MEET INFOÂ
- Vanderbilt Multipurpose Facility | Nashville, Tennessee
- Field Events: 8:30 a.m. CT
- Track Events: 11 a.m. CT
- Live Results
- Schedule
ABOUT THE TOPSÂ
- WKU opens up the 2025-26 Indoor Track and Field season under new leadership as Lee Wood was promoted to Director of Hilltopper Cross Country/ Track and Field in June.
- Wood served as the interim director for a portion of the indoor slate and the entire 2025 outdoor season.
- WKU returns multiple athletes who made an impact throughout the indoor season in 2025 including Kameron Horton, Sam Crenshaw, Kinley Kunkel, Sophia Roskoski, and Jayla Gilbert.
- Crenshaw, Gilbert, and Roskoski among others will all compete for WKU at Saturday's meet. Crenshaw and Roskoski in the pole vault and Gilbert in the shot put and weight throw.
- WKU also added multiple transfers to the roster for 2025-26. Carolina Bannach, a transfer from Tennessee Tech, will compete in the pole vault Saturday afternoon.
- While at Tennessee Tech, Bannach set the school record with a mark of 3.68 meters.
- Last season at the CUSA Indoor Championships, Kameron Horton set the school record in the 60-meter dash in the preliminary round and ended up taking home the silver medal in the event. He also took the bronze medal in the 200-meter dash.
- Crenshaw and Sterling Weldon both finished just outside the top-three in their respective events to wrap up the indoor slate of their freshman campaigns. Crenshaw took fourth in the pole vault and Weldon took fourth in the long jump at the CUSA Championships in February.
- Crenshaw currently holds the top-three vaults in WKU Indoor Track and Field history.
ABOUT THE MEET
- Saturday's meet will officially kick off the 2025-26 indoor campaign for the Hilltoppers.
- The Winter Commodore Challenge is the first of two meets WKU will compete in this indoor season at Vanderbilt. The other being the two-day Vanderbilt Invitational slated to run Friday and Saturday, January 16-17.
- Saturday's meet marks the first time WKU will compete in a December meet since the 2019-20 season when they competed at the Jingle Bells Open hosted by the University of Kentucky.
- This will also mark the fourth time in five years that the Hilltoppers have opened the indoor schedule at the Commodore Challenge. The previous three editions of the meet were held in the month of January.
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