KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Montana Tech will send a program-record seven women to compete at the 46th Annual NAIA Women's Indoor Track & Field Championship next month. 

The Orediggers will head to Gainesville, Fla. for the meet March 5-7 at the Alachua County Sports & Events Center. 

Abby Clark, Ayla Janzen, and Jadyn Vermillion qualified in individual events for Montana Tech, and the Orediggers' 4x800-meter relay team of Amy Broek, Terryn Chirrick, Kamryn Comba, and Mya Green will join the three at the meet. 

Clark, a graduate student from Fort Benton, leads the way into her final championship meet for Montana Tech, qualifying in the pentathlon, high jump, and long jump. A two-time All-American in the pentathlon, Clark carries the second-best score in the multi this indoor season (3,576 at the Riverfront Invitational & Multis on February 5). 

She also qualified in the high jump for the second time in her indoor career, setting a new program record with her 1.70m jump during that pentathlon; that mark ranks sixth in the country headed into nationals. Clark will also make her nationals debut in the long jump. She set a huge personal best in the event with a 5.78m leap on Valentine's Day in Bozeman. Both jumps marks were 'A' qualifying standards. 

Vermillion, a senior from Myrtle Creek, Ore., will make her fourth-career indoor championship appearance in the long jump, and she'll do it with the top mark in the country. She cleared 6.08m October 7 at the Montana Tech Fall Series in Butte to crush her own program record in the event. Vermillion was an All-American at last year's indoor championships, finishing fifth. 

Janzen, a sophomore from Silver Star, will make her second-career indoor nationals appearance, but she'll do it debuting in two events. Her 5.78m long jump mark matched Clark's at the Montana Tech Winter Series on February 14, ranking her 16th in the NAIA with an 'A' standard, and her season-best triple jump of 11.53m February 6 in Bozeman earned the 'B' cut. She enters the meet ranked No. 19 in that event. Janzen qualified in the 60m hurdles as a freshman, finishing 22nd. 

The 4x800m quartet became Montana Tech's first-ever national qualifiers in that event and will be just the second Oredigger women's relay to make a nationals appearance. Comba, a senior from Idaho Falls, Idaho, will make her third-career appearance at the indoor championships; she qualified the past two seasons in the 600m run and ran on Tech's 17th-place distance medley relay in 2024. Broek, Chirrick, and Green — all freshmen — will make their indoor nationals debuts. The relay enters with the 21st-fastest time in the NAIA at 9:29.03.

Montana Tech's seven qualifiers established a new high-water mark for the program, besting the six student-athletes the women's team sent in 2024. 

Montana Tech's All-Time NAIA Indoor Women's Track & Field National Qualifiers 
*All-America   
^National Champion 
2021 – Becca Richtman (3,000m*)  
2022 - Natylia Jacobson (60m), Becca Richtman (1-mile^, 3,000m^, 5,000m*)  
2023 – Abby Clark (Pent*, HJ), Natylia Jacobson (60m), Jadyn Vermillion (LJ)   
2024 – Abby Clark (Pent*), Kamryn Comba (600m, DMR), Carlin Manning (5k, DMR), MaKenzie Sheils (DMR), Jadyn Vermillion (LJ), Peyton Walker (DMR)  
2025 – Rylee Armstrong (LJ), Kamryn Comba (600m), Ayla Janzen (60H), Alyssa Plant (3,000m), Jadyn Vermillion (LJ*) 
2026 – Amy Broek (4x800m), Terryn Chirrick (4x800m), Abby Clark (Pent, HJ, LJ), Kamryn Comba (4x800m), Mya Green (4x800m), Ayla Janzen (LJ, TJ), Jadyn Vermillion (LJ)

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