GENEVA, Ohio — University of Lynchburg distance runners Tor Hotung-Davidsen and Chasen Hunt both clamped their teeth around gold medals as national champions to highlight the performances of 23 ODAC stars at the 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships hosted at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
Hunt is now a two-time national champion, topping this season's 5,000-meter run field to join the medal he earned as a member of the distance medley relay squad that won the 2024 indoor national title. Hotung-Davidsen's first place showing in the 1,500-meter run marks his first national championship in his last meet for Lynchburg.
Both earned distinction at First Team All-Americans, a recognition awarded to athletes that finished inside the top-eight in any event over the past three days. Those that placed ninth through 16th garnered USTFCCCA All-American Second Team laurels.
In total, the ODAC's contingent garnered 18 All-American plaques including six on the first team.
Hotung-Davidsen and teammate Sam Llaneza collected 11 points in the 1,500-meter run for the Hornets, who finished seventh seventh in the men's team table with 25 markers. Hotung-Davidsen won the event by nearly a second with a time of 3:48.75. Llaneza crossed the line eighth overall at 3:50.70.
Hunt, who previously sent the Division III record in the 5K at the Bryan Clay Invitational in April, closed out his campaign by winning the national championship in the event by nearly five seconds at 14:10.51.
The lone ODAC record set on the weekend came in the women's triple jump. Lynchburg's Kacey Kelly reset her own league mark, bounding 12.26 meters (40-2.75) to place sixth overall. Her previous league standard was 12.13 meters (39-9.75). During the indoor season, Kelly became the first ODAC woman to surpass 40-feet in the triple jump. She now owns both conference records as the only ODAC women's athlete to crack 40-feet in both sports.
In the chart below, we take a look at the performance of each of the ODAC's competitors in Ohio.