UND’s Keeler Ends Storied Career with All-American Honors

(UND Sports Information) – One of the most storied, successful, historic and decorated careers in North Dakota history came to a close on Saturday night at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships as Jadyn Keeler competed in her final race in a Fighting Hawk uniform.

The senior completed her second of two bids at the national meet with action in the women’s 5000-meter run and again put on a historic show.

Keeler began the race in comfortable position toward the middle of the pack of 24 athletes but—much like she did on Thursday night in the 10,000-meter run—she quickly took the lead. After forcing the field to follow her pace, the competition turned up a notch and soon resulted a clocking of 15:27.43 for the Ontario, Canada-native, just .56 seconds off her own school record. The time resulted in a 13th-place finish alongside Second Team All-American honors for Keeler in addition to her First Team All-American honors earned from the 10,000-meter run earlier in the meet.

With the honor, Keeler becomes the first-ever three-time Division I outdoor track All-American in program history and first-ever UND athlete to earn two All-America honors at the same national meet. She is just the third-ever UND athlete to reach a second career NCAA D1 outdoor championship meet, the first-ever athlete to earn two outdoor national bids in the same season and remains as the only female track athlete to ever compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships for North Dakota.

An already-remarkable career ended with another sparkling installment during the 2025-26 season for Keeler. She earned a NCAA West Preliminary Round qualification for the 5000-meter run at the Bryan Clay Invitational after running a time of 15:26.98. But that time was narrowly bested at the regional meet at 15:26.87, resetting Keeler’s out school record and personal best to earn her bid to the national championships.

Her senior outdoor season saw a collection of four new school records (1500-meter run, 3000-meter steeplechase, 5000-meter run and 10,000-meter run), three gold medals and one silver medal alongside Women’s Track MVP of the Championship honors at the conference meet and three new personal bests.