INDIANAPOLIS — For the first time since 2018, Team USATF will send a full-strength squad to the World Athletics Under-20 Championships, scheduled for August 1-6 at Pascal Guerrero Olympic Stadium in Cali, Colombia. More than 1,500 athletes from 145 nations will compete in the world's top age-group championship, including several who took part in the recently completed World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Athletes competing in the World U20 Championships must be born between 2003-2007. The United States last competed in the World U20 Championships in 2018 when the event was held in Tampere, Finland, coming home with 18 medals, three of them gold, and winning the team scoring with 155 points, 43 ahead of the next highest nation. Among the athletes who represented Team USATF at that meet were 2022 World Championships gold medalists TeeTee Terry (women's 4x100m relay) and Elija Godwin (men's 4x400m relay), and team members Tamara Clark (women's 200m), Kyle Garland (men's decathlon), JuVaughn Harrison (men's high jump) and Tripp Piperi (men's shot put). This year's team includes 44 women and 33 men and features the top entrants in four events. Cincinnati's Steven McElroy leads the men's 400m list at 44.93, making him the ninth-fastest U.S. U20 performer ever, and he will be joined by Texas A&M's Ashton Schwartzman, who is ranked second coming in at 45.16. In the women's pole vault, the top two entrants are the Moll sisters from Washington. Amanda and Hana Moll attend Olympia High School and Amanda has a best of 4.51m/14-9.5, tying her for No. 11 on the world all-time U20 performer list and putting her atop the U.S. high school all-time list. Juliette Whittaker, who recently graduated from Mount de Sales High School in Catonsville, Maryland, smashed the U.S. high school record in the women's 800m at the USATF U20 Championships, winning in 1:59.04. A Stanford signee, Whittaker took almost a half second off the previous prep national record. USC's Johnny Brackins, a transfer from Baylor, heads the men's long jump entrants with a best of 8.06m/26-5.5 that he set in winning the Big 12 Championships for the Bears. Brackins was seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championships and also placed third in the 110m hurdles at the Big 12 outdoor meet.