The University of Pennsylvania track and field program has announced its schedule for the 2025-26 season, which will include seven indoor meets at the Jane and David Ott Center for Track and Field in Philadelphia.
The team brings back six indoor and seven outdoor individual conference champions from last season. Among them is Ryan Matulonis, who won a silver medal in the 400m at the 2025 FISU World University Games. Matulonis returns as a junior after placing 15th in the 400m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a time of 50.75 seconds. He also set a meet record and personal best of 49.54 seconds to win the 400m hurdles at the Ivy Heptagonal Outdoor Championships, where he was part of the winning 4x400m relay team.
During last year’s indoor season, Matulonis finished first in the 500m at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships with a time of 1:02.01.
Senior Kampton Kam placed eighth in high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships by clearing 2.15 meters (7’0.5″). At Ivy Heps, he cleared 2.22 meters (7’3.25″) to take second place, and he won his first Penn Relays watch by finishing first in high jump at 2.20 meters (7’2.25″). Kam broke Singapore’s outdoor national record with a jump of 2.25 meters (7’4.5″) at the South Florida Invitational.
Kam also finished twelfth at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a height of 2.11 meters (6’11”), and took first place at Ivy Heps by clearing 2.21 meters (7’3″).
Other men’s individual champions from last season include Jake Rose (heptathlon indoors, decathlon outdoors), Shane Gardner (60m hurdles indoors), Nayyir Newash-Campbell (400m outdoors), and Atticus Soehren (javelin outdoors).
On the women’s side, three-time indoor 60m and outdoor 100m champion Moforehan Abinusawa returns for her senior year after winning both events again last season for Penn’s women’s team. She placed first in the indoor championships’ 60m dash with a time of 7.26 seconds—just one hundredth off her own Ivy record—and claimed gold in both the outdoor championships’ 100m event (11.39) and as part of Penn’s winning relay team.
Abinusawa also competed at NCAA East Regionals, finishing fourteenth in the women’s 100m with an official time of 11.30 seconds.
Senior Angeludi Asaah made her debut appearance at NCAA Outdoor Championships, placing twenty-third in discus with a mark of just over fifty meters; she won shot put during Ivy League Indoors with a throw of more than fifteen meters.
Other women’s individual champions included Chikaodinaka Akazi (100m hurdles outdoors) and Zofia Limbert (high jump outdoors).
Penn will begin its new campaign on December 5-6 by hosting its annual opener invitational—the Penn Opener—at home inside Ott Center; this two-day event starts with men’s heptathlon and women’s pentathlon competitions.
After winter break, Penn will host four consecutive weekend meets: Penn Select on January 10; Quaker Invitational on January 17; Penn 10 Elite from January 22-24—which features teams such as Penn State, Georgetown, UConn, Villanova, Brown, BYU, Princeton, Howard University, Wisconsin-Madison, Navy and Army—and then concludes January’s home slate with another invitational on January 30 before traveling to Lubbock for Texas Tech’s Stan Scott Invitational that same weekend.
In February there are additional home meets including Penn Classic on February 6-7 and Philadelphia Metro on February 20; these provide opportunities for athletes to prepare ahead of championship competition later that month into March.
Penn athletes will also compete away from home during mid-February—at Clemson University’s Tiger Paw Invitational or Boston University’s Valentine Invitational—before heading into postseason events like Ivy Heptagonal Championships in New York City from February 28 through March 1 followed by NCAA Indoor Championships scheduled for Fayetteville Arkansas March 13–14.
According to university officials all home meet registrations are already full for this upcoming indoor season.
