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Minnesota Back in Indianapolis for Big Ten Indoor Championships
2/25/2026 9:15:00 AM | Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field
The three-day meet begins on Thursday and concludes on Saturday.
MINNEAPOLIS -- The University of Minnesota women's track & field team is in Indianapolis, Ind., this week for the 2026 Big Ten Indoor Championships, held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds at the Indiana Farm Bureau Fall Creek Pavilion from Feb. 26-28.
ABOUT THE 2026 BIG TEN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP
The 2026 Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Championships will be spread out over three days with all three days being streamed on B1G+. Minnesota's first competitor will start at 10:45 a.m. CT on Thursday with the women's pentathlon 60m hurdles. Day two kicks off at 10:30 a.m. CT while Saturday's schedule starts at 10:30 a.m. with the awards presentation concluding the meet at 4:50 p.m. CT. Live results will be available throughout the event via PT Timing.
NABWE LOOKING TO GO BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK
Redshirt junior Anthonett Nabwe aims to continue her conference dominance in the weight throw with a third straight event title. Nabwe won the event in 2024 as a redshirt freshman, the first freshman to win the event since 2011. With her second consecutive victory in 2025 Nabwe became just the fifth back-to-back conference champion in the weight throw since 1999. In 2026 Nabwe will be looking to join Alicia Rue (2008, 2009, 2010) and Liz Roehrig (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) as Gophers to win three straight, or more, indoor conference titles. In conference history there have been 25 instances of women winning three straight, or more, indoor conference titles with none coming in the weight throw event.
Nabwe captured her first Big Ten title in 2024 with an NCAA freshman record in the weight throw with her mark of 23.36m (76-7 3/4). In 2025 Nabwe's winning throw of 24.22m (79-5 1/2) came on her sixth and final attempt of the competition and sits as the No. 2 all-time throw in conference championships history only behind 2018 NCAA Champion, and former Gopher, Kaitlyn Long's 24.37m (79-11 1/2). Heading into Friday's weight throw competition Nabwe holds a lifetime best of 24.67m (80-11 1/4), which is an all-time Big Ten record and sits at No. 6 all-time in NCAA history.
IN THE RANKINGS
Minnesota currently stands at the No. 21 spot overall in the nation and sixth among Big Ten programs in the latest USTFCCCA women's rankings.
The latest Event Squad rankings also dropped this week with the women's weight throw the top Gopher group at No. 2 overall with an average throw of 21.64m (71-0). Minnesota's indoor mile quartet slots in at No. 18 with an average time of 4:39.00, while the 5000m group also fit into the top 20 with an average time of 16:21.52. The final two top-25 event squads for the 'U' come in the shot put (14.17m average) and the 3000m (9:13.22) which are No. 22 and No. 24, respectively.
MINNESOTA AT THE BIG TEN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Maroon and Gold have won six Big Ten indoor team titles in program history with the last coming in 2022, in Geneva, Ohio. All six of Minnesota's indoor titles have come under the guidance of head coach Matt Bingle, with his first coming back in 2007, his first year as at the helm of the indoor track and field program. Minnesota has won four 'Athlete of the Championships' awards with Amira Young being the only two-time winner while Shelby Frank (2023) and Heather Dorniden (2009) also receiving the honor for the Gophers.
In total Minnesota's women currently own two Big Ten Indoor Championships records, one being Long's weight throw record from 2018 with the other being Jess (Herauf) Lehman's Pentathlon conference championships record of 4,393 points set back in 2016.
2025 B1G INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS REWIND
Last year the Golden Gopher women's track & field team finished eighth out of 17 teams with 38 points in Indianapolis.
Highlighted by Nabwe's weight throw title, the Maroon and Gold had a sixth-place weight throw finisher, Hadley Streit, who posted a final mark of 21.32m (69-11 1/2). Two of Minnesota's bronze medal DMR team from 2025 return this season in Isabelle Schmitz and Zoie Dundon. Schmitz also was a 2025 scorer in the 3000m, clocking a 9:14.13 to finish seventh as a true freshman. Kennedy Martinson was also a scorer a season ago in the women's pentathlon where she scored 3,995 points to place sixth. Minnesota's final returner among last year's indoor Big Ten scorers is Kitania Headley, who is back for her second Big Ten Indoor Championships after the Jamaican placed eighth as a member of the 4x400m relay team in 2025.
UP NEXT
The 2026 NCAA indoor schedule concludes in Fayetteville, Ark., from March 13-14 at the NCAA Indoor Championships. After the Big Ten Indoor Championships, indoor NCAA qualifiers will be announced with the top 16 individuals and the top 12 relays in each event earning a spot to the Randal Tyson Track Center in March.
For more information on the Gophers, continue to check back with GopherSports.com. Keep up with the University of Minnesota cross country and track and field team on X.com (Twitter) and Instagram (@GopherCCTF) and on Facebook, so you do not miss any content during the season.
ABOUT THE 2026 BIG TEN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP
The 2026 Big Ten Indoor Track & Field Championships will be spread out over three days with all three days being streamed on B1G+. Minnesota's first competitor will start at 10:45 a.m. CT on Thursday with the women's pentathlon 60m hurdles. Day two kicks off at 10:30 a.m. CT while Saturday's schedule starts at 10:30 a.m. with the awards presentation concluding the meet at 4:50 p.m. CT. Live results will be available throughout the event via PT Timing.
NABWE LOOKING TO GO BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK
Redshirt junior Anthonett Nabwe aims to continue her conference dominance in the weight throw with a third straight event title. Nabwe won the event in 2024 as a redshirt freshman, the first freshman to win the event since 2011. With her second consecutive victory in 2025 Nabwe became just the fifth back-to-back conference champion in the weight throw since 1999. In 2026 Nabwe will be looking to join Alicia Rue (2008, 2009, 2010) and Liz Roehrig (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) as Gophers to win three straight, or more, indoor conference titles. In conference history there have been 25 instances of women winning three straight, or more, indoor conference titles with none coming in the weight throw event.
Nabwe captured her first Big Ten title in 2024 with an NCAA freshman record in the weight throw with her mark of 23.36m (76-7 3/4). In 2025 Nabwe's winning throw of 24.22m (79-5 1/2) came on her sixth and final attempt of the competition and sits as the No. 2 all-time throw in conference championships history only behind 2018 NCAA Champion, and former Gopher, Kaitlyn Long's 24.37m (79-11 1/2). Heading into Friday's weight throw competition Nabwe holds a lifetime best of 24.67m (80-11 1/4), which is an all-time Big Ten record and sits at No. 6 all-time in NCAA history.
IN THE RANKINGS
Minnesota currently stands at the No. 21 spot overall in the nation and sixth among Big Ten programs in the latest USTFCCCA women's rankings.
The latest Event Squad rankings also dropped this week with the women's weight throw the top Gopher group at No. 2 overall with an average throw of 21.64m (71-0). Minnesota's indoor mile quartet slots in at No. 18 with an average time of 4:39.00, while the 5000m group also fit into the top 20 with an average time of 16:21.52. The final two top-25 event squads for the 'U' come in the shot put (14.17m average) and the 3000m (9:13.22) which are No. 22 and No. 24, respectively.
MINNESOTA AT THE BIG TEN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Maroon and Gold have won six Big Ten indoor team titles in program history with the last coming in 2022, in Geneva, Ohio. All six of Minnesota's indoor titles have come under the guidance of head coach Matt Bingle, with his first coming back in 2007, his first year as at the helm of the indoor track and field program. Minnesota has won four 'Athlete of the Championships' awards with Amira Young being the only two-time winner while Shelby Frank (2023) and Heather Dorniden (2009) also receiving the honor for the Gophers.
In total Minnesota's women currently own two Big Ten Indoor Championships records, one being Long's weight throw record from 2018 with the other being Jess (Herauf) Lehman's Pentathlon conference championships record of 4,393 points set back in 2016.
2025 B1G INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS REWIND
Last year the Golden Gopher women's track & field team finished eighth out of 17 teams with 38 points in Indianapolis.
Highlighted by Nabwe's weight throw title, the Maroon and Gold had a sixth-place weight throw finisher, Hadley Streit, who posted a final mark of 21.32m (69-11 1/2). Two of Minnesota's bronze medal DMR team from 2025 return this season in Isabelle Schmitz and Zoie Dundon. Schmitz also was a 2025 scorer in the 3000m, clocking a 9:14.13 to finish seventh as a true freshman. Kennedy Martinson was also a scorer a season ago in the women's pentathlon where she scored 3,995 points to place sixth. Minnesota's final returner among last year's indoor Big Ten scorers is Kitania Headley, who is back for her second Big Ten Indoor Championships after the Jamaican placed eighth as a member of the 4x400m relay team in 2025.
UP NEXT
The 2026 NCAA indoor schedule concludes in Fayetteville, Ark., from March 13-14 at the NCAA Indoor Championships. After the Big Ten Indoor Championships, indoor NCAA qualifiers will be announced with the top 16 individuals and the top 12 relays in each event earning a spot to the Randal Tyson Track Center in March.
For more information on the Gophers, continue to check back with GopherSports.com. Keep up with the University of Minnesota cross country and track and field team on X.com (Twitter) and Instagram (@GopherCCTF) and on Facebook, so you do not miss any content during the season.
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