COLLEGE STATION, Texas — In what may be the greatest assemblage of world-class professional track and field talent in the state of Texas since the 1989 USA Mobil Championships, Olympians, world champions, and national record holders will contend for prize money and World Athletics Continental Tour Gold rankings points Saturday at Texas A&M's E.B. Cushing Stadium for the USATF Lone Star Grand Prix, fueled by 44 Farms.
The meet is the ninth event on the 2026 USATF Tour and will feature competition in the sprints, mid-distance, hurdles, jumps and throws in an action-packed three-hour window at one of the nation's top facilities.
Here's an event-by-event look at some of the top names scheduled to compete:
100 meters
Reigning world champion Oblique Seville of Jamaica is the 10th fastest man in history in the dash with his 9.77 from last year's World Championships in Tokyo. He was also eighth at the 2024 Olympics in Paris and clocked 9.96 in his only outing over the distance this year. Two-time World Championships bronze medalist Trayvon Bromell has the fastest PB in the field at 9.76 and picked up bronze in the 60 at this year's World Indoor Championships. Other contenders include 2021 Olympic 200 gold medalist Andre de Grasse of Canada, a 9.89 performer at his best, as well as Americans Ronnie Baker and Pjai Austin. Baker was fifth at the 2021 Olympics, and Austin has a PB of 9.89.
Heading the pack in the women's 100 is Tamari Davis, a World Champs finalist in 2023 and a gold medalist on the U.S. 4x100 that year. Davis has a best of 10.83 and won at the LA Track Festival two weeks ago. Former Texas Tech star Rosemary Chukwuma of Nigeria has a best of 10.88 and was a semifinalist at Paris in 2024, while Briana Williams of Jamaica won gold in the 4x100 at the 2021 Games in Tokyo. Maia McCoy has already had a solid '26 campaign with eight 100s in Europe and Africa and she brings in a best of 10.96. One other contender to keep an eye on is Canadian record holder Audrey LeDuc, who ran 10.94 last year and anchored her country to silver in the mixed 4x100 at the World Relays last month.
200 meters
The fourth fastest woman ever with a PB of 21.60, Gabby Thomas won the Olympic title at Paris and added relay golds in the 4x100 and 4x400. She was a bronze medalist at Tokyo in 2021 and took silver at the 2023 World Championships. She will have plenty of competition from Cambrea Sturgis, who won the Rabat Diamond League title last week and was the 2021 NCAA 100/200 champion, Sturgis has a PB of 21.93 and has also clocked 10.92 in the 100 this year. Twice a semifinalist at the Olympic Games and World Championships, Jenna Prandini is the veteran of the field at age 33, but she is still in top form as evidenced by a 10.97 in the 100 last month. Prandini owns World Champs gold and Olympic silver in the 4x100, too, and has a 200 PB of 21.89. Kayla White was second behind Sturgis at Rabat in a season best 22.28, and Mariah Maxwell is a prodigious talent fresh out of the Texas high school ranks, boasting a best of 22.44. Nigeria's Favour Ofili competed collegiately for LSU and was sixth at the Paris Games. She has a PB of 21.96.
2022 400-meter world champion Michael Norman has made a stellar comeback from debilitating injuries and won his first two outings over the one-lap distance, including a 44.94 at the LA Track Festival. He drops down in distance for a test of his speed, and he has a 19.70 PB from seven years ago. Texas prep fans will recognize Tate Taylor, the high school national record holder and the sixth-fastest U20 performer ever with his 20.05 in April at Florida. Makanakaishe Charamba of Zimbabwe earned silver in the NCAA indoor and outdoor 200 last year for Auburn and was eighth at Paris in 2024. He has run 19.92. Two other sub-20 men, Kyree King and Canada's Aaron Brown, will also contend.
400 meters
Stacked doesn't begin to describe the men's field, which is led by Olympic champion Quincy Hall. Returning from an injury that curtailed his '25 campaign, Hall ran 45.54 to take eighth at the Rabat DL meet, but his 43.40 PB from the thrilling Olympic victory in Paris can never be discounted. Chris Bailey was sixth in that Paris final before picking up 4x400 gold and went on to win the 2025 World Indoor title. He has dipped under 45 twice already this year and has a PB of 44.15.
2023 world champion Antonio Watson of Jamaica hasn't quite returned to the form that earned him that title, but is a threat with a 44.13 PB, while Canada's Christopher Morales Williams, the NCAA champion for Georgia in 2024, has the fastest time ever indoors at 44.49 and his outdoor PB is 44.05.
Local favorite Bryce Deadmon is very familiar with the A&M oval after headlining the vaunted Aggie 400 crew in college, and he owns a pair of Olympic golds in the 4x400 to go with a world title and a world mixed gold. Deadmon ran 44.30 on this track last year and has a PB of 44.22. Two-time NCAA champion Randolph Ross won Olympic 4x400 gold in 2021 and has a best of 43.85, while Brian Faust was the World Indoor silver medalist last year and Elija Godwin has a pair of world indoor and outdoor relay golds in his trophy case.
As strong as the men's field is, the women's lineup is almost as impressive with six runners who have cracked the 50-second barrier in their careers. Britton Wilson is the sixth fastest American ever with a PB of 49.13 and she helped the U.S. to relay gold at the 2022 World Championships along with Talitha Diggs. Diggs, who has a best of 49.93, was the NCAA champion for Florida in 2022 and was eighth at the 2023 World Championships. Sixth at the 2024 Olympics, Alexis Holmes anchored Team USATF to gold in a memorable 4x400 in Paris that saw the quartet set an American record of 3:15.27 to just miss the world record. She also took gold in the mixed 4x400 at the 2023 and 2025 World Championships.
A gold medalist for the U.S. in the 4x400 at the last two World Indoor Championships, Rosey Effiong has a PB of 49.72, and her teammate on those two relays, Bailey Lear, won the 400 at the LA Track Festival. Foreign challengers include Jamaica's Stacey Ann Williams, a 4x400 Olympic bronze medalist in 2021 with a PB of 49.59 from the heats at last year's World Championships, and Nigeria's Ella Onojuvwevwo, a former LSU runner who is the third fastest woman in the world this year at 49.59.
800 meters
All nine women in the 800 field have broken 2:00 in the career, with Shafiqua Maloney of St. Vincent the best of the bunch. Maloney, who competed collegiately for Arkansas, was fourth at the Paris Olympics and holds her country's national record at 1:57.29. USATF Indoor bronze medalist Meghan Hunter has run 1:58.21 and was fifth at the outdoor nationals last year, and former LSU star Michaela Rose, the 2023 NCAA champion, is the third fastest collegian ever with a PB of 1:58.12.
St. Vincent's Handal Roban ran a stunning 1:42.87 to win the 2025 NACAC gold, and the Penn State student was an Olympian at Paris. Roban won this year's Big 10 indoor crown and then made the semis at the World Indoors. Another lightning quick former collegian, Navasky Anderson of Jamaica and Mississippi State, was seventh at the World Championships in Tokyo in a PB 1:42.76 to set a national record, and he was the 2023 Pan American Games bronze medalist.
American hopes rest with Abe Alvarado, the runner-up at the LA Track Festival who has a PB of 1:44.41, along with 2021 Olympian Isaiah Jewett, a 1:43.85 performer. 2024 NCAA champion Shane Cohen has devastating closing speed, and Sean Dolan was the USATF Indoor runner-up in March to earn a spot at the World Indoors. Former A&M star Sam Whitmarsh was last year's NCAA champ and has run 1:44.46. Whitmarsh also picked up SEC indoor and outdoor titles in 2025 and will have a vocal cheering section.
100 hurdles
2024 Olympic silver medalist Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France tops a strong group of women's sprint hurdlers, bringing in a PB of 12.31. She was also the 2022 World Indoor champion in the 60 hurdles. Fifth in that Paris final was Grace Stark, the fourth fastest American ever at 12.21 and the 2025 World Championships bronze medalist. This year's USATF indoor champion, Alia Armstrong, holds the No. 9 spot on the U.S. all-time list at 12.32, while 2019 world champion Nia Ali is the seventh fastest American ever at 12.30, but in the twilight of her illustrious career at age 37. With six straight wins in Africa and Europe over the past two months, Rayniah Jones is on a hot streak, and she clocked 12.60 to win in Finland earlier this week. Jamaica's Ackera Nugent, the 2023 NCAA champion, is the No. 7 all-time performer at 12.24 and was fifth at the 2023 World Championships.
110 hurdles
There is no clear favorite in what should be a very close-run affair. Jamar Marshall came away victorious at the LA Track Festival in 13.23, while South Africa's John Adesola edged De'vion Wilson at last weekend's Music City Carnival in Tennessee with both men notching PBs of 13.24. Aggie alum Connor Schulman tied his PB of 13.33 in Japan last month, and Eric Edwards is a veteran of high-level international competition with a best of 13.15. Rasheem Brown of the Cayman Islands was fifth at the 2023 Pan American Games and has a PB of 13.25 that was set in third behind Adesola and Wilson last week.
400 hurdles
The fastest man in the field, Nathaniel Ezekiel of Nigeria, is the world's ninth-fastest ever after clocking 47.11 to place fourth in the World Championships final at Tokyo in 2025. He also captured the NCAA crown for Baylor. Last year's USATF runner-up, Caleb Dean, ended up seventh in that race. The 2024 NCAA champ for Texas Tech, Dean ranks No. 5 on the all-time U.S. performer list with a 47.23 PB. 2022 World Championships bronze medalist Trevor Bassitt has twice broken 48 seconds this season and his PB of 47.38 makes him the No. 9 all-time U.S. performer.
Possessor of great flat speed as well, Bassitt earned silver in the 400 at the 2022 World Indoor champs and helped the U.S. to gold in the 4x400 at the 2022 and 2023 World Championships. Other challengers include Paris 2024 fourth-place finisher Clement Ducos of France; CJ Allen, an American Olympian with a lifetime best of 47.58; and Jamaica's Malik James-King, who has run 47.42.
Shamier Little will be the local favorite in the women's race after an A&M career that saw her win three straight NCAA golds from 2014-16. Little earned World Championships silver in 2015 and 2023 and was a gold medalist in the 4x400 at the 2024 Olympics. She has a PB of 52.39 that ranks her seventh on the world all-time performer list. Canada's Savannah Sutherland set a collegiate record of 52.46 to win her second NCAA title in 2025 and was seventh at the 2024 Olympics. Andrenette Knight of Jamaica has a PB of 53.26 and was eighth at the 2023 World Championships, while Bahrain's Kemi Adekoya was fourth in that race with a PB of 53.09 but hasn't been near that form of late.
Hammer Throw
The reigning Olympic and world champion and seven of the top 10 all-time American women's performers will step into the ring for the marquee field event on the program. Canada's Camryn Rogers has dominated the world scene since 2023 with two World Championships golds and an Olympic win to go with a PB of 81.13/266-2 that elevated her to No. 2 on the all-time world performer list behind only Polish legend Anita Wlodarczyk. Rogers has 12 straight wins dating back to last June 3.
American record holder and 2019 world champion DeAnna Price is the No. 3 all-time world performer at 80.31/263-6 and also took bronze at the 2023 World Championships. 2022 world champ Brooke Andersen is the second best American ever at 80.17/263-0, a distance that puts her at No. 4 on the world all-time performer list, and she won the Drake Relays in April. The current U.S. list leader, Rachel Richeson, won the USATF Winter Long Throws title and the USATF Throws Festival crown, and moved to No. 6 on the all-time world performer list with her 78.95/259-0 to win the latter.
2023 world silver medalist and 2022 world bronze medalist Janee' Kassanavoid is the fourth best U.S. perfomer ever with a PB of 78.00/255-11, and Olympic silver medalist Annette Echikunwoke holds the No. 8 all-time spot on the U.S. performer list with a best of 75.51/247-9. Erin Reese moved to No. 6 on that list with a 76.76/251-10 PB last month.
As if that galaxy of stars weren't enough, China's Jie Zhao and Jiale Zhang earned silver and bronze at last year's World Championships, and Zhao was the 2024 Olympic bronze medalist.