Oregon won six of the eight USTFCCCA West Region accolades announced Thursday.

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon track and field team added more postseason accolades with Thursday’s announcement of the 2026 USTFCCCA Indoor Track and Field Regional Awards. The Ducks collected six of the eight West Region selections including top honors for NCAA champions Wilma Nielsen and Peyton Bair.

Nielsen was named the West Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year while Bair earned the region’s Field Athlete of the Year on the men’s side. Jerry Schumacher was voted Men’s and Women’s Coach of the Year to go along with Seth Henson and Shalane Flanagan collecting top assistant awards.

2026 USTFCCCA Indoor Track and Field West Region Awards

MEN

Track Athlete of the Year: Garrett Kaalund, USC

Field Athlete of the Year: Peyton Bair, Oregon

Coach of the Year: Jerry Schumacher, Oregon

Assistant Coach of the Year: Seth Henson, Oregon

WOMEN

Track Athlete of the Year: Wilma Nielsen, Oregon

Field Athlete of the Year: Hana Moll, Washington

Coach of the Year: Jerry Schumacher, Oregon

Assistant Coach of the Year: Shalane Flanagan, Oregon

This is Nielsen’s second award in as many days as she was also the Big Ten Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year after winning NCAA titles in the mile and with the Ducks’ distance medley relay.

Bair was the NCAA champion in the heptathlon for a second-consecutive season, winning the title with an Oregon school record of 6,503 points. He became just the third-ever collegian over 6,500 points and posted the No. 6 score in world history.

Schumacher also swept Big Ten coaching honors after leading the Ducks to a pair of conference team titles and runner-up finishes at last weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.

Henson had three national entries in the combined events, and coached Bair and Liisa-Maria Lusti to a sweep of the heptathlon and pentathlon titles. It marked the first team sweep of those events since 2017. Aiden Carter also made his debut at the NCAA Championships, finishing ninth in the heptathlon with a personal best of his own.

Under Flanagan’s guidance, the UO women’s distance crew accounted for 24 points at the NCAA Indoor Championships including wins from Nielsen in the mile and the combined efforts of the DMR. The Ducks scored 14 points in the mile between Nielsen, Silan Ayyildiz in sixth and Juliet Cherubet in eighth.

The outdoor season gets going this weekend with members of the Oregon throws crew competing in the OSU PNW Invite in Corvallis, Ore. Additionally, Ayyildiz and Nielsen will join current Duck James Harding in representing their respective home countries at the 2026 World Indoor Championships (March 20-22) in Poland.

Ticket packages for the Ducks’ outdoor home schedule are currently on sale. The team is set to host the Oregon Team Invitational (April 18) and Oregon Twilight (May 8), along with the NCAA Championships in June.

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