Montana State University
NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
Bobcat Quartet Ready for NCAA Indoor Championships in Virginia
3/13/2025 11:20:00 AM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Shelby Schweyen (pentathlon, 7:35 a.m. MT), Colby Wilson (pole vault, 4 p.m. MT), Harvey Cramb (5 p.m. MT, mile) and Rob McManus (5 p.m. MT, mile) compete at the national championships on Friday
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- A record-breaking four members of Montana State's track and field team will compete at the 2025 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend at the Virginia Beach Sports Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Shelby Schweyen (pentathlon), Colby Wilson (pole vault), Harvey Cramb (mile), and Rob McManus (mile) will all be in action representing the Bobcats on Friday at the biggest stage in collegiate track and field.
The NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships are the hardest NCAA championships to qualify for, with only the top-16 marks in each event earning an invite to compete at the national meet.
Montana State track and field has qualified 19 athletes all-time for the NCAA indoor championships, and have qualified multiple athletes to one meet just twice: Lucy Corbett (high jump) and Duncan Hamilton (3,000 meters) both qualified in 2022 and 2023. Friday, the Cats will have four wearing Blue and Gold inside the Virginia Beach Sports Center.
"This is a special opportunity for these four individuals to compete in one of the best track and field meets in the world," head coach Lyle Weese said. "The performance level of NCAA track and field is truly elite with the marks required to qualify for this meet. This is not just a great experience but an opportunity for our Bobcats to demonstrate their elite abilities."
Action begins Friday morning with Schweyen in the pentathlon at 7:35 a.m. MT/9:35 a.m. MT in the 60 meter hurdles.
The entire two-day meet will be streamed on ESPN+, with live results available here. A full meet schedule can be viewed here.
After the 60 meter hurdles, Schweyen's pentathlon events continue at 8:45 a.m. MT (high jump), 10:45 a.m. MT (shot put), 12 p.m. MT (long jump), and 1:05 p.m. MT (800 meters).
Schweyen, a senior from Missoula, Montana, qualified by a single point in the pentathlon thanks to her Big Sky-record showing at the Bobcat Performance meet in Bozeman on Jan. 31.
Schweyen set personal-bests in all five events of the multi to tally 4,183 points, at the time the third-best mark in the country. Entering the weekend, Schweyen's total is tied for No. 15 in NCAA Division I.
Schweyen is the first Bobcat ever to qualify for indoor nationals in the pentathlon, and just the second multi-event athlete to do so—Jeff Mohl qualified in the heptathlon in 2013.
Later on Friday in Virginia Beach, Colby Wilson begins competition in the men's pole vault at 4 p.m. MT/6 p.m. ET.
Wilson, a senior from Olympia, Washington, broke his own Big Sky record in the pole vault twice this season and enters the national championship meet tied for seventh in the country this year thanks to his clearance of 5.61 meters (18-04.75) at the Big Sky Championships.
The four-time Big Sky champion is making his second appearance at a national meet after qualifying for the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, where he placed 20th to earn honorable mention All-American. Wilson also earned a qualifying mark for the 2023 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a clearance of 5.52 meters during the indoor season, but was unable to compete at the national meet due to injury.
This season, Wilson first cleared 5.60 meters (18-04.50) at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational on Feb. 15 before backing it up with a clearance of 5.61 meters (18-04.75) at the Big Sky Championships on March 1 to earn 2025 Big Sky Indoor Men's Most Outstanding Performer.
Wilson is the first men's pole vault athlete from Montana State to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships, and the second pole vaulter overall—Ellie Rudy won indoor national titles in 2007 and 2008.
Finally on Friday, Harvey Cramb and Rob McManus will run in the semifinals of the men's indoor mile at 5 p.m. MT/7 p.m. ET.
Cramb will run in the first eight-man heat, with McManus competing in the second eight-man heat.
The top four in each heat plus the next two fastest times advance to Saturday's final, scheduled for 4 p.m. MT/6 p.m. ET.
Cramb, a sophomore from Brisbane, Australia, qualifies in the mile thanks to his altitude-converted time of 3:53.77 at the Big Sky Tuner in Bozeman on Feb. 20.
Cramb will be seeded 12th out of 16 competitors in the mile in Virginia Beach.
Cramb's time ranks third in program history, behind program legend Duncan Hamilton and fellow national qualifier Rob McManus.
McManus, a senior from Cashmere, Washington, qualifies in the mile thanks to his altitude-converted time of 3:53.59 at the Big Sky Tuner in Bozeman on Feb. 20.
McManus climbed to No. 2 in program history with that race and will be seeded 11th in Virginia Beach.
The current face of 'Steeple U,' McManus makes his first appearance at the NCAA Indoor Championships after back-to-back trips to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2023 and 2024.
McManus placed 13th in the 3,000 meter steeplechase to earn Second Team All-American honors this past June in Eugene, and placed 16th at the national meet in the 3,000 meter steeplechase to earn Second Team All-American honors in 2023.
The two-time All-American has also been part of two NCAA Championship-qualifying cross country teams at Montana State, helping the Cats to a 13th place finish in 2023 and a 25th place finish in 2022.
McManus will secure his third All-American honor when he competes in the mile next week, joining Levi Taylor, Duncan Hamilton, Lyle Weese, and Shannon Butler as the only Bobcat men to earn at least three All-American awards in track and field.
The Cats have had five previous qualifiers in the men's indoor mile: Duncan Hamilton (2021), Diego Leon (2018), Cristian Soratos (2015), Patrick Casey (2010), and Miguel Galeana (1998).
Incredibly, the mile times put up by Cramb (3:53.77) and McManus (3:53.59) would have been good enough to break the NCAA record in 2012—the mile record set that year was 3:54.54.
In 2025, that same record time from 2012 isn't in the top-16 marks put up at the Division I level and wouldn't be enough to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
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