Michigan
Big Ten Indoor Championships
McFarland Earns Mile Gold; Wolverines Finish Eighth at B1G Indoor Championships
3/1/2025 8:19:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
Site: Indianapolis, Ind. (Indiana State Fairgrounds)
Event: Big Ten Indoor Championships (Day 2 of 2)
U-M Team Finish: 8th of 15 Teams (35 points)
Next U-M Event: Fri-Sat., March 14-15 -- at NCAA Indoor Championships (Virginia Beach, Va.), TBA
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Trent McFarland of the University of Michigan men's track and field team took home gold in the mile run on Saturday (March 1) as the Maize and Blue closed out the Big Ten Championships at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
U-M finished eighth with 35 points, 10 of which came from McFarland's triumph. Oregon claimed the team title with 106 points, while USC (99.5 points) and Wisconsin (83 points) rounded out the top three.
McFarland sat in fifth with three laps to go, dropping two spots heading into the final 400 meters. The sophomore moved up three places to fourth going into the final lap before surging ahead of Elliott Cook on the home stretch for the win with a time of 4:03.56.
Jonathan Miles also ran the mile, finishing seventh (4:06.36). The pair combined for 12 points.
U-M earned its second medal of the day in the high jump, with John McNeil clearing a career-best 2.16 meters (7 feet, 1 inch) to earn a third-place finish. The mark is No. 8 on the program performers list.
Camden Law scored four points for the Wolverines in the 800-meter run, finishing fifth with a time of 1:48.29, and John O'Reilly scored two points with a seventh-place finish in the 600-meter run.
Tianhao Wei also earned a podium finish, coming in seventh in the triple jump with a mark of 15.28m (50-1.75), while Berachiah Ajala came just 0.08 meters from the podium with a ninth-place finish (15.08m/49-5.75).
The 4x400-meter relay team of Krish Gupta, Miles Brown, Jacob Koerner and Jack Juds won bronze with a time of 3:08.81. The relay scored six points for Michigan and comes in at No. 4 on the program performers list.
Michigan will close out its indoor season on Friday and Saturday, March 14-15 at the NCAA Championships in Virginia Beach, Va.
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