High Point Wins 2025 Big South Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship

High Point Wins 2025 Big South Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championship

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (www.BigSouthSports.com) – High Point won nine events and accumulated 226.5 team points on Wednesday to win the 2025 Big South Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championship title.  The Panthers finished with a final total of 287.5 points -- just 1.5 points shy of tying the Conference record of 289 -- for the program’s fifth consecutive crown.  Charleston Southern was second with 152 points, while Gardner-Webb finished in third-place with 105 points.
 
High Point compiled 19 podium finishes Wednesday, including sweeps in the pole vault and 800m.  The Panthers earned gold medals from Rachel Vesper (pole vault), Gianna Paul (high jump), Addie Freeland (javelin), Brianna Malone (1,500m, 800m), Dae’Nitra Hester (400m, 200m), Quiana Williams (100m) and the 4x100m Relay.  Malone established Championship Meet records in her two wins, first running a 4:19.78 in the 1,500m, followed by a 2:05.34 effort in the 800m.  In other action, Charleston Southern swept the 100m Hurdles and claimed the top two spots in the 400m Hurdles, and capped the evening with the 4x400m crown in a time of 3:40.26.  Radford’s Sienna Bailey used a 1:09.7 split time in the final 400 meters to win the 5,000m run.
 
USC Upstate’s Rachel Davis won her third gold medal, as she finished first in the discus with a throw of 50.53m, becoming just the second athlete in Big South history to win the hammer, shot put and discus at the same Championship Meet.  She accumulated 30 overall points to earn her the Most Valuable Athlete award. 
 
Charleston Southern’s Maëva Tahou claimed Freshman of the Year honors for having the most accumulated points by a freshman with 26.  High Point’s Vesper earned Most Outstanding Performance based on having the highest ranking performance nationally at the meet using current TFFRS marks, as her pole vault winning height of 4.32m ranks tied for 30th in the country.  HPU’s Alyssa Hendrix clinched the Newcomer of the Year award, which was added in 2024 to recognize the top non-freshman transfer competing in the Big South for the first time, based on her eight accumulated points.  High Point was voted Coaching Staff of the Year by the league coaches at the conclusion of the meet, while HPU’s Malone was voted Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the league’s sports information directors.

Women’s Final Results
  1. High Point – 287.5
  2. Charleston Southern - 152
  3. Gardner-Webb - 105
  4. USC Upstate – 86
  5. Radford - 84
  6. UNC Asheville - 54
  7. Winthrop – 31.5
  8. Longwood – 19 

Women’s Most Valuable Athlete
Rachel Davis, USC Upstate
 
Women’s Most Outstanding Performance
Rachel Vesper, High Point
 
Women’s Newcomer of the Year
Alyssa Hendrix, High Point
 
Women’s Freshman of the Year
Maeva Tahou, Charleston Southern
 
Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year
High Point
 
Women’s All-Academic Team
Austyn Koppe, Charleston Southern
Jada Pittman, Gardner-Webb
Brianna Malone, High Point
Lauren Vick, Longwood
Kelsey Arnold, Radford
Madison Hannah, UNC Asheville
Maureen Ortiz, USC Upstate
Faith Wood, Winthrop
 
Women’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Brianna Malone, High Point
 
Women’s Individual Champions – Day 3
Pole Vault – Rachel Vesper, High Point
High Jump – Gianna Paul, High Point
Discus – Rachel Davis, USC Upstate
Javelin – Addie Freeland, High Point
4x100m Relay – High Point
1,500m – Brianna Malone, High Point
100m Hurdles – Austyn Koppe, Charleston Southern
400m – Dae’Nitra Hester, High Point
100m – Quiana Williams, High Point
800m – Brianna Malone, High Point
400m Hurdles – Grenisha Thomas, Charleston Southern
200m – Dae’Nitra Hester, High Point
5,000m – Sienna Bailey, Radford
4x400m Relay – Charleston Southern
 
Women’s All-Conference Performers – Day 3
Pole Vault
  1. Rachel Vesper, High Point
  2. Sydney Horn, High Point
  3. Auriane Viola, High Point
High Jump
  1. Gianna Paul, High Point
  2. Ashari Pearson, High Point
  3. Paige Boyd, Gardner-Webb
4x100m Relay
  1. High Point
  2. Charleston Southern
  3. Gardner-Webb
1,500m
  1. Brianna Malone, High Point
  2. Alyssa Hendrix, High Point
  3. Sophie Farley, Longwood 
Discus
  1. Rachel Davis, USC Upstate
  2. Zoie Johnson, Gardner-Webb
  3. Jessa Beach, USC Upstate
 100m Hurdles
  1. Austyn Koppe, Charleston Southern
  2. Maeva Tahou, Charleston Southern
  3. Chloe-Mae Wilks, Charleston Southern
 400m
  1. Dae’Nitra Hester, High Point
  2. Jeylah Hamrick, Radford
  3. Teryn Bour, Gardner-Webb
 100m
  1. Quiana Williams, High Point
  2. Grenisha Thomas, Charleston Southern
  3. Danae Niles, Radford
 800m
  1. Brianna Malone, High Point
  2. Nikki Frail, High Point
  3. Evie Wild, High Point
 400m Hurdles
  1. Grenisha Thomas, Charleston Southern
  2. Austyn Koppe, Charleston Southern
  3. Ebba Ahman, High Point
 Javelin
  1. Addie Freeland, High Point
  2. Moriah Evans, High Point
  3. Isa van Sintemaartensdijk, Gardner-Webb
 200m
  1. Dae’Nitra Hester, High Point
  2. Quiana Williams, High Point
  3. Jeylah Hamrick, Radford
 5,000m
  1. Sienna Bailey, Radford
  2. Charli Montalvo, High Point
  3. Sarah McCartney, Charleston Southern
 4x400m Relay
  1. Charleston Southern
  2. High Point
  3. Radford