KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Montana Tech's men's and women's track & field program qualified 10 student-athletes for the 2025 NAIA Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships later this month, the national office announced Wednesday morning with its full palette of contestants. 

Seven Oredigger men will make the trip to Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind., led by a three-event qualifier in junior Cade VanVleet. Juniors Colter Ball, Nicolo Lancini, and Morgan McClernan; freshman Matthew Moreni; and sophomores Adam Schrader and Will Wagner will also represent Montana Tech. 

A trio of women — senior Abby Clark, freshman Ayla Janzen, and senior Jenna Jordan — qualified as well. 

Clark, who was also included in Monday's multi-event announcement, will add the high jump to her slate. The Fort Benton product and four-time All-American is the No. 2 seed in the heptathlon and the 22nd seed in the high jump. 

Janzen enters the triple jump with the 18th-best mark in the field, her school-record 11.80-meter leap at the Providence Open last month. It will not be the Twin Bridges product's first nationals appearance for Tech; she was an NAIA indoor qualifier in the 60m hurdles. 

Jordan, a native of Corvallis, will make her fourth-career nationals appearance in the javelin. The 2023 All-American's program-record throw of 43.86m in late April made her the sixth-seeded thrower at the meet. 

VanVleet will look to repeat his All-America shot put honors and add to them. The Noxon native is seeded fourth in the shot, eighth in the discus, and 17th in the hammer. He won Frontier Conference titles in all three. 

Ball became Montana Tech's first-ever national qualifier in the men's javelin. The thrower from Fort Benton made his national cut with a school-record throw of 59.28m in Missoula in March. 

Lancini returns to the NAIA national stage after winning a Frontier Conference title in the triple jump. The Italian from Brescia was an indoor All-American in 2024 in the event, finishing eighth, and took 13th in the event at last season's outdoor nationals. His season-best jump of 14.71m from March seeds him 17th. 

McClernan, Moreni, Schrader, and Wagner make up the Orediggers' 4x400m relay team. The same lineup ran to 25th at NAIA indoor nationals this season. Their program-record time of 3:16.38, set April 4 in Spokane, Wash., sends them to the line ranked 37th in the field. They will be Montana Tech's first-ever relay, men's or women's, to compete at an outdoor national meet. 

The 2025 NAIA Men's and Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships run from May 21-23. Visit NAIA.org to find full meet entries, schedules, and visitor information.

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Montana Tech in the 2025 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field Championships

all times Mountain
Wednesday, May 21
- Abby Clark, heptathlon (Day 1), 8:30 a.m.
- Cade VanVleet, men's hammer throw, 9 a.m.
- Colter Ball, men's javelin, 2 p.m.
- Jenna Jordan, women's javelin, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 22
- Abby Clark, heptathlon (Day 2), 9 a.m.
- Ayla Janzen, women's triple jump, 3:30 p.m.
- Cade VanVleet, men's discus, 4 p.m.
- Men's 4x400m relay (Matthew Moreni, Adam Schrader, Morgan McClernan, Will Wagner) prelims, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, May 23
- Cade VanVleet, men's shot put, 11 a.m.
- Nicolo Lancini, men's triple jump, 11:30 a.m.
- Abby Clark, women's high jump, noon
- Men's 4x400m relay finals, 3:25 p.m.