CHADRON, Neb. – Chadron State track and field has officially qualified three student-athletes for the 2025 NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 22-24 in Pueblo, Colorado.
 
The three competitors – redshirt sophomore Chayton Bynes in the triple jump, true freshman Trace Hanchett in the javelin and senior Nicquaine Henry in the 400 hurdles – all set Chadron State school records with their qualifying marks over the outdoor season and will compete at nationals by having one of the top 22 marks in their respective events.

Bynes will be competing at his second national meet of the season after previously qualifying for the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships in both the triple jump and the long jump, winning indoor All-American honors by finishing fifth in the triple. It will be the first national meet appearances for both Hanchett and Henry. 

Chayton Bynes, a redshirt sophomore and Chadron High School graduate, qualifies for the triple jump with his school-record leap of 15.54 meters, or 51 feet even, set at the Jack Christiansen Invite in Fort Collins on March 28. Bynes became the first CSC triple jumper to exceed 50 feet outdoors, breaking an old record of 49-8.5 set by Isaac Grimes in 2018. Bynes will enter the national championships tied for the 10th-longest jump in Division II this year. 

Trace Hanchett, a freshman from Phillipsburg, Kansas, has exceeded CSC's previous javelin record by nearly 13 feet over his debut college season. At three separate meets, Hanchett became the first CSC javelin thrower to exceed 200 feet since 1989, broke a school record dating back to 1986 and set a Colorado School of Mines facility record, then broke his own school record by another four feet last Saturday at the Nebraska-Kearney Twilight Meet. Hanchett's qualifying mark of 66.93 meters, or 219 feet, 7 inches, is the No. 15 mark in Division II and the third-farthest heave among 2025 freshmen. 

Nicquaine Henry, a senior from Kingston, Jamaica, also saved his best performance of the year for last, when he vaulted into a national qualification spot with a school-record time of 51.56 seconds in the 400 hurdles last Friday during the Concordia Last Chance Meet in Seward, Nebraska. Henry's meet-winning run broke the existing school record set by another Jamaican, Gavin Archibald, in 2014 by over three-quarters of a second and beat Henry's previous personal best by over 1.1 seconds. Henry is tied for 16th nationally in Division II entering the national meet. 

Chadron State will have one competitor on each of the national meet's three days. Henry will be the first to run, with the men's 400 hurdle prelims on Thursday, May 22 at 7:55 p.m. If Henry advances to the finals, he would race again on Saturday, May 24 at 7:35 p.m.

Bynes will compete in the men's triple jump finals on Friday, May 23 at 5:05 p.m. Hanchett's javelin event is set for Saturday, May 24 at 2:45 p.m. (all times MT). 

The three-day national meet will be hosted by CSU Pueblo at the CSUP Thunderbowl. Tournament information will be posted at this link as it becomes available.