Men's Indoor Track and Field | 12/6/2025 9:48:00 PM
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. – The Bloomsburg men's track & field team opened its 2025–26 indoor season at the Bison Opener with multiple strong debuts, highlighted by two PSAC automatic qualifiers in the jumps and one in the sprints with several early-season personal bests across the sprint and hurdle events.
SPRINTS & HURDLES
Sophomore
Jalik Hill (Lebanon, Pa./Lebanon) hit a personal best time 7.24 in the 60-meter prelims, while junior
Justin Herrmann (/) added a PR of 7.26. Herrmann then produced one of the team's top sprint-hurdle performances, lowering his PR to 8.46 in the 60-meter hurdles and took sixth in the finals after an earlier personal-best 8.57 in prelims, both of which are PSAC Championship qualifying times.
Hill delivered Bloomsburg's highest short-sprint finish, placing 12th in the 200 meters in 23.10.
In the 400 meters, junior
Finnegan Purtle (/) led the Huskies with a seventh-place 51.87. Freshman Katrell Butler followed in ninth at 52.50, and freshman Chris Schearer finished 11th in 52.83. Sophomore Tahj Berry took 20
th with a personal-best time of 54.61.
MULTIS & MID-DISTANCE
Sophomore
Andrew Kane (Bradford, Pa./Bradford Area) turned in a solid multi-event performance, highlighted by a ninth-place heptathlon 1000m (3:07.01) and a ninth-place heptathlon high jump of 1.71m. Kane finished ninth in the heptathlon with 4,113 points.
FIELD EVENTS
Bloomsburg's first conference standard in the field events came in the long jump, where sophomore
Daniel Ajuz (Plymouth Meeting, Pa./Plymouth Whitemarsh) produced a winning jump of 7.01m (23-00.00). The mark exceeds the PSAC automatic standard of 6.80m and approaches the NCAA provisional mark of 7.18m.
Sophomore
Trevor Johnson (Kintnersville, Pa./Palisades, Pa.) added a sixth-place leap of 6.70m.
Ajuz returned for a second conference qualifier in the triple jump of 13.82m (45-04.25) – a PSAC automatic qualifier (standard: 13.75m).
In the weight throw, senior
Jack Donchez (Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty High School) opened the year with a PR 14.94m, placing ninth and finishing just shy of the PSAC automatic mark (15.00m). Junior Cameron Williams added a 10th-place toss at 14.81m, and freshman Dylan Krugh threw 14.51m for 12th.
RELAYS
Bloomsburg closed the meet with a sixth-place finish in the 4x400 relay as Butler, Kester, Schearer, and Purtle combined for 3:33.92. The "B" relay placed 14th in 3:42.13.
Bloomsburg returns to action in January when the Huskies head to the River Hawk Invite hosted by Susquehanna on January 17.
