EUGENE, Ore. – One of the most storied, successful, historic and decorated careers in North Dakota history came to a close on Saturday night at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships as Jadyn Keeler competed in her final race in a Fighting Hawk uniform.
 
The senior completed her second of two bids at the national meet with action in the women's 5000-meter run and again put on a historic show.
 
Keeler began the race in comfortable position toward the middle of the pack of 24 athletes but—much like she did on Thursday night in the 10,000-meter run—she quickly took the lead. After forcing the field to follow her pace, the competition turned up a notch and soon resulted a clocking of 15:27.43 for the Ontario, Canada-native, just .56 seconds off her own school record. The time resulted in a 13^th-place finish alongside Second Team All-American honors for Keeler in addition to her First Team All-American honors earned from the 10,000-meter run earlier in the meet.
 
With the honor, Keeler becomes the first-ever three-time Division I outdoor track All-American in program history and first-ever UND athlete to earn two All-America honors at the same national meet. She is just the third-ever UND athlete to reach a second career NCAA D1 outdoor championship meet, the first-ever athlete to earn two outdoor national bids in the same season and remains as the only female track athlete to ever compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships for North Dakota.
 
An already-remarkable career ended with another sparkling installment during the 2025-26 season for Keeler. She earned a NCAA West Preliminary Round qualification for the 5000-meter run at the Bryan Clay Invitational after running a time of 15:26.98. But that time was narrowly bested at the regional meet at 15:26.87, resetting Keeler's own school record and personal best to earn her bid to the national championships.
 
Her senior outdoor season saw a collection of four new school records (1500-meter run, 3000-meter steeplechase, 5000-meter run and 10,000-meter run), three gold medals and one silver medal alongside Women's Track MVP of the Championship honors at the conference meet and three new personal bests.
 
Post-Meet Notes

• Jadyn Keeler concludes her career with a pair of All-America finishes after taking First Team in the 10,000-meter run and Second Team in the 5000-meter run
• She remains the first-ever female track athlete to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in UND's Division I history
• Keeler is now the program's first three-time Division I outdoor track All-American, first to earn two national honors at the same outdoor meet, first to earn two bids to the same outdoor championships and third to reach a second career NCAA D1 outdoor championship
• Louis-Lys Fanucchi made his career debut at the outdoor national championships while taking home Second Team All-America honors in the 3000-meter steeplechase finals
• Fanucchi's appearance marks the second-ever time an athlete has represented the Fighting Hawk men at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, the second-ever time a competing UND male athlete claimed Second Team All-American honors and the second-ever time a UND athlete appeared in the steeplechase (all previously done by Luke Labatte)
• With Fanucchi and Keeler both competing in the 2026 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, it marks the second-ever time a pair of Fighting Hawks have competed at the meet in D1 history for UND
• It also marks the third-ever time a pair of Fighting Hawks have each qualified for an outdoor national meet, previously happening in 2025 (Keeler and Kenna Curry) and 2008 (Heidi Evans and Jessica Clausnitzer)
• Keeler remains the fifth-ever UND athlete to reach the NCAA Outdoor Championships while Fanucchi became the sixth-ever, joining Molli Detloff (2017, 2019), Elise Ulseth (2022, 2023), Luke Labatte (2024) and Kenna Curry (2025)

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