VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (theACC.com) – Notre Dame’s Jadin O’Brien, Duke’s Simen Guttormsen and Virginia’s men’s distance medley relay team of Wes Porter, Gary Martin, Conor Murphy and Alex Sherman earned a trio of national championships at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field National Championships in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday, March 14.
 
O’Brien has been crowned the NCAA Champion in the women’s pentathlon for the third consecutive year. The senior from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, got off to a hot start by winning the 60-meter hurdles in a time of 8.16 seconds. After a ninth-place finish in the high jump, she then rattled off three consecutive second-place finishes in the shot put, long jump and 800-meter run to log 4,596 total points.
 
In addition to winning the national championship, O’Brien broke her own ACC record of 4,580 points, which was set at the 2025 ACC Indoor Track & Field Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this month. O’Brien’s mark is the fifth-best collegiate score ever recorded.
 
O’Brien is the proud owner of three of the five NCAA indoor national championships in Notre Dame history.
 
Duke’s Guttormsen won the men’s pole vault title to become Duke’s first men’s individual national champion since 2014. The Ski, Norway product opened the competition clearing the first bar on the initial attempt, passing on the second height before clearing the third and fourth, respectively, on the second attempt.
 
Guttormsen vaulted past the bar set at 5.66m on his first jump, before bowing out at a final mark of 5.71 meters – one that no one else could surpass – clearing the bar on the second jump.
 
His 5.71-meter mark set a new facility record as Guttormsen became just the second Blue Devil to ever win an indoor track & field national championship.
 
Virginia’s men’s distance medley relay team of Porter, Martin, Murphy and Sherman set both the meet and facility record on their way to claiming the Cavaliers’ first national championship in the event. With Martin running the anchor leg of the race, the Cavaliers crossed the finish line in 9:15.12 to rewrite the NCAA record book.
 
The team threatened its own ACC record, set earlier this year, on Friday. Virginia’s DMR squad ran a then-NCAA record time of 9:14.19 at the Arkansas Qualifier on February 21.
 
The NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships continue from Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Saturday, March 15. The action is streaming on ESPN+. For full results throughout the championships, click here.