Boise State reported on May 16 that its women’s track and field team achieved its highest-ever finish at the Mountain West Outdoor Track and Field Championships, while four Broncos earned individual titles at the three-day event in Clovis, California.
The women’s team finished third with 86 points, marking their best placing ever at a Mountain West outdoor championship and their first top-three conference outdoor finish since 2010. The men’s team finished sixth with 75 points, which was their best result since 2019.
Kaiya Robertson led the women’s squad by winning both the 800-meter and 1500-meter races. She defended her title in the women’s 1500 meters with a time of 4:18.28 and later set a personal-best of 2:02.81 to claim her third career outdoor Mountain West title in the 800 meters. Robertson became only the second Bronco to win both events at a single conference meet since Niamh Beirne did so in 1997.
On the men’s side, Raekwon Weatherspoon secured gold in the long jump with a leap of 25 feet, 11.5 inches (7.91 meters), becoming Boise State’s first men’s long jump champion since Eetu Viitala in 2011. Alex Thompson won his first career conference championship by coming from behind to win the men’s 1500 meters against defending champion Collins Kiprotich from New Mexico.
Freshman Aayden Simmons scored silver medals in high jump, long jump, and triple jump during his first outdoor conference meet, finishing as co-men’s high point scorer with personal-bests in all three events. Addy MacArthur set a program record for discus throw (164-2/50.05m), while Emily Stefan recorded Boise State’s highest heptathlon finish at this event since 2012.
The Broncos celebrated four individual titles—the most since matching that number in 2019—and had twelve podium appearances across men’s and women’s competitions. The program also tallied twenty-six personal-bests over three days along with eight top-five marks in school history.
Looking ahead, Boise State will compete next at the NCAA West First Round scheduled for May 27-30 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
