Moody, 4x100m Relay Win Event Titles And USC Women Place Second At 2025 NCAA T&F Championships

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Moody, 4x100m Relay Win Event Titles And USC Women Place Second At 2025 NCAA T&F Championships

June 14, 2025 | Track & Field

NCAA Final Results (PDF)

Trojans finish top three for fifth time in last eight seasons

Samirah Moody won the 100m dash title and the 4x100m relay team took first to lead USC to a second-place finish at the 2025 NCAA Women's Outdoor Track & Field Championships being held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. today (June 14). USC's women scored 47 points during the two days, 43 coming on the final day, with the first four coming in the shot put by freshman Ashley Erasmus on Thursday.

USC's women's team has finished in the top three at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in five of the last eight outdoor seasons, winning the titles in 2018 and 2021.

The women's team actually scored more points (47) than the men's team (41) did in earning a share of the team title yesterday, but Georgia ran away with the women's title, scoring 73 points. USC's combined 88 points were the most scored by any program at the outdoor championships and the 74 combined points the Trojans scored indoors were also the most of any program in the country. USC is the only program in the country which had the men's and women's team finish in the top three both indoors and outdoors (Indoors – Men – 1^st, Women -3^rd; Outdoors – Men – T-1^st, Women – 2^nd).

USC got the day off with a bang as the 4x100m relay team of senior Samirah Moody, junior transfer Dajaz DeFrand, sophomore Madison Whyte and junior Jassani Carter won with a time of 42.22, 0.01 second off the school record. Its time bettered the quartet's No. 2 standing on USC's all-time list and moved them to tied for fifth on the 2025 world list in the event. USC's relay team earned 10 points for winning the event. USC last scored in the event in 2021, when it also won the 4x100m title and has won the event four times. All four runners earned first-team All-America honors.
Moody then won the women's 100m dash title with a time of 11.14 (-1.4), 0.003 seconds ahead of JaMeesia Ford of South Carolina. DeFrand placed seventh with a time of 11.23 (-1.4) and freshman Brianna Selby placed eighth with a time of 11.25 (-1.4). The trio earned USC 13 points in the team competition. Moody became only the second Trojan woman to win the 100m dash title, joining Angela Williams, who is the only four-time winner, taking the crown from 1999-2002. The Trojans had three athletes score in the women's 100m final for the first time and all three earned first-team All-America honors. Selby was the only freshman in the field.
Whyte had a time of 22.23 (+1.6) to take second in the women's 200m final, 0.02 seconds behind the winner Ford of South Carolina. DeFrand finished strong to take third with a time of 22.39 (+1.6) and Moody placed ninth with a time of 22.86 (+1.6). Whyte and DeFrand earned USC 14 team points and gained first-team All-America honors in the event. Moody earned second-team honors in the 200m. Whyte's second-place finish and DeFrand's third-place finish were both the highest in the event by a Trojan since Angie Annelus won the title in 2019.
The Trojans closed out the meet and secured second place in the team scoring by taking third in the 4x400m relay with a season-best time of 3:26.01. USC ran a team of junior Yemi John, Carter, junior Takiya Cenci and Whyte and they moved from eighth to third on USC's all-time 4x400m relay list. The Trojans earned six points in the event and all four athletes earned first-team All-America honors. USC last scored in the event when it took fourth in 2023 and the last time it scored higher in the event was when the Trojans placed second in 2021.

Final Women' Top 10 Team Scores:

Georgia – 73, 2.) USC – 47, 3.) Texas A&M – 43, 4.) Washington – 31, 5.) Illinois – 29.5, 6.) Stanford – 29, 7.) South Carolina – 28, 8.) Arkansas – 26, 9.) New Mexico – 25, 10.) Oregon and Texas - 23

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