Chance Meet, setting a new program record during the decathlon at 7.26 meters/23-10, which has him seeded 19th overall.

McClinton also used the Mount Union Last Chance meet to post his qualifying time in the 100. He blazed to a time of 10.42 seconds that day to set a new program record and it also ranks him 13th entering the Championships in McClinton's first trip to the national meet. 

For start lists and times for each event, please click on Qualifiers and Start Lists link above.

Story contributions from Allegheny, Chatham, Grove City, Westminster Sports Information offices