EUGENE – A meet record in the women's combined event and a slew of all-time list shuffling performances highlighted the USATF U20 Championships Thursday and Friday at Hayward Field on the campus of the University of Oregon. Meagan Humphries, who was fifth in the SEC Championships for Texas, tallied a lifetime best of 5,791 points in the heptathlon to break the meet record and move to No. 4 on the all-time U.S. U20 performer list. Humphries put together a stellar set of seven performances as she added more than 100 points to the previous U20 meet record of 5,660 that was set by Anna Hall in 2018. On paper the women's 400 hurdles looked like an East Coast-West Coast clash between Georgia state high school champion Jasmine Robinson and California state champ Morgan Herbst. Herbst had moved to No. 5 on the all-time high school performer list with a 55.89 in the heats, and she won in a blowout in the final, improving to 55.78, more than a second up on silver medalist Robinson, who finished in 57.49. Another Georgia state high school gold medalist, Kendrick Joshua, won the men's title in 50.53 to clip almost a half-second off the lifetime best he set in the prelims. Making it a double gold day for the Herbst family, Makenna Herbst was unchallenged in the women's 800 with a five-second margin of victory. Going past the first 400 in 57.75 to build a three-second lead, Herbst gave up no ground on the second lap and broke the tape in 2:02.48, just off the PB of 2:02.28 she set to win the California state title. High Point's Camrin Williams, the Big South conference champion, and Texas high schooler Lucien Bone waged a back-and-forth contest in the men's 800 and after Bone made a strong move with 300 to go it looked like the Texas 6A silver medalist was on his way to victory. Williams didn't let go, though, and retook the lead down the final stretch as the duo fought for every inch of track. Williams outleaned Bone to win in a PB 1:46.81, and Bone settled for the runner-up spot in a big PB of 1:46.87. Last year's women's 400 hurdles champion, Braelyn Baker of Duke, ditched the barriers and took on the flat 400 to great effect, running away with the win in 51.78 over Olivia Harris, who took silver in 52.34 to move up one place on the podium after earning bronze in 2024. Texas high schooler Jonathan Simms, the No. 7 all-time prep performer, powered around the final bend in the men's 400 to win by almost a half-second in 45.44. A pair of collegians climbed into the all-time U.S. U20 top 10 performer list in the men's discus, led by gold medalist Reece Ihenacho of Illinois, who hit 62.23/204-2 in round three to take over the No. 8 slot. Washington State's Kai Twaddle-Dunham moved to No. 9 with a best of 61.80/202-9 in the second round, earning silver. A similar feat happened in the men's shot put, where Missouri high school star Jackson Cantwell, son of 2009 world shot champion and three-time world indoor champion Christian Cantwell, blasted the 6 kg ball out to 21.23/69-8 to take over the No. 6 slot on the all-time U.S. U20 performer list. North Dakota's Ethan Thomas claimed the No. 10 spot on that list with a 20.92/68-7.75 for silver. Coming into the meet as the No. 5 all-time high school girls' performer with a best of 11.02, Dana Wilson of Greensboro (North Carolina) Day School held off a strong challenge from Texas 6A high school champion Mia Maxwell to claim the title of fastest U20 woman in the U.S., zipping to an 11.14 with a healthy headwind of -1.1 meters per second. Maxwell nabbed silver in 11.21, and her sister, Mariah, took bronze in 11.40. Friday, Maxwells ruled the roost in the 200, with Mia taking top honors in 23.10 and Mariah grabbing silver in 23.36. As befits the fifth-fastest man in U.S. prep history, Brayden Dashun Williams of Duncanville (Texas) High School had the fastest time overall in the 100 heats with a slightly windy 10.20 (wind +2.2), and he was uncatchable in the final, bursting from the blocks and never yielding the lead on the way to a 10.24 victory. Fellow Texas high schoolers Dillon Mitchell (10.28) and Justin Stewart (10.31) garnered silver and bronze. ACC champion Jalen Johnson of Clemson was pushed through the first half of the men's 200 by Stewart, but Johnson pulled away in the final 50 to win in 20.43 in chilly and damp conditions on Friday. A blanket finish in the women's 100 hurdles ended up with Joslyn Hamilton mounting the podium by the slimmest of margins over Anisa Bowen-Fontenot. The two both finished in 13.36, but Hamilton's time to the thousandth of a second was 13.354 to Bowen-Fontenot's 13.357. Already the second-fastest high schooler ever with a 13.20 that won him the Texas state 5A title for Corsicana, Ja'Shaun Lloyd added a national U20 gold to his trophy case with a slim victory over Virginia high school champion Joshua-Kai Smith, crossing in the line in 13.31 to win by .01 as Smith set a lifetime best for silver. Vanderbilt's Lily Kriegel started the championships off with a win in the women's 5000, clocking a personal best 16:18.36, and Colin Eckerman of Furman took the men's win in 14:37.71. American Conference champion Sarah Morefield of Tulsa won the women's 3000 steeplechase by almost 10 seconds in 10:38.86, with Pepperdine's Elijah Gentry topping the men's podium in 9:05.40. Charlotte's Ella White, the American silver medalist in the 10,000, won the women's 3000 in a personal best 9:19.94, outlasting Gentry Turner of Oklahoma State, who also notched a PB in second at 9:21.44. Brennan McEwen kicked away from Jimmy Wischusen to take the men's gold in 8:22.98. Brendan Herger of Michigan captured the men's 1500 victory in 3:48.77, with 5000 bronze medalist Zariel Macchia winning the women's race in 4:21.53. Racewalk wins went to Johnny Jurchen, who covered 10,000 meters on the oval in 48:43.04, and Talia Green, who clocked 52:25.62 to take women's gold. Other field event finals included Preston Kuznof's defense of the men's javelin crown he won last year, and a thrilling final attempt win in the men's hammer by Aidan Ifkovits of Tennessee. Kuznof, a TCU freshman, won on his sixth round throw with a 65.18/213-10, while Ifkovits launched the 6 kg implement 70.78/232-2 on his last throw to overtake Charles LaFore of Wyoming, who had briefly taken the lead in round five with a 70.29/230-7 toss. Jayden Keys of Georgia, who was eighth in the NCAA long jump last week and sixth at the 2024 U20 Championships, flew out to 7.92/26-0 on his third attempt to win the men's long jump. In the women's hammer, Indiana's Hannah Alexander came away with gold on the strength of a 59.80/196-2 effort, and Jenessa Ruder of Nebraska captured the women's javelin at 46.31/151-11. Leading from the opening round of the women's triple jump with what turned out to be her best mark of the day, 12.99/42-7.5, Pennsylvania high school champion Destini Smith was never seriously challenged for top spot on the podium. Virginia high schooler Victor Olesen defended his men's pole vault title from 2024 with a clearance at 5.49/18-0. NCAA fourth-place finisher Anna Willis of South Dakota sailed over 4.35/14-3.25 to win the women's pole vault. Madeleine Fey of Kansas was the women's discus winner at 53.22/174-7, and in the women's shot put, Abigail Russell of Michigan won at 16.07/52-8.75. High jump crowns went to Zoey Brinker, the women's winner at 1.76/5-9.75, and Texas 6A state champion Etoro Bassey, who cleared 2.17/7-1.5 for the men's win. Georgia state champion Ava Kitchings took the women's long jump with a best of 6.10/20-0.25, while Stanford's Xavier Drumgoole bounded 15.97/52-4.75 for the men's triple jump win. Closing out the Championships, Washington state high school champion Jaden Marlow held off Matthew Malmstrom of Kansas for the men's decathlon title. Marlow had a 25-point edge on Malmstrom heading into the 1500 meters, and he stayed within a second of Malmstrom to finish with 6,971 points, 20 points clear.