STATEN ISLAND, New York – Many of the nation's top professional track and field athletes will descend upon the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex Saturday and Sunday as the USATF Indoor Championships presented by Prevagen return to the East Coast for the first time since 2019.
35 Team USA members from the Paris squad are entered, including 12 medalists, seven of whom won gold. Hurdles stars Grant Holloway and Masai Russell top the bill after scintillating early-season performances, and both picked up gold in the longer sprint hurdles at the Games last August.
Holloway is the reigning World Indoor champion in the 60 hurdles and holds the world record at 7.27, a time he ran in the semifinal at last year's USATF Indoors in Albuquerque. He hasn't lost a 60H race in 10 years.
Russell, who zipped to Paris gold in the 100H, is undefeated in three outings this season in the 60H and had the world's leading time at 7.76 when she won the Millrose Games title two weeks ago. She was fourth at last year's World Indoor Championships.
Five relay gold medalists from the Games will challenge for individual honors here, and Alexis Holmes will be seeking a second straight USATF Indoor Championships win after setting a meet record of 50.34 last year. Holmes earned gold anchoring the American record-setting women's 4x400 in Paris, and Quanera Hayes ran the opening leg in the heats to also earn gold.
Christopher Bailey has the fastest men's 400 time in the world this season at 44.70, and he was a gold medalist in the 4x400 at the Olympics with teammates Vernon Norwood and high school sensation Quincy Wilson. All three face off in the two-lapper here with bragging rights on the line as Norwood runs his first 400 of 2025 and Wilson builds off a high school national record 45.66 earlier in the year.
Among the 12 returning champions from the 2024 edition, Katie Moon is seeking her third straight USATF indoor title in the women's pole vault and has had three wins with clearances at or above 4.80 meters in 2025. She was the Olympic champion at Tokyo, took silver at Paris, and has two World Outdoor Championships golds to her credit.
High jumper Vashti Cunningham has won eight straight USATF indoor crowns dating back to 2016 and was the 2016 World Indoor gold medalist as an 18-year-old. She was fifth at Paris last summer and has captured 14 national titles in her career.
Coming off a massive American record-setting throw of 20.24/66-5 in Poland last weekend, Chase Jackson is the top U.S. woman in the shot put and on the road to a hat trick of USATF Indoor Championships wins. She was the outdoor world champion in 2022 and 2023 and earned bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow last March.
Among the other returning champions is Daniel Haugh in the men's 35-pound weight throw. An Olympian in the hammer at Paris, Haugh set a world best and American record in the weight to win at Albuquerque last year, tossing the giant ball 26.35 meters.
Horizontal jumps ace Jasmine Moore became the first American woman to medal in both the long jump and the triple jump at an Olympic Games, and she holds the American record in the triple jump. She will do the double again here and is looking for her first U.S. indoor crown.
Other Olympic medalists slated to compete are men's pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, who took silver at Paris and has two world outdoor golds on his résumé, and Kenneth Rooks, the 3000 steeplechase silver medalist who will line up for the 3000 without barriers here. Annette Echikunwoke, a breakthrough performer at the Games who took silver in the women's hammer, is in the 20-pound weight throw.
Tickets are available for purchase at usatf.org/tickets.
Competition will be live on USATF.TV from 10:50 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, February 22 and from 9:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 23.
NBC will air live coverage on Sunday, February 23, from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET.