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Three Bruin Individuals, One Relay Qualify for NCAA Indoors

Track & Field

The 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships will be held on Mar. 14-15 at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Va.

The UCLA track & field team has earned three individual selections, and one relay selection, to compete at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships, it was announced by the NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Track & Field and Cross Country Committee.

Three Bruins, two on the women's side and one on the men's side, were individual qualifiers. Sophomore Taylor Snaer (women's 200m) and junior Camryn O'Bannon (men's long jump) both booked their first-ever trip to NCAAs, while Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck (women's 60m hurdles) will be making her second trip to NCAA Indoors after securing First Team All-America honors in the 60mH in 2003.

In addition, the quartet of Snaer, Aly Conyers, Kayla McBride, and Naomi Johnson earned qualification in the women's 4x400 relay.

Snaer was the Bruins' top individual seed at No. 7 in the women's 200m. Her season-best time of 22.75, set during prelims at the Big Ten Championships, is a PR and a UCLA school record. She's broken 23 seconds in the 200m three times this season and was fourth in that event at the B1G Indoor Championships. She initially broke the school record with a 22.92 at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic on Feb. 7 en route to a first-place result.

O'Bannon checks in as the No. 8 seed in the long jump with a season-best mark of 7.88m (25-10.25), good for No. 2 in school history. He was the No. 5 finisher at last week's Big Ten Indoor Championships at 7.55m (24-09.25), and has cleared at least 7.5m at every meet he's appeared in this season.

Ndjip-Nyemeck enters as the No. 11 seed in the women's 60mH at 8.06, accomplished at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic in early February. She's clocked 8.10 or lower five times this season, and was the third-place finisher in the Big Ten Championships at 8.09. Her best time, 8.01, ranks No. 2 in school history and earned her First Team All-America honors at the 2023 NCAA Championships.

UCLA's women's 4x400 relay is coming off a strong showing at the Big Ten Championships, coming in third at 3:31.11 and finishing just over a second behind the meet record. The Bruins received the No. 7 seed in that race.

The 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships will be held on Mar. 14-15 at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Va.