EUGENE, Ore. — Victoria Cameron, Prestina Ochonogor and Lauren Roy are set to begin on Thursday at the 2026 NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships at Hayward Field.
 
The Texans are making their second appearance in program history in Oregon at the D1 Outdoor championships in their second season of NCAA postseason eligibility. All three athletes are making their second-consecutive trip to Oregon with Roy making her first appearance as an individual in the 200 meters after competing as a member of the 4x100 meter relay squad a year ago. Ochonogor and Cameron each return to the field in the same events as last season in the long jump and 100 meters, respectively.
 
The Texans are the only members of the WAC to send any athletes in either gender to the NCAA National Championships. Tarleton State joins Central Arkansas as future members of the UAC with athletes competing in Oregon.
 
Cameron will be the first to compete in the 100 meters semifinals on Thursday at 6:25 pm. Ochonogor will compete in the long jump at 6:40 pm with a national champion being crowned. Roy will also compete in the semifinals with the 200 set to start at 7:29 pm. Roy and Cameron will look to be in the nine to advance to Saturday's finals.
 
Ochonogor will look to claim her fourth First Team All-American honor is as many appearances at an NCAA Championship. She is one of three athletes to have back-to-back-to-back First Team All-American recognition dating back to the 2025 indoor championships. Last year, at the outdoor championships, she placed eighth with a best leap of 6.41 meters. She placed fifth at the 2026 indoor championships earlier this year. She is one of eight freshmen or sophomores in the field and owns the second-best mark among those. Ochonogor ranks fifth after the NCAA West First Round with a jump of 6.51 meters. The Benin, Nigeria, native, is one of seven athletes from a mid-major competing in the 24-women field. She is one of seven overall returners in back-to-back outdoor championships and is one of four that reached the finals a year ago.
 
Cameron looks to repeat as a First Team All-American after a third-place performance at the indoor championships in the 60 meters. Cameron placed ninth in the 100-meter finals at the NCAA Championships last year in Eugene, Ore. This year, she enters 11^th in the field of 24 and is one of two athletes from a non-Power Four program. Cameron is one of 12 in the field that competed in last year's NCAA Championship 100 meters. Seven of the nine athletes that reached the final including Cameron, return for the 2026 edition. Each athlete in the field enters with a time at their respective quarterfinals faster than the winning time of 11.14 seconds last year. The top 10 times in the field are sub-11 where only four athletes entered with sub-11 second marks last year.
 
Roy is making her first individual appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Earlier this season she competed in the 200 meters at the NCAA Indoor Championships where she was a Second Team All-American. Roy enters the competition ranked 18^th in the field with a school record mark of 20.83 seconds. Heading into the championships, the ninth best mark is 22.55 seconds. Roy will need to be in the top nine to make the finals of the 200 meters on Saturday. The Northern Ireland native is one of three athletes in the field from a non-Power Four program. She is also one of 11 seniors in the field as well.
 
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