Big Ten Outdoor Championships
Friday-Sunday, May 16-18
Eugene, Ore. | Hayward Field
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EUGENE, Ore. – Seniors Jami Schlueter and Maggie Liebich each collected silver medals on the middle day of the Big Ten Outdoor Track Championships, and UW put several more qualifiers into Sunday’s finals at Oregon’s Hayward Field. Schlueter took second in the decathlon and Liebich, in just the second steeplechase of her career, dropped a 22-second PR to stand just one step down from the top of the podium.
Washington heads into Sunday’s finale with 37 points on the men’s side, in fourth-place, and in 10th-place on the women’s side with 8 points but with many key events still to come. Sunday will be streamed on B1G+ for the first part of the day then televised live on Big Ten Network at 12:30 p.m.
Distances
Liebich was the last Husky in action tonight and nearly provided the shock of the day, as she was facing some veteran steeplers, three of whom ranked in the top-13 nationally coming in to tonight’s championship. Liebich only ran her first steeple earlier this month at the OSU High Performance Meet, posting a time of 10:10 in her debut. That time ranked her just fifth in the conference coming in.
But Liebich showed all the confidence and poise to be a contender right from the gun. Almost immediately she and Michigan State’s Katelyn Stewart-Barnett broke away from the field and they ran side by side, twenty meters ahead of the rest of the heat, for nearly the whole race. With two laps to go, Liebich moved into the lead and put a few strides on Stewart-Barnett. But on the final water pit, Liebich’s relative inexperience in the event cropped up, as she stumbled and fell and the MSU runner retook the lead and had all the momentum to close the win. Liebich got up and still easily took second in 9:48.84. It was a 22-second PR, and the No. 5 time in school history, and will rank around 10th in the NCAA.
Liebich’s time of 9:48.84 ranks #?5? in Husky history and 10th in the NCAA this year, and that’s with a fall on the final water pit ??#GoHuskies pic.twitter.com/vlHVzqPrHi
— Washington Track & Field and Cross Country (@UWTrack) May 18, 2025
In the men’s steeple, redshirt freshman Isaac…
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