WEST CHESTER, Pa.- Josh Miller (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) is finishing his preparations for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Emporia State in Emporia, Kansas this weekend, as the junior is set to compete in the 10K on Thursday night in the final men's track event of the opening day of the 2026 Outdoor Championships. Miller's race is set to begin at 9:10 eastern/8:10 local time at Francis G. Welch Stadium on the campus of Emporia State.
The NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships return to Welch Stadium for the first time since 2024 and the fifth time in stadium history, as Emporia State first hosted the Championships in 1995 before also hosting in 1999, 2006, and 2024.
Tickets for the Championships are available for purchase now via this
link. An All-Session pass is available for $40.75 for adults and $30.25 for students and seniors, while a pass for Day One of the Championships, when Miller will compete, is $21.95 for adults and $16.70 for students and seniors. Emporia State has a full Championship Central page available
here.
Miller is believed to be the first Golden Ram male track athlete to compete in the Outdoor National Championships since Jarret Eaton competed in the 110 hurdles at the 2008 Outdoor Championships at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, California. This is the third time in four seasons that West Chester has sent a student-athlete from its men's track and field program to the Division II outdoor Championships, as the Golden Rams sent
Derrick Lukomski-Pizzo to the Championships in Colorado last May after sending Ralph Casper in 2023. In 2023, Casper became a National Champion in Colorado as he captured the shot put title, while also placing fifth in the discus.
Miller, who placed second in the 10K at the PSAC Outdoor Championships in 29 minutes 58.65 seconds, qualified for the Outdoor National Championships earlier in APRIL at the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic with a program-record setting time of 29:40.03. This effort broke the record previously held by Matt Sandercock, who ran 29:42.74 at Penn in 1991.
The 10K is the final men's event of the night on Thursday and is the second-to-last event of the day, with only the women's 10K to follow at 9:50 eastern/8:50 local.
This is Miller's second National Championship event appearance of the 2025-26 year, as the junior also advanced to the Division II Cross Country National Championships in Wisconsin in November, becoming the first Golden Ram men's cross country runner to qualify since Josh Coakley competed in back-to-back years (2018 and 2019). Miller finished 62
nd at the Cross Country Championships as he traversed the 10K course in 31:04.
