INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, - - Wilmington University jumper Donte Dockery has one more meet for the 2025 season, qualifying for the 2025 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted at the ThunderBowl in Pueblo, Colorado.
It is the first time in the Wildcats' seven seasons of competition that a student-athlete has qualified for the NCAA Championships. Wilmington began its program with the 2019 spring outdoor season.
Donte Dockery (Wilmington, Del.) qualified in the triple jump, an event he has dominated all season. He qualified with regular season's best 15.37-meter jump at the Danny Curran Invitational hosted by Widener University on March 29.
He's won every triple jump event he's entered this outdoor season, winning the Danny Curran Invite, the Lincoln University Easter Invite (15.23 meters), the Penn Relays Collegiate Finals (15.04 meters), the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Championships (14.94 meters), and the IC4A/ECAC Championships (15.38 meters) just last weekend. The 15.38 mark at the IC4A/ECAC Championship came after qualifying standards were accepted by the NCAA.
Dockery qualified with the 16th best distance in NCAA DII this season, as the NCAA took 22 jumpers to the finals this season. He is the lone triple jumper from the East Region competing at Nationals. All 21 jumpers are looking up at the Academy of Art's Yacouba Gnacko who leads the field with a mark of 15.89.
The finals of the Triple Jump at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships are set to take place on Friday, May 23, starting at 7:05 p.m.
To follow the action at the NCAA Championships, click here: https://results.leonetiming.com/?mid=7870