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2024-25 Track & Field Roster

Profile

  • Sprints/Hurdles
    Position
  • Senior
    Class
  • Delta State, Nigeria
    Hometown
  • 6'4
    Height
  • Buka Tigers Athletic Club
    High School
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Nathaniel Ezekiel
Sprints/Hurdles
Position
Senior
Class
Delta State, Nigeria
Hometown

Summary

Biography

• 2024 NCAA Outdoor Bronze Medalist (400mH)
• 2024 Outdoor Big 12 Champion (400mH)
• 2024 Outdoor Big 12 Silver Medalist (4x400m)
• 2024 NCAA Indoor All-American (400m)
• 2024 Indoor Big 12 Bronze Medalist (400m)

• 2023 NCAA Outdoor Bronze Medalist (400mH)
• 2023 NCAA Outdoor All-American (4x400m)
• 2023 Outdoor Big 12 Champion (4x400m)
• 2023 Outdoor Big 12 Silver Medalist (400mH)
• 2023 NCAA Indoor All-American (400m, 4x400m)
• 2023 Indoor Big 12 Silver Medalist (4x400m)
• 2023 Indoor Big 12 Bronze Medalist (400m)
• 2022 NCAA Outdoor All-American (400mH)
• 2022 Outdoor Big 12 Champion (400mH)
• 2022 NCAA Indoor National Championship Qualifier
• 2022 Indoor Big 12 Silver Medalist (4x400m, 600y)
• Program Record Holder

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2024 Outdoor: Opened outdoor season with a silver medal in the 400-hurdles at the LSU Battle on the Bayou to put him in the top-2 in the nation … Rebroke the program record he set in 2022 in the 400m hurdle with a time of 48.29 and placed in third at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational … Closed out the regular season at the Desert Heat Invitational recording a PB of 45.40 to win the 400m … Recorded season-best time at the Desert Heat Invitational in the 4x400 relay at 3:03.73 … Placed gold at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 48.00, breaking the Big 12, Baylor and Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium records and ranking second nationally … Member of the 4x400m relay team that earned silver at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships … Claimed second-straight national bronze medal at the NCAA Outdoor Championships behind a 48.88 in the 400m hurdles to earn his sixth trip to the national podium in his career … Selected to represent Team Nigeria in the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 400m hurdles.

2024 Indoor: Posted the fastest 600-yard time on a banked track in NCAA history of 1:07.44 at the Corky Classic … Earned bronze medals in the 4x400m and 400m at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational … Marked a season-best time of 45.54 in the 400m at the Clemson Tiger Paw Invitational and placed in third … Bronze medalist in the 400m final at the Big 12 Indoor Championships with a time of 45.73 … Closed indoor season with second straight All-American honor and a podium finish in the men’s quarter mile.

2023 Outdoor: 400mH Bronze medalist at the NCAA Championship meet in Austin ... All-American (sixth) in the 4x400m after a season-best 3:00.58 in the semifinal round ... Led the NCAA West in 400mH and 4x400m ... Big 12 Champion in the 4x400m ... Silver Medalist at Conference in the 400mH with a season-best 48.52 ... Winner of the 400mH at the LSU Invite in Baton Rouge ... Texas Relays silver medalist in the 400mH and finalist in the 4x400m ... Won the 4x400m at the Michael Johnson Invite in Waco. 

2023 Indoor: Member of the program record setting 4x400m relay squad that topped out at 3:02.89 at the Big 12 Championships ... Finalist in the 400m at the NCAA Championship meet with a PR of 45.69 ... All-American in the 4x400m relay, finishing fifth ... Opened the season with a 600y and 4x400m win at the Corky Classic ... Took fourth in the 400 at New Mexico's MLK Jr. Invitational ... Crossed third in the 4x400 at the Razorback Invitational. 

2022 Outdoor: Placed first in the 400mH and earned a personal record with a 48.42 at the Big 12 Championships… Ran the 400mH and the 4x400 in the NCAA West Preliminary Round… Ran the 400mH and placed fourth with a 49.24 in the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships ... Earned a new personal record in the 400m and placed second with a 46.20 at the TCU Invitational… Placed second in the 400mH with a 49.31 at the 94th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays… Finished second at the Bear Invitational in the 4x400 with a 3:02.42… Won first place in the 400mH at the 44 Farms Team Invitational with a 50.35… Placed second in the 4x400 at the Michael Johnson Invitational.

2022 Indoor: All-Big 12 with his second-place finishes in the 4x400 and the 600y with a new personal record of 1:07.60 … Finished first place in 4x400 at the Corky Classic with a time of 3:09.27… Earned a new personal best of 22.29 in the 200m at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational… Won first place in the 600m and earned a new personal best with a 1:18.08 at the Rod McCravy Memorial Track & Field Meet… Won first place in the 600y with a 1:08.41 and finished third in the 4x400 at the Texas Tech Shootout… Ran the 4x400 at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships.