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Women Finish Up NCAA Championships With Two More Scorers
June 14, 2025 | Track & Field
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EUGENE, Ore. โ UCLA's women's 4x400 relay squad finished seventh and Valentina Fakrogha finished eighth in the high jump as the Bruins wrapped up the 2025 season Saturday on the fourth and final day of the Outdoor NCAA Championships at Oregon's Hayward Field.
Paired with Jana van Schalkwyk's sixth-place result in the women's javelin on Thursday, the Bruins ended up with two scoring individuals and one scoring relay at this year's NCAAs.
At the conclusion of all competitions, the UCLA women tied for 43rd place with a combined 6.0 points. The Bruin men meanwhile tied for 51st place with 5.0 points.
Fakrogha was the first Bruin to score on Saturday, as she cleared a lifetime-best 1.84m (6-0.5) on her first attempt. She ultimately finished eighth. She is the Bruins' highest finisher at NCAAs in the women's high jump since Rhonda Watkins was fifth in 2007, and her mark was the best by a Bruin at NCAA's since Sheena Gordon cleared 1.87m in 2004.
In addition, Fakrogha moved up to No. 8 on UCLA's all-time top-10 list for the high jump.
The Bruins closed out the meet by running a 3:31.14 in the 4x400 relay. The quartet of Kayla McBride, Taylor Snaer, Aly Conyers, and Naomi Johnson turned in their third-fastest time of the year. It was the Bruins' highest finish in the 4x400 since 2022.
The 4x400 group will also take home First Team All-America honors. It marks the first-career Outdoor All-America honor for McBride and Snaer, while Conyers and Johnson were Second Team All-Americans in the 4x400 a season ago after finishing 10th.
Elsewhere, Sydney Johnson secured Second Team All-America honors following her 14th place finish in the women's heptathlon. Her most notable results came in the long jump, where she was fourth with a mark of 6.34m (20-9.75), the javelin, where she notched a PR at 32.63m (107-9), and the 200m, where she was ninth at 24.35.
Yanla Ndjip-Nyemeck also competed in the final of the 100m hurdles after leading all qualifiers with a 12.71 in semifinals, but she took a DNF in Saturday's race.
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