GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Jadyn Vermillion's storybook indoor track & field season came to a worthy conclusion Friday afternoon: All-America honors at the 2025 NAIA championships.

The Montana Tech senior cleared 5.80 meters in the women's long jump to take home fifth place and earn the title of All-American. The leap, just .03 meters off her own program record in the event, came on Vermillion's fourth attempt out of six on the day at the Alachua County Sports & Events Center.

It marks the first time in the Oredigger track & field program's five-year history that a student-athlete, male or female and indoor or outdoor, earned All-America honors in the long jump.

Vermillion becomes the third Montana Tech woman to become an indoor track & field All-American.

Vermillion wasn't the only Oredigger in action Friday. Rylee Armstrong joined her in the long jump field, and the sophomore wound up 28th with a 5.24m jump.

On the track, graduate student Alyssa Plant led the way with a 15th-place finish in the women's 3,000m run at 10:29.60 in her indoor national debut. Junior Kamryn Comba, a repeat qualifier in the women's 600m, raced to 18th  in 1:38.27, while freshman Ayla Janzen took 22nd in the 60m hurdles at 8.93 seconds.

Tech will wrap up its stay at the 2025 U.S. Marines NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships Saturday when Cade VanVleet competes in the men's shot put. That event is scheduled to start at 12:30 p.m. Mountain time.

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