The Oklahoma men’s track and field team closed out the 2025 season Friday night in sixth place with 30.5 points, earning the best team finish in 28 years at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. At Hayward Field, BJ Green (triple jump) and Ralford Mullings (discus throw) secured Oklahoma’s first individual national titles since 2009.
Mullings was the first to be crowned champion. He entered the day ranked No. 2 in the nation behind world record holder Mykolas Alekna of California. The Kingston, Jamaica, native initially pulled away from the field on his third attempt, breaking a 33-year-old NCAA championship meet record with a 67.70m (221’1.00″) mark. Alekna would contest Mullings on his fifth attempt with a 66.77m (219’0.00″) toss, but the Sooner answered with a massive 69.31m (227’3.00″) on his sixth and final throw to seal the title.
With this mark, Mullings shattered his own Oklahoma program record and improved his position as the No. 2 performer in NCAA collegiate history. His 69.31m (227’3.00″) mark is the ninth-farthest throw ever recorded in collegiate history. Mullings is the first Sooner in program history to earn a national title in the discus throw and he grabs the second NCAA Outdoor First Team All-America honor of his career.
Green secured the Sooners second national championship of the day with a 16.81m (55’2.00″) leap on his final attempt. His entire series of jumps would have earned him first place in the field, posting four more attempts above 16.58 meters and one foul. He becomes the second triple jumper in OU history to earn an outdoor national title, making good company with school record holder and Olympian Will Claye who sealed the trophy in 2009. Green earned his second NCAA Outdoor First Team All-America award.
Fellow teammate and triple jumper Floyd Whitaker followed with a silver medal in the same event. The senior leaped a clutch personal best of 16.41m (53’10.25″) on his third attempt for the second-place finish. With this mark, Whitaker moves up to No. 4 on OU’s all-time performance list and is named an NCAA Outdoor First Team All-American for the first time in his career.
