Lady Flames Track & Field claims outdoor title to complete CUSA Triple Crown

The Liberty women’s squad produced a dominating team victory at the 2025 CUSA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, which concluded Sunday at Dean A. Hayes Track and Soccer Stadium in Murfreesboro, Tenn. As a result, the Lady Flames completed a CUSA Triple Crown of women’s cross country, indoor track & field, and outdoor track & field titles for the year. Meanwhile, the Liberty men’s team finished a close second to Kennesaw State.

The Lady Flames racked up 178.5 points to win by 61.5 over runner-up UTEP, marking the largest margin of victory at this meet since UCF posted a 67.5-point triumph in 2013. Liberty also became the first CUSA women’s team to win back-to-back outdoor championships since UCF earned four in a row between 2010-13.

The Lady Flames’ Triple Crown was their first since 2016-17 (Big South) and the first by a CUSA women’s squad since 2007-08 (Rice).

A late comeback by the Liberty men’s team fell just short as Kennesaw State topped the Flames by 5.5 points (216.5 to 211) to snap Liberty’s 17-year run of men’s outdoor track & field conference titles. This was the tightest separation between first and second place at this meet since 2006, when UTEP topped Houston by 3.5 points.

The Flames collected four individual honors at the meet’s conclusion, including Men’s High Point Scorer of the Meet (Christian Hicks), Men’s Freshman of the Meet (Elijah Sherard), Women’s Freshman of the Meet (Bethany Tate) and Women’s Coach of the Year (Lance Bingham).

Liberty won 11 events over the course of the three-day meet, including Sunday victories by Hicks (men’s discus), Joshua Smith (men’s triple jump), Josh Blalock (men’s 400 hurdles), Allie Zealand (women’s 1,500) and the quartet of Eddy Vu, Troy McKnight, Revell Webster and Omari Lewis (men’s 4 x 100 relay).

Kate Goodyear (2:04.36 women’s 800) and Addilae Watts (161-9 women’s javelin) each broke their own program records on Sunday, joining Markus White (25-8 men’s long jump) as program record setters.

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